I crafted Sir Finley of the Sands day 1 of SoU because I was so sure Highlander Paladin was going to be good...and then did exactly the same thing with Dragon Paladin & Dragonrider Talritha day 1 DoD. I should leave Paladin decks alone...
The core gameplay is fantastic, and it'll bring new life to the competitive scene, map makers and machinimas.
Will it though?
I've seen DOZENS of posts/news articles/comments about the modding scene specifically and how Activision changed the TOS so that any custom map is 100% their property (guess they're still salty on missing out on that sweet DOTA $$$ before they dropped HotS). Not that mapmakers are in it for the money - but it has clearly sent a message that has left a bad taste in many mouths. And for competitive scene I really doubt they're going to cannibalize what's left of the SC2 competitive scene for this reskin that frankly has seemed like a lazy cash grab with a languishing property from day 1. They saw how many old games were getting "remastered" and making money, including the flagship RTSs like Age of Empires 2 and figured "hey let's get in on that."
And this is all coming from someone who still loves old-school RTSs and has replayed WC3 somewhat recently. I wish this were more/better than what it is, but I won't let the nostalgia goggles blind me to the sad truth.
The uneven hands aren't just an odd card, but a card from an odd deck.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction in your hint - if the card is from an odd deck then it would have to be an odd-costed card? Or am I missing something and you're just saying the deck is "weird" odd, not ODD odd
Yeah looks like I'm in the same boat as Delko/Savron: It "should" be live in NA as of 15 mins ago (basically every HS event/update/news post happens at 09:00 PST) but doesn't appear to be - for me at least. Guess most of the Blizz team is off fighting the fires in what I've heard was an abysmally buggy launch of W3 Reforged?
Btw I didn't get a new quest but tried rerolling - got a new lunar quest. But somehow my other quest that I left for rerolling tomorrow got completed by. It was play 10 mana card while I didn't play any.
Ah I tried that and also got a lunar quest on reroll - so the final answer on the original question was NO, we did not get 2 quests today (a normal and a second once the event went live). We also didn’t appear to get any sort of notification the event was live which, you know, might have been a good idea?.......ah well thanks for weighing in everyone - teamwork makes the dream work
Yeah looks like I'm in the same boat as Delko/Savron: It "should" be live in NA as of 15 mins ago (basically every HS event/update/news post happens at 09:00 PST) but doesn't appear to be - for me at least. Guess most of the Blizz team is off fighting the fires in what I've heard was an abysmally buggy launch of W3 Reforged?
I don't have any of the new quests, but most of my friends do, (EU server), does this mean it starts a day later for me or did I miss it entirely?
My assumption is that this is like every other event on launch timing - so if you're NA server it will start at 09:00 PST (so 13:00 if you're on the east coast) like everything else does. Lazy Californians not getting up early...
The crux of the clue is the treasure: the Golden Monkey. That’s in Mischief Makers art and is a call back to the “know-it-all” who was originally looking for it - Elise Starseeker. The “green” references the goblin doing the swap and the “beak” is the chicken with which she’s swapping the monkey
Here's a question on pity timers/this one specifically since it's new - does the free DoD legendary (or if one gets a DoD legendary out of these "year of the dragon packs") reset the current DoD timer? Or does that keep ticking away since it wasn't "obtained for DoD packs"?
To whit: I'm currently on pack 28 of my regular DoD timer - if it does reset the timer then arguably it would be "most" beneficial to wait until I get another pack legendary since I'm most of the way there already.
And you want to maximize value but that would be to just do all the quests and not reroll any?
Not really since 1) the event quests reward gold AND dust, and 2) many of the event quests are 80g/100g + dust so have a good chance to reroll into more than current.
But yeah I guess my main question breaks down to: are we getting a "normal" quest tomorrow morning before the event launches AND THEN a second event quest once (I'm assuming here) the event goes live at 09:00 PST, or is it just the one quest for the day? That will answer whether I should complete one of the saved quests or save them both.
Can you explain a bit as to why...is this to make an extra 50 gold? Or 60? Some amount which you can earn in one day by winning enough games?
Can you explain a bit as to why...you felt the need to make this snide comment?
Yes it's to try and make extra gold and dust. It must be nice to have free time to play 20-30 games per day to get enough wins for get that amount of gold, but I don't have that much time so trying to not to miss "free" stuff where possible.
I would be very surprised if you could reroll normal daily quests into these special holiday gold&dust quests. Does this work? Can anyone else confirm?
I would swear these "event" quests at least USED to work like this (i.e. for the Fire Festival in the summers) so I assumed they still do
I'm really bad at remembering exactly how these "non-chain" (like in expansion drops) work for maximizing value. So new Lunar New Years Quests start tomorrow. How many quests should I have open tomorrow morning (EST) to max reroll and not miss any?
I can't recall the actual workings - do we get a normal quest at tomorrow before the event starts (presumably at 09:00 PST like everything else) and then a SECOND event quest once the event starts? I want to have the 2 to reroll without missing a free "extra" one if that's part of it. So do I need to save ONLY today's quest & tomorrow's normal quest to reroll (i.e. I saved yesterday's quest too - should I complete it?)? Or is it just the one quest tomorrow so I should have yesterday's and today's quest saved?
