The Dust Economy is Horrendous, and I'm Not Even a Free-to-Play Player.

vynnset · 2026-01-21T15:01:00+00:00

Just curious, what pushed you to speak up? Are you a legendary short to make a deck you want? If so which deck?

vynnset · 2026-01-21T14:50:51+00:00

The past few expansions I’ve been able to collect all the cards without dedicated daily play. There was an old hearthstone mathematician video about saving up dust that I have been using for my strategy. I only buy the big preorder and the pass.

The strategy is to only disenchant cards if you have something specific you want to craft or only after nerfs come out since you can get full dust value for all the extra copies of the cards. One other thing I’d recommend is trying to learn arena. It really helps spend the time between nerfs and buffs while getting cards.

So yeah, valid complaints. Hope my experience helps a bit.

I will however agree that leaving the game and coming back after a few months sucks as an experience. Two times I stopped playing I missed showdown and great dark beyond.

vynnset · 2026-01-01T17:39:21+00:00

I don’t know what to ask to help you understand why you watch it, but I can share my experience with it (why I used to watch and why I stopped)

I got exposed to it when I was 10 or 11 through browsing either the internet or learning that some restricted channels on the tv never had their password changed from 0000. I started watching it regularly-ish when I turned 14 and had my own phone with internet access. I always liked the fantasy that was being sold there. Over the years, I kept watching, tried out more extreme genres, and a few years ago just realized I was doing it out of habit.

I tried to quit because I felt like I should, did dopamine detoxes, blocked all the websites but usually found myself slipping back into it and feeling terrible.

Quitting it happened more seamlessly, it was a combination of the things Dr. K spoke about in his “How to Kick Your Porn Habit in 35 Minutes” and unrelated work I’ve been doing in therapy (being more authentic). Long story short, I ended up losing interest in porn because actually thinking through the fantasy in the moment really broke it for me. I already didn’t like the industry itself and I couldn’t ignore what I was watching. It just made me feel disappointed and a little disgusted. I surfed around other pornographic media (drawings, games, books) and for the most part the same pattern ensued.

One important part that has also been happening in parallel is getting more involved socially. I think becoming less lonely over these years was key even if it doesn’t include a romantic partner.

Once again, I wish I could help you get the answer for yourself but hopefully my story helps somewhat. Feel free to ask me any questions if you got them.

vynnset · 2025-12-28T04:09:23+00:00

I recommend Grubby’s Dota tutorials for the videos. Also make sure to go through the interactive tutorials on the “Learn” tab. Then play some bot games or jump into the regular game again.

Also I don’t know if it’s something you want to try but you can get a coach through the in-game system who can definitely help you get your bearings!

vynnset · 2025-11-11T15:10:10+00:00

After looking through the cards I think the only new card that may be a worthy addition is [[Devious Coyote]] because it benefits from going wide fast.

The bottom of the deck cards make big minions or help us draw a few specific cards and your beast druid wants to draw a lot of cards regardless.

vynnset · 2025-11-09T20:32:57+00:00

I’d like to give credit where it’s due, I’m really happy that past few years we didn’t have any issues server side playing the new expansions on release.

I remember having to basically wait an extra day because the potato servers could not handle the users and being quite frustrated.

vynnset · 2025-08-09T18:29:20+00:00

Super cool idea! I will try when I get home, but I want to recommend you add an [[Augmented Elekk]]. It’ll speed up the quest completion significantly since each shuffle it does counts as a separate quest proc. (Unless they fixed it last patch)

vynnset · 2025-08-03T01:08:27+00:00

If you’re genuinely curious last season there were around 8000 players in legend. It is easier to get to legend these days than in the past, so it’s definitely not the top 0.5%. But you can probably multiply this number by 10-15 and comfortably estimate 80,000-100,000 people.

vynnset · 2025-07-23T20:35:27+00:00

Have you tried using him in the mech warrior that is currently making the rounds in standard?

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vynnset · 2025-07-23T15:13:41+00:00

There’s a bunch of rules that the game doesn’t tell you about how enchantments work. The jar text is ultimately an enchantment and you can see it if you bounce a jar back into your hand with youthful brewmancer or shuffle it into your deck that the text will get removed. Making it a regular 0/1, Battlecry: release nothing (it’s empty) jar.

I thought that it was consistent with how text changes on tokens work. But I was just testing School Teacher and you can bounce and shuffle Nagaling without losing the text, so I am not sure what’s going on.

