Hearthstone

[Aikouka]

arena value doesn't let you do that?

for example:

Just tried their program, and it doesn't even work. I go to scan the cards, and nothing happens. :\

 

[justoh]

Just tried their program, and it doesn't even work. I go to scan the cards, and nothing happens. :\

It takes a screenshot to read the cards. Sometimes it might miss one or two and you have to manually enter them, but 95% of the time it works flawlessly for me. Maybe you have hs minimized when you try scan or something?

 

[Aikouka]

It takes a screenshot to read the cards. Sometimes it might miss one or two and you have to manually enter them, but 95% of the time it works flawlessly for me. Maybe you have hs minimized when you try scan or something?

I did see something on its homepage about multiple video cards or multiple monitors causing problems, and I do have multiple monitors. I did leave the game open and on my first monitor while the program was open on my second monitor. I don't know if that would cause a problem or not....

 

[justoh]

I did see something on its homepage about multiple video cards or multiple monitors causing problems, and I do have multiple monitors. I did leave the game open and on my first monitor while the program was open on my second monitor. I don't know if that would cause a problem or not....

So i guess just move hs to the other monitor (or another). When i printscreen and paste into mspaint it looks like it takes a shot of the secondary, not primary. That said, i always have hs on my primary. So i don't know. Anyway, the program does (or can) work and it looks like it would do what you wanted.

 

[darkewaffle]

I'm pretty sure I've complained about this before, but if a minion only has X health left and has a buff that provides it >=X health, they should die if silenced. Really do not agree with that logic.

Also I got wrecked in a super strange way one game. A priest had a zombie chow on the board, the legendary that triggers deathrattles twice, and an auchenai soulpriest. He circle of healinged, thus killing the zombie chow and triggering 2x 5 damage directly to my hero because of the priest lol.

I also dislike the difference between +health and "healing" whenever Soulpriest is on the board. Only "healing" effects deal damage.

 

[EDUSAN]

a lot of priests use zombie chow for that in the late game... since you dont want the opponent to heal 5 damage lategame, you drop them when you have auchenai and do circle of healing
Or if the zombie has 2hp left, drop the auchenai and kill it with hero power

i actually find the auchenai mechanic to be quite fun if you are the one that is playing it
Things like voodoo doctor or the farseeer the heals x 3 become effective damage dealers...

and some other cards end up being useless while its there, like holy nova

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talking about priests, i had a weird matchup yesterday.
it was my deathrattle priest vs a more control based priest

he dropped two clerics in the 1st turns and started drawing cards whenever possible, i then dropped a sludge belcher and my own cleric, he had like 8 cards in hands and i had 5, so i started doing useless trading, like my belcher against his healed injured blademaster and use circle of healing and hero power to make him burn cards
i burned cards too. in the end he sent her own clerics to their death to stop drawing cards, but it was too late, we both end up without cards (although he did it like 4 turns before me) and we were still 30/25 hp.
I finally won because i had 4 cards lefts in my hand when he only had farseer in play. He took 7 turns of damage for not having cards left and died

 

[HumblePie]

Yah, seeing that priest combo a lot lately as well.

 

[Aikouka]

My current arena run is a rather interesting/fun one to say the least. It's a low-mid range Mage deck with the majority of the mana cost in the 4s. I don't have too much higher than a 4... maybe five minions and two Flamestrikes. Although, I'm currently at a nail-biting 7-2, so we'll see if I can get it up a bit further.

talking about priests, i had a weird matchup yesterday.
it was my deathrattle priest vs a more control based priest

he dropped two clerics in the 1st turns and started drawing cards whenever possible, i then dropped a sludge belcher and my own cleric, he had like 8 cards in hands and i had 5, so i started doing useless trading, like my belcher against his healed injured blademaster and use circle of healing and hero power to make him burn cards
i burned cards too. in the end he sent her own clerics to their death to stop drawing cards, but it was too late, we both end up without cards (although he did it like 4 turns before me) and we were still 30/25 hp.
I finally won because i had 4 cards lefts in my hand when he only had farseer in play. He took 7 turns of damage for not having cards left and died

I was watching the Prismata Cup this weekend, and in a match between Kolento (Priest) and Neira (Druid), Kolento ended up winning via fatigue with only 1 health left after both players went through about five turns. He was also extremely unlucky to have his Thoughtsteal on the bottom of his deck, which does absolutely nothing when your opponent has burned through their entire deck.

 

[EDUSAN]

thoughtsteal doesnt count cards in your hand as part of "the deck" right?

 

[Wardawg1001]

thoughtsteal doesnt count cards in your hand as part of "the deck" right?

It does not. So if your opponent has 6 cards in their hand, but 0 left in their deck (the pool of cards they draw from), then your Thoughtsteal will just use up 3 mana and do nothing.

