Yeah, my bad. I was playing on my phone, which I don't usually, and it looked different. Plus you get 5 coin drops for bounties, so I was thinking about that. Let's just delete this thread before too many people see what a doofus I am.
Turns out it might not be just the Piranhas, with a couple other cards not functioning correctly. Perhaps the new Location types are the culprits here.
"On the Radar" section, with some developer insights from Celestalon.
"Duels" section, just a handful of bugs and insights.
"Miscellanea" section, or why deck trackers often don't play fair.
Update to an update: Now with some of the bug fixes included and more dev insights, all notes adjusted accordingly.
Yes, and they are still doing so. If you found regular or golden Murloc Holmes, you should be able to disenchant them for full dust value for two more days. Regardless of whether you have the diamond copy from the Tavern Pass. More details here.
It seems like a very weird design choice to have two tokens do the exact same thing but have different stats. If you do use both arms, they should probably have different effects, but I don't really see a reason for that to be the case, so I'd stick with the original version.
I agree: was kind of waiting for someone to say it so I can feel better about reversing course lol
I'm still not sure which card to go with. Glorth the Glutton seems to be well-received, but the fact that it's a Shaman hard removal doesn't sit totally right with me. I seriously need to start remembering class identities beyond Druid. Normally I have a general sense of it, but this time my brain just went "Frog goes with Shaman". I don't think I should mess with its effect. I'm not sure on what other class it would make sense though. Warlock maybe?
I honestly wasn't sure how Immune and Taunt would mix, but the intended purpose of forcing your opponent to deal with Zorqon, Granter of Power's main body first worked regardless. But I agree that it makes for weird card design and I'd like to make some changes to the effect, hopefully also reducing its powerlevel a bit.
I'll make new versions for both tomorrow. I don't really need any more feedback at that point in time, but I'd like to get an idea of what people prefer.
More Feedback
Demonxz95
I'm a sucker for Hero Power Mage so I really like this card. I enjoy how some of the limbs will likely stick around for a turn or two while still being useful without the main body unlike Ozumat's Tentacles. The amount of limbs also prevents any big summon swings from Reckless Apprentice, so this should be fairly balanced.
Wailor
Looks good.
linkblade91
It seems like a very weird design choice to have two tokens do the exact same thing but have different stats. If you do use both arms, they should probably have different effects, but I don't really see a reason for that to be the case, so I'd stick with the original version.
R
If you're confused how the watermark & border thing works: If you select the "Custom" watermark, you can tick the "Force apply"-boxes. Then you can select a watermark other than Custom and it will still remember to apply them.
Yeah, this is a pretty big upgrade to Impfestation. I think you should increase the cost and probably reduce the Attack on the main body.
I think it's the one where you pick wrong. At least the only progress towards that achievement happened when I missed the mage one (he also missed mine, but from both my experience and the one you recalled, I can reach that conclusion).
I still have enough dust to craft 2. Not sure what exactly I want. Envy is hilarious though. Can steal some very fun stuff. Shut down a few mages stealing the new KT because they ignored him. Oops.
This is available in app, but not on battle.net, which is confusing. I'd buy it on battle.net to save the app store premium (also I have it in a cheaper currency there).
Well, good they have at least dealt with that. It's already a terrible situation where some people end up paying the price for the sins that aren't quite of their own making.
It's always been that way? But you had me question this for a moment, so I went to consult my article on the original PvP Season 1. As you can see there with the image included: first ranked chest being 25 coins for 3 Mercs.
The "Supplemental Mode" team has really been dropping the ball lately. Not only are some recent adventures (Book of Heroes and Book of Mercenaries) now impossible to complete because the programmed draws fail to account for nerfed cards, but we now have the THIRD repeat of a Brawl in a single year, following other recent repeats.
Murder at Castle Nathria was released yesterday; today's Brawl would have been the perfect time to do "deck recipes" brawl.
Was Murloc Holmes supposed to be part of the random Legendary regular track? I could've sworn they compensated some people last time for getting a duplicate of a Legendary last time.
This was votes during the reveal season, before the launch, so ppl usually tend to rate low cards that need you to have a board, sometimes those cards can then turn out to be quite good.
There also seems to be a bug with the Suspicious minion achievement where you're supposed to fool your opponent. It doesn't track if your oppponent gets foold but rather if you get fooled by an opposing Suspicious minion (or if you guess it correctly, I had both happen in one game so I don't know which one applied)
This is still a beta version of the Mini-Set, so feel free to point out any unbalanced card or repeated effects, which may be possible because I haven't played HS regularly for three years or so.
