Posting something so soon after I post mine; trying to steal my thunder, eh? lol :P
I don't have much to say about the individual cards, because I like to see the whole picture before I comment on them. Or at least, all 10 of a particular class. I'll come back after you have more :) I like what I see for the most part!
I will echo the sentiments about proper names for your Legendaries.
I will also say that Alexstrasza is out of place here.
Try your best to avoid using in-game screenshots for your art. It's really obvious and detracts from the card's quality. I know that's gonna be hard to do when you want the mount to look exactly right, but it's still a problem.
I really like Elfensilver's suggestion about utilizing "first" and "last" as potential gameplay tools, to highlight that it's a race to accomplish things in-game.
I like the idea of your set, but I think that Stamina doesn’t really work, given how HS works. Stamina is basically a start of turn effect, and with all the rush minions we have now those just don’t go off. Maybe if you added a defensive keyword to them like “Steed” that means something like “can’t be attacked by minions the turn they are summoned” or “can’t be attacked while adjacent minions are alive” or “pick a friendly minion without Stealth. This can’t be damaged until it is destroyed”. That way Stamina would have a chance of going off instead of just being another one of the many failed start of turn cards. Also, some of your stamina cards have more than vanilla stats, which breaks the rule of not having more than vanilla stats and a positive effect.
I thought we sort of got it when they mentioned we would get another round of nerfs before the new expansion. That felt like a tease of the announcement of the announcement to me.
I'm predicting next week after the nerfs hit they'll announce it. Possibly on Thursday 7/16?
Hey anchorm4n! I love it! There is a lot to unpack here, and I just woke up. I'll go through what you posted later when my brain is working and I have time and give you some more thorough input.
First, great keyword to build off of and great flavor! I'm excited!
The biggest thing that stood out to me was seeing Alexstrasza. While yes there are Cloud Serpent Dragons in Pandaria, the Dragon Aspects have nothing to do with the flavor of the set.
If I recall correctly, you have not played WoW. I don't know if it's a game that you would be into playing or not. I stopped playing at the start of BfA, and my life doesn't really allow for the time sink any more. I haven't been paying the closest attention, but I know there are some major changes to the early leveling in WoW with Shadowlands. It honestly might do you some good to pick up the game, and go and play through the MoP expansion to get a feeling for the area, the creatures you would find, and just the overall flavor that you will want to bring into your set. WoW is a major commitment in both time and $, but with the new leveling, it might be easier for you to quickly get to the point that you can explore the area around the Jade Forest where the Order of the Cloud Serpent resides.
An example of a small detail that you might be missing out on by not experiencing the original content:
When I think of the Pandaren Cloud Race and the Order of the Cloud Serpent, I think of the grind of the daily's to get my reputation to exalted so I could even ride one of those amazing beautiful Cloud Serpent Mounts. The daily quests "reveal the decrets of training a cloud serpent to become a loyal mount". You literally pick a Cloud Serpent from an Egg, and hatch and train it overtime to become your mount before you're allowed to ride the Cloud Serpent Mounts. (This has since changed so you can ride cloud serpent mounts without the rep grind. But there are Cloud Serpent Mounts to unlock with the grind.)
There's many other examples of creatures and things around the area. Just a thought that it might be good to go experience the source content first-hand.
I'll dive deeper into what you've created so far later today. Great start! Can't wait to see more!
When you've been a part of something for a long time, sometimes you just need a change of pace or maybe even a greater challenge. Exploring new paths with your career can help you improve in so many different ways, and with how old Hearthstone is now, it isn't too surprising that the older, more known members of the team, have all been leaving.
I don't think Blizzard is in the clear though, you've definitely seen changes there over the past handful of years that in my eyes could cause people to want to jump ship. Even the leadership of the company left within the past couple of years which is pretty crazy.
Overall though, the Hearthstone team is a couple hundred people at this point so a couple of leaves over the past year isn't too crazy. And since a good chunk of those that left remained at Blizzard to work on other projects, it's not likely anything wrong internally but more so the desire to create new things has overtaken the deep love for Hearthstone. I can't speak for any of them, but I know I'd be excited about new projects.
