doombotmecha

ik this is a bit late but I missed this commentar and it's awesome.

HotS was never meant to be a competitive game, the matches are just too scripted. Also a lot of tactical gameplay options that are in mobas aren't in HotS, specifically to make the game more newbie-accessible. The flip side of this is that it took me up until today to actually find good advice on game flow and team composition, b/c I keep getting "oh there's no meta".

Hearthstone is just too rng-heavy and strategy-light for a competitive game. I mean, people talk about getting mana screwed in other games, but in HS a good chunk of a lot of meta decks is "this card will probably do something good for me, and the other guy probably doesn't have a counter to it". 

The only HS face that I care about is Trump, but I don't even play the game any more. The massive time investment to even get a good budget deck, let alone a meta deck or god forbid, a control deck, is just silly. I could play hearthstone and maybe have fun in six months, or I could load up warframe and have fun right now. I just watch Trump's matches and live vicariously through him. 

I went and watched a bit of grubby's stream, he seems great. I also watched a bit of MF Pallytime (Utube) to get an overview of how a few heroes feel in combat.

I also feel like competitive OW is the same way, despite how popular it is. There REALLY should have been more of a wait between the game launching and esports being a thing on it IMO. Just a few more months before we get to "everyone plays what the pros do despite not having the skills to make it work"

also (this is getting kinda ranty, isn't it), the subreddit (for Hots) was really terribly managed. imo all the hearthstone 2.0 discussion should have had its own flair so I could blacklist it, stuff was taking up most of the front page.

At least League could separate out its forums, so you had a mix of memes and gameplay concerns. blizzard has 3 subforums, one for competitive, one for bug reports, and a "general discussion" aka salt mining.

I'm really saddened by what's happened to SC2. It seems like its scene has dwindled down to a few hyperpros, and then.....nobody else. I want to like the game (i love the setting+characters) but there's so much to learn to even get to a vaguely competent skill level that I just....no way.

@doombotmecha I'm going to tell you now Control is actually straight up aren't viable in Hearthstone anymore. Like it's... not possible to play it without just losing due to the fact that Aggro and Midrange decks are too powerful and impossible for it to control down. Jade decks just have infinite value at least Jade Druid does for sure as they just get free scaling minions with cards and Jade Idol, making it impossible to control them down and further, Pirate Aggro is the most disgusting thing in the universe.

more or less gaining a free 1/1 with charge as it is played from your deck onto the board jsut for playing a pirate is BANANAS. Aggro already has an advantage in Hearthstone due to the fact that you CHOOSE your targets with your minions attacks. As this is the case Aggro already has an edge. They have more tools then ever now to generate free value while control doesn't really get much to help them survive. And, if they tech to beat aggro, they will have a lot of dead cards into the Jade match-up. Basically... control is nigh impossible to pull off these days due to the overwhelming disgusting power of these archetypes.

For SC2, ye RTS is stupid difficult. The main thing though is it never caught on in South Korea. So, while a lot of the pros are from there, very little of the viewer base is. As a result the scene has jsust been dying and it's cause that game has a learning cliff of which your expected to climb. Worse is with the Brood Wars remaster coming out most are jumping back to Starcraft 1. ((and that's weird as heck to say. A game's predecessor is probably going to kill it's comp scene completely.)) but ye, to learn SC2 or... really a lot of RTS you nearly have to dedicate your entire life to it they are just that hard to master and learn.

yeah, I've heard of the horrors of Pirate Warrior. They're literally releasing a card in the new set with the effect "eat a pirate". It didn't help that all the taunt cards bliz releases are either niche, locked to warrior, or trash.

People HOWLED after whispers of the old gods, about "C'thun this" and "Yogg that" but frankly that was the healthiest the game's been in a while, and might be for a while yet. we had a reprieve from secret paladin at last. I remember getting bodied by that deck at rank 20, if the pally curves out then there's just nothing you can do.....

HS just generally has a lot of wonky balance descisions. Purify is literal actual trash, whereas Flamewalker just made mage broken for like 90% of tavern brawls.

what I've heard about high-level starcraft 2 is that one early attack generally decides the game, and brood war wasn't like that as much. Like, you either scout the whatever-whatever timing attack, or it kills your worker line and you lose.

I know, I still liked Oshawott though I would of thought Piplup would of been the best starter for him

What did you think of the flying mechanics in Insurgence?

the flying mechanic works well enough, the soaring is less my forte tbh

I had issues with it, my boyfriend had major issues with it though.

I liked how they did the TMs where there were alternate moves you could use to do them

yeah Hutch he's like the only mage I've got so far, as soon as I can get another I'm ditching him

Sheena also seems to have a slow level-stat rate. Is that just par for the course for fire emblem "big guys?" iirc that's the archetype's "shtick", which is kinda sad given that the armored slow-and-steady advance is kinda fun to work around for me.

