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manhack

manhack

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Oct 27, 2017
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Upon further investigation, I'm realizing that ALL animated cards and portraits are static now in the iOS client. Wtf?

Sucks, since I play on iOS a lot. Looks like it is only temporary.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/20767516710

blizzard said:
Greetings,

We recently discovered a visual issue occurring on both iPhones and iPads. Due to the nature of this issue, high resolution textures and Golden card animations have been temporarily disabled at this time to resolve this matter.

Thank you for your patience.
 

Magnus

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,357
Hearthpwn is trash tier for getting good decks.

Nevertheless, I've experienced much the same when taking out the "best" decks for a spin. If someone hits rank 1 Legend with a deck, then I'm sure to go 2-10 with it and get super unlucky.

Hearthpwn is awful for good decks. Best source for good decks is HSreplay premium ($4.99 a month) and checking the top decks for the rank you're going for.

HSreplay free is a good source, but decks vary wildly between ranks. Their top deck might be 60% between 15-10 and 49% between 5-legend.

I'm personally waiting for the Vicious Syndicate rankings.

Ouch. Scathing opinions. Had no idea it sucked. Figured all the good decks from elsewhere would wind up on it eventually. I'm not going to pay for a deck site. Any other alternatives?
 

Keyser S

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
8,480
Ouch. Scathing opinions. Had no idea it sucked. Figured all the good decks from elsewhere would wind up on it eventually. I'm not going to pay for a deck site. Any other alternatives?

HS Replay is still good, but you cannot deep dive on the info without without paying

This updating reddit thread is good for a wide range of decks from streamers and pros
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/95bsph/boomsday_project_decklists_from_streamers_and/
 
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manhack

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Ouch. Scathing opinions. Had no idea it sucked. Figured all the good decks from elsewhere would wind up on it eventually. I'm not going to pay for a deck site. Any other alternatives?

I'm going to add this to the OP. I took these from my bookmarks and they are my go to resources when I sit down looking for a deck to play. In fact I have more decks to play than time until the heat death of the universe.

ahirunHS Twitter Feed: Curated list of decks and tweets. A go to twitter account for many pros.

HS Pro Deck Feed:Curated list of decks from top streamers and pros.

Competitive Hearthstone subreddit: Heavily moderated to focus on serious discussions and deck talk based on stats.

HSReplay.net: Most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for live stats, meta reports, decks. All stats generated from users of Hearthstone Deck Tracker.

Best Deck Lists to Climb the Standard Ladder - Metastats.net: Metastats is a lesser known compendium of game and deck stats. Decklists are selected using machine learning algorithm so there is some weird stuff there, but these are typically actual decks people are playing at the time.

Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper Report: Home of the most popular meta report and lesser used live stat tracker
 

bunbun777

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Oct 29, 2017
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It just occurred to me this card was a thing in Hunter:
metaltooth-leaper.png

So I made a wild deck that has a tiny bit of draw and just goes for bombs, so far undefeated @ rank 5 but only played 2 games lol.

### Robosensual
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Goblin Bomb
# 2x (1) Mecharoo
# 2x (1) Tracking
# 2x (2) Bomb Toss
# 2x (2) Feign Death
# 2x (2) Glaivezooka
# 2x (2) Mechwarper
# 2x (2) Quick Shot
# 2x (2) Venomizer
# 2x (3) Metaltooth Leaper
# 2x (3) Spider Bomb
# 2x (4) Explodinator
# 2x (4) Piloted Shredder
# 1x (5) Giggling Inventor
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 1x (6) Deathstalker Rexxar
# 1x (7) Boommaster Flark
#
AAEBAR8EhtMC4fUC4vgCoIADDZcIlA/HD9sP4A+QENQR3fUC4PUC4vUCufgC9v0CiYADAA==
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

You pretty much just go face and pay attention to lethal, it's usually there pretty quickly with all the face bomb damage, feign death and then drop metaltooth.
 

zoukka

Game Developer
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Oct 28, 2017
2,361
Any fun competitive decks that are not Zoo or big Warlock/Druid?
 
