Hearthstone

[HumblePie]

that IS pathetic.

Naw, it's about quick and easy wins... the more you play the more you level and more gold cards you get. Since most of the legendaries are inter-changable in all decks, you have one person leveling up one deck to get a gold card, then level another to get that gold card as fast, then another, ad nauseum. The point is getting gold cards for disenchant, as well as gold from wins and the occasional complete on a quest. The trick is max gold per hour. You do that by beating noobs as often as possible. You see someone play a gold card twice in a row or drop a couple legendaries, you concede if they haven't already. No point in playing that game regardless of who wins. These are people that aren't playing to have fun. They are playing to WIN the long game. Individual matches matter little. It's about getting every thing they need to decks and then crushing with those decks in rank to be the top. Who cares if a player concede 1000+ games to reach rank 1?

 

[Ns1]

Interesting mindset...

 

[ikachu]

Naw, it's about quick and easy wins... the more you play the more you level and more gold cards you get. Since most of the legendaries are inter-changable in all decks, you have one person leveling up one deck to get a gold card, then level another to get that gold card as fast, then another, ad nauseum. The point is getting gold cards for disenchant, as well as gold from wins and the occasional complete on a quest. The trick is max gold per hour. You do that by beating noobs as often as possible. You see someone play a gold card twice in a row or drop a couple legendaries, you concede if they haven't already. No point in playing that game regardless of who wins. These are people that aren't playing to have fun. They are playing to WIN the long game. Individual matches matter little. It's about getting every thing they need to decks and then crushing with those decks in rank to be the top. Who cares if a player concede 1000+ games to reach rank 1?

You can't disenchant the gold cards that you get from leveling up. The 'benefit' of rank 20 farming is that it makes it easier/faster to hit the 30 wins a day to hit the 100g daily cap.

But really, it's probably more efficient to work an hour at McDonalds or something and buy a couple packs.

 

[HumblePie]

You can't disenchant the gold cards that you get from leveling up. The 'benefit' of rank 20 farming is that it makes it easier/faster to hit the 30 wins a day to hit the 100g daily cap.

But really, it's probably more efficient to work an hour at McDonalds or something and buy a couple packs.

I disenchant gold cards from leveling up. Wtf you talking about? Just did it. You get 4 times as much dust from disenchanting a gold card as a normal card.

 

[HumblePie]

Interesting mindset...

Well when you earn money throw game streaming and depend upon that, you do what you can to make sure you are on top. If that means a little off camera time of building up to get every card needed for various decks to make a run for number 1, so be it. There are some that do it for other reasons, most of which is over competitiveness. I play the game to have fun. When 5/7 matches are against try-hards it gets less and less fun to play the game.

 

[Ns1]

Well when you earn money throw game streaming and depend upon that, you do what you can to make sure you are on top. If that means a little off camera time of building up to get every card needed for various decks to make a run for number 1, so be it. There are some that do it for other reasons, most of which is over competitiveness. I play the game to have fun. When 5/7 matches are against try-hards it gets less and less fun to play the game.

Well, I would argue it is far more efficient to go outside and hustle for a day or two and buy 80 packs, which is why I don't particularly understand that mindset you outlined. Must be a strategy for youngins or scrubs w/o jobs.

I only play casual/ranked to get gold to play arena. I don't care enough to dump real money into this game.

 

[HumblePie]

Well, I would argue it is far more efficient to go outside and hustle for a day or two and buy 80 packs, which is why I don't particularly understand that mindset you outlined. Must be a strategy for youngins or scrubs w/o jobs.

I only play casual/ranked to get gold to play arena. I don't care enough to dump real money into this game.

Streaming for some is big bucks. 6+ figures for those that can manage over 10K viewers on average. Why hustle when one can play a game for a few extra hours a day to max out their play session when they stream to make far more money than "hustling" would net them? Of course there is more to it than just having all the right cards to getting that many average viewers. Which many sadly don't realize. So for many it would be better to go with your suggestion instead of dreaming of being one of the lucky big dogs in the streaming business.

 

[Ns1]

Streaming for some is big bucks. 6+ figures for those that can manage over 10K viewers on average. Why hustle when one can play a game for a few extra hours a day to max out their play session when they stream to make far more money than "hustling" would net them? Of course there is more to it than just having all the right cards to getting that many average viewers. Which many sadly don't realize. So for many it would be better to go with your suggestion instead of dreaming of being one of the lucky big dogs in the streaming business.

Another interesting viewpoint. You're just full of them huh? haha.

 

[HumblePie]

Another interesting viewpoint. You're just full of them huh? haha.

You don't watch twitch tv for game streaming or something else like it?

 

[Ns1]

You don't watch twitch tv for game streaming or something else like it?

Twitch? Game streaming? aint nobody got time for that.

Maybe in my primetime gaming days, sure. These days the most effort I'm willing to do is look at people's arena card ranking guides and read this thread.

I'm finally starting to turn the corner and winning >50% of my matches, so I'm happy.

 

[ikachu]

I disenchant gold cards from leveling up. Wtf you talking about? Just did it. You get 4 times as much dust from disenchanting a gold card as a normal card.

No offense but you are wrong. You definitely cannot disenchant the golden 'basic' cards (no gem in the middle) you get as rewards from leveling up. You can only disenchant the 'expert' cards that you get from opening packs / arena rewards.

 

[Kev]

Streaming for some is big bucks. 6+ figures for those that can manage over 10K viewers on average. Why hustle when one can play a game for a few extra hours a day to max out their play session when they stream to make far more money than "hustling" would net them? Of course there is more to it than just having all the right cards to getting that many average viewers. Which many sadly don't realize. So for many it would be better to go with your suggestion instead of dreaming of being one of the lucky big dogs in the streaming business.

