Hearthstone

elidib said:

i just beat dungeon run as warrior. got >5 cost becomes 5, then kept picking the legendary, taunt, or recruit option. perma-stealth helps even more.

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Perma-stealth is nice, but remember it hoses Taunt.

Enzee said:

ROFL, that's some super lazy programming on blizzard's part, wow..

I'm happy I downloaded gwent yesterday, so far it seems pretty cool. Definitely different, but a lot more strategic.

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Yeah they probably created every single zombeast by hand, and the intern who did it is no longer there and no one else wants to do that.

Imagine they had designed their actual WoW raid encounters like that. You get one attempt on each boss, you can't swap players between bosses and some bosses required 8 priests, others required 8 warlocks and you don't know in advance which boss you'll face.

Quineloe said:

Imagine they had designed their actual WoW raid encounters like that. You get one attempt on each boss, you can't swap players between bosses and some bosses required 8 priests, others required 8 warlocks and you don't know in advance which boss you'll face.

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The best part is, I can't wait for the tear-jerking Brode video where he talks about how "they invested so much into this new format, but everyone min-maxes and no one plays it because they're just not engaging in the spirit of Hearthstone, and the community is at fault, etc. etc."

Just finished the dungeon runs as well. I hadn't had that much fun in hearthstone in a long time.

Anything with jade was easy. Longest for me was Mage by far. I suspect it's not that mage is harder, it's just that there is mucho RNG involved. I thought RNG in deck building was not as bad as RNG in which last boss you faced and what cards their abilities got them.

Devourer was the easiest boss if you had a good tempo deck, you can just rape him before Doom. He has no efficient removal that I know of. The Darkness was fair, little RNG involved. You eventually know all the cards he has. The other 3 (BWL dragon, goblin and beam) could be very frustrating, I never felt like I knew what I was doing vs them.

Below are the decks that I've been monkeying with...I agree that Corridor creeper is strong and I need to slot it more.

As always, these are works in progress...but I thought it would make it easier to get the ball rolling with actual lists.

### kaz drag priest 2.0
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
#
# 1x (1) Holy Smite
# 1x (1) Northshire Cleric
# 1x (1) Power Word: Shield
# 1x (1) Psionic Probe
# 1x (2) Netherspite Historian
# 1x (2) Radiant Elemental
# 1x (2) Shadow Visions
# 1x (2) Shadow Word: Pain
# 1x (2) Spirit Lash
# 1x (3) Curious Glimmerroot
# 1x (3) Shadow Word: Death
# 1x (3) Twilight Acolyte
# 1x (4) Duskbreaker
# 1x (4) Hoarding Dragon
# 1x (4) Kazakus
# 1x (4) Mass Dispel
# 1x (4) Priest of the Feast
# 1x (4) Twilight Drake
# 1x (5) Cobalt Scalebane
# 1x (5) Drakonid Operative
# 1x (5) Holy Nova
# 1x (5) Raza the Chained
# 1x (6) Bone Drake
# 1x (6) Dragonfire Potion
# 1x (6) Holy Fire
# 1x (8) Primordial Drake
# 1x (8) Shadowreaper Anduin
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
# 1x (9) Ysera
# 1x (10) Deathwing
#
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### Big V1
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
#
# 1x (0) Circle of Healing
# 2x (1) Pint-Size Potion
# 2x (2) Embrace the Shadow
# 2x (2) Shadow Visions
# 2x (2) Shadow Word: Pain
# 1x (3) Dragon Soul
# 2x (3) Shadow Word: Death
# 1x (4) Barnes
# 2x (4) Eternal Servitude
# 1x (4) Greater Healing Potion
# 2x (4) Shadow Word: Horror
# 1x (6) Dragonfire Potion
# 2x (6) Shadow Essence
# 2x (7) Lesser Diamond Spellstone
# 1x (7) Psychic Scream
# 1x (8) Shadowreaper Anduin
# 1x (8) The Lich King
# 2x (9) Obsidian Statue
# 1x (9) Ysera
# 1x (10) Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound
#
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### Thijs Seal Lock
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
#
# 1x (1) Dark Pact
# 2x (1) Kobold Librarian
# 2x (1) Mistress of Mixtures
# 2x (1) Mortal Coil
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 2x (2) Defile
# 1x (2) Tainted Zealot
# 2x (3) Chittering Tunneler
# 2x (4) Hellfire
# 2x (4) Lesser Amethyst Spellstone
# 2x (5) Possessed Lackey
# 1x (6) Rin, the First Disciple
# 2x (6) Siphon Soul
# 1x (7) Bonemare
# 2x (7) Corridor Creeper
# 2x (8) Twisting Nether
# 2x (9) Voidlord
# 1x (10) Bloodreaver Gul'dan
#
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### Big Spells
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
#
# 2x (1) Arcane Artificer
# 1x (1) Babbling Book
# 2x (2) Arcanologist
# 2x (2) Doomsayer
# 2x (2) Medivh's Valet
# 2x (2) Raven Familiar
# 1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Ice Block
# 1x (3) Tar Creeper
# 1x (4) Polymorph
# 2x (4) Saronite Chain Gang
# 1x (5) Cabalist's Tome
# 1x (5) Deck of Wonders
# 1x (5) Dragon's Fury
# 2x (6) Meteor
# 2x (6) Spiteful Summoner
# 2x (7) Firelands Portal
# 1x (8) Medivh, the Guardian
# 1x (9) Dragoncaller Alanna
# 1x (9) Frost Lich Jaina
#
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HS has and always will be a game about strong tempo and agro. Just like the Reynad video pointed out, the combat being entirely decided by the attacker alone makes it that way. I will continue to play the game because im dumb but it's such a piss poor design. Being designed around mobile devices really hamstrung it from having any true depth.

I have been enjoying a couple of variances on Rogue. The weapon is easily acquired thanks to the new creature that fetches creatures and of course the one that fetches the weapon. The spiders help with board wipe and it does not hurt that they are 4/4's along with the goblin which adds to card draw. Throw in the 2 spell giants and the destroy target creature plants and Its a fun deck that does pretty well against Priest. Its weakness is most likely swarm since it cannot deal with lots of creature that suddenly get larger. Still debating whether or not I want to throw in Darkness but not sure what to remove for it. I do have it in the rogue mill variant.

Dungeon Run should be... 1 x New Pack (or even classic /barf) for the first time you complete it with a class (So 9 packs in total), with the Cardback for doing all 9. And let people do daily quests in there.

Otherwise, it will be dead when the novelty wears off and as said above, Brode will weep and gnash about how people don't want new modes.

I was tempted to re-download HS after I heard about the dungeon runs, but now I saw people here talking about its "rewards". It killed my interest in downloading, the game's poor design (plus lack of formats/rewards) finally got to quit many months ago. Now I've been to spoiled by eternal/gwent.