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Plague Quarter Released (You can now buy it for 700g). I finished all three bosses with ease. Gonna try heroic later. Loatheb (the card) looks interesting and I might add it into my deck. It can really null miracle rogues and other decks that rely on spells
Rank 12 atm, it's so hard to get further without the right legendaries, most top decks include Black Knight, Ragnaros, Thalnos, Leeroy etc and of course certain classes run their legendaries as well, like with Paladin.
In the beta/season 1 I got around this rank, and I found myself not only get stomped by legendaries, but also because I didn't know the combo's of the enemy. Now I know the big plays, doesn't mean it's always as easy to work around, but at least I know them and do my best to control the game. But now I'm just at the point that Legendaries make or break the deck, especially since the meta changes , 1 of the decks I want is Paladin deck created by Kolento, some of the main cards are Tirion, Wild Pyromancer, Equality, Consecration, Aldor Peacekeepers lots of taunts and some healing, including Lay on Hands. What you basically do is block their damage, take away their high damage, board clear, heal up and stomp them with strong minions and weapons.
Problem is that it's freaking expensive. Now you don't need all the cards from this version: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/83491-new-pally-control
That's basically a modified Kolento version, you don't need the Ysera, and I would prefer a Cairn Bloodhoof, but you can do without them both, here is the thing though, the others are needed, and I'm missing Lay on Hands, Tirion and Black Knight, that's 4k dust to craft, which I don't have, and since I'm not getting lucky with the top tear legendaries, the only 2 good ones I got is Alexstrasza and Al'Akir, I could disenchant some of the others, but that doesn't get me close enough.
Basically to advance, it's pay2win, because the meta has turned into expensive decks
That shaman legendary is pretty sick! I would love to have that in my shaman deck. If only we could trade cards :P: (I have Tirion). I must be really lucky with legendaries then, since I have about 6 from card packs (I think I hae 8, where one (leeroy) I bought and the other was the murloc). MY problem isnt about the other person having top tier cards, but how much I rely on wave clear with Blade Flurry in my Rogue deck. That one card (+ Deadly Poison and a +1 spell damage) clears the whole board and does a pretty good amount against the opponent. Would love to see them introduce cards that reduce healing in some way because that really destroys me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Slave
Do you have Avenging Wrath. That card is pretty useful in destroying anything of your opponent.
Getting to that stage myself Ben! I'm not as highly ranked, but I'm also a more reckless player :P I have some nice legendary cards I got Ysera early in a pack, but I'm lacking the popular ones you mentioned. They also happen to be ones that kill me!
Yeah some are just so extremely strong, I mean Black Knight is a 6 mana 4/5 while it destroys their taunt minion, obviously in some decks it's not that good if they don't have taunt minions, but most do, and getting a taunt minion down is just massive value.
As for Legendaries, I got quite a few of them, but things like Nate Pagle, Illidan Stormrage and Lorewalker Cho are just not that useful and generally not worth using in your deck. Whereas something like Leeroy is just extremely valuable, it's essential for Rogue, it can be great for Hunter (in combo with Unleash) and also other decks to combo with or finish.
The key really is how much value you get out of something, Ragnaros will always hit something, yes it's random, but you know it will hit and you decide when to play it. Black Knight destroys the enemy, Cairne requires at least 2 cards/actions to clear, which is great to bait out spells or them clearing the board to attack you, Tirion will give you a weapon unless cleared with silence/sheep/hex. In the end they cause massive swings.
I have Avenging Wrath, it's good against smaller minions or in combination with Equality, but it's not really a combo you need to go for, I have 1 in my charge deck right now, but that deck doesn't fit in the control meta right now, cards like Sludge Belcher just destroys decks like mine, so I don't play it anymore. In control decks people use Wild Pyromancer to clear, since you won't be putting up a lot of minions early, you just keep them down, clear and set up control again. When you do have control, just use Consecration, but obviously using Equality while you got your minions up is risky, so where does the expensive Avenging Wrath come in?
Military Quarter was very challeging for my rogue deck. There were a lot of bosses that could finish you in 5 to 6 turns and had really strong hero powers to destroy set ups like taunts and powred up minions. Im pretty sure I will have to create a PvE deck for the heroic bosses and use classes that can sustain damage for the first 4 turns.
Had yesterday the most amazing RNG finish ever...
