This is kinda cool but variance is indeed very huge. I have already won twice as rag (got him 3 times in a row now) makes me wonder if I can play nefarian. Concept is cool but the free spells are just bs, if they get good spells

Manijak

Slovenia112 Posts

June 18 2015 17:12 GMT

#162

Nice and fun mode. Only ''problem'' I have with it is that out of 9 games I got Rag 8 times...Nef seems more fun to play.

willoc

Canada1530 Posts

June 18 2015 17:38 GMT

#163

Ragnaros is the harder deck to play for sure. Noobs will almost always lose with it. It's like a handlock with super value low mana cards. You basically want to get yourself to 30-40 health range asap, use up your weapon asap and then make a board clear + molten giants play at around turns 4-5.

Nefarian is a lot simpler and skill only comes into play if you are playing against a decent Ragnaros player.

Overall, I thought it was fun and you can play with friends. A nice addition for fun's sake.

DrDoom77

United States0 Posts

June 18 2015 18:55 GMT

#164

Had a quest to play 20 minions of 5 mana or more. Completed this quest in only 2 games as Nef. :-)

Vo-one

Ukraine456 Posts

June 18 2015 19:36 GMT

#165

Played 7 games - Nef 4:0, Rag 0:3...

Volband

Hungary6034 Posts

June 18 2015 19:48 GMT

#166

On June 19 2015 04:36 Vo-one wrote:
Played 7 games - Nef 4:0, Rag 0:3...

My biggest problem is not that Nef is way stronger, but the fact that he is way more fun thanks to the rng, and this mode should be about fun.

jaybrundage

United States3921 Posts

June 18 2015 19:57 GMT

#167

Yea Nef is the aggro and Rag is the control. I think the game is more balanced then it first appears. I actually like rag alot Volband because of the Control game

Nef getting crazy strong spells can be lots of fun tho.

EDIT Oh and I have never got High Justice Grimstone to give me a legendary. Still hoping i get it to work

Volband

Hungary6034 Posts

June 18 2015 20:13 GMT

#168

On June 19 2015 04:57 jaybrundage wrote:
Yea Nef is the aggro and Rag is the control. I think the game is more balanced then it first appears. I actually like rag alot Volband because of the Control game

Nef getting crazy strong spells can be lots of fun tho.

EDIT Oh and I have never got High Justice Grimstone to give me a legendary. Still hoping i get it to work

My opponent just got one - Rend Blackhand, haha. (edit: to clarify: he got Rend Blackhand)

I like being the control player, but this is different. Nef has such an easy time early + the card advantage later on. I had a pretty weak hand, but what can Rag do vs Equality+Hellfire? Even when his hero power turned, I just filled the board with whelps, then whelps+Onyxia, then even more whelps.

I think the win rate for Rag has to be pretty bad, even if it is obviously not as bad as we may make it soun like (which means it's not 99-1 to Nef, but even a 70-30 disparity is huge).

And Nef is the hero you can"t get tired of thanks to his hero power.

Vo-one

Ukraine456 Posts

June 18 2015 20:41 GMT

#169

I went to AM server then - only once i've got Nef (1-0) and 6 times Rag (2-4). Hearthstone is so Hearthstone

My friends didn't like The Tavern cuz of constant losing by Rag - got a deck and that's ok.

Hellonslaught

Brazil0 Posts

June 19 2015 03:09 GMT

#170

Ragnaros cant deal with an early 7/7 drake for 4 mana, and even if he could, still needs Nefarian to get sucky rng spells to succeed.

Sejanus

Lithuania550 Posts

June 19 2015 06:11 GMT

#171

On June 19 2015 01:11 Volband wrote: some more bullshit

The very post right before your's states

I will never play this mode again.

And yet you insist I am the only one. It's just mental. I am not sure if you are making shit up for the sake of argument or are you downright hallucinating and really believe what you say. Doesn't seem worth it wasting any more of my time on you either way.

NKB

United Kingdom608 Posts

June 19 2015 07:25 GMT

#172

Played 4 games all as rag, only won once but mode was a lot of fun.

Volband

Hungary6034 Posts

June 19 2015 17:45 GMT

#173

On June 19 2015 15:11 Sejanus wrote:

Show nested quote +

The very post right before your's states

Show nested quote +

Classy runaway, bye.

Mojumbo

Canada11 Posts

June 19 2015 20:29 GMT

#174

I'm loving this new mode! :D Ragnaros ftw.

Doc Daneeka

United States577 Posts

June 20 2015 01:38 GMT

#175

I actually have a much easier time playing the Rag deck. Nefarion can get a ridiculous unbeatable opening, but if he doesn't it's usually a slow but inevitable loss. I've also played a couple of very neat close games as Nefarion where I managed to hang on to a hand into the late game via Chromagus and decent wild magic rng and wound up either just winning or just losing.

phyvo

United States5635 Posts

June 20 2015 05:19 GMT

#176

I had some very bad rag games early. If you don't know what the decks look like I think it's a lot more difficult to adjust to rag than nef. Plus I once had a nef dump his entire hand on me by turn 3 because of vaelstraz and innervate or something like that.

The rag game I won was because I got the two taunt minions for 2 mana which, combined with the weapon, stabilized my early board and health. Then I drew corruption man and cleared his board with that and at that point rag's real hero power kicked in. It's tough to beat once you get there.

I find it very interesting that they went with such a high concept for the new mode. It kinda sets a high standard when I was honestly just expecting something like "everyone has 5 malygoses for 1 mana in their deck, gogo really stupid games".

Chutoro

New Zealand95 Posts

June 20 2015 09:21 GMT

#177

On June 20 2015 14:19 phyvo wrote:I find it very interesting that they went with such a high concept for the new mode. It kinda sets a high standard when I was honestly just expecting something like "everyone has 5 malygoses for 1 mana in their deck, gogo really stupid games".

Agreed - I was pleasantly surprised. The concept is pretty epic and there is more tactical depth to it than I expected.

Volband

Hungary6034 Posts

June 20 2015 09:49 GMT

#178

However, there is no way they can keep up with this quality from week to week. Pumping out new cards for 5 days seems a bit extreme, so weeks like this will probably be rare.

Fi0na

0 Posts

June 20 2015 10:49 GMT

#179

played quite a few games, until the last one yesterday where my rag ability hit the worst possible target 8 out of 8 times. The only reason I stayed in the game was because I drew some good cards (Flamestrike, Baron Geddon for the small stuff, Son of the Flame for the bigger stuff) but after the eight missed shot there was just no coming back. It perfectly hit a 2/2 or 1/1 if he had one left on the board, else it hit face. 8 times in a row. There was always 1-3 targets with at least 4 attack each, but no, let's take care of dangerous Whelps instead. #esports