NeXus LAN 24 was fantastic!!! We will miss seeing everyone, but hope to see some of you at other LAN's down the line. Thank you everyone for years of support and fun!!!!
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Will have @ mini tomorrow, I dug through my box of backup equipment. All of the stuff below were literally just sitting in a box in my closet, figured I'd clean it out.
Everything is clean, and then cleaned again with alcohol. Almost all barely used/exclusive LAN party hardware.
------- Not holding on to the stuff, only selling them at the mini, no IOU's cuz they're weird.
It was a dedicated LAN keyboard that I used for maybe 3 months at LANs before I got my laptop. It's really nice, and I just removed the keys and cleaned with alcohol.. not that it needed it. It also has only been used ONCE in the past year. Only reason I'm getting rid of it.. is because I have another identical keyboard that's only slightly more used. If I still used the other I have as my primary keyboard there's no way I'd get rid of it. As it stands my daughter complained about the clickyness of my keyboard when I'm working late at night.. so I had to move to something more quiet.
There have been passionate discussions about this game from all angles.
Mostly we were looking for feedback on the actual tournament rules because we want people to be able to watch, we just don't want coaching or spoiling of decks/playstyles. There are people who will take this game very seriously win or lose.
There will be people who play as something to do. There will be people that play in this tournament with a little bit of exposure to it that may or may not have bought packs. There will be people who play in this tournament that have spent cash and played quite a bit but don't give a crap when they lose (this is my bracket). There will be people who have played quite a bit, spent cash, and treat the games like they're life and death and will rage when they lose.
I personally have spent money on hearthstone, but Saturday was also by no means my first rodeo. I've been playing since January and have only ever played two classes beyond level 10. All of my games have been played against human opponents (I've never played computer outside of the tutorial).
From the start this was going to be a BYOD tournament, my reccomendation is burn through hearthstone dalies and earn some packs if you don't want to drop $20 or so. The goal of this thread mostly was to make people aware of the types of rules we're considering for the tournament and get feedback on those rules. If we started changing the fundamental rules of games, we're opening a pandoras box we dont want to open.
Anyway, I only really see two legitimate options when it comes to decks. (It's not a vote)
1) We allow players to play their decks. 2) We only allow the pre-configured blizzard base decks.
I personally don't feel #2 is any more fair than #1.
We want competitive games, especially for 1v1, the Vanilla decks just are not interesting. Everyone has a month to run dailies and get free decks. Or if you prefer to shortcut, purchase cards.
This game is no different from a shooter in that, the more time you put into the game, the more you'll unlock and the better you'll be.
Legendaries really aren't a big deal, every class I've played has methods of dispatching top tier cards immediately, there are pretty inexpensive general cards that do this as well. Many decks don't even use high damage legendaries for this reason. They cost so much to play and can basically wipe out a turn if they don't have an effect that's used on the turn the legendary is played.
If you play a mage for example.. with just base cards you can earn easily you can polymorph and kill any card in one turn. You have secrets that destroy cards when they attack you. You can play big game hunter and take out ANY card. That's six cards out of a deck, four where you can pick and choose your target. Hell, you can freeze the entire other team, drop a 3 gem snake on your next turn and kill any target you want (assuming no taunt). Thats 8 cheap ways to destroy any card in a deck, six that give you direct control. Base mage cards also allow you do drop 6 base damage or 10 base damage for 1 gem each, with certain base cards you can improve that damage, taunt can't stop these spells.
Priests btw, can drop an inexpensive 1 attack 7 health card with taunt and turn it in to a 28 attack, 28 health card at the start of their next turn. They also have several base abilities that allow you to take other cards over!
Hell, I played against Murloc decks at the last mini. Take away legendaries and those decks will still destroy you. Murloc is based on playing many low health cards with other supporting cards that boost health and damage. 5-6 turns and you're done unless you have a deck that controls the board.
The only way you're losing to a legendary is if you put together a bad deck, didn't have luck on your side, or played a bad hand. Whether or not someone spent money, the players that move on will be the players that legitimately understand the game.
Also, what I've learned about hearthstone, is that people take losses very seriously. This is why we need strict rules for this tournament. At the last mini lan (I wont name names) I played against someone who used a murloc deck three times while I played my board control mage three times. He annhilated me the first game, I had bad luck. He was feeling pretty good. I then Annhilated him two times in a row.
I didn't play a single legendary. All of the cards I used to control the board were almost entirely base mage deck cards you can earn by level 10. I believe at the end of one of the games I did summon a legendary, but I already had it in hand. Half of that mini-lan that played (probably more than half) started cussing about not buying cards, but really, my mage deck isn't anything special.
Blacklight Retribution, BF4, TF2, COD.. I can't remember a time where we limited a player based on what they've unlocked before.
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