From my experience the golden portrait players at rank 15 aren't farming, they're just bad. They play meme decks and so they don't progress. they aren't farming your friend, they are just as stuck as he is. Just for different reasons.
Warlock can counter easily if they even get a single major heal, Reno Warlock would become a thing again, if Reno comes back, you can control much better overall, and playing a Youthful Brewmaster to stall even more for the Mogu cultist combo or even Mecha'thun combo OTK and ignore other reno decks.
(Quest) Control Warlock can stall till fatigue too with the right cards in hand.
Warlock lacks heal as usual so reno fits there easily,
And I'm pretty sure some other Highlander decks has more use of reno than Hunter themselves. OTK is still a thing in decks along with TTK and reno improves most of them
I expect a considerable number of neutral minions and 1-2 cards for each class: definitely, not all 23 will be on the level of N'Zoth or Rag, and these addition will presumably help to bring niche classes like Warlock and Mage to see more play.
no offense, but getting both Reno and KAzakus back would be absolute cancer. Highlander Hunter is already top tier, but also giving them access to a full heal would be ridiculous. I mean at that point, what would even counter them?
Given that we're discussing "what if" scenarios, maybe they could temporary add a new section to the Collection Manager (do you remember the "Featured Cards" after the Rise of Mechs patch?), giving the instructions at the beginning and at the end of this event (just like when you nerf cards) so that players are aware of what is happening and can play having in mind what will happen.
I'm just saying, there could be a better solution or even a better idea.
Ranks in hearthstone are tricky by nature because they are not deck specific. You can be below average f2p and still grind that one Tier 1 deck you spent all your dust savings on.
This has two downsides. First, you are fucked when you deck gets nerfed. Second, everybody gets quickly at least one good deck together and that’s enough to win against every meme or basic deck. There is not much room between a fresh new player and a noob that is 3 months in but managed to craft a powerfull deck.
Conclusion: if you want to play ranked, you need a powerfull deck. Don’t go to war with a stick. Lack of diversity goes hand in hand with F2p.
Love the portrait stuff - finally a great looking Guldan! Not really that much into the "Flash from the Past", but better than nothing. Still hoping they actually make the "legendary quest" actually give huge rewards instead of one witchwood pack. Let's see.
The change to quests still has me baffled. The problem with them is not that they are too hard to achieve. The problem is that they give you only 50g, and the hardest 60g - the 100 are so rare I'm not even taking them into consideration. Instead of making them easier, increase their rewards. You've done it once, you can do it again
honestly, the difference between 60 and 50g is mostly the amount of time invested...meaning it's kind of frustrating if you have to play 3-5 games just to complete a quest that says "win 2 games with x-class". I'd rather be done quickly and go back to playing decks I actually like instead of having to copy the best aggro version of whatever meta deck is currently available to the class.
So, some speculation what this event will be: the story still plays in Uldum, which means there are a lot of tombs to rise buried minions from. Which could also be connected to the about then fully unlocked tombs of terror.
Also, Madame Lazul evidently wants to rise the old gods, which will then suceed sometimes after 4th october. Probably around haloween, Blizzard often reinvents existing holydays.
I suppose if N'Zoth returns, the other old gods will follow- maybe Lazul will first recruit him, then N'Zoth will use his necromantic abilities to bring the others back.
I just think current Gul'dan doesn't look threatening whatsoever. I mean he is basically one of the most evil and powerful mortals in the entire WoW lore, but he just looks like a wrinkly prune with too much colour saturation. The new portrait really portrays his imposing nature and if my theorycraft of Standard N'zoth-lock works out I'll use it to grind the fuck out of those 750 more wins I need, just to have a good alternative to Nemsy (although you can't beat her sassy apple chewing animation, it's just too good)
Traversing Azeroth - By Fire Be Purged! The Fire Elementals
Haha, saw it in some videos, where the NPC speaks "hero" or "adventurer" but in the subtitles it writes the actual player character's name.
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temporarily.
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Wow they're giving us the cards for free!... hmmm doesn't seem very Blizzard like.
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Cringeworthy? Man that Anduin is sick
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I reroll the quest to try to get more gold, not less gold!!!!!
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They unnerfed Jaina (in the 1000 wins portrait)!