My Paladin charge deck vs Zoolock. As you can imagine, it was a lot of quick damage traded. I ended up with 1 HP and he was at 5 HP, he had 3 minions, including a 6/6 and 1/3 Taunt. I had 1 minion, the 1/1. I had 1 card, the Hammer of Wrath. So I started doing the math, I had 3 cards left that could finish me the game, an Arcane Golem, so Wrath the 1/3 and go for the face, and 2 Consecrations. I also still had 2 Defenders of Argus in my deck that could have stalled the game.
Since it's extremely risky to stall against a Warlock who gets 2 cards a turn, I figured I had to go for face and hope for the Consecration. So I hit it and... well got an Arcane Golem... ah I'm messing with you, I consecrated his ass!
This monster isn't what you want to run into in a dark alley when you already feel in a very tight spot! Saw it coming when he played the first-time-ever-effective-ancient-mage so was ready to hit print screen :laugh:
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By the way, playing arena there.
Guys add me up Persona#1233
I made a crazy deck - similar to anti Frost Lair Naxxramas.
Tried it on rank and its supper effective against zoolock, aggressive hunter, face hunter.
Also thanks to NAXX Shaman can do UNDERTAKER + SYLVANNAS + REINCARNATE COMBO
Hearthstone Warlock Epic Comeback 1 Life - Shadow Flame FTW
Hearthstone Naxxramas Ranked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I32elWZbk4
Ok why did you kill the healing totem at 14 mins, it couldn't do anything and could be used for something important.
His Sylvana's play was really sick, if you hadn't had the combo, you would have been dead for sure. :P
Btw what program are you using for the card info?
Hearthstone deck tracker, https://github.com/Epix37/Hearthston...acker/releasesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Slave
Actually just found it myself yesterday thanks to Persona's video above :)
Most of the time it's more fun than use but if/when a game goes into the last 5-10 cards phase it can be quite the advantage to realize what options you still have left in your deck. This is especially true in my arena decks where I don't have a good sense of what's included in the first place, probably not so much in constructed where you're sure to remember if you've already used up your limit on card X. In constructed though the opponent's side can be more helpful then in keeping track what he may or may not have left.
Thanks for the link!
There are definitely some advantages. I mean with constructed it's easy to keep track of what's been used and how many. You can also calculate what someone has left, obviously you don't know for sure, but some cards are a must have, so if they have 4 cards left, you should be able to know what those cards are.
Also keep tracking of when they had the cards in their hand, is a massive advantage, I rarely keep track of it.
Anyway got rank 11 this season, I'm actually considering pushing for Legendary this season, I watch a lot of stream, I know the decks by now and what to watch out for now, so it's a matter of mastering the tactics. So I should be able to do it.
I've been much into arena lately (well always have) but I think I'm starting to focus more on constructed. It's just been really interesting to find that recently I very very rarely end up with less than 4 wins even when I'm given shit for picks, averaging around 6-7 wins per run and 9+ isn't all that rare either. Just yesterday pulled yet another 12-win run and today a 11-win one. My goal is to, if possible, improve a bit still so that on average I gain more gold out of the arena than put into it. Not that I need the gold, but it'd give a nice sense of achievement seeing gold piling up.
I've been using another tracker as well, Heartstone Tracker and the statistics are quite intriguing, especially how having the coin affects my win/loss ratio; I was around 55-45 when going second and 70-30 when going first. These are mostly arena stats, of course and of a rather small sample size so far, but still.
Btw, any good streams to recommend for education?
In Arena coin isn't as important as in constructed, this is mostly because it's much harder to get your turns done properly. Basically when I play like a Zoolock, the coin is just so strong, because I can get strong board control because of it, on top of that classes like Rogue or Mage get extra value out of coin, Combo's and things like Mana Wyrm.
But like I said, in Arena this is much harder to do, it's hard to get a lot of 1 and 2 drops that are actually good, so it's much more about turn 3-4-5.
I'm still not a fan of Arena, for me strategy is so important, and not knowing if there is a third, fourth or fifth flamestrike, makes it so hard for me to play the game. Obviously this is part of the challenge and does offer different strategy elements, but I like to predict what they are gonna do and respond to that.
Rank 15 already, crushing with my current deck. Lot's of deathrattles (harvest, belcher, haunted etc) and lots of divine shields (scarlet, sunwalker etc) add to that Kel Thuzad to really turn things and of course Tirion, and it's so hard to clear.
The thing is that most people 'waste' their silences etc to kill off many of them, just now I had a game where I knew the druid had 1 more keeper, so I just played Kel Thuzad knowing he would silence it if he had it in his hand, he did, after which I played Tirion. If he hadn't and silence Tirion after, I would have just got it killed off and got myself a new unsilenced Tirion. :P
