Hearthstone babble and other random gamesFollow

Diablo 3 UI musings: When in Adventure mode, the bottom right hand corner of the map shows how many quests you've completed, as seen here:



But you can't click on the quest icon. It shows you where the quest is on the travel map when you hover over it, but then you have to move your mouse to the location on the map to initiate the warp. If they added in the functionality to show where the specific quest is on hover, why not also let you just click the icon where your cursor already is to bring you there? I mean, I'm not so lazy that I refuse to move my mouse to the location, but it seems like a pretty common sense QoL improvement piggybacked on one that is already implemented.

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Edited, Apr 6th 2014 8:29pm by Spoonless

I just want to put this here as an entry to the "Games I Shouldn't Want But Totally Do" category.

How can you say DO NOT WANT to a smile like that?

Not sure if anyone else is still playing Hearthstone, but I just found out that you can search for a specific rarity when building or crafting. I knew you could use it to search by name or type in stuff like "draw" to find draw cards, but it can be useful to search by "epic" or whatever, especially if you're looking for stuff to disenchant if you're trying to find the dust to craft something else.

Typically your rates and higher have more specialized effects than Conklin and uncommon cards. Each quality level has a different cost to craft, and you cannot have duplicate legendaries in a deck.

I just mean, like, what's the difference between a Murloc Raider and a golden Murloc Raider?

Or are those considered different cards in the sense that it allows you to have 4 Murloc Raiders in your deck?

Last night in my hour before bed gaming time I decided to work on my little Don't Starve world. But within 5mins my guy, that was 89 days old!, was dead and I was back at square one. Instead of re-collecting carrots and despite my fear of battle.net I dusted off my account and opened Hearthstone. I played right through my bed time.

I think I'll be on Hearthstone this weekend. I like the Hunter Champ best so far.








Edited, Apr 11th 2014 3:43pm by Elinda

You can swap a single daily quest, once per day, from what I can tell. When you go to the quests page, there's a little X on the upper right hand of each quest. Click that on the one you want to change, and it'll swap it for a different quest.

I really like Mage, but I can't seem to build a deck I'm happy with. When I catch the right cards, it can be a hilarious amount of destruction, but I feel like I don't have any real backup synergies/strategies for the deck. I've been playing a Paladin deck that I really really like. It seems to do fairly decently against Hunter aggression, but if I get some bad draws, I get wrecked.

The Mage opening that I really love is if you get the coin for going second and manage to catch a Mana Wyrm and Mirror Images. Coin counts as a spell, so you can open with Mana Wyrm, Coin, Mirror Images, starting the game with a 3/3 Wyrm and your two 0/2 taunts.

I'm trying to change my approach to the game in general. I was conceding as soon as I was pretty certain the game was over, but I'm trying to force myself to play everything out and to make the correct decisions, even in a losing effort. While this hasn't saved me any games that I would have already quit, it has a couple benefits. The first is experience points. You gain experience based on the number of cards you play, so every turn is a little more EXP. Secondly, I am learning more and more how to deal with individual situations. Sure, the other guy might have lethal the next turn, but maybe I learned a neat synergy in my deck to remove a large minion that I may not otherwise think of. I'm trying to gain some sort of knowledge out of every matchup.

I need to read up and watch a bit more Arena play. I really like it, but the most wins I've gotten has been 7. I just need to formulate better drafting strategies, especially for classes I don't play very often.

I had tried a Mage build that basically revolved around getting your opponent to 20 HP or less, drawing to Pyroblast and using Ice Block to keep you alive long enough to blow up your opponent's face. There's nothing quite so satisfying as someone hitting your last 1 HP and Ice Block telling them they have to wait, and then blowing their face up. I think that ultimately, that deck was a bit too spell-heavy, and most of my minions were just there to activate card draws in order to fish for those spells. It could certainly wreck some other decks, but I"m not sure it was well-suited as an general purpose deck.

My Paladin deck is a bit control heavy. I have numerous different methods to board clear, lots of taunts to slow down aggressive decks, and a bunch of minions to get value out of Redemption (Harvest Golems, Abominations, Cairne, etc.). It works very well against a broad range of decks, though it is expensive to craft everything in it.

Nerds.

You bought the day one DLC didn't you?

Oh good, the double quoting bug is back...