True about Mankrik, but keep in mind that if you unpacked Golden version then you can Dust it for 3.2k and just play the normal version everyone got for free. It’s a great deal if you don’t care about Golden cards, since it lets you craft 2 other Legendaries you pick.

And yeah, all of those cards still see play – including Crabrider. But my point is that if you don’t actively play them right now, DE is not a bad idea. You might not end up playing a deck running them at all, and if you do, you can always craft them back.

Plus, I never click “disenchant all” button for the nerfs sake. I had like 10+ copies of all those commons and got a nice chunk of Dust for free by getting rid of the extras.

I counted it yesterday, and if they launch it after the same amount of time as in Darkmoon Faire (9 weeks), it would be exactly next week. Timing makes sense. I think that next week is likely, 2 weeks from now is the worst case scenario. Maybe they’ll even announce it this week?

If you want to play Shaman you need to go Aggro (you know, the Doomhammer build). It’s pretty decent, not great, but you can definitely climb with it. Unless that’s what you meant by “Spell Damage” with Bru’kan, because many builds also run Bru’kan to improve burn spells.

I hope that mini-set mixes things up, I’m pretty bored of the current meta already :/

Sorry :/ I honestly didn’t think that they will fix it so quickly, I assumed that they will be playable at least until next big patch.

OTK worked very consistently last year, when Skipper + Armorsmith combo was a thing. Right now it’s often not a full OTK, because you won’t get enough armor, but rather 20+ damage. You need to play against really passive builds to get full OTK, but it’s possible. However, keep in mind that you also run C’Thun to finish the job just in case. Both of those give you an edge against Priest and Warlock, which are normally bad matchups for Control Warrior (however, they obviously take away some WR from other matchups).

Scoundrels have two purposes. First, just being a minion you can drop on T4 – 5/5 are pretty good stats to put on the board, it lets you be more proactive. And second – overdrawing your opponent / getting them closer to fatigue. Another anti-Control tech. I think that Meati played it specifically for the Priest matchup, which is very, very common in high Legend. They do care about fatigue and often stay at 9 cards at the end of their turn, so it works wonders.

Thank you!

I think that Crystology is superior to First day of School. While it only gives you 2 cards and not 3, you’re guaranteed to get good ones and it also thins your deck. Unless you want to run both, but that might be a bit too much. Still, feel free to try it out, even running one not optimal card won’t impact your WR that much 🙂

Yeah, that’s why I think that there needs to be some balance. Clearly there are people who like RNG, otherwise they wouldn’t design cards like that. I honestly think that the game would be boring without any kinds of random card generation, discovers, RNG effects etc. Some matchups would get old very quickly, as much as it’s annoying to lose because your opponent got a perfect card. But for me it’s not very fun knowing how each step of the matchup is going to go and often relying on a different kind of RNG to decide the games – draw RNG.

But last year was horrible, we had SO MUCH resource generation that it was crazy. There’s a point at which you just can’t play around anything, because opponent is generating more cards than they’re drawing. That’s why I like having some RNG, because it adds variance, and makes people use cards they normally wouldn’t have (lots of unplayable cards are used in cool and interesting ways because they’re generated at the right time). But if there’s too much of it, it also gets unfun very quickly.

Yes, they’ve said that they want to reduce it. And honestly, they did. Forged in the Barrens has much less resource generation than previous expansions (although we have one very popular Neutral one – Venomous Scrorpid). But we’ll really need another rotation to feel the results, because 2020 had a lot of random resource generation.

It’s already better than last year after Lackeys have rotated out, though. Right now lots of resource generation is mostly limited to Priest, and Mage to a certain extent (but not as much).

It might be a buff in some mid-late game scenarios, but the biggest strength of 0 mana version was the fact that it was an amazing 1-drop. You definitely don’t want to pay 1 extra mana for a random 1-drop in faster Paladin decks.

That’s a loooot of gold.

What I really need is “random portrait” function like random card back. I just HATE the fact that I have so many cool portraits that I won’t use, because I can’t be bothered to change them manually every few games (so I stick with the one I like most).

