Stonekeep's Comments
Upcoming Balance Update - May 22 - Nerfs To Archivist Elysiana, EVIL Miscreant, Preparation and Raiding Party
It’s worth only for Hall of Fame rotation. When a card gets nerfed, it’s not worth it.
Just make sure to disenchant everything that got nerfed – even if the card ends up seeing play in the future, you can re-craft it then with no loss. There’s no point in “saving” cards that “might” see play ๐
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Heroic Bosses (Hero Powers, Strategy)
We would, but we still don’t exactly know that. Since they are random, and some seem to appear pretty rarely, it’s hard to really pin-point which boss appears in which chapter. But we’ll add it once we figure that out! ๐
HSTD's "The Dalaran Heist" Full Adventure Giveaway! Unlock all five Chapters, 16 Packs and Zayle!
You can give it to a friend ๐
Most Underrated Cards From Rise of Shadows
Not exactly out of context. We knew that Token Druid is a thing, and most of people were evaluating how it would fit into Token Druid (the deck they knew was very good many times in the past).
Current Token Druid is not that different from the builds we had in the past – it’s still the same game plan of flooding the board, making it stick and finishing the game with Savage Roar.
So if most people rated it lowly on the premise of “the card would be bad in Token Druid”, I would not say that the information were insufficient. If it was rated lowly based on “Token Druid won’t see play anyway”, then such ratings shouldn’t be made with just a few cards from the set known.
But to be fair – any pre-expansion rating is just imperfect, period. Cards that were revealed in the middle of the season? Still not enough information. Even when everything was out – we didn’t really know how the meta will shape up, which is one of the biggest factors for whether a card will see play. I make those articles to look at the past mistakes and hopefully do not repeat them in the future. I’ve got much better at judging cards compared to when I started writing pre-expansion predictions around TGT, but I’m still making tons of mistakes. It’s still fun – I like the reveal season even more than the early days of the expansion to be honest! ๐
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
When you open the adventure, you have big arrows that let you flip the pages to the next chapters. You just flip it to Chapter 2 and the option to buy it should be there ๐
Most Underrated Cards From Rise of Shadows
Control Hunter definitely sounds cool, and it’s more viable than it was back in the day (when it was just a complete meme), but it’s still not good enough. The biggest problem with Control style Hunter is the lack of proper AoE clear. It’s always been the #1 thing that stopped real Control Hunter decks. Once your opponent develops a bigger board, you’re basically done as a Hunter.
Another issue are limited ways of gaining card advantage. When Deathstalker Rexxar was still in Standard, that problem was fixed, because that single card was all you needed. But it’s gone now. Ideally, Control decks want to gain card advantage without actually getting closer to fatigue, which is another reason why Warrior is so strong – cards like Omega Assembly or Dr. Boom, Mad Genius let them gain a lot of value without digging deeper into their decks.
So long story short, while somewhat close, Hunter still doesn’t have what it takes to play Control. You CAN try that, and it should be a fun experiment, but I don’t think it will be viable.
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
One Hero will be enough, because it’s much longer than the usual adventures ๐
HSTD's "The Dalaran Heist" Full Adventure Giveaway! Unlock all five Chapters, 16 Packs and Zayle!
You should thank Blizzard – they provided us with ten copies of adventure to give out! ๐
HSTD's "The Dalaran Heist" Full Adventure Giveaway! Unlock all five Chapters, 16 Packs and Zayle!
You’ll get notified by e-mail after the giveaway is over.
Hotfixes for The Dalaran Heist - May 17, 2019
It definitely CAN be done, I just don’t think that they WANT to do it – that’s the thing ๐
HSTD's "The Dalaran Heist" Full Adventure Giveaway! Unlock all five Chapters, 16 Packs and Zayle!
Sorry to hear that. Did you try quitting the server and joining it again?
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
Good job! it took me three tries to beat Heroic Chapter 1 (got 7/8 twice) ๐ And I have to say that it’s not all that easy. Of course, if you get great, synergistic cards, nice treasures and do not encounter some of the stronger bosses, then it’s a walk in the park. But lots of time you might struggle if things don’t go your way.
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
It releases today, in a few hours.
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
Don’t know that yet, but I assume that it can’t like other exclusive “reward” cards – e.g. Golden Marin the Fox from Blizzcon.
We’ll let you know when Dalaran Heist is out.
Tune in for The Showdown in Dalaran - Dalaran Heist Pre-Release Event with Streamers (May 14-15)
Why would it? Of course, streamers are then free to do whatever they want with their money (and a lot of them spend a bunch of money on charity), but it’s not a charity event.
Control Priest - Rise of Shadows - #45 Legend (Dono)
I’ve never said that it’s a great list, it’s not a meta deck for a reason. I’ve just said that Warrior matchup is much more winnable than you might think. Early Elysiana can put a lot of pressure – unless your discovers suck, you should be putting a lot of juice into your deck and every draw is great.
And against Aggro, 2 mana Auchenai + Circle is huge, it’s usually a full board clear for 2 mana.
Again, it’s not a great deck, but you can definitely win games with it.
The Dalaran Heist Guide - Chapter Information, Pricing, Rewards, Heroes & Hero Powers, Anomaly Mode And More!
Yeah, that would probably be too much ๐
Control Priest - Rise of Shadows - #45 Legend (Dono)
Actually, Warrior matchup is winnable.
Against Aggro, your goal is to just survive (obviously) and win the game like that.
Against Control, draw A LOT of cards while trying to put minion pressure all the time to waste some of their removals. Then on T10 drop Elysiana + Seance her. Pick the highest pressure cards from Elysiana. After you’re out of cards in your deck, repeat. Unless Warrior got an early Boom and got A LOT of value from it, you can actually run them out of removals etc. if you get right Discovers from Elysiana.
Most likely not.