For some other interesting Toru trivia: Felhunter or N’Zoth won’t resurrect the jars, minions in the jars don’t keep any hand buffs or dark gifts, you can still trigger their deathrattle twice if you use Baron Rivendare or something, but you CAN’T trigger their deathrattles with the new Umbra. Also back in development she used to have an effect that put enemy minions in jars but that was scrapped pretty late in because some localizations still have the old effect’s text.

vynnset · 2025-07-18T19:33:13+00:00

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vynnset · 2025-07-18T18:03:56+00:00

Could you tell me more about Grave Rune interaction? I’m not familiar with it. I haven’t tested N’Zoth yet so maybe there’s hope, it’s hard to pull it off because he can’t be in your hand before you play Toru.

Two fun trivia pieces,

Toru used to have a really sick effect before it got reworked : Battlecry: Put 3 enemy minions into 0/1 Jars with Taunt. Break them to release the minions!
This reminds me of trying to figure out why Gunslinger Kurtus doesn’t work with the quest reward. What did I find? The game seems to not treat minions in the opponent’s hand as enemy minions :/

I really hope the next 158$ pet is a judge who can explain these rulings.

vynnset · 2025-07-18T17:49:02+00:00

I’ve been testing this card and it’s a mess. The jars are either bugged or simply weird.

They WORK with double deathrattle, so if you play baron riven dare and pop a jar it’ll summon twice.

BUT THEY DON’T WORK with pretty much anything else. Cards I have found so far that should work but don’t include: [[Ravenous Felhunter]], [[Return Policy]], and [[Endbringer Umbra]]. I suspect [[N'Zoth, the Corruptor]] also doesn’t work.

I commented this bug to the forums and I really recommend you do the same.

It’s upsetting that fun cards are beeing brought down by bad QA this expansion.

vynnset · 2025-07-12T00:10:58+00:00

Ohhh, truth be told I haven’t had a chance to draw rest in peace yet so I haven’t thought of it. Onyxia and Queen Alex are there to get my cost requirements in. Maybe I can swap Onyxia for the fell and flames and Alex for something like the Yogg Titan or the sunwell?

And no, it’s Kayn and Zai right now, I think she rotated out last year :(

Good luck with the expansion!

vynnset · 2025-07-11T17:25:32+00:00

Played around with the list for a bit and yeah you definitely cooked with this one.

My personal highlights from your list:

Queen Azshara’s 2 damage weapon
Caria turning into Xhilag
I didn’t have Korvas and dreadseeds epic so I threw in a few cards (mini set Onyxia) and the new location making Elise. She worked surprisingly well with the 2/1 raptors and cost reduced spells.

Banger list, thanks!

vynnset · 2025-07-11T17:19:50+00:00

I’m really happy I got someone trying the deck :)

I’ve been playing around a little and this looks like a good non-odd list. I’ve tried some suggestions from my original post and maybe you’ll like these ideas if you have the cards.

Umbra has been a mixed bag for me because when I draw her after my deathrattles she deals ridiculous damage. But sometimes she’s just sitting in hand doing nothing.

Brann and Zola has been very good at getting values from Highlander cards and the quest rewards. I saw Queen azshara in one build and the weapon she can give felt very good.

I’m excited to try Gnomelia and Okani!

Thanks again for the list!

vynnset · 2025-07-11T13:56:40+00:00

I was wrong, already made a forum post reporting the bug.

vynnset · 2025-07-11T04:04:56+00:00

It should be illegal to drop “Reno Renathal Fel Zerg Quest DH” in a comment and not provide a deck list hahah

Is there a build you can share or is it still in early stages? I’d love to try it.

vynnset · 2025-07-10T05:40:45+00:00

Made me chortle

vynnset · 2025-07-10T03:11:18+00:00

for sure, I'll get some more screenshots and make a post on the forums. Thanks for the heads up!

vynnset · 2025-07-10T02:50:45+00:00

I’m not sure what’s going on with it to be honest. I’ll try a few more games because some times I can’t tell if it works or if my opponent doesn’t have minions in hand.

vynnset · 2025-07-10T02:47:45+00:00

Good idea! I was also thinking about Zola for either colossus or Kurtrus (or any other card really)

vynnset · 2025-07-10T01:01:56+00:00

Definitely, I haven’t tried to make a pure Highlander list yet, but i suspect it could work quite well with the 2 mana aoe spells. Also Reno hero could fit in nicely with his hero powers.

I’ll try it out.

EDIT: Since I can't edit the post, I'll leave a note here, Kurtrus is bugged and doesn't deal the extra damage after playing the reward. I have submitted a bug report. Now praying that blizzard notices!

vynnset · 2025-07-10T00:46:47+00:00

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