Everyone is bitching about Hearthstone.

My roommate DL'd it when it went open and his first complaint was how the game is vastly inferior to MTG. It's the only game he's played for the past week and when I mentioned the spoilers were complete for Born of the Gods, he says "I don't got money for that. I spent 100$ on this yesterday."

Even with my deck list exactly the way I have it built and strifecro's druid he can't get out of rank 10. So idk, maybe he's bad but he's won more PTQ's than I have.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

January 26 2014 06:05 GMT

#20364

On January 26 2014 13:33 Frudgey wrote:
Neo should make a list of acronyms that he uses because every time he posts he uses a new one that I don't recognize and I have to look it up.

Really? :O
You must not reddit much (or at all) if you don't know what TIL means. :X I will agree that it is definitely one of the more obscure acronyms and it is pretty much isolated to just reddit use.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

January 26 2014 06:07 GMT

#20365

On January 26 2014 15:03 Cixah wrote:
Everyone is bitching about Hearthstone.

My roommate DL'd it when it went open and his first complaint was how the game is vastly inferior to MTG. It's the only game he's played for the past week and when I mentioned the spoilers were complete for Born of the Gods, he says "I don't got money for that. I spent 100$ on this yesterday."

Even with my deck list exactly the way I have it built and strifecro's druid he can't get out of rank 10. So idk, maybe he's bad but he's won more PTQ's than I have.

Have you watched him play?
idk, I feel like not all game skills are transferable. Being good at MtG doesn't mean you'll automatically be good at HS too. Even though I agree HS is far simpler of a game.

Cixah

United States11285 Posts

January 26 2014 06:12 GMT

#20366

His play is much less focus'd on board control and more focus'd about doing 30 damage. He tends to lose a lot of games when people play "Bullshit" healing cards. He's not a fan of DR. DRUIDO.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

January 26 2014 06:17 GMT

#20367

l0l, he's doing it wrong then. Maybe he should try Hunter. hue
This isn't the meta for him atm. With Mage nerfed, game feels like it's shifted more control.

wei2coolman

United States60033 Posts

January 26 2014 06:18 GMT

#20368

On January 26 2014 13:26 NeoIllusions wrote:

Show nested quote +

TIL Riot made HearthStone.

RNG mechanices no fun,

rng cards = rng teammates.

WiseBagus

Canada452 Posts

January 26 2014 06:18 GMT

#20369

No game makes me more angry than Spelunky whoever said it was a fair rogue-like was a liar and they should go slip on some ice.

kainzero

United States5211 Posts

January 26 2014 06:22 GMT

#20370

On January 26 2014 15:03 Cixah wrote:
Everyone is bitching about Hearthstone.

I am convinced that all games in the future will be games that everyone hates playing but they still play it anyway.

Cixah

United States11285 Posts

January 26 2014 06:22 GMT

#20371

On January 26 2014 15:17 NeoIllusions wrote:
l0l, he's doing it wrong then. Maybe he should try Hunter. hue
This isn't the meta for him atm. With Mage nerfed, game feels like it's shifted more control.

Lol no. MIni's is hilariously dumb. The only time it loses it when people mess with my combat math by healing. I'm not saying healing cards are bad, but it's the same mindset as it is in WoW.

Who ever does it is a complete and total vagina, and should go play Mario Kart with his mother.

Almost as bad as playing murlocs.

WHICH BY THE WAY ARE ALSO STUPID OP RIGHT NOW. #freewinz.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 26 2014 06:27 GMT

#20372

I've been vacillating for a while over whether I should craft the last 5 cards I need for Cixah's Mini's. 2 SoJ, 2 Faceless, 1 Sea Giant.

Obviously those seems hard to replace, but do you know what you'd replace those with if you didn't have them, Cixah? I sort of want to just see how the deck plays before I take the plunge and craft the most expensive bits.

On January 26 2014 15:07 NeoIllusions wrote:
idk, I feel like not all game skills are transferable. Being good at MtG doesn't mean you'll automatically be good at HS too. Even though I agree HS is far simpler of a game.

It's literally the same as making the jump from DotA->LoL or BW->SC2. Basic concepts apply, technical details differ drastically.

WaveofShadow

Canada31495 Posts

January 26 2014 06:29 GMT

#20373

On January 26 2014 15:27 TheYango wrote:
I've been vacillating for a while over whether I should craft the last 5 cards I need for Cixah's Mini's. 2 SoJ, 2 Faceless, 1 Sea Giant.

Obviously those seems hard to replace, but do you know what you'd replace those with if you didn't have them, Cixah? I sort of want to just see how the deck plays before I take the plunge and craft the most expensive bits.

lol that deck is stupid OP>
I think I have maybe 2/3rds of it and i replaced the other 1/3 with random crap and i still win all the time.

Cixah

United States11285 Posts

January 26 2014 06:32 GMT

#20374

No Sea Giants anymore. Run Rag/AW #2, or Tinkmaster/AW #2.

As for the list itself, you kind of need the SoJ's no matter what to run the list. The faceless's help you deal with the rough control MU when they resolve their own rag/(insert legendary that costs 9 or more here). If you go the tinkmaster route you get an 8 mana MC with faceless which is pretty hot.

Sea Giants were just a test because I just wrote Kripp's original idea off as fucking bad (I NEEDED SOMETHING TO DEAL WITH PRIESTS. What was an 8/8 vanilla going to do back then? Scare him til he mc's it?) Which turned out decent, but ultimately just a dead card, especially if it is just filling your hand so you can't Favor.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 26 2014 06:37 GMT

#20375

I have Rag but only one Avenging Wrath and no Tinkmaster. I figured the SoJs would be indispensable.

I'll figure something out I guess.

Realistically I should be playing more Arena to earn more cards, but Arena gets boring to me really fast so I can't really stand to grind out arena games.

red_

United States8474 Posts

January 26 2014 06:43 GMT

#20376

Hearthstone is an internet plague.

Cixah

United States11285 Posts

January 26 2014 06:45 GMT

#20377

I couldn't either back in the day, I just play arena for fun as I really hate the Ladder in HS. It ultmately just disinterests me in HS all together. The ladder system plays too heavily into streaking and doesn't have an ELO system behind it until get to the higher ranks that have more and more people.

I get the intention was to avoid ques, but ultimately this ladder means nothing to me. It's all a matter of who streaked the hardest and found the deck that had the correct sequence of draws of the longer span of games. Strifecro's druid is INCREDIBLY well constructed to make games draw out if they need to, or kill an asshole who's trying to do the same thing. It's pretty much perfect for ladder, but because games take so long it will take much longer for the "Nerf Bat" cries to reach the ears of the people that care.

I'm kinda bummed I can't play tomorrow in the new LHOpen, I have too much stuff I've put off to play tomorrow even though I want to test a new list. If anyone is playing tomorrow and wants the list you can give it a shot. I'll post it here when I get home in 3 hours.