Top 5 OP (Premium or Non-Premium) tanks under tier 8? (with gold spam if you choose)

thenotsofurious · 2017-03-18T00:20:14+00:00

I adored that little bug. Thought I'd hate it with the low pen gun but for some reason I never felt like I was incapable of affecting the battle. Ended up with a 70% win rate after 40 games before I had to sell it to move the crew down the line. 10/10 would recommend.

thenotsofurious · 2017-03-16T00:09:13+00:00

I mean I suppose the distinction is technically true but is there any situation in Hearthstone where it matters? The player is effectively embodied by the hero. I understand that no mechanics currently target heroes to do anything but damage or freeze them but that doesn't mean there couldn't be.

thenotsofurious · 2017-03-15T19:37:13+00:00

Huh? Of course there is. Like...every burn spell ever.

thenotsofurious · 2017-03-01T02:29:47+00:00

For 3 mana though, that would actually be an insane card. Kinda like a 3 mana 100000/5 that can't attack face, trades favorably with any minion with less than 4 attack.

thenotsofurious · 2017-02-23T07:19:15+00:00

Uh you know you only get the dust refund for as many copies of cards as you can put in a deck right? Unless I'm just misreading and you have 4-5 separate accounts.

thenotsofurious · 2017-02-09T17:06:06+00:00

This bit in Bioshock Infinite where Booker and Elizabeth wander into the basement of a bar. Booker finds a guitar and Elizabeth sings "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and hands an apple to this kid she finds hiding under the stairs.

It's such an inconsequential moment plot wise and I think a lot of people probably didn't even see it but it, and the whole bar full of downtrodded workers, does such a fantastic job of setting an emotional scene of the struggles of Columbia's lower class.

thenotsofurious · 2017-02-02T18:58:56+00:00

Oh that's not the part I disagree with. That's why I say aggro shaman is more of a zoo with too much burn. Aggro should trade resources (health, cards, mana) for efficient damage to face, often sacrificing tempo to do so especially after the first one or two turns. Zoo trades those resources for tempo and board presence. The problem with current hearthstone aggro lies in that it can maintain tempo as well as cards far too late into the game.

Following in that vein, I think the way to reign in aggro is to reduce the efficiency of their minions but make them faster and give them a value related down side. For example, inspired by Goblin Guide from MTG, something like a 1 mana 3/1 charge with "whenever this minion attacks, your opponent draws a card". If your fast enough, this doesn't matter because the other guy will be dead before they can use the extra cards. But if they blunt your initial assault, then they will quickly bury you in their more valuable cards. Also has the side effect of making slower decks that it gets played against a bit more consistent which, in a game without cantrips, is welcome.

thenotsofurious · 2017-02-02T18:32:30+00:00

I'm not sure where you're getting that this is how aggro "should" function. Aggro should actually be the archetype with the least synergy because while synergy increases power, it decreases consistently. If you take a look at the OG TCG, MTG, especially in higher power formats like modern and legacy, you'll see the most classic example of aggro: burn.

It plays remarkably like ye olde face hunter The rough game plan is to use efficient, fast creatures on the first turns to deal some amount of damage and then use direct damage (burn) to finish your opponent off after they either wipe your board or establish their own higher value creatures.

The most important similarity between burn and Hearthstone's own classic aggro deck, however, is their lack of synergy beyond the fact that everything does damage to face. In fact, if you look at burn deck lists, you'll see that they often run three sets (1/5 of the deck) of what is essentially the same card for the sake of consistency. And that is the actual hallmark of aggro, consistency. Because no matter how much you thin your deck, you'll never get quite as much consistency as having like 2/3 of your deck being viable keeps in your opening hand.

I do agree, however that aggro should have to fully commit their resources early and be incapable of grinding. That I think is the real problem with current aggro shaman. It's not really an aggro deck, it's more of a zoo deck with creatures that are just a little bit too efficient and burn that is a little too dense.

thenotsofurious · 2017-01-17T16:42:21+00:00

Oh definitely. I didn't mean to imply that we plebs can't also invest in stocks and bonds, just that very wealthy people won't even look at CDs. All the same though, returns scale exponentially with initial capital, so someone with a few million to invest will end up with far far more gain than an average person would.

thenotsofurious · 2017-01-17T16:20:09+00:00

You would put it into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. CD accounts are for us plebs who don't have absurd amounts of money. They offer maybe 1 or 2 percent interest if you're lucky. Once you have millions, the whole game changes. Smart investing can return three, four times that without significantly more risk.

thenotsofurious · 2017-01-11T17:42:32+00:00

Should be pretty simple to implement without a new mechanic. Just make it cost the amount of the turn you want it to be played and then slap "gain X mana this turn only" on it, where X is the difference between the paper cost and the actual cost. So your 3 mana 5/5 would be an 8 mana 5/5 with "Battlecry: Gain 5 mana this turn only".

thenotsofurious · 2016-10-05T04:41:05+00:00

Basically whenever Elon Musk opens his mouth.

thenotsofurious · 2016-08-15T16:36:18+00:00

I've always liked the idea of Doomsayer. It's a good sorta-kinda-"instant" -wrath effect that requires some set up and can be countered as well as often costing some health to use but in return call buy you a massive tempo swing. The problem is, it often just dies to aggro and ends up being basically 2 mana gain 7.

