#171 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
9-13-16
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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We ran the voting for the next milestone and talked about what to do with the results so darn close to 50/50. So we decided... that we couldn't decide. Too many of you wanted Arena videos, and too many wanted Cluck the Meta videos. So we're just going to alternate!
When we hit our next goal we will start doing a new video each month. We will do Arena one month, Cluck the Meta the next, and continue alternating.
We also added an additional milestone where we will stop alternating between Cluck the Meta and Arena videos each month. Instead, we’ll just do one of each every month.
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News
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For Arena news check out our last special episode
Obviously the biggest news on the block is still the announcements of all of the cards that will be leaving Arena soon. Check out our special Arena episode from last Thursday.
The Welcome Bundle
In Hearthstone’s next update the Welcome Bundle will be added to the store.
Sounds like all players will be able to buy it. ONCE.
“Welcome Bundles are available just once per account, for as long as Krizgut can keep the ethereal portal open! Grab yours soon and find out which Legendary is waiting for you!”
Links
Batstone and Card Bans
Firebat’s tournament that will run card bans and focus on “weird formats”. The community voted on which card to ban.
The Five Banned Cards
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Links
Brode Bellows!
Brode recently tweeted some thoughts on Standard in 2017
Reading feedback on Standard and whether things will change enough in 2017. If we think they won't, we'll make tweaks to ensure freshness
Not sure yet if that's nerfs like we did with Old Gods or something else like moving cards to wild like we did with Murk Eye.
Any chance of not letting League of Explorers expire in the next set rotation? Would be a shame to see it go so soon.
Ideally we will release awesome new cards, and Wild will also be awesome.
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Strategy
Counterplay in Hearthstone. Lacking?
Is there a lack of ability to play around certain cards?
Certain decks? Freeze Mage, Miracle Rogue, Yogg decks
How could this be improved? (smaller ranges for RNG effects, more card changes/bans)
Does the game truly lose a fun factor if this is done?
Crazy Game Stories
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Mark
Hi folks,
In this Wild Ranked game I was playing a Reno/Barnes/N'Zoth Rogue deck and my opponent was a Mill Rogue. The early game went in my opponent's favor, and he bursts me down to 9 health.
But never fear! Reno Jackson swoops in with my next draw to save the day. Ok, I should be fine now, but then my opponent cranks the mill machine into overdrive with Coldlight Oracles and Shadowsteps.I start overdrawing - goodbye Sylvanas, goodbye Toshley, we'll have to do this one without you. After all the Shadowstepping shenanigans, he plays... a Doomsayer. Hmm, interesting. At that moment, my hand consisted of, among other things, N'Zoth,Deathwing Dragonlord, Ysera, Chillmaw and Chrommagus.
If ever there was a good time to allow your 10 mana minion to be freely killed by a 2 mana minion, this seemed like it. So I go for it and play DW/DL right into his Doomsayer, which summons the trio of deadly dragons behind him. Now at this point, I realise he hasn't played Vanish yet - however, I figure if he does, then I just play N'Zoth on the next turn and bring DW/DL right back again - and that's exactly what happens. I also, Prep/Gang Up on N'Zoth and Shadowstep it.
One slight problem here though - N'Zoth brought back two copies of Bloodmage Thalnos (as Thalnos had been summoned by Barnes). My opponent makes me draw more cards and opts for Vanish once again. However, there is no room in my hand for DW/DL and it gets destroyed summoning the trio of terror onto the board once more. With Chrommagus in play I now start getting duplicates of the cards I'm drawing from the dead Thalnoses. I'll take a few more N'Zoths, thank you very much. At this point, my opponent realizes he can't cope with the barrage of bouncing dragons and an army of N'Zoths and decides to concede. Wild indeed.
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DogPigRat
Dear not overly Angry Chickens,
Rogue is currently suffering at the moment in the current meta and has been for a while - particularly against the likes of your aggro shaman's and face hunters. I feel in part this is due to the classes lack of early competitive minions, taunt's and healing/protection.
Rather than design specific taunts and healers for rogue, which I feel goes against the flavour of the class - thought a cool solution would be for Blizzard to create a card/power where the rogue hero is able to CONCEAL itself - hence protect it from damage for a turn.
This would effectively create a turn based ice block for rogue, be in line with the classes flavour - and perhaps keep the hero alive long enough to win a few more games.
Would be great to know your thoughts on Rogue and the suggested improvement.
Jim
Greetings fel-infused fowl!
I'm emailing because there's a problem i'm facing with hearthstone at the moment. I have been playing hearthstone for a while and have seen various metas play out in the game. In those various metas, various fun was had.
However, with the coming of standard, my fun-having took a deep-dive.
Since standard was introduced, faceshaman and zoolock got even more popular and the tools to deal with them are gone..making things more difficult for me. I have always struggled with aggro decks in the past, usually having a low winrate. I usually play standard and get stuck at rank 20-17, even as the month progresses.
After facing faceshaman after faceshaman i felt like hearthstone lost something for me. At this point, i feel like conceding the moment i notice that i'm up against shaman. So far i'm not seeing karazhan improve anything for my experience, nor am i expecting anything big anytime soon. :(
In short: in my hearthstone career i've always struggled with aggro decks, trying various things such as healing and taunts had next to no effect. Can you help me out by any chance?
Keep on getting the job done!
Ardel
Hey guys I had an idea that I would love to see in place of purify. Imagine if purify's text was "Dispel a minion then draw a card". Now dispel would be a new keyword distinct for priest, like how Druid has choose one.
The Dispel keyword would be as follows: Remove all buffs, debuffs, silences, and transforms from target minion. This would reinforce the reactionary play of priest. It would also make priest a little more unique.
What do you guys think?
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