Oh, I already bought it back in july lol. I should be able to play at 9 pm tonight when it's released

Not reading it all as there are a little bits of spoilage in there I don't want, but saw this:


""I don’t know how Final Fantasy XV will be remembered when held up to the rest of the Final Fantasy pantheon. But I do know that it’s got everything I want from a Final Fantasy game. I know that it’ll be yet another snapshot in a life filled with Final Fantasy. Another grand adventure, another gang of worthy heroes; another tale of crystals and magic and betrayal and love, all beautiful melodies and lush scenery and the finely honed complexity of carefully choreographed combat. Onward to secrets beyond the horizon, and don’t forget the Phoenix Down. If that’s not Final Fantasy, I don’t know what is.""

Well, got a few hours in tonight. It's pretty nice so far. I'm still not a fan of the next gen fighting and only controlling one person. But that's my only complaint so far. The story is going along fine, there's some immersion that is nice. The gameplay is fun. It's got traces from other FF games. Can get sound tracks for your radio from the old games.

The leveling is nice, the abilities and techs seem cool. I haven't been restricted on exploring my playground which has some level 30+ stuff in it so if I wanted to go crazy grinding I could.

So.. so far I'm rdy for more. Already better than 13 was. Although 13 did have more turn based combat I think. ?

No, haven't seen any technical issues.

oh ya haha. So far it's really good. I don't feel the pull to like stay up all night playing and I do not prefer the combat system. But, the story is nice, the game play is fun and immersive. It feels decent. I like it more than FF13 for sure. We'll see how it stands up to the others.

Just ended 7-3.

Yeah, I can certainly elaborate.

If you look at the picture, you will notice my health is at 1. It was his turn (you can see on the left side what actions were last taken, he attacked me, he cast a spell on me, he played a minion) ... then he conceded!

He was at low health, so he thought that I was going to win on my turn, however, if he would have ended his turn, I would have taken 1 point of fatigue damage on my turn and died. (Since my draw pile was empty.)

Sorry, I thought it would be fun as a "wait for it" type post. You know, like when you look at those weird photos and suddenly see the creepy guy in the background lol

ya, maybe haha, ignorance is bliss!

I was going to friend him and point it out, but eh... lol

I've done that, where I've conceded or made a huge misplay and immediately regretted it. Or, started attacking minions instead of face, only to realize I had lethal and blew it lol.

Yup. I always check for lethal first now. But I still make plenty of misplays. I miscounted my mana needed last night. I was in a desperate position, but thought I had enough to use hero power plus a couple spells. I used my power then realized I was only at 8 or 9 mana. So my plan failed. I had a cabalist tome in hand which was my backup plan. I cast it just to see what I got. Yup, ice block was there :(

Excited for the last wing to be released. I've got all the others done and heroic completed, ready to get that new card back and last chunk of cards.

Also, I'm 6 wins from golden mage, so I should get that today.

I did it! http://imgur.com/a/wW1rZ

Thanks! I'm working on hunter or druid now probably. Depends which deck looks fun after this last wing gets released. I'm at 371 for druid and like 420 for hunter. I really want to get to 1-5 rank tho.

That Pantry Spider looks fun in evolve shammy. Both spiders have a 3 cost, so evolving them is great!

Curator is def a good card. draw 2-3 cards and a 4/6 taunt?

I'm eager for Medivh! And the dragon discover girl and book wyrm will be good dragon additions

Also, just noticed, you can rewatch games that you spectated.

Yeah, I need to look at my capabilities a little more, I could have saved that polymorph boar for my guy for an extra 4 damage... but then, I wanted that 6 butt to turn into 2 so it would absorb less from the flamewalker, so I think maybe I was still right. That equated to 4 dmg.

Also, if you go here: https://hsreplay.net/

You can then search for people. So like, Search Nardraug#1711

Shows all the matches that are recorded and how long they took and what turn they went to... pretty sweet stuff!

Today was a good day for packs!

http://imgur.com/a/0BdLe

I had a regular Rag and Alex prior to opening 50 packs...