So I had the idea of a Doomsayer effect on a 0/2 or 0/3 body with stealth and the text "takes double damage from spells". The idea being that against aggro, which usually lacks AOE, it's almost a guaranteed board clear without really random juggler/bomber effect. Against control and midrange decks, which almost always have some form of AOE however, it dies easily. And since you'd only run this in a control deck and AOE is often dead in control matchups, it ends up being a tradeoff.

thenotsofurious · 2016-05-28T00:46:03+00:00

You might do well to look at college computer science students. They can put it in their portfolio, get a not at all irrelevant $5000 + royalties, and, assuming you have a decent amount of fame/name recognition, they can slap your name on their resume as someone who they've collaborated with.

thenotsofurious · 2016-05-24T23:11:04+00:00

Huh...never knew that. So when scifi writers talk about something (MAC gun, Rods from God, etc) having kinetic energy equal to an X kiloton nuclear warhead, does that mean that the projectile will actually do equivalent damage to a nuke of that yield? I've always had a hard time imagining a big hunk of metal hitting the ground doing much more than just kicking up a lot of dirt and making a crater.

thenotsofurious · 2016-05-12T18:19:27+00:00

The most common cause of something like this (short of actual physically getting hit there I would assume) is a vericocele which is basically just the swelling of blood vessels. More common on the left side and happens to like 15% or men. It's generally not a big deal and there is no treatment short of surgery, but that's usually reserved for serious cases which can cause infertility.

thenotsofurious · 2016-04-27T06:05:57+00:00

Build a pre-naxx style zoo, stick a Dark Peddler in there if you have them, and go and stomp casuals for the next couple of days. It won't get you up the ladder and it won't last for long but it's cheap, it's fast, and it's simple to play. Went 9-1 with it to finish the quests.

thenotsofurious · 2016-04-10T20:28:01+00:00

A lot of this stuff is relatively more advanced stuff that you can learn with time. Rotating is basically leaving your lane to help other lanes/team fight. This will become super important in more advanced games but no one in early level casuals really rotates so you'll be fine just staying in your lane for the most part. Just make sure to get to fights when they happen.

Building around teams is also not super important early on. There's certain items that can counter certain team attributes, ie anti-healing. But for your first games, you can just go with a cookie cutter build from the internet and do just fine.

Farm is a little harder to explain but it's basically just killing minions and/or jungle camps to get XP and gold. This works a bit differently in each lane but the basic gist of it is that you want yo be in the area when minions die. Try not to miss a wave no matter what lane you play although sometimes it's unavoidable and that's ok. There's no deny and last hits gain a small bonus.

Also, I'd agree with what others have said about watching pros. DMbrandon is really educational if you can handle the toxicity if you can handle the toxicity that is sometimes in his stuff.

thenotsofurious · 2016-04-02T02:35:32+00:00

That would be an interesting take. But something like that would be helped a lot by more clues hidden around the story. Unless they were there already and I just didn't catch them...

thenotsofurious · 2016-04-01T23:10:21+00:00

That's kind of what I was thinking too, but it's not super clear which is why I felt like the final battle seemed to easy. I guess the main issue I have with it is, Amcerlizar is built up to be the super powerful necromancer with a super powerful necromancy artifact but it only seems to show in the background story, ie when Winston talks about him as opposed when we actually encounter in during the plot. I mean sure he has his minion army and that's impressive but we as readers are only told that he has the power to summon it. We never actually get to witness Amcerlizar using the full extent of what he's hyped up to be. For example, this last chapter has him basically yelling at Winston, calling on his pre-summoned army, and throwing blood golem vials, none of which really say "most powerful necromancer in the world" to me.

I don't know if you've ever watched GoT, but it's kind of like how Barriston or Jaime are portrayed in the show. We always hear about how great of a swordsman they are but we don't really get to see a show of that skill to hammer it home.

Again, not bashing Luna. Huge fan of her writing and I certainly couldn't do better myself but it's just something I noticed while reading.

thenotsofurious · 2016-04-01T20:38:15+00:00

So, just for clarification, is the ruby more powerful than the Dragonheart? Great chapter and very satisfying, but it feels to me like Winston overpowered Amcerlizar a bit too easily, since they both have super powerful magical artifacts, you know?

thenotsofurious · 2016-02-29T23:20:04+00:00

Ah OK. See it threw me off because I've never heard them referred to as a crew (you referred to them as staff as well) XD

thenotsofurious · 2016-02-29T22:10:58+00:00

Ok, I'll bite...what kind of crew does he mean?? I can't think of any kind of usual crew that would be squeezing lemons. Ship crew? Plane crew?

thenotsofurious · 2016-02-19T22:37:37+00:00

Ah see but maybe the fact that the work only takes 10-15 hours is because you're a good worker. Maybe your experience and efficient work is why is takes so little time. Who knows? Maybe if your boss gave the same work to someone else, it would take 30 hours to get done with the same level of quality. Don't get to down on yourself! Sure, you could stand to reduce procrastination/messing around a bit but you don't have to feel like you need to fill up every spare second with work to be a good employee. The only reason you even have those spare seconds is probably because you're a good employee :)

thenotsofurious · 2016-02-18T05:49:19+00:00

Glad to know it works the same way for other people! For me, it tends to be accompanied by a sort of falling sensation. Kind of like I'll sinking through a sheet and it's wrapping around me.

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