Oct 25, 2017
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I've been crushing with control warrior

### Control Warrior
# Class: Warrior # Format: Standard # Year of the Raven #
# 2x (1) Shield Slam
# 2x (2) Cornered Sentry
# 2x (2) Drywhisker Armorer
# 2x (2) Execute
# 2x (2) Slam
# 2x (2) Warpath
# 2x (2) Weapons Project
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Shield Block
# 2x (4) Blood Razor
# 2x (5) Brawl
# 2x (5) Dyn-o-matic
# 2x (5) Giggling Inventor
# 1x (5) Harrison Jones
# 1x (7) Dr. Boom, Mad Genius
# 1x (8) Grommash Hellscream
# 1x (8) Scourgelord Garrosh
# AAECAQcE0gKQB5/TApL4Ag1LogSRBv8Hsgj7DL7DAszNAs/nApvzAvT1AuL4Ap77AgA=
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone #

I am trying out some minor variation atm. -2 slams +1 Dead mans hand +1 azalina

Not sure if azalina is worth it but DMH is. Most of the decks I have faced tonight were deathrattle rogues and I crushed every single one of them. Only lost to a mage who somehow drew an insane amount of burn after a strong start up (double pyro, double fireball).

So I am 9-1 atm. Games take long, I am also slow with it since I am learning CW.
 

zoukka

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Oct 28, 2017
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I think Blizzard dropped the ball with Rush. It's a boring, weak mechanic that can never be competitive since against control it might as well not exist in your cards. Charge was good because it kept control decks in check imo.

Cube Rogue is fun! I was thinking about Necrium Blade myself too and the interactions are pretty powerful.
 

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I think Blizzard dropped the ball with Rush. It's a boring, weak mechanic that can never be competitive since against control it might as well not exist in your cards. Charge was good because it kept control decks in check imo.

Cube Rogue is fun! I was thinking about Necrium Blade myself too and the interactions are pretty powerful.

Right.

The thing about Rush is that...why have that when you can have a spell that does the same thing? If you really need removal, get a neutral charge or a spell that does the same thing.
 

Keyser S

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Oct 26, 2017
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i think Rush should be able to be overridden by Charge if you pay an extra 2 Mana when playingthe card. Give players options. It may mean a lot a messy interactions - but Hearthstotne already has lots of pop ups for Discover and other mechanics, so having a "Choose One" popup whenever you play a Rush minion is not out of the question.
 
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Rush is fine imo. Very different mechanic compared to charge. They serve very different purposes. It's okay that rush is weak vs control, that's not why you run it. Where rush minions are great is a bit of flexibility, sometimes playing a vanilla 3/3 is fine. Sometimes you need to kill something for 3 damage and it survives. Sometimes you just need to trade 1:1. Flexibility is a strength in itself. Sorta like magnetize. You can also buff rush minions, whereas you couldn't do the same for spells. There are a couple of really good rush minions, like zilliax.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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I've been crushing with control warrior

### Control Warrior
# Class: Warrior # Format: Standard # Year of the Raven #
# 2x (1) Shield Slam
# 2x (2) Cornered Sentry
# 2x (2) Drywhisker Armorer
# 2x (2) Execute
# 2x (2) Slam
# 2x (2) Warpath
# 2x (2) Weapons Project
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Shield Block
# 2x (4) Blood Razor
# 2x (5) Brawl
# 2x (5) Dyn-o-matic
# 2x (5) Giggling Inventor
# 1x (5) Harrison Jones
# 1x (7) Dr. Boom, Mad Genius
# 1x (8) Grommash Hellscream
# 1x (8) Scourgelord Garrosh
# AAECAQcE0gKQB5/TApL4Ag1LogSRBv8Hsgj7DL7DAszNAs/nApvzAvT1AuL4Ap77AgA=
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone #

I am trying out some minor variation atm. -2 slams +1 Dead mans hand +1 azalina

Not sure if azalina is worth it but DMH is. Most of the decks I have faced tonight were deathrattle rogues and I crushed every single one of them. Only lost to a mage who somehow drew an insane amount of burn after a strong start up (double pyro, double fireball).