FWIW - the Bureau of Labour Statistics estimates average tenure at a US company at about four years. Personally, I've held four different jobs since finishing grad school, none of them longer than three years (I'm Canadian, but I expect tenure is comparable between countries.) It's likely that half the current HS team will move on to other things, internally or otherwise, in the next few years. As far as leadership leaving - I'd suggest that it's far "crazier" that Morhaime (and Brode, for that matter) stuck around for nearly thirty years (fifteen, in BB's case.)
I would absolutely love to see more of this set. We need more content on this part of the forums. That said, there are a few things that could be polished up. I'll try to give you the quick, rapid-fire version:
Every Legendary minion needs a proper name. From an outsider's perspective, Shadowblade and Alextrazsa appear to be the only ones with proper names.
While we're on the topic of Shadowblade though, the name Shadowblade is already taken, so this card will need a new name.
Felbroken Shrieker appears over the curve as a 4 mana 5/5 with Rush that eventually gains Lifesteal.
Quite a few of the cards could use better artwork.
Alexstrasza should not be tagged as a Dragon, as the card depicts her in her human form, which are not tagged as Dragons in-game (Wrathion).
Pandaren Beastmaster seems weak. Compare it to Bog Slosher.
Pandaren Blademaster's Stamina effect to gain Windfury seems pointless since Windfury minions can't actually use Windfury until their next turn anyway.
Aggressive Meditation is weaker than a quadriplegic. You could get rid of the downside where the minion can't attack that turn and it still would be nowhere near good enough to see play.
Very nice! Cards look balanced and the art is a good fit. But I'd change a few names:
All legendary minions should have unique names, and a lot of yours don't. Also, you do not have to add pandaren to everything with a panda on it, it's mostly clear enough.And you could also drop the "Jade" from your druid card, since most people would still think of an other set by the naem
I really can't find anything to critize except the names, so I really look forward to seeing the rest of the set. Especially the commons and rares, since they are less flashy, but should represent the set as a whole.- and now I now what you could improve: the cards are solid, but mainly the legendary cards play it safe- summon beasts/demons, equip a weapon, etc. - and while that makes it easier to balance, they are also not as interesting as the truly unique effects of a lot of recent legendaries. So maybe try to go for a little bit of crazy.
And as a suggestion: Your set is centered around a race. Up untill now there is little to really showcast this. You could add some cards that make use of first/last. First minion to attack, last spell to be cast in a turn, first hero to drop below 15HP...- this would show some relation to a race, while also encouraging intelligent plays while being easy to understand. (Huh. I think I'd suggest this as theme, should I ever win a competition.)
I like where this is going in general for the thematic angle. I know that there are art versions of all of those class mounts. You found a few of them, but there should be one for each. For proper flavoring purposes, you might want to keep in mind that the idea behind a Legendary card is that it is named and unique as an individual, not one of many. I'd advise at the very least that you give names to the Cloud Serpent legendaries or dig up some lore names of notable cloud serpents that you can use. Here's a link to an article to give you ideas. Just look under the "notable" section. https://wow.gamepedia.com/Cloud_serpent
The same could be said for the flavoring of the mounts. I love the idea of the mounts that you are working with here, and it fits your Stamina idea well. It can be pretty simple. For example, instead of "Wrathstead", you can make it "The Wrathstead" to indicate that there is only one and that it is unique. I'd also like to point out that Anzu has a stronger connection with arcane magic and the void than with druid powers, so you might want to reflavor that one.
Finally, I'm curious why you opted to make a third version of Alexstraza.
Well, I’m an impatient person and this isn’t finished by far, but the core cards are done and I’m curious about your feedback. Blizzard will also probably announce the new expansion within a few days and I want to make a point of who had those brilliant ideas first, so...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you my first custom Hearthstone expansion,
The Great Air Race
Now sit back, tighten your seatbelts and make yourself ready, because you are in for a wild ride!
