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2017-07-06, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I wonder if Reddit will be able to talk him into making another rap song for this expansion?Last edited by The Glyphstone; 2017-07-06 at 11:35 PM.
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There's already a petition that went up at around the same time as the expansion's announcement video.
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1 damage isn't going to help so much against Paladins - the days of Muster for Battle are long behind us, and strangely Lost in the Jungle has not become a standard card for the class. It's only really effective at killing the very earliest Pirate Warrior plays (N'zoth's First Mate & Patches), too.
Basically, at best that spell is Arcane Explosion plus a little healing, and sometimes it even has a drawback of wounding/killing your minions. That doesn't seem so impressive.
In addition, Priest does have effective pseudo-AoE that's cheaper than 5: Potion of Madness and Shadow Madness. Save against very specific metas, I'd be inclined to think the Potion gets run over this as an anti-aggro tool. It's cheaper and probably often more effective.Toph Pony avatar by Dirtytabs. Thanks!
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2017-07-07, 01:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spirit Lash seems decent if you can pair it with spell damage. In the case of a full-ish enemy board, Spirit Lash + Thalnos would be "cast Consecration, draw a Card, heal 10-16 HP". The other thing to note is that it fits into Wild Pyro/Northshire/Circle strats for massive card draw.
I'm not convinced it beats out Priest of the Feast/Binding Heal for healing back up, but the card is borderline enough that I'm not prepared to call it crap yet. I am generally more excited for Priest getting some decent Deathrattles though. The main thing Deathrattle Priest lacked was a win condition, as just playing a load of sub-par Deathrattles a couple times over wasn't all that great. With Deathrattle being a major theme of the expansion I'm betting there will be some power cards to make building a deck for any class viable. Priest having a Reno effect available might just give them the edge.
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I'm very curious to see how the Hunter power works. Card text is limited in space, so what happens when you get a card with two very complicated texts? For instance, Bittertide Hydra combined with Giant Sand Wurm. I suppose they could get around it by adding the card text of the second card as an enchantment - but then, how do they show that for a card in your hand with two Battlecries?
Also, if you go over 10 mana with the combined card, will it just be an unplayable card? That seems like a major downside if you get a pair of really expensive minions. Let's say you get offered Ultrasaur, Giant Mastodon, and King Krush on your second pick. Unless you picked a 1-mana minion, you're now screwed because the Beast you created will be guaranteed to cost over 10 mana - literally unplayable.
It also seems a bit slow. While the stitched together minions can be powerful, they also cost 2 mana more than normal. A lot of cards become non-viable if you increase the cost by 1 mana, and you're combining the mana costs as well. This makes the minimum cost 4 mana for double 1-drops, and the cost escalates really fast as you combine even relatively small minions. For example, spending 2 mana to draw a Carrion Grub and Infested Wolf is pretty good. The mash-up is a 9 mana 5/8 that Deathrattles into two 1/1 minions. You're going to be pretty sad when that gets Hexed.
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2017-07-07, 02:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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According to Mike Donais, it will only show you Beasts that cost 5 mana or less.
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2017-07-07, 02:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's not a tempo tool, it's a value tool. It offers a way for Midrange hunter to keep up pressure in the late game, when you're almost out of cards and not spending the full 10 mana every turn anyways. It's also free in terms of cards. You might be sad that it got hexed, but your opponent just spent a card to kill your Not A Card.
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2017-07-07, 05:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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The possibility of doing something like Young Dragonhawk stitched with a Jungle Panther for a 5/3 Stealth Windfury for 5 is going to keep some people up at night. Can't wait to see how this ends up.
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2017-07-07, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, it wouldn't trigger northshire, since that only counts minion heals, and Holy Champion is out of standard, I think. Maybe worth testing in wild, but probably not good.
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2017-07-07, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm really excited for the free missions, been missing the single player aspect of the game.
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2017-07-07, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm worried about that hunter power. It's the sort of high-variance RNG that can make hearthstone quite unfun.
Like, I'm not opposed to RNG in general, but there are certain forms that are especially salt generating. Most of the time, that hero power is just going to churn out a decently statted minion. But sometimes you'll get Vicious Fledgeling with Charge or Stealth, Or a supercharged Rat Pack, and that is what is going to stick in people's minds.
As for the revealed cards, unless there is some sort of Tutor mechanic, Prince Keleseth seems bad. Boosting your entire deck from turn 2 SEEMS great, but he's a legendary, so you can't reliably draw him early on. Every turn you don't draw him after 2 is wasted value, and 2-cost cards are often pretty important.
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2017-07-07, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Maybe if quest hunter becomes a thing he will see play. Instead of two drops you just run 1 drops. Though you miss out on cards like knife juggler and sure wolf alpha so probably not
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Destro has the right of this. In standard the only thing that it could currently combo with is Lightwarden, and that's too easy to remove to be worth attempting.
I'd be quite leery of the notion that spell damage will make it good too, since that's never been true of Arcane Explosion. Granted, it has been of Maelstrom Portal, but that card has the upside of putting a body on the board, which is a lot better in most cases than a situational heal.
Binding Heal? Really? I don't see a world where that ever sees play, even over Spirit Lash. It's far too niche, wanting you to heal both a minion and your face at once.
I'll give Spirit Lash this much, at least: if Priest ever really needs a specifically anti-aggro card to stabilize via healing, I think it would rather have that than existing alternatives (Binding Heal, Greater Healing Potion). I just don't think that's a niche it really needs when it has more generalized healing cards that don't have to be useless against non-aggro (Holy Nova, Priest of the Feast, Darkshire Alchemist, Twilight Darkmender if C'Thun ever becomes viable again, maybe even Holy Fire), plus its hero power, plus potentially Amara if the quest ends up getting enough good deathrattles to start working.Toph Pony avatar by Dirtytabs. Thanks!
