Official hearthstone thread

[quote=Searz]I just bought 160 packs and it seems my luck has FINALLY turned. I got 10 legendaries: 2*Sylvanas (happy, but why spares --.--) 2*Tinkmaster Overspark Cenarius (golden) Edvin VanCleef Deathwing Nozdormu Malygos Gruul And a ton of epics (5 Bestial Wrath ._.) . So I'm pretty happy with this despite getting spare legendaries when I had less than 10 total. Just missing 27epics now, out of which I only really want 8. The packs gave me about 7000dust (making my dust total ~8500). I decided to craft a golden Keeper of the Grove and golden Argent Commander because I was missing(even in non-golden) those and wanted them. I'll probably craft a golden Bloodmage Thalnos soon, cuz he's amazing. And a Leeroy, possibly golden. Not sure.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]OOOOH, new patch incoming next week(?)! [spoiler=Cards that are being changed:] Unleash the Hounds’ mana cost is now 2 (down from 4) Unleash the Hounds was intended to give Hunters their own form of AoE and to have synergy with other beast cards, but its old cost was too prohibitive. Pyroblast’s mana cost is now 10 (up from 8) The 8-cost Pyroblast made for an un-interactive experience where the Mage only needed to do 10 damage during the course of a game and then double Pyroblast you for the win. We want Mages to be more interactive with the opponent to achieve victory, rather than delay the game until they can Pyroblast. Blood Imp is now a 0/1 and now reads: Stealth. At the end of your turn, give another random friendly minion +1 Health. The Warlock has three very strong 1-cost minions and that made the Warlock rush deck slightly stronger than we were comfortable with. Warsong Commander has been reworked and now reads: Whenever you play a minion with 3 or less Attack, give it Charge. Charge (the spell, not the keyword) has been reworked and now costs 3 mana. The card’s new power reads: “Give a friendly minion +2 Attack and Charge”. Both of these cards were key components in “One Turn Kill” or “OTK” decks that kill your opponent in one turn without requiring any cards on the board. We want the game to be about playing minions and fighting for board control rather than just waiting until you can play your big combo and win in one turn with no interaction from your opponent. Abusive Sergeant now reads: Battlecry: Give a minion +2 Attack until end of turn. Abusive Sergeant was changed to make its power the same as the Dark Iron Dwarf and to give it additional versatility. Dark Iron Dwarf’s buff now only lasts until the end of the turn. This change was made to reduce the Dark Iron Dwarf’s overall power slightly. We also wanted to make the Battlecry effect the same as Abusive Sergeant‘s as to not force you to permanently buff one of your opponent’s creatures. Defender of Argus is now a 2/3 (down from 3/3) Defender of Argus was a card that found itself automatically included in many decks due to its power and stats. We want players to have an option of what cards they put in their decks, so cards that feel like they must be in all decks (especially Neutral ones) are not ideal. Novice Engineer is now a 1/1 (down from 1/2) The Novice Engineer was played in most non-rush decks (and even some rush decks) due to its cost and power. Similar in reasoning to our Defender of Argus change, we want players to have an option of what cards they put in their decks. Sylvanas Windrunner’s mana cost is now 6 (up from 5) Sylvanas had power and stats that made it a bit too powerful compared to other 5-cost cards, which made it automatically included in many decks. We want players to have an option of what cards they put in their decks, so cards that feel like they must be in all decks (especially Neutral ones) are not ideal.[/spoiler] I think their Novice Engineer, Pyroblast and Sylvana nerfs were kind of off the mark.. [b]BUT HEY, NOW I CAN DE MY 3 PYROS AND 2 SYLVANAS FOR FULL COST. (that's 4400dust) Awesome for me :D[/b] I'm not even sure Novice needed a nerf.. I'm unsure about the viability of Pyro after this. It will probably be a rare occurance now that it can be played turn 10 at it's earliest. The problem was the sniping, why don't they nerf that part specifically then? For Sylvana I'd like to have seen a nerf to 4/4 remaining at 5-cost. It would promote play around the deathrattle, while reducing her absolutely insane cost effectiveness. I do like the nerfs to Blood Imp and Dark Iron Dwarf though. UNLEASH THE HOUNDS DOESN'T SUCK DONKEY D ANYMORE, WOOO(I don't really care). Now it's so-so. RIP Warrior OTK. This change is probably for the better. It was pretty OP.. (I just got the cards needed to play it though ;( ) I'm not sure about how I feel about those cards after the nerfs though.. I feel like Warrior was kind of thrown off the cliff with these nerfs. Warrior will be in serious need of buffs after these nerfs.[/quote]

[quote=oxide110]Novice needed a nerf[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=oxide110] Novice needed a nerf[/quote] Possibly, but was this a reasonable nerf? Didn't they just kill the card? I know I'll be running Loot Hoarder instead of it in every deck personally.[/quote]

[quote=Thalia Kael]yeah I only took novice because I prefered the "stat distribution" (is that what it's called?) of 1/2 over 2/1 and also the instant draw but now I'm going to run Loot Horder[/quote]

[quote=oxide110]depends, novice hoarder you get card instantly and you can still have a minion left on the field.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=oxide110] depends, novice hoarder you get card instantly and you can still have a minion left on the field.[/quote] Dat Novice Hoarder, yo. Well, part of the reason why Novice was so good is the huge prevalence of buff minions. But now that all three of the biggest buff minions have been hit with the nerf-hammer I think that alone would reduce the popularity of the engineer. Reasons why the Novice Engineer was good: 1. Free minion. (cycles itself instantly) 2. It can't be pinged by hero power (2HP). 3. The prevalence of strong buff minions. Now that two of those strengths have been removed (at least partially) I don't think that it has the ability to compete much with the Loot Hoarder. Reasons why the Loot Hoarder [b]is[/b] good: 1. Free-ish minion. (cycles itself on death, providing some weaknesses in delay and vulnerability to silence and Shadowmadness) 2. It trades with 3/2 units. 3/2 is a very common stat combination. The fact that it can trade for same-cost minions while cylcling itself is a pretty big thing. Especially now with the buff-minion nerfs.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]Bwahahahaha, saving cards to disenchant after patches is the smartest idea ever :D I got 7000dust for just the cards that were nerfed XD I had a total of ~8500 in "Disenchant extra cards" before the patch. Now I'm down to 7000 in extra cards and have 7000 to use :D I did DE all my copies of nerfed cards though, not only spares. I also had 3 golden cards among nerfed cards, Dark Iron Dwarf, Blood Imp and Defender of Argus, those net me a total of 1600dust.[/quote]

[quote=Vaan99]Dark iron dwarf is still good, there is no reason to disenchant it.[/quote]

[quote=Vaan99][quote=Vaan99] Dark iron dwarf is still good, there is no reason to disenchant it, so is argus. [/quote][/quote]