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Hey, working on this mini set of legendaries based on characters from the animated shorts. It's a set about Hearthstone itself, about cards and packs and card sets. I'm trying to use art that includes hearthstone cards in the image. I imagine this as some kind of promo-set, maybe for an event or giveaway. Check it out!

Ava creates a pack from the latest standard expansion set (currently Descent of Dragons). Whizbang creates a pack from a random set in Wild (currently any set from Goblins vs Gnomes through Kobolds and Catacombs).

Nah, I knew it would have its issues just wanted to see what other people thought. I also agree elusive needs to be upped in mana cost along with deny and Hecarim either needs to summon less or be weaker.

Not banning Pogo-Hopper was such a rookie move ...
Ain't surprised to see that kind of mistake either, as brawl quality been on a slow decline ; glitch, sudden change in brawls, more bugs.

I still want to give Team 5 the benefit of doubt and let them transitioned from their old to new self, but they have to step it up. In a coding & programming realm, play testing and quality insurance checks are no luxury.

I agree. I hope they will offer way more optional things to buy in future. The more options to spend money on cosmetics, emotes and more, the less likely it is that they have to increase the prices for cards (or to reduce the amount of rewards).

Hope that they add these as a bought customization option, like the emotes in league.

All-Star Squad Uhg? ...
More like Pogo madness and sub-par alternatives ...

I won mine with pogos, against parachutes. Must admit though, for a split second on turn 2 I thought I had lost.

Then I won, with literally no effort from my side, turn 3.

They should honestly just ban Pogo-Hopper in this. There's no counter to this and not get countered by everything else at the same time.

I got my pack, with pogo of course, and left while I still had my dignity. See you guys next week.

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While I'm exited for all these new regions, I'm still confused as to why a combo region exist in the first place.  Aren't Piltover and Zaun usually fighting against each other?  Every other region has an aesthetic theme that ties them together, but with P&Z, not so much.  You've got futuristic technology, robots made out of garbage, brilliant scientists, children living in poverty, random explosions, and Teemo...for some reason.  I wouldn't be surprised if the region we have now is a placeholder, because these things don't belong together.  I feel like they could split this region apart since there are so many Piltover and Zaun champions already.

As for Ixtal and The Void forming one region, this could be possible since the champion selection is so low.  However, it would still be another mismatch from an aesthetic point of view.  You have one side all tuned in to nature and the other that's just a bunch of horrific monsters out of your nightmares.  Not to mention, it would be strange to see Rengar and Kha'zix fighting along side one another.  If there's any region Ixtal would form a combo with, I think it would be Shurima.  I feel as though The Void is TOO unique to be combined with any other region.

At first I was confused about Teemo and Heimerdinger in P&Z as well they are bandle city in origen as they are yordles.. but they currently operate in P&Z..

Teemo is dealing mushroom weaponary (and turns out  it's some kind of drug too) in zaun and heimerdingeBADCARDNAMEr is both operating in piltover and making a T-hex weapon in Piltover underground

I find it weird about teemo.. since there is a Bandle city expansion planned and there are not too many yordles.. guess they could do the same treatment to other champions and change their "operation" region to a region that is NOT their origin..

like they could make sylas part of freljord as he is operating there according to lore, although being a Demacian as origin.

P&Z are very similar is that they are high tech regions which are really fighting all the time.. one is "Futuristic magic tech" vs "Steam punkish tech" some piltover and zaun champions have been in one city or another in more instances than any other region.

The void will probably have a disposable unit in voidlings and have a consume theme can't wait for them to be part of the game..

Also I don't think the lack of champion pool is a problem for a region.. the shadow isles have like 7 champions currently originated there.. they could add for example corrupted senna, or nocturne or fiddle if they felt like it.

lol. Great job. Unfortunately the whole tavern is taken over by pogos.

I've got my pack, dirty as it is, and left. Until next week then.

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I think they are great ideas, and I have an idea how to overcome the lack of people for some mode.

Imagine you could see a live counter as to how many people are now live playing each mode and how many are in queue.

Then you could get an idea of the possible wait time and decide if you really want to queue into that.

