#175 - The Angry Chicken: “The One with apDrop”
10-11-16
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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News
EU HCT Last Call
Finals came down to Pavel vs RDU.
Grats to Pavel for his big win after his famous misplay last year against Lifecoach (sequencing wrong against a Sylvanas and giving away his Dr. Boom).
Deck Stats (courtesy of GosuGamers)
Druid and Shaman still on top. Rogue coming in third is the big post-nerf shakeup.
Links
In a new blog on the official Hearthstone site Game Designer, Peter Whalen talked about how the design for Karazhan’s chess event came to be.
Some in the community are still not happy...
Many pieces after the nerf continuing down the rabbit hole of what Team 5 needs to improve and what other cards need nerfs.
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Strategy
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Ben B from NYC
Hello foul tempered fowls!
This literally just happened, and the first thing I thought to do was share it with the TAC community.
I'm playing Reno mage against a cthun rogue and it's not going great. He's steadily whittling me down and his cthun is just growing and growing. My only hope, as I'd yet to see Reno, was that I had ice block up and polymorph in hand. I played medivh on turn 10 and then on the following turn I played cabalist's tome. Atiesh spawned a gurubashi berserker, which is my only minion on board. I'm sitting at 15 health and the rogue is at 21. The rogue drops a 25/25 cthun... The purple missiles are flying across the board hitting me and the berserker. It pops my block and continues to pelt us. When the dust clears both I and my berserker are still standing, both at 1 health...which if you do the math means my berserker now has 20 attack! I can only imagine the frustration my opponent must have been feeling as my minion and hero power shattered his portrait.
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Lord Vesten
Hello,
I am a new listener and I have only just started playing Heartstone. I will be straight forward I suck, I see other players with some awesome cards that just seem to sweep everything I play away even when it seems like winning is in the bag. I seem to be the best with the Hunter, and so therefore I only really play with that class. I am currently saving all my gold to buy the single player stories, is that a wise decision? Thank you for any help you can give.
Praex
Angry Chicken Panel (Imaginative I know) :p
I recently played a game and think I may have found a glitch in a mechanic. It was an awesome move nonetheless.
- Turn 10 and he plays Ragnaros and Ancestral Spirit.
- I have no silences and just have to brace for a double Rag.
- Next move he plays ANOTHER Ancestral Spirit on it, then Faceless Manipulator (I'm already ready - for death now) but then...Re-incarnate....
- It dies and he gets FOUR Rags. Am I missing something?
Needless to say his 32 damage wins the game.
Piemaster
Hi guys
In the last few weeks, Team 5 have been making a few changes seemingly in response to community pressure - first the arena class-balancing changes and now the card nerfs aimed at balancing constructed.
While it's good that they are taking note of the issues that concern the community, could there be a downside to all this? Two things worry me:
1. There could now be a perception that if you want something to be changed in the game, all you need to do is spew indignation in as many threads as possible on the most visible channels (Reddit, the official forums etc). This could make these forums even more spammy, toxic and unreadable than they already are.
2. Blizzard might start taking too much notice of the community, feeling they have to react to whatever complaint is flavour of the month. While the community do sometimes highlight issues that need fixing, I would say it is more often we get our panties in a twist about issues that turn out to be nothing, or that Team 5 are far better positioned to make informed decisions using the data they have.
What do you guys think?
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