#358 - The Angry Chicken: “The Themes of Outland” w/ RegisKillbin
03/25/2020
• Garrett • Jocelyn
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Intro: Welcome to The Angry Chicken!
Esports results spoilers for those who care...
Congrats to Blyzes on 2 Masters Tour Victories in a Row!
And congrats to the esports team on the event which had anything but an easy time with COVID-19.
346 players from 43 countries played - InvenGlobal
Top of the Show Topic: GIVEAWAY!
Blizzard gave us seven (7) Ashes of Outland Standard Pre-Purchase Bundles to give away! Find all the details and enter here: https://gleam.io/1vjVs/ashes-of-outland-prepurchase-bundle-giveaway. Closes Monday, March 30th, 2020 at midnight EDT!
Free Decks for New and Returning Players
Details of decks available to new and returning players have been posted on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/fo9coo/free_deck_for_new_and_returning_players/
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- Jory Purvis
- Joel Leagans
- Andrew Baranyai
Ashes of Outland
HAND BEAST BUFFING HUNTER
Building on Scavenger’s Ingenuity from last week.
Prime version is a 4/4 Rush that Battlecry summons 3 copies of itself. | From last week |
NO-MINION MAGE
PALADIN
Alex Dawson fielded a spotlight on the Libram-theme coming to Paladin this week. Librams caught my eye at the summit and I really enjoyed my time playing a Libram deck.
CHARGE RETURNS
TECH/NOTABLE ONE OFFS
- Tech cards - Waste Warden (side note, does no type count as a type?)
IF WE HAVE TIME TO HIGHLIGHT
- A lot of Taunt play in Druid (ties in with Msshi’fn Prime from last week)
- Secret Rogue: Shadowjeweler Hanar
- Shaman getting more Evolve effects.
- Boggspine Knuckles, Bogstrok Clacker
- Warlock: Hand of Gul’dan + Nightshade Matron (which wouldn’t be a bad demon to get back from Ebonlocke)
- Also the Dark Portal looks awesome for Handlock (even without Mountain Giant).
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Year of the Phoenix
Priest Changes
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23319441/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-phoenix
Basic and Classic changes are coming to Priest March 26th (next Thursday)
Notes from last week for reference
- Bringing it in line with class identity, want to control, buff and heal while also moving away from face damage and DS/IF default deck
- HOF
- Cleric, Divine Spirit
- It was time
- Holy Fire, Prophet Velen, Shadowform, Soulpriest
- No more face damage, they’re moving away from this playstyle
- New Cards
- 6 new cards coming into Priest
- Natalie Seline, SW: Ruin, Kul Tiran Chaplain, Power Infusion, Psychic Conj, Scarlet Subjugator
- Buff - Power Infusion
- Removal - Selene (single target), Ruin (board clear)
- Balance Changes
- More damage, but can’t go face
- Lower mana cost in some cases
- Nerfs
- PW: Shield, arguably Holy Nova (can’t go face)?
- Each expansion should have it’s own playstyle/win condition but the base cards will be there because of classic/basic changes
We have dates!
Mar26:
- Priest Rework
- Hall of Fame - Remember to craft the cards if you somehow don’t have them!
- Illidan in Battlegrounds
- New/Returning Player Free Decks
- Returning Player Missions
Apr1:
- Ranked Revamp
Apr2:
- Demon Hunter Prologue
Apr7:
- Rotation
- Demon Hunter Unlocked
- Ashes of Outland Unlocked
Emails
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ToadOgre
In reviewing the Priest rework, do you think is it enough to take the class out of its historically weak position? If not, what might make it so? I think at the root of Priest’s problem is its weak hero power. I’d like to see Hearthstone take Priest’s hero power cost to 1. (Thank you, Demon Hunters!) That change alone could give Priest more flexibility and viability. What are your thoughts? (In case it is not obvious, I am a long time Priest player and I am not impressed with the changes!)
Byniar
I have a BG specific question: How do you make Murlocs work? My MMR bounces between about 5-5.5K and my best results normally come when I get a good juggler demon build or Cobalt/mechs, occasionally beasts (but not much recently). Whenever I get offered lots of early murlocs and take them I never seem to be able to transition through the mid game. The cold light seers, toxfin and the discover a murloc dude are never offered and I die in a ditch. What am I doing wrong, should I be leveling more quickly, or more slowly? I’d love to know what murloc strategies people find work for them.
Outro
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