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2017-07-07, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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So after playing brawl a lot, I have to say the best card in this brawl is mass dispel. The opponent probably put in cards that only activate with the rag and with out it the eggs, grim patrons, armor smiths and axe flingers are a lot worse and very few decks run burst as rag usually seals out the win.
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2017-07-07, 11:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Maelstrom portal is good because Shaman gets spell damage automatically with enough hero power activation. And the card is variably powerful depending on your totem luck. The body is a nice bonus (I mean, they just made arcane explosion, but better) but shaman does particularly well with low damage spells because they have such easy access to spell damage.
Priest, I think, is somewhere in between. They're usually going more slowly than Mage since they have a lot more stall cards, so they can afford to hold out for spell damage and use their cards later if they don't need the early removal against something like a speedy pirate start, and they typically have more high health low attack minions who might benefit from a 1 damage aoe to turn bad trades into good ones. But they're not going to have quick and consistent spell damage access unless the new set come with some excellent cheap spell damage minions, so they can't reliably expect a 1 damage spell to do 2+ damage before turn 5.
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2017-07-07, 11:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Some quick predictions for this set, before we see more cards:
- Direct support for certain Quests: big minions for Druid, targeted spells for Paladin, etc. Given that Deathrattles are stated to be a focus of the expansion, Quest Priest getting support is a no-brainer.
- Undead Murlocs, Death Knights or otherwise. Possibly including class Murlocs for Shaman and/or Paladin.
- At least one neutral "French Vanilla" Lifesteal minion.
- Every class will have access to a Lifesteal card, but classes that traditionally have class cards that heal will likely have more and/or less-rare Lifesteal cards.
- Paladin may have additional Silver Hand Recruit support, but won't synergize with Death Knight Uther.
- A class will get a spell to give a minion Lifesteal, probably Paladin, though Priest is also possible.
- Indirect Discover nerfs, via diluting the card pool (some situational/mediocre spells for Mage, non-Legendary Taunts for Paladin and Shaman, more Taunts in general, etc.).
- Lich King Bolvar as the Paladin Legendary minion, maybe?
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2017-07-08, 12:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Circle's problem is that it doesn't heal your face, which can be quite important against aggro decks and Mages of all stripes. The main reason to run Circle is Auchenai, and while I'm not certain I believe most Control Priest decks at the moment aren't running those.
I'm a Dragon Priest player myself, so I'm not really up on the full decklists for the other archetypes. I just know what I see on Twitch, and the Control Priest lists are variable enough that it's hard to make a "standard" list for them.
Which is great, by the way. I've loved how many differences there are in even top-tier decks this expansion. My recollection of Gadgetzan is that we had maybe a couple weeks of Wild West deckbuilding before everyone settled into the best decks, and then after that the expansion kinda rotted from lack of innovation. For Un'Goro we're talking about the next expansion and top tier decklists still aren't completely settled.
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2017-07-08, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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I love how Quest Taunt C'Thun Warrior (without the C'Thun) was a thing in Global Games and it won a game!
It feels like the meta keep shifting depending on what the best deck is; last week VS Reaper had Quest Rogue as a really strong deck. Then players adjusted and suddenly Freeze Mage is top dog. I remember when midrange Murloc Paladin felt oppressive, then the crabs / mages came out. I like the dynamic feel of the meta and we'll see what decks are hiding out because Quest Rogue exists.
I'm skeptical we'll see another top tier deck (last one I think was Evolve/Devolve Token Shaman), but I'm sure we'll find some really cool tier 2-3 decks in the last month of Un'goro.Last edited by Joran; 2017-07-08 at 12:57 AM.
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Quick thoughts:
1) hero cards are OK. Overpay for a spell, get a Justicar effect for free plus a bit of armor. Nothing super new but cool.
Note: Stop giving Hunter replacement hero powers! It doesn't work! Hunter has the BEST lategame hero power already
2) life steal is... again, ok. The Priest Spell is a cool tech card, I'd say it's even playable: it's probably better than wild pyro in Northshire combos.
3)the 2 mana legend is... auto include for Qhest Hunter, 400 dust for everyone else?
The other two cards are not really worth discussing.
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But in this case the whole theme of the expansion is they're giving a new card for all classes to replace hero powers. And I would rather if they are doing that anyway to try encouraging an alternate hunter playstyle, rather than just making something blatantly Hunter++ like "Deal 5 damage to face".
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Besides, they already had a chance to give Hunters a directly improved hero power with Justicar. Instead, Hunter got robbed and only got "Deal 3 damage" while Priest/Warrior got "Go up by 4". Blizzard doesn't seem to want a "Bleed them dry" style of hunter.
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2017-07-10, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, it definitely bums me out, because I honestly think that fits the flavor of Hunter really well: wear them out and chase them down over time, using traps to stall them and hinder them.
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2017-07-10, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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And they've finally fixed the darn freeze on close bug, too.
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The snoops at Hearthpwn have apparently discovered an Arena-based holiday bonus event lasting for three weeks. Presumably this is going to be before the new expansion launches. Fits nicely if it comes after this week's Fire Festival. But even if it's after, doesn't matter.
I don't mind the concept and gameplay of Arena, it's just that at this point in time I'd rather save the gold for packs of the new expansion. Free Arena runs (one free run per week, they say), with a bonus Knights pack on top of the standard Arena rewards? Sign me up.
I'm not going to turn away free stuff, lol.
Welp there goes my Rogue meta deck. I might tinker around with it, but I was being run over by aggro before the nerf. Need to try some things out.
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