I remember hearing that rumor for a while but after a couple of no champion level 13 vaults it looks busted to me. This might have been a beta thing? This sounds like myth that got started somewhere...
It's not a myth, simply outdated information. Previously, vaults at level 10+ were guaranteed a champion. Now, vaults of that level are guaranteed an Expedition token - and Expeditions always award you with one random champion as an absolute minimum reward. You're still getting the champion (and can get it instantly by just starting the Expedition and then surrendering it) but you have the option for some Expedition fun as well.
Yeah, there's no guarantees for a champion card in your vault. I'm still a bit salty because I only received a single epic in last week's level-13 vault. Yesterday's level-13 yielded 2 epics. Feels rather weak for a vault that's supposed to be the "exciting thing" we wait for every week.
Question to the mods: how difficult would it be to implement a system similar to Trump's? (different rankings for design and balance) Then the final score an either be the average or the sum of the two.
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
Hey dude. Believe me or not but ATVI-Blizzard is changing. They've been kinda scared from past community issues about HK and MTX.
I expect some big news this week, something that will change the way we see Activision forever: -Probably today, they will announce a F2P Battle Royale Game called "WARZONE" -Thursday, New Year Announcement will introduce some substantial change to HS economy, aiming to improve the F2P Experience.
That's enough to think that they are shifting their business-set. And probably it's just the beginning...
I remember hearing that rumor for a while but after a couple of no champion level 13 vaults it looks busted to me. This might have been a beta thing? This sounds like myth that got started somewhere...
Kripp seems to be impressed, and that's usually a good enough reason for some amount of optimism.
Apart from making it cheaper to have fun in hearthstone, the only other thing is to mix up the evergreen set, maybe taking some cards from expansions. Making evergreen a rotational thing is both a good thing from a business perspective and for the playerbase. It might make it harder for balancing, but if the team can do a balance patch every 2 weeks, I think its feasible.
Then again, it might just be hearthstone 2.0, with the added feature of allowing us to import our cards from hearthstone 1.
Guess we'll just have to wait until the end of the week.
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
I feel like it's not strong enough yet. I would suggest reducing the number of portals but raising the stats of the demons. Is there a number linked to Malchezaar? Maybe you could go with 5s, like shuffle 5 portals which summon 5/5s with rush
I'm still struggling with the watermark and might change the art, it's supposed to be a treasure for the Dalaran Heist. How do you feel about using Gwent art? I'd really appreciate feedback :)
Yea, like the person above said, don't give into the hype.
I'm not saying that Frodan is acting like that because he gets paid to do it, but what seems exciting to him (fueling his belief that the changes will cement HS for the next years) might not hold up at all (making it nothing more than his personal opinion).
Consider that HS doesn't have some real competition at the moment, so the devs aren't really incentivised to bring new features into the game. They will probably take some ideas from legends of runeterra and/or change the laddering system a bit. I don't expect anything more.
HS will never have cool features that should've been in the game for years unless their market share is dropping a lot, or another games brings some new ideas to the table that Blizzard can adapt and monetize.
Long gone are the days when they created stuff simply to add quality to a product. The past 5 or so years are the proof.
Lastly, do realize that if the amount of money they get from the "new" features is not enough, they will simply abandon working on them or remove them altogether. I'd rather play indie games than give money to Activision in its current state.
PS: i'm having a lot of fun with Gwent arenas at the moment. The reward system is nice enough that I don't feel compelled to spend hours of grinding in order to have fun in the game. My time is very precious and I don't want to spend it on Activision's crap design choices.
Just to be sure, you are talking about Frodan's tweet with this Hearthstone Summit right?
If so, don't be too quickly to believe anything like that. Influencers tends to act like that. He said that just to encourage people, but it's so unrealistic to me. (honestly)
We can never tell if one game still gonna be popular for 10 years, with just 5 or 6 big changes. C'mon, let's be realistic. 10 years is a long time. Even 2 years is gonna be tough.
So, if we're talking about how Hearthstone wanna stay popular within 10 years, constant changes is the absolute way.
Really cool stuff, thank you! If I may make a suggestion though: Reading the Transparency Report, I wanted to look up the entries since I can't remember who submitted which card. Sadly I wasn't able to find them anymore. Could you add a link to the galery with the entries (possibly in the order of the final result) to the transparacy report site? Are they even saved?
So most of us are excited to hear about those great changes coming to Hearthstone which were hinted at by attendees of the Hearthstone 2020 Community Summit. Since the original post on the main page got flushed out and we may or may not get some news this week or even today, I wanted to give our speculations, expectations and wishes a new home.
