Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft TCG - Page 85

On October 08 2013 11:34 Inkblood wrote:


Alarm-o-Bot is like “Play a card to play another random card, assuming it lives. Or play a card to do absolutely nothing if a creature kills it or it’s silenced.”

It doesn’t trigger Battlecries, so you don’t want it grabbing most Battlecry cards (and there are quite a few of them, most of which are really good.) It’s a card that by itself gets nothing done, and can be taken out by most 2 and 3 drops. The only good outcome is it warps a big creature out of your hand. But that’s so bloody situational. I would rather just have a solid 3 drop over Alarm-o-Bot. And even barring that, there’s probably situations where you want a certain card to stay in your hand, because it will have greater value later, or there’s something currently on the board that will kill it for free. And once again, there’s the Battlecry anti-value.

Like, you can gamble, and the card can create wonderful situations with legendaries or something, but generally you can simply play stronger and more consistent cards. At it’s core it strikes me as simply unreliable and monstrously situational. Even if you get lucky and have, let's say, Alarm-o-Bot and Ysera in your hand, if you have any other minions that Alarm-o-Bot can copy it might not work, or it might get killed by a 2 or 3 drop removal, creature, or weapon, or it might get silenced by Silence, Ironbeak Owl, or Earth Shock. (Or other silences if it’s later in the game. And in general it's probably not going to be as useful later in the game. Because you can just straight up play tough creatures now.)

One way it could be useful is in warlock decks, where you can avoid their detrimental demon Battlecries as well as warp out high cost creatures. I don’t know if it’s good there, but it’s probably where Alarm-o-Bot is at its best. (Though then you might Alarm-o-Bot Lord Jaraxxus and cry at the 3/15 creature you've just slammed onto the board.)

To address your other questions. Increasing it’s health would make it better, but I personally would still consider it really bad. The mana cost doesn’t matter imo, making it cheaper would just make it bizarre.

In summary its upside is to make big cards cheaper via randomness and luck, and avoiding demon Battlecries. But it has too many downsides. Hopefully this post was helpful/coherent, and not flat out wrong. Obviously it's my opinion of the card, but I think it's fairly accurate. Have a nice day

On October 08 2013 13:42 dae wrote:
As this is a free game, I am intrigued by the possibility of maximizing time spent playing in arena without spending money by using multiple accounts to maximize dailies gold income.

On October 08 2013 13:43 TheExile19 wrote:


yeah that's kind of an obvious reading. the problem is that if you aren't skilled, this game does not give two shits about you and you can grind all day (almost literally, 10g per 3 wins is nothing and apparently it was worse before) if you want one instance of tangible results. I certainly want to like playing TCGs, I sunk revolting amounts of my parents' money into one as a kid but the staggering difference between where I am deck-wise and skill-wise with someone like trump or anybody else that goes infinite regularly seems insurmountable unless I want to sink the rest of my game budget into buying unreliable boosters. as for actually improving my skill level, I'm better off trying zen meditation in the mountains because the deceptive simplicity of the game belies the fact that I've played a hundred games and have only gotten to 6-3 in arena once where others apparently loop arena all day.

maybe it'll be less daunting when the game opens up and the amount of beta tryhards levels out but every bit of this game feels uphill. I just barely managed to beat a fully fledged murloc rushdown with every relevant epic and that's one of the lucky times I pull an upset against that sort of deck. shamans and priests with full epic loadouts and supplementary legendaries are unbelievable.

On October 08 2013 20:38 I_Love_Bacon wrote:


Your problem isn't cards - it's your mindset. You don't need ridiculous decks filled with legendaries to beat opponents. Mediocre decks played well can still net you a lot of wins. You need to figure out how to improve your play and identify what you're doing wrong consistently (sound familiar? Pretty much getting better at anything 101). Simply relying on suddenly lucking your way into a bunch of epics isn't going to make you actually play them correctly.

You already mentioned Trump; mute his stream and figure out what you would do in his situation (whether it's drafting or actually playing) and when he differs from your play just think why he's doing what he's doing. Realistically, there's never some fast way to get better at TCGs/CCGs. Spend time in matches thinking about what your opponent's deck is likely to have, be mindful of your mana curve, don't over-extend, and make sure you understand the goal of your constructed deck (temp, control, etc).

On October 08 2013 18:49 ahswtini wrote:

But what's the point in having gold spread across many accounts? You can't trade between them.

On October 09 2013 04:16 skyR wrote:
Another NA wave.. still no key.

On October 09 2013 05:42 Slardar wrote:
Still no key, I don't even watch streams anymore. All hype and interest has evaporated.

On October 09 2013 05:42 Slardar wrote:
Still no key, I don't even watch streams anymore. All hype and interest has evaporated.