This is definitely a meta shakeup. Not the one we asked for but still an exciting way to go about it. Best run all those Lab builds as league starters. Curiously though, the removal of Lab Enchants does make me wonder if auras got indirectly nerfed. Will have to wait and see what all those transmogrified gem stats will be.
At first I thought these changes would do nothing but looking at HSReplay now, DH and Warlock are in the bottom 3 at the time of writing. I'm hoping we see some buffs in the Battlegrounds .2 patch along with some buff reverts for warrior coz it'd be nice to tone down the class now seeing as it's been given so much help.
Very tame standard nerfs overall, kinda reminds me of the small nerfs they did back in the day. Just slight adjustments and probably won't make much of a difference. Least the nerf to Azerite Snake will delay the bouncing combo quite a bit but I'm sure these archetypes will remain quite strong. I did hear we may be getting another balance patch later next week if things don't change at all.
HS Mathematics has an interesting video on the subject which makes sense. Basically Blizzard are downplaying Twist coz they need Standard to be the main popular mode for monetization reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCuz1hpfx4
I am holding out hope the new Format in Feb will be more exciting with some crazier/wackier rule changes. I stopped playing Twist after XL Wonders coz the lack of Blizzard and player interest in the format decreased mine. Glad the team listened to community feedback though, that's something but there's a lot of hopium going forward for this format.
Never noticed this before reading this article but now I can't un-hear it 😅 also the cutscenes from Dragonflight have been quite cheesy, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGygoQ_IDw
Currently at level 98 on my ballin' Sorc so the XP boost should make reaching those last 2 levels a bit faster. Might make a druid and see how long it takes to level from 1-100
This is going to be interesting wrt the dust refund structure here for an uncollectable card. I'd be very surprised if Blizzard gives a refund on all warlock Excavate cards coz that's a lot of dust and that will incentivize players to dust an entirely new class archetype which I'm sure Blizzard wouldn't want. I'm assuming more and more Blizzard will give us the "harsh treatment" and there won't be any dust refunds at all.
Also I noticed you need at least 5 packs to use the mass open feature. I had 2 titans packs left over and noticed it didn't bundle them together like I could with standard and badlands packs.
1 annoying stealth update they did for mobile is disable the ability to switch accounts for the same region :/ 1 use 2 accounts on EU and now can't seamlessly switch between them anymore, I need to change to a different region and sign in twice, wtf Blizzard!?!?!?
BG3 deserves an award coz it's the most honest, non-greedy, non-corporate game with no microtransactions nonsense to be found. That alone deserves an award.
This just reminds me of every Carbot animation featuring D2 Barbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpyRyKPjgU
Got Skarr as my lvl 50 track reward so definitely gonna give that Mark OTK a try
Agreed, 1 T6 minion (Nalaa the Redeemer) won't be enough to justify menagerie builds
Eventide Brute and Naga in general will probably be insane for this season, so much spell synergy going on for that tribe over all others.
That Worgen Vigilante artwork is outstanding
This is definitely a meta shakeup. Not the one we asked for but still an exciting way to go about it. Best run all those Lab builds as league starters. Curiously though, the removal of Lab Enchants does make me wonder if auras got indirectly nerfed. Will have to wait and see what all those transmogrified gem stats will be.
At first I thought these changes would do nothing but looking at HSReplay now, DH and Warlock are in the bottom 3 at the time of writing. I'm hoping we see some buffs in the Battlegrounds .2 patch along with some buff reverts for warrior coz it'd be nice to tone down the class now seeing as it's been given so much help.
Would've never thought PoE 2 would become a shooter game. Just goes to show how anything is possible.
Very tame standard nerfs overall, kinda reminds me of the small nerfs they did back in the day. Just slight adjustments and probably won't make much of a difference. Least the nerf to Azerite Snake will delay the bouncing combo quite a bit but I'm sure these archetypes will remain quite strong. I did hear we may be getting another balance patch later next week if things don't change at all.
HS Mathematics has an interesting video on the subject which makes sense. Basically Blizzard are downplaying Twist coz they need Standard to be the main popular mode for monetization reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCuz1hpfx4
I'd say this is one of the better, more fun Tavern Brawls coz who doesn't enjoy playing a bunch of discounted legendary minions?
I am holding out hope the new Format in Feb will be more exciting with some crazier/wackier rule changes. I stopped playing Twist after XL Wonders coz the lack of Blizzard and player interest in the format decreased mine. Glad the team listened to community feedback though, that's something but there's a lot of hopium going forward for this format.
Never noticed this before reading this article but now I can't un-hear it 😅 also the cutscenes from Dragonflight have been quite cheesy, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpGygoQ_IDw
They definitely tried to make an "Avengers Assemble" Endgame moment but in WoW it looks super cheesy.
Lets hope Chris Metzen changes a lot of this
Currently at level 98 on my ballin' Sorc so the XP boost should make reaching those last 2 levels a bit faster. Might make a druid and see how long it takes to level from 1-100
This is going to be interesting wrt the dust refund structure here for an uncollectable card. I'd be very surprised if Blizzard gives a refund on all warlock Excavate cards coz that's a lot of dust and that will incentivize players to dust an entirely new class archetype which I'm sure Blizzard wouldn't want. I'm assuming more and more Blizzard will give us the "harsh treatment" and there won't be any dust refunds at all.
Also I noticed you need at least 5 packs to use the mass open feature. I had 2 titans packs left over and noticed it didn't bundle them together like I could with standard and badlands packs.
I'm assuming that promotion has ended as I do recall seeing somewhere it'll only be 7 free packs, 1 a week
1 annoying stealth update they did for mobile is disable the ability to switch accounts for the same region :/ 1 use 2 accounts on EU and now can't seamlessly switch between them anymore, I need to change to a different region and sign in twice, wtf Blizzard!?!?!?
Yes correct, it will only contain from Sunken City to Titans, so 5 expansions.
The ones I find the most hilarious:
Seems they've upped their game on the flavor text
BG3 deserves an award coz it's the most honest, non-greedy, non-corporate game with no microtransactions nonsense to be found. That alone deserves an award.