So I am 9-1 atm. Games take long, I am also slow with it since I am learning CW.
Have you faced any hunters?
I've been playing mostly bomb Hunter and bomb druid. I've beaten all the warriors I've come across with Hunter. And every game has been long as hell and gone to fatigue.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Have you faced any hunters?
I've been playing mostly bomb Hunter and bomb druid. I've beaten all the warriors I've come across with Hunter. And every game has been long as hell and gone to fatigue.

Not yet but I kinda have a hard time seeing CW lose to it. Who knows though. So much armor gain, I feel like the bombs would be weak at least for hunter. Druid might be harder due to the wide board buffs.
 

zoukka

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Rush is fine imo. Very different mechanic compared to charge. They serve very different purposes. It's okay that rush is weak vs control, that's not why you run it. Where rush minions are great is a bit of flexibility, sometimes playing a vanilla 3/3 is fine. Sometimes you need to kill something for 3 damage and it survives. Sometimes you just need to trade 1:1. Flexibility is a strength in itself. Sorta like magnetize. You can also buff rush minions, whereas you couldn't do the same for spells. There are a couple of really good rush minions, like zilliax.

I would agree with the flexibility, but traditionally a "flexible" card in CCG's is something that is relevant in multiple situations and phases of the game. A vanilla 3/3 for 3 is not good in any state of the game, mediocre at best in turn 3. And it's funny you brought up magnetize, since you can do "charge damage" with magnetize which is probably why it's a viable mechanic (maybe).

Actually Keysers idea of a "kicker" cost is great. Now that would truly make the cards flexible, a cheapish rush minion for early board control (or sometimes just a vanilla dude) and a more expensive version of it that can hit face late game.

Zilliax is good because it's clearly undercosted for how much it does, not because it has rush.
 
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Druid Mecha'thun is fucking unfun. That is, I'm playing it, and I feel that my opponents just have little fun? Like, there's very little other than getting an early zoo to properly defeat it. There is little to no interaction against it. The only way the opposing player can 'win' against it, is by causing you to mill your own mechathun.

This deck allows you to draw your whole deck, remove your opponents playing field, and all with no interaction. Its why it also uses biology project-it doesnt matter if you give your opponent 2 mana crystals, it doesn't matter because your whole deck is uninteractive.

I haven't gone against alot of people with this deck, but I imagine that it'll top the druid meta soon enough once people realize how-with this deck-only one person is playing the game, and that's the druid.
 
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Druid Mecha'thun is fucking unfun. That is, I'm playing it, and I feel that my opponents just have little fun? Like, there's very little other than getting an early zoo to properly defeat it. There is little to no interaction against it. The only way the opposing player can 'win' against it, is by causing you to mill your own mechathun.

This deck allows you to draw your whole deck, remove your opponents playing field, and all with no interaction. Its why it also uses biology project-it doesnt matter if you give your opponent 2 mana crystals, it doesn't matter because your whole deck is uninteractive.

I haven't gone against alot of people with this deck, but I imagine that it'll top the druid meta soon enough once people realize how-with this deck-only one person is playing the game, and that's the druid.
Sounds like a combo deck to me
I doubt it will be the top druid deck though. I've already beaten it numerous times with a bunch of different decks, but who knows. It's only the second day.
 

Papercuts

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Oct 25, 2017
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The deck seems similar to the wild aviana kun combos. They're really fun to pilot for me but on the opponent's end you either race them (which is hard) or just basically watch them play solatire which can be the issue with combo decks. Druid have so much draw and armor that it doesn't take them that long to go through a deck, and spreading plague is still absurdly good against the decks this type of thing should be weak to.
 

Keyser S

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Oct 26, 2017
8,480
hm

Druid Mecha'thun is fucking unfun. That is, I'm playing it, and I feel that my opponents just have little fun? Like, there's very little other than getting an early zoo to properly defeat it. There is little to no interaction against it. The only way the opposing player can 'win' against it, is by causing you to mill your own mechathun.

This deck allows you to draw your whole deck, remove your opponents playing field, and all with no interaction. Its why it also uses biology project-it doesnt matter if you give your opponent 2 mana crystals, it doesn't matter because your whole deck is uninteractive.

