An interesting card, but I doubt it sees much play. Oblivitron works well with this, but a midrange mech-hunter probably wants mechs that are a little cheaper to take advantage of magnetic.
At seven mana, this is too expensive to slot into any aggro deck.
Keep in mind that we create these Bingo cards a bit in advance which is why some boxes will already be checked off. Silas, for example, was almost a given provided we were certain this was a Darkmoon Faire expansion.
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And also took it from the same Reddit thread, I'm still days away from reaching the quests myself (without additional grinding).
Me too. :-( I did make it to 7 of 9 on the questline last night, and it looks like there's no limit on how many champ-specific quests you can have active at the same time and that those mostly happen organically so it should just be a matter of time. Still 3 weeks left.
Lastly, I would like more incentives for discussing decks. Every expansion release cycle you guys do a great job in incentivising users to discuss the newly revealed cards, with titles and stuff. I think if you would add similar incentives to regularly voting and commenting on decks, that would drive up engagement with them. Even if just one person is incentivised through this to comment on a deck, that would lead to more people commenting as a result, since people are more likely to comment on a deck on which already has been commented. The precise implementation of these incentives I do not have a developed idea for though.
It would be cool if you could earn the new currency by voting on a commenting on decks. I don't know exactly how this new gold system is going to work, but it would be cool if once a week we had a sort of "quest" to comment on at least one deck and vote on at least 3. Really, the best way for the decks on this site to get more attention is for us to simply give them more attention.
Quests are going to be a thing! I don't want to get too far into it all just yet but Daily, Weekly, and Seasonal Quests are going to happen. There will also be larger quests that will require the entire community to participate in to complete that will equally reward everyone that took part in them.
Seasonal? What the Flux?
So, yeah. I'll talk a bit about that now but don't expect anything on that until next year. Even staff members don't really know the whole plan behind this yet because I don't know it all yet.
The idea is that we'll have a few themed seasons during the year. It might be 4, it might be 6 (either every 3 or 2 months, likely trying 3 to start) and during that time, there will be exclusive stuff to earn and special themed content sorta like Oozefest. The idea is to try and change it up every season so things don't always feel the same but there will definitely be some kind of repeat content. I've always wanted to do something similar to a Battle Pass on the site, even during the HP days but nothing was ever approved to get worked on, so we'll have some form of specialized, seasonal progression.
There will 100% be something exclusive for premium members during each themed season.
Encouraging interaction on the site remains tough though. We can't encourage people too much because that could lead to fatigue or it'll lead to a whole lot of nonsense. One point that has been brought up in the past with encouraging voting and commenting on new cards is that we get low-quality discussion. I both agree and disagree on that topic, something I know I've talked about a few times in the past on the forums. The main issue is how do we avoid that in general.
I can't really create a quest to go and upvote something. It might work for the forums and comments, or even news articles themselves, but asking someone to go an upvote a deck is going to cause problems. Maybe limiting something like deck voting to once a week would help, I don't know. It could also be interesting to try and establish a "new queue" for deck guides and to ask people to go through it and provide feedback. Maybe you'd have to have some form of "certification" before you would be eligible for quests like that, like having a certain post count or account age. Again, I don't know but it is something we need to tread carefully on.
I do like what having the Shop and Gold will do for us though. We can give out rewards a lot more freely to people without giving out a big reward. Letting everyone save up and buy what they desire will be nice. The hard part will be having enough stuff available that people want to actively spend their gold. I have 3 additional ideas for site cosmetics/customization that we'll roll out in the new year, with one of those things coming with the Holiday event.
I also want to give all the staff a weekly amount of currency to freely give out to posts they deem appropriate. It might only be 10 or 20 Gold, but they'll have the option to give it out to decks and comments that they find meet their own special criteria. Maybe it was funny, maybe it was high quality. Having more personalized handouts adds some fun to the system, especially if people know who is giving it to them.
^ That, I also want to let some community members do too, once we figure out a solid criteria for enabling it. Maybe we'll start by giving premium members an allowance to hand out each month and see where that takes us.
