It probably has less to do with preference and more to do with the majority of their region's tournaments having a different format to all the other ones. My assumption would be that the July 20 and Oct 6 tourneys for China will be the "correct format" for the Global Championship.
But you can ignore this and just be mad if you want
I really would like the Hunter reward to be a hero power Lock and Load, but I recognize it would probably be a bad idea.
I really would like the Mage reward to be Unstable Portal hero power, but I recognize it would probably be a bad idea
I really would like the Rogue reward to be a Hallucination hero power, but I recognize it would probably be a bad idea
I really would like that no quest was related to murlocs, and that is probably not a bad idea, but Blizzard might do it regardless
I really would like that the warrior quest wasn't related to rush, but I recognize it would probably be a good idea.
I think you might be onto something with Mage & Rogue.
Probably the mage would be "add random SPELL" rather than minion, but it definitely seems like they trying to get mage back into spell mode.
And I could certainly see the rogue quest being something like "Play 5 cards from another class" and getting the Hallucination power.
As others have said i think the priest power will be Resurrection-related in some way.
My guess on Paladin would be Secrets-related: like "play 6 secrets" and the reward being "Add random secret to your hand/put it into play"
I would love/hate if Warrior was bomb-related: "Shuffle 5 bombs into your opponent's deck" gets you a weaker version of Mr. Chu's power from the Heist (either shuffle only 1 mini-bomb, or shuffle 2 but they only do 1-2 dmg)
No idea on Hunter - could be spell related since they leaned into that pretty hard, but Mech-realted also not impossible.
I've always been a huge proponent of additional cosmetics in the game, specifically board flair.
Board flair was an idea I had a while back where we could unlock (paid or unpaid) items that would sit beside the board and would showcase your achievements (like 1000 wins with a class) or just be cool looking stuff you could interact with during a game much like you can a normal Hearthstone board.
The biggest blocker in creating such a system is mobile Hearthstone sadly. Mobile doesn't have any extra space beside the board for fun stuff like that, and there's no real room on the board for fun without removing the other corner that gives the board a theme. How do you think they could go about implementing this but for mobile users as well?
But yeah, super on board with this! A leveling system for said cosmetics would definitely let you stand out more too as you play more and more Hearthstone, rewarding players with cool stuff that isn't just winning 5 games every season.
Banning or nerfing to the rock-bottom is just a lazy, unimaginative, disrespectful solution to the players who spent time and money into the game.
Using words like this to describe developers is extremely hyperbolic, vitriolic, and debasing for the work the devs put into the game.
You honestly think that the developers are those adjectives?
Lazy: They've put in more work in this game, then you have probably put into one thing your entire life.
Unimaginative: Right. The developers who've come up with the cards, flavor text, interactions, and fun style of hearthstone are 'unimaginative'
Disprespectful: So you think the developers SOLE purpose with nerfs, is to piss you (and other players LIKE you) off? You honestly think that? "Dev #1: Hey fellow devs. Let's nerf this card. But let's do it JUST TO PISS people off. Dev#2:HAHA YEA THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!"
I believe everyone is welcome to give feedback, both positive and negative. But using language like you chose, is just pathetic. It's a hallmark language signal of a generation of newer gamers who are ...frankly speaking...entitled little shits.
If you want to give feedback, my suggestion is drop the cutesey sarcastic bit. Sarcasm doesn't get anyone anywhere, especially in written/internet communication. Leave sarcasm where it's best used, verbal communication. Where the nuances of sarcasm can come into play, and not be misconstrued at all by any interested parties. I'd also suggest whenever you want to write feedback, especially regarding a creative process; take a step back; think about how you would feel if YOU were the person who created the very thing you were criticizing; and then remember that there are people on the other end of your posts.
Developers are not some nameless shadowy figure who is this wispy embodiment of evil when things are bad, and this apparition of blessedness when things are fun. They are people. Who make both good and bad decisions sometimes.
There's an important quote that I hope you read and take away some meaning from regarding this topic:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Late last night I pushed changes to the site to prepare us for site achievements. We were running a bad check when users were not logged in that has now been fixed.
Sorry for the trouble, look forward to some fun this week =)
What statistically unplayable/underplayed cards in the Basic set means is that those cards are likely inherently unusable in decks for any player regardless of their level of skill or experience.
I think that's the root of the problem.
As a new player who joined early in 2019, I was enthused by the then-rotated cards, and left at a MASSIVE loss following this Spring's rotation, even in spite of my small collection.
