I don't like those changes. We are all happy because Fiora and Aphelios were abusive but they just got completely killed. If we look at it with neutrality, what they just did does not make any sense.
The changes to Fiora may make some sense because she is a combo deck and she had a lot of winratio. Besides that she is very frustrating to play against him. But they could have raised her leveling condition or something like that for her.
And I feel sorry for aphelios. It doesn't make sense that all weapons cost 3 mana, some do like 'Calibrum' or 'Gravitum' yes but others like 'Infernum or Severum' don't. Besides that they have not reversed the change they made to her by nerfing her life.
The meta is going to change radically after this patch, but they are going to have to buff Fiora / Aphelios again in the future because they are unplayable right now.
Glad to read it here, OOC. As others already said, it has to be a kick in the groin to be a coder post patch. Hope they can suss out the bugs easier once everyone is inoculated.
I was browsing thru my collection and noticed I've got 2 Old Murk-Eyes. I think I must have gotten the second one when I was reaping all the free achievement rewards just after patch 20.0 went live. Unfortunately, no 4 Parrots, not even 2, as I still don't have Captain Greenskin from the Classic set. I'm somewhat hesitant to dust one because I'm not really sure if Blizzard knows about this already and what they'll do when they're aware of their mistake.
Anyone else got extra copies? What did you do with them?
My luck seemed to have been all over the place, got a bit unlucky with the pre-order, but in the 100 packs with gold I got like 10 legendaries with 3 of them being gold. All in all not too shabby
Definitely a great opening, but all the wrong cards for me with the exception of Tavish and Scabbs. I day 1 crafted both Mage legendarys and might add what's need for the 12 angry orcs deck plus Kazakus.
I hope everyone is enjoying Forged in the Barrens so far! Pushed something exciting so I decided to put up a changelog.
I know people love to see these and I regret not posting them more frequently. A lot of the stuff that ends up being deployed is boring stuff that isn't user-facing though so it would be weird to post about it :P
New Features
Hearthstone
Deck list images!
Decks now generate images when they get created (or shortly after based on site load).
These images display in embeds when linking to decks on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
The image will be recreated when your deck is saved with new cards.
TODO: Let you grab these images easily on the deck pages themselves for sharing easily.
Bug Fixes
General
Fixed an issue where comments would remain cached after editing. The cache now correctly clears on save.
Hearthstone
Classic icon uses Hearthstone's new classic set icon instead of the old one.
Known Issues
Hearthstone
Deckbuilder is showing some invalid cards for standard.
We have a long-term fix for this that should be out on Wednesday and will make dealing with formats much easier for us.
I bought the Pass but did not Pre-order. I had about 4300 gold going into the expansion. I already did some rewards track and used some of that gold. Opened about 50 packs.
Also crafted Overlord Saurfang just because. Loving that deck. Got to my highest rank so far piloting it and 1 day away from new month.
So 3 legendaries opened. Didn't do too bad. Still have enough dust for another 2 legendaries if I want. Thinking of going back to craft Scholomance stuff I missed as I feel I got the least from their last year. I haven't used all the legends I got yet, plus all the free ones in Core, this feels really good. I got a lot of new toys, I'll be busy for a while.
Also Nozdormu the Eternal is going in most of my decks so far! Sadly only matched up with one Noz player. And yes I'm always in ranked. Speed stone lets go!
I may or may not have been playing a lot of Deep already (at low ranks/Normal mode, mostly). It was solid-ish already, I'm e.g. unbeaten against Lissandra/Trundle in 4-5 matches so far. Maokai mill best mill.
Kotick has totally brought the quality of Blizzard games down to get some money in his pocket. It sucks to spend money on this gaming knowing some of it goes to him.
It sucks being a part of activision-blizz because apparently the company can be making stellar profits and yet there is still mentions of 'downsizing' while the CEO earns a mere few million in bonuses.
Im absolutely certain the team is doing all they can with what they have, but it begs the question why aren't there more QA testers when hearthstone is likely one of blizz's main profit generating machines?