The story: Our favorite heroes have agreed upon taking a little break from constantly bashing their heads in and chose to participate in The Great Air Race to pass their time instead. It takes place in the Jade Forest on Pandaria and revolves around the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so prepare for Dragons, Pandaren and …
Mounts! Every class gets a Legendary Mount card to help them win the race. With the exception of Druid I used their WoW class mounts for these. I’m really surprised Blizzard hasn’t walked down this path a long time ago. They are so cool!
Winning The Great Air Race will not only be a matter of speed, but also of endurance. This trait will be illustrated by my custom
New Keyword: Stamina (x)!
Protect your Stamina minions and reap amazing rewards! Stamina is basically a fun and interactive version of Dormant. It forces players to pay more attention to their opponent’s board and brings back trading minions as a key element of Hearthstone.
But enough of the warm up, let’s go racing! Here are the cards I’ve designed so far:
Mounts
Dragons
Pandaren
Other
As you can see, I didn’t find art for all the WoW stuff I wanted to make cards of. If anyone happens to be able to help me out with this, I’d be very grateful. I’m also open to any kind of feedback. This custom expansion is far from complete and will probably be a long term side project. I’ll happyly adjust the balance of my cards if you have any concerns.
Murphy's law helps, of course. 5 minutes after making this post, I was able to upload via imgur again (receiving an error message with each and every one but the first). Please tell me there's an alternative to this clown fiesta nevertheless!
Imgur has caused problems for me right from the start. If I use the mobile app, it usually doesn't upload more than one image. If I try to upload a second one, an error occurs after some time and the image appears as "hidden" in my galery without a thing I could do about it but delete it. I usually work around this by loging in via browser in desktop mode. If I upload this way, I also receive error notifications (though different ones), but the images get uploaded properly nevertheless.
This time, I wanted to upload 28 images for my custom expansion and started out on my laptop for this special occasion. The first 15 went smoothly, but now imgur says "Something went wrong with CREATE_ALBUM_FAIL. Please try later" and that's that. Mobile doesn't work, Internet Explorer doesn't work, Chrome doesn't work. On top of this, the community on imgur seems to be made of very special people. I created my account with WCDC 1 and don't use it for anything else but custom HS cards. Every one of them gets downvoted to hell, no matter if I tag them as custom HS content or not.
So I tried to look for alternatives and uploaded my stuff to Flickr. That went smoothly and it was even possible to organize the images in an album while still being able to copy indivudal links for all of them, something I couldn't manage with imgur. This time, I wasn't able to post the image in a forum post. I tried the links provided via "share", "embed" and "BBCode". No display in here.
Only the 3 mana cost the ''elusive'' turrets are a big problem, a 8-8 t-hex robot dinosaur you can block with chump blockers but 4 times 3-1 elusives becomes to difficult for a majority of decks.
It's a subjective POV, but I feel stretching new exp announcement so late is... Too late. And players might get away from the grip of the game in the meanwhile.
AoO has already exhausted its traction, players need new stuff, even just some reveals to fantasize about, but we need new stuff.
Nerfs can refresh the meta a little bit, but the fact some nerfs are happening on the same classes over and over for the same reasons actually reinforce the impression of overwhelming staleness, instead of dispelling it.
I'm struggling to find motivation to get back to Wild D5 despite 10stars and the fact I absolutely enjoy my homebrew Aggro Reno Paladin.
Hey, folks! Just wanted to bring attention to a Kickstarter for what looks to be a pretty interesting card game. Here's the link, if you're interested.
Also, don't think this entire year is dedicated to Outlands like some people, it just doesn't make sense in the realm of Hearthstone to stay in one general area for an entire year.
Yeah, they did say it wouldnt be another year long story. So the next expansion should be something different. Im very interested to see what it is.
I reckon it'll be Thursday at the earliest. I don't think blizz would have two significant events in the game (major nerfs and expansion reveal) hitting on the same date, as they would dilute one another's coverage. Could be wrong, though.
