Hearthstone's Modes Design Lead, Matt London, has confirmed that Blizzard has begun to look at the wild format.
If you've been seeing the wild conversation over the past few years, players have overall been quite unsatisfied with the format - even some of our own staff have stopped caring about wild too. With that knowledge, yesterday, the Hearthstone team kicked off an internal "wild summit" to talk about their plans for the mode so they can bring players the best experience possible.
Nothing has been confirmed yet, with Matt stating it is unlikely we would see adjustments this week, but that they will share more information when they have it.
Quote From Matt London Hi All! Recently we've seen a lot of passionate conversation regarding the Hearthstone Wild format. Thank you for that. Today, we kicked off a "Wild Summit," a big internal discussion about the state of the format and how we can bring you the best possible experience.
Wild has a lot of moving parts. It's unlikely adjustments will happen this week, but we're committed to building a great plan for Wild and sharing more info once we do. Thanks!
Two Cents
Leave wild the way it is. Wild was always meant to be a "wild" format where anything was possible with all the old cards. Hearthstone needs a fresh ladder with a rotating pool of cards. Either use them by sets or just have a card list that is allowed there that is periodically changed. It leaves the wild part of wild for people that enjoy that and it gives everyone else something new to try and if Blizzard rotates the cards enough, it will always have a varied meta.
Bonus points if Bobby Kotick can buy a few more yachts because everyone is buying wild/new format packs.
Also, Wild has "been on the radar" for years. What is going to change this time around to actually bring forth any meaningful changes?
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i think something should be done about big priest being able to drop a neptulon on 3 is a bit much, but other than that i completely agree. wild right now is arguably the fairest its ever been with a variety of aggro and tempo options, plus most of the "unfair" decks like pillager rogue and quest mage have a high skill floor and ceiling to be able to pull off the combos optimally, and theres plenty of options for counterplay if you're facing a lot of one certain list (ashen elemental blows out ice block and hand disruption shits on pillager).
based and fun pilled
sometimes i get why people dislike a post i make. i like to have fun with my replies and im very passionate about the game, but come on. is anything implying that combo decks require any amount of skill just complete heresy?? how does this help anyone??? -7 for this????
Virtually nothing is possible with the old cards because a tiny number of them dominate the format in a consistently non-interactive way. This has caused enough problems to cause streamers to a) express disgust and fatigue with the non-games, b) stop marketing Hearthstone substantially, or c) stop playing Hearthstone. This is combined with the player disatisfaction with the mode.
Wild is less of a format than it is a dumping ground of shit ideas drowning better ones. Once its problems strain the unpaid advertisers of the game, that kicks off a spiral that can hit Blizzard's bottom line. Combine that with player outrage and it's simply cheaper to nuke the problem cards than it is to set free support on fire. Knocking down ten cards is a small price to pay to negate consumer unrest; the issue now is whether or not they have the competence to clean house effectively.
It's a ton of positives with very few negatives.
Fully agree.
If they lift all bans and un-nerf everything, I can see people thinking "Perfect! Now I can play everything!"...
Whereas in reality, consistent 1-4 turn OTKs or broken combos (impossible to come-back from) - cause inability to play those old, nostalgic decks.
Does anyone, wanting to play nostalgic decks, would be happy with 5-20 % winrate? I highly doubt.
You would have to count on the luck in Matchmaking, so you can face similar-minded player, like you, without a broken-unfair deck.
So I can see Blizzard making Wild a fully Wild mode with 0 balance, because that requires not much effort. BUT, I really hope, if they do so - that they introduce some other Wild format, with proper balancing. Like some kind of Limited mode, or just rotating sets mode.
Tier 1 decks might not be the best as they have rock-paper-scissors relations between them, which I get it if I look at from your point of view. Yet, what is wrong with them, you might ask? It's Tier 1 decks being able to snowball pretty quick, even faster than Standard decks. Thus, Wild players would like to face off these decks with power-level being reduced and reasonable/fair like Standard. Sure, it might not be the same as Standard due to wide pool range of cards but an action must be taken. If you couldn't illustrate my point of view, think of it as Standard players complaining Sinstone Graveyard and Necrolord Draka within reason and then devs taking action against them. Wild community would like same action being taken, quick and on-point and not band-aids, just like how Standard were taken care of.
If you are curious about snowballing issues, there are a bunch of them and I even posted up a thread to discuss after I heard of Matt London's tweet. Click on here to check.
So, yeah. Leaving Wild as-is isn't the best solution. It's the passive-aggressive way of saying "Hey, we don't care. Get out." to me while you can brainstorm with community to restore its former glory.
If I had to guess, they're probably figuring how to fix The Demon Seed, since it'll be unplayable in every format come April. Maybe they're also thinking about future-proofing Tome Tampering and Switcheroo.
Oh shoot, I totally forgot about them. I'm not sure how devs will handle but if I have to take a guess, I think each steps taking damage X times from your cards played might be the best resolution for this questline, rather than total damage taken.
They could also make Tamsin only redirect damage from your cards and powers, so you couldn't just turbo-fatigue yourself. Maybe even both.