I'm not entirely certain if the legendary quest will go away for those that already started it after the 36 day event is over. Assuming the worst case scenario, then yes, you have 36 days to guarantee the opposing faction golden legendary card. I hope that isn't the case, but Blizzard has being stupidly vague about everything because its Blizzard.
I agree that 10 games a day is huge. Especially considering at how casual Hearthstone is, something like this just becomes so unobtainable in a month's timeframe. I feel like they've left out a key part of the event within their post or they laid out their numbers wrong because honestly, it makes no sense. I remember when we datamined the original rewards track XP numbers and it sent everything into a fury. Blizzard came out and said it wasn't the whole picture and that we'd see events during the expansion cycle that would give you more XP - which they then got rid of and made the whole track make more sense without needing those larger event XP gains. Perhaps there's some special quests that reward honor or there will be times where they increase the honor gains. Doubtful but I'll remain slightly optimistic they sucked at their messaging.
I think the concede factor is either time spent in game, turns, or health which makes it fairly forgiving. Don't quote me on that though!
There are no confirmed details right now but I'm assuming this is going to be like the rewards track content.
Previously, looking at quest rewards like the ones we've seen during Noble Garden, Golden cards that were rewarded via a quest were still craftable. This might lead one to believe you'd be able to craft all these cards yourself but with the way Blizzard has been dealing with Golden Cards lately via the Rewards Track, they will be flagged as uncraftable since they are a part of a special event.
I'd love to be wrong about that, and I think it's kinda bull that you can't choose to craft golden cards that are a part of free content since Blizzard gets more value out of you if you do that (open this up after a rewards track ends), but idk, I guess they don't like that idea since we haven't seen it yet. (Silas Darkmoon was the first golden rewards track card and remains uncraftable as a golden).
Hopefully it also fixes the neverending "Waiting" instead of "Play" button when assembling a battlegrounds party. As a workaround I have to kick and reinvite the same person 2-3 times so Play Button finally works. Happens on all platforms, does not matter if I'm the host or not.
Does this mean to get the opposite faction legendary, we'd have to grind up to 7200 honor in that 36 days or get lucky with whoever wins the war at the end?
10 games per day (and that's being generous here) is a fairly big amount to be honest. Fortunately it also works with the other modes, so we dont have to pour it all on standard ranked, but that's still an incredible amount of games. Not a fan of this arrangement.
Pretty sure team5 coded it so you dont get honor if you concede before a certain amount of health, because otherwise there would be quite a lot of t1 concedes down in bronze wild. That'll likely suck, because there are certain games where its perfectly legitimate to concede before getting to 15 health or less.
Well, that's not fun. I'm never going to play that many games as a casual player, I really hope they bring in some catchup mechanics later in the expansion.
I feel like most of these new tier 1/2 Passives would be sooo much better if Team 5 were to remove some of the old powerhouses that at this point are just limiting the design space.
Namely, I am talking about Fireshaper, Battle Totem and stuff like that, which can't be easily topped as they're simple but extremely consistent.
I dabble in all game modes and never bought a tavern pass. This amount of value and the bias towards dragons, I might be swayed to buy the pass this time...
Most of those tier 2 treasures look like hot garbage, tbh. A few stand out though, like Expedited Burial could be interesting.
Speaking of that card, did they have an intern write the card text? Feels unnecessarily long and not following syntax of other cards with similar effects.
I bought the paid track for Stormwind, and I made over the difference in gold compared to the free track for the Barrens. The extra xp really helps. This time I am defiantly getting the paid track and I play a lot of BG's. It will be a lot of cosmetics for free as I usually would spend $20 on packs anyway and I will get back the gold to do that.
I'm assuming Drek'Thar and Vanndar Stormpike can't be opened in packs right? Seeing as we all have a change to get both legendries by playing 360 games on average.
My Main issue with mercenaries is I spend quite a lot of Gold on it. Start of Mercenaries was fun and middle game was fun so I spent gold thinking end game would be fun. It was not. It was boring grind over and over.
Also big sad for no Vanessa hero skin. Would have killed for that one, but Dragon Mage thingy is cool too.
Yeah same. A Vanessa hero skin would have been AMAZING, and it would have made sense considering the Book of mercenaries storyline so far. And it would have been really cool if we got both Edwin and Vanessa as hero skins shortly after each other. However i do agree that the dragon mage skin looks great! Also considering it's a fire dragon it better have some special voicelines when your casting fire spells!
