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02-16-2016 , 02:35 PM

#26551

jmakin

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I think wild will have a large player base. Especially if it gives the same/similar season rewards as standard. I intend on playing wild.

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02-16-2016 , 02:39 PM

#26552

D104

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Yeah, I think people will actually like playing decks that are completely broken in Wild. It's obv not the primary format, but I don't think it will die. I think for the majority of players, the competitive scene is not what drives them. Getting high rank in Wild is still going to mean something to people regardless what format tournaments feature.

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02-16-2016 , 02:46 PM

#26553

jmakin

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You guys are assuming too that there won't be broken decks in standard

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02-16-2016 , 04:03 PM

#26554

Paul D

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Originally Posted by bixby snyder

Huh? Minibot, Muster, Shredder, Boom... if you played Loatheb, Coghammer...

Boom and Loatheb weren't in some of the early aggro variants of secret paladin. MC was the highest cost card in some lists.

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02-16-2016 , 04:15 PM

#26555

Caldarooni

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Is there any point in completing the adventures now? I have one level left in Naxx and haven't started the others.

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02-16-2016 , 04:22 PM

#26556

Paul D

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I guess if you wanna play Wild. The other two are going to be around for Standard.

Release the Kraken!
Standard format will arrive this spring! When the momentous moment arrives, you’ll be able to build Standard decks using the following sets:

Basic
Classic
Blackrock Mountain
The Grand Tournament
The League of Explorers
The Spring 2016 Expansion

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/...-play-2-2-2016

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02-16-2016 , 05:35 PM

#26557

Priptonite

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Originally Posted by D104

Yeah, I think people will actually like playing decks that are completely broken in Wild.

Agreed. There are going to be some really fun to play decks in Wild down the road. This expansion might not bring them, next expansion might not bring them, but as the card pool grows we'll see a lot of cool synergies. It might be that Wild turns out to be a bunch of combo decks with very little counter-play, which seems to be what people fear, but who knows what cards Blizz will introduce. Doesn't seem too farfetched to have a minion that limits your opponent to 1 spell per turn, or increases the costs of spells, etc.

Will there be broken decks? Of course. Will there be broken decks in Standard, too? Yup.

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02-16-2016 , 05:41 PM

#26558

dkgojackets

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i actually think it would have been cool to see peak patron vs miracle vs hunter vs freeze in wild

you can still be balanced at a higher power level

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02-16-2016 , 06:02 PM

#26559

Priptonite

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Originally Posted by dkgojackets

you can still be balanced at a higher power level

Yeah, I think this is what people are discounting. "Broken" decks != unbalanced meta. At a given point in time, it's probably more likely that Standard has an unbalanced meta than Wild.

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02-16-2016 , 06:13 PM

#26560

Paul D

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I don't know about that. They're stripping away power from some classes. I think it depends in what comes out of the next expansion.

Ex. Rogue losing Tinker's Oil. Death Bite's no longer in there to spawn even moar patrons. Avenge buffing up minions.

If you look at the cards disappearing, it looks like they're trying to take out power. But who knows what they'll add.

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02-16-2016 , 06:19 PM

#26561

Paul D

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I just realized Face Shaman isn't losing anything other than crackle.

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02-16-2016 , 06:34 PM

#26562

Kirbynator

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for me i'm looking forward to bringing back the valiant thunderbluff deck,

those were good times in the 2p2 tourney and tgt grinding

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02-16-2016 , 06:54 PM

#26563

IHeartAsians

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Honestly blizzard made a great improvement when they made the concede button automatic. It was incredibly annoying to see the force/savage come out and have to watch the whole animation complete.

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02-16-2016 , 07:14 PM

#26564

D104

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I think TGT cards will see a lot more play in standard than they do now, but not inspire cards. I think they're still piles of dookie .

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02-16-2016 , 07:16 PM

#26565

BobboFitos

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Originally Posted by Paul D

Well, secret paladin might still be a thing if there's aggressive paladin cards in the works. Only really losing Avenge. The earlier version of secret paladin was just eboladin with secrets.

I wouldn't be surprised if Secret Paladin died. It's not so much that avenge is huge (it is the best secret) but the bulk of Paladin's overpoweredness is centered on GvG

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02-16-2016 , 07:25 PM

#26566

jmakin

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control priest not really losing anything other than lightbomb

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02-16-2016 , 07:33 PM

#26567

BobboFitos

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Zombie Chow, Deathlord, Sludge Belcher, Velen's, Shrinkmeister. Huge nerf to control priest, just as it basically climbed back to being a tip top deck. Heh

Also, even if they JUST lost lightbomb, that's kinda massive. It's a sick aoe that most priests ran 2x, huge comeback card vs a lot of decks

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02-16-2016 , 10:00 PM

#26568

wombat4hire

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Priest is going to be perpetually ****ed since their classic/standard cards are WOAT.

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02-16-2016 , 10:03 PM

#26569

Paul D

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Design team said they're looking at balancing class cards.

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02-16-2016 , 11:26 PM

#26570

synth_floyd

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Yeah, by nerfing the OP ones, not buffing the weak ones. The problem with the classic set being the "base" set for all time is that is has a lot of holes in it and the expansions are going to constantly going to need to fill those holes for certain classes.

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02-16-2016 , 11:49 PM

#26571

Cotton Hill

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Originally Posted by wombat4hire

Priest is going to be perpetually ****ed since their classic/standard cards are WOAT.

Paladin was also considered a very bad class before the expansions came out.

That's one reason Blizzard showered Paladin with so many ridiculously OP cards, to make up for their shortcomings.

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02-16-2016 , 11:58 PM

#26572

DoGGz

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Yup. Paladin was literally never played before GvG. It was god-****ing awful. Literally average at best at all things = not worth playing. I think Pally at the 2014 World Championships was played less than Shaman.

So Blizz showered them with GvG and we ended up where we are now.

Priest base set isn't bad it just doesn't have enough tools without the expansions.