I plan to add a flavor explanation of all cards (as many are not very obvious if you don't work on IT) and also credits to the artists.
Change Log
12-Aug-2022
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Demon Hunter
Virtual Reality Project now costs 1, down from 2.
Hunter
I-l0v3-U Bot is now Magnetic and triggers the Goblin Bomb's Deathrattle (instead of dealing 2 damage by itself).
Mage
Mass Knowledge is now called Knowledge Analystics.
Shaman
Electronics Project now costs 1, down from 3. Its wording has also been changed.
Mosfet the Flux Master is now a 4/4 whose Battlecry deals 2 damage per shot. Previously, it was a 3/3 that dealt 3 damage per shot.
Warlock
Background Daemon is now a 1 Mana 2/1, down from a 2 Mana 2/2. Warlock already has too many 2 Mana Demons in Boomsday.
Re-curse-ion has had its artwork changed. The previous one looked too much like an anti-semitic caricature.
Neutral
Omega Android is now a 5 Mana 6/8, up from a 4 Mana 4/6.
Deidos, the Saboteur is now a 3/2, instead of a 2/3. Also, his Battlecry affects both players in their respective next turns, instead of just the opponent.
Reality Augmenter Mimi is now a 2 Mana 2/3, down from a 5 Mana 5/6. Also, her name has been changed to Kernelmeister Ingrid.
Cards outside the set
Tunnel Trogg now reads "Whenever you Overload, gain +1 Attack." Previously, it read "Whenever you Overload, gain +1 Attack per locked Mana Crystal."
Boom Labs I.T. Division is a straight-to-Wild custom Mini-Set, following the design philosophy of Beatdoof's Communion of the Ahn'qiraj and Hii's The Dalaran Heist. This means its cards will try to expand and synergize with the main expansion, but will have a more modern power level. The main difference with these sets is that I've decided to include a bunch of Demon Hunter cards: since this set goes straight to Wild, I thought there was no reason keeping the poor Illidan appart.
As the name suggest, the flavor is heaviliy inspired by I.T. and computer science, so expect to find a lot of references to this field of technology.
Mechanically, this expansion will introduce some twists over the main ideas expored in Boomsday, which was a personal favorite of mine despite its low power level. This includes Magnetic, Projects, Omega cards and even a small reference to Legendary spells. Besides that, there's also a bunch of card draw and disruption effects, which were simply derived from the flavor of the Mini-Set.
Finally, this set would be released with a balance patch that nerfs Tunnel Trogg, as it would be unhealthy in combination with Electronics Project. Blizzard has already done this several times, the most notable being Dreadsteed.
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And after this nerf, it's still much better than Surging Tempest.
Tokens:
Flavor explanation
Virtual Reality Project: Puting on some goggles that let you see stuff that isn't there really fits Demon Hunter, and the artwork just improves this feeling. The effect feels more in-line with Augmented Reality than with Virtual Reality, though.
Binding Dependencies: A software dependency is when a module of your program requires another module or external code to function. Remeber when you needed to install a plugin to play Flash video games? Well, it's something like that.
Pesky Bug: A hero having Attack during their opponent's turn? Hearthstone must be bugged!
Flavor explanation
Omega Harvester: This one hasn't much going on. Heh.
Ecosearch: A reference to Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees.
Slithering Python: The name is a reference to the programming language Python, whose name was in turn a reference to Monty Python. The effect, however, is based on the fact that snakes eat their prey whole.
I-l0v3-U Bot: A reference to a famous malware called ILOVEYOU, whose effect on your computer wasn't very loving. Just like this little bastard's effect on your opponent's face.
Creepy Webcrawler: Web crawelers are bots that index the Internet, making search engines faster and more effective.
Omega Blaster: Another one that isn't based on anything in particular. It's the last one, I promise.
Flavor explanation
Knowledge Analytics: Refers to the process of extracting meaningful knowledge out of raw data.
Big Datamental: A reference to big data. I thought Secrets fit with the loads-of-information theme.
Firewall: Firewalls are systems that control traffic going inside a network or a computer. I like how the effect makes sense for the computing thing and for a literal wall made of fire.
Flavor explanation
A.I. Project: In real life, most Artificial Intelligence isn't related with actual robots, but in fiction it usually is.
