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Hearthstone AMA #41 4:30PM - 5:30PM PST Ask me a question about Hearthstone! Or Design! (or anime...or elden ring...) https://t.co/W1FtCHGp2c

Hearthstone AMA #41 4:30PM - 5:30PM PST Ask me a question about Hearthstone! Or Design! (or anime...or elden ring...) https://t.co/W1FtCHGp2c

  • Iksar
    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
    Hearthstone AMA #41 4:30PM - 5:30PM PST Ask me a question about Hearthstone! Or Design! (or anime...or elden ring...) https://t.co/W1FtCHGp2c

    • GallonHS
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS What’s the next least memorable card after Worgen Greaser? I’ve got some long term plans…

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @GallonHS that one warrior card that cleaves, it's a 5/3 or something, so unmemorable i can't remember the name

        • MyntyPhresh
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS @GallonHS You mean 5/4? ;)

          • JohnEvMcIntyre
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @MyntyPhresh @IksarHS @GallonHS One of my friends conviced me to craft two Magnataur Alphas to style on people with the Charge combo for board clear… it’s an epic.

            • Iksar
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @JohnEvMcIntyre @MyntyPhresh @GallonHS funny magnataur alpha note: i once looked on hearthpwn for a card and noticed there was a 'amount of times clicked on' field. I reordered it to list the cards backwards, and magnataur alpha was the least clicked card, therefore I dubbed it least known hearthstone card ...

              • Iksar
                Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                @JohnEvMcIntyre @MyntyPhresh @GallonHS and even though that story exists, I referred to that story many times, i still forgot its name a very strong case for least memorable

      • RidiculousHat
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @GallonHS @IksarHS if anyone here knows the text on Master of Ceremonies without looking it up, i will give your tweet 1 (one) like

        • MyntyPhresh
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @RidiculousHat @GallonHS @IksarHS If you have Spell Damage, gain +2/+2?

          • RidiculousHat
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @MyntyPhresh @GallonHS @IksarHS very good. cost and stats?

            • MyntyPhresh
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @RidiculousHat @GallonHS @IksarHS 3mana 4/2 ez

              • GallonHS
                Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                @MyntyPhresh @RidiculousHat @IksarHS Leo and I work in parallel

            • GallonHS
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @RidiculousHat @MyntyPhresh @IksarHS 3 4/2

        • GallonHS
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @RidiculousHat @IksarHS If you have spell damage, gain +2/+2?

    • EnderPl97808651
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS What was your favorite part of Elden Ring? Haven't played it yet but I heard it's great!

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @EnderPl97808651 by far the world, exploring the world, the secret little areas you discover incredible, by far the best world for exploration i've ever played on console

    • MyntyPhresh
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Whats the first deck youre playing once Sunken City drops?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @MyntyPhresh whatever deck is #1 in our data when i get off work tryhard engaged

    • RTwoCTwo
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS How does the Team feel the first edition of the core set went? I noticed a number of cards that were never used through the entire year. Is that ideal?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @RTwoCTwo the core set has two goals teach hearthstone to new players as they level up and earn cards be a baseline toolkit for archetypes we build in expansions so players can always have a reasonable starting point cards that aren't powerful are usually accomplishing the first goal

    • HolyKnight077
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Hello Lord @IksarHS, hope fam is doing well. Can you give us an insight of the stories that will be told during the Year of the Hydra? Gotta admit Year of the Gryphon had an amazing work w the story of the Mercs... really loved it 💛

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @HolyKnight077 We are doing 3 standalone settings, no plans for another year long storyline atm. No hints beyond that!

    • UltiKon_HS
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS 2 questions 1. golden upgrade feature was data-mined iirc - any news on that? 2. is there a chance we see the 'inherit' mechanic again?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @UltiKon_HS 1. it's coming, time tbd 2. maybe, it's rather complicated and I don't think there is a ton of design space even if it made for a cool card. It was designed with a heavy emphasis on telling a top-down story of that character. If another character story fit the mechanic, then yeah

    • mkhayden7
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Will a one time region transfer ~ever~ be considered? Feels bad moving continents then feeling like your collection is permanently stuck somewhere else. Invested $ and time into golden cards/heroes/etc. now I have to choose between that or playing the game w/ friends

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @mkhayden7 If we could snap our fingers and it would be done we wouldn't have a problem doing this. Our game is set up in a way where having a player-driven process for doing this would be extremely time intensive on dev side. So that said, unlikely to happen. Sorry :(

    • V_G50
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Could ”from the past” ever see a return in a card in the future? It’s a mechanic I absolutely loved back when Toki was in standard because of the ”wild” things she could do :D https://t.co/MCiTl7iZue

