Forgot to take a screenshot, but I added C'Thun, the Shattered to my deck, and got the Small Pouches treasure. It pulled C'Thun into my hand at the start of the game, and as a result his "start of game" effect never triggered - I just had him in hand.
Tbh, now when it is time to vote, I must admit Im not realy impressed about cards this week. Maybe it's because of theme? Or maybe it's because im in the middle of the night, and Im just tired.
Edit: I mean, they are either too clunky, or too simple, there are only a few exceptions. Of course its only my opinion.
And there won't be. They will not further address the system itself. I wrote my fair share of posts, but this thing is through. They will not backtrack. The only thing you can do is go full F2P or quit totally. I went full F2P currently and mull quitting in the medium term
How about the fact many, MANY Sprint/T-Mobile users need to use a VPN to play this game if they're not on WI-FI. Fuck the battle pass crybabies... that is something that will be sorted out. The issue with using cellular data and accessing the client is pushing a year soon.
COVID is an excuse but the fact that this cooperation has had such little transparency with long-term problems speaks volumes.
KANSAS - A "non-living" totem having Attack still seems weird to me, but I don't hate it. It's the best version of the card so far, I reckon.
Do you think I should change the art and/or the name? Here are some alternatives:
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Some alternate names: Totem Rager, Dragon Totem, Lightning Totem, Living Totem (I might keep the original art for this one), or Totem of the Elements (I might give it another keyword like Windfury or Charge if I did this one, like a mini version of Al'akir)
I like the middle art, and "Lightning Totem" as a name. Loses some of the connection to Windfury, though.
Personally, I really like the idea of alternate universes, so long as they keep a somewhat consistent art style across them so that they don’t visually clash as much. The way I think that they’ll ultimately do it is that players will get something like a Star Guardians expansion in which each region gets a SG version of one of their champions. Hopefully, they’ll also change up the design and color palette a little so that they aesthetically fit their region better. I think most skins have chromas so that should be too hard to justify.
If it weren't for the gameplay stuff, I'd say to add an option to toggle off the AUs players aren't interested in. After all, most players use those skins for themselves.
I personally LOVE alternate universes. It lets you see how a certain character would be like in a different setting (if done right). Too bad most media only focuses on gender-bent and alignment-swap (good guys are bad and vice-versa) story, and not much else. Spider-Man and some what-if comics being pretty much the only notable exceptions.
Oh man I wish I got one .. But its OK , the game is great the Dev team is the best and it will even be better my fear was league of legends only have ~140 champion and that is a small number for a card game only 1 year in and we already have 45 champions with 3 coming very soon but after this it mean they will reprint the same champions infinite times and they will be different cards only sharing the names nice .
Control is definitely the archetype this fits under. Tickatus doesn't discard cards since the discard mechanic is explicitly involves removing cards from your hand and comes with its own synergies. Discard cards are things like Boneweb Egg, Wicked Whispers, and Nightshade Matron which explicitly include the word 'discard'.
@KANSAS You might go with the current art or the middle of alternative ones. In the second case I would go with Lightning Totem. I do not know how the alternative arts would present on cards though.
If a system is bad and built around exploiting you, you should be able to do the same to it without a guilty conscience. It literally gave me nothing doing this, i only did it because i was close to leveling up an didn't want to play any more games because i was busy with something else. I had already done my three quests i had and it didn't even give me a level up. The system is a joke. I think everyone should afk BGs, because "don't you guys have phones?" The small indie company that is ACTIVISION BLIZZARD can afford to pay for servers....Get in as much experience as you can before they cap it to to 1k experience a day and screw us even harder.
I feel like you're kind of putting words in my mouth here. I'm not saying that you should feel guilty about exploiting the system as it exists. Rather, I'm saying that there several compelling reasons for Blizzard to disincentivize that kind of behavior (including the costs of running the game and a bad player experience), so if they're doing that and making it harder for people to game the system, I'm neither surprised nor upset. At the end of the day, it's all just economics. The game should be rewarding for people who are playing the game in earnest, and it should not be rewarding for players who are trying to exploit it. If they succeed at that, whether or not you "should" feel guilty about exploiting it would be irrelevant, as that would simply be a dumb thing to do.
Certainly, any effort to "stealth nerf" the XP for this AFK strategy would be the "stick" approach to nudging players towards positive gaming experiences in Hearthstone rather than exploitative ones. And you're right that they could stand to push harder on the "carrot" approach by making the system more generous for when people are playing the game for fun, thus decreasing the incentive to exploit it. But one way or another, I doubt I'll adopt this approach - it just seems tedious and boring.
A slight variation of the deck from a friend, Merman. He friended me after losing to the above deck and asked to try the deck out, being that he is a Warlock main. He came back with some edits in hopes of making the deck more competitive. I tried telling him it's not about winning but destroying hopes and dreams (and decks). But nevertheless, his version is still good. Honestly about even in win rates for me.
Blizzard Rolls Out Compensation for Heroic Duels and Questline Experience Bugs
I picked up 7400 exp after the first game I played this morning. Pleasant surprise!
I think I found a bug
Forgot to take a screenshot, but I added C'Thun, the Shattered to my deck, and got the Small Pouches treasure. It pulled C'Thun into my hand at the start of the game, and as a result his "start of game" effect never triggered - I just had him in hand.
All The Rage - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Tbh, now when it is time to vote, I must admit Im not realy impressed about cards this week. Maybe it's because of theme? Or maybe it's because im in the middle of the night, and Im just tired.
Edit: I mean, they are either too clunky, or too simple, there are only a few exceptions. Of course its only my opinion.