That's a LOT of stuff. And as long as the price remains the same, then it's a really good deal if you play Hearthstone AND BGs. Lots of cosmetics, and i'm surprised were getting Lokholar, the Ice Lord as the free legendary, that's really nice. Korrak the Bloodrager seems like it has potential to be a pretty sick diamon card, lets hope the animation is good! Glad to see that they finally added BG stuff to the tavern pass, and i guess mercenaries stuff. Iksarr already said they were planning this in a AMA some time ago, and i'm happy to see that they actually did it.
Also i'm pretty sure we also get a legendary quest chain or something at launch which gives us golden versions of some cards, so that's great too. (With the honor stuff) From what i can tell at first glance this tavern pass is looks generous. (let's hope they didn't lower the amount of earnable gold, but i guess we will hear about it once people finish with the calcs.) The free version looks great on first glance, and paid version seem very stacked. The tavern pass looks really good... as long as they don't up the price.
Hearthstone is Getting a New Mage Hero - Celeste!
it is this one !
Why? because of this
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
I'm not entirely certain if the legendary quest will go away for those that already started it after the 36 day event is over. Assuming the worst case scenario, then yes, you have 36 days to guarantee the opposing faction golden legendary card. I hope that isn't the case, but Blizzard has being stupidly vague about everything because its Blizzard.
I agree that 10 games a day is huge. Especially considering at how casual Hearthstone is, something like this just becomes so unobtainable in a month's timeframe. I feel like they've left out a key part of the event within their post or they laid out their numbers wrong because honestly, it makes no sense. I remember when we datamined the original rewards track XP numbers and it sent everything into a fury. Blizzard came out and said it wasn't the whole picture and that we'd see events during the expansion cycle that would give you more XP - which they then got rid of and made the whole track make more sense without needing those larger event XP gains. Perhaps there's some special quests that reward honor or there will be times where they increase the honor gains. Doubtful but I'll remain slightly optimistic they sucked at their messaging.
I think the concede factor is either time spent in game, turns, or health which makes it fairly forgiving. Don't quote me on that though!
New Paladin Hero - Lightforged Cariel
Wow, an excellent card. Direct impact on board, handbuff and and a infinite weapon.
And the art is amazing!
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
Ok, I'm out then (without any additional honor gains). 10 games per day is too much for a casual player like myself. I have to work and have a RL :)
Fractured in Alterac Valley
I guessed wrong on whether they'd release new mercs before the exp for the purposed of the preorder legendary merc.
Fractured in Alterac Valley
Last time they given one in Duels too...
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
There are no confirmed details right now but I'm assuming this is going to be like the rewards track content.
Previously, looking at quest rewards like the ones we've seen during Noble Garden, Golden cards that were rewarded via a quest were still craftable. This might lead one to believe you'd be able to craft all these cards yourself but with the way Blizzard has been dealing with Golden Cards lately via the Rewards Track, they will be flagged as uncraftable since they are a part of a special event.
I'd love to be wrong about that, and I think it's kinda bull that you can't choose to craft golden cards that are a part of free content since Blizzard gets more value out of you if you do that (open this up after a rewards track ends), but idk, I guess they don't like that idea since we haven't seen it yet. (Silas Darkmoon was the first golden rewards track card and remains uncraftable as a golden).
Fractured in Alterac Valley
Hopefully it also fixes the neverending "Waiting" instead of "Play" button when assembling a battlegrounds party. As a workaround I have to kick and reinvite the same person 2-3 times so Play Button finally works. Happens on all platforms, does not matter if I'm the host or not.
Fractured in Alterac Valley
Don't forget your free tavern ticket in arena too!
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
Does this mean to get the opposite faction legendary, we'd have to grind up to 7200 honor in that 36 days or get lucky with whoever wins the war at the end?
10 games per day (and that's being generous here) is a fairly big amount to be honest. Fortunately it also works with the other modes, so we dont have to pour it all on standard ranked, but that's still an incredible amount of games. Not a fan of this arrangement.
Pretty sure team5 coded it so you dont get honor if you concede before a certain amount of health, because otherwise there would be quite a lot of t1 concedes down in bronze wild. That'll likely suck, because there are certain games where its perfectly legitimate to concede before getting to 15 health or less.
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
Well, that's not fun. I'm never going to play that many games as a casual player, I really hope they bring in some catchup mechanics later in the expansion.
Hearthstone Duels Gets A Round of Updates in Patch 22.0 With 15 New Passive Treasures & Goblins vs Gnomes Joining the Card Pool
I feel like most of these new tier 1/2 Passives would be sooo much better if Team 5 were to remove some of the old powerhouses that at this point are just limiting the design space.
