Topic: Has anyone learned Hearthstone yet? (Read 616469 times)

Grujah · « **Reply #1650 on:** July 30, 2014, 06:21:50 am »

Quote from: nkirbit on July 29, 2014, 09:29:14 pm

Does anyone have a golden portrait? I just hit 200 druids wins, and I feel like I've been playing constantly since it started counting.. getting 500 is insane. I don't think I"ve even played 500 games since season 1, let alone get 500 wins.

I have ~1000 play mode win, and at least 95% is ranked. But part of it is from before they started counting, and other thing is that I play multiple classes so I have ~600+ "counted" wins, but spread across the field - ~170 Paladin, ~125 Lock and Rogue each, 100 Haunter.. So Golden Portrait guys either played A LOT more than me or just focused on single hero.

Jorbles · « **Reply #1651 on:** July 30, 2014, 01:26:16 pm »

Quote from: Grujah on July 30, 2014, 06:21:50 am

Quote from: nkirbit on July 29, 2014, 09:29:14 pm
Does anyone have a golden portrait? I just hit 200 druids wins, and I feel like I've been playing constantly since it started counting.. getting 500 is insane. I don't think I"ve even played 500 games since season 1, let alone get 500 wins.

I have ~1000 play mode win, and at least 95% is ranked. But part of it is from before they started counting, and other thing is that I play multiple classes so I have ~600+ "counted" wins, but spread across the field - ~170 Paladin, ~125 Lock and Rogue each, 100 Haunter.. So Golden Portrait guys either played A LOT more than me or just focused on single hero.

I was playing against a Golden mage and I had a much better start than her in our opening hands. (I coined out a turn 3 yeti in a priest deck and she didn't have an immediate answer). Once it killed her 2 drop and I healed it back up she immediately resigned which I thought was premature. But maybe Golden Portrait players just follow a fail-fast mentality. It's better to fail quickly and retry than to try for a longshot win. You lose nothing for taking a loss in unranked, but you only gain things on wins.

Grujah · « **Reply #1652 on:** July 30, 2014, 01:40:43 pm »

Golden Portrait counts ranked only. People act differently in ranked - If you have a bad hand you play it out because a loss hurts a lot.

Jorbles · « **Reply #1653 on:** July 30, 2014, 02:11:13 pm »

Quote from: Grujah on July 30, 2014, 01:40:43 pm

Golden Portrait counts ranked only. People act differently in ranked - If you have a bad hand you play it out because a loss hurts a lot.

Ah right, forgot it only mattered for ranked when counting.

pingpongsam · « **Reply #1654 on:** July 30, 2014, 02:45:14 pm »

Just started playing this last week. Pretty solid game. Play it on iPad and it is really nice. I'm especially liking the F2P aspect.

KingZog3 · « **Reply #1655 on:** July 30, 2014, 02:57:14 pm »

Quote from: pingpongsam on July 30, 2014, 02:45:14 pm

Just started playing this last week. Pretty solid game. Play it on iPad and it is really nice. I'm especially liking the F2P aspect.

Enter naxrramas so you get the first wing free. Otherwise you'll need to pay gold for it.

Jorbles · « **Reply #1656 on:** July 30, 2014, 04:13:04 pm »

Quote from: KingZog3 on July 30, 2014, 02:57:14 pm

Quote from: pingpongsam on July 30, 2014, 02:45:14 pm
Just started playing this last week. Pretty solid game. Play it on iPad and it is really nice. I'm especially liking the F2P aspect.

Enter naxrramas so you get the first wing free. Otherwise you'll need to pay gold for it.

(starting next week)

ashersky · « **Reply #1657 on:** July 30, 2014, 06:42:31 pm »

KingZong and HME got to see me open another legendary last night! So amazing! I was so exci...oh, another f'ing King Krush.

Kirian · « **Reply #1658 on:** July 30, 2014, 07:02:46 pm »

Quote from: ashersky on July 30, 2014, 06:42:31 pm

KingZong and HME got to see me open another legendary last night! So amazing! I was so exci...oh, another f'ing King Krush.

Well... at least you can turn it into an Epic of your choice!

KingZog3 · « **Reply #1659 on:** July 30, 2014, 07:05:05 pm »

Quote from: ashersky on July 30, 2014, 06:42:31 pm

KingZong and HME got to see me open another legendary last night! So amazing! I was so exci...oh, another f'ing King Krush.

I see what you did there...

ashersky · « **Reply #1660 on:** July 30, 2014, 08:01:35 pm »

Quote from: Kirian on July 30, 2014, 07:02:46 pm

Quote from: ashersky on July 30, 2014, 06:42:31 pm
KingZong and HME got to see me open another legendary last night! So amazing! I was so exci...oh, another f'ing King Krush.

Well... at least you can turn it into an Epic of your choice!

I'm saving up to craft a Golden King Krush, actually.

AHoppy · « **Reply #1661 on:** July 30, 2014, 10:29:44 pm »

Got my best arena yet at 6 wins! Half way to 12!
http://arenamastery.com/rqLU
I've found I reallly like rogue in arena. I don't have the cards to play her well in constructed, but I love it in arena

ashersky · « **Reply #1662 on:** July 31, 2014, 08:14:12 am »

Just had a weird game against a priest who dropped 8? Legendary cards in a row. I think it was:

Maexxna, Loatheb, Alex, Velen, Gruul, Murk-Eye, The inventor, then Nagle

But he clearly wasn't trying to win, as he just left my Alex out to pummel him. Weird deck...

