The whirling zap-omatic strikes me as overpowered. It’s a 2 mana card with 3/2 and windfury. Windfury seems like a much better positive than other 3/2 effects, and its low cost means that you can often get it out ahead before your opponent even has a minion to deal with it, giving you at least 6 damage for a turn, more with rockbiter/abusive sergeant/etc. It’s only an uncommon too, so I’m going to craft a couple and integrate them into my more aggro decks.
It’s flashy, to be sure, but if you can deal with undertaker + leper gnome turn 1 (and you really need to be able to these days), you can deal with whirlbot.
I forsee much much fewer low interaction decks surviving. Sadly, Firey war axe will still take this thing out, which means control warrior is probably still going to be a thing…
Anyway, GVG dropping today! Who’s buying 40 packs? =D
Is conceding early in a game a dick move? If I’m playing one of my not great decks and my opponent comes out with stacked cards, is it wrong of me to just concede before the inevitable happens?
Of course not.
Nah. There are people who think so, but they are wrong. No sense wasting time. Just be sure – sometimes the best play is to hope the other guy makes a mistake.
For a lot of players, speed is the preferred way to climb the ladder. Play fast and play lots of games.
For an extreme example: Hunter vs hunter – the player who is ahead at the end of Turn 3 is going to win. Drag it out and hope for the tiny chance of a miracle or concede and play two or three more games in the same amount of time. Take your pick.
Well I ended up getting two of them in my first of the freebie GvG packs, so I’ll give them a run. How do you think they’re best used? I think I’m going to use them in my aggro hunter deck, and probably my bursty shaman deck to be used with bloodlust. I’ve never done a warlock zoo deck, but do they fit with that?
Whirlbot is shaman only, but you probably know that by now. 
I think it’s pretty straightforward, rockbiter, flame tongue, all of your shaman removal and burn (since this is going to be a face deck), maybe spirit wolves to protect your whirlbot. Pray for the dream coin whirlbot whirlbot flametongue GG yo.
More likely you’ll have to finish off with lava burst, crackle, lightning bolt etc. rockbiter sybergise with al’akir and doom hammer so you might consider those. The new gvg minion with windfury seems to synergise well too! Give it a try, can’t hurt. Everyone will be trying crazy decks today.
I just built a pirate rogue deck, should be fun. too bad I can’t get in…
Anyone else pull any good cards? I bought 60 packs (20 gold 40 cash) and pulled Trogzor (!) Flame Leviathan (meh) and Blingtron (ugh). I must have pulled dozens of those darn auto barbers, when I really need an iron sensei for my rogue mech deck!!
Oh, woops. I thought it was a general purpose minion that would see use in a lot of kinds of decks.
I’ve been wanting to try control decks but I don’t have the cards to do it. I’ve really wanted either Ysera or Ragnaros, and while my chance of getting them from decks was low, it was at least on the table. Now it isn’t, and I don’t like any of the GvG legendaries anymore. And it’s going to be hard to craft them unless I start dusting every card I get, since I won’t get GvG legendaries for a while.
I wonder if it’s worth it to do so, to craft one of those legendaries in a month or two. I’m guessing no, but until I do there’s an entire type of deck that I think I’d end up liking the most.
I wouldn’t dust any cards until you know why card you want. If for some reason blizzard nerfs/buffs a card, you can dust the card at full price. So for example, if you have gagetzan or flare, blizz just nerfed those cards, so you can dust them for their full crafting cost. I had a gold flare that I dusted for full value! Nice. 
If you want to just try our control, you can kind of make a budget control deck with paladin. It won’t be super good, but I would be surprised if you can’t at least play it to rank 15 or so.
Is anyone able to log in to the game right now? 
i can 
wow, there are already people with full mech decks. me, i will ration packs and every new card will mean a tweaked deck and will last me many days before i open the next one. with more than 120 cards, this will probably give me enough incremental gain until the next expansion.
Meh. IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION GIMME ALL TEH CARDS NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
can’t log in, at work, sob
I finally got in–looks like you get three free G&G packs to start with, which probably everyone already knew about but me.
Can’t buy any new packs though–store is locked.
I have about 1100 saved up. I had originally started saving for Naxx levels. What do you think, though, better to get 11 G&G packs?
Naxx cards are generally pretty OP and getting them is a certainty. Definitely finish off Naxx before getting GvG packs.
Hoboy.
I may spend money on the game after all… So many weeks to save up the gold…
the single player is fun too. the heroic bosses require some thought.
edit: if you’re going to spend money i think naxx is cheaper than packs. check first.
Be careful buying packs. I had 2100 gold saved up, bought five packs, opened the first one … and it was the old kind. Bah. You have to click on GvG packs first. Oh well, at least I didn’t blow all 2100.
Running into lots of players with major new decks at Rank 12 … freshly down from 10. I’m getting that old feeling that the game isn’t fair when you’re so outcarded. I have often spouted about not needing big cards to climb the ladder. Don’t know if that is true any more or if I just need to readjust yet again.
Getting tired of all the nerfs and there are many more in the near future. Every time you learn the game, they change the rules. Actually, they still haven’t even balanced the original cards; still nerfing them.
The game has lost more luster for me.
Nah, you probably just need to re-adjust. The power level didn’t creep that much, I don’t think, but the way you play is probably a lot more board control than it used to be. I guess it depends on what kind of deck you were playing with before, too.
I’m kind of upset that they nerfed the big combo decks (mostly miracle and freeze mage), but I can see how playing against them were rather non-interactive. Still, the rules change all the time, that’s the point of playing a game where the rules are literally printed every time there are new cards. That’s part of the fun of it, finding out the new interactions and thinking about how to deal with them! Shake up the stale meta a bit.
Naxx you are guaranteed to get certain key cards, like Sludge Belcher, Loatheb, Zombie Chow, Haunted Creeper, and so on. They really open the game up a lot, and you’re guaranteed to get them.
That said, I think it was cheaper to buy Naxx with money and spend the gold on packs, something like that. You get the most cards for your buck.
Yeah, if you’re going to invest in the game, Naxx is definitely the way to go. You can get the same stuff you’d buy with money over time just by playing, but you’ll never get that Naxx stuff. It’ll be a big injection of some pretty great cards so you can build decks now.
I suspect I won’t ever buy packs, and Naxx may be all I invest in the game. If they aren’t greedy with future expansions like Naxx and put them out too often, maybe I’d buy another.
In general, a tip for earning gold is to avoid doing all the 40 gold quests that you can. Every day you get the ability to reroll a quest. Reroll any unavoidable (things like 3 wins, destroy 40 minions, etc) quest, something that you’ll necesarily win just by playing first. Then reroll any 40 gold but avoidable (win as class or class). You can bring current 40 gold quests into tomorrow and use tomorrow’s reroll on them.
Basically, never complete a 40 gold quest unless you have to because the conditions are necessarily going to happen if you play normally, or your questlog is full going into a new day.