Molten Giant?
I crafted Sir Finley of the Sands day 1 of SoU because I was so sure Highlander Paladin was going to be good...and then did exactly the same thing with Dragon Paladin & Dragonrider Talritha day 1 DoD. I should leave Paladin decks alone...
Will it though?
I've seen DOZENS of posts/news articles/comments about the modding scene specifically and how Activision changed the TOS so that any custom map is 100% their property (guess they're still salty on missing out on that sweet DOTA $$$ before they dropped HotS). Not that mapmakers are in it for the money - but it has clearly sent a message that has left a bad taste in many mouths. And for competitive scene I really doubt they're going to cannibalize what's left of the SC2 competitive scene for this reskin that frankly has seemed like a lazy cash grab with a languishing property from day 1. They saw how many old games were getting "remastered" and making money, including the flagship RTSs like Age of Empires 2 and figured "hey let's get in on that."
And this is all coming from someone who still loves old-school RTSs and has replayed WC3 somewhat recently. I wish this were more/better than what it is, but I won't let the nostalgia goggles blind me to the sad truth.
Damn.
This is REALLY good - I hope some of the devs are lurking because literally any of this would be a welcome addition to the game.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction in your hint - if the card is from an odd deck then it would have to be an odd-costed card? Or am I missing something and you're just saying the deck is "weird" odd, not ODD odd
Ah I tried that and also got a lunar quest on reroll - so the final answer on the original question was NO, we did not get 2 quests today (a normal and a second once the event went live). We also didn’t appear to get any sort of notification the event was live which, you know, might have been a good idea?.......ah well thanks for weighing in everyone - teamwork makes the dream work
Yeah looks like I'm in the same boat as Delko/Savron: It "should" be live in NA as of 15 mins ago (basically every HS event/update/news post happens at 09:00 PST) but doesn't appear to be - for me at least. Guess most of the Blizz team is off fighting the fires in what I've heard was an abysmally buggy launch of W3 Reforged?
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza? Odd + Can bring aggressive or defensive friends and pretty out of balance based on what you get?
My assumption is that this is like every other event on launch timing - so if you're NA server it will start at 09:00 PST (so 13:00 if you're on the east coast) like everything else does. Lazy Californians not getting up early...
That’s correct!
The crux of the clue is the treasure: the Golden Monkey. That’s in Mischief Makers art and is a call back to the “know-it-all” who was originally looking for it - Elise Starseeker. The “green” references the goblin doing the swap and the “beak” is the chicken with which she’s swapping the monkey
Here's a question on pity timers/this one specifically since it's new - does the free DoD legendary (or if one gets a DoD legendary out of these "year of the dragon packs") reset the current DoD timer? Or does that keep ticking away since it wasn't "obtained for DoD packs"?
To whit: I'm currently on pack 28 of my regular DoD timer - if it does reset the timer then arguably it would be "most" beneficial to wait until I get another pack legendary since I'm most of the way there already.
Oh hey look at that: a list of cards with a "swap" effect. Crazy!
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/?text=Swap&collectible=true
Thank you
Not really since 1) the event quests reward gold AND dust, and 2) many of the event quests are 80g/100g + dust so have a good chance to reroll into more than current.
But yeah I guess my main question breaks down to: are we getting a "normal" quest tomorrow morning before the event launches AND THEN a second event quest once (I'm assuming here) the event goes live at 09:00 PST, or is it just the one quest for the day? That will answer whether I should complete one of the saved quests or save them both.
Can you explain a bit as to why...you felt the need to make this snide comment?
Yes it's to try and make extra gold and dust. It must be nice to have free time to play 20-30 games per day to get enough wins for get that amount of gold, but I don't have that much time so trying to not to miss "free" stuff where possible.
I would welcome any useful advice here
I would swear these "event" quests at least USED to work like this (i.e. for the Fire Festival in the summers) so I assumed they still do
I'm really bad at remembering exactly how these "non-chain" (like in expansion drops) work for maximizing value. So new Lunar New Years Quests start tomorrow. How many quests should I have open tomorrow morning (EST) to max reroll and not miss any?
I can't recall the actual workings - do we get a normal quest at tomorrow before the event starts (presumably at 09:00 PST like everything else) and then a SECOND event quest once the event starts? I want to have the 2 to reroll without missing a free "extra" one if that's part of it. So do I need to save ONLY today's quest & tomorrow's normal quest to reroll (i.e. I saved yesterday's quest too - should I complete it?)? Or is it just the one quest tomorrow so I should have yesterday's and today's quest saved?
Thank you!
Alright so no other guesses then it's hint time: the line has three main clues, some of which have more than one part of the line:
That know-it-all (1) will be green (2) with envy if I'm able to swap (3) the treasure (1 & 2) out from under her (1) big beak (2)!
1 - this card has a callback to an older card & its mechanic
2 - references to the card art, that are also part of the callback
3 - has a swap mechanic as noted before
Nope but good guess as the "swap" function is part of this
This one might be easy (?), but trying to change the formats up a little with a single, clue-filled line:
That know-it-all will be green with envy if I'm able to swap the treasure out from under her big beak!