I also want to put together a feed so everyone can see what comments are earning gold. I guess its sort of like Reddit Gold if you are familiar with it, just with a different ultimate purpose.
The hardest part about all this though at the end of the day is having the time to work to implement everything. So damn few hours in the day and I already don't push enough content onto our homepage, love everyone on the staff that does that for us!
Anyway, here's a new thread to talk about encouragement stuff. GO!
That's a good suggestion! It's true that Felosophy is pretty weak, though you can use it to copy an Aranasi Broodmother before Plot Twist for a little bit more potential healing (you only need to copy one of the Mo'arg Artificers for the combo, so you can use the other one more flexibly), but admittedly, it is one of the weaker cards in the deck.
As for your recommended alternative, Flesh Giant should be easy enough to discount, and Shadowflame will do the damage necessary, while they provide alternative pressure and board clear options. I like it! One important note is that Shadowflame is 4 mana, so if you do miss the discount on Silas Darkmoon, you need the discount on Shadowflame to have a chance of pulling the combo. In the current version, if we discount a Mo'arg Artificer with the hero power, Felosophy will copy the discounted minion, and we can still pull off at least a 16 damage combo (7-mana Silas, 1-mana Soulbound Ashtongue, 1-mana Soulfire, and the discounted Mo'args). So, with your changes, pulling off a burst damage combo will be a little less consistent, but the overall winrate would likely go up. So, depending on your priority, that's a nice alternative!
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
Big Deathrattle for Hunter! I like to see that!
New Hunter Minion - Darkmoon Tonk
Maybe in WILD. In STANDARD I don't see an efficient use. Too expensive and too low health ...
New Hunter Minion - Maxima Blastenheimer
Not good, very unreliable without more support
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
Well i like to say that this is the new Firework Hunter
New Hunter Minion - Darkmoon Tonk
An interesting card, but I doubt it sees much play. Oblivitron works well with this, but a midrange mech-hunter probably wants mechs that are a little cheaper to take advantage of magnetic.
At seven mana, this is too expensive to slot into any aggro deck.
New Hunter Minion - Maxima Blastenheimer
difficult to imagine a suitable deck ...
Maxima Blastenheimer
difficult to imagine a suitable deck ...
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
We got Oblivitron support suddenly
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
That was my immediate thought too!
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
I knew it! That they would print some synergy cards for Oblivitron
And also for Nine Lives ! (have 4 copies of the card)
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire - Reveal Season Community Bingo
Definitely counts for Darkmoon/Ride Ticket! That is a carnival game present at the faire.
Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
Definitely better than Flark's, though still bad probably. Otherwise in Wild with the Spell that revives dead beasts...
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire - Reveal Season Community Bingo
What is the point of bingo at all? :P
I addressed this in the article.
New Hunter Minion - Maxima Blastenheimer
A new Legendary Hunter Minion, Maxima Blastenheimer, has been revealed!
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Two Hunter Cards Revealed for Hearthstone's Darkmoon Faire Expansion - Darkmoon Tonk & Maxima Blastenheimer
Finally, some use for my Oblivitron.
New Hunter Minion - Darkmoon Tonk
A new Rare Hunter Minion, Darkmoon Tonk, has been revealed!
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Madness at the Darkmoon Faire - Reveal Season Community Bingo
because... "It has Sharp Pointy Teeth!"
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Me too. :-( I did make it to 7 of 9 on the questline last night, and it looks like there's no limit on how many champ-specific quests you can have active at the same time and that those mostly happen organically so it should just be a matter of time. Still 3 weeks left.
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No pay.
Talking About Encouraging Interaction on the Site
Continuing a discussion in a dedicated thread that doesn't have HP in the name because, ahem, fuck that heap of trash.
Quests are going to be a thing! I don't want to get too far into it all just yet but Daily, Weekly, and Seasonal Quests are going to happen. There will also be larger quests that will require the entire community to participate in to complete that will equally reward everyone that took part in them.
Seasonal? What the Flux?
So, yeah. I'll talk a bit about that now but don't expect anything on that until next year. Even staff members don't really know the whole plan behind this yet because I don't know it all yet.
