#391 - The Angry Chicken: “The Archetypes of Darkmoon Faire”
11/11/2020
• Garrett • Jocelyn
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Intro
Welcome to The Angry Chicken!
Top of the Show Topic:
Garrett Note
QOL Improvement - Haven’t seen this noted anywhere, but when I went AFK, the client didn’t force me to close, there was a little offline icon in the bottom right I could click to reconnect to Hearthstone servers instead of relaunching completely
Tavern Pass - Levels increase in XP requirement. This is a HUGE fail in my book. Even with the 10% boost and high weekly quest XP, the last levels will be a grind.
Achievements - Name pops up in game, easily found in journal. Have to be clicked on to claim achievement points? That’s weird. Some achievements are retroactive like Standard/Wild wins with a hero. Some aren’t, like play 5 Windfury minions/come in first with a certain BG hero. Wish there were some more navigation/sorting tools. I have 49/50 progress on Top 4 with unique BG heroes, it would be nice if it was easy to see what was missing.
- There is a known issue that sometimes causes Collection Achievements to appear to have incorrect progress—this will be fixed in an upcoming patch. When that happens, Collection Achievements will update to the correct progress, but no Achievements will be taken away.
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Darkmoon Set Overview
Demon Hunter
What’s the same?
Lifesteal, Card Draw, Weapons, Demons.
What’s new?
“If you play this turn”
Lifesteal going face: Facesteal?
Druid
What’s the same?
Not much. No new ramp (thankfully). One new Beast, but it starts at 7 and already has Rush.
What’s new? Eclipses
Overall some pretty straight-forward cards.
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Hunter
What’s the same?
What’s different?
Charge-ish
Secret Hunter
Return of Deathrattle Hunter?
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Mage
What’s the same?
Random bullshit LUL
What’s new?
Secret Mage
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Paladin
What’s the same?
Pure
Murloc Pally getting an important tutor |
What’s new?
The return of Dude Pally?
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Priest
What’s the same?
Cheating at Hearthstone
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Rogue
What’s the same?
Stealth
Combo Shenanigans
What’s new?
Deck manipulation
Still Standard legal
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Shaman
What’s the same?
Totem!
Control
Highlander Control deck runs Sphere a Sapience |
Overall Shaman cards are kind of all over the place. No super obvious themes.
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Warlock
What’s the same? Zoo
What’s new?
General Demon synergy
Also WTF
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Warrior
What’s the same? Not much.
What’s new? Ringmaster Warrior
Also
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Battlegrounds
What the F happened while Garrett was away?
Heroes
- Queen Wagtoggle is our latest broken hero with an Average Placement approaching where Ragnaros was pre-nerf.
- Galakrond is in 2nd.
- Elise Starseeker in 3rd.
- George the Fallen climbing (13th at the time of writing this)
Comps
- Dragons on top
- Big Demons VERY close behind
- Beasts, Elementals, Murlocs and so on in close step descending.
Another new Hero!
- Silas Darkmoon is LIVE RIGHT NOW!
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Outro
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