Official hearthstone thread

[quote=extradelicious]drakon i fail to see how kendrick lamar etc. have anything to do with hearthstone.[/quote]

[quote=drakon136]Wrong thread in case you did not notice lol. I should really stop doing that.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]Everyone's got these bad-ass decks and high rankings, and I'm just here with my Cheese-zerker at rank 20. q-q[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Lugignaf] Everyone's got these bad-ass decks and high rankings, and I'm just here with my Cheese-zerker at rank 20. q-q[/quote] Hmm? [img=http://imageshack.com/a/img542/9303/f2pe.png][/quote]

[quote=Nera]Hey guys just started playing this when it became open beta:) have mostly played mage so far:D any tips?:P Also in like my 2nd or 3rd pack called i think its called a golden deathwing? a 12atk -12def card. seems overpowered but costs a whole 10 mana... is that something i should have in my deck?seems to me in a good late game card as it removes everything from the board giving you board control. though you do lose all the cards in your hand. though from my experience thus far that late into the game i usually only have 1 card in my hand and can afford to lose it. Thoughts? Nera[/quote]

[quote=GrandmasterD][quote=Nera] Hey guys just started playing this when it became open beta:) have mostly played mage so far:D any tips?:P Also in like my 2nd or 3rd pack called i think its called a golden deathwing? a 12atk -12def card. seems overpowered but costs a whole 10 mana... is that something i should have in my deck?seems to me in a good late game card as it removes everything from the board giving you board control. though you do lose all the cards in your hand. though from my experience thus far that late into the game i usually only have 1 card in my hand and can afford to lose it. Thoughts? Nera [/quote] Deathwing is good but he needs to fit your deck otherwise he'll end up hurting it rather than supplementing it. Generally he's a last-resort win button, when you and your opponent both have little cards left and they have used all of their removal.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=drakon136] Skins I understand, but I don't get the allure of golden cards. Sure, they're shiny and have animated pictures. That is literally the only difference. Most skins in League (that aren't shitty recolors) actually have model changes and the like, things that seem like they took effort to make. Golden cards, on the other hand, are shiny and animated.[/quote] So what? A different model still changes nothing but the aesthetics of the champion. Skins and golden cards very much fill the same role of being bling, bling. [quote=drakon136] I hate everything that is not Mage, Warlock, or Priest. I started off with Warlock and think its rush decks are the funnest thing ever and if you disagree I will hunt you down.[/quote] That's a pretty funny thing to say seeing as Hunter is probably the strongest rushdown class right now. That's pretty much the only thing Hunter is good at tho.. [quote=throatslasher] Kripp got those exact same rewards...hmmmm...[/quote] Erm.. Ok? Cool? Not sure exactly what you meant by that comment.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Nera] Hey guys just started playing this when it became open beta:) have mostly played mage so far:D any tips?:P[/quote] I've posted this before, so I'll just re-post the tips and decks for new players. [spoiler=A few tips for playing the game(click to show):] Manage your resources properly. Cards are resources. You're not just paying mana for a minion, you're paying a card(s) for it too. That is why cards like Wisp and Moonfire are terrible. Cards with card draw are a different matter of course, they're 'free' in terms of the card cost so to speak and only cost you mana. Minions on the field are resources you've put into play. Try to keep a hold of those resources as well as you can, even if that means sacrificing things like health. Try to use your Hero Power as often as you can. If there's a good play you can make with it: DO IT. Using your hero power effectively and often is a good way to conserve cards. Always try to make use of as much mana as you can, without playing any cards that you know will be easily countered of course. Try to avoid having more than 3 minions on the field to avoid getting fucked by AOE and [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/card=734/mind-control-tech]Mind Control Tech[/url]. Never buff a minion on a turn you're not attacking with it unless you absolutely have to. Always try to make favorable trades happen. You want to trade your 2/1 unit for his 3/2 unit, your 3/2 unit for his 4/3 unit and your 4/3 unit for his 5/4 unit and so on, because you're making him lose more stats than you do. For classes like Mages, Rogues and Druids you can also add one damage to the equation from your hero power. A 2/1 (likely cheap 1 cost unit) suddenly trades for a 4/3 unit (likely 3-4 cost). Sacrificing health, especially for favorable trades is not something you should be gun-shy of. Almost always focus on board advantage over damage to the enemy hero. I.e: try to kill of ALL enemy minions when you can do so effectively. In the case of the enemy having a favorable trade for your minion (when he can trade his 2/1 for your 3/2 for example) you should avoid making the trade As a general sequence of actions you should try to do this every turn: 1. Look at how much mana you have. 2. Look at what favorable plays/trades you can make and how much they cost. 3. Then think about how you can combo your remaining mana as efficiently as possible, to make use of all the mana you have(obviously without playing anything that is easily countered). Also try to make use of your hero power wherever you can in mid to lategame where you ususally have the mana to support using it. The ideal amount of mana left after every turn is 0. 4. When you're done planning all of the above put your thoughts/plan into play. [b]ALWAYS play cards with card draw first[/b], then make adjustments to the plan if you draw something useful. Then make the most important plays happen and then make the less important plays happen last, so that you minimize your chance of disaster in the case of errors in the calculations.[/spoiler] So I made some super ghetto decks for you new players. These are obviously far from optimal because of the hard card restraints, but they should be far better than any of the basic decks you start out with. The only cards you don't get for free that I include in these decks are the [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/card=251/loot-hoarder]Loot Hoarders[/url] and the [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/card=778/harvest-golem]Harvest Golems[/url]. Those are probably the two best neutral common cards in the game. They can be run in every single deck and are extremely common in top-tier play right now. Craft them. Craft them right now. [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/deckbuilder#cMfI7Mnv7Mzt7MiS7MsY7MVd7Mdq7Mmh7Mcn7Mmf7MmU7zbv7MaP7zah7zd47MzV7zuc8q]Druid[/url]: mulligan (replace) all cards that cost more than 3 at the start of the game, unless you get an Innervate. Then you should keep 4 cost minions around (like Senjin Shieldmasta and Chillwind Yeti). Savage Roar gives your hero 2 attack too. [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/deckbuilder#cMfI7Mf67Mzq7Mnv7Mzt7MRm7MRL7zho7Mmr7Mdq7zrn7Mmf7MmU7MaP7zah7zbP7MrI8M]Paladin[/url]: remember to only buff units on the turn you can attack with them. [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/deckbuilder#cMfI7zkv7zsL7Mnv7Mzt7MsY7MVG7ziz7Mqd7Mdz7Mdq7zqA7Mmf7MmU7Mzh7MaP7MoH8R]Mage[/url]: you can use your hero power on your Gurubashi Berserker to buff him. Try to keep your Kobold Geomancer for when you're casting a spell that deals damage. He increases damage dealt by the spell by 1 and that can have some pretty big effects when using for example Arcane Explosion. [url=http://www.hearthhead.com/deckbuilder#cMfI7Mnv7Mzt7MsY7MVd7Mdz7Mdq7Mrf7Mmf7Mj57MmU7MaA7MaP7MAo7MAa8V]Priest[/url]: this is probably the worst of the decks, but feel free to try it. Make sure to use your hero power on your minions a lot when applicable. [quote]Also in like my 2nd or 3rd pack called i think its called a golden deathwing? a 12atk -12def card. seems overpowered but costs a whole 10 mana... is that something i should have in my deck?seems to me in a good late game card as it removes everything from the board giving you board control. though you do lose all the cards in your hand. though from my experience thus far that late into the game i usually only have 1 card in my hand and can afford to lose it. Thoughts?[/quote] Wow, that is incredibly lucky. I had to open like 50packs for my first normal legendary. The only golden legendary I've gotten was after like 200packs. It's a good card in specific decks, but it can also be useless if the enemy runs things like Big Game Hunter (instantly kills anything above 7 attack) or Tinkmaster Overspark (turns a unit into a 1/1 or a 5/5 at random). There are a ton of cards that allow you to deal with big units like Deathwing, he's not OP in the least. As a new player I'm unsure about how useful it will be for you. Players at that level rarely know how to deal with something as big as Deathwing, but it can also hurt you a lot if you play him with lots of cards in your hand and/or units on the field. He's prone to misplays, if you get my point. Try him out, see if he's any useful to you, but if you get better at the game and find him getting removed too easily then you might wanna consider shelving him.[/quote]

