I'll use the occasion of reaching 1.000 wins with Warlock for posting my first update of the year. The now nerfed Wild Discolock helped me over the treshold after having grinded 140 wins in 11 days which was quite an unhealthy thing to do.
That's also already the second tick on my new year's resolutions after having hit Wild legend with Shaman in January. Only the 500 wins with Shaman left, but I just don't get along with that class. Maybe I'll just focus on achieving one win per day or something. Other than that I have no current objectives. I'd really like to get the 1.000 wins portraits for Rogue and Demon Hunter, but both still have a long way to go so I just play whatever I feel like.
Edit: Holy mother of Yogg. If I assume the average game takes 6 minutes and that I have an all time win rate of 50%, I end up having played ranked Hearthstone for 67,3 whole days of my life. That's... pretty crazy.
No, I don't think you should change the class. I'm still sceptical about the stat decrease though, maybe cut that and make it cheaper? The effect is still pretty strong in itself since you not only lock a minion out, but also a board space.
I like your general idea and the lore behind it, please make sure to add that to the description textbox! The wording seems a bit off, I suggest sticking to the usual "that died this game" term or even reducing it to "that died this turn" to tune down the power level a bit. That's my second gripe: the card is too cheap for what it does, even as a legendary. Hadronox players would love this, but I advocate for changing the cost or the text as mentioned above.
linkblade91
I like your card, but I don't really understand why you used "they" instead of "it" (…may attack again). 4 stars for now, might go to 5 after I've seen the rest of the field. I also do hope things are looking a little brighter on your side and wish you all the best.
BasilAnguis
Cool idea! I agree with everything that Wailor had to say.
Bartigul
I'm sorry but I'm not a big fan. The art doesn't look very hearthstone-y and the effect gives me PTSD from Big Priest shenanigans. If you choose to go with this, you should change the wording to "on your side" and try to avoid the single word in the last line.
CursedParrot
I like it! Please add the info you gave to the descirption box as well, specially the part about the Tentacles was clear to me at first glance but makes a whole lot of sense.
AeroJulwin
Hmmm… my first thought is: Can a minion that is dormant lose stats? Maybe I'm missing something but I'm a little confused. I do like the versatility though, as ayou can also target your own stuff to set up a combo turn. Last but not least, for us non-WoW-players a little explanation about the connection between the violet hold and this being a Priest card would be cool, because from a HS point of view I see purple / violet, I think "Arcane" = "Mage".
Demonxz95
All of them look incredibly cool art-wise. I'd discard the Shaman one because I don't think anything will ever make that archetype work. Between Druid and Priest it's a close call, but if in doubt go with the more innovative idea which is defintely Priest. Nice work!
Wailor
The Frozen Throne is very iconic, so great flavor here. I fear it's nearly impossible to balance though, because there's a high chance for a low roll and the card is way too expansive for that. Making it too cheap is also dangerous for the possible outcome, so I really don't know what to do here. I'm also part of the crew that is not happy with the word "graveyard". Orgrimmar gets lots of points for flavor as well. My gripe with that one is that locations aren't supposed to work like minions so this feels a little off. What might solve this is giving a friendly minion Taunt and whenever it takes damage, the location loses durability instead.
There was a discussion among the devs on twitter about this. I can dig it out and send it to you on Discord if you like to know the details.
If I remember correctly, the reasoning was something along these lines: lore-wise, The Purator and The Curator are not Mechs, but someone accidently used a ... garment? gear? on The Purator's art that makes it a Mech so they had to backpedal.
I disagree with you in this case linkblade. The two of you do us all a service by organising these competitions, but that doesn't change that you're still regular competitors and should earn the big prize if you can accumulate enough wins.
There are more characters already in the game than I'd have thought. Heigan has an interesting ability according to Wowpedia though, so here's my first idea:
A card that got nerfed from Kobolds that I remember playing quite a lot myself was Possessed Lackey. Man, what a cool set that was. The power level was completely through the roof, many of the cards are still staples in Wild to this day.
Three clear favorites for me this week with the Vampire, Necroman-sea and Anon Anarth. Awesome design all three of them, I hope one will take the win! Good luck everybody :))
Congrats to BloodMefist and above all: all the best wishes for you, linkblade. I fear I can only echo what Wailor has said and send positive thoughts, but please let me know if there's anything we can do to support you. Sending a hug as well, if you want one.