Cybernetic Crusader: The name is a small reference to Internet activism.
Turing Test: The Turing Test tries to discern if an agent is an actual person or an A.I. This card makes something if it detects the minion is a Mech.
Flavor explanation
Glitchfiend: A glitch is a short-lived error. Just like this card, which makes your HP do the opposite thing for one use.
Man in the Middle: MitM is a type of cyberattack in which a malicious agent reads the messages exchanged between two other agents, typically, a client and a server.
Neural Network: In computing, neural networks are a very complex form of machine learning, which has proven to be one of the most effective. For more information about machine learning, check Warrior :)
Deep Web Pirate: Just a regular Internet pirate that downloads stuff for free. The Deep Web thing is just to make it sound better.
Cracker Captain Ada: A very good cracker can steal important information (in this case, Legendary spells). Her name is a reference to Ada Lovelace, considered the first programmer in history.
Flavor explanation
Electronics Project: Electronics are the basis of computers. You know, ones and zeros and all that stuff.
Divide and Conquer: An algorithmic strategy that breaks a complex problem into simpler parts to solve it.
Mosfet the Flux Twister: His name references the MOSFET transistors, which have been used to develop some types of electronic circuits.
Flavor explanation
Background Daemon: Daemons are background processes that execute stuff without you noticing. Funnily enough, Daemon and Demon aren't the same, but since most people confuse them, I gave it to Warlock. Oh, and if you didn't notice, this guy is an Imp.
Trojansteed: A trojan horse is a type of malware that hides inside a legitimate progam. Like when you download Shrek from the Internet and it steals your bank account. This pesky steed hides inside the card your opponent drew.
Re-curse-ion: In programming and mathematics, recursion refers to a function that uses itself in its definition. As in the Fibonacci sequence being defined as fib(x) = fib(x-1) + fib(x-2).
Flavor explanation
Ping of Death: A very old cyberattack in which a very big message was sent into the network, collapsing it. The effect is just a pun on the fact that 1 damage effects are usually refered to as pings.
Unbearable Spambot: Spambots are programs that send spam. Quite straightforward.
Learning Machine: A pun on machine learning, a field of Artificial Intelligence in which programs refine their behaviour as time goes on. Like the YouTube algorithm learning your tastes or Google Translate making better translations over the time.
NEUTRAL
Flavor explanation
Quantum Processor: Quantum Computing is a mostly theoretic field of computer science which uses the wacky laws of quantum physics to work. The advances in this have been very modest so far.
Cryptographer: Cryptography is a field of computing which makes information harder to decode for malicious agents.
Omega Android: Its name slightly references Android, the mobile O.S.
Deidos, the Saboteur: A reference to DoS and DDoS cyberattacks, which disable internet services by overloading them with messages.
Kernelmeister Ingrid: Kernel is the German word for core. In computing, it refers to the core of the operating system.
Ahh, way too many Finleys at this point (don't tell them I said they all look the same). Thanks for the note, switched for the more appropriate model. Admittedly we'll still need to pick it up for the actual Mercenaries portal.
How's that; better? Maybe it should cost 9 now *shrugs* Not sure if I like this iteration as much, but it could grow on me.
Feedback:
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Wailor - He's like a reverse Glugg the Gulper, whereby boosting Kavei makes bigger tokens. It's neat, and educational! lol. I believe the Belly should have a point of Attack: Blackwater Behemoth's lure gets to attack, and this would allow you to trade it in better.
Demonxz95 - As I mentioned elsewhere this is really cool. Not the fastest way for the Mage to pump out damage, but it's still flashy and the art works perfectly. Just need to change Volcan's title, as I said before. "Volcan, Molten Lord"?
R - This is powerful, especially now that we know Implock is a thing in the very next expansion. The Cannon needs to be Warlock, and should lose the gem if you want it to look right: use the "Force Apply Emblem" and "Force Apply Dragon" options. As for balance, I would honestly jump this up to a 9 or 10: you could be summoning a bunch of Imps that are guaranteed to stick. All that being said, this is a really cool idea, the art is good, and it's much better than the slime :)
AeroJulwin - Immune is always a scary prospect, but it also messes with the Taunt you want to hand out with Zorqon's Right Arm, making it kind of clunky. Glorth is much better and could be fun in that Mutanus the Devourer way: just eat all da stuff!
