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My Heroic Naxx Journey: Beating the Construct Quarter

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The  Construct  Quarter opened on Tuesday, 12 th August, and within we were introduced to The shambling Abomination Pudge Patchwerk; Silent Hill creature candidate, Grobbulus; Gluth, the plague-dog that looks more ghoul than dog in Hearthstone; and Mr. Frankenstein on steroids, Thaddius. If you’re eager to learn how I dispatched this round’s damned beings and unwholesome inhabitants of the Construct Quarter on Heroic difficulty, you’re invited to read on. If not, feel free to check out my previous  walkthrough   here . Reader’s advice: This is not a thorough guide but a personal recount of the tactics and execution rationale used by me in combating the Heroic variants of the Naxxramas’ bosses. PATCHWERK Click on images to enlarge Ah Patchwerk, the pudge with a weapon but no hand—quite the most fun I’ve hand building a deck against than I had with any other Naxxramas boss. On normal difficulty this matchup invites creative plays for which I ea...

Beating Heroics: The Plague Quarter

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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. DECKLISTS I ran with P...