Time is running out to purchase the Gladiator Valeera skin from the Book of Heroes adventure! The new Rogue skin released last week alongside the new adventure chapter and features our favourite Rogue in World of Warcraft's Tier 2 Rogue armor - Bloodfang.
You can purchase this skin through March 8, so if you were interested in it and have not made the purchase yet, your window to do so is ending soon! The shop bundle costs $9.99 and comes with the hero skin, Gladiator Valeera, and 5 Rogue packs which contain Rogue cards from the set of Standard expansions.
Did you pick up Gladiator Valeera? Let us know your thoughts on the new skin in the comments below.
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Has there been a discussion on the Maiev Shadowsong bug? Regis experienced it opening some of his packs (first minute of the video):
I really wanted this one, but 10 bucks is way too steep for me. Had the packs been something else, perhaps. But rogue packs? I do find myself playing lots of rogue myself, but I prefer a more well rounded collection.
You could keep them unopened and get FIB Rogue cards once the expansion drops, treating them as FIB packs basically. Not sure if the duplicate rule works on class packs, but if we would assume yes, then you wouldn't even get Commons, Rares and Epics you already have from other Standard sets, so they would be, for the most part, FIB packs in that sense. And then you could open your actual FIB packs, which would then not give you the FIB Rogue cards you already got :)
Thats what I did, just saving the packs
I did buy it because of Tier 2 armor is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Sitting on the packs, like the last three BoH chapter rewards before (not bundles) because what good would they do before expansion? Open rotating cards? Classic cards leaving? Bah! I wait. It's killing me to wait, but I wait.
I have kept all the Adventure packs, to be open after the Forged launch.
I did buy the skin and I'm very happy with it. The art seems to split the community, people either find it awful or great. I count myself among the latter ones, it's only the second skin I ever bought (the other one being Medivh). The voicelines are pretty cool and I have yet to lose a game with Odd Rogue since I got Gladiator Valeera.
Thanks to the current influx of Rogue decks with no weaknesses I am forever spiteful towards this portrait
Also Golden Valeera is better anyways
There, there. I'm sure you'll feel better after rotation. It's not so far away!
oh absolutely, I'M very much looking forward to this rotation. Like, I've had my doubts before, but seeing how they are pretty determined to remove the absurd amount of burst damage and card generation in the game I am vvery hopeful that this might just shape up to be one of the better Hearthstone metas (not including any balance changes that might be necessary down the line).
"No weaknesses" is a bit of a stretch, but whatever. If it makes you feel any better about the class, I just spent ages fulfilling the dream of shooting 13 canons in 1 turn with a deck that uses Togwaggle's Scheme on Patches the Pirate (yes, I wanted to draw Patches!), then with 9 mana you:
It was like a beautiful broadside from Cap'n Valeera's ship. We had to sail through some choppy waters to get there, but we proudly flew the flag for honourable rogues everywhere while we did it.
Oh, also, Gladiator Valeera's wow emote is... beautiful!
Whirlkick Rogue literally has no weaknesses. It never runs out of ressources, has burst, has pressure and you need be constantly on guard to deal with Edwin/Adventurer. That deck is disgustingly op.
Aggro Rogue just has way too much burst, but it's occasionally beatable (but if it gets a good start you can do fuckall to stop it).
Also, way ahead of ya, I pulled off full Cannon combo back in Rumble in Standard using Kingsbane + Dread Corsairs and smol pirates to double Cannon Barrage in one turn with Prep.
Didn't eeven win the game, but it was cool
Whirlkick has plenty of weaknesses. Doesn't handle Token Druid well, Warriors can be a pain, Paladins hold their own equally, it may fall to either Demon Hunter, Mage can do a similar amount of burst, and a good Priest/Warlock isn't in a bad spot either. It's just well rounded enough that flawless piloting can match most decks, and sometimes runs away through great RNG if opponents got no answer. But that's Darkmoon meta in a nutshell for many archetypes.
I'm not new to broadside decks myself, I even crafted double golden
back in Rumble to show my devotion to it (I mean look at it, it's easily one of the best animations in the game), but I've only just got around to the full Patches variant. It always seemed like the purest way to do it, though in practice it was almost certainly the least effective.
I feel you on not even winning the game. I did 33 damage with that combo and still the priest lived on 4. Thankfully Yogg was feeling merciful (for the first time all day!) and cast Swipe to save me from a rather embarrassing loss.
Bro, Even Cannon Rogue was my favourite thing during the late days of RUmble (alongside Quest Discolock) and it was the only deck that actually made me want Genn/Baku to stick around.
The pure orgasmic joy of getting a decent board of pirates to live and then prepping out Barrage....my god, those were the days. I'm actually pretty adamant that Rumble was the most fun meta we've ever had, just because of how every class had something really broken they could abuse in just about every deck to even out the playing field.
It seems we are of equal minds (at least with Even Cannon Rogue... I've never gotten on well with Discolock, though I suppose High Priestess Jeklik was the card that came closest to making me enjoy it). Truth be told I have a soft spot for TGT as well as Rumble, again largely because of Pirate Rogue. Skycap'n Kragg charrrrrging in is always satisfying!
The new Fogsail Freebooter should be a good news for Even Rogue in Wild, since it's the one deck you absolutely always have a weapon in.
the problem for even Rogue was always that it was just way too fair compared to all the other hero power decks. It was basically the single well designed Baku/Genn deck because it actually enabled a new playstyle instead of being just a straight up superior version of an already existing tempo deck (well, I guess aside from Odd Mage I guess).
It's just kind of depressing when your biggest claim to fame is "behold, I am guaranteed a weapon at turn 1 that allows me to buff it by a whopping +1 attack on turn 2, or even, dare I dream, PLAY A 3/3."
Meanwhile Odd Paladin has a full board by turn 3 and threatens lethal by 4.
Odd mage was basically just a variation of Mage though, because once you slammed Frost Lich Jainna it didn't really matter what your cards were so much.
yeah, but it included a specific set of hero power synergy cards which made it somewhat unique.
As someone who played mostly Token Druid last month, I can assure you that Aggro Rogue is very beatable.
However, I’m someone who’s playing mostly no Hearthstone this month, and I blame that on how boring the current builds of Token Druid are.