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Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-25 21:02:08

PLAY ME IN HEARTHSTONE BITHCES

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:16:42

♡stone?

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:16:58

Where is birthstone anyway

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:18:09

If you win will that make it your turfstone?

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:19:14

I heard the game was shallow, are you saying it's got girthstone?

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:20:46

If I played it on the water would I have a surfstone?

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:21:59

I live in the south, how do you play northstone?

Tanya · 2014-07-25 21:24:51

If I beat you fair and square will it prove my worthstone?

Bunny · 2014-07-26 03:42:40

So Nax is out

That's pretty cool

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 03:43:03

oh hey Bunny.

I'm gonna challenge you on Hearthstone right now

Bunny · 2014-07-26 03:43:41

Oh uhhhhh okay

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 03:52:43

guys Bunny was mean to my spiders

Bunny · 2014-07-26 03:54:14

I gotta admit, you did pretty good at the start, but man you ran out of hand fast

How much card draw do you have? Running any Nourish, Azure Drakes, etc?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 03:59:18

I don't have any copies of Nourish. Don't play often enough to hoard that kind of gold and am generally unwilling to pay for cardpacks.

Azure Drakes, maybe.

I won like six games in a row with that deck when I first made it and haven't won one since. It's weird.

Bunny · 2014-07-26 04:04:40

Well something card draw-y would be really good.

Heck, with how many minions you have and how much they die, a cult master would be extremely handy.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 04:17:11

Yeah maybe, I dunno, I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

On another note, I try not to get upset over losses in video games, but I cannot help but feel peeved whenever I lose to someone whose deck is filled almost entirely with legendaries and goldens, but who is kicking around in the lowest rung of ranked play. Becuase it kind of indicates to me that the person in question isn't very good, but has sunk an ungodly amount of money into the game.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 04:21:02

Not that I'm good, I'm not, but I also don't have many particularly powerful cards either.

My only legendaries are the OK King Krush (a 10/9/9 with charge, which is great, but can be easily undone by about a million 1-3 mana cards) and the gold Gelbin Mekkatorque I got for being a beta tester, and that card is pure RNG, so I don't really like it.

Bunny · 2014-07-26 05:17:10

Mr. Antonidas is the absolute best legendary I have. The only other one I have is Illidan Stormrage, and he's...well, he's not very good. Takes too long to get out for a rather "meh" effect and dies far too easily to removal.

Also, you can do pretty well with some basic cards. The deck I just fought you with has 3 rares and 1 epic. The rest are all common or basic. (I'm not counting Archmage Antonidas because he's a replacement for a Boulderfist Ogre, which quite honestly works well enough)

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 14:56:00

I'm aware of that (I'm also aware that people have gotten into the upper ranks of tournaments with basic-only decks) but I'm not nearly that good.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 16:18:59

submitted without comment

Bunny · 2014-07-26 16:33:46

Dude if you had circle of healing in your hand this would be the best board wipe ever

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 16:36:45

I'm just astounded that someone has that many gold cards

even assuming he just bought enough cards to craft them, that had to take forever and be really expensive. I know you get gold Voidwalkers at some point just by winning enough Warlock games, but those Murlocs.

also I don't remember if I have Circle of Healing in this deck or not. It's basically a priest version of that Druid deck I played you with yesterday.

Bunny · 2014-07-26 16:59:26

Dude, you gotta

Circle of Healing + Auchenai is one of the Priest's greatest combos

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 17:06:32

That is a good point. I tend to not think about that kind of stuff, I'm not a great strategist.

Weblord has not been really working out for me, so that's gone.

Bunny · 2014-07-26 18:00:26

Weblord is in that strange place where it seems like it doesn't do much but it really fucks up certain decks.

It's good, but the effects aren't really seen.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-26 20:36:54

it's good in some situations, but yeah again, it's hard to tell if it's working or not.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 18:27:36

anyone know how much the individual Naxxramus wings are going to be in gold when they roll out?

Hopefully it's not too much.

Bunny · 2014-07-27 19:18:32

700 gold per

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 19:57:05

fucking seriously? That's like three weeks of play. :/

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 19:58:48

I kind of don't want to buy them though because even at like $3 per wing that's a lot of money overall and I don't really want to willingly fall prey to freemium nonsense.

