Heartstone - Easy Mode

I was listening to episode 46 of The Angry Chicken Podcast yesterday and Garrett and Dills were talking about how it is easier to gain ranks at the very end of the season compared to the start as you are not playing all the people that are racing back up to Legendary.

Well, last night was the last night of the current season so I jumped on my Paladin Undertaker deck to see how far I could get.

I spent a couple of hours on it starting at the top end of Rank 16 and made it to 4 star Rank 12 with barely any losses!!

That is the highest rank I have got to and the bonus stars took me to 3 star Rank 20!

I then played another few games and made Rank 18 before heading off to bed!

Hearthstone - Power Overwhelming and Shadow Madness

I was just playing what I can only assume was priest control deck against my pseudo zoo lock.

I had a couple of Jugalos out, a Blood Imp, a Voidwalker and something else.

He played shadow madness against one of my Jugalos and then gave it power overwhelming. so it was a 7/6. He then smashed my Voidwalker in the face with it, dropping it down to a 7/5.

He ended turn expecting it to die, except it returned to my deck. Presumably because the mechanic that would return it to my deck at the end of the turn was played before the power overwhelming. I guess he then expected it to die.

Except, it must have done this as the turn was ending and landed in my deck after his turn had ended, because once in my deck it didn't die!

He then emoted "Oops": I said "Thanks!"

I don't know if it would have died at the end of my next turn as I then smashed him in the face for in excess of 15 damage on what I think was turn 5!

Heartstone - Miracle Rogued

Tonight as I was racking up the losses in ladder - I keep forgetting to go to casual when doing my dailies on my rubbish heroes - I got gimped by a rogue.

I think it was actually the first time I've fought one.

I was quite low on health so his Leroy - Shadowstep - Leroy was enough to do for me!

Hearthstone - Military Quarter Down

Boss 1 - One Shot
Boss 2 - One Shot
Boss 3 - Two Shot - oops!

Hearthstone - Instructor Razuvious

I finally decided to unlock the third wing tonight and did the first boss. The above screen shot was from my first attempt. Do you think he won?

Hearthstone - Crazy Game Story

Tonight's crazy game story is yet again revolving around the Knife Jugalo.

My opponent had nothing on the board, I had the good old Jugalo.  On turn 4 he played Leroy Jenkins.

It, of course, summoned the 2 whelps which, of course, triggered the Knife Juggler special trick. The odds were high that at least one knife would hit Leroy, and pretty good they both would. Which they did! LOL!

Hearthstone - Never Concede

Never, EVER concede a game in Hearthstone.

I was playing with the pally against a druid (my nemesis).

At the end of his turn he already easily had lethal on the board and I had two pretty poor cards.

I played Onyxia and ended turn. All he had to do was hit me in the face.

He proceeded to take out my other cards leaving me with the Dragon Queen and two 1/1s. I could not believe it!

It was now my turn. He had 19 health. I was in single figures.

I popped the Shattered Sun Cleric on Ony and then popped the Blessed Champion on her too. Making her up to 18 attack. So I smacked him in the face and then killed him with a 1/1 whelp!

Hearthstone - Hunter Class Challenge - Loatheb

Now that the second batch of class challenges are opened I had a go at them. The Mage one was easy but the Hunter one was a little out there.

You just get loads of spiders with a death rattle of putting a beast card into your deck. I thought he was bugged at first as he had a health of 75!!! I was wiped off the board pretty quick

The second go I got a few beast up and he put some spores up which I ignored, then I did something and suddenly my remainder 2 beasts had attacks in the 30s!!

It turns out that if you kill the spores then all your minions get +8 attack.

Well that's going to make short work of that 75 health!!

Third time lucky, he hit the floor in double quick time!

Hearthstone - Druid Class Challenge and Quarter 2

I've been on holiday for a few days, and of course the second Quarter opened whilst I was away.

Whilst I was waiting for that to open I have been trying the class challenges. The rogue one I got down easily, but the druid one has me stumped. Faerlina gets me all the time ... easily /sadface

So, back to Quarter 2. This wasn't quite so easy.

I used the Mage deck again and one-shot the first boss but the last 2 bosses each took 2 attempts. Still, not too bad.

Hearthstone - Quarter 1 - Maexxna

The first 2 bosses were easy sauce, Surely the Spider Queen was going to rip me a new one and lay all her eggs in it. In two weeks I'm going to have a big boil burst and millions of little Maexxnas are going to come flooding out. Yeah?

No! Maexxna went down just as easily as the first two bosses.

What deck have I been using this whole time. The low budge mage deck from Icy Veins.