My only gripe with it is that it seems strange that it has only one Claw. My suggestion is changing it to Colossal +2 but make each Claw summon a single Treant. Also, the palmtree custom watermark would fit the flavor better than Sunken City, IMO.
Unfortunately the art doesn't really help in that regard: Maokai (the League of Legends character) has the one big claw with a second mouth, and his other one is a baby T-rex arm by comparison lol. I could do it, but it wouldn't look as good in my opinion. Edit: Maybe if I made it "Klai's Lesser Klaw" and "Klai's Greater Klaw"? Could have different stats, too; I'll give it a try.
I will change the Cost and the watermark, though, as per everyone's feedback.
Awesome Murder at Castle Nathria Launch Decks From Hearthstone’s Top Players and Streamers
Got Topior from Rank 20, so I guess I'm burning dust for a Druid deck.
Coin drops for PvP decreased?
Yeah, my bad. I was playing on my phone, which I don't usually, and it looked different. Plus you get 5 coin drops for bounties, so I was thinking about that. Let's just delete this thread before too many people see what a doofus I am.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Uh, I don't even want to attempt wrapping my head around this (bugged) logic.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
The post has been updated with the following:
Update to an update: Now with some of the bug fixes included and more dev insights, all notes adjusted accordingly.
Absolute Unit - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Sneaky! You're welcome.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Yes, and they are still doing so. If you found regular or golden Murloc Holmes, you should be able to disenchant them for full dust value for two more days. Regardless of whether you have the diamond copy from the Tavern Pass. More details here.
Absolute Unit - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I agree: was kind of waiting for someone to say it so I can feel better about reversing course lol
Absolute Unit - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I'm still not sure which card to go with. Glorth the Glutton seems to be well-received, but the fact that it's a Shaman hard removal doesn't sit totally right with me. I seriously need to start remembering class identities beyond Druid. Normally I have a general sense of it, but this time my brain just went "Frog goes with Shaman". I don't think I should mess with its effect. I'm not sure on what other class it would make sense though. Warlock maybe?
I honestly wasn't sure how Immune and Taunt would mix, but the intended purpose of forcing your opponent to deal with Zorqon, Granter of Power's main body first worked regardless. But I agree that it makes for weird card design and I'd like to make some changes to the effect, hopefully also reducing its powerlevel a bit.
I'll make new versions for both tomorrow. I don't really need any more feedback at that point in time, but I'd like to get an idea of what people prefer.
Yeah, this is a pretty big upgrade to Impfestation. I think you should increase the cost and probably reduce the Attack on the main body.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
I think it's the one where you pick wrong. At least the only progress towards that achievement happened when I missed the mage one (he also missed mine, but from both my experience and the one you recalled, I can reach that conclusion).
Pack opening - Results
I had the most gold I've saved for most expansions this time. So I did pretty good. About 50ish packs opened so far.
First Legendary in my first 10 Golden Lady Darkvein
After thatPelagos, Murloc Holmes, Orion, Mansion Manager. I'm not on the paid track so the Holmes is welcome, fun to play with that card.
Freebee of the rewards track as The Harvester of Envy.
I still have enough dust to craft 2. Not sure what exactly I want. Envy is hilarious though. Can steal some very fun stuff. Shut down a few mages stealing the new KT because they ignored him. Oops.
Four Castle Nathria Pack Bundles Added to Hearthstone's In-Game Shop Alongside A New Warrior Skin
This is available in app, but not on battle.net, which is confusing. I'd buy it on battle.net to save the app store premium (also I have it in a cheaper currency there).
[LIVE] Survive the Murder at Castle Nathria Launch! Day 1 Decks to Try, Freebies, and Everything You Need to Know About the Expansion
Well, good they have at least dealt with that. It's already a terrible situation where some people end up paying the price for the sins that aren't quite of their own making.
Coin drops for PvP decreased?
It's always been that way? But you had me question this for a moment, so I went to consult my article on the original PvP Season 1. As you can see there with the image included: first ranked chest being 25 coins for 3 Mercs.
[Custom Mini-set] Boom Labs I.T. Division
Deidos is absurdly strong in Shaman who can repeat battlecry effects very easily. I love the flavor all around.
Captain Blackheart's Treasure
The "Supplemental Mode" team has really been dropping the ball lately. Not only are some recent adventures (Book of Heroes and Book of Mercenaries) now impossible to complete because the programmed draws fail to account for nerfed cards, but we now have the THIRD repeat of a Brawl in a single year, following other recent repeats.
