The 30 Epics one is really what gets ya. Like...what? That's insane. I think we should wait and see. They may have put their foot in their mouth with that example and it's not nearly as bad as that overall. But even one treasure locked behind something like that is horrible....unless it's a really memey treasure or something. Wait and see.
Yeah I think I would mainly want to play Duels casual and occasionally up the stakes with Heroic when I feel like it. It's nice that we have the option.
Being underwhelmed by a PvP Dungeon Run makes no sense to me. It's a great idea. The dungeon run format is still fun for me and I still do a run here and there. But we're all mostly over doing the same ones with the same bosses. But now every boss will be another player, and they'll get harder as you get more wins just like dungeon runs because you'll be playing against decks that are winning more, just like arena. They're using existing systems to give us a new game mode. Why not? It's not mind blowing maybe but it'll be different and it'll be fun. And they're introducing yet another new game mode next expansion so this isn't the lone great hope for new modes.
Having to pay for it like arena with rewards is slightly annoying. That at least has the slight upside of giving it stakes but the RNG swings from which treasures you were offered and which your opponents were offered are likely to be huge and feel quite unfair (when you get rekd) for something you have to spend gold on. But if the opponent rolls you with an OP treasure that only someone who has both copies of every Epic card in a certain set can get...that's going to feel really bad and make people not want to play this. That's the part that worries me.
(EDIT: There's a free Casual Mode. That's awesome. Something this inconsistent needs to have a casual mode. Sometimes you want to compete and go for 7+ wins but a lot of times with this I think I'll just want to get into a run to have some relaxed fun and see what kind of crazy stuff happens. There are times when I'm looking for that kind of experience and would like to play arena but can't be bothered to deal with gold stakes so...I just don't play arena much. I'm really glad we have the casual option. Unfortunately even casual mode will feel bad for people who are locked out from various hero powers and treasures, but not nearly as bad.)
I'm fine with the starter deck (15 singleton cards) coming from my own collection. I'm glad they're rotating what sets you can choose from. That keeps it fresh. I guess I'm glad some of the sets will be Wild. There would probably be too little variety otherwise. That does suck for people that don't have Wild collections but I don't see a way around it if we're using our own collections. Locking all Wild cards out seems like a waste.
So everything seems great about this except for what kind of amounts to discrimination based on what cards you have. Not to be too woke or anything but it feels bad when you can never get a hero power or treasure because you don't have a certain legendary or all epic cards in a set. But we'll have to see. Maybe they just shot themselves in the foot with those two examples and it's not as bad as that indicates.
Wow you dusted Turalyon without even trying him. Too many people buying into the negative pre expansion hype about him so no one's even testing him out. He has a very powerful effect and isn't easy to kill as a 3/9 with their biggest minion off the board. And if he lives just one turn its a disaster for the opponent.
Guys if you think Paladin is bad watch the Regis clip below...and consider Blessing of Authority being cast on this card. If this card sticks (and its whole design is obviously centered on it sticking so it can be buffed...even against Priest) and you blessing of kings or authority it and smash for 8 or 12 with lifesteal you might sing a different tune. If the opponent expends resources to take down 9 health from a 6 mana lifesteal minion you're ok with that. If they leave it up you buff it and smash. I think it's deceptively good.
Regarding the art..... We aren't used to seeing black people in Hearthstone and it's a weird thing to deal with overall because fantasy stories generally are based on medieval Europe and almost everyone was white there because that was before technology made it possible for widespread travel, etc. Medieval people encountered people that looked different through the Crusades but that's about it.
Azeroth's humans are basically medieval Europeans. There are other races but they're not human. (So an actual other race.) I don't know...are there other areas in Azeroth where the humans developed to look African or Asian, etc? I think that's one of the reasons diversity feels contrived in fantasy settings sometimes...because of the medieval setting where that's not natural. But it is if the person is actually from another place. But there's not always the lore to back that up. Probably in WoW lore there isn't that other place so it feels like immersion breaking foisting of representation.
Even if it is contrived it's good though. Representation has awkward political overtones and can be jarring in fantasy settings if it breaks the lore....but there just should be some black people in Hearthstone one way or another. And some Asian and so on. Azeroth humans are medieval white Europeans and that is what it is but Hearthstone humans should reflect Earth humans to some extent as well. That feels right to me and probably feels kinda good to the people with their "color" being represented.
Anyways...also I feel like the hair here might be a bit jarring to people because it feels very contemporary in style, which projects even more the political overtones and breaks immersion...but hey people could have that hairstyle at any time in history if they wanted so I'm just gonna say this is a hairstyle that exists in Azeroth. Why not?
This card seems low key powerful. For just 2 mana and a not understatted minion you scramble your opponents ability to respond to your board, etc. Just one mana can make a huge difference. Doomed Apprentice never saw play because it cost 3 mana. This is very playable.
Slotted this guy into a few decks and he's shown his value bigtime. He's insane. He's had divine shield, reborn, stealth/poisonous, and buff a minion so far and each time it was a power play. Haven't gotten the get a plague one yet.
The 30 Epics one is really what gets ya. Like...what? That's insane. I think we should wait and see. They may have put their foot in their mouth with that example and it's not nearly as bad as that overall. But even one treasure locked behind something like that is horrible....unless it's a really memey treasure or something. Wait and see.
Yeah I think I would mainly want to play Duels casual and occasionally up the stakes with Heroic when I feel like it. It's nice that we have the option.
