Stay Awhile and Listen

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...

Let the festering of wounds and the spread of unholy maladies begin. The Plague Quarter, the second installment to the Hearthstone expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, launches within the next few hours, and if you’re like me, a fervent, sillily desperate fan of the online card game, the wait couldn’t be any longer. So instead of twirling thumbs and shaking legs, allow me to indite you, the lovely reader, a presumptuous preview of Naxxramas’ second wing.     Enter Noth the Plaguebringer, the sullen looking, pallid-skinned mage from Dalaran whose plushy white locks make Goldilocks’ hairdo look unruly—he is not one to be taken lightly. At normal difficulty his hero power is easily negated with cheap board clears, however at heroic level, the 5/5 skeletons have the potential to be more than bothersome. Back in the Arachnid Quarter Priests were by far the most popular class in heroic runs and it looks like the Noth encounters will follow a similar narrative. Play the beefy mi...