This is in contrast to a card like Mind Vision, which has the text "Put a copy of a random card from your opponent's hand into your hand." This of course has the opposite effect, where if your opponent's hand were empty but they had 12 cards left in their deck, you would get nothing from your Mind Vision.

 

[EDUSAN]

well.... i wanted to make sure because... your deck is not part of your hand but your hand is part of the deck...

anyway... i think im the only one that doesnt get a truesilver champion when playing arena as a pally or that doesnt get a single fireball or flamestrike when playing mage...

 

[lupi]

4 truesilver arean run, still have dreams about that. Would have gone 12-0 except for RNG screwing me.

 

[HumblePie]

Tried playing around last night with that priest combo for shits and giggles. Fun when it works, PITA to get all the cards in your hand to make the combo worthwhile. If you drop the priest or zombies too early you risk losing them. So you have to have the priest, 1 or 2 zombie chows, and the circle of healing card. Which makes it a turn 5+ combo that takes 3 cards to be a board clear as well as some damage to the player. It's fun when it works right, sucks when you are sitting there waiting on the cards to come into your hard. Or if you have the cards in your hand, you are being hammered a few turns because you don't probably have the cards you need in hand to react to whatever the opponent is doing because you are holding onto that combo until turn 5+.

 

[EDUSAN]

well but the zombie chows are ok as a board control method early on since they good damage and a good body, so you can kill 1,2 or even 3 minions with him while you setup the board.
Since you are not hitting the opponent the deathrattle doesnt benefit him.
In the best case escenario, you drop an auchenai in the 4th turn, and send the zombie chow to its death for a good trade + 5 damage

if you get the zombies later on, count them as a possible mind blast for when you get the rest of the combo

 

[HumblePie]

I will say I had the oddest game though last night with that priest setup. I went against a secret/control mage setup deck that was light on the minion count. Which my deck is a bit light on as well. I was able to keep healing through the damage the mage was sending my way and we were basically both countering each others minions the entire time. We both drew out our decks completely. The mage was sitting with 30 health + 10 armor (from two secrets) and zero cards in hand. I had 9 cards in hand that were like power word pain, power word death, mind control, shadow madness, circle of healing, and some other junk I couldn't play at all. The mage went first and ran out of cards first. Which basically became one of attrition on taking damage from card draw. I could heal for 2 damage every turn and he could only do 1 damage every turn. So basically I was able to outlast and win through 9 rounds of fatigue drawing to win. First time ever winning like that. Ugh.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yeah, I was in a weird priest vs my shamon battle last night. It was a control priest, which I started to figure out based on the cards he was playing early. Knowing that, I was ready for him late game. I forced him to use his kill 5+ attack cards on Fuegen and a totem buffed Sludge Beltcher. And I also forced him to play his kill 3 or less attack cards on Maex and a bear (which I was beating him over the head with). On turn 8 I played my sea giant (he had a wounded swordsman out with 1 health, and I had the 6 mana 4/5+divine shield+taunt out). Turn 9 he used his second 5mana 2 damage enemy + 2 heal friendly, healed his swordsman, and used a 2 damage card spell against the giant (bringing it down to 8/4) and attacked my taunt with the swordsman taking them both down to 4/1. I killed his swordsman with my taunt, smacked his character for 8 with the giant, cast the resummon on deathrattle resummon on the giant, cast the full heal minion+add taunt on the giant and faceless manipped the 8/8 deathrattle resummon+taunted giant. He cast mind control on one of the giants. I used my second faceless manip on his giant, killed his giant with my first, which resummoned both of ours, played one of my big game hunters to kill his second giant. He then played his second mind control on my taunted+deathrattle resummon giant. And I played KT and the owl to silence the sea giant he stole, and then I killed the sea giant with my sea giant, and KT revived him. He spammed out a couple taunts. I killed one of them with my sea giant, cast my second deathrattle resummon on the sea giant, and cast resurrect on the sea giant, KT then gave me another one at the end of the turn (giving me 3 total), and I played another 6 mana 4/5+divine shield+taunt. He gave up.

 

[Fallen Kell]

bahahah....

Ok I was completely dead, and yet I pulled off the miracle win. It was priest vs priest. He had complete board control (it was something like turn 10-12). And he had like the kitchen sink out a fen creaper, a cleric, and a stormwind champion. I had NOTHING, and he hit me down to 2 hp and he was at full 30 hp, and then using the last of his mana, he played an abomination, and doubled its health. I suddenly had LIFE. I used my faceless manip on the abomination and then double healthed, double healthed it making it 4/32