As for the epics, I opened 11 out 67 which is around 1 in 6 packs. I think that is also way above average but I can't remember what the timer is for epics. I didn't get a lot of the ones I really wanted but no complaints. Oh! Except for the fact that I opened a Primordial Protector which everyone gets at levels 65 and 75. I would have thought these cards would have been taken out of the pool until we got them on the track. I think epics are generally the hardest to collect completely. I feel like I am now down 1 epic and am wondering if I should risk opening more packs until I get to those levels. This is the kind of 'nickel and diming' that players do not like. The game is expensive enough.
Hey! Going to hijack the sticky here. We just released a hotfix addressing the matchmaking error for Standard, Wild, Duels, and Casual. It might take a little while for this to deploy across all regions, but once it has you should be able to queue for these modes without issue. Also, a fix for Secrets from the Core Set not being Discoverable from Ringling's Rifle and Ring Toss went out at the same time.
There's another weirder bug with Deathstalker Rexxar. Apparently when you craft a zombeast, all you get is the first choice you pick, so effectively the hp is now just to discover a beast.
Man, hearthstone is now buggier than the insides of a termite colony.
Urf Cosmetics Are Coming to Legends of Runeterra + Big Balance Changes! Patch 2.5.0 Notes
I don't like those changes. We are all happy because Fiora and Aphelios were abusive but they just got completely killed. If we look at it with neutrality, what they just did does not make any sense.
The changes to Fiora may make some sense because she is a combo deck and she had a lot of winratio. Besides that she is very frustrating to play against him. But they could have raised her leveling condition or something like that for her.
And I feel sorry for aphelios. It doesn't make sense that all weapons cost 3 mana, some do like 'Calibrum' or 'Gravitum' yes but others like 'Infernum or Severum' don't. Besides that they have not reversed the change they made to her by nerfing her life.
The meta is going to change radically after this patch, but they are going to have to buff Fiora / Aphelios again in the future because they are unplayable right now.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
Scorch says 4 Damage but deals only 3, weird bug.
2 Old Murk-Eyes
I also got a 2nd Old Murk-Eyes and another Parrots from the new achievements. I dusted the extra legendary.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
Glad to read it here, OOC. As others already said, it has to be a kick in the groin to be a coder post patch. Hope they can suss out the bugs easier once everyone is inoculated.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
I was getting Wrath of Air Totem from Shaman hero power. Is this intended?
2 Old Murk-Eyes
I was browsing thru my collection and noticed I've got 2 Old Murk-Eyes. I think I must have gotten the second one when I was reaping all the free achievement rewards just after patch 20.0 went live. Unfortunately, no 4 Parrots, not even 2, as I still don't have Captain Greenskin from the Classic set. I'm somewhat hesitant to dust one because I'm not really sure if Blizzard knows about this already and what they'll do when they're aware of their mistake.
Anyone else got extra copies? What did you do with them?
Pack Opening Thread -Barren Edition
My luck seemed to have been all over the place, got a bit unlucky with the pre-order, but in the 100 packs with gold I got like 10 legendaries with 3 of them being gold. All in all not too shabby
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
This time have bought the battle pass. At first, will get to level 70, after that it will be achievements time)
Pack Opening Thread -Barren Edition
I think I'm more or less in dapperdog's boat this time:
Big preorder bundle = 85 Barrens packs (5 of them golden, nothing of note in there)
Another 40 packs with gold = 125 Barrens packs total
1 Priest pack and 6 Rogue packs from book of heros and Gladiator Valeera bundle
Results were golden Cannonmaster Smythe and Barak Kodobane from the preorder, Death Speaker Blackthorn, Guff Runetotem, Tavish Stormpike, Cariel Roame, a golden Xyrella, Apothecary Helbrim, Scabbs Cutterbutter from a Rogue pack, Tamsin Roame and Blademaster Samuro which was basically a wildcard because I bought the Tavern Pass this time.
Definitely a great opening, but all the wrong cards for me with the exception of Tavish and Scabbs. I day 1 crafted both Mage legendarys and might add what's need for the 12 angry orcs deck plus Kazakus.
Out of Cards Changelog - 2021-03-31
I hope everyone is enjoying Forged in the Barrens so far! Pushed something exciting so I decided to put up a changelog.