I'm stupid and submitted my card in a hurry, so I forgot to point out how the art compliments the effect: The hand on the left side channels green (Fel) magic to fuel the skull spell that emerges from the other hand. I thought I'd at least post this here so people can take this into consideration when voting.
All in all I'm super happy about the final outcome, thanks to everybody who encouraged me to drop the highlander condition for something more interesting. This was a fun and educating experience.
Some final feedback:
BasilAnguis
Now I like your card even more :) Windlord's Blessing misses a period at the end of its text.
Wailor
I actually prefer the first version, I generally tend to value more simple approaches over the complicated effects. The power level might be a concern here since you could potentially roll 5 Huffers on turn 10… I could live with that though. If anything a small Cost raise to 6 would probably take care of that. Hunter isn't exactly stacked with useful 1 Mana spells either and you might have to play some of them before Rexxar comes down.
First idea:
I was trying to find art that screams DK and a specific expansion which is quite hard actually. I like ho this one turned out though.
Edit: Well, fuck. I've just been told Deliverance exists.
Raid Boss Onyxia?
Congrats to Wailor!
I'll use the occasion of reaching 1.000 wins with Warlock for posting my first update of the year. The now nerfed Wild Discolock helped me over the treshold after having grinded 140 wins in 11 days which was quite an unhealthy thing to do.
That's also already the second tick on my new year's resolutions after having hit Wild legend with Shaman in January. Only the 500 wins with Shaman left, but I just don't get along with that class. Maybe I'll just focus on achieving one win per day or something. Other than that I have no current objectives. I'd really like to get the 1.000 wins portraits for Rogue and Demon Hunter, but both still have a long way to go so I just play whatever I feel like.
Edit: Holy mother of Yogg. If I assume the average game takes 6 minutes and that I have an all time win rate of 50%, I end up having played ranked Hearthstone for 67,3 whole days of my life. That's... pretty crazy.
(8075 ranked wins * 6 minutes * 2 [50% win rate] = 96900 minutes = 1615 hours = 67,3 days)
Looks very cool, especially after having read your explanation for the effect!
Good luck to everyone in the voting from me as well. My absolute favorite this week is Area 52.
Coincidentally, Celestalon provided some insight into this very recently:
Link to twitter
No, I don't think you should change the class. I'm still sceptical about the stat decrease though, maybe cut that and make it cheaper? The effect is still pretty strong in itself since you not only lock a minion out, but also a board space.
Feedback:
Late to the party due to RL stuff and successfully grinding Warlock to 1.000 wins before Discolock got nerfed (yay!), but I actually had a nice idea:
I'd very much like this to be neutral but I'd be open to change it if you think that would be better. Some late feedback would be very appreciated!
There was a discussion among the devs on twitter about this. I can dig it out and send it to you on Discord if you like to know the details.
If I remember correctly, the reasoning was something along these lines: lore-wise, The Purator and The Curator are not Mechs, but someone accidently used a ... garment? gear? on The Purator's art that makes it a Mech so they had to backpedal.
I don't play Duels but the last line of the riddle would fit Kingsbane very well.
Congrats to Demon!
I disagree with you in this case linkblade. The two of you do us all a service by organising these competitions, but that doesn't change that you're still regular competitors and should earn the big prize if you can accumulate enough wins.
There are more characters already in the game than I'd have thought. Heigan has an interesting ability according to Wowpedia though, so here's my first idea:
A card that got nerfed from Kobolds that I remember playing quite a lot myself was Possessed Lackey. Man, what a cool set that was. The power level was completely through the roof, many of the cards are still staples in Wild to this day.
Congrats to Demon!
Three clear favorites for me this week with the Vampire, Necroman-sea and Anon Anarth. Awesome design all three of them, I hope one will take the win! Good luck everybody :))
Wretched Tiller?
Congrats to BloodMefist and above all: all the best wishes for you, linkblade. I fear I can only echo what Wailor has said and send positive thoughts, but please let me know if there's anything we can do to support you. Sending a hug as well, if you want one.
Good luck to the finalists. Sigh.
I'm stupid and submitted my card in a hurry, so I forgot to point out how the art compliments the effect: The hand on the left side channels green (Fel) magic to fuel the skull spell that emerges from the other hand. I thought I'd at least post this here so people can take this into consideration when voting.
All in all I'm super happy about the final outcome, thanks to everybody who encouraged me to drop the highlander condition for something more interesting. This was a fun and educating experience.
Some final feedback: