If people are spamming the same thing, they'll have their comments wiped and cosmetics removed after the crawl ends so they have zero chance of obtaining them again.
If you come across someone being dumb, private messages are always open =)
Thanks Flux for mentioning my idea :) Sure, Darkmoon Faire is about to start, but it´s still good to know that you don´t have to craft new legendaries to complete the achievements, many are doable in Casual Duels now.
Card games by nature are expensive and if anything, Blizzard has helped move it in the other direction. Prior to the Year of the Phoenix starting, we received a huge update that gave us duplicate protection for all rarities.
Now, I know this doesn't help with the legendary problem, where players want more legendary cards than they get because they are arguably the most important cards in the game, but at a baseline, Hearthstone did get cheaper to play.
But, back the battle pass. The math is definitely not working for a chunk of the players as it stands right now which has been disappointing. My biggest issue though with the whole problem is that we don't have the full picture yet. Yes, Blizzard fucked up and should have provided us with the full picture and it would have been great if they were to actually provide us with a preview of this before it went live. Of course, they did not because they can't write a blog post to save their own lives, but when they do, they do so to bump some unfortunate soul's card reveal.
Blizzard needs to announce either an immediate boost to the base level of experience or they need to tell us what we can expect from legendary quests. Are we going to have quests appear that give us 20k experience? If so, completing a handful of those is going to net you some huge swings in progression as we get deeper into the pass and it would be in line with receiving a few packs from a legendary quest.
And yeah, honestly, the premium pass should have been included in the mega bundle. In fact, a big change that I'd like to see, and I was even considering doing an article for it because I think it makes for an excellent discussion point, is I'd love to see them move the cosmetic Hero that comes with the mega bundle into the premium rewards track.
We now know that they are willing to bring expansion pre-order bonuses back to the shop and they have mentioned wanting to do this with heroes. I have my doubts that the most important item to boost pre-orders is the addition of a cosmetic hero so if they just dumped that into the pass, it provides two ways of obtaining it. The more expensive way, buying a ton of packs and getting the pass alongside it, and the cheaper way of just buying the pass.
They definitely have some work to do with their communication. It really hurts to see because I've always heard we're improving, things are going to be better, we're excited to interact more. Then it falls flat multiple times during a year. Blizzard doesn't really seem to value their community team as much anymore and instead focus their efforts on streamers. I get it, they have huge, live audiences with a measurable impact which is perfect for the execs that just love to talk those live numbers.
I'm sure many of you remember when we'd get bundles of packs to giveaway (as did other community sites) or cards to reveal and now that isn't a thing anymore for the non-streamers. It isn't that big of a deal since the traffic for a dedicated card reveal doesn't really matter much (it just ends up as an image across twitter, fb, reddit so you get no clicks) but it was one hell of a nice gesture. Sure, I loved the Scholomance Robe and Shoes that they gave me, and the stuff that came in the Warglaive box (that was super awesome), but that isn't something we get to share as a community. The card dump is wasted potential after the final stream is over - not everyone needs to get exciting cards, had them out in batches of 3 or 4 and let people create some cool content around them.
Ultimately, yes, they have a lot to work through with the new rewards track. I think it's a good start though and we're going in the right direction with it provided they open up and give us the full picture so we can continue to do the math on it.
I've seen a few videos now from several HS creators and I'm inclined to agree with them.
I generally play most days, and whilst not being exclusively FTP (buying the bundle per expansion) there is a definitive difference in terms of rewards for play.
I half expect Blizzard to respond through re-instating the 10g per 3 wins, that way they keep their brand new system and satisfy the demand for change.
Its still too soon to see if they would double down on this. I'm fairly certainly they will eventually tweak the rewards, maybe before the release of Darkmoon, or somewhere around 2 weeks to a month.
I highly doubt that Blizzard would try to change the new system that they just released. The earliest time they would probably change the system is probably the next expansion after Darkmoon Faire, and I think that by itself is already an optimistic prediction. They took a while to implement the tavern pass system in the first place and if they are probably going to change it drastically, it's probably going to take a lot of effort and that's something they probably don't have anymore.
Probably not. Its all speculation obviously, but one good thing from this entire bs of a system is that its easily tweaked, from simply granting more xp on games to increasing the gold gained, maybe from 100 to 150.
Given all the fire and brimstone hanging around, if they still hope to sell even a small bundle out without causing a major backlash, then a quick fix would seem the sensible solution.
They know the whales don't care. They know the content creators with large followings won't speak out about it, they know reddit will forgot about it in a week just like before, they know nothing will happen. So why should they change anything.
Content creators are coming out making fun of people for trying to get them to spread awareness for this. Even leaving in the bit where someone mentions why they won't bring up these issues because they'll lose sponsorship from blizzard.
I love the design, but I think it's too weak. I'd rather just run like polymorph or something similar. Plus it doesn't really benefit from running other elementals.
I think the 3 mana 4-3 guy would be better, but this could see play if it sticks. It just doesn't seem sticky enough to me though, but could see some play in secret mage.
If an elemental mage is going to work, it's gonna be because of this guy. Hopefully, next year has better support for elementals, they are my favorite tribe by far. Still think it could see some play with a more tempo-based highlander mage.
New Shaman Spell - Revolve
Love the card design. Hopefully not as broken as both evolve and devolve were though.
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
Hasn't really been a problem in the past tbh.
If people are spamming the same thing, they'll have their comments wiped and cosmetics removed after the crawl ends so they have zero chance of obtaining them again.
If you come across someone being dumb, private messages are always open =)
New Warrior Minion - Bumper Car
that's a lot of rush. ETC support but it's just 6 mana 6 face damage 3 minion damage. Not really that strong for two cards.
Completing Your Darkmoon Faire Achievements Before the Madness Arrives as a Free to Play Player
Thanks Flux for mentioning my idea :) Sure, Darkmoon Faire is about to start, but it´s still good to know that you don´t have to craft new legendaries to complete the achievements, many are doable in Casual Duels now.
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
Compendium will arrive tomorrow morning, a few hours before the expansion launches.
New Priest Minion - Blood of G'huun
I hate res priest. Any card with res priest support I hate so so much. Though fine I guess it's an interesting design.
New Neutral Minion - Darkmoon Statue
Uniquely designed card, I like it a lot!
New Priest Minion - Blood of G'huun
Haters gonna hate with this card!
New Rogue Spell - Swindle
Works with the Foxy guy, and I think tutored draws work well. Good card.
New Priest Minion - Blood of G'huun
Rez Priest strikes back!
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
There will be a community compendium if that's what you're asking. OoC does it for every expansion, and should arrive today or tomorrow (hopefully :D)
New Neutral Minion - Darkmoon Statue
Theoretically strong, but aggro decks dont want to run a card that can only be played turn 5+ on and is bad on topdecks.
New Priest Minion - Fairground Fool
Seems alright in highlander/midrange priest. I like it.
Blizzard LIED and it's NOT FINE
I'm going to say something unpopular.
I don't think Hearthstone is too expensive.
Card games by nature are expensive and if anything, Blizzard has helped move it in the other direction. Prior to the Year of the Phoenix starting, we received a huge update that gave us duplicate protection for all rarities.
Now, I know this doesn't help with the legendary problem, where players want more legendary cards than they get because they are arguably the most important cards in the game, but at a baseline, Hearthstone did get cheaper to play.
But, back the battle pass. The math is definitely not working for a chunk of the players as it stands right now which has been disappointing. My biggest issue though with the whole problem is that we don't have the full picture yet. Yes, Blizzard fucked up and should have provided us with the full picture and it would have been great if they were to actually provide us with a preview of this before it went live. Of course, they did not because they can't write a blog post to save their own lives, but when they do, they do so to bump some unfortunate soul's card reveal.
Blizzard needs to announce either an immediate boost to the base level of experience or they need to tell us what we can expect from legendary quests. Are we going to have quests appear that give us 20k experience? If so, completing a handful of those is going to net you some huge swings in progression as we get deeper into the pass and it would be in line with receiving a few packs from a legendary quest.