Dude what are you talking about. The only people who are going to make any kind of significant money streaming are top players who can make it to high levels based mostly on skill. They're not the ones grinding at level 20 for gold. People aren't going to watch a stream of some donkey just because he has legendary cards in his deck.

 

[Kev]

No offense but you are wrong. You definitely cannot disenchant the golden 'basic' cards (no gem in the middle) you get as rewards from leveling up. You can only disenchant the 'expert' cards that you get from opening packs / arena rewards.

confirmed

 

[HumblePie]

Yah I forgot you only get basic gold cards from leveling. For some reason I thought I was getting disenchantable ones.

 

[HumblePie]

Dude what are you talking about. The only people who are going to make any kind of significant money streaming are top players who can make it to high levels based mostly on skill. They're not the ones grinding at level 20 for gold. People aren't going to watch a stream of some donkey just because he has legendary cards in his deck.

This game has such a low bar for skill. Skill isn't a significant factor in what makes 1 player better than another. It's pure RNG once the decks are about evenly matched. People watch the ones that are more entertaining than not. But to even get into the door, you need to be in the "competitive" department which means having the decks that match evenly to ever other "top" deck out there. That is just getting your foot in the door. Some people have a crap ton of money to waste getting there, and some don't. Those that don't grind.

 

[ewdotson]

You can't disenchant the gold cards that you get from leveling up. The 'benefit' of rank 20 farming is that it makes it easier/faster to hit the 30 wins a day to hit the 100g daily cap.

But really, it's probably more efficient to work an hour at McDonalds or something and buy a couple packs.

I suspect that in many cases, the simplest explanation is that some of these people are just old school griefers who just get their jollies from ticking off "legit" rank 20 players.

 

[JTsyo]

Check out this HS puzzle. Haven't got one yet, mostly because I don't know all the cards. And another.

 

[Aikouka]

Blizzard just announced an expansion for Hearthstone at PAX East. The expansion is called Curse of Naxxramas, and it will introduce 30 new cards in addition to a "PVE raid" featuring... you guessed it, Naxxramas. The raid will be structured similarly to the Naxxramas raid dungeon where there are five wings: Arachnid, Construct, Plague, Military and Frost. The first (Arachnid) will be free for everyone, but the rest will cost money to purchase (I assume it's a pay once sort of deal). In the raids, you will play against AI-controlled opponents based upon the raid bosses from the game, which have their own Hero Power. Heigan the Unclean was showed off at PAX, and fortunately, you will not have to know how to walk the dog! (A little inside joke for any old WoW players.) Each boss that you defeat will earn you a new card for your deck. For beating all five wings, you get the Baron Rivendare (he's the leader of the Four Horsemen) legendary card.

The expansion also introduces a Naxxramas board. The expansion will also feature a new class challenge (one per class I believe) that unlocks a new class card.

 

[ikachu]

Blizzard just announced an expansion for Hearthstone at PAX East. The expansion is called Curse of Naxxramas, and it will introduce 30 new cards in addition to a "PVE raid" featuring... you guessed it, Naxxramas. The raid will be structured similarly to the Naxxramas raid dungeon where there are five wings: Arachnid, Construct, Plague, Military and Frost. The first (Arachnid) will be free for everyone, but the rest will cost money to purchase (I assume it's a pay once sort of deal). In the raids, you will play against AI-controlled opponents based upon the raid bosses from the game, which have their own Hero Power. Heigan the Unclean was showed off at PAX, and fortunately, you will not have to know how to walk the dog! (A little inside joke for any old WoW players.) Each boss that you defeat will earn you a new card for your deck. For beating all five wings, you get the Baron Rivendare (he's the leader of the Four Horsemen) legendary card. The expansion also introduces a Naxxramas board.

Just to clarify, you can unlock new wings with money or in game gold:

"If players wish to venture further into Naxxramas to collect all of the new cards for their collection, each wing besides the Arachnid Quarter can be purchased with in-game gold OR real money. "

 

[lupi]

Have about 4k now, how much do I need to save to unlock it all!v

 

[Windranger]

What's your highest score in Arena??

Mine is about 3...

 

[Aikouka]

In a video on the iPad version of Hearthstone at IGN, they said the game would be out on iPad this week. It makes me wonder if the limited release was no more than a sneaky way for Blizzard to implement a mass beta test.

 

[lupi]

Games over the weekend weren't nearly as bad as have been last couple of weeks. Maybe the D3 crowd has slowly seeped back in.

Had one interesting match where I dropped illidan and a taunt. He then tossed out rag and popped his 1-1, rag killed my taunt. I then face-mip rag and put corruption on it and drop argus taunting up 2 of the 2-1s. He puts out a couple minions and then his rag takes out my rag as it dies. I drop a couple more minions and toss a +4/4 on illian, start attacks on him and he bails.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, looks like I have run into the new hunter deck de ju over the weekend, but found its weakness. It is yet another semi-rush deck, using spell power to kill most minions that you might pull to protect yourself, including the 0 mana "change minion's HP to 1" cards.

My priest deck works now (assuming I don't get crapped on by the RNG, just like every deck I guess), but the hardest part is making it through the first 4 turns without giving up too much HP. Once you start putting up 3/5 taunts, the ranger will typically start using their do 5 damage if you have a beast cards and the change hp to 1 cards. You need to have 2 of the 3/5 taunt (tazzdinga's), and 2 3/6 taunt (creepers? don't remember name), as well as your 2/7+2 attack when damaged and 0/5 attack same as hp cards in your deck. The great thing about these cards is that they are still useful offensively as well as defensively.

 

[Aikouka]

FYI, Hearthstone is out on the iPad today:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearthstone-heroes-warcraft/id625257520?mt=8