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Every turn you have a goal in mind; clear the enemy creatures. When looking at your hand and deciding which cards to use to do that, you should first try to do it using the fewest number of cards possible, and then if that is equal, try to do it using the "worst" cards possible. By that I mean, the cheapest casting cost/most flimsy/least effective creatures.

To use an obvious example, if you're trying to kill the enemy's Argent Command who has lost his bubble, and in your hand you have a Bluegill Warrior and an Argent commander of your own, it's probably best to use the Bluegill Warrior and save your own Argent Commander for a better use. (An exception to this being, using the Bluegill wil

I thought it'd be a fun exercise to do an analysis of each class's "hard removal" spell, or the closest thing they have to it. So let's do it.

Assassinate (Rogue) 5 - Destroy an enemy minion.

The obvious baseline. It will always be a 1 for 1 trade barring some unlikely interaction like Abomination or Pyromancer. The ability to eliminate any one minion is obviously valued at 5.

Siphon Soul (Warlock) 6 - Destroy a minion. Restore 3 health to your hero.

So 1 more mana for restore 3 health to your hero. I think this is strictly worse than assassinate. When you're talking about 5 vs. 6 that's a big deal in a game with a basically hard cap of 10 mana available. It limits what you can

So there's Sea Giant, Mountain Giant and Molten Giant. For those who aren't in the beta:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/minion?filter-name=giant

For me it seems like Sea Giant is obviously the best of the 3, since even if there's no other minions on the board he's castable turn 10+, and I've dropped him turn 6 a number of times.

Molten Giant and Mountain Giant, OTOH, I think are a little more debatable between which of them is number 2. Molten can help you turn a game around, though he's not a taunt so if you're losing to a mass of creatures you're probably still going to lose. Mountain Giant in decks without strong card draw seems to be strongest early on while you've still got a sizeabl

Watching D2CL right now (Na`vi vs. Speed Gaming) on Dailymotion and Game 1 was great but the stream quality is abysmal. Framerate is lower than my checking account balance.

I know everyone likes to bitch about Twitch but this is really making me appreciate how much better it is. Ugh.

For me the best is like something that just happened to me in an Arena game. Being down to the wire, and knowing I'm on my last turn, and feeling like I've just barely lost and then realizing there's a way to win and pulling it off. (In this case I was 1 damage short but realized I could play Gnomish Inventor and try to top deck some direct damage and managed to pull out a Fireball.)

The worst is when I realize there was a winning play I could have made after I've already hit End Turn or Concede.

What about you?

EDIT:

Auction has ended, congratulations to Haozilla. I will talk to you on Steam.

I am the original owner. Looking for USD payment only, not keys. Will be using a middle man.

Buyout: $1600 USD

Reserve: $1300 USD

Thanks!

We all can't help it, we see other players on our team make choices we don't agree with and we want to say something. But at some point this crosses a line and goes from friendly advice that maybe they will listen to to backseat playing that nobody will listen to and you're just going to cause frustration.

Examples of good advice:

"Nightstalker/Pudge/QoP is really our strongest mid, you should take mid."

"Ethereal Blade is not a particularly good item on Juggernaut."

"Their entire team is off the map be careful."

Examples of nitpicking:

"Lina how do you keep missing your LSAs?"

"Brood you should have your Orchid done by now."

"Why did you guys let him get so fed?!"

The difference

HURRrrrrR I AM S O SAD KARMA PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just registered for a race (the Ypsilanti Color Run) on Active.com for the first time. I have registered for lots of races via other websites and never have I gone through a registration process that had more massive hidden fee booby traps than this one.

They try to get you to avoid a $3 processing fee by signing up for a $35 membership, then they try to get you to end up with $100+ in magazine subscriptions by saying "Hey try 3 of these magazines out for 3 months free!" Then lastly they try to get you hit up with some additional nearly $60 membership fee by presenting you with a filled out form where the only empty field says "Verify your email address", hoping you'll just finish it out

Hey kids,

It's time to grow up. The people in this subreddit who keep attacking Jay Wilson personally are acting like schoolyard children.

If you have never delivered a successful, complicated, game following a massive franchise with a rabid fan base then you should check yourself before you start spouting off personal attacks on anybody who has taken on that task.

Say what you want about D3, make all the criticisms you want about the game, and you can voice your disappointment in the path that has been chosen regarding PvP. But personal attacks don't make Jay Wilson look bad. They make you look bad. And when they are as common as they've become in here, they make this entire subreddit lo

Hey guys,

I'm sorry to post a thread about this but I have been everywhere looking for help and have so far not found it. I'm hoping someone else here may have run into this.

I played Skyrim in 1920x1200 flawlessly, but recently upgraded to a 27" monitor (the ONLY thing about my system that has changed) and when I try to play in 2560x1440 first person view is distorted and flickery. Zooming out to third person view is perfectly fine. If I run the game in windowed mode or a lower resolution, first person view is fixed. But obviously I'd like to play the game at native resolution.

Anybody else run into this and have a solution for it?

I haven't found one anywhere on the web and Bethesda su

Have you ever seen someone wearing a totally unremarkable costume before? I have seen it literally hundreds of times today, but here is a picture of one in particular which everyone will upvote for no reason other than Pavlovian response!

Drool, you mutts! Drool!

Hey guys, I've had a bad week of DotA and as such my MMR has plummeted to where I'm no longer in High and I've found that many times NP's in the lower skill area seem to think the way to jungle is to go to the high ground and shoot down at the creeps. This is REALLY inefficient, stupid and unnecessary.

Apologies to higher skilled players as a lot of this will seem obvious but I'm gonna spell it out really simply for people who don't seem to get it.

How to Jungle as NP and get 8 minute midas:

• Buy Basillius + 2 clarities, skill treants. (EDIT: If your team needs courier/wards help with those, buy 3 clarities instead.)

• At ~55-50 seconds to game start make your first pair of treants with

All the changes they've announced so far sound great. But the game is still missing two huge elements for me to get more play time out of it beyond just checking out the changes:

• Some consistent way to improve my level 60 character. Here's the thing, item hunting is fine and all but Diablo 2 had a level grind that took a long, long time to cap out (and most people never did.) This meant that on a consistent basis you would gain +5 stat points and a skill point. That might not seem like much, but it was a nice "concession prize" if your hours of playing didn't result in any usable items. It still meant your later utility skills improved, and you gained stats even if you didn't find any usa

Ok so, most of us are in Normal. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Statistically, most people will always be in the Normal bracket.

That said, I want to move up. Before the new classifications i was in Medium, and felt like I could make progress and eventually get to High. But I've been in Normal since the switch without a single game in High thus far.

So I was thinking; how to make the jump? Obviously; win more. We are all trying for that.

For those of you that are in High or Very High I have some questions:

• Is there something specific that you did you can identify that got you up to the higher bracket?

• Do you focus on one or a handful of heroes, or did you do so around the time you m