Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - The Bear and Badger

ayns

BRM complete on normal. Pretty sweet. Let the ladder shenanigans commence!

Cherry_Pez

Bitey Druid is pretty cool, I'm sure Ramp is far more practical and has a higher win rate against the usual net decks. But the Blingtron combos you can pull off are pretty awesome when you get given a good weapon! I'll try and remember to put up the current iteration in full later, it's got the usual Druid hitters plus all the hero buff cards, two savagery and one savage roar (but no force of nature cos eff that cheese)

Really enjoyed BRM, shame the Dragons haven't really dented the meta but I really love the cards, made a Dragon Pally deck that seems to work pretty well. Just not as well as Trumps midrange... But then I'm not gunning for top 100 Legendary so fuck it. Plus Nefarian's cast animation is ace.

Cherry_Pez

Ah I forget I have HS on my phone now...

Here you go, still working out some cards here or there.

Innervate x2
Claw x2
Savagery x2
Wrath x1
Bloodmage Thalnos
Wild Pyro x1
Savage Roar x1
BGH x1
Druid of the Flame x1
Bite x2
Swipe x2
Keeper of the Grove x2
Starfall x1
Blingtron 3000
Druid of the Claw x2
Harrison Jones
Sludge Belcher x1
Emperor Thaurissan
Sylvanas Windrunner
Ancient of Lore x2
Dr. Balanced
Alexstraza

Could def swap a few things for taste, not sure Sludge is needed with both the DoC, but I like to have a bit of extra taunt to keep things off face. Dr.B is just a great card but I might give Chromaggus a run out as he's not BGH fodder. Starfall is there for denting Zoo and swarms but it doesn't really turn up that often so could be another body instead. Was wanting to put Captain Greenskin in for super weapon combos but it's so reliant on Blingtron.

Anyway, that's the deck.

Roujin

I like when I get turn 8 first against a warrior and play Grim Patron + Velen's Chosen.

That is all.

Roujin

BAM! New expansion The Grand Tournament drops in August. 123 new cards, some that mess with hero powers and also looks like shaman might be viable again with the new totem effects they're getting on the new cards.

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19819218/the-grand-tournament™-opens-this-august-7-22-2015

ayns

Shaman does need some love. I've been rolling with mid range hunter for the past couple of months as I refuse to be a patron warrior!

Looking forward to the new expansion. I heard there was a U.S. deal for buying an initial 50 packs. Anything similar for EU?

Roujin

Dunno.

Ive spent my time playing spare part gazlowe mech decks of late. I really enjoy the mage version i made which has flamewalkers for insane synergy and actually the druid version because innervating out mechbearcat against an early board and farming a shit ton of spare parts is tops.

Nexx

Expansion launches Monday! Tavern Brawl this week has two decks with the new cards in them, there seems to be a lot of RNG cards...

Nexx

The mage deck in tavern brawl is completely OP too

ayns

Awesome.

Yeah, I'm 2-0 with my first 2 brawls with the mage deck. Nice precursor to the new cards.

Blew a wad on the 50 pack deal a couple of weeks ago so can't wait to crack those babies open!

Nexx

Its like they wanted to make the inspire mechanic look as good as possible so they put it against a really shitty deck. Got a few wins with the hunter but its really hard work. Lock & Load + 2xHunters Mark + Hounds is a pretty fun combo though.

I went for the 50 packs too. Goblins came out at a bad time for me so I haven't played Hearthstone properly for a while, aiming to get back into it.

Nexx

So the expansion is out, anyone get anything good from their packs? I got Icehowl and Confessor Paletress. Have a great idea for a new priest deck using Paletress that I'm going to try out later.

tigersgogrrr

Best I have yet is Mogor's Champion...

So, um. Nothing particularly good.

Roujin

I only got the fucking warlock legendary cunt gnome out of all 50 packs. My pack rng in HS totally sucks balls.

Looking forward to trying a druid beast deck though.

ayns

I got 3 legendaries from my 50 packs - the best of which might be Chillmaw, can't even remember the other 2 tbh.

I've been rocking a pretty regular Shaman midrange deck with a few of the basic new cards to see how that rolls. It improves the early game no end but I'll see how it goes - not horrendous so far but that may be just people getting used to funky decks.

ayns

Secret Paladin is disgustingly good. I made Rank 8 without playing that much last season - like the addition of the end of season quests.

Make said Paladin deck and turn 6 will never be the same again.

As usual Tempo Storm call it and I don't feel so special anymore:

https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/meta-snapshot/meta-snapshot-27-paladins-and-shamans-and-priests-oh-my

Quick, whilst it's hot! Currently only 2 tier 1 decks? Wow. Woodi saw me plough to victory over the weekend with it.

Woodimari

I made that deck as soon as I could actually do it after the long waiting on patching and such. Tried it once against Pez and the lulz ensued!

Played some totem shaman for the rest of the season, didn't really go for it but was fun, got a couple goldens in my chest so that was nice.

Was a crushing victory sir, we'll have to have a few games sometime. Same to you Rouj. And anyone else. Woodimari#2219

ayns

Sounds like a plan. Totem Shaman is great fun too. I tried it out at the start of TGT along with Dragon Priest. It's so invigorating to have a fresh meta. I've not hit ladder in earnest for months so it's great getting back in to see how high I can get.

Roujin

So far the best things about TGT for me has been the insane ramp druid action thanks to their new 2 drop that gives them the extra mana crystal while alive.

I'm still struggling to make a decent beast druid, but I suspect I may have to basically go full ramp with it, savage combatants and maybe blingtron for potential insane hero attack damage turns.

My dragon warrior still sucks though, I was hoping the new mini ancient watcher card and the taunt synergy cards would help, but I need to rejog the deck to make it all fit.

Nexx

Fuck secret paladin and fuck getting darnassus aspirant out of a shredder.

I'm killing it with totem shaman in ranked play at the moment. 80% win ratio from my last 20 games and up to rank 10. Patron and secret paladin are the only matchups that I can't get my head around at the moment. If anyone can play either of those decks somewhat competently I would be up for a few practice games.

The Daddy

So one of my daily quests is 'watch a friend win', I ain't got no friends! Who wants to help?

AndCallMeCharlie

The Daddy wrote:

So one of my daily quests is 'watch a friend win', I ain't got no friends! Who wants to help?

I will be your friend but can't guarantee I will win

The Daddy

Cool, my username is Jonno.

This week's Tavern Brawl is good fun, co-op against an annoying dude.

AndCallMeCharlie

The Daddy wrote:

Cool, my username is Jonno. This week's Tavern Brawl is good fun, co-op against an annoying dude.

cool will look you up and yes he is fucking annoying but co-op is a great idea

The Daddy

Had a few successful Brawls this week, the only one that failed was with some guy who clearly didn't suss his role out. Lost in about 12 turns.

AndCallMeCharlie

the new tavern brawl is fun, easy way to pick up a free pack

ayns

Been loving this the last couple of months. Secret Pally play did me in eventually so started rocking the TGT aggro Druid Fel Reaver.

Can't wait for the new adventure!

Nexx

League of Explorers is out! New card hype!

Thinking about trying to put together a freeze mage inspired deck with Reno Jackson.

equinox_code

I play this quite a bit. Haven't spent any money on it though, which lowers the success ceiling considerably. Did get to 9 arena wins the other day though.

Speedhaak

Just recently picked this up again after a substantial break. It appears my Shaman control deck is obsolete. Looking forward to investigating all the new cards and procs.

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