Apart from very obvious things I expect to be delivered very soon like new purchasable hero portraits, my own contribution is to speculate about Blizzard splitting off Battlegrounds from "classic" Hearthstone. Maybe even Arena comes along, too. My arguments supporting that theory are as follows:
- If I remember correctly, there already are seperate teams working on BG and the rest of HS at Blizzard's
- BG (and Arena) are based upon drafting. You don't need a collection, you don't need card backs (not true for Arena, though no big issue imho), you don't need anything you obtained during your time before BG was introduced. It wouldn't hurt veterans to split BG off.
- Auto chess is something completely different than "classic" HS. It's easy to imagine people loving BG who have no interest in "classic" HS and vice versa (I'm an example for the latter, no surprise). This argument strongly speaks against seperating Arena, though.
- BG is getting a lot of love from the devs. The frequency of the introduction of new heros, buffs and nerfs is amazing. Maybe they are pushing this hard because they want to get the biggest player base possible before kicking off BG as a seperate game.
I must admit that I'm really not convinced it would make sense to split off BG from the business side of the issue. But with a little stretch one could argue that BG isn't even a card game anymore since you can't collect the cards. That might be enough to distinguish between the two branches and shape seperate identities. If all of this amounts to "cementing HS for the next decade" depends upon the questions if 1) seperate BG would still qualify as part of HS and 2) what will "classic" HS receive this year.
I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts about the upcoming changes and getting roasted for my somewhat crazy idea. Thanks for reading!
One little piece of advice: don't submit your card too quickly. I did that and then realized my card is a bit flawed, both in terms of balance and wording.
So I guess we'll get a Fireside Chat: Year of the X (Phoenix seems likely) today or Thursday, and part of the announcement will be: "Dragons are now in Hearthstone Battlegrounds! Download the update now!" Or at least I hope so...
Year of Phoenix announcement - finally today?
maybe year of the Rat
The Hearthstone Cards We're Going to Miss When Year of the Dragons Ends - The Boomsday Project Edition
Academic Espionage
I'm really going to miss this card especially since Stowaway and Skydiving Instructor just came out and work so well with it.
It was because of this card that I managed to get a turn 9 Gonk OTK as a rogue.
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
'We're announcing our unconditional surrender to Riot Games and hoping they'll be gentle with us.'
no Champion in lvl 10 Vault?
It's not a myth, simply outdated information. Previously, vaults at level 10+ were guaranteed a champion. Now, vaults of that level are guaranteed an Expedition token - and Expeditions always award you with one random champion as an absolute minimum reward. You're still getting the champion (and can get it instantly by just starting the Expedition and then surrendering it) but you have the option for some Expedition fun as well.
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
This doesn't work for me. Anyone else having issues? Any tricks I could try?
Edit: it actually DOES work, but only when you create the card. Preview won't show the watermark.
Here's something very helpful for noobs like me I dug up, great thanks to @Demonxz95
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/269-fan-creations-tutorial-how-to-use-hearthcards-1-the-basics
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/272-fan-creation-tutorial-how-to-use-hearthcards-2-the-extras
no Champion in lvl 10 Vault?
Yeah, there's no guarantees for a champion card in your vault. I'm still a bit salty because I only received a single epic in last week's level-13 vault. Yesterday's level-13 yielded 2 epics. Feels rather weak for a vault that's supposed to be the "exciting thing" we wait for every week.
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Question to the mods: how difficult would it be to implement a system similar to Trump's? (different rankings for design and balance) Then the final score an either be the average or the sum of the two.
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
Hey dude.
Believe me or not but ATVI-Blizzard is changing. They've been kinda scared from past community issues about HK and MTX.
I expect some big news this week, something that will change the way we see Activision forever:
-Probably today, they will announce a F2P Battle Royale Game called "WARZONE"
-Thursday, New Year Announcement will introduce some substantial change to HS economy, aiming to improve the F2P Experience.
That's enough to think that they are shifting their business-set. And probably it's just the beginning...
no Champion in lvl 10 Vault?
I remember hearing that rumor for a while but after a couple of no champion level 13 vaults it looks busted to me. This might have been a beta thing? This sounds like myth that got started somewhere...
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
Kripp seems to be impressed, and that's usually a good enough reason for some amount of optimism.
Apart from making it cheaper to have fun in hearthstone, the only other thing is to mix up the evergreen set, maybe taking some cards from expansions. Making evergreen a rotational thing is both a good thing from a business perspective and for the playerbase. It might make it harder for balancing, but if the team can do a balance patch every 2 weeks, I think its feasible.
Then again, it might just be hearthstone 2.0, with the added feature of allowing us to import our cards from hearthstone 1.
Guess we'll just have to wait until the end of the week.
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
@Anchorm4n the problem is that I want to tie it to the Portal Keeper theme of Felhounds
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I feel like it's not strong enough yet. I would suggest reducing the number of portals but raising the stats of the demons. Is there a number linked to Malchezaar? Maybe you could go with 5s, like shuffle 5 portals which summon 5/5s with rush
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I'm still struggling with the watermark and might change the art, it's supposed to be a treasure for the Dalaran Heist. How do you feel about using Gwent art? I'd really appreciate feedback :)
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
Yea, like the person above said, don't give into the hype.