Here's the screen shot just before I take my final turn...

Kel is a little shocked ...

Yay, another legendary, if a little crap ...

I'm not the only one who thinks that card is a little crap ...

Oh well, time for the Druid and Rogue class challenges which I have just unlocked.

Or maybe not. The whipped my ass! Special indeed ...

Hearthstone - Quarter 1 Boss 2

After the easy first boss I thought it was going to get harder.

It didn't ...

Kel, was nonplussed ...

Another slot opened ...

Hearthstone - Quarter 1 Boss 1

This morning I made my first forays into Naxxramas.

I was a little concerned as on Thursday night the lad had been playing it all night and had failed to get one single boss down :(

So in I go to have a pop at Anub'Rekhan.

Well, I'm happy to report that, as you can see below, he didn't last long!

One shotted!

OK, one down two to go ...

Hearthstone - First Look at Solo Adventures

Tonight, with little time on my hands, I logged into Hearthstone for a quick look at Naxxramas.

First off, when you first open up Hearthstone, you now have a new menu item - Solo Adventures.

I can't remember what was there before. Was there anything?

Right, so when we go into Solo Adventures we get another menu. This menu includes the old practice mode as well as the new Adventure.

Selecting the Naxxramas adventure currently only gives us the Normal mode. We haven't unlocked the other modes yet!

So lets select 'Normal' Mode.

We get told that the necropolis is being opened for the first time. How helpful!!!

The first wing is free! Waheey!! So we get to go into the Arachnid quarter for nuffink! Which is a good job as I thought it was 500g per wnig, but it isn't: it's 700g per wing.

Next time: Inside the Arachnid Quarter.

Hearthstone - Curse of Naxxramas Released

Last week I saw an announcement that Naxx was coming on the 22nd July, but then I read deeper and it said "for the Americas" /sadface.

When I got home tonight there was a 93MB (approx) patch to download for HS. My heart skipped a beat. It was not long before it was downloaded but then the game wouldn't progress past the title screen and the desktop app said some people were having trouble accessing the game - I sure was!

Later, after downing the second half of ToT and 3/4 wings of SoO I tried again ... I think the image above says it all ...

crazy game sdtor

In the traditions of The Angry Chicken's crazy games stories here is a pretty good one, or at least a story of good luck.

The daily was Warlock or Shaman so my custom low budget warlock was playing a druid.

I got him down quite low to start with and had high health but then we stalled.

He fended me off and was down to 7 health and had 4-5 big cards on the board but I managed to wipe them all out bar 1 - that must have hurt!! But, then we were back to the game of attrition.

It was well past turn 10 and he'd managed to wear me down and I was low on health but I managed to get him down to 1 health and no minions whilst I had a Knife Jugolo(sic) on the board and an Argent Squire without shield (1/1)and a mortal coil in my hand, and was on 3 mana.

So I mortal coiled my own Argent Squire and got a Doomsayer.

Result: I played the Doomsayer for the last 2 mana which triggered the Juggler which won me the game - I bet he was gutted!

Hearthstone - Curse of Naxxramas Out Next Week ... Maybe

I saw on the battle.net desktop app tonight that the Curse of Naxxramas was out on 22nd July - but then I noticed the small print said "in the Americas"!

Really?

Then why put that on the EU desktop app? Surely you can detect which side of the world we are on Blizz?

Well Blizz, what is it?

Hearthstone - Opening 20 Card Packs

I got my 20 packs either buying them or earning them in arena so tonight I opened them.

Along with a Giant I also got THREE legendaries. Bloodmage Thalanos, Grommash Hellscream (warrior legendary) and The Black Knight!!

One pack I opened I got a legendary, an epic and 2 rares!

Good Times :)

Hearthstone - Frozen Ragnaros

So if you are playing as a mage and your opponent throws down Ragnaros what would you do?

Well, If you have anything with a freeze on it that would be your lifeline, wouldn't it?

Nope, at the end of your turn you get hit in the face for 8 damage by a frozen Ragnaros! Great!

Hearthstone - New Season - NO RECORD FOUND

I logged on tonight and was advised that in June 2014 I attained the Rank of Raid Leader. I already knew that!

Then I was told that the "NO RECORD FOUND" season has begun. LOL!

Anyone else see that?

Hearthstone - Rank 14

Tonight I made my highest rank yet in Hearthstone - rank 14!! Woot! I am going to leave it there until the end of the season and just play casual games tomorrow for the dailies.

This was achieved with the low cost mage deck I mentioned back here.

My gold is approaching 2000 so I will soon be able to buy another 20 packs. I like waiting to 20 and opening them together.