I'm growing bored with Runeterra. I don't play ladder, Labs is incredibly random, and Expedition mode is, IMO, like Arena but worse. That leaves Casual play, which is sometimes fun, but I have more Shards than I know what to do with and could craft enough Champions to have 3x of every existing one. I've max leveled every region, and I'm just growing bored and frustrated with the mechanics and how much decks rely on a single Champion.
How is HS these days? I haven't played in probably a year, but I've still watched my favorite streamers. Battlegrounds looks really fun - is it free or do you have to pay? How's the deck variety in regular play? I do like what they've done with Ranked. Playing LoR has made me really appreciate a lot of the mechanics of HS, believe it or not.
Same feeling here. I hated so much the RNG fiesta in HS (I started just after the closed beta)... The last 3 years, I tried different card games and found LoR very player-friendly. I jumped in and almost stop HS entirely.
However, I just got bored after 6-8 months. I love many of the mechanics (spell mana reserve is just a great idea, etc.) but somehow LoR just feels/taste stale. Perhaps this is because I am not a LoL player... So weird to see a well-rounded game engine, yet to see it became so un-attractive so fast.
It surprises me to say that LoR made me appreciate that RnG is in the HS DNA and actually what it gives its spice and its bubbles. Granted it is sometimes annoying but better to be sometimes annoyed than bored. It is a game after all.
The good thing from LoR is that it forces Blizzard to innovate and also to review down its monetization (while still nicely profitable) the last 12 months or so (let's hope that the battle pass will be better player-friendly than the oops "test-announcement" we have seen). For this alone, I wish LoR (and will keep playing a bit of it) a very long life ;)
This is getting in total overdrive territory... Racism must be to fight off but with intelligence and education, not with guts and violence!
I am baffled that a fantasy game publisher of 5 colors card game (Black symbolize death in this game, not people) thinks that "destroy all black creatures" is racist. Does this mean that colors are now politically charged (Red? white?) and must not use in context of destruction? Why is "destroy all white creatures" not banned then, amongst others?
Same feeling here. I hated so much the RNG fiesta in HS (I started just after the closed beta)... The last 3 years, I tried different card games and found LoR very player-friendly. I jumped in and almost stop HS entirely.
However, I just got bored after 6-8 months. I love many of the mechanics (spell mana reserve is just a great idea, etc.) but somehow LoR just feels/taste stale. Perhaps this is because I am not a LoL player... So weird to see a well-rounded game engine, yet to see it became so un-attractive so fast.
It surprises me to say that LoR made me appreciate that RnG is in the HS DNA and actually what it gives its spice and its bubbles. Granted it is sometimes annoying but better to be sometimes annoyed than bored. It is a game after all.
The good thing from LoR is that it forces Blizzard to innovate and also to review down its monetization (while still nicely profitable) the last 12 months or so (let's hope that the battle pass will be better player-friendly than the oops "test-announcement" we have seen).
For this alone, I wish LoR (and will keep playing a bit of it) a very long life ;)
This is getting in total overdrive territory... Racism must be to fight off but with intelligence and education, not with guts and violence!
I am baffled that a fantasy game publisher of 5 colors card game (Black symbolize death in this game, not people) thinks that "destroy all black creatures" is racist. Does this mean that colors are now politically charged (Red? white?) and must not use in context of destruction? Why is "destroy all white creatures" not banned then, amongst others?