I'm not saying that Frodan is acting like that because he gets paid to do it, but what seems exciting to him (fueling his belief that the changes will cement HS for the next years) might not hold up at all (making it nothing more than his personal opinion).
Consider that HS doesn't have some real competition at the moment, so the devs aren't really incentivised to bring new features into the game. They will probably take some ideas from legends of runeterra and/or change the laddering system a bit. I don't expect anything more.
HS will never have cool features that should've been in the game for years unless their market share is dropping a lot, or another games brings some new ideas to the table that Blizzard can adapt and monetize.
Long gone are the days when they created stuff simply to add quality to a product. The past 5 or so years are the proof.
Lastly, do realize that if the amount of money they get from the "new" features is not enough, they will simply abandon working on them or remove them altogether. I'd rather play indie games than give money to Activision in its current state.
PS: i'm having a lot of fun with Gwent arenas at the moment. The reward system is nice enough that I don't feel compelled to spend hours of grinding in order to have fun in the game. My time is very precious and I don't want to spend it on Activision's crap design choices.
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Treasure for DH. Thoughts?
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
Just to be sure, you are talking about Frodan's tweet with this Hearthstone Summit right?
If so, don't be too quickly to believe anything like that. Influencers tends to act like that. He said that just to encourage people, but it's so unrealistic to me. (honestly)
We can never tell if one game still gonna be popular for 10 years, with just 5 or 6 big changes. C'mon, let's be realistic. 10 years is a long time. Even 2 years is gonna be tough.
So, if we're talking about how Hearthstone wanna stay popular within 10 years, constant changes is the absolute way.
Card Design Conversation - The First Winner
Really cool stuff, thank you! If I may make a suggestion though: Reading the Transparency Report, I wanted to look up the entries since I can't remember who submitted which card. Sadly I wasn't able to find them anymore. Could you add a link to the galery with the entries (possibly in the order of the final result) to the transparacy report site? Are they even saved?
Whizbang is Wonderful
Nice deck, but unfortunately, I have only 278 dust. Any replacement for Whizbang?
How To Train Year Dragon - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Congrats! Your win is also a great encouragement for us other newbies :-
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I almost made the mistake of submitting too quickly again. I'm going to sleep on this one and look at it again in the morning.
How to "cement HS for the next decade" speculations thread
So most of us are excited to hear about those great changes coming to Hearthstone which were hinted at by attendees of the Hearthstone 2020 Community Summit. Since the original post on the main page got flushed out and we may or may not get some news this week or even today, I wanted to give our speculations, expectations and wishes a new home.
Apart from very obvious things I expect to be delivered very soon like new purchasable hero portraits, my own contribution is to speculate about Blizzard splitting off Battlegrounds from "classic" Hearthstone. Maybe even Arena comes along, too. My arguments supporting that theory are as follows:
- If I remember correctly, there already are seperate teams working on BG and the rest of HS at Blizzard's
- BG (and Arena) are based upon drafting. You don't need a collection, you don't need card backs (not true for Arena, though no big issue imho), you don't need anything you obtained during your time before BG was introduced. It wouldn't hurt veterans to split BG off.
- Auto chess is something completely different than "classic" HS. It's easy to imagine people loving BG who have no interest in "classic" HS and vice versa (I'm an example for the latter, no surprise). This argument strongly speaks against seperating Arena, though.
- BG is getting a lot of love from the devs. The frequency of the introduction of new heros, buffs and nerfs is amazing. Maybe they are pushing this hard because they want to get the biggest player base possible before kicking off BG as a seperate game.
I must admit that I'm really not convinced it would make sense to split off BG from the business side of the issue. But with a little stretch one could argue that BG isn't even a card game anymore since you can't collect the cards. That might be enough to distinguish between the two branches and shape seperate identities. If all of this amounts to "cementing HS for the next decade" depends upon the questions if 1) seperate BG would still qualify as part of HS and 2) what will "classic" HS receive this year.
I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts about the upcoming changes and getting roasted for my somewhat crazy idea. Thanks for reading!
One Man's Treasure - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
One little piece of advice: don't submit your card too quickly. I did that and then realized my card is a bit flawed, both in terms of balance and wording.
Are Dragons Finally Coming to Hearthstone Battlegrounds? Blizzard Tweets a Potential Teaser
Yes please!
Are Dragons Finally Coming to Hearthstone Battlegrounds? Blizzard Tweets a Potential Teaser
So I guess we'll get a Fireside Chat: Year of the X (Phoenix seems likely) today or Thursday, and part of the announcement will be: "Dragons are now in Hearthstone Battlegrounds! Download the update now!" Or at least I hope so...