Beating Heroics: The Plague Quarter

Priest, Durid, Warrior, or Mage, they’ve all succeeded. The Plague Quarter, home to denizens Noth, Heigan, and Loatheb, have met their demise at the hands of a variety of decks and to an assortment of playstyles. If you’d like to see professionally constructed decks head on over to Hearthpwn. But what if, like me, you lack the epics and legendaries (and even some of the rares) to make some of the decks you see work, how do you fare? With some luck, and a decent amount of skill you can actually do pretty well.

Since the release of the Plague Quarter on Tuesday, there have been several tough blokes out there who managed to clear the bosses on heroic difficultly on mere basic cards—I am not one of them. I managed, of my own creation, several decks with minor adjustments in between, a pretty average completion time of slightly less than two hours on all the heroic bosses. If you’re interested to see how I did it stick around for the discourse.

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I ran with Priest this time round because I felt it was more important than before to keep your minions alive especially in the cases of Noth and Heigan. Cards I’d consider critical to my strategy would be Lightwell, and the Divine Spirit-Inner Fire combo. I experimented with a Freeze Mage variant but it was nearly impossible to pull off without Ice Blocks or Doomsayers.  

Noth the Plaguebringer 

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Noth was perhaps the toughest to deal with of the three. You don’t want to be dragging this game out because it’s almost impossible to recover from Plague. There’s probably only one win condition in my deck and that’s to pull of the incredibly cheesy Divine Spirit-Inner Fire combo and smack him with double digits each swing. “Hit it very hard” as the Raid Leader would say, and kill him before he has the chance to spread the Plague on turn 6.

Heigan the Unclean

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The strategy for cleansing the Unclean is pretty straightforward. Heigan is trigger happy on his hero ability even when there’s nothing to hit—a real efficient bugger he is. That said clearing the board is not his forte. Play a Lightwell or a Stoneskin Gargoyle to soak up the 3 damage each turn before playing the glutton for punishment, the Gurubashi Berserker. Pad the board with tanky minions and be generous with the heals and you’ll send Heigan to an early shower.

Loatheb

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Loatheb, Loatheb, Loatheb, where do I start. At 99 health you’d think he’ll be one tough bastard to take down, but he isn’t—in fact, I’d argue that he’s the easiest boss in Naxxaramas thus far. The fat mushroom does himself a grave disservice by playing his 5 damage removal which spawns Spores. Keep enough minions on the board and soon you’ll be running riot, dealing upward of 20-50 damage each turn.

Well there’s nothing much to add beyond that. If you have any questions or would like to share your methods for dismantling the bosses of the Plague Quarter leave me a comment down in the comment box below!