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I've thought Shadowhoof could be ok: 1 mana is hero power with a 2/1 body. I saw it played when DH was super aggro after the first or second nerf. But that was 2 or 3 nerfs ago, and I'm no deckbuilder. 

Feast of Souls has potential to be an extremely good card, but the fact is that Demon Hunter has too few tools to be able to exploit it.

Those Illidan aficionados out there will have to give it time and see what the new set will bring us.

Give us more powerful/big Demons and Fel Summoner will find a home...theoretically.

Your articles always make Hearthstone and WoW lore interesting - Thank you for sharing.

Lol, I was just looking at my DH cards yesterday, saw Soul Split and thought "Oh shit, I forgot that card existed!" 

May I ask how you propose to change Odd DH's hero power? All of the other upgraded hero powers double the power of the original (except hunter for some reason).

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Then you'd play the format for one season, get the card back and (most likely) never return. That doesn't seem very effective.

The idea I support most, if Blizzard truly wanted to have more people play wild, is to give separate ladder rewards for the wild ladder. Perhaps even in the form of wild-only cards and packs. This would make people play wild ladder more consistently.

A fair point, but I still think it would be nice to have a visual signifier of having hit legend in a different format. Would surely cost Blizz very little.

I agree about alternative rewards too - it's not that hard to get all the rare cards in standard now, so I'd be delighted if you also got wild rares at the end of a season rather than loads of standard dupes. Having wild rewards specific to wild would be ace!

I like both of these ideas, honestly. Wild comes with a unique set of challenges, so it would be fitting for it to have a unique set of rewards to accomplishing them. I tend to play wild most often myself, although I've yet to get past Platinum 5 at the highest so far. 

Then you'd play the format for one season, get the card back and (most likely) never return. That doesn't seem very effective.

The idea I support most, if Blizzard truly wanted to have more people play wild, is to give separate ladder rewards for the wild ladder. Perhaps even in the form of wild-only cards and packs. This would make people play wild ladder more consistently.

All hail to Yogg! 

Interesting take on Odd Priest.  I may need to give it a shot. 

Thanks for alerting me. I'll try and fix it soon.

Dragoncaster needs to die. Zephrys the Great and other highlander cards are supposed to be overpowered because they impact your deck to only have one copy of each card. 

But honestly, Odd Demon Hunter is so overwhelmingly off balance it's not a joke.  THAT is what should be addressed.  While the deck does lose, it's mostly due to RNG as opposed to be being outplayed or having a bad match.  The Hero Power should be changed to align with all other Hero Powers.

Just wondering what others thought about getting an alternative 'wild-themed' card back for hitting legend in wild.  It could just be a re-work of the usual one with a few more wild-esque flourishes.

As a mainly standard, occasional wild player, I think I might be more motivated to try and hit legend in wild if it resulted in an alternative card back.

Thoughts?

Nice read as always.

I think you mispelled adventurers here and there. 

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I have an incredibly addictive personality and so when it comes to quitting things I've sunk time into, I struggle a lot. With card games, I tend to have periods where I am really into them, followed by periods of burnout, only to eventually get back into them the next time something major comes to them. This pattern has happened to me for both Hearthstone and MTG for about 7-8 years. The way I see it unless something major happens that redefines the entire game and makes everything you have obsolete, you can take breaks and when you do finally come back it'll only take a week or two to catch up with possibly months of 'missed content'.  Granted it helps that I've gotten enough of a fleshed-out collection, but even when I was just starting off, it never felt like there was some new massive change that got rid of all my previous grinding.

As for a game that I did leave 100%, I used to be huge on Destiny 2, played it pretty much daily for several hours for about an entire year. I was so into that I ended up writing a 28-page Google doc all about one of the weapon types. Eventually, though it just gets to the point where it felt more like a chore to play every day and so I just dropped it. At first, I constantly wanted to go back to the game but after like a week or two, I didn't feel like I needed to keep up with any of it anymore. 

If you need help dropping Hearthstone, I'd recommend trying to pick something else up in the meantime that doesn't use daily login/play rewards, like playing a singleplayer campaign, watching a show, or picking up a new book.

Thanks for sharing, Echo! Yea i kinda feel you, man. You know, now i'm reading some books as replacement and it is working well for me.

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Embrace Wild, where your investments are way more valuable, and where staying up-to-date with the meta is easier, hence making consistency of playtime less meaningful.

That is,  you can easily leave Wild for a while, knowing you won't be too far behind when you come back - easing your staying away from the game, and eventually easing your way out.

PS: a good job grants you a good money income, with which you can buy way more packs than quests can grant. So your job is actually boosting your capability to stay up-to-date, with a much lesser effort.Assuming ofc you still like the game.

Coming from the Wild man himself!! Thanks, Raven. Appreciate your suggestion. I'll try some cheap and fun wild deck.

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I play Hearthstone a couple times a month, Runeterra a couple times a week, and Gwent every day. Outside of Runeterra's weekly chest, Gwent is definitely the superior of the 3 in terms of rewards. The thing that really keeps me in Gwent is the lack of RNG and beautiful art. Soooo many times do I immediately stop playing Runeterra or Hearthstone because some god awful chain of bad RNG. That just doesn't happen in Gwent. I love how consistent you can make your deck and how it's much easier to homebrew your way to the highest rank if you play skillfully. 

+1

Your comment is perfect for me, my sentiments exactly!

I will just add that I'm an old HearthStone whale, and since Gwent's android premiere I have been slowly but steadily drifting away from HS.. This is actually the reason I came over here to the forums now - wanted to ask if you guys (mods, @Flux, anyone?) considered covering this game along HS, LOR and M:TGA ? Not exactly sure where to post this question, hope it gets noticed.

It doesn't even say how he committed suicide...

Dragonqueen 1-cost dragons crossed fingers.