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Rafaam’s Advocate: In Defense of Galakrond’s Awakening
It’s safe to say Hearthstone’s new adventure hasn’t received the warmest of welcomes from the community, at least as far as the actual single-player content is concerned. Though the difficulty levels are certainly below what we expected, especially on Heroic, the fact that the game’s content cycle has radically changed since the old days means […]
Galakrond’s Awakening Heroic Guide – Chapter 3 (Air Battle Over Dragonblight)
The third set of the Galakrond’s Awakening adventure has just become available to play – and it leans quite heavily on the Auto-Attack mechanic first seen in One Night in Karazhan’s Chess encounter. As usual, a plethora of OTK decks can easily get the job done, but all in one scenarios you can go with […]
Galakrond’s Awakening Heroic Guide – Chapter 2 (Clash at Wyrmrest)
The new Hearthstone adventure is back with six more encounters, and though they are similar to what Week 1 had to offer in terms of difficulty – meaning any sort of OTK combo deck will get the job done with a Platebreaker/Alexstrasza deck for most encounters, with one notable exception –, the relative simplicity of […]
Galakrond’s Awakening Heroic Guide – Chapter 1 (Battle of the Frozen Coast)
Hearthstone’s new adventure has just launched, pitting the forces of good and E.V.I.L. against one another in a series of set piece encounters. Much like the old Adventures of the past, these battles are fought against specific pre-made decks, with a twist that you’re also using similar ones in the Story mode. However, you’re left […]
The Pros and Cons of Non-Stop Balance Changes
For most Hearthstone players, the fact that Team 5 has shown a newfound willingness to regularly step in and adjust the meta is a positive – but even though it’s an objective improvement over the dark times when it took three months and the release of a new set to see a nerf to the […]