And the rotating portraits are actually anti-FOMO for me. I know that I don’t “HAVE” to get every single one I like right away, because it will make a comeback eventually. I have at least 2-3 extra portraits for every class now anyway so I don’t feel like I need more until the random portrait function. The only thing I’m “worried” about are Battle Pass portraits – there are just so many of them that they would nearly fill the entire rotation by themselves.

Sure, but if I was F2P, I’d much rather get more cards / resources than cosmetics. I know that many people will disagree with me here, but Hero portraits are a huge gold bait :p I’d prefer to play the decks I want with a basic skin than struggling to get cool decks while having cool skins.

But of course, it all depends on the circumstances. There are tons of other ways to spend gold on, but value-wise it’s still one of the best purchases in HS if you don’t have the cards (especially for real money). I assume that the next mini-set (which should come out in a few weeks) will also be a good deal, but it’s hard to say how good the cards will be.

I think that I’d go for Venomous Scorpid. While it’s not very powerful to raise, it still gives you a Poisonous minion opponent needs to kill before playing anything big, and it’s just a good card in general.

But if you want something specifically for N’Zoth, I think that I’d go for Fleethoof Pearltusk – as long as you have some ways to Corrupt it, of course. N’Zoth is best when it has immediate impact, and 8/8 with Rush is exactly that. If you don’t have enough 6+ cards to Corrupt it, probably Moonfang or Lake Thresher then.

Alternatively, if you play a lot of Priests and you struggle against them, I’d go for Educated Elekk I think. This way you can easily draw more resources and tempo out without having to worry about losing fatigue matchup, since it will shuffle extra cards into your deck.

I feel like nearly every week now is “we’re out of ideas week”. Not like the Brawls are bad, but like 95% of them are repeats.

Nie ma sprawy 🙂

Yeah, it’s crazy. Stuff like the Druid’s maze or Hunter’s shop would take me weeks to figure out (if I would find out how to activate them in the first place), and people did it in mere hours.

The only easy one was Warrior, tbh. With some trial and error I would easily do it myself. Rogue – maybe too, but just by dumb luck (and I think that’s how it was first done – someone brute-forced it, haha). But the last two… damn.

Not including “actual” rewards in stuff like that is on purpose. You have some crazy achievements in WoW that only give you a title (titles could be sort of equivalent of HS’s card backs – just a bit harder to get) or some cosmetic stuff. Even in HS you have very, very difficult achievements that don’t really give you anything outside of Achievement Points (which are useless right now). But we have people who hunt every single one of them just for the sake of doing it.

If you give actual rewards for those, players will feel “forced” to do them, since they have a tangible reward to work towards. If you don’t – it’s just for fun. No one has to do it, no one feels forced to do it, but they still get something extra if they do it.

Lots of people solve puzzles for fun and no rewards at all. For example, there were tons of people who don’t even play Hearthstone at all solving them on the Discord channel. That’s why I think that card back is a good reward – you don’t feel like you did all of that for nothing, but then again no one will feel like they have to go through it to build their collection.

From my perspective, I had so much fun trying to help solve those as much as I can. Of course my help wasn’t great, I mostly focused on spreading the word and keeping everyone updated (since that’s my job), but it was one of the most fun experiences I had in HS in a long time. I would do all of it even if there was no reward at all! But that might just be me.

Sorry to hear that. Did you make sure that you gave everything to everyone? You should be left with 10g and nothing else at the end.

As for the second issue – it usually occurs when players play another card during their turn besides the necessary ones. But if you’re doing it right and it doesn’t give you… maybe it thinks that you’ve already finished the puzzle? Hard to say :/

Remember when Elementals first launched? They were completely broken. It looks like balancing of new things is not Blizzard’s strong suite 😀

But there should be a Constructed balance update soon (according to Alec Dawson’s announcement, it should be coming out next week), so they will probably fit some BG balance changes in there too.

Wink wink.