Hearthstone
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It's designed to be a timesink. They have an algorithm that punishes players who don't buy cards. When it first came out, they didn't know based on their own market research what types of income they could expect so there was way more freedom. Now, if you create a deck, you usually play against the exact same deck archetype or its direct counter. It's kind of like a carnival game where you throw the ball and the pins are all glued together. If you just play a deck that you like that is decent, you will absolutely get a 50% win rate over time. If you adjust to what everyone is playing you need to play 100s and 100s of games to get to a high ranking. 
Anyway
Anyway
New Un'Goro expansion is kinda cool. Nice little happy time
Expansions hit this thing a lot more frequently than I realized. I signed in at some point after the last one just to claim a few free packs. The opening of packs animations has gotten annoying though, I couldn't even stand to sit an open the 7 packs or whatever it was that the game gave me.
New reward track starts today (in the quest menu)... newest expansion started in November: Showdown in the Badlands.
Realize I changed my name from Havel3k and missed a few expansions in this thread.
Realize I changed my name from Havel3k and missed a few expansions in this thread.
here is a copy of my shaman deck. I call it elemental illness
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I have 27 competition-worthy decks (with a few tweaks). I can link all of them if someone wants. Like I said, I spent too much money on games in my 20s. Not enough to bankrupt me, but that's pretty much what I was doing when I couldn't work
*edit* they added a lot of 'Discover this' cards so I find it is better and more fun to just add one of each otherwise you have too many cards in your collection that you can't play. They tried to add a few things to rectify this, like making it so you can build 27 different decks as well as this guy:
If your deck is too big, you can add 3 extra tech cards (anti-secret, black knight, steam cleaner, or 3 good legendaries, whatever suits your deck). It helps out quite a bit, it was released two expansions ago. Titans was the last one before Badlands, then they have some kind of rock festival one.
They also made a guy that allows you to have extra health and 40 cards as opposed to 30, but it's hard to balance a bigger deck so it has tradeoffs.
The most annoying thing in the game now, though, is that games can take either 5 minutes or 20-30 minutes, depending on how big/complicated your deck is. I don't have time to play 1v1 Hearthstone for 30 minutes at a time, so I usually build aggressive/mid-range decks, or I find ways to piss off control archetypes.
That's all for now! Let me know if you want me to link any more of my decks
Standard Shaman Deck - Deck Builder - Hearthstone
Build new decks from scratch or import existing deck codes, customize them to your heart's delight, then share your decks or copy the code into the game and start playing!
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I have 27 competition-worthy decks (with a few tweaks). I can link all of them if someone wants. Like I said, I spent too much money on games in my 20s. Not enough to bankrupt me, but that's pretty much what I was doing when I couldn't work
*edit* they added a lot of 'Discover this' cards so I find it is better and more fun to just add one of each otherwise you have too many cards in your collection that you can't play. They tried to add a few things to rectify this, like making it so you can build 27 different decks as well as this guy:
If your deck is too big, you can add 3 extra tech cards (anti-secret, black knight, steam cleaner, or 3 good legendaries, whatever suits your deck). It helps out quite a bit, it was released two expansions ago. Titans was the last one before Badlands, then they have some kind of rock festival one.
They also made a guy that allows you to have extra health and 40 cards as opposed to 30, but it's hard to balance a bigger deck so it has tradeoffs.
The most annoying thing in the game now, though, is that games can take either 5 minutes or 20-30 minutes, depending on how big/complicated your deck is. I don't have time to play 1v1 Hearthstone for 30 minutes at a time, so I usually build aggressive/mid-range decks, or I find ways to piss off control archetypes.
That's all for now! Let me know if you want me to link any more of my decks
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Yeah, it would definitely take a grind to get your collection up to the point where you can have enough fun to justify keeping playing it. They tried to make it 'fun' by giving you more things more often, but that's not really what anyone wants. We want to use the stuff to make stuff that can win. That's also been one of the main things that has stopped me from trying to play too competitively and definitely has stopped me from giving them more money than I have.
Another update from me: they are really releasing the content regularly now. At least they stood by what they said they would be doing. It may be re-named and rebranded stuff they're producing, but they still have been keeping their word as far as content goes. Another new HS expansion coming out at the same time as the new WoW expansion.
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Perils in Paradise. I haven't bought anywhere near as much as I used to, but I will occasionally give them a few bucks for the daily/quest fun that I have.
Don't think I'll buy any cards this expansion either, as I usually do when they release content that I like more. It is fun for what it is, but you really have to abandon your competitive nature to get a hold of what the game is like. It really goes either way and you get punished for not having a few key cards like Reno. That's all for now!
Announcing Perils in Paradise, Hearthstone’s Next Expansion
Pack your bags for a trip to Hearthstone’s next expansion!
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Perils in Paradise. I haven't bought anywhere near as much as I used to, but I will occasionally give them a few bucks for the daily/quest fun that I have.
Don't think I'll buy any cards this expansion either, as I usually do when they release content that I like more. It is fun for what it is, but you really have to abandon your competitive nature to get a hold of what the game is like. It really goes either way and you get punished for not having a few key cards like Reno. That's all for now!
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Yogg-Saron has taken the wheel and we’ve run into some sudden weather Anomalies ahead of Perils in Paradise.
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Perils in Paradise has been ok, some crazy mechanics to make you WTF so you'll buy cards. I haven't bought any and probably won't.
I did get some good legendarys for free on the rewards track. There have been quite a few bugs in this expansion, too. Goes back to what we discussed earlier about them spreading themselves so thin with content. Stuff slides through the cracks
I did get some good legendarys for free on the rewards track. There have been quite a few bugs in this expansion, too. Goes back to what we discussed earlier about them spreading themselves so thin with content. Stuff slides through the cracks
I logged into my Hearthstone account, and I had about 35 packs to open. I got some epic cards from it.