I want to know... can i shard everything and then get these?
No.
I quote the article Blizzard posted:
"These cards will be considered "event" cards, which essentially means that they're temporary copies and not permanent additions to your collection. Even if you already own the cards, you'll still receive these event copies. When the event ends they'll disappear, just like the Headless Horseman himself!"
I won't hit you with the "learn to read" line, but man... lol
This looks so fun! I love big warrior and have many of the odd legendaries required. I would need to craft Phaoris though and both decoys, is it worth that?
What ranks are you playing this at and with what win rates? I’m not looking for a super competitive deck but I always try to make it to rank 5 each season for that free epic. Also, most importantly: how FUN is the deck?
While I agree with you on this point, you also have to consider that Warrior has premium removals like Brawl, Warpath and Shield Slam, which can deny your opponent's plays for the first turns of the match without the urge of playing minions.
Hallow's End 2019 begins at 10:00 AM PT on October 8 and runs until 9:00 AM PT on October 30!
The Dual-Class Arena Hallow’s End dress-up party is back! When you start an Arena run during the Doom in the Tomb event, you’ll choose a Hero, then a Hero Power, and card offerings will feature cards from BOTH of those classes, in addition to neutral cards.
To ensure that players have a chance to try out this devilish dual-class deck-building dress-up party, weeks 1 and 2 of this event will award Arena Tickets on login!
IMPORTANT: Players who have an active Arena run when this begins will have their current run ended and will receive an Arena Ticket as compensation.
Play out your run to x-2 (x wins and max. 2 losses) if you want more rewards from your run, or just leave it at 0-0 if you dont want to bother playing.
Friendly Neighborhood Gladiator: if you do plan on leaving your run at 0-0, might as well start two games and concede to two players, getting some positive karma :) You will get the identical rewards for 0-0 and 0-2 score.
So far, the announced sets for this event are:
Curse of Naxxramas
Goblins vs. Gnomes
Blackrock Mountain
The Grand Tournament
League of Explorers
Whispers of the Old Gods
One Night in Karazhan
Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
Journey to Un'Goro
Knights of the Frozen Throne
Kobolds & Catacombs
...meaning we might actually not have Basic and Classic sets included. Interesting.
FAQ
Q: When should I start my run to receive a free Arena Ticket for a retired run?
A: Ideally several hours before the event start/end, arena entries are generally closed few hours prior.
Q: Will I get another Arena Ticket, if I keep an active run before the event's end?
Q: Where are my rewards for the retired run? I opened my arena rewards but didn't get any pack or gold/dust.
A: This is a known bug, arena rewards are actually awarded to you once you finish your last game, before you open up the reward boxes. When an arena reset happens, it gets even more confusing because this happens on log in; sometimes you have to restart the game. People often see (1) pack in their inventory, don't think much about it, go open it and then go collect arena rewards only to find out they didn't get anything. But the fact is, that (1) pack on log in was actually the one from the arena rewards. Same with gold/dust, it was already added to your account even before you opened the arena rewards. You didn't lose anything.
The issue with big warrior is not that there are not enough ways to summon minions, or that there isn't enough big minions but the problem is that all of the cheat cards cost 9-10 mana.
Big Priest and Big Shaman both try and win by putting minions on the field several turns before they are supposed to be on the field. A turn 4/5 Walking Fountainor Obsidian Statue is far more likely to win you the game than a turn 10 Armagedillo and [Hearthstone Card (Colossus of Moon) Not Found] because at that point in the game your opponent will have the mana to play any card in their deck and they have had plenty of time to develop a board.
What Big Warrior needs to be at least tier 2 is some kind of cheap way to cheat out minions
So what would you expect for a lead up to the Halloween in game event? The event should be hyped up should it not? Should they have said nothing and then just rolled into the Halloween event? Hype like this gets people to return the game, and once they return it's good to have bundles for sale so that if they want to play more seriously they can pick up some packs at a discount. I don't think we should be removing resources from product development. I understand your content above all viewpoint, but I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's a card game, they are designed to allow the players to create their own content.
To reiterate I understand your viewpoint that there isn't enough content in Hearthstone, but I disagree almost entirely with that premise. I just don't see this content vacuum you seem to think there is when it comes to Hearthstone. There is plenty to do, plenty to accomplish, and I have never run out of ways to have fun with the game since I started playing in Naxx.
I’m not one of those who complain about lack of communication because I understand that if there is nothing that needs to be said then nothing should be said.
Anything we hear about now a days comes in the form of a hype engine meant to sell products, which I’m not complaining about particularly because if we don’t want HS to go the way of HotS we need Team 5 to perform well financially.
Adding old cards into Standard TEMPORARILY does not affect HS as a whole, it merely stifles some of the staleness of a solved meta which is appreciated, but ultimately ineffective in the long run if Team 5 follows the same formula.
If this is the start of something we’ll begin to see every expansion, then awesome, more Wild cards coming back into the fray. Only time will tell us that though.
