Glad issue is being resolved. Not played wild ladder in a week. Still have my win 5 quest to do.
Not sure about the idea of just banning the card. Totally get they don't want to weaken it in standard though - why impact standard players negatively due to a wild problem.
I think I liked the idea of immune not protecting against health cost cards or simply health cost cards aren't playable if you are immune.
But hey - at least problem will be fixed for now that's the main thing.
I know people often don't like it when you call for changes so near a near card set release, but I have to assume this will be changed.
An increase in mana cost or even better "the first X cards you draw each turn cost health instead of mana". That seems to affect standard less given wild has so many more draw cards.
No reason to stop standard players trying out the card or changing plot twist which ruins it for warlock quest players (I'm not one but if people are then be nice if they aren't negatively affected either).
Yeah I watched a Zeddy video the other day (the salt master himself) in which he predicted that's what they'd say. Then "well we'll wait and see how the upcoming miniset affects wild before making changes", then "we've made a standard balance patch, let's see how it affects wild....". And "new expansion coming in a month we'll see how it affects wild....." and repeat etc etc etc.
But a programatical solution is valid too. I assumed the code we needed was simply one in which all the digits are the same (my program looks for CODE mod 1111111 = 0) and it turns out that's true. Just that there don't happen to be any solutions that are not 4444444.
But it's not your thing that's fine. I'm not a fan of BGs or duels, but happy for those who do like them. It's cool - hopefully there's something you do like in the game.
The worst thing to ever happen to hearthstone. The only one that was actually fun to solve was the caravan one, the rest were just completely trash.
Wow. That is a pretty bold statement right there! 4 free puzzles that give an optional card back and encourage the community to discover and work together is the worst thing ever to happen in the game?
Personally I think it was when the arena wins crown was upside down for months but that's just me.
And if I could solve 3 of them on my own* then I think most people could give them a go if they were so inclined. Or a community effort which Celestation himself took pains to encourage - sharing links of places people were working on them together.
The forth one I didn't attempt as text was too small and my eyes aren't good. Don't know if I'd have solved that or not.
* didn't figure out the spells combo in practice mode. I thought it was building a specific deck/import deck code or something you had to do in Book of Mercenaries lol. Also I'm retired with time on my hands
I really liked these. Exchanged some tweets with Celestation about my programatical approach to solving the Rogue puzzle, where I explored if any other code would work other than 4444444 and the other possible solutions and their relationship to each other.
I also asked him if the combo detection was deliberately server side in order to deter datamining and he confirmed it was which is a good idea from their perspective :)
Was nice of him to give us an insight into the puzzles and do a Q & A on them. I think he enjoyed the whole thing immensely.
This worked for me second try (first try they summon random beast which turned out to be a 25 mana Shirvallah, the Tiger )
Blizzard you think my viewership can so easily be bought by a few packs????????
Hmmm, ok you talked me into to it. Or at least my browser :P
For a reason you referred to above - think I'll maybe try some of these NEXT weekend :P
Glad issue is being resolved. Not played wild ladder in a week. Still have my win 5 quest to do.
Not sure about the idea of just banning the card. Totally get they don't want to weaken it in standard though - why impact standard players negatively due to a wild problem.
I think I liked the idea of immune not protecting against health cost cards or simply health cost cards aren't playable if you are immune.
But hey - at least problem will be fixed for now that's the main thing.
Tavern Special 20 Barrens packs, 2 Barrens Legendaries £16.99
Bob's Bargain 24 Wild Packs, 2 wild Legendaries £16.99
In fairness, if they are basing offerings on past for money purchases then they would be a bit starved of data for my account :P
Agreed.
I know people often don't like it when you call for changes so near a near card set release, but I have to assume this will be changed.
An increase in mana cost or even better "the first X cards you draw each turn cost health instead of mana". That seems to affect standard less given wild has so many more draw cards.
No reason to stop standard players trying out the card or changing plot twist which ruins it for warlock quest players (I'm not one but if people are then be nice if they aren't negatively affected either).
It's not usually this bad. You picked a bad time is all :)
Got level 100 last night with no pass. It was actually a friend who gave me challenge quest out the blue - thanks mate!
Yeah it's mostly warlock on ladder at the moment for me, playing some version of Stealer with or without Mechathun.
Played the big version 3 times and won 3 times. Mirrors seem to come to down to who has coin.
Done my win 5 ladder games quest and will wait for things to settle down I think as I didn't find it very fun win or lose.
Thank you for this heads up I should get on an actually draft the deck of the arena run I used my ticket for when the last rotation happened :)
edit: Got my 2 losses!!!! Woo I am awesome at this game :P
Thanks for that write up mate. +1
Happy Birthday OOC! Thanks to Flux and all staff/content creators.
Community? Hmm, ok thanks too!!!!! :P :P :P
I stand corrected :)
Yeah I watched a Zeddy video the other day (the salt master himself) in which he predicted that's what they'd say. Then "well we'll wait and see how the upcoming miniset affects wild before making changes", then "we've made a standard balance patch, let's see how it affects wild....". And "new expansion coming in a month we'll see how it affects wild....." and repeat etc etc etc.
They should totally have a tavern brawl with Noz.
Make it win 1 or play 2 for the pack in order to cater for mobile players - or just a separate brawl if it's mobile.
It is solvable by math - but it's not my comment I linked here as my knowledge of Gaussian Elimination is limited to a wiki article :P
math stuff
But a programatical solution is valid too. I assumed the code we needed was simply one in which all the digits are the same (my program looks for CODE mod 1111111 = 0) and it turns out that's true. Just that there don't happen to be any solutions that are not 4444444.
I don't need to - I did :P
https://twitter.com/TomLuca27326040/status/1390390366570954753
But it's not your thing that's fine. I'm not a fan of BGs or duels, but happy for those who do like them. It's cool - hopefully there's something you do like in the game.
Wow. That is a pretty bold statement right there! 4 free puzzles that give an optional card back and encourage the community to discover and work together is the worst thing ever to happen in the game?
Personally I think it was when the arena wins crown was upside down for months but that's just me.
Well the warrior one was easy to solve by anyone.
And if I could solve 3 of them on my own* then I think most people could give them a go if they were so inclined. Or a community effort which Celestation himself took pains to encourage - sharing links of places people were working on them together.
The forth one I didn't attempt as text was too small and my eyes aren't good. Don't know if I'd have solved that or not.
* didn't figure out the spells combo in practice mode. I thought it was building a specific deck/import deck code or something you had to do in Book of Mercenaries lol. Also I'm retired with time on my hands
I really liked these. Exchanged some tweets with Celestation about my programatical approach to solving the Rogue puzzle, where I explored if any other code would work other than 4444444 and the other possible solutions and their relationship to each other.
https://twitter.com/TomLuca27326040/status/1391186707631022083
I also asked him if the combo detection was deliberately server side in order to deter datamining and he confirmed it was which is a good idea from their perspective :)
Was nice of him to give us an insight into the puzzles and do a Q & A on them. I think he enjoyed the whole thing immensely.