Behind that monster I was able to put up some lightwells which started healing me and keeping the abomination alive while I killed his abomination, which killed his fen creaper and cleric. He starts pounding away on mine, getting a darkscale healer out to help keep his stormwind alive. And next turn uses the combination of the darkscale and stormwind to kill my abomination. I had a stormspike commando which I use to kill his stormwind champion (got it from a previous thoughtsteal). And managed to get a sludge beltcher as my regular draw. The lightwells are pumping away healing me and my minions back up. I had one injured swordsman in my hand, and pulled the other from my deck, which I happily play along with a cleric and heal one of them (getting me the set attack = health spell). Next turn my lightwells heal both the bladesmen getting me 2 more cards (both were the +2 health draw card spells), which I used on one of the lightwells making it 0/9 and I picked-up my last thoughtsteal which I played to get a 2/1 give 1 health to a minion at the end of a turn. I now have complete board control and my health is getting back up (in the teens now), and he ran out of cards in his hand and is now simply playing whatever he happens to get on draw. My one lightwell gets the health at the end of that turn making it 0/10. Next turn I make it 10/10 and he concedes.

 

[EDUSAN]

yesterday i did a well thought play taking into account the order of the deathrattles according to what minion was played first.

He had a 5/1 sylvanas and a 4/4 feugen and i had an intact cairne and a death's bite with 1 charge.

I attacked his feugen with my cairne, killing it and leaving my cairne as a 4/1, then attacked with the weapon. it destroyed itself and killed sylvanas and my cairne, but as her sylvanas was played first, it tried to get one of my minions, but my board was empty.
After that the summon from cairne spawned and stayed on my side.

Taking into account what deathrattle minion entered first as well as knowing what "do something at the end of your turn" minion came into play first can change the results of a game

 

[Kev]

The rumors of Huntard's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I took my derpy face hunter deck from rank 3 to 1 last night in about 3 hours. 4 stars away from legend now.

There's no buzzard and no unleash. But Undertaker is so OP it's not even funny.

 

[EDUSAN]

would anyone be interested in doing like Anandtech hearthstone tournaments?

It seems be are at least 8 people commenting regularly here

 

[darkewaffle]

4 truesilver arean run, still have dreams about that. Would have gone 12-0 except for RNG screwing me.

I like the at random nature of Arena but I still wish it would respect the 2 per card or 1 per legendary rules (actually I have no idea if it does the latter or not).

Goofing around with a priest control type deck. It's fun to play, cards like Cabal Shadow Priest and Shadow Madness can make for some really entertaining turns lol.

 

[HumblePie]

The rumors of Huntard's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I took my derpy face hunter deck from rank 3 to 1 last night in about 3 hours. 4 stars away from legend now.

There's no buzzard and no unleash. But Undertaker is so OP it's not even funny.

yah undertaker is stupid OP right now for 1 mana cost. Factor in all the other 1-3 mana cost critters with deathrattles that are nice deathrattles that can be dropped really fast makes him so seriously OP.

One game I played I did something silly with him on my rogue. I went second so my first action was undertaker, coin, under taker. Next leper gnome and cold blood = 10 damage on second turn the other player couldn't stop. Next turn was another leper gnome cold blood again. Ran a leper gnome into the minion my opponent had played on his turn two, and smacked him for 18 damage that turn. Leaving him with 2 health start of turn 3. He gave up.

It's fucking stupid I can do 28 damage with a rogue in the initial two turns with that setup because the card is that fucking ridiculous.

 

[HumblePie]

I like the at random nature of Arena but I still wish it would respect the 2 per card or 1 per legendary rules (actually I have no idea if it does the latter or not).

Goofing around with a priest control type deck. It's fun to play, cards like Cabal Shadow Priest and Shadow Madness can make for some really entertaining turns lol.

shadow madness can be really fun with the right combo. Especially the return to your hand panda cards. Use shadow madness to take one of their cards, smack that card into something else on the board. If it survives send it to YOUR hand with the panda. now you can play that card and keep it

 

[Kev]

yah undertaker is stupid OP right now for 1 mana cost. Factor in all the other 1-3 mana cost critters with deathrattles that are nice deathrattles that can be dropped really fast makes him so seriously OP.

One game I played I did something silly with him on my rogue. I went second so my first action was undertaker, coin, under taker. Next leper gnome and cold blood = 10 damage on second turn the other player couldn't stop. Next turn was another leper gnome cold blood again. Ran a leper gnome into the minion my opponent had played on his turn two, and smacked him for 18 damage that turn. Leaving him with 2 health start of turn 3. He gave up.

It's fucking stupid I can do 28 damage with a rogue in the initial two turns with that setup because the card is that fucking ridiculous.

Yeah it's ridiculous. I got to legend last night and it was so easy. After the hunter nerf everyone's using handlock and freeze mage again and this deck just wrecks them.

Some of the things handlocks do to remove the undertaker is hilarious. Making them soulfire it on turn 1 basically wins you the game.

 

[JeffNY35]

This was a really fun game for a little while. A little suprised people still into it.

I'm kinda looking forward to hex for my next card game fix. Really want something with a good co op or free for all mode