Players are content with what they have until they’re tired of it (yes it sounds dumb because it can be applied to literally everything) but my philosophy is give players an abundance of content that doesn’t get dry too quickly (Expansions become dry depending on how well they change the meta/when the balance changes come along)(I don’t know about everyone else, but once I’ve heated the single player content I never go back to it) and a simple way to do that is simply reallocating whatever resources they’re using to make “bundles” and place then somewhere that is healthy for the game
Sorry, that was my bad. We originally had wrong sets listed (current rotation), or were they wrongly listed originally in the blog too? When i made the edit, i added Basic and Classic for convenience, but it is true that was just an assumption, we dont know for sure as of yet. Tho i cant rly imagine rotation without them, even tho it would be an interesting experiment.
The new arena rotation surely means "Classic" instead of "Standard" right?
Yes, haha. Thanks for pointing that out. They actually didnt list "Basic" and "Classic" sets in the blog, i added them for convenience. Id assume they will be there, cant rly imagine they wouldnt lol, tho it would be interesting scenario for sure :) But i removed them for now to not confuse ppl about already confusing situation that is them not being mentioned in the blog.
HSreplay has mage below warlock. And Imp Gang Boss is an amazing card for zoo. Rag/sylv could work as well. In fact, the neutral legendaries all have had great success in warlocks of the past so I wouldn't count warlock out just yet.
And all but maybe 2 classes got at least 1 card that doesn't really fit any current decks so I wouldn't feel too bad about that.
I'm sure warrior is going to be able to run all the neutral legendaries so maybe that's why they lowballed the class cards so hard. Just a shame as there are plenty of great cards i would have rather seen back.
What part of this is not an actual announcement? They are announcing how they are doing the Halloween event. If the only time Blizzard talked about the game was when they were making MASSIVE changes, we would never hear from them and you'd complain about a lack of communication.
Also, the Wild cards coming to Standard that were announced right here are something that impacts "Hearthstone as a Whole". It's the first time Blizzard has done something like this and may pave the way for future changes.
AAANNNNNDDDD, FYI most people are content with three expansions a year and a new variation of Dungeon of Run with each of those. What do you want? New expac every month? I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to get a new format but are you really taking the stand that until they announce something in that vein that all announcements are non-factors? That isn't a hill I would die on buddy.
Analysis on the 23 wild cards added
You can, but the event copies disapear after the event, so you will be left with nothing :)
Love Is in the Air
Every Feb :)
Awesome Blossom
Really great one tbh one of the best of the last few years
Analysis on the 23 wild cards added
No.
I quote the article Blizzard posted:
"These cards will be considered "event" cards, which essentially means that they're temporary copies and not permanent additions to your collection. Even if you already own the cards, you'll still receive these event copies. When the event ends they'll disappear, just like the Headless Horseman himself!"
I won't hit you with the "learn to read" line, but man... lol
Hallow's End
Use this Every Oct :)
King Phaoris Big Warrior
This looks so fun! I love big warrior and have many of the odd legendaries required. I would need to craft Phaoris though and both decoys, is it worth that?
What ranks are you playing this at and with what win rates? I’m not looking for a super competitive deck but I always try to make it to rank 5 each season for that free epic. Also, most importantly: how FUN is the deck?
Thanks!
Nefarian
This one is nice
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
Honestly, when i first read "next major update", i kinda assumed next year's rotation lol. Guess we'll see
Analysis on the 23 wild cards added
I want to know... can i shard everything and then get these?
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
Oooh... Arena is all the wild sets =)
Wait does it mean no classic and no basic too?
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
So Paladin actually does get Mysterious Challenger while Warlock gets Renounce Darkness? But why?
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
While I agree with you on this point, you also have to consider that Warrior has premium removals like Brawl, Warpath and Shield Slam, which can deny your opponent's plays for the first turns of the match without the urge of playing minions.
[PSA: Free Arena Ticket(s)] Hallow's End 2019
Thanks! I almost forgot about the free run.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
Well I for one am very excited to play renounce darkness warlock.
But hey, to each his own. Some people like competitive cards, some people like more janky/meme cards.
[PSA: Free Arena Ticket(s)] Hallow's End 2019
Hallow's End 2019 begins at 10:00 AM PT on October 8 and runs until 9:00 AM PT on October 30!
The Dual-Class Arena Hallow’s End dress-up party is back! When you start an Arena run during the Doom in the Tomb event, you’ll choose a Hero, then a Hero Power, and card offerings will feature cards from BOTH of those classes, in addition to neutral cards.
IMPORTANT: Players who have an active Arena run when this begins will have their current run ended and will receive an Arena Ticket as compensation.
So far, the announced sets for this event are:
...meaning we might actually not have Basic and Classic sets included. Interesting.
FAQ
Q: When should I start my run to receive a free Arena Ticket for a retired run?
A: Ideally several hours before the event start/end, arena entries are generally closed few hours prior.
Q: Will I get another Arena Ticket, if I keep an active run before the event's end?
A: Yes.
Q: Do Arena Tickets stack?
A: Yes. (source)
Q: Do Arena Tickets expire?
A: No.
Q: Where are my rewards for the retired run? I opened my arena rewards but didn't get any pack or gold/dust.