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: LordNelson#21418
Region: EU
Trade Only: Yes, you go first
Blizzard Rolls Out Compensation for Heroic Duels and Questline Experience Bugs
And there won't be. They will not further address the system itself. I wrote my fair share of posts, but this thing is through. They will not backtrack. The only thing you can do is go full F2P or quit totally. I went full F2P currently and mull quitting in the medium term
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Boom. You got it.
Blizzard Rolls Out Compensation for Heroic Duels and Questline Experience Bugs
How about the fact many, MANY Sprint/T-Mobile users need to use a VPN to play this game if they're not on WI-FI. Fuck the battle pass crybabies... that is something that will be sorted out. The issue with using cellular data and accessing the client is pushing a year soon.
COVID is an excuse but the fact that this cooperation has had such little transparency with long-term problems speaks volumes.
Rant /off
Blizzard Rolls Out Compensation for Heroic Duels and Questline Experience Bugs
Well, another blue post without any update about the battle pass :/
All The Rage - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Didn't see this til too late, but I think you've got it pretty spot on.
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
Yeah it seems like they’re going to do a mix of new characters and AU skins.
All The Rage - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I like the middle art, and "Lightning Totem" as a name. Loses some of the connection to Windfury, though.
Weekend Wild Hearthstone Decks - Control Warlock, Big Rogue, Spiteful Druid, & More
Wow, one of these actually looks possible to build! I'll have to give it a shot.
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
I think some of those sound awesome. Bring it on!
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
Personally, I really like the idea of alternate universes, so long as they keep a somewhat consistent art style across them so that they don’t visually clash as much. The way I think that they’ll ultimately do it is that players will get something like a Star Guardians expansion in which each region gets a SG version of one of their champions. Hopefully, they’ll also change up the design and color palette a little so that they aesthetically fit their region better. I think most skins have chromas so that should be too hard to justify.
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
I could be wrong, but I think they've stated they'll be creating some new characters after all the LoL champions have been added.
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
Yes to alternate universe. They can add a lot more charm and life into the game, and it's a neat way to take advantage of what they already have.
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
5th December update: Beardyman & Boltzmann WILD Murloc Shaman: Steamrolling Reno Priest = Satisfaction!
Murlocs taking down Reno Priests? Perfect for a Saturday! We look at two different Murloc Shaman decks, courtesy of Beardyman (https://twitter.com/BeardymanUK) and Boltzmann (https://twitter.com/boltzmann2718).
Beardyman deck code: AAEBAaoICuAF2A+EF+O+ApHBArbNAoyUA8aZA5ybA+GlAwrFA9sDpwi/F53CArHCAovOArWYA/SZA63eAwA=
Boltzmann deck code: AAEBAaoIAuAFhBcOxQPbA6cIvxe3bKC2AuO7Ap3CArHCAoyUA7WYA8aZA8bRA/DUAwA=
https://youtu.be/1TKRlFB72Yc
Weekend Wild Hearthstone Decks - Control Warlock, Big Rogue, Spiteful Druid, & More
That Even Priest looks sweet - unfortunately, I am missing a few cards, but I'll try to replace them in some way and have fun nonetheless
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
If it weren't for the gameplay stuff, I'd say to add an option to toggle off the AUs players aren't interested in. After all, most players use those skins for themselves.
I personally LOVE alternate universes. It lets you see how a certain character would be like in a different setting (if done right). Too bad most media only focuses on gender-bent and alignment-swap (good guys are bad and vice-versa) story, and not much else. Spider-Man and some what-if comics being pretty much the only notable exceptions.
A Look at Runeterra's Player Surveys for Alternative Universes
Oh man I wish I got one .. But its OK , the game is great the Dev team is the best and it will even be better my fear was league of legends only have ~140 champion and that is a small number for a card game only 1 year in and we already have 45 champions with 3 coming very soon but after this it mean they will reprint the same champions infinite times and they will be different cards only sharing the names nice .
this new system...
In my opinion they should lower the xp per level. If you need two to three daily quests to get one level, that's far too much.
Tickatus and his Demons hate combos!
Control is definitely the archetype this fits under. Tickatus doesn't discard cards since the discard mechanic is explicitly involves removing cards from your hand and comes with its own synergies. Discard cards are things like Boneweb Egg, Wicked Whispers, and Nightshade Matron which explicitly include the word 'discard'.
All The Rage - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
@KANSAS You might go with the current art or the middle of alternative ones. In the second case I would go with Lightning Totem. I do not know how the alternative arts would present on cards though.
Afk BGs
I feel like you're kind of putting words in my mouth here. I'm not saying that you should feel guilty about exploiting the system as it exists. Rather, I'm saying that there several compelling reasons for Blizzard to disincentivize that kind of behavior (including the costs of running the game and a bad player experience), so if they're doing that and making it harder for people to game the system, I'm neither surprised nor upset. At the end of the day, it's all just economics. The game should be rewarding for people who are playing the game in earnest, and it should not be rewarding for players who are trying to exploit it. If they succeed at that, whether or not you "should" feel guilty about exploiting it would be irrelevant, as that would simply be a dumb thing to do.
Certainly, any effort to "stealth nerf" the XP for this AFK strategy would be the "stick" approach to nudging players towards positive gaming experiences in Hearthstone rather than exploitative ones. And you're right that they could stand to push harder on the "carrot" approach by making the system more generous for when people are playing the game for fun, thus decreasing the incentive to exploit it. But one way or another, I doubt I'll adopt this approach - it just seems tedious and boring.
Control Mill Lock
A slight variation of the deck from a friend, Merman. He friended me after losing to the above deck and asked to try the deck out, being that he is a Warlock main. He came back with some edits in hopes of making the deck more competitive. I tried telling him it's not about winning but destroying hopes and dreams (and decks). But nevertheless, his version is still good. Honestly about even in win rates for me.
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