[Antrax]

Well, the word on the street is that running

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Druid with power of the wild

is dominant. I've had a lot of fun and success playing

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Priest. Thoughtsteal, AoE, Wild Pyro, Shadow Madness

.

[Cyberyeti]

 Antrax, on 2015-July-09, 00:12, said:

Well, the word on the street is that running

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Druid with power of the wild

is dominant. I've had a lot of fun and success playing

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Priest. Thoughtsteal, AoE, Wild Pyro, Shadow Madness

.

I seem to have a very high success rate grabbing velen's chosens with my spellbenders (which I suspect aren't the secrets priests are expecting), 2 insta-concedes so far.

I'm 9-2 atm and the two I lost, one was another mage "topdeck 4 damage or die" after I'd seen both FBs, they got 10, one I just got a terrible draw (7 cards left in my deck including all of my big AoEs and card draw). I had one lucky win, I presume when my spellbender intercepts a power overwhelming, the 5/7 dies at the end of opps turn, opp suicided his critters into it not realising that, and I suspect should have killed my other critters and won.

[Fluffy]

Is there ny prize on the tavern brawl appart form the first win prize?

[Antrax]

Not currently. The win counter is mostly for bragging rights.

[phoenix214]

The new tavern brawl is pretty cool! I personally hate deckbuild tavern brawls - because as in casual mode, people start to try hard to get those wins- which takes some fun off. Last weeks challenge was great - but only when I found hunter to play with. This week is way better - all random is for me personally one of the most fun ways to play with friends - and with the increased number of legendaries it makes it even better.

[Cyberyeti]

 phoenix214, on 2015-July-16, 07:24, said:

The new tavern brawl is pretty cool! I personally hate deckbuild tavern brawls - because as in casual mode, people start to try hard to get those wins- which takes some fun off. Last weeks challenge was great - but only when I found hunter to play with. This week is way better - all random is for me personally one of the most fun ways to play with friends - and with the increased number of legendaries it makes it even better.

A slightly better algorithm than pure random for building the decks would help, after getting captain's parrot in my starting hand and discovering no other pirates were in my deck 4 times, I felt they'd run out of ideas.

They could have put a bit more effort into it and got something really good.

Last week's challenge was playable with anything other than warrior, I had particular success with mage/druid.

[Antrax]

I don't think it's pure random - I seem to get a lot more legendaries than expected.

[Cyberyeti]

 Antrax, on 2015-July-16, 09:48, said:

I don't think it's pure random - I seem to get a lot more legendaries than expected.

67/566 cards are legendaries, in a 30 card deck you'd expect around 3-4, so it may be entirely random. If you filter by class a class has 36 cards of which 2 are legendary. So there are 242 neutral cards of which 49 are legendary, so each class has 51/278 available cards as legendary so you'd expect even more (around 5.5).

[phoenix214]

Well, tavern brawl is to eveybodies own personal tastes - as i told - i do not like the deckbuilding challanges because people are pushing too much to win - if you get prebuilt deck of any form - it is way healthier. Not everybody thinks like that - because the challange might seem dull, but you can never please everybody.

[Cyberyeti]

 phoenix214, on 2015-July-16, 12:55, said:

Well, tavern brawl is to eveybodies own personal tastes - as i told - i do not like the deckbuilding challanges because people are pushing too much to win - if you get prebuilt deck of any form - it is way healthier. Not everybody thinks like that - because the challange might seem dull, but you can never please everybody.

I've no objection to prebuilt decks, but putting a little work into the prebuilts would be a lot better.

They could also do a "build your own deck, max n (blue) rares and everything else common (white) / non collectable (no gem)" for the challenge to make it simpler for new players.

[Antrax]

 Cyberyeti, on 2015-July-16, 10:27, said:

67/566 cards are legendaries, in a 30 card deck you'd expect around 3-4...

Oh, you mean it's actually uniform across all cards. Sounds reasonable - I thought it would be the same distribution like arena, which I think is closer to the distribution of card packs.

[Cyberyeti]

 Antrax, on 2015-July-16, 21:09, said:

Oh, you mean it's actually uniform across all cards. Sounds reasonable - I thought it would be the same distribution like arena, which I think is closer to the distribution of card packs.

I wonder if that's what they did to get a decent number of legendaries into peoples' decks

[Antrax]

New expansion coming August to shake things up: http://us.battle.net...ugust-7-22-2015

[Cyberyeti]

 Antrax, on 2015-July-22, 21:58, said:

New expansion coming August to shake things up: http://us.battle.net...ugust-7-22-2015

I was watching the stream till it died, will certainly shake things up, not sure how balanced it is.

[Antrax]

So far I'm very impressed with Blizzard's ability to create a balanced CCG, so I'm rather hopeful.

[Fluffy]

Blizzard has always been awesome at balancing, probably since starcraft. I played a lot of warcraft 3, and I remember patches where units nobody used, and if they used it nobody used a certain spell would see that spell's mana cost reduction from 40 to 30 or something like.

How could they manage 9 classes with different spells and abilities to be "kind of" balanced? only them are capable.

[jjbrr]

 Fluffy, on 2015-August-04, 10:14, said:

Blizzard has always been awesome at balancing

D3 tho

[Cyberyeti]

I hope some of the newer cards they reveal in the expansion are more interesting than the ones they've shown so far, I can't see myself using many of what they've shown so far.

[Antrax]

I avoid spoilers for new expansions, but I couldn't avoid the Demonfuse thing.

[Fluffy]

Not sure what cards you saw Steve, all I saw were interesting at least. Maybe its jsut that I am a bad payer and don't see the flaws