Some of the standard and classic cards feel like absolute useless junk that will never be usable again as they stand, and some are even Legendaries...so many cards feel just rotten when you open them (Nat Pagle, Tinkmaster, that 1/4 taunt ape every one laughs about...)
I thought they were filler (well the ape seems to be), but only later did I realise they were leftovers of once powerful cards.
It's just a bit sad and it feels like they deserve something to be done about them: replace, un-nerf (partial or total), or just plain HoF.
That said, I now enjoy playing Wild now and then: HoF is not a proper solution and either Wild needs to be looked after properly and respectfully, or new play modes need to be invented so old cards can be used.
I really love the mature approach taken by TES:Legends, accepting "strong enough" nerfs to keep cards but not rotating anything.
To me it is the strength of the digital format, that old cards can always be fixed instantly with global reach, not just banned.
Banning or nerfing to the rock-bottom is just a lazy, unimaginative, disrespectful solution to the players who spent time and money into the game.
Blizzard needs to nerf mana cheating warlock and priest decks, and nerfing hyper agro decks.
Well, all decks try to cheat somewhere, this is called "using synergy". And some synergy is more serious than other and then you want to call it cheating :).
Turn 4 Barnes into Y'shaarj or a turn 4 Voidcaller into Voidlord/Mal'Ganis is toxic and mana cheating -but if you don't want to call that mana cheating than be my guest.
I am only talking about standard. In Wild all bets are off -- that's why it's called wild.
Well you reacted to my post first and I was talking about Wild, and it's illogical for not balancing a format.
mmm well yeh ok :) have not played wild yet :) should try it someday
It will be so nice! The idea for more cosmetics has been around for sometimes by now and, if I'm not wrong, recently the've spoken about putting both decks "horizontally" so that the card back of each player can be seen better, just to show off a bit, so may something is moving and we'll see more costumization option.
I think iv identified the problem, or at least one part of it: you have to be logged in on the site, then no error. Obviously it shouldnt matter if you are logged in or not, we will have to fix that, but you can work around it this way for now, sorry for any inconvenience!
The Largest Hearthstone Tournament of the Year Finally Returns to BlizzCon
It probably has less to do with preference and more to do with the majority of their region's tournaments having a different format to all the other ones. My assumption would be that the July 20 and Oct 6 tourneys for China will be the "correct format" for the Global Championship.
But you can ignore this and just be mad if you want
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Whats your guess for the other QUESTS in SOU?
I think you might be onto something with Mage & Rogue.
Probably the mage would be "add random SPELL" rather than minion, but it definitely seems like they trying to get mage back into spell mode.
And I could certainly see the rogue quest being something like "Play 5 cards from another class" and getting the Hallucination power.
As others have said i think the priest power will be Resurrection-related in some way.
My guess on Paladin would be Secrets-related: like "play 6 secrets" and the reward being "Add random secret to your hand/put it into play"
I would love/hate if Warrior was bomb-related: "Shuffle 5 bombs into your opponent's deck" gets you a weaker version of Mr. Chu's power from the Heist (either shuffle only 1 mini-bomb, or shuffle 2 but they only do 1-2 dmg)
No idea on Hunter - could be spell related since they leaned into that pretty hard, but Mech-realted also not impossible.
The Largest Hearthstone Tournament of the Year Finally Returns to BlizzCon
Considering Blizzard-Activision just nerfed a bunch of cards' artwork just because of China, more preferential treatment for them is not surprising.
Idea for a new cosmetic item
I've always been a huge proponent of additional cosmetics in the game, specifically board flair.
Board flair was an idea I had a while back where we could unlock (paid or unpaid) items that would sit beside the board and would showcase your achievements (like 1000 wins with a class) or just be cool looking stuff you could interact with during a game much like you can a normal Hearthstone board.
The biggest blocker in creating such a system is mobile Hearthstone sadly. Mobile doesn't have any extra space beside the board for fun stuff like that, and there's no real room on the board for fun without removing the other corner that gives the board a theme. How do you think they could go about implementing this but for mobile users as well?
But yeah, super on board with this! A leveling system for said cosmetics would definitely let you stand out more too as you play more and more Hearthstone, rewarding players with cool stuff that isn't just winning 5 games every season.
Idea for a new cosmetic item
I'm cool with it as long as Plague of Death removes all pets from the board.
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Edit: Added Greaser too, as he needs some love.
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A Case for an Unnerfing and Hall of Faming of Warsong Commander
Using words like this to describe developers is extremely hyperbolic, vitriolic, and debasing for the work the devs put into the game.
You honestly think that the developers are those adjectives?
Lazy: They've put in more work in this game, then you have probably put into one thing your entire life.