A: This is a known bug, arena rewards are actually awarded to you once you finish your last game, before you open up the reward boxes. When an arena reset happens, it gets even more confusing because this happens on log in; sometimes you have to restart the game. People often see (1) pack in their inventory, don't think much about it, go open it and then go collect arena rewards only to find out they didn't get anything. But the fact is, that (1) pack on log in was actually the one from the arena rewards. Same with gold/dust, it was already added to your account even before you opened the arena rewards. You didn't lose anything.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
The issue with big warrior is not that there are not enough ways to summon minions, or that there isn't enough big minions but the problem is that all of the cheat cards cost 9-10 mana.
Big Priest and Big Shaman both try and win by putting minions on the field several turns before they are supposed to be on the field. A turn 4/5 Walking Fountainor Obsidian Statue is far more likely to win you the game than a turn 10 Armagedillo and [Hearthstone Card (Colossus of Moon) Not Found] because at that point in the game your opponent will have the mana to play any card in their deck and they have had plenty of time to develop a board.
What Big Warrior needs to be at least tier 2 is some kind of cheap way to cheat out minions
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
So what would you expect for a lead up to the Halloween in game event? The event should be hyped up should it not? Should they have said nothing and then just rolled into the Halloween event? Hype like this gets people to return the game, and once they return it's good to have bundles for sale so that if they want to play more seriously they can pick up some packs at a discount. I don't think we should be removing resources from product development. I understand your content above all viewpoint, but I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's a card game, they are designed to allow the players to create their own content.
To reiterate I understand your viewpoint that there isn't enough content in Hearthstone, but I disagree almost entirely with that premise. I just don't see this content vacuum you seem to think there is when it comes to Hearthstone. There is plenty to do, plenty to accomplish, and I have never run out of ways to have fun with the game since I started playing in Naxx.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
I love Hallow's End!
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: mks#2373
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
You forget that there's actually a lot of support for Big Warrior: just to name a few, we have The Boomship, The Boom Reaver, Blatant Decoy and Colossus of the Moon. And I'm not even counting Archmage Vargoth and Grommash Hellscream.
It will not be tier 1, but trust me: you'll lose much less games than now.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
I’m not one of those who complain about lack of communication because I understand that if there is nothing that needs to be said then nothing should be said.
Anything we hear about now a days comes in the form of a hype engine meant to sell products, which I’m not complaining about particularly because if we don’t want HS to go the way of HotS we need Team 5 to perform well financially.
Adding old cards into Standard TEMPORARILY does not affect HS as a whole, it merely stifles some of the staleness of a solved meta which is appreciated, but ultimately ineffective in the long run if Team 5 follows the same formula.
If this is the start of something we’ll begin to see every expansion, then awesome, more Wild cards coming back into the fray. Only time will tell us that though.
Players are content with what they have until they’re tired of it (yes it sounds dumb because it can be applied to literally everything) but my philosophy is give players an abundance of content that doesn’t get dry too quickly (Expansions become dry depending on how well they change the meta/when the balance changes come along)(I don’t know about everyone else, but once I’ve heated the single player content I never go back to it) and a simple way to do that is simply reallocating whatever resources they’re using to make “bundles” and place then somewhere that is healthy for the game
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
Sorry, that was my bad. We originally had wrong sets listed (current rotation), or were they wrongly listed originally in the blog too? When i made the edit, i added Basic and Classic for convenience, but it is true that was just an assumption, we dont know for sure as of yet. Tho i cant rly imagine rotation without them, even tho it would be an interesting experiment.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
Yes, haha. Thanks for pointing that out. They actually didnt list "Basic" and "Classic" sets in the blog, i added them for convenience. Id assume they will be there, cant rly imagine they wouldnt lol, tho it would be interesting scenario for sure :) But i removed them for now to not confuse ppl about already confusing situation that is them not being mentioned in the blog.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
HSreplay has mage below warlock. And Imp Gang Boss is an amazing card for zoo. Rag/sylv could work as well. In fact, the neutral legendaries all have had great success in warlocks of the past so I wouldn't count warlock out just yet.
And all but maybe 2 classes got at least 1 card that doesn't really fit any current decks so I wouldn't feel too bad about that.
I'm sure warrior is going to be able to run all the neutral legendaries so maybe that's why they lowballed the class cards so hard. Just a shame as there are plenty of great cards i would have rather seen back.
Hallow's End 2019 - Leaked Cards Confirmed, 3 New Brawls, Arena Rotation, Legendary Quests, Login Rewards
What part of this is not an actual announcement? They are announcing how they are doing the Halloween event. If the only time Blizzard talked about the game was when they were making MASSIVE changes, we would never hear from them and you'd complain about a lack of communication.
Also, the Wild cards coming to Standard that were announced right here are something that impacts "Hearthstone as a Whole". It's the first time Blizzard has done something like this and may pave the way for future changes.
AAANNNNNDDDD, FYI most people are content with three expansions a year and a new variation of Dungeon of Run with each of those. What do you want? New expac every month? I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to get a new format but are you really taking the stand that until they announce something in that vein that all announcements are non-factors? That isn't a hill I would die on buddy.