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Its probably gonna be like an alternate hero, just like the option to disable your golden hero
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I just checked and I have all classes with 1000+ wins except mage which has 968 /fail
for those of us out of the WoW loop why is Jaina’s hair weird? Thought it was blonde
and that Anduin Portrait is cringeworthy
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Totally agree with you: it would be awesome
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Really want him as a portrait for Warrior, Magni get a bit stale no
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That Anduin portrait though.
Fine, I will start playing ranked again lol.
Ranking System is problemtic
From my experience the golden portrait players at rank 15 aren't farming, they're just bad. They play meme decks and so they don't progress. they aren't farming your friend, they are just as stuck as he is. Just for different reasons.
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Warlock can counter easily if they even get a single major heal, Reno Warlock would become a thing again, if Reno comes back, you can control much better overall, and playing a Youthful Brewmaster to stall even more for the Mogu cultist combo or even Mecha'thun combo OTK and ignore other reno decks.
(Quest) Control Warlock can stall till fatigue too with the right cards in hand.
Warlock lacks heal as usual so reno fits there easily,
And I'm pretty sure some other Highlander decks has more use of reno than Hunter themselves. OTK is still a thing in decks along with TTK and reno improves most of them
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I seriously doubt that they will bring back Deathstalker Rexxar, especially if you consider than Hunter is not in a bad spot (Highlander Hunter is considered tier 1 in today's Vicious Syndicate data report).
I expect a considerable number of neutral minions and 1-2 cards for each class: definitely, not all 23 will be on the level of N'Zoth or Rag, and these addition will presumably help to bring niche classes like Warlock and Mage to see more play.
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This is the best news I could get. After finishing the game (all golden classes) about a year ago, I finally have a reason to grind the game again :D
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Now Anduin looks a lot more like his father!
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the face is a bit off, but that's just stylization I guess
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Wow. 2nd hit to Jaina, much worse this time, hopefully we can keep original portrait.
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no offense, but getting both Reno and KAzakus back would be absolute cancer. Highlander Hunter is already top tier, but also giving them access to a full heal would be ridiculous. I mean at that point, what would even counter them?
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Given that we're discussing "what if" scenarios, maybe they could temporary add a new section to the Collection Manager (do you remember the "Featured Cards" after the Rise of Mechs patch?), giving the instructions at the beginning and at the end of this event (just like when you nerf cards) so that players are aware of what is happening and can play having in mind what will happen.
I'm just saying, there could be a better solution or even a better idea.
Ranking System is problemtic
I‘ll add my two cents.
Ranks in hearthstone are tricky by nature because they are not deck specific. You can be below average f2p and still grind that one Tier 1 deck you spent all your dust savings on.
This has two downsides. First, you are fucked when you deck gets nerfed. Second, everybody gets quickly at least one good deck together and that’s enough to win against every meme or basic deck. There is not much room between a fresh new player and a noob that is 3 months in but managed to craft a powerfull deck.
Conclusion: if you want to play ranked, you need a powerfull deck. Don’t go to war with a stick. Lack of diversity goes hand in hand with F2p.
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Yeah she looks more like Bloodsworn Mercenary.
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honestly, the difference between 60 and 50g is mostly the amount of time invested...meaning it's kind of frustrating if you have to play 3-5 games just to complete a quest that says "win 2 games with x-class". I'd rather be done quickly and go back to playing decks I actually like instead of having to copy the best aggro version of whatever meta deck is currently available to the class.
Event: 23 Cards Moving from Wild to Standard (Ragnaros & N'Zoth Included), 1000 Win Portraits, More Events
So, some speculation what this event will be: the story still plays in Uldum, which means there are a lot of tombs to rise buried minions from. Which could also be connected to the about then fully unlocked tombs of terror.
Also, Madame Lazul evidently wants to rise the old gods, which will then suceed sometimes after 4th october. Probably around haloween, Blizzard often reinvents existing holydays.
I suppose if N'Zoth returns, the other old gods will follow- maybe Lazul will first recruit him, then N'Zoth will use his necromantic abilities to bring the others back.
Event: 23 Cards Moving from Wild to Standard (Ragnaros & N'Zoth Included), 1000 Win Portraits, More Events
I just think current Gul'dan doesn't look threatening whatsoever. I mean he is basically one of the most evil and powerful mortals in the entire WoW lore, but he just looks like a wrinkly prune with too much colour saturation. The new portrait really portrays his imposing nature and if my theorycraft of Standard N'zoth-lock works out I'll use it to grind the fuck out of those 750 more wins I need, just to have a good alternative to Nemsy (although you can't beat her sassy apple chewing animation, it's just too good)