I know people love to see these and I regret not posting them more frequently. A lot of the stuff that ends up being deployed is boring stuff that isn't user-facing though so it would be weird to post about it :P
New Features
Hearthstone
Bug Fixes
General
Hearthstone
Known Issues
Hearthstone
Forged in the Barrens Archetype Additions
We've added:
Pack Opening Thread -Barren Edition
I bought the Pass but did not Pre-order. I had about 4300 gold going into the expansion. I already did some rewards track and used some of that gold. Opened about 50 packs.
Tamsin Roame
Bru'kan
Plaguemaw the Rotting (This may have been my level 20 track reward)
Kurtrus Ashfallen
Also crafted Overlord Saurfang just because. Loving that deck. Got to my highest rank so far piloting it and 1 day away from new month.
So 3 legendaries opened. Didn't do too bad. Still have enough dust for another 2 legendaries if I want. Thinking of going back to craft Scholomance stuff I missed as I feel I got the least from their last year. I haven't used all the legends I got yet, plus all the free ones in Core, this feels really good. I got a lot of new toys, I'll be busy for a while.
Also Nozdormu the Eternal is going in most of my decks so far! Sadly only matched up with one Noz player. And yes I'm always in ranked. Speed stone lets go!
Urf Cosmetics Are Coming to Legends of Runeterra + Big Balance Changes! Patch 2.5.0 Notes
I may or may not have been playing a lot of Deep already (at low ranks/Normal mode, mostly). It was solid-ish already, I'm e.g. unbeaten against Lissandra/Trundle in 4-5 matches so far. Maokai mill best mill.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
Kotick has totally brought the quality of Blizzard games down to get some money in his pocket. It sucks to spend money on this gaming knowing some of it goes to him.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
Can't play Classic, Standard, Wild, Battlegrounds, Duels, Tavern Brawl. Literally, nothing works even after removing golden cards.
Thanks Blizzard! So excited to open 140 packs and stare at them.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
It sucks being a part of activision-blizz because apparently the company can be making stellar profits and yet there is still mentions of 'downsizing' while the CEO earns a mere few million in bonuses.
Im absolutely certain the team is doing all they can with what they have, but it begs the question why aren't there more QA testers when hearthstone is likely one of blizz's main profit generating machines?
Pack Opening Thread -Barren Edition
I bought the $50 bundle. Cariel Roame and Mordresh Fire Eye were my free Legendaries.
Opened 67 packs so far. 4 legenadaries: Tamsin Roame, Plaguemaw the Rotting (golden), Kazakus, Golem Shaper, and Serena Bloodfeather. 16.75 packs per legendary. Great except for Serena. I also opened 2 year of phoenix packs and landed a Vectus. I was extremely happy about that!
As for the epics, I opened 11 out 67 which is around 1 in 6 packs. I think that is also way above average but I can't remember what the timer is for epics. I didn't get a lot of the ones I really wanted but no complaints. Oh! Except for the fact that I opened a Primordial Protector which everyone gets at levels 65 and 75. I would have thought these cards would have been taken out of the pool until we got them on the track. I think epics are generally the hardest to collect completely. I feel like I am now down 1 epic and am wondering if I should risk opening more packs until I get to those levels. This is the kind of 'nickel and diming' that players do not like. The game is expensive enough.
More like Bro'ken
I just went on a 12 win streak with this deck, thank you!
Oh my Yogg vs Libran of Hope
It probably gets played again but with a random target. Unlikely to happen considering it will almost always be discounted by that time
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
It must suck to be a blizz employee. I wonder if they get paid overtime? Either way, I am glad the bug has been fixed.
Blizzard Has Released a Hotfix to Address Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issues & Issues With Secrets
Mysterious Tome isn't working in Duels. No secrets get played at the start of the game. Multiple crashes in my one run... Blizz, Please!
Howto: Win-5-Ranked Weekly Quest twice
Worked for me. Thanks OP!
Oh my Yogg vs Libran of Hope
Now that Libran of Hope is the only 9 mana spell in standard, what happens if u play it at full cost vs OMY? (I don't have the card to test it)
Forged in the Barrens Matchmaking Issue: Games Failing to Start - Blizzard is Working on It
Ring Toss Bug on Standard
There's another weirder bug with Deathstalker Rexxar. Apparently when you craft a zombeast, all you get is the first choice you pick, so effectively the hp is now just to discover a beast.
Man, hearthstone is now buggier than the insides of a termite colony.