It'll be on Tuesday, I'm pretty sure they've never made an announcement on a Monday.
I'm not a lore nerd so I honestly have no idea what it could be about. My expectation is that we get a LEGIT new mechanic that sticks around, maybe not as longer as discover has but hopefully not for just one expansion.
Also, don't think this entire year is dedicated to Outlands like some people, it just doesn't make sense in the realm of Hearthstone to stay in one general area for an entire year.
I just want to see what the new game mode is about.
Looking at the nerf patch date and the proximity to august, the new expansion WILL be announced before the 14 July patch that means either tomorrow or in 2 days cause they normally patch the game to put the pre-order bundle.
So any guesses/expectation what's the expansion is gonna be about?
hoping for an expansion about an old warcraft event since I didn't play wow, TBH I didn't see any hint or something about the expansion.. looking at the nerfed cards we might see more impactful dragons, high cost rogue cards and strong warrior weapons.. but as a theme.. no clue apart from the article in the site.
Right, but your point revolves around matters where they are making decisions that make people less happy. Those should absolutely be called out, but they were not part of the thought experiment. That was intended to be more abstract and point out it is actions rather than internal (and hidden) beliefs/motives that matter: you could be on a quest for world domination and doing a huge list is benevolent things to trick people into admiring you first, but if you never get around to the nefarious deeds planned for when you gain power then it doesn't really matter why you did the good stuff. The fact remains you did good stuff.
As soon as people learn it was all part of a dastardly plan they tend to treat the benevolent actions as though they were entirely malevolent, as though they wish it never happened at all, but that's irrational and wasteful.
The saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" is the succinct way of phrasing all of this. I would also extend "actions speak louder than words" to "actions speak louder than words, which themselves speak louder than motives".
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Returning to the original discussion, you can rightly complain about the initial power level of DH and the decision making behind it, but once we are in that position complaints should not be levied at the appropriate nerfs. And when the nerfs arrive 3 months into an expansion the discussion should still be on the initial power level of DH and how it was so preposterous that we still need nerfs on it so late on, and and how it delayed changes to other classes that ought to have happened at a more reasonable time had DH not been so powerful.
Idk, makes his ice block weaker, but could make him more useful overall?
Does it tho? Discover has always been more powerful and consistent than just drawing from a random pool of cards, albeit relatively small. How does it make it weaker?
Never mind, didnt realize it only offers Mage Secrets now, my bad haha. It could be an interesting change, tho the Discover effect could still be pretty strong.
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
Posting something so soon after I post mine; trying to steal my thunder, eh? lol :P
I don't have much to say about the individual cards, because I like to see the whole picture before I comment on them. Or at least, all 10 of a particular class. I'll come back after you have more :) I like what I see for the most part!
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
Hi Anchorm,
I like the idea of your set, but I think that Stamina doesn’t really work, given how HS works. Stamina is basically a start of turn effect, and with all the rush minions we have now those just don’t go off. Maybe if you added a defensive keyword to them like “Steed” that means something like “can’t be attacked by minions the turn they are summoned” or “can’t be attacked while adjacent minions are alive” or “pick a friendly minion without Stealth. This can’t be damaged until it is destroyed”. That way Stamina would have a chance of going off instead of just being another one of the many failed start of turn cards. Also, some of your stamina cards have more than vanilla stats, which breaks the rule of not having more than vanilla stats and a positive effect.
any sign of life ?
I thought we sort of got it when they mentioned we would get another round of nerfs before the new expansion. That felt like a tease of the announcement of the announcement to me.
I'm predicting next week after the nerfs hit they'll announce it. Possibly on Thursday 7/16?
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
Hey anchorm4n! I love it! There is a lot to unpack here, and I just woke up. I'll go through what you posted later when my brain is working and I have time and give you some more thorough input.
First, great keyword to build off of and great flavor! I'm excited!
The biggest thing that stood out to me was seeing Alexstrasza. While yes there are Cloud Serpent Dragons in Pandaria, the Dragon Aspects have nothing to do with the flavor of the set.