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @V_G50 Definitely could see bring it back. Time travel is a big thing in warcraft universe, there is a whole dragonflight dedicated to it.... Seems like a good space if we ever do more bronze dragonflight stuff..... which we will surely

    • AlonsoArrietaC1
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS How do you feel about a rotating format in which only selected sets are legal. Like the Expedition format in Eternal... Also, the Tasks Rework in Mercs is awesome, I hope the endgame rewards will be good enough cause opening packs becomes awful at some point.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @AlonsoArrietaC1 we've been talking about shifting classic to a format like this instead of being just classic real consideration here and not just discussion

    • Jotarun
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS diamond Drek'thar is super expensive for a single card. Even thijs thinks so. Is this an experiment?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @Jotarun basically all shop products are an experiment to see what players are happy to buy at what price points we start from very educated guesses, but still always looking to shift to what players expect and are willing to spend

    • SnuggleKingHS
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Have your work process changes since acquiring the new title? And how?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @SnuggleKingHS mostly the same, just shifts in time management Spend more time thinking about the long-term future and less time in the now. Little more time thinking about leadership and less time about design. Less time about expansions and more time about the rest of the team.

    • vivamagician
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Hi Iksar! Duels lately become my fav mode. When I see new roadmap there was no plan for future Duels mode after this week big patch. It's intended or maybe secretly added later? Do you reading manga? Kaiju no. 8 my latest manga addition :)

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @vivamagician duels still being actively updated by @Tabayrak, Brad (does brad have twitter!?!), and @themattlondon I'd expect updates in the realm of what you've seen but no big ticket features in the near to mid term plans

        • RidiculousHat
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS @vivamagician @Tabayrak @themattlondon yes brad has a twitter, it's @Tabayrak

          • Saor17614198
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @RidiculousHat @IksarHS @vivamagician @Tabayrak @themattlondon So @IksarHS is in on the conspiracy as well.

            • Tabayrak
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @Saor17614198 @RidiculousHat @IksarHS @vivamagician @themattlondon @IksarHS people think "Brad" may be made up and is not totally a real person who is absolutely my friend.

    • DBAJohnBarhorst
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS The Great Rune description says all reborn by Rennala are fragile creatures. Since I haven’t tried it, does that make me a stronk boi?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @DBAJohnBarhorst only if you have 60+ strength

    • ultrarotom
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Do you feel like some of the recently unnerfed cards might have to get nerfed again?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @ultrarotom maybe, I hear @ZeddyHS is campaigning I am a former expert on this subject, though. @GallonHS @Chakki_HS @BoarControl and @AlecoGereco rule this domain now

    • Goonrable
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Current anime watch list? If you could rewatch any anime and experience it for the first time, what would it be?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @Goonrable just finished attack on titan and demon slayer currently watching ranking of kings looking forward to bubble (movie) and spy family coming out and easily naruto + naruto shippuden

    • victorabaxter
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Can you talk at all about the philosophy behind the recent Wild reverts? A lot of people from the community are wondering why they seemed so “light” especially when the team reverted what many would consider a problem card (Kael’thas)? Thanks!

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @victorabaxter the philosophy is simple, revert cards that would make wild more fun, don't revert cards that would make wild less fun that is obviously a subjective thought, but that is the goal

    • AmescaleJ
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Don't know if it's been asked yet, but do you have a favourite Elden RIng boss fight? And boss theme?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @AmescaleJ there were a lot of cool encounters but by far my favorite was dragonlord placidusax less about mechanics, more about vibe, environment, intro, how it's hidden, the VFX mechanics were also cool

    • real_silverUwU
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS no questions about those but how's your day going?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @real_silverUwU it's good looking foreward to having dinner later with mr hearthstone himself @bbrode

    • TitanofTea
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Any plans to implement the class ban idea you were tossing around before? Even as a limited time experiment? Thanks Dean!

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @TitanofTea absolutely want to do this still in a limited time capacity and see how it goes we need a little extra UI bandwidth and a little engineering bandwidth to do the research and get it done not on the schedule yet but a good chance you'll see it

    • celazure101
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS What rotating card was your favorite? I loved illucia and her effect and really wished she had been reverted.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @celazure101 omg same, I loved original illucia and rue the day she was taken from me all my favorite cards do mean stuff to my opponent, so probably best we don't design for me specifically

    • Ocelot_HS
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Thank you for doing these AMA’s! When you do announcements, could you please add one or more (common) timezone(s)? The other day for instance: “Theorycraft event starts at 9 AM PST”. Just add: (6PM CET) or: (5PM GMT). Would save a lot of Googling.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @Ocelot_HS I will keep this in mind, thanks for feedback.

