it's no infinity wars
― Mordy , Friday, 18 April 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
i kinda got boiled on infinity swipes early in the third iteration
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Since posting I've spent like $60 on cards. Definitely dangerous. Still not as bad as an MtG habit would be.
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
this game is fun, but i got tired of arena mode, the range of decks available is just so much narrower than MTG draft due to having to play every card and only seeing 3 cards per pick, meaning that you can't reliably draft your way into focused synergy and thus the correct strategy is just taking all the midrange individually strong cards. having most of the cards be class-neutral just compounds the sameiness.
i think this will work itself out over time as they tweak the game and release more cards to freshen it up again (i assume they are doing this eventually?)
constructed is a lot more interesting & varied, but unfortunately the deck i built a couple months ago when it was good (warrior aggro) gets trumped kind of badly by the deck that's become the most popular since then (warlock hyper-aggro) and i'm out of resources to make another deck
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
I'm 100% down this rabbit hole now, putting in a pretty consistent 30-60 minutes a day and getting a relatively respectable win rate I guess. I'm refusing to let myself steal deck ideas from other sites, which means I'm often caught out by the meta game and will have some days where I can't catch a break because everyone using the same shitty warlock deck or whatever (especially when I'm playing ranked), but on the other hand there's a definite advantage in the way playing non-standard decks lets you wrong foot people. And the naxxramas cards are really helping in that respect, the gradual release of them especially is making it a lot less clear what decks are actually strong anyway week to week. Plus it's giving everyone a handful of decent legendaries without a ton of grind, which does lots to level the playing field.
Anyway yeah, GOTY.
― JimD, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
I play this a lot, what's anybody's battletag
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 16 October 2014 06:21 (nine years ago) link
anyone (still) playing this? I'm well and truly hooked.
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Monday, 15 February 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeah. I'm terrible and my peak on the ladder is like 15, even though I probably have the material to build metagamey decks. I just like building gimmicky decks full of murlocs and occasionally having them work.
― petulant dick master (silby), Monday, 15 February 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I was obsessed for a couple months this summer, getting up to level 5 at one point and then abruptly stopped and haven't returned since. It doesn't command my attention the way Magic: The Gathering does. I got tired of seeing the same few decks over and over.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 15 February 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
I have the ridic gamer name of DireRaven if you want to add me. Perhaps I should give MTG a go, I get the feeling that might be another rabbit hole though
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Monday, 15 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Do it!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 15 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
You need to give the part of your battletag with the numbers to add people. Eg I am silby#1606 (I think) and you should add me.
― petulant dick master (silby), Monday, 15 February 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
I would play Magic but then I would have to play Magic with people who play Magic, about whom I have negative stereotypes. Hearthstone I don't have to leave home or talk to teenagers.
will try and sort that out later. Finally I will be able to do that quest where you have to watch another player's battle, in a creepily voyeuristic way!
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
omg you guys!
http://www.themarysue.com/ay-bb-fireside-and-chill/
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 19 February 2016 05:23 (eight years ago) link
silby you live in magic Mecca you should probably play magic
― iatee, Friday, 19 February 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
I'd also add that there are lots of very nice people who play Magic and also post to this board
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 19 February 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/blitzchung-removed-from-grandmasters-over-a-controversial-hong-kong-interview-and-banned-from-competing-for-a-year-casters-fired/
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GMDUqJJ.jpg
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
Not gonna lie boys, as someone who used to cast exclusively Blizzard games, I'm all set on 'em now. It helps their games haven't been all that great in recent times.
Kinda stoked Bungie took Destiny off the Blizzard launcher tho, because I just started playing that and I'm really enjoying it.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
lol Go American University, finally a local sports team I want to root forhttps://kotaku.com/college-hearthstone-players-hold-up-free-hong-kong-bo-1838896492
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/
Anyone who pays attention to my social media feeds knows that I am not someone who shies away from politics. I am frequently quite vocal about my views about what’s going on in the United States. I have kept a deck titled “Election 2016” in my collection for the past three years, full of cards like Corruption, DOOM, and Validated Doomsayer. I would rather risk alienating those who disagree with me rather than stay silent on matters I consider important.
damn dude
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
That starts rough (sounding a bit like the rule-sticklers who think that a punishment was justified), but he makes the right call in the end. I don't know why he doesn't mention the casters who were fired as well.
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Props to Kibler, he seems like a genuinely good dude, and I'm sure this wasn't an easy decision to make.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
same Brian Kibler who was a big time Magic player back in the day? good for him, always seemed like one of the few likeable dudes in that scene
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
I know nothing of these games but this effort rules
― maffew12, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
xp
Yep, his move to Hearthstone was a big boon to his career these last few years, so this is not an insignificant gesture for him.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
I'm all set on 'em now
I may have never seen this phrase before - I'd have read it as very positive towards them, but, uh, I guess not?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
"I'm all set," as you might say to a server who comes to bus your empty dishes.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
I don't follow games dev drama because ugh, but I assume it's the right time for me to delete this not-much-played app from my iPad?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link