The arcane missile bombardment has finally stopped, the dust has cleared, and the longest turn in
Hearthstone history is complete. 45 hours. 45 goddamn hours. But how did they do it?
(Note: there is a video that will auto-play near the bottom of this post. Sorry, thereâs no way to make it not do that. Every time it starts, I want to put my fist through my monitor just as much as you do.)
The clock officially stopped at 45 hours and 18 minutes, or 1 day, 21 hours, and 18 minutes. That is positively
ludicrous in a game where turns are supposed to lastâat maximumâ90 seconds. If, for some demented reason, you want to watch a stream of the entire thing (minus a bump in the road where the stream was like, âplease⊠I need a napâ but the turn kept going), you can go do that on Mamytwinkâs Twitch page
But howâd Mamytwink (and friends) pull it off? Well, theyâve helpfully
laid out their entire setup. Here it is:
Prophet Velen was buffed multiple times with the new card Velenâs Choice (more than 30 times for some Velen).
Prophet Velen have then been multiplied on the field thanks to Faceless manipulator
In order to multiply Faceless Manipulator, we used the card Mind vision
Iceblock prevents the Priest from dying.
The spellpower increases the number of missiles casted by Arcane Missiles. 207 spellpower = +206 missiles. this makes a total amount of 206 + 3 missiles. Prophet Velen doubles the number of missiles. Because there are 7 on the battlefield, the number of missiles has been multiplied 2^7 = 128 times. 128Ă210 = 26Â 752 missiles. Eventually, Arcane Missiles x 9 have been cast, which gives 26Â 752 x 9 = 240Â 768 missiles.
It takes approximately 0,67 seconds for the animation of a missile to happen. 240Â 768 x 0,67 = 161Â 314 seconds. Which gives more than 44h of live stream.
You can see how they put all of that into action here:
So there you go. I wonder if people are gonna start trying to top that time and haha what am I saying, this is the Internet, of course they are. Iâm no math expert, though, so I have to ask: is this time even possible to top? Or did Mamytwink and co optimize the technique on their first go? Are there other cards they couldâve used to make even more clocks say, âoh wow, look at the time, haha Iâve gotta be goingâ and then shatter into a million pieces?
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