[PC Game] Hearthstone (Practically Beta)
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Velen is like most 7+cost legendaries. Nearly a game winner if he survives a turn, but rarely does.
Necronic
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The good thing with him is that technically he doesn't have to survive to win the game, he just needs to be on the table. You can get at least 1 mindblast off on the turn you bring him out, and if you brought him out with an alarm-o-bot then you can do incredible damage. It is of course all situational.
Personally I would take out the goldshire footman. Worgen infiltrators would be better as they can take out a 2 drop instead of just delaying their damage for one turn. Even a holy smite might work in their place (plus it synergizes with your velen if you draw it in late game). The voodoo doctor I would take out entirely. You can fill it's roll better with the 3/3 heal for 3 creature(sorry can't think of the name right now). I might trade the stormwind knight for another holy nova. I'm not sure what else I would change but I think that would be a pretty decent deck.So if anyone has any advice on my deck I would appreciate it. I've been playing for all of 2 days so I am fairly certain there are some glaring errors in it
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figmentPez
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Has anyone been watching TotalBiscuit's Lord of the Legendaries series? Holy crap, are those games entertaining. Not only is he playing his (almost) all legendaries deck, but he's also making up other silly gimmick decks... and playing them in ranked. The one he showed off today was a deck designed to overload an opponent's hand with cards, and force them to either destroy cards, or burn through their deck. So he's playing a Rogue, with most of his cards focused on returning cards to his opponents hand, giving his opponent cards, or forcing card draw. It's completely ridiculous, not intended to win, but in it's first match it did! It actually killed it's opponent with fatigue damage.
I have actually really been wanting to do this, as it seems the most universally effective, so I look forward to watching the video.
--Patrick
I had the weirdest game today. I'm playing my Shaman and go up against a Priest. The Priest is playing the control game better than I am, and by round 6 I have 3 really meh cards to his hand of 5 and I'm in a dire position. I close out my turn 6 and on turn 7 he does... nothing. Not a damn thing. I think this is really strange and I play out turn 7 by playing some stuff and putting out a totem, punch him in the face for 4. Turn 8 he does... nothing.
This continued through the game. Anyone ever have that happen?
This continued through the game. Anyone ever have that happen?
Was he timing out or just passing his turn immediately? If he was timing out, I'd guess he had gone to the bathroom.
Or maybe nothing is the new meta, I don't know.
Timing out through 4 turns. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the win, but it was kinda weird.
Oh, he probably just had to go afk.
Or maybe he's 12 and his mom made him take out the trash.
Still appreciated the win 
figmentPez
Staff member
I waffle on which ones I like best. Right now my Mage and Paladin decks are my weakest, though I've been watching enough of Trump playing Mage that I could probably do pretty well at the class if I rebuilt my deck to be similar to his.
The decks I tend to feel are my strongest are my Shaman and Priest decks. I certainly have a lot of fun playing Priest, because there are so many fun cards in my deck (Mind Games, Mind Vision, Thoughtsteal, Shadow Madness, etc.) and there is such wonderful synergy with my favorite card, the Crazed Alchemist. He's so very situational, but the situations arise far more often in the Priest deck. Right now I'm suffering from some anti-synergy between my Auchenai Soulpriest and my damage+healing cards, but I'm having too much fun to rejigger things at the moment.
My Warrior, Hunter and Rogue decks are doing decently, though I'm still making changes. My Warlock went from one of my favorite decks to one of my most troublesome. I think I loaded it with too many cards that discard. That leaves... Druid, which I'm undecided on.
Overall I'm much more suited to a control style of play, and I've yet to build a good rush deck, though my Rogue comes closer to that than others. I need to find a good rush player to watch on Youtube.
He did miss lethal on the first turn though, by not attacking with the cleric before bouncing it
figmentPez
Staff member
This is a big change, too:
This only effects two Paladin secrets, best I can tell, but it's really significant for any Paladins using Redemption and Eye for an Eye.
That came as a bit of a surprise it seems. Also, you can get a free mount in WoW by winning 3 matches in Play or Arena. http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3829-Ride-Into-Action-on-Your-Hearthsteed!
figmentPez
Staff member
Interesting thing I found out today. When using Shadow Madness, the minion you gain control of will remain on your side until after Ragnaros has fired his shot. Found this out when a Warrior pulled a double Sen'jin Shieldmasta on me, and I grabbed one to beat down the other with. He would have bought himself another turn, even if I'd been able to Holy Fire one of them, if not for Shadow Madness.