So yeah, I opened 6 leggies out of 54 packs, Rag, golden Rag, Alex, golden Alex, Lord Jarax, and Prophet Velen... just wow

I dusted the normals, those are 2 I'm REALLY happy to have in gold. I need Sylvannas gold next. I had about 6k dust after and could have got her... but crafting golds is ugggg. I've done Ysera and Confessor... so spendy.

I've got just about enough to do either golden N'Zoth or 2 golden Cabilist's Tomes. Hard decision... or use to make a golden leggie that you can't open (like the new one that summons a 1/1 of a guy from your deck)

Ya, exactly, any deathrattle deck loves Barnes (and yeah him). Recasting with Rogue tricks is fun, too. (either shadowcaster or pulling him back).

Trying the new Arcane Giant in my tempo mage deck and it's working pretty well so far

PS, I just survived 3 Yogg's being used against me. I dropped to 1 health and he had a couple mage secrets up, but one wasn't ice block.... insane game

https://hsreplay.net/replay/J7x4Tp7DQYmFeqkF4XEfiJ

Oh, and I HAD ice block, but he Flared off the Yogg LOL, so wow

Oh, I used Anyfin pretty successfully a while back, was brutal One hit kill type thing. (just using the haste and buff murlocs) But now that "standard" is a thing, it banned out some of the needed ones.

https://hsreplay.net/replay/D37JSrrHvxsauzPzhTJrzA

Yogg-Saron!!! holy cow that RNG

Tyrion is so good and not leaving standard as far as I know (assuming that core basis set always stays).

Ya I finally crafted Cairne myself. Frustrating tho, because I made a new account so I could get the shaman hero and I happened to get a Cairne on that account =\

I just went through and decrafted a ton of Wild cards. I kept ones I'd use if I ever played Wild, but I decrafted a bunch of legends, epics and gold epics, gold rares. There's a golden iron juggernaut I'm debating on, but I liked that card... 1600 dust tho gives me 2 gold rares or a gold epic, so tempting... My mage deck is almost all gold, just need 6 more golden epics =o

So battle.net added streaming... guess I'll try that. my laptop has it built in, but for some reason it stopped connecting with nvidia.

Finally!!

http://i.imgur.com/LR6IKy9.jpg

I need to find my old post from last August-ish that shared my levels of each class and wins. Shaman was the last one, followed by warlock.

I really don't like shaman lol

For the record, my wins are sitting at:

Warrior - 288
Shaman - 169
Rogue - 175
Paladin - 238
Hunter - 373
Druid - 349
Warlock - 159
Mage - 239
Priest - 500+ (who knows)

Says I have 3266 total wins... but I don't know all what is added up to get that. If only the class wins, then that leaves 1,276 wins for Priest, and I did think it might be 1000, so what's another 276 lol.

Still only an 11 win arena run (can't get that 12 cap) with 1643 total wins in arena.

I saw you at rank 12 or 13. That's great man! It takes some good effort to get there. I have a struggle to get too much lower (or higher depending).

Yeah for sure. Like always be prepared for a brawl. If you control the board, don't flood it. The best T8 play can sometimes be to just attack, use power, pass. I miss Loatheb for that very thing. Was great to throw him out and know they can't flame strike next turn.

I realized what my most missed card is when I played priest finally... Light bomb... Nothing like it

Hopefully it is, it's 66% off right now for the full package. maybe it'll be same or cheaper for Christmas. It is worth every penny. I'm just dying to get off work and go play!

And I hear ya, far too often I pick up a game because it's on sale, but then never make time to play it. Or I buy it full price and never play it lol. I'm pretty bad about it, honestly. I was nervous I'd do the same here, but watching the 8.5 minute video on steam sold me so hard. (Watch that if you haven't, it talks about some of the aspects of gameplay and you'll be drooling after).

It's definitely an action game, not an RPG game, but that's totally fine by me, I don't have much time for RPGs anymore... I can't dedicate enough time to them.