The idea is that we'll have a few themed seasons during the year. It might be 4, it might be 6 (either every 3 or 2 months, likely trying 3 to start) and during that time, there will be exclusive stuff to earn and special themed content sorta like Oozefest. The idea is to try and change it up every season so things don't always feel the same but there will definitely be some kind of repeat content. I've always wanted to do something similar to a Battle Pass on the site, even during the HP days but nothing was ever approved to get worked on, so we'll have some form of specialized, seasonal progression.
There will 100% be something exclusive for premium members during each themed season.
Encouraging interaction on the site remains tough though. We can't encourage people too much because that could lead to fatigue or it'll lead to a whole lot of nonsense. One point that has been brought up in the past with encouraging voting and commenting on new cards is that we get low-quality discussion. I both agree and disagree on that topic, something I know I've talked about a few times in the past on the forums. The main issue is how do we avoid that in general.
I can't really create a quest to go and upvote something. It might work for the forums and comments, or even news articles themselves, but asking someone to go an upvote a deck is going to cause problems. Maybe limiting something like deck voting to once a week would help, I don't know. It could also be interesting to try and establish a "new queue" for deck guides and to ask people to go through it and provide feedback. Maybe you'd have to have some form of "certification" before you would be eligible for quests like that, like having a certain post count or account age. Again, I don't know but it is something we need to tread carefully on.
I do like what having the Shop and Gold will do for us though. We can give out rewards a lot more freely to people without giving out a big reward. Letting everyone save up and buy what they desire will be nice. The hard part will be having enough stuff available that people want to actively spend their gold. I have 3 additional ideas for site cosmetics/customization that we'll roll out in the new year, with one of those things coming with the Holiday event.
I also want to give all the staff a weekly amount of currency to freely give out to posts they deem appropriate. It might only be 10 or 20 Gold, but they'll have the option to give it out to decks and comments that they find meet their own special criteria. Maybe it was funny, maybe it was high quality. Having more personalized handouts adds some fun to the system, especially if people know who is giving it to them.
^ That, I also want to let some community members do too, once we figure out a solid criteria for enabling it. Maybe we'll start by giving premium members an allowance to hand out each month and see where that takes us.
I also want to put together a feed so everyone can see what comments are earning gold. I guess its sort of like Reddit Gold if you are familiar with it, just with a different ultimate purpose.
The hardest part about all this though at the end of the day is having the time to work to implement everything. So damn few hours in the day and I already don't push enough content onto our homepage, love everyone on the staff that does that for us!
Anyway, here's a new thread to talk about encouragement stuff. GO!
Why is this website not as active as Hearthpwn?
Locking the thread because honestly, it's been dealt with.
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire - Reveal Season Community Bingo
Thought about the same, but I guess the Bingo is longer ready than published
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That's a lot cheaper than I expected
Silas' OTK Dragon Quest Warlock
That's a good suggestion! It's true that Felosophy is pretty weak, though you can use it to copy an Aranasi Broodmother before Plot Twist for a little bit more potential healing (you only need to copy one of the Mo'arg Artificers for the combo, so you can use the other one more flexibly), but admittedly, it is one of the weaker cards in the deck.
As for your recommended alternative, Flesh Giant should be easy enough to discount, and Shadowflame will do the damage necessary, while they provide alternative pressure and board clear options. I like it! One important note is that Shadowflame is 4 mana, so if you do miss the discount on Silas Darkmoon, you need the discount on Shadowflame to have a chance of pulling the combo. In the current version, if we discount a Mo'arg Artificer with the hero power, Felosophy will copy the discounted minion, and we can still pull off at least a 16 damage combo (7-mana Silas, 1-mana Soulbound Ashtongue, 1-mana Soulfire, and the discounted Mo'args). So, with your changes, pulling off a burst damage combo will be a little less consistent, but the overall winrate would likely go up. So, depending on your priority, that's a nice alternative!
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire - Reveal Season Community Bingo
Why Darkmoon Rabbit is not marked as Ultra Cutie? Look at it, is just an adorable and a charming rabbit....