[quote=Nera]Cool thx for the Comments everyone:D and thx for that long post SearzXD im sure youve posted that one up quite a bit. Ive played the deathwing a game or 2 so far and only as pretty much like gmd said a last resort. if i have anything else in my hand that is going to help me *kill* them then ill do that instead of playing that card. im still new so people where im at are putting pretty much all their monsters on the board as soon as they have them so its usefull when i have 1 card in my hands and they have the same yet they have 5-6 monsters on the board. again thank you very much:D Nera Edit: also from what im getting from you said Searz legendary cards are very very rare?XD jeez only after 50 packs... for a legendary and then 200 for a golden one? youch. guess i better get crack some more open when i can so i can get better cards haha. What is the arena exactly? i just know i can't access it right now its grayed out. i have access to the vs ai option and the regular normal pvp matches and ranked. thx for the info!:D[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Nera] What is the arena exactly? i just know i can't access it right now its grayed out. i have access to the vs ai option and the regular normal pvp matches and ranked. thx for the info!:D[/quote] Play vs AI until you've beaten all the easy and expert AI opponents. That will give you 100 gold or so, I think. When you're done with that you might wanna have a look at arena. In arena you pay 150gold, pick 30 cards from a choice of 3 at a time. The cards are random. Then you try to win as many times as you can with that deck. It ends when you have lost 3 times. You will get different rewards depending on how many games you win. You pay 150gold for it and you will always get 1 card pack out of it, even if you just lose 3 times. You get 50 gold and a pack at 3 wins(which means that you broke even with the cost for arena entry). At 8 wins you have a chance of getting golden cards and usually get about 200gold and a pack. At 9-11 wins is same as above, but 300gold. 12 wins is maximum and will give you either one or several golden cards and ~300gold and a pack or two packs and ~400 gold. The rewards will obviously differ though, because they are a little randomized. You can get dust instead of gold for example.[/quote]