Hearthstone

zzeris said:

It cracks me up to hear people act shocked that Blizzard can't design expansions. After 3 straight years of the worst balancing in CCGs, it should be as automatic as the sun rising. Game has been an utter shit-show since the first Caverns Below fuckup.

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This is almost too shitty to be an accident. While you're always supposed to just assume incompetence, especially when it comes to Blizzard, there is a real trend in F2P games to release something in an OP state to get everyone to buy into it and then nerf it a while later, and it's not ridiculous to suspect that the Hearthstone team has decided to try and emulate that pattern of behavior. If it's an accident, holy shit, this is by far the worst gaming experience I've ever had in Hearthstone. I missed all of 2018 and most of 2019, so I don't know how bad Genn/Baku had to be to get them HoFed out a year early, but I'd rather play with unnerfed undertakers or warsong commanders than the current state of Demon Hunter.

Seem to be climbing still with zoo. Everything dh has seems strong, it would be like if another class had access to their best cards from each set.

Pharosis(sp?) warlock is the only deck worth playing

Gavinmad said:

there is a real trend in F2P games to release something in an OP state to get everyone to buy into it and then nerf it a while later

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Bro.



Pushing a new product by making it just better is something you can spot all over the goddamn place and going a long way back. The majority of Dungeons and Dragons people I know only play and run what are basically core only campaigns because they've seen shit consistently fly off the rails for decades and can't be bothered to deal with it.

There's a difference between splatbook powercreep in Dungeons and Dragons and the specific trend I was talking about. Riot is infamous for doing it with new heroes in League of Legend.

Gavinmad said:

There's a difference between splatbook powercreep in Dungeons and Dragons and the specific trend I was talking about. Riot is infamous for doing it with new heroes in League of Legend.

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I can post the Games Workshop logo again. They're damn near famous for having the new team/clan/army being total bananas in relation to a base product.

Ishad said:

Pharosis(sp?) warlock is the only deck worth playing

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Deck list? I wanted to play zoo so I could reach d5, but I am interested in playing some control warlock after.

I also like that the portrait for rank d7 is dr 7 himself.

Mures said:

Deck list? I wanted to play zoo so I could reach d5, but I am interested in playing some control warlock after.

I also like that the portrait for rank d7 is dr 7 himself.

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Be aware it’s a meme deck but at least it’s fun.

Played dh up to diamond 5. Now back to the memes.

TJT said:

It's pretty fucked up you can't do anything to dormant minions. There needs to be a safety valve on them or some way to destroy them. Otherwise it's just a derp here's a 10/5 on turn 5 that will do 10 dmg to your face on turn 7 if you can't keep shit on the board while I am also killing you still.

I mean.. why. There's no real risk or downside to dropping them whenever you can.

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Well the risk is you are essentially doing nothing turn 5. With how tempo driven this game is such plays are a big factor in the outcome.

I'd say the biggest problem with today's hearthstone is the number of 0 cost cards that can be generated/played. Banking 5 mana for a later turn is balanced, getting 10-20 absolutely "free" mana from zero cost cards is not.