I played another 5 hours last night..... I'm starting to get into the power struggles of the orcs with each other. I had a quest which basically is a lead in to me flexing my influence. The quest involved a scrawny whiny orc working with me. I basically killed a captain and this little guy cut his ear off and took credit for the kill so he'd be captain. Then I killed an elite captain for him and finally a Warchief. I had not previously faced a warchief. I had to infiltrate his fortress first (not interior) and kill a bunch of guys to get his attention. So now, this scrawny orc is the new warchief, but he supposedly will follow my commands... I know at some point (probably now that I did this little intro into it) I can mindmeld with orcs to dominate their mind and make them my puppet. Then I think I can manipulate the power struggles to get them to rise to higher ranks as my puppet. We'll see!

My combat skills are definitely on the rise, I can face down a hundred melee grunts. I still die to javelin throwers (pesky bastards) and captains are still hard, especially with a swarm of enemies or other captains. This one captain was particularly hard to kill, he had loaded armor on, huge shield and unblockable spear attacks. He slashed me and threw me around for half my health... lot of dodging. But he was also a learner. The same tactic didn't work more than once on him. He was immune to ranged attacks. I couldn't jump/dodge over the top of him to get him from behind easier.. He called reinforcements often. The only way I finally won after running away ragged was to keep sprinting away, climbing this platform and then sneak kill his allies to get him alone before more showed up. Even 1v1 he was super hard to fight since he blocked any head on attack.

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I finally killed this other bastard that rose all way up the ranks and kept surviving encounters with me which earned him promotions. He killed me as a grunt a long time ago which promoted him to captain. Then every time I faced him he was with 3 other captains and I couldn't win. He finally got to a high power that he was strong 1v1, he had this bloody wicked long knife that dug into me. But I got him last night! He was doing a recruitment mission to get orcs to join him. I snuck in to disrupt him. Well, I shot down a nest of angry hornet things and he happened to be afraid of them, so he ran for it and the recruits were like, I'm not going to follow that guy! So success there, plus I left the outpost he was in and chased him as he fled. I caught up to him and since he was in a fleeing state, I was able to land a 1 hit KO on him.

The little personality quirks are really cool. Some guys are scared of beasts, some get enraged by you hurting their guards, each captain has different strengths and weaknesses. Also, the dialogue is fun. One captain I kept facing was a cannibal and he kept making eating jokes. I'm excited to start getting more into the power struggles and trying to get a foothold against these warchiefs.

Game is so fun! A solid 9+ hours played now and I'm still so ready to play more!

Nice! You also get rewarded at end of the month for your ladder progress (it marks your best spot, not current at end of month). Ladder is weird because it can be challenging at all points of it. Since someone can be legendary rank and then get pushed backwards at end of month, maybe then they don't play for a few weeks after... I've certainly lost at rank 20. There's also different deck styles that settle at different parts of the ladder. For instance, face-hunter or other aggro deck is best for getting through 20-10 I think.

I think my best is 6 or 7, I have a hard time getting under 10. When I play a consistent deck, I have the best results. Like I went from 15-10 in one day of druid play, but soon as I start switching to warrior and priest, I just fall off. Not to say those decks are bad, but I think you gotta be in the groove lol

Also, there's definitely the meta to build around. There's a LOT of secret paladin, mech mage, flamewaker mage, freeze mage, dragon priest, control warrior, hand-lock (warlock), oil rogue, totem shammy, and some others... there's always going to be FOTM (flavor of the month) decks to make sure you are ready for.

Thanks.

So, I've been trying with other classes, because really the only reward is XP for the class and a win towards any quest or for the 3 wins for 10 g. So, I have druid/mage/priest at lvl 60 so figured I'd try rogue or paladin... well argg, they are so not as good as priest or mage or druid! I didn't even try warlock, shaman, or hunter. They don't have expensive spells.

Priest is the best, mind control their best minion and then get a deathwing. But ya, my win rate went from like 90+% to like <50% trying paladin which is definitely not a bad looking option. But Priest/mage/druid are where it's at on this one.