#27 - The Angry Chicken: “Gruuling All Over the Place”
• Garrett • Dills • Jocelyn
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News
The Curse of Naxxramas!
The Curse of Naxxramas, Hearthstone’s first adventure for it’s upcoming Adventure Mode, was announced this past Friday at PAX East.
Naxxramas Adventure
Boss example: Heigan the Unclean
New Cards
Class Challenges
Defeating a boss will give you a new card usable in your decks.
Construct quarter opens up on week four.
Defeating the four primary wings will unlock the last wing, which contains two bosses (Sapphiron and Kel'thuzad).
Curse of Naxxramas will be coming out on "the heels of the iPad release".
Heigan's hero power, Eruption, will always target the minion thats the most left on your side of the board.
They are not sure how the golden versions of adventure cards will be unlocked.
Non-Naxx tidbits from BlizzPro
Side Note: Full iPad release in 1-2 weeks, no sources for this on multiple sites (Hearthpwn, etc), so it must have been mentioned in passing during the press conference
Links
Blizzard Hosting Hearthstone World Championship
CM Zeriyah posted some exciting news on the official forums just after last week's Angry Chicken, reminding players that Season 1 of Ranked Play was underway, and also raising the stakes for being the best of the best on the ladder:
"We [have] mentioned the fact that we’re working on details on a big Hearthstone tournament in the future. Each Hearthstone region (Americas, Europe, Korea/Taiwan and China) will have their best players battle it out Hearthstone style to decide who will be the Hearthstone World Champion.
The Regional Qualifiers for the Americas region will take the top 16 players from each of the first five Ranked Play seasons (April-August) and pit them against each other until only the best remain. The European regional tournament will function in the same manner as the Americas region. Korea/Taiwan and China will have slightly different qualification methods that will be detailed soon.
Becoming a Top 16 Legend player isn’t the only way to qualify for the Americas or Europe regional tournament – more information regarding how to qualify outside of Ranked Play will be announced at a later time."
Links
Twitch plays Hearthstone
Strategy
RNG is still skill based?
Managing the possible outcomes is basically what poker pros are always doing. That is considered a game of skill even though there is a lot of luck. Hearthstone is similar. There are many RNG elements but managing that RNG is what separates great players from average ones.
Common scenarios:
2 health minion v. arcane missiles 50%
1 health minion v. mad bomber 70.37%
Should I consecrate before I avenging wrath?
Cool little HS RNG Calculater
Link: http://raffy.antistupid.com/hs/rng.php
Crazy Game Stories
Joce did her Homework
Spent about 500 dust, crafted everything I needed and made the ZooLock deck http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/35326-budget-reynads-zoo-v2-warlock-aggro
I made one substitution. I had a Demolisher already, so instead of crafting another Harvest Golem I threw that in instead. So much value! There are 4 1 mana taunt cards in this deck, meaning that my Demolisher was always behind taunt and got some really great hits off. Works will in this deck.
First game, shaman I was playing against played Dust Devil that I Mortal Coiled and then played Magma Rager, that I Mortal Coiled. I hated myself for that! I found that I was usually setting the tempo of the game, meaning I was ahead and my opponent was often reacting. Always had to life tap on turn 6 or 7 but low cost cards meant I always had things to play, and longest a game went to was turn 8. Went on a 6 game win streak. Feel pretty dirty though… Because Warlock.
Emails
Erik
Do you think Blizzard should allow Arena wins to count towards the 500 needed for a golden hero ? They currently do not but I wish they would.
Mark
Hey guys,
Great work on the show, keep up the good work! Yesterday I ran into a horrible misclick by my opponent and I was wondering how you would have handled it and what would have been proper etiquette.
I was playing in the Arena against a Mage deck and we were going back and forth. The Mage had gotten me down to 10 life, hit his tenth mana crystal and gave me a 'Well Played'. He then proceeds to Pyroblast his own face down to 4 life in a pretty apparent misclick. I burst out laughing after I realized what had happened, and wondered whether it was proper etiquette in situations such as these to concede the game. Before I could make a decision though, my opponent had already disconnected. I've had similar things happen to me, when I Fireballed my own face instead of placing the card back in my hand and I was wondering what you guys would do in such a situation? Be happy about the free win, or concede because your opponent should have won if he hadn't misclicked.
Andrew
Hey guys,
I have been playing the UTH hunter for quite some time now and one of my favorite things to do was play Eaglehorn Bow then pop a Flare to reveal the enemy's secrets and get a free durability.
Tonight, I was playing at rank 7 and all of a sudden, in a mirror matchup, this play didn't grant me the durability. Then, he pulled the same thing off on me and it didn't work for him either.
I don't remember seeing this anywhere in the patch notes and I'm usually really well kept up on this kind of thing. Thoughts?
Outro
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Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
The Instance - The World of Warcraft podcast so you don’t have to
TortureCast - A podcast by and for fans of the San Francisco Giants
MGA MedioCast - A podcast about the Mediocre Golf Association
And Joce where can you be found?
The Gamers’ Inn
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