I haven't gone against alot of people with this deck, but I imagine that it'll top the druid meta soon enough once people realize how-with this deck-only one person is playing the game, and that's the druid.

The Druid version of Mecha'tun can be countered with...


Marin is the more hilarious one.

The Warlock C'tun is much more awkward to deal with, as even Demoic PRoject is not guaranteed to hit, as they can have a big full of other minions when they do the OTK
 
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The Druid version of Mecha'tun can be countered with...

Marin is the more hilarious one.

The Warlock C'tun is much more awkward to deal with, as even Demoic PRoject is not guaranteed to hit, as they can have a big full of other minions when they do the OTK
I love this idea, but I think the one thing that could still screw it up is if they keep both naturalizes. As long as they lose one then you're good.

Demonic Project has a higher chance of drawing it with two cards, but then you're forced to play Warlock.
 

Daigoro

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Oct 28, 2017
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what was that annoying ass Priest Taunt deck i just played?

as if Priest werent gross enough...
 

Arjen

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
2,025
I've just been playing casual to try out some new decks, but 75% of the people I play against are just playing the standard old meta decks without any new cards :(
 

bunbun777

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Oct 29, 2017
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Well guys I finally did it, don't play much arena anymore but my last run gave me an odd amount of gold so tonight decided to go again and got a killer draft with (2) Baron Geddons, (3) Nesting Rocs and (2) Giggling Inventors. But the real reason I think i went 12-0 was I had my only 1 drop minion in my opening hand either fresh or after mulligans 11x.

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345 gold and a golden Dreadscale Knight.
 

Voytek

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Oct 25, 2017
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what was that annoying ass Priest Taunt deck i just played?

as if Priest werent gross enough...

I wonder if that was me? lol. I just threw together a shitty all taunt deck cause I was getting annoyed by aggro and also frustrated that I can't find a Priest deck worth a shit. (FTP user so I'm kinda stuck with it. Don't have cards/dust to change classes or I would).
 

bunbun777

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Oct 29, 2017
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Thunderhead.... god damn

Shaman's ability to fill up a board now is insane
You know I started messing with a Storm Bringer deck with 2 Thunderheads, it is probably the most fun I've had in casual so far this expansion. There's always targets for it to hit and the results are hilarious. Just got lethal in my last game thanks to Whizbang. (Like the actual 4/5 Whizbang just to clarify)
 

ZeroX

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
21,266
Speed Force
You know I started messing with a Storm Bringer deck with 2 Thunderheads, it is probably the most fun I've had in casual so far this expansion. There's always targets for it to hit and the results are hilarious. Just got lethal in my last game thanks to Whizbang. (Like the actual 4/5 Whizbang just to clarify)
I would be very surprised if some form of Shaman didn't shake out at least Tier 2, there's a lot of good stuff between Even and Token decks. Turn 5 I went from just a Thunderbringer and Fire Fly in play to a whole damn board evolved.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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I'm going to try to be sensible and hold off on using my 3200 dust. I always blow it on like week 2 crafting something on a whim. I must be cautious.
 

ZeroX

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
21,266
Speed Force
I have 15k dust and all I want to do is craft golden Whizzbang ahhhhh

But I didn't manage to save this much by spending frivolously. Floop and Electra are the sensible things to craft now that I've got Boom, Soularium and Zilliax.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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I have 15k dust and all I want to do is craft golden Whizzbang ahhhhh

But I didn't manage to save this much by spending frivolously. Floop and Electra are the sensible things to craft now that I've got Boom, Soularium and Zilliax.

I'm honestly not sure Floop will be in. Druid really needs Oaken Summons and Floop can't be run with that. I suspect it won't be included in most lists.
 

kazinova

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Oct 27, 2017
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Hunter brain blast!
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$

Stick a Whelp turn 6, turn 7 coin -> play dead -> trade -> star aligner
Three 7/7s and a 7 damage aoe.

Seems good, fits in deathrattle hunter without sacrificing much. Will test and get back.
 
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