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Love the wild content! Well written too, keep it up!

Been on a Total War: Warhammer kick with my Steam Deck (currently in the process of moving), other than that it’s Heroes of the Storm

I can't decide which I like better: getting hit with 64 damage from Astalor/Brann on turn 7 by a Druid, or getting hit by 4 different Astalors by Rogue.

I first assumed that the decks you posted today would be frequently played with sufficient statistics on HSReplay.net and upon checking myself card-for-card at least the Astalor Big Spell Mage deck should show the HSR winrate box if I am not mistaken. If correct, 94000 games played would yield enough data.

https://hsreplay.net/decks/cX8XxtXJi8F6JWlOMMrl1/

None of the cards are from the Core set, so it should also not be a non-unique cards issue, I think.

As for the Even Shaman deck that I posted earlier on OoC, it also does not show the HSR winrate box even though it should be one of if not the most optimized version out there with plenty of wins. Though, since this is a Wild deck, the data is far less compared to Standard decks, so I have to take that into account as well.

Could you link a few of their tweets for those of us that don't use Twitter?

Found this on the Reward Track Progress post.... It is really good and fun! Was looking for something to try with Shaman as I had not touched it this expansion either on wild or standar.

Thanks for sharing!

Has the partnership with HSReplay.net ended perhaps? The reason why I ask is because I no longer see the plugin above frequently played HS decks any more.

I am currently at level 200 and reached the halfway point on the Rewards Track. Along the ride, I have completed all of the gameplay achievements.

It has been awhile, but I hit legend in both Standard and Wild again in the same season, this time using Evolve Shaman and Even Shaman respectively. The latter Wild deck is super consistent and it almost feels unfair to play it on the ranked ladder.

As for my Death Knight wins progress, I have recorded 361 wins so far. I have decided to NOT waste 1000 gold (or more) for the new Ghoul Queen Scarlet DK hero portrait because it is simply a "scam purchase" without guarantees, even after the requirements change.

Now I am eagerly waiting for the next balance patch and mini-set to arrive whilst steadily adding more DK wins to hopefully get my hands on the free Arthas, Kingslayer hero portrait soon™.

Malignant Horror can no longer be drafted.

I know a certain salty content creator will be very happy with this change

I can confidently say that at least 1 rogue card will be nerfed 🙃

Sucks they don't do this.

Even on the money making side of things, It's not even charity on their end. They pocket half of the earnings and they keep everything once the cap is reached. I feel this is a win-win.

Honestly I could see this happening after the 2022 HS World Championship was live at the same time as the Soccer World Cup. I actively watched every masters/GM on youtube in 2022 and the viewer numbers were averaging at about 3k - 12k on the main HS channel. Let's hope the move back to Twitch increases viewership again

There was the Thunder king bundle in 2019 used to add additional money to the prize pool: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/masters-bundle-available-thunder-king-shaman-hero-portrait-card-back-20-packs-for-19-99/

Maybe Blizzard is too greedy to try this again, which is a bummer coz it can work

Probably early Feb. Its always 2 months after release, somewhere around then.

Shouldn't be time for an announcement of the announcement?

Man, this is terribly disappointing news.

If they don't want to shell out the cash, why not use crowd funding?

If I recall correctly, they have already done this before in "Master's Tour" packs (don't remember the exact name). I think that reached (their imposed) cap in a few days. I feel this gives the player base the opportunity to support the pro community.

Because they've invested into the game emotionally. Not everyone treats their stuff like a couple of soiled gloves.

So blizz shat on their game and they, as fans, call them out on it.

I wonder why Rogue is so prevalent? According to HSReplay, Thief Rogue is the most played deck in the meta, but it doesn't have the highest winrate, neither in Diamond (where Shockspitter Hunter, Nathria Imp Warlock and Pure Paladin are all ahead) or in Top Legend (where Shockspitter and Evolve Shaman are ahead).

Some serious buffs to Priest might be better than nerfing Rogue. It has a massively favorable winrate against Rogue - with its efficient clears and healing to stay out of range - but sucks against most everything else, so is basically a dead class.

Incredible how all the comments bemoan this game as if something or someone has twisted their arm in to playing it let alone spending their hard earned money. 

Tiny edit:  the two previous articles to this one have zero comments... 

Youtube switch is one thing, I was still watching tournaments on youtube  even with bugged rewards.

But main thing the game is not fun to watch anymore. There is like only couple valid classes right now. And blizz doesn't want to admit they fucked so do they half baked nerfs.

Right now meta is all about rogue, which has no bad match up. For over year they don't want to fix gnoll. Gnoll was supposed to be payoff for thief rogue , a joke but fun deck. But now 99% its free on turn 2-3, even in non thief decks.

There a lot of cards that should have been nerfed like guff, scales, mage 9spell, 0 mana freeze but it would require working hard and that is a big nono.

I don't believe they can balance game to save it, as it's more important to insult their customer base on twitter and complain that people want fixes through they had a holiday a week ago. This game requires testing, but also to people to say "you know that a bad idea". But in current nu-blizzard both are counted as toxic

Without accurate data on how much hearthstone is actually bringing into the total revenue, we can't speculate much on why the decision to take away the master tour prize pools. But I think the low viewership is probably being brought into equation here, which I think is unfair. You dont need nostrodamus to predict lower viewership when you switch platforms from twitch to youtube.

But it is known that blizz games have taken a beating when it comes to revenue. Far as Ive read dragonflight isn't doing all that well neither, and I cant imagine overwatch 2 doing better than 1 in terms of revenue. Diablo 4 is not out yet but the signs are encouraging far as game is concern but we'll have to wait and see. As for hearthstone its as bit baffling because this is about as monetize as it ever got for the game, so its kinda hard to believe the game is not bringing in the cash for the business. I think hearthstone deserves more love, but cant say for sure without seeing the finances.

I wouldn't call hearthstone stale, but games have got to the point that there's simply way too many choices, even in the turn-based TCG-like genre. Seems like nowadays any turn based game has a 50-50 change to involve cards in some capacity. Hypothetically, if blizz is prepared to throw money at the game and make hearthstone 2 we might see something of a resurgence. But realistically in my opinion, there's a good chance blizz would be in the backwater by 5 years, despite its impressive library. Just cant see microsoft managing this well at all.

Im not getting the either or situation though. Its xp and gems, not that I pay much attention to the gems anyway. Far as I know, you get both. Wouldn't make any sense to take one away and Im sure reddit would be in flames if xp is taken away.

Sometimes when games are too short you dont see the xp ticking. That's my only explanation as to why you dont see it.