Bunny · 2014-07-27 20:19:15

Well, 2 weeks of quests is bare minimum 560 gold, so with some gold for playing ranked/casual games and some luck with quests it's really closer to 2 weeks

But yeah, that's pretty pricey considering that getting the same amount of cards from a pack would be like 200 gold

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:21:19

also my card packs need to stop looking like this

I already have 2 copies of all of these cards.

Bunny · 2014-07-27 20:22:38

Eeeew, and they don't even disenchant into anything good

I mean, if you manage to get a pack with a Legendary you already have, that's like "FUCK YEAH one free card of my choice"

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:23:16

Are they ever gonna add the Naxxramus cards to the regular game? Cuz I mostly just want Undertaker and maybe Echoing Ooze.

Bunny · 2014-07-27 20:27:25

Undertaker and Echoing Ooze are already being added as part of Construct Quarter and Frostwyrm Lair, respectively.

http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Curse_of_Naxxramas

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:28:23

Yes I know I meant making them just available to craft/in card packs.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:29:00

Truth be told I already probably spent far more than $30 on Hearthstone back when I had a lot of college money and nothing good to spend it on, but still.

Bunny · 2014-07-27 20:29:36

Oh.

Probably not. I bet they'll stay exclusive to this adventure.

But hey, the second the Quarter comes out you'll be able to use them in arena!

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:30:26

I like, never play Arena.

I'm really bad at it and it just sort of frustrates me because I never get interesting cards in the pick.

I like Hearthstone a lot but there are many things they could do to make it more accessible.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:31:19

Like, sure I'll play Arena. No I don't want any legendaries or anything, just give me 30 copies of Harvest Golem.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:33:18

It's just kinda frustrating. I'm not gonna pay $10 apiece to just get two cards I want, I avoid playing Magic The Gathering specifically to avoid that kind of thing.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 20:39:17

of course I type all this while fiddling with my Warlock deck, so....

Bunny · 2014-07-27 20:49:20

Yeah, this is the first decision that Blizzard's made so far that feels really money-grubbing

Hopefully that doesn't continue

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 21:01:19

well OK, not their first decision over all. Let's be realistic here.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-27 21:02:09

honestly I'm pretty sure that Blizzard could just make free everything else that currently costs money and continue to charge people optionally for card packs and they'd still be making millions.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-28 23:59:14

I'm looking up some cards I use a lot on Icy Veins to see if there are better alternatives and I feel really dumb for not realizing earlier that Novice Engineer is essentially just a blank space in a deck 95% of the time.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-29 00:10:34

Crystal Golem is weirdly popular tonight. Or is it just that I'm in Rank 19 for an extended period of time for the first time?

I actually have a copy in my deck to use as a potential finisher, but I have not had an opportunity to use it as such yet.

Bunny · 2014-07-29 01:07:34

Yep. Both Loot Hoarder and Bloodmage Thalnos do a better job than Engineer.

Arcane Golem...is the poor man's Leeroy, I guess. He's alright, though I'm not a fan.

Also, I'm still tweaking my new Naxx Druid deck. My game with you makes me feel like it runs just a little bit too slowly to be worthwhile right now.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-29 01:11:56

I'm kind of ignoring Naxxramus for now (perhaps I shouldn't be, bought another card pack today and it was total garbage again).

Also I wish I could retroactively make it so that I'd never crafted Southsea Captain like five months ago, I don't even remember why I did it. Melting him down to craft Abomination was a good decision.

Bunny · 2014-07-29 01:17:50

I find the Arachnid Quarter cards to be pretty good (except Maexxna). The Egg can be used to absolutely devastating effect assuming you get any manner of buff, the Haunted Creeper is a pretty decent 2 drop, and the Weblord seems like it will be super effective against certain decks.

As for the other Quarters, the only one that doesn't really interest me is the Construct Quarter. Undertaker is pretty cool, but the rest of the cards are eh. Especially the Legendaries, they really just seem too gimmicky to be useful at all.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-07-29 01:19:26

I actually really want an Undertaker.

More cards need to be introduced with Monty Python quotes turned sinister by the tone of voice in which they are spoken.

That said it doesn't seem like a great card mechanically.

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