KingZog3 · « **Reply #1663 on:** July 31, 2014, 11:36:39 am »

Quote from: ashersky on July 31, 2014, 08:14:12 am

Just had a weird game against a priest who dropped 8? Legendary cards in a row. I think it was:

Maexxna, Loatheb, Alex, Velen, Gruul, Murk-Eye, The inventor, then Nagle

But he clearly wasn't trying to win, as he just left my Alex out to pummel him. Weird deck...

Obviously he think legendarily win, because murk eye is terrible.

Also, I think loatheb has a really cook animation when he enters te board.

Grujah · « **Reply #1664 on:** July 31, 2014, 01:12:36 pm »

Or he plays all legendaries for fun-sies, ala-noxious's Randuin.

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #1665 on:** July 31, 2014, 02:21:15 pm »

I've also seen a mass legendary Alarm-o-bot/Summoning Portal deck. The goal is not to win, but to get as many legendaries out on the table at once. Also, if you do manage to win, your opponent is forced to go on the forums and make a post about how the game is p2w.

() | (_) ^/ · « **Reply #1666 on:** July 31, 2014, 04:05:58 pm »

I started playing hearthstone a couple of months ago when it came out on the iPad -- or at least when I noticed that it was out on the iPad.

I really enjoy it. Most of my gaming energies are devoted to that and DOTA these days.

I played a bit of pseudo-arena with Jorbles -- you pick a class and create a new deck using only the suggested card feature. It was a ton of fun. If ever you see me on (I've added everyone in the hearthstone player list thread), hit me up and let's play!

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #1667 on:** July 31, 2014, 04:42:18 pm »

Quote from: () | (_) ^/ on July 31, 2014, 04:05:58 pm

I played a bit of pseudo-arena with Jorbles -- you pick a class and create a new deck using only the suggested card feature. It was a ton of fun. If ever you see me on (I've added everyone in the hearthstone player list thread), hit me up and let's play!

This is a fun idea. Of course its asymmetric if you don't own the same cards, and if you try to exploit the algorithm by which it suggests cards (e.g. it tries to fill in holes in your curve) while your opponent doesn't (or you both do, but you've done a better job of reverse-engineering the algorithm), you can gain an advantage, but it's probably not that terrible. Probably wouldn't do for an f.ds tournament format though...

Jorbles · « **Reply #1668 on:** July 31, 2014, 04:59:15 pm »

Quote from: HiveMindEmulator on July 31, 2014, 04:42:18 pm

Quote from: () | (_) ^/ on July 31, 2014, 04:05:58 pm
I played a bit of pseudo-arena with Jorbles -- you pick a class and create a new deck using only the suggested card feature. It was a ton of fun. If ever you see me on (I've added everyone in the hearthstone player list thread), hit me up and let's play!

This is a fun idea. Of course its asymmetric if you don't own the same cards, and if you try to exploit the algorithm by which it suggests cards (e.g. it tries to fill in holes in your curve) while your opponent doesn't (or you both do, but you've done a better job of reverse-engineering the algorithm), you can gain an advantage, but it's probably not that terrible. Probably wouldn't do for an f.ds tournament format though...

Yeah, there's a definite advantage to picking a class that you have a lot of good cards in as well. They're very likely to come up.

ashersky · « **Reply #1669 on:** July 31, 2014, 08:13:14 pm »

You ever play that extra game to finish that last quest so you get the final bit of gold you need to buy another pack of cards...and then you open Alarm-o-Bot and 4 dusted commons?

Yeah, that's lame.

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #1670 on:** July 31, 2014, 08:23:46 pm »

Quote from: ashersky on July 31, 2014, 08:13:14 pm

You ever play that extra game to finish that last quest so you get the final bit of gold you need to buy another pack of cards...and then you open Alarm-o-Bot and 4 dusted commons?

Yeah, that's lame.

One step closer to that Alarm-O-Bot + mass legendary deck. Now you just need the legendaries...

blueblimp · « **Reply #1671 on:** July 31, 2014, 08:34:13 pm »

Alarm-o-Bot might have been overpowered if the removal in this game were less good.

blueblimp · « **Reply #1672 on:** August 04, 2014, 10:02:59 am »

It's weird that Cult Master and Flesheating Ghoul are common. In my experience, the remote trigger of their bonuses (card drawing, attack buff) gives them high "board complexity" in the sense that even when you're not directly interacting with them, you still need to keep them in mind to know the result of your moves. I still occasionally forget to take them into account when ordering my attacks when I'm not being careful.

The other neutrals like that are placed rare-or-higher (e.g. Wild Pyromancer), and remote triggers are unusual among common class neutrals: the only ones I can think of are Northshire Cleric, Scavenging Hyena, and Starving Buzzard (edit: plus Mana Wyrm and Unbound Elemental, of course!).

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #1673 on:** August 04, 2014, 01:17:54 pm »

^That's an interesting observation. They probably gave some preference to having higher rarity on those cards, but I guess _something_ has to be common... In a couple of weeks, you're going to have to add Undertaker is going to add to your list.

popsofctown · « **Reply #1674 on:** August 09, 2014, 02:11:42 pm »

"I hope you realize how terrible that deck is and how lucky you are to have won a single game with it you #$%^er"

Music to my ears.

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