Unimaginative: Right. The developers who've come up with the cards, flavor text, interactions, and fun style of hearthstone are 'unimaginative'
Disprespectful: So you think the developers SOLE purpose with nerfs, is to piss you (and other players LIKE you) off? You honestly think that? "Dev #1: Hey fellow devs. Let's nerf this card. But let's do it JUST TO PISS people off. Dev#2:HAHA YEA THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!"
I believe everyone is welcome to give feedback, both positive and negative. But using language like you chose, is just pathetic. It's a hallmark language signal of a generation of newer gamers who are ...frankly speaking...entitled little shits.
If you want to give feedback, my suggestion is drop the cutesey sarcastic bit. Sarcasm doesn't get anyone anywhere, especially in written/internet communication. Leave sarcasm where it's best used, verbal communication. Where the nuances of sarcasm can come into play, and not be misconstrued at all by any interested parties. I'd also suggest whenever you want to write feedback, especially regarding a creative process; take a step back; think about how you would feel if YOU were the person who created the very thing you were criticizing; and then remember that there are people on the other end of your posts.
Developers are not some nameless shadowy figure who is this wispy embodiment of evil when things are bad, and this apparition of blessedness when things are fun. They are people. Who make both good and bad decisions sometimes.
There's an important quote that I hope you read and take away some meaning from regarding this topic:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Whats your guess for the other QUESTS in SOU?
Hell yeah!
Guess I better start playing mage!
The post was deleted and just left an empty thread. That will be fixed in the future. I'll lock this.
Whats your guess for the other QUESTS in SOU?
Ugh i really hope they don't push Murlocs in Paladin again.
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Late last night I pushed changes to the site to prepare us for site achievements. We were running a bad check when users were not logged in that has now been fixed.
Sorry for the trouble, look forward to some fun this week =)
The Largest Hearthstone Tournament of the Year Finally Returns to BlizzCon
nice , good to know that the next world champion is one hand picked by bli$$ard, this whole master/gmaster system is full of s**t
A Case for an Unnerfing and Hall of Faming of Warsong Commander
What statistically unplayable/underplayed cards in the Basic set means is that those cards are likely inherently unusable in decks for any player regardless of their level of skill or experience.
I think that's the root of the problem.
As a new player who joined early in 2019, I was enthused by the then-rotated cards, and left at a MASSIVE loss following this Spring's rotation, even in spite of my small collection.
Some of the standard and classic cards feel like absolute useless junk that will never be usable again as they stand, and some are even Legendaries...so many cards feel just rotten when you open them (Nat Pagle, Tinkmaster, that 1/4 taunt ape every one laughs about...)
I thought they were filler (well the ape seems to be), but only later did I realise they were leftovers of once powerful cards.
It's just a bit sad and it feels like they deserve something to be done about them: replace, un-nerf (partial or total), or just plain HoF.
That said, I now enjoy playing Wild now and then: HoF is not a proper solution and either Wild needs to be looked after properly and respectfully, or new play modes need to be invented so old cards can be used.
I really love the mature approach taken by TES:Legends, accepting "strong enough" nerfs to keep cards but not rotating anything.
To me it is the strength of the digital format, that old cards can always be fixed instantly with global reach, not just banned.
Banning or nerfing to the rock-bottom is just a lazy, unimaginative, disrespectful solution to the players who spent time and money into the game.
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Probably what we will all do
Here's the next
Edit: DAMN IT. Someone beat me to it.
Idea for a new cosmetic item
And maybe some pet batlle as well? Pet uses a "mini-pet-deck" etc. Can lvl up, unlock talents what not.
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Idea for a new cosmetic item
That is a very nice idea. It could also open up the opportunity for blizz to sell additional skins for your pets.
Lack of control deck options?
mmm well yeh ok :) have not played wild yet :) should try it someday
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(Side note, when you import Leeroy into hearthcards, it plays his entry sound)
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Idea for a new cosmetic item
It will be so nice! The idea for more cosmetics has been around for sometimes by now and, if I'm not wrong, recently the've spoken about putting both decks "horizontally" so that the card back of each player can be seen better, just to show off a bit, so may something is moving and we'll see more costumization option.
Idea for a new cosmetic item
Blizzard asked for ideas for cosmetic items, so maybe it is possible
Idea for a new cosmetic item
It is a cool idea, but i very much doubt we will see anything like that. It just isnt what this game is about, but one can dream :)
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I think iv identified the problem, or at least one part of it: you have to be logged in on the site, then no error. Obviously it shouldnt matter if you are logged in or not, we will have to fix that, but you can work around it this way for now, sorry for any inconvenience!