If I recall correctly, you have not played WoW. I don't know if it's a game that you would be into playing or not. I stopped playing at the start of BfA, and my life doesn't really allow for the time sink any more. I haven't been paying the closest attention, but I know there are some major changes to the early leveling in WoW with Shadowlands. It honestly might do you some good to pick up the game, and go and play through the MoP expansion to get a feeling for the area, the creatures you would find, and just the overall flavor that you will want to bring into your set. WoW is a major commitment in both time and $, but with the new leveling, it might be easier for you to quickly get to the point that you can explore the area around the Jade Forest where the Order of the Cloud Serpent resides.
An example of a small detail that you might be missing out on by not experiencing the original content:
When I think of the Pandaren Cloud Race and the Order of the Cloud Serpent, I think of the grind of the daily's to get my reputation to exalted so I could even ride one of those amazing beautiful Cloud Serpent Mounts. The daily quests "reveal the decrets of training a cloud serpent to become a loyal mount". You literally pick a Cloud Serpent from an Egg, and hatch and train it overtime to become your mount before you're allowed to ride the Cloud Serpent Mounts. (This has since changed so you can ride cloud serpent mounts without the rep grind. But there are Cloud Serpent Mounts to unlock with the grind.)
There's many other examples of creatures and things around the area. Just a thought that it might be good to go experience the source content first-hand.
I'll dive deeper into what you've created so far later today. Great start! Can't wait to see more!
HearthCards Reaches 10 Million Hearthstone Cards Made!
Just a quick card creation. I like the application. It is very flexible..
Hadidjah Chamberlin, Hearthstone's Lead VFX Artist, Leaves the Team
FWIW - the Bureau of Labour Statistics estimates average tenure at a US company at about four years. Personally, I've held four different jobs since finishing grad school, none of them longer than three years (I'm Canadian, but I expect tenure is comparable between countries.) It's likely that half the current HS team will move on to other things, internally or otherwise, in the next few years. As far as leadership leaving - I'd suggest that it's far "crazier" that Morhaime (and Brode, for that matter) stuck around for nearly thirty years (fifteen, in BB's case.)
Turn Your 400 Gems or 2000 Gold into 500 Gems Today on MTG Arena
Thanks for these alerts. Would have missed it
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
I would absolutely love to see more of this set. We need more content on this part of the forums. That said, there are a few things that could be polished up. I'll try to give you the quick, rapid-fire version:
any sign of life ?
The frequency of asking for it has certainly gone up, could be a good sign!
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
Very nice! Cards look balanced and the art is a good fit. But I'd change a few names:
All legendary minions should have unique names, and a lot of yours don't. Also, you do not have to add pandaren to everything with a panda on it, it's mostly clear enough.And you could also drop the "Jade" from your druid card, since most people would still think of an other set by the naem
I really can't find anything to critize except the names, so I really look forward to seeing the rest of the set. Especially the commons and rares, since they are less flashy, but should represent the set as a whole.- and now I now what you could improve: the cards are solid, but mainly the legendary cards play it safe- summon beasts/demons, equip a weapon, etc. - and while that makes it easier to balance, they are also not as interesting as the truly unique effects of a lot of recent legendaries. So maybe try to go for a little bit of crazy.
And as a suggestion: Your set is centered around a race. Up untill now there is little to really showcast this. You could add some cards that make use of first/last. First minion to attack, last spell to be cast in a turn, first hero to drop below 15HP...- this would show some relation to a race, while also encouraging intelligent plays while being easy to understand. (Huh. I think I'd suggest this as theme, should I ever win a competition.)