Namely, I am talking about Fireshaper, Battle Totem and stuff like that, which can't be easily topped as they're simple but extremely consistent.
Hearthstone's Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Detailed - Celeste Mage Hero Finally Appears, Largest Pass to Date
I dabble in all game modes and never bought a tavern pass. This amount of value and the bias towards dragons, I might be swayed to buy the pass this time...
Well played Blizzard.
Hearthstone Duels Gets A Round of Updates in Patch 22.0 With 15 New Passive Treasures & Goblins vs Gnomes Joining the Card Pool
Most of those tier 2 treasures look like hot garbage, tbh. A few stand out though, like Expedited Burial could be interesting.
Speaking of that card, did they have an intern write the card text? Feels unnecessarily long and not following syntax of other cards with similar effects.
Hearthstone Duels Gets A Round of Updates in Patch 22.0 With 15 New Passive Treasures & Goblins vs Gnomes Joining the Card Pool
I was upset about it too!
Hearthstone Duels Gets A Round of Updates in Patch 22.0 With 15 New Passive Treasures & Goblins vs Gnomes Joining the Card Pool
Patch Notes didn't mention it while they did with Arena, so the logic answer is that no, we won't receive any Duels refund ticket.
Hearthstone's Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Detailed - Celeste Mage Hero Finally Appears, Largest Pass to Date
I bought the paid track for Stormwind, and I made over the difference in gold compared to the free track for the Barrens. The extra xp really helps. This time I am defiantly getting the paid track and I play a lot of BG's. It will be a lot of cosmetics for free as I usually would spend $20 on packs anyway and I will get back the gold to do that.
Hearthstone's Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Detailed - Celeste Mage Hero Finally Appears, Largest Pass to Date
Pretty sure the free version has the exact same rewards as the current ones, plus the Vanessa merc.
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
Very cool. Lots of free cards this time around for those who play a lot. I hope there is a similar system for future expacs going forward.
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
So...are the golden rares uncraftable then? Because if they aren't that would be some nice dust to get for free.
Hearthstone's Upcoming Alterac Valley Faction War Legendary Questline Requires Over 300 Games to Get Golden Card Rewards
I'm assuming Drek'Thar and Vanndar Stormpike can't be opened in packs right? Seeing as we all have a change to get both legendries by playing 360 games on average.
4 New Playable Mercenaries Are Coming to Hearthstone Including Valeera Sanguinar and Vanessa VanCleef
My Main issue with mercenaries is I spend quite a lot of Gold on it. Start of Mercenaries was fun and middle game was fun so I spent gold thinking end game would be fun. It was not. It was boring grind over and over.
Hearthstone Duels Gets A Round of Updates in Patch 22.0 With 15 New Passive Treasures & Goblins vs Gnomes Joining the Card Pool
Still nothing about Diablos 6. Treasure? I thought the Duels version was also supposed to only stay there for a limited time.
Hearthstone's Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Detailed - Celeste Mage Hero Finally Appears, Largest Pass to Date
Yeah same. A Vanessa hero skin would have been AMAZING, and it would have made sense considering the Book of mercenaries storyline so far. And it would have been really cool if we got both Edwin and Vanessa as hero skins shortly after each other. However i do agree that the dragon mage skin looks great! Also considering it's a fire dragon it better have some special voicelines when your casting fire spells!
Hearthstone's Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Detailed - Celeste Mage Hero Finally Appears, Largest Pass to Date
That's a LOT of stuff. And as long as the price remains the same, then it's a really good deal if you play Hearthstone AND BGs. Lots of cosmetics, and i'm surprised were getting Lokholar, the Ice Lord as the free legendary, that's really nice. Korrak the Bloodrager seems like it has potential to be a pretty sick diamon card, lets hope the animation is good! Glad to see that they finally added BG stuff to the tavern pass, and i guess mercenaries stuff. Iksarr already said they were planning this in a AMA some time ago, and i'm happy to see that they actually did it.
Also i'm pretty sure we also get a legendary quest chain or something at launch which gives us golden versions of some cards, so that's great too. (With the honor stuff) From what i can tell at first glance this tavern pass is looks generous. (let's hope they didn't lower the amount of earnable gold, but i guess we will hear about it once people finish with the calcs.) The free version looks great on first glance, and paid version seem very stacked. The tavern pass looks really good... as long as they don't up the price.