A couple things I want to mention that I have not seen brought up here (but I easily could have missed it/them) and some that have. Do I think Blitzchung is a hero and what he did was fantastic. I do - very much. But, he also has said he KNEW he was going to get banned. He knew it was against the rules (so the whole, it wasn't against the rules argument is invalid). The casters also knew what they were doing. That makes their action that much more noble.
Should Blizz have done what they did. Absolutely. E sports is not a forum for politics. As noble as their actions was, it is still politics. I don't play HS for politics. When streamers start bringing it up, I change. Blizz is also accountable to shareholders. Some of these shareholders are average people saving for their retirement. To punish them for someone else actions (while we happen to see is noble) would not be appropriate for Blizz.
And the big point I want to bring up. First, remember we get after Blizz all the time for their lack of communication and lack of explanation when they do communicate. However, this time, they communicated quickly AND loudly AND clearly. Did the we like what they said No. BUT the fact is, we are talking bout it. The WORLD is talking about it. The media is picking it up. The more mainstream media is picking it up. If Blizz just did what Blizz usually does would their be this much attention and talking about it? I don't think so.
I think that Blizz knows they are doing on the media front. I think Blizz what is hard place. I think they used their media power is such a way that China could not make repercussions about it. Yea, at the same time, they have exploded this story world wide. Sure, Reddit was all over this. But I don't think it would have been picked up and carried like it has.
Since Blizz has made their very public statement, China can't ignore it. They can't wipe it under the proverbial carpet. Anyone who follows Blizzard but not HS will now hear bout this.
This, I feel, was a very strategic move by Blizzard. This very forum is helping to prove that. Be as pissed as you want at Blizzard, but the fact is - their actions have done more for Hong Kong than doing nothing at all.
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I think Blizz's move was genius. I think Blizz coming out like this has done more to SUPPORT Hong Kong than if they had done their usual and just been quiet. This story is now world wide and would not have been if BLIZZ had remaind quiet on it. China can no longer ignore this story.
You are only emphasising the importance of politics in non-political forms of media. Blizzard gets direct monetary support of their decisions from people who are and aren't interested in politics, just as people in China are impacted by human rights violations whether or not they care about politics. It's not like Blizzard hushed someone because they said anything at all relating to politics. They did it solely because China lines their pockets.
This deck seems too much leaning on a control strategy begging the question: Why not just run Dr. Boom? Unless quest warrior is built much more aggressively, I can't see it being able to outmaneuver any other warrior deck or even something like conjurer mage or quest shaman.
It's not that I don't like it, I just wasn't expecting it to be so simple, especially since I saw at least one designer saying that the rogue quest was their favorite. Really? This is more interesting than the priest or druid quest?
This is actually pretty good for waiting to clear an aggro board. If you have something like mass hysteria on 5, this makes your opponent want to wait and play even more minions or lose out on mana efficiency.
Every now and then I play big priest but I usually end up putting a spin on it like playing spell synergies or zerek. I think the deck actually got a lot more fun to play (and frustrating to face) once vargoth came out. It's just one of those decks that feel powerful even if it's winrate doesn't reflect it. It's very polarizing but ultimately it's like a good "timmy" deck, something that doesn't come up very often. It's like how I enjoyed playing conjurer mage early in RoS. At first you feel like "wow, it feels so strong doing these powerful plays." But it quickly gets pretty repetitive.
This card would normally be pretty good with psychopomp but since you lose out on the extra reborn value it's one of the worse pulls and probably warrants putting them in different decks. And psychopomp looks like the reason to play priest, so I don't think this will see play.
Priest one looks too boring to me. I like the quest but the reward doesn't seem fitting as it's already on so many cards. I think the priest quest will be "play 5 of your opponent's cards. Reward: (passive) cards that didn't start in your deck cost 3 less"
You are only emphasising the importance of politics in non-political forms of media. Blizzard gets direct monetary support of their decisions from people who are and aren't interested in politics, just as people in China are impacted by human rights violations whether or not they care about politics. It's not like Blizzard hushed someone because they said anything at all relating to politics. They did it solely because China lines their pockets.
This deck seems too much leaning on a control strategy begging the question: Why not just run Dr. Boom? Unless quest warrior is built much more aggressively, I can't see it being able to outmaneuver any other warrior deck or even something like conjurer mage or quest shaman.
It's not that I don't like it, I just wasn't expecting it to be so simple, especially since I saw at least one designer saying that the rogue quest was their favorite. Really? This is more interesting than the priest or druid quest?
If you hit the second half of a reborn minion with Wretched Reclaimer it gets reborn back. A very good combo with Grandmummy.
This is actually pretty good for waiting to clear an aggro board. If you have something like mass hysteria on 5, this makes your opponent want to wait and play even more minions or lose out on mana efficiency.
Every now and then I play big priest but I usually end up putting a spin on it like playing spell synergies or zerek. I think the deck actually got a lot more fun to play (and frustrating to face) once vargoth came out. It's just one of those decks that feel powerful even if it's winrate doesn't reflect it. It's very polarizing but ultimately it's like a good "timmy" deck, something that doesn't come up very often. It's like how I enjoyed playing conjurer mage early in RoS. At first you feel like "wow, it feels so strong doing these powerful plays." But it quickly gets pretty repetitive.
Would there have been anything wrong with making this a 2/3? Considering vicious scalehide has rush and beast tag. 2/2 is very poor.
I wonder if the hunter quest is to summon rush minions. They've gotten plenty of rush synergy since witchwood.
I've been playing a lot of control shaman lately so I can't wait for Plague of Murlocs!
This card would normally be pretty good with psychopomp but since you lose out on the extra reborn value it's one of the worse pulls and probably warrants putting them in different decks. And psychopomp looks like the reason to play priest, so I don't think this will see play.
My guess for Warrior is "The Super Weapon: Play 4 weapons. Reward: 'Fire away.' 2 mana deal 5 damage randomly split among all enemies."
Priest one looks too boring to me. I like the quest but the reward doesn't seem fitting as it's already on so many cards. I think the priest quest will be "play 5 of your opponent's cards. Reward: (passive) cards that didn't start in your deck cost 3 less"
Swapped out flying machine for stonehill defender. Working out really well so far.