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
I like where this is going in general for the thematic angle. I know that there are art versions of all of those class mounts. You found a few of them, but there should be one for each. For proper flavoring purposes, you might want to keep in mind that the idea behind a Legendary card is that it is named and unique as an individual, not one of many. I'd advise at the very least that you give names to the Cloud Serpent legendaries or dig up some lore names of notable cloud serpents that you can use. Here's a link to an article to give you ideas. Just look under the "notable" section. https://wow.gamepedia.com/Cloud_serpent
The same could be said for the flavoring of the mounts. I love the idea of the mounts that you are working with here, and it fits your Stamina idea well. It can be pretty simple. For example, instead of "Wrathstead", you can make it "The Wrathstead" to indicate that there is only one and that it is unique. I'd also like to point out that Anzu has a stronger connection with arcane magic and the void than with druid powers, so you might want to reflavor that one.
Finally, I'm curious why you opted to make a third version of Alexstraza.
any sign of life ?
for the announcement of the announcement?
Custom Expansion - The Great Air Race (WIP)
Well, I’m an impatient person and this isn’t finished by far, but the core cards are done and I’m curious about your feedback. Blizzard will also probably announce the new expansion within a few days and I want to make a point of who had those brilliant ideas first, so...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you my first custom Hearthstone expansion,
The Great Air Race
Now sit back, tighten your seatbelts and make yourself ready, because you are in for a wild ride!
The story:
Our favorite heroes have agreed upon taking a little break from constantly bashing their heads in and chose to participate in The Great Air Race to pass their time instead. It takes place in the Jade Forest on Pandaria and revolves around the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so prepare for Dragons, Pandaren and …
Mounts!
Every class gets a Legendary Mount card to help them win the race. With the exception of Druid I used their WoW class mounts for these. I’m really surprised Blizzard hasn’t walked down this path a long time ago. They are so cool!
Winning The Great Air Race will not only be a matter of speed, but also of endurance. This trait will be illustrated by my custom
New Keyword: Stamina (x)!
But enough of the warm up, let’s go racing! Here are the cards I’ve designed so far:
Mounts
Dragons
Pandaren
Other
As you can see, I didn’t find art for all the WoW stuff I wanted to make cards of. If anyone happens to be able to help me out with this, I’d be very grateful. I’m also open to any kind of feedback. This custom expansion is far from complete and will probably be a long term side project. I’ll happyly adjust the balance of my cards if you have any concerns.
Thanks for reading!
Technical Issues, please help
Murphy's law helps, of course. 5 minutes after making this post, I was able to upload via imgur again (receiving an error message with each and every one but the first). Please tell me there's an alternative to this clown fiesta nevertheless!
Technical Issues, please help
Imgur has caused problems for me right from the start. If I use the mobile app, it usually doesn't upload more than one image. If I try to upload a second one, an error occurs after some time and the image appears as "hidden" in my galery without a thing I could do about it but delete it. I usually work around this by loging in via browser in desktop mode. If I upload this way, I also receive error notifications (though different ones), but the images get uploaded properly nevertheless.
This time, I wanted to upload 28 images for my custom expansion and started out on my laptop for this special occasion. The first 15 went smoothly, but now imgur says "Something went wrong with CREATE_ALBUM_FAIL. Please try later" and that's that. Mobile doesn't work, Internet Explorer doesn't work, Chrome doesn't work. On top of this, the community on imgur seems to be made of very special people. I created my account with WCDC 1 and don't use it for anything else but custom HS cards. Every one of them gets downvoted to hell, no matter if I tag them as custom HS content or not.
So I tried to look for alternatives and uploaded my stuff to Flickr. That went smoothly and it was even possible to organize the images in an album while still being able to copy indivudal links for all of them, something I couldn't manage with imgur. This time, I wasn't able to post the image in a forum post. I tried the links provided via "share", "embed" and "BBCode". No display in here.
Any ideas how to solve this?
Heimer Rework Ideas
Only the 3 mana cost the ''elusive'' turrets are a big problem, a 8-8 t-hex robot dinosaur you can block with chump blockers but 4 times 3-1 elusives becomes to difficult for a majority of decks.
Expansion announcement this week
It's a subjective POV, but I feel stretching new exp announcement so late is... Too late. And players might get away from the grip of the game in the meanwhile.
AoO has already exhausted its traction, players need new stuff, even just some reveals to fantasize about, but we need new stuff.