This is like an improved version of the current estimate you see AFTER you queue.

I think there needs to be more incentives, such as pack tokens and pack sleeves, in the form of a weekly quest. "Play X amount of games in Endless Explorer/Two Headed Ogre/etc. during the week." would encourage players to keep coming back and checking into the mode beyond the daily quest grind. Also a monthly quest would be welcomed as well.

Unfortunately, Blizzard doesn't really report their numbers anymore (not that I can find) and probably for good reason. If people have that kind of information, they can use it to say "X is dead, abandon the game now before it's shut down". On the flip side of that, you can look at Heroes of the Storm which was a very fun game with an even more active community, if those numbers were public when they " killed" the game people would be raiding the forums saying "HotS had X amount of players and Blizzard just abandoned them, Hearthstone/WoW/Diablo/Overwatch is next!".

I think just having a wait time would be fine, but it goes back into that negative feedback loop. "Not many players playing that mode? I guess I'll play a different mode then." That continues until people just randomly start playing it.

I'd really like to have access to those numbers, along with Standard, Wild, Battlegrounds, and Arena's populations as well that way we can truly see what might happen if we split the playerbase further.

Also battlegrounds is evolving meta. Back in the day jaraxxus was better. But now that everyone competes for demons it is harder to make him work consistently

That was my thinking too.

It is at high ranks only... At low ranks just buying random demons is usually a winning strategy

On that image they have a separate crest for zaun so maybe eventually they will separate them

Well I am quite certain they will be nerfing elusives (and/or Deny) as well as Hecarim if that's what you mean, you can't expect a game that is in open beta to be balanced can you? But the game isn't that out of line really the balance team did a great job balancing the game to a sort of healthy state where you never feel hopeless as long as your deck is functional, and you can have certain techs to improve your chances of course..

I find the game to be well balanced for how new it is.

So turns out you can play any wild card in this brawl, just copy a deck that has no standard cards and then it will suggest you to paste it once you are in the brawl, then it will select a card from the deck, it will find only wild cards and it will settle on one.. TBH tried a few minutes to figure out how he settles on a card so far it seems that if a certain card exists then it will select it.. how it selects it is unknown to me.

I tried to make it so it chooses Patches the Pirate but I didn't managed to replicate it yet (I faced someone playing patches, added him to question how he did that but of course he wouldn't share, then I remembered this bug and turns out I was right, and it wasn't fixed...)

Anyway nice check if the deck is valid when you queue.

Solution? check the deck's validity on queuing up and ban Pogo-Hopper from this brawl.

EDIT:

Nice suggestion to replace the wild card (Also it lets me replace it).

not banning pogo hoppers though..

worse than mech warpers

Tried Earth Shock.. it does counter the first ones.. but then they hit card draw and you don't and then you are screwed. (they play rogue,they got more chances to get card draw).

doomsayer, not sure sounds like the same problem.. just play pogos, beat anyone not playing it except like 30% vs earth shock shaman or some fancy "counter" tried Aldor Peacekeeper paladin, it's too slow.. seems like a good idea but they hit you for like 10 before you done anything..

How's it been going?  I tried this deck but couldnt be very consistent with it.

 piltover and zaun are two sides of the same coin: the rich futuristic town with high tech robots,human and robots hybrids, and brillant scientists {piltover}   and the poor town with the chembarons genectic mutants and low-life thiefs and toublemakers and some weaker tech {zaun}

they make perfect sense together because they are the tech of runeterra this is their main theme {and explosions but this is a jynx thing}

hope you get my point this region will always be together.

I completely agree Hearthstone was the same way although not quite as rampant. They do have a lot of interesting choices they can make with how expansive the champion and spell pool in League is though so the future is really bright for this game. 

oh okay, I wasn't really that invested in the lore anymore and didn't remember that they converted Kumungu into Ixtal.

Guess Malphite had to be put somewhere.

Well according to the site Qiyana, Malphite, Neeko, Rengar, Nidalee, and Zyra are all Ixtal champs so there's some room there. As for what it actually is it seems like jungle and dragons plus the element chair or whatever.