And yeah, honestly, the premium pass should have been included in the mega bundle. In fact, a big change that I'd like to see, and I was even considering doing an article for it because I think it makes for an excellent discussion point, is I'd love to see them move the cosmetic Hero that comes with the mega bundle into the premium rewards track.
We now know that they are willing to bring expansion pre-order bonuses back to the shop and they have mentioned wanting to do this with heroes. I have my doubts that the most important item to boost pre-orders is the addition of a cosmetic hero so if they just dumped that into the pass, it provides two ways of obtaining it. The more expensive way, buying a ton of packs and getting the pass alongside it, and the cheaper way of just buying the pass.
They definitely have some work to do with their communication. It really hurts to see because I've always heard we're improving, things are going to be better, we're excited to interact more. Then it falls flat multiple times during a year. Blizzard doesn't really seem to value their community team as much anymore and instead focus their efforts on streamers. I get it, they have huge, live audiences with a measurable impact which is perfect for the execs that just love to talk those live numbers.
I'm sure many of you remember when we'd get bundles of packs to giveaway (as did other community sites) or cards to reveal and now that isn't a thing anymore for the non-streamers. It isn't that big of a deal since the traffic for a dedicated card reveal doesn't really matter much (it just ends up as an image across twitter, fb, reddit so you get no clicks) but it was one hell of a nice gesture. Sure, I loved the Scholomance Robe and Shoes that they gave me, and the stuff that came in the Warglaive box (that was super awesome), but that isn't something we get to share as a community. The card dump is wasted potential after the final stream is over - not everyone needs to get exciting cards, had them out in batches of 3 or 4 and let people create some cool content around them.
Ultimately, yes, they have a lot to work through with the new rewards track. I think it's a good start though and we're going in the right direction with it provided they open up and give us the full picture so we can continue to do the math on it.
Ramble out.
New Warlock Minion - Midway Maniac
Strong demon, strong zoo option. I like it (plus works with deck of chaos).
Blizzard LIED and it's NOT FINE
I've seen a few videos now from several HS creators and I'm inclined to agree with them.
I generally play most days, and whilst not being exclusively FTP (buying the bundle per expansion) there is a definitive difference in terms of rewards for play.
I half expect Blizzard to respond through re-instating the 10g per 3 wins, that way they keep their brand new system and satisfy the demand for change.
However, this is blizzard so you never know.
Blizzard LIED and it's NOT FINE
They know the whales don't care. They know the content creators with large followings won't speak out about it, they know reddit will forgot about it in a week just like before, they know nothing will happen. So why should they change anything.
Content creators are coming out making fun of people for trying to get them to spread awareness for this. Even leaving in the bit where someone mentions why they won't bring up these issues because they'll lose sponsorship from blizzard.
https://twitter.com/DaneHearth/status/1328009093496365058
New Neutral Minion - Costumed Entertainer
Too slow for handbuffs. It's weird they are bringing it back though because handbuffs are more of a gadgetzan thing.
New Rogue Spell - Cloak of Shadows
Control rouge I guess, but I don't think that will be an archetype. Still glad they brought back stealth for heroes though
New Neutral Minion - Costumed Entertainer
LOL, my first thought was why the Murloc tribe keyword was missing until I realized it was simply a costume 🤣
Costumed Entertainer
LOL, my first thought was why the Murloc tribe keyword was missing until I realized it was simply a costume 🤣
New Shaman Minion - Magicfin
Most useless epic in the set. Give Murloc shaman something better going into the new year.
New Mage Minion - Firework Elemental
I love the design, but I think it's too weak. I'd rather just run like polymorph or something similar. Plus it doesn't really benefit from running other elementals.
New Mage Minion - Game Master
I think the 3 mana 4-3 guy would be better, but this could see play if it sticks. It just doesn't seem sticky enough to me though, but could see some play in secret mage.
New Mage Minion - Confection Cyclone
If an elemental mage is going to work, it's gonna be because of this guy. Hopefully, next year has better support for elementals, they are my favorite tribe by far. Still think it could see some play with a more tempo-based highlander mage.