Murder at Castle Nathria was released yesterday; today's Brawl would have been the perfect time to do "deck recipes" brawl.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Was Murloc Holmes supposed to be part of the random Legendary regular track? I could've sworn they compensated some people last time for getting a duplicate of a Legendary last time.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Can confirm the piranha bug. That's interesting about the color
Murder at Castle Nathria
This was votes during the reveal season, before the launch, so ppl usually tend to rate low cards that need you to have a board, sometimes those cards can then turn out to be quite good.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
There also seems to be a bug with the Suspicious minion achievement where you're supposed to fool your opponent. It doesn't track if your oppponent gets foold but rather if you get fooled by an opposing Suspicious minion (or if you guess it correctly, I had both happen in one game so I don't know which one applied)
[Custom Mini-set] Boom Labs I.T. Division
This is still a beta version of the Mini-Set, so feel free to point out any unbalanced card or repeated effects, which may be possible because I haven't played HS regularly for three years or so.
I plan to add a flavor explanation of all cards (as many are not very obvious if you don't work on IT) and also credits to the artists.
Change Log
12-Aug-2022
Demon Hunter
Hunter
Mage
Shaman
Warlock
Neutral
Cards outside the set
[Custom Mini-set] Boom Labs I.T. Division
Boom Labs I.T. Division
Boom Labs I.T. Division is a straight-to-Wild custom Mini-Set, following the design philosophy of Beatdoof's Communion of the Ahn'qiraj and Hii's The Dalaran Heist. This means its cards will try to expand and synergize with the main expansion, but will have a more modern power level. The main difference with these sets is that I've decided to include a bunch of Demon Hunter cards: since this set goes straight to Wild, I thought there was no reason keeping the poor Illidan appart.
As the name suggest, the flavor is heaviliy inspired by I.T. and computer science, so expect to find a lot of references to this field of technology.
Mechanically, this expansion will introduce some twists over the main ideas expored in Boomsday, which was a personal favorite of mine despite its low power level. This includes Magnetic, Projects, Omega cards and even a small reference to Legendary spells. Besides that, there's also a bunch of card draw and disruption effects, which were simply derived from the flavor of the Mini-Set.
Finally, this set would be released with a balance patch that nerfs Tunnel Trogg, as it would be unhealthy in combination with Electronics Project. Blizzard has already done this several times, the most notable being Dreadsteed.
And after this nerf, it's still much better than Surging Tempest.
Tokens:
Tokens:
Goblin Bomb
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Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Ahh, way too many Finleys at this point (don't tell them I said they all look the same). Thanks for the note, switched for the more appropriate model. Admittedly we'll still need to pick it up for the actual Mercenaries portal.
Updated Post-Launch Known Issues for Murder at Castle Nathria - Some Bug Fixes Are Now in Place!
Minor thing, but you are linking the Story version of Sir Finley instead of the collectible one which uses different portraits.
Absolute Unit - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
How's that; better? Maybe it should cost 9 now *shrugs* Not sure if I like this iteration as much, but it could grow on me.
Feedback:
Demonxz95 - As I mentioned elsewhere this is really cool. Not the fastest way for the Mage to pump out damage, but it's still flashy and the art works perfectly. Just need to change Volcan's title, as I said before. "Volcan, Molten Lord"?
R - This is powerful, especially now that we know Implock is a thing in the very next expansion. The Cannon needs to be Warlock, and should lose the gem if you want it to look right: use the "Force Apply Emblem" and "Force Apply Dragon" options. As for balance, I would honestly jump this up to a 9 or 10: you could be summoning a bunch of Imps that are guaranteed to stick. All that being said, this is a really cool idea, the art is good, and it's much better than the slime :)
AeroJulwin - Immune is always a scary prospect, but it also messes with the Taunt you want to hand out with Zorqon's Right Arm, making it kind of clunky. Glorth is much better and could be fun in that Mutanus the Devourer way: just eat all da stuff!
Absolute Unit - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Unfortunately the art doesn't really help in that regard: Maokai (the League of Legends character) has the one big claw with a second mouth, and his other one is a baby T-rex arm by comparison lol. I could do it, but it wouldn't look as good in my opinion. Edit: Maybe if I made it "Klai's Lesser Klaw" and "Klai's Greater Klaw"? Could have different stats, too; I'll give it a try.
I will change the Cost and the watermark, though, as per everyone's feedback.