Being underwhelmed by a PvP Dungeon Run makes no sense to me. It's a great idea. The dungeon run format is still fun for me and I still do a run here and there. But we're all mostly over doing the same ones with the same bosses. But now every boss will be another player, and they'll get harder as you get more wins just like dungeon runs because you'll be playing against decks that are winning more, just like arena. They're using existing systems to give us a new game mode. Why not? It's not mind blowing maybe but it'll be different and it'll be fun. And they're introducing yet another new game mode next expansion so this isn't the lone great hope for new modes.
Having to pay for it like arena with rewards is slightly annoying. That at least has the slight upside of giving it stakes but the RNG swings from which treasures you were offered and which your opponents were offered are likely to be huge and feel quite unfair (when you get rekd) for something you have to spend gold on. But if the opponent rolls you with an OP treasure that only someone who has both copies of every Epic card in a certain set can get...that's going to feel really bad and make people not want to play this. That's the part that worries me.
(EDIT: There's a free Casual Mode. That's awesome. Something this inconsistent needs to have a casual mode. Sometimes you want to compete and go for 7+ wins but a lot of times with this I think I'll just want to get into a run to have some relaxed fun and see what kind of crazy stuff happens. There are times when I'm looking for that kind of experience and would like to play arena but can't be bothered to deal with gold stakes so...I just don't play arena much. I'm really glad we have the casual option. Unfortunately even casual mode will feel bad for people who are locked out from various hero powers and treasures, but not nearly as bad.)
I'm fine with the starter deck (15 singleton cards) coming from my own collection. I'm glad they're rotating what sets you can choose from. That keeps it fresh. I guess I'm glad some of the sets will be Wild. There would probably be too little variety otherwise. That does suck for people that don't have Wild collections but I don't see a way around it if we're using our own collections. Locking all Wild cards out seems like a waste.
So everything seems great about this except for what kind of amounts to discrimination based on what cards you have. Not to be too woke or anything but it feels bad when you can never get a hero power or treasure because you don't have a certain legendary or all epic cards in a set. But we'll have to see. Maybe they just shot themselves in the foot with those two examples and it's not as bad as that indicates.
Dekkster has a video of a better bomb warrior. I've been doing very well with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ovhud9nfxs&t=155s
Dekkster has a video of a better bomb warrior. I've been doing very well with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ovhud9nfxs&t=155s
Meh they just always played murlocs because that was the way to win. Theyre probably happy they dont have to force murlocs anymore
Wow you dusted Turalyon without even trying him. Too many people buying into the negative pre expansion hype about him so no one's even testing him out. He has a very powerful effect and isn't easy to kill as a 3/9 with their biggest minion off the board. And if he lives just one turn its a disaster for the opponent.
Defensive magic? Lots of shielding and deflection from a wizard basically translates to HP
Guys if you think Paladin is bad watch the Regis clip below...and consider Blessing of Authority being cast on this card. If this card sticks (and its whole design is obviously centered on it sticking so it can be buffed...even against Priest) and you blessing of kings or authority it and smash for 8 or 12 with lifesteal you might sing a different tune. If the opponent expends resources to take down 9 health from a 6 mana lifesteal minion you're ok with that. If they leave it up you buff it and smash. I think it's deceptively good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k0WEcG6nIA
Regarding the art..... We aren't used to seeing black people in Hearthstone and it's a weird thing to deal with overall because fantasy stories generally are based on medieval Europe and almost everyone was white there because that was before technology made it possible for widespread travel, etc. Medieval people encountered people that looked different through the Crusades but that's about it.
Azeroth's humans are basically medieval Europeans. There are other races but they're not human. (So an actual other race.) I don't know...are there other areas in Azeroth where the humans developed to look African or Asian, etc? I think that's one of the reasons diversity feels contrived in fantasy settings sometimes...because of the medieval setting where that's not natural. But it is if the person is actually from another place. But there's not always the lore to back that up. Probably in WoW lore there isn't that other place so it feels like immersion breaking foisting of representation.
Even if it is contrived it's good though. Representation has awkward political overtones and can be jarring in fantasy settings if it breaks the lore....but there just should be some black people in Hearthstone one way or another. And some Asian and so on. Azeroth humans are medieval white Europeans and that is what it is but Hearthstone humans should reflect Earth humans to some extent as well. That feels right to me and probably feels kinda good to the people with their "color" being represented.
Anyways...also I feel like the hair here might be a bit jarring to people because it feels very contemporary in style, which projects even more the political overtones and breaks immersion...but hey people could have that hairstyle at any time in history if they wanted so I'm just gonna say this is a hairstyle that exists in Azeroth. Why not?
Scholomance already has a lot of excellent 5 drops so that helps. I'd include the warrior legendary because it has rush,
At 10 mana it can be combo'd with Soul of the Forest and the 0 mana if you have 3 treants draw 2 card. Not great though.
Yeah the language is confusing. 2 overload to give them rush. They're each both treants and totems.
Huge card for mage. Just this makes tempo mage my first deck on day 1
I CANNOT preorder this expansion now. DH was HS's suicide.
Bro the broom costs 1. It's insane.
Ummmmmm wtf
These cards look very promising. It's great to see they're not running out of ideas.
This card is actually insane. All the effects are really really good, especially for a 2 drop.
This card seems low key powerful. For just 2 mana and a not understatted minion you scramble your opponents ability to respond to your board, etc. Just one mana can make a huge difference. Doomed Apprentice never saw play because it cost 3 mana. This is very playable.
Slotted this guy into a few decks and he's shown his value bigtime. He's insane. He's had divine shield, reborn, stealth/poisonous, and buff a minion so far and each time it was a power play. Haven't gotten the get a plague one yet.
Some of the wild ones are pretty...wild. Love it!