The ests are, like, raigh's polar opposite though. despite both being three stars, they deal incredible damage, and using the same healer on all my squads means that Lissa is high-level-enough to heal any damage they take, meaning that as long as they don't get downed in one turn, I can make them more or less invincible. On the other hand, they're so squishy that they can only engage foes one-at-time.

I've decided to name them est. (established) and EST (eastern standard time).

also, i'm figuring that the most efficient way to summon is 20 orbs at a time, so I'll pull when I get another twenty.

oh right, I forgot to ask: there's no way to "increase" the number of stars on a character, is there? given that random loot drops are the name of the game, I wouldn't think so, Female Corrin is listed on the wiki as only being available at 3-4* while having an ability that unlocks at five.

Allies->Advanced Growth->Unlock Potential to imcrease your units' next star. You need lots of badges from the training tower, hero feathers from the arena, and the unit must be at level 20+. 

just wait till it evolves. you have true evil in yours hands there. use it. embrace it

Thing is Togekiss is useless without certain moves. Which it only gets by move relearner. And Togetic's only good move by lvl up is Ancient Power. So, till he defeats Aya and enables Strength, Togekiss will be useless...

On the bright side, by the time I can actually use Togekiss, Swoobat will likely be so obselete that I'll need a new flyer anyway.

Republicans don't care about other people, just the ones closest to themselves and no further.

Kinda surprised it's only 25% and spaced out over a decade. Better than I expected, tbh.

But caps on kids? That's absolutely where I draw the line.

it's literally a glorified tax cut. In a very literal, 100% serious way, it's totally disgusting.

Is it wrong that I full-heartedly expected her drifblim to trip you up from the get-go? Unburden is a bit tricky to work around that early in the game, after all. In any case, congratz on waking Goldenleaf up from its vicious fever dream!

Wait, if Shadow Ball is given out here, then what's in...

No, not at all! IMO that's the strongest lead yet! Although I'm not sure if it has Unburden or Flare Boost. I...actually made a thread asking for suggestions on what to do, before beating her before it could get any replies. Turns out the trick is weakening Drifblim by soft-resetting until it misses hypnosis, then making it whiff hypnosis against my flasher Prankster Volbeat with accuracy/field drops, then lucking into it continuing to fail to sleep me until it died to its own burn.......

After that, Blessed Mimikyu was a terror, but the rest of her mons were much more manageable. I sacrificed swampert (rare candy trick) to Mimi in order to have my Lycanroc come in and sweep two more mons with Thrash, after which I the field got reset by Rotom and I got really lucky because I got several Ominous Wind procs on Xatu, so it swept Rotom and Dusclops while heavily damaging Chandelure, after which Lycanroc was able to easily finish it off.

Now to reap the sweet, sweet rewards......I really appreciate the free Nasty Plot on that Misdreavus, and SBall really opens up a new world of coverage. I'm not sure exactly what I'll use it on, but I may give up Medicham for the time being, and sub Xatu out for Gothitelle. The Bird's gotta fall off sometime, right?

Also sidenote but I think main games are forever ruined for me. Geara whipped out friggin' Giratina in a double battle and I just kinda powered through it. I still can't believe that's a thing that happened.

"then what's in......."

>_> 

"Also sidenote but I think main games are forever ruined for me."

Yeah, Rejuvenation does that.

between Awakening and Conquest there's no compairing difficulty in my expirience, my advice is to simply expect everything

No, actually, uh, I'm piggy-backing off another person's FIRST account, and also, episode 2 won't ever be available for free. All episode after 1 will be permanently first-only, presumably to pay for the much larger budget compared to rwby and especially RvB.

ah, well then that kinda sucks. guess I might use some cash to get a first acc somewhere this year then

Unless the story going forward takes a deep dive I'd say go for it. The animation and characters are all top-notch imo. 

Good stuff, Valkyr is way cool to rip enemies to shreds with.

yeah, my favorite thing to do is take D. Nikana, head into a survival, and then warcry into the block combo and just slaughter everything I touch. She was also the frame that got me through most of the starchart, including Second Dream and The War Within. I'm also gonna start to forma Zarr, potato Jat Kittag, and build Kohmak/Twin Kohmak so she has a full loadout to play with.

Ash P was a real oddity, I just randomly got all the parts at once. I would've sold him for ducats, but i only sell on days that baro brings something good. Even funnier, I only got ash a week ago, and he isn't my favorite either, so he's not even maxed yet!

My next prime after these two is probably gonna be Nekros, so I finally can potato him and fit on Equilibrium.