    • MinderRoots
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Has there been discussion you would be able to share to fix intentional disconnecting in BGs? One idea: Setting the max time allotted to people that got disconnected to 60 seconds (if there would be more time they have to wait until this point) Thoughts on this?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @MinderRoots It's on a real list of things we want to do when we can make time, unlikely you'll see a fix soon, though. BG team is working on a whole bunch of things right now.

    • MinderRoots
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Thoughts on adding a Mailbox or similar systems for BG related changes There have been a lot of smaller adjustments to for example armor or hotfixes. Currently there seems to be no easily accessible information network within the game to make players aware or such adjustments.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @MinderRoots would like to do this our plan is to rework the bg home screen at some point and having a notification area where you can see important news is on the list

    • GolemYo
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Back in Stormwind, you mentioned how you considered adding the Tradeable keyword into the core set with the addition of swapping out an old one. Is that not happening now?

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @GolemYo I know it was discussed, though I am not a part of building the core set so I can't speak to the reasons why not. Maybe @GallonHS or @Chakki_HS can speak to it when they are around!

        • GallonHS
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS @GolemYo @Chakki_HS Teams quite happy with Tradeable, however it’s a keyword that you can have too much of in any standard environment. Need to make sure that players aren’t just running tradeable cards to solely be a 1 mana draw a card effect.

          • GallonHS
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @IksarHS @GolemYo @Chakki_HS Persistent peddler is a good example of a card straddling that line. It was meant to be a piece that supported deathrattle Dh while playing off tradeable in an interesting way, but it’s current usage is almost solely limited to its interaction with tuskpiercer in quest Dh.

            • GallonHS
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @IksarHS @GolemYo @Chakki_HS Have to be very careful with tradeable that we don’t go over that line of cards only being played to be traded away. With that being said, wouldn’t be surprised to see tradeable at some point in the future.

          • hbcosta
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @GallonHS @IksarHS @GolemYo @Chakki_HS what changed that you decided to use other keywords on later sets (and not only on the mini-sets), e.g. new dormant minions coming on sunken city?

            • GallonHS
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @hbcosta @IksarHS @GolemYo @Chakki_HS Dormant is something I’d call a “Deciduous” keyword. Not evergreen, like rush, taunt, Battlecry, etc. but not thematically tied to any one set. It’ll pop up every so often on a small amount of cards in various sets.

    • YesPaladin
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Has the idea of wild exclusive support cards ever been throw around? To breathe some new life into set specific archetypes ie Jade rogue, OG C’thun, etc.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @YesPaladin elevator pitch: we make a new set of cards made up of mostly old hearthstone favorites, but also some new cards that go straight to wild to support archetypes that are fun but were never quite powerful enough becomes the pack you buy if you want to play wild

        • Iksar
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @YesPaladin @themattlondon and co have been cooking up some ideas in this space very early but we like it as a starting concept

          • themattlondon
            Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @IksarHS @YesPaladin 👀

            • Tabayrak
              Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @themattlondon @IksarHS @YesPaladin 👀

    • jdeg86126366
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Saw you already responded about the upgrade to gold feature but is there any sort of timeline for it? Was really looking forward to opening prerelease packs without worrying about losing dust on regular copies of cards I plan on crafting gold.

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @jdeg86126366 to be honest, yes, there is a timeline I try not to be specific even in cases where we have a good idea when something is going to land but aren't 100% yet. It will get taken as a quote, circulated, then people may be confused when it doesn't land.

        • Iksar
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @jdeg86126366 soon tho!

    • SteffiVgc
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Will Diamond Loatheb be available to players that bought the adventure, beat it, but disenchanted some of the cards? I really dont want to recraft Maexxna and other legendaries I will never use... Really want that Diamond tho!

      • SteffiVgc
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @IksarHS also, blizzard art team is 10.5/10 🙏

        • Iksar
          Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @SteffiVgc agree

    • _Andrew44
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS What do you think about Battlegrounds Tavern Brawls? If you ever added it to the game it would need a better name, like Battlegrounds Mystery Mode or something

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @_Andrew44 I know there are a few on the team that think it would be awesome. Have to weigh it against other features like progression, tournaments, duos, home screen updates, etc. We'd also have to be sure there is enough design space before committing to building the tech.

    • imik_plays
      Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Oh... What was the keyword that Celestalon talked about coming back as evergreen in one of his ama's? 🤔 Was it Dormant or something I've missed?

      • Chadd Nervigg
        Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @imik_plays @IksarHS Still yet to come.
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