Nerfs can refresh the meta a little bit, but the fact some nerfs are happening on the same classes over and over for the same reasons actually reinforce the impression of overwhelming staleness, instead of dispelling it.
I'm struggling to find motivation to get back to Wild D5 despite 10stars and the fact I absolutely enjoy my homebrew Aggro Reno Paladin.
Anyone else feeling the same?
Sodality Kickstarter
Hey, folks! Just wanted to bring attention to a Kickstarter for what looks to be a pretty interesting card game. Here's the link, if you're interested.
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
12th July update: Hijo's WILD Big Shaman: Watch me play the worst game of Hearthstone ever! (1080p)
Big Shaman :-) A glorious deck, thanks to Hijo! (https://twitter.com/HIJO_HS).
Also, the worst game of Hearthstone ever? Perhaps I am exaggerating. 12:00 onwards - my ordering was terrible... :-(
Deck code: AAEBAaoIAqirAt+pAw6UA7IGzg+gtgL2vQLz5wKf/QKtkQOKlAOPlAPbuAPcuAOTuQPzuwMA
https://youtu.be/86z-n-ml4H4
Expansion announcement this week
Yeah, they did say it wouldnt be another year long story. So the next expansion should be something different. Im very interested to see what it is.
Expansion announcement this week
I reckon it'll be Thursday at the earliest. I don't think blizz would have two significant events in the game (major nerfs and expansion reveal) hitting on the same date, as they would dilute one another's coverage. Could be wrong, though.
Expansion announcement this week
It'll be on Tuesday, I'm pretty sure they've never made an announcement on a Monday.
I'm not a lore nerd so I honestly have no idea what it could be about. My expectation is that we get a LEGIT new mechanic that sticks around, maybe not as longer as discover has but hopefully not for just one expansion.
Also, don't think this entire year is dedicated to Outlands like some people, it just doesn't make sense in the realm of Hearthstone to stay in one general area for an entire year.
I just want to see what the new game mode is about.
Expansion announcement this week
Looking at the nerf patch date and the proximity to august, the new expansion WILL be announced before the 14 July patch that means either tomorrow or in 2 days cause they normally patch the game to put the pre-order bundle.
So any guesses/expectation what's the expansion is gonna be about?
hoping for an expansion about an old warcraft event since I didn't play wow, TBH I didn't see any hint or something about the expansion.. looking at the nerfed cards we might see more impactful dragons, high cost rogue cards and strong warrior weapons.. but as a theme.. no clue apart from the article in the site.
Hearthstone Game Designer Alec Dawson Comments on Upcoming Card Nerfs
Right, but your point revolves around matters where they are making decisions that make people less happy. Those should absolutely be called out, but they were not part of the thought experiment. That was intended to be more abstract and point out it is actions rather than internal (and hidden) beliefs/motives that matter: you could be on a quest for world domination and doing a huge list is benevolent things to trick people into admiring you first, but if you never get around to the nefarious deeds planned for when you gain power then it doesn't really matter why you did the good stuff. The fact remains you did good stuff.
As soon as people learn it was all part of a dastardly plan they tend to treat the benevolent actions as though they were entirely malevolent, as though they wish it never happened at all, but that's irrational and wasteful.
The saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" is the succinct way of phrasing all of this. I would also extend "actions speak louder than words" to "actions speak louder than words, which themselves speak louder than motives".
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Returning to the original discussion, you can rightly complain about the initial power level of DH and the decision making behind it, but once we are in that position complaints should not be levied at the appropriate nerfs. And when the nerfs arrive 3 months into an expansion the discussion should still be on the initial power level of DH and how it was so preposterous that we still need nerfs on it so late on, and and how it delayed changes to other classes that ought to have happened at a more reasonable time had DH not been so powerful.
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Does it tho? Discover has always been more powerful and consistent than just drawing from a random pool of cards, albeit relatively small. How does it make it weaker?
Never mind, didnt realize it only offers Mage Secrets now, my bad haha. It could be an interesting change, tho the Discover effect could still be pretty strong.