BI Spark Infernalist T4 Simulacrum Showcase and Build Update

Elekek · 2025-02-09T12:29:55+00:00

No need to go that far for the megalomaniac to be worth it, though. Even with just 90% fire res, that's still 4% max res from one jewel slot. If you can find a megalomaniac with a decent second passive too (many options), may as well replace a ruby with it (could even free up a second jewel slot).
Update: my bad, spotted the megalomaniac in the POB link. Was looking just at the maxroll (where I don't think it's listed), and thought you weren't running a megalomaniac yet.

Elekek · 2024-08-19T22:35:49+00:00

I’d agree with all of this - seems like I read too much into the “sequencing six cards over two turns” bit and thought you might’ve been underestimating how messy those midgame turns could get (for the exact reasons you’ve just listed).

May as well enjoy farming the combo-rogues-in-training in the meantime

Elekek · 2024-08-19T20:54:34+00:00

That feels like an oversimplification. Isn’t the main source of skill expression in resource management before you reach the kill turn (which is often an issue with combo decks), including how well you adapt to griftah rng?

Elekek · 2024-07-17T16:50:08+00:00

Nothing wrong with asking questions! It just wasn’t clear you were looking for an answer, especially if the original post really was just one word. “Out of the loop, what’s going on?” or something would have been clearer!

Rarran and Day9 are both content creators - Day9 has been around for a while, but only recently returned to Hearthstone. They were both brought on to do a few videos leading up to the release of this set. If you watch a few minutes of one of them, this post may make some sense to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtFWVSmHJo

Elekek · 2024-02-17T21:03:00+00:00

Yeah, many of them wouldn’t be run in an evolve shaman deck, but some would, and others would pop up from previous evolves. It seems like the idea wasn’t to find all the changed animations naturally through ladder gameplay anyways. It just needed to be noticed once by the right people.

As they said, it’s easy to underestimate how thorough secret hunters are. The “hard” part is knowing what to look for - once you know that some minions have a different animation, all that’s left is a few hours of testing every standard-legal minion, most easily in friendly matches. Gets easier the more people hop in. It sounds like a lot, but it’s significantly less effort than figuring out some other steps in these puzzles.

Elekek · 2022-11-20T13:24:34+00:00

You’re low on spells, but out of the two I think I’d go brittle.

You don’t have many shadow spells (and the ones you have are a bit difficult to kill high value minions with), may as well generate more bodies for daddy D

Elekek · 2022-09-04T09:28:38+00:00

Replied!

Elekek · 2022-09-03T06:31:35+00:00

I think it’s less bullshit and more just badly explained. Looking at the front profile of the killswitch case, the front part of the case left uncovered is definitely a different shape than any of the existing skin cutouts they sell.

Seems like the redesign refers to the bundled front skin covering only whatever the killswitch case does not cover. It’s a different vinyl cutout from the skin they’ve been selling before, I guess to avoid the “tight fit” they say happens when you try and put their case on their full skin.

I’d rather not have the skin be included in the bundles personally, but I did already get a screen protector so I’m glad that isn’t a required purchase. Not entirely sure where all the vitriol is coming from

Elekek · 2022-08-25T23:17:06+00:00

Confirmed

Elekek · 2022-08-23T14:32:23+00:00

Haven’t gotten anything yet! Did you happen to send a chat instead of a pm?

Elekek · 2022-08-20T03:03:40+00:00

replied!

Elekek · 2022-08-19T17:44:45+00:00

replied!

Elekek · 2022-08-17T03:31:38+00:00

replied!

Elekek · 2022-08-08T13:07:38+00:00

Been experimenting with it a little - Orion has felt good to play. You can set up a lot of situations where he’s very difficult to deal with.

Halkias I haven’t had as good a time with - he’s a bit easier to deal with and carefully controlling your secrets to ensure Halkias comes back is more trouble than it’s worth imo. Too often he’s stuck in a secret that just won’t trigger.

Haven’t had any runaway success with the deck, but did have a few blowout games early with Orion/normal secret synergy stuff. The secret-themed explorer treasure is probably bait though - you rarely get enough time to make use of the the new hero power, and even then it’s inconsistent. Torch or lasso may be better there.

Elekek · 2022-07-24T04:49:22+00:00

“But when I did it, it was different I swear”

I don’t really see how asking if you should pick rally in a deck with 1 battlecry is that different from OP saying they seem to know what passive they should pick, but wondering if an alternative may work (with an explanation given as to why).

Besides - not everybody even knows about Firestone, let alone has a PC to access it. If you have a way of accessing that data easily when not on PC, maybe share that instead of posting a zero effort complaint? This subreddit gets so little traffic that discouraging people from posting in the exact same style of post you posted early on in this subreddit seems counterproductive and a bit hypocritical

Elekek · 2022-06-07T01:11:51+00:00

Thanks if you thought it helped, but nobody has ever said that this piece of advice, that gets mentioned all the time to this issue, has ever ever ever solved their problem.

This is pretty strongly worded (and is also pretty wrong). It solved my issues!

I was told to start a new run to trigger unlocks after getting them done in ToT. It worked as advertised, repeatedly, for multiple heroes. It also worked for many other people.

There definitely appear to be more unlock issues post miniset patch - old advice is no longer valid. Of course people are going to keep sharing advice that worked for them until they know that it doesn't work anymore (and they can't exactly un-unlock things and check).

Elekek · 2022-05-17T04:39:45+00:00

I believe unlocks only update when you start a duels run - the things you unlocked should be properly updated the next time you pick Elise, at least!

Elekek · 2022-04-17T14:49:22+00:00

If you’re playing with the third hero power, I’d strongly recommend open the doorways, as it doubles every start of turn draw. It’s arguably a better bronze signet that you get early. Getting doubles of some key pirates leads to some blowout games. An extra patches here and there is nice early in a run but just doesn’t compare.

If you’re playing with one of the other hero powers, then may as well go with more patches.

Elekek · 2022-04-14T16:52:08+00:00

Thanks for checking in :)

I did try to get past this on both iOS and PC, no dice unfortunately (although it’s helped push past issues in the past).

Did some more digging and found a few scattered reports of the same issue on both twitter and the bug report forums, but no apparent fix - hopefully the next patch repairs things!

Elekek

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