I remember long ago when they revealed an entire adventure set day 1 and said they'll try to do something different each time to make things interesting. Forgot if this was before or after they had the "vote which card to reveal next" gimmick. Well, they never did anything interesting since.
I think for me the DLC is a 9/10 with that single missing point because of the last boss. But overall it has to be the best DLC ever made, it's the equivalent to Elden Ring 1.5. Not a full sequel but almost a whole separate game. The level deign, exploration, improvement on old formulas like catacombs, all awesome. Most bosses are amazing too, Lion Dancer is a highlight. Some are more meh like Gaius but overall more hits than misses. Even the last boss is superb spectacle, ignoring the rest. And when it comes to lore, overall it is incredible again. Shaman Village, Metyr, Messmer, the Hornsent, Bayle, all amazing. Yeah lack of some topics like Gloam Eyed Queen is sad but there was no way it could address everything. Messmer was never going to be the final or main boss, that's just how fromsoft likes things. The main game had Malenia and Godrick all over the ad campaign. "Obstacles on the way to the real boss" is the rule for their DLCs. Bloodborne DLC had Lady Maria but final boss is Orphan of Kos. Dark Souls 1 had Artorias but Manus is the final boss. Dark Souls 3 DLCs are weirder i admit, not much focus on anyone and short as hell. More like 1 DLC cut in two. But you get the idea. Sadly that's what makes the final boss disappointing for me. With the expectation something even more amazing comes after Messmer, the buildup of Godwyn and especially talks of "reviving a brother's soul"... fully expected Godwyn to be the promised consort. Radahn just feels bad, it comes out of nowhere with no foreshadowing in the main game, 0 connections between him and Miquella to even hint he's so important to the young Empyrean. It also makes Malenia and Radahn's duel confusing and a bit more lame in hindsight.
But the glimpse in Marika's origins and motivations, the jar lore, dragon civil war, Finger origins and more on the Greater Will, the Hornsent and Crucible stuff, finally details about the ancient ruins that are all over the world and seem to be the foundations upon which it is built... can't say the DLC lore is bad. The last boss is a sour taste but everything else is so sweet it balances it up for it, for me.
For reference Elden Ring itself is 48 GB. that's about a 1/4th of the whole main game as dlc. Waaay bigger than just Limgrave. And this isn't counting reused assets.
Crab is the definite better option. The boar is simply too overpowered, having all your minions take 4 damage whenever they attack the enemy hero feels way too oppressive. And it can stack too. If you look at the rewards the azerite legenderies are all rather mellow in effect. Snake was an outlier. The rest... summon two 8 drops, give you a titan, give you 4 random (often useless) spells, or rez a buffed minion. They're not weak don't get me wrong but it's nothing out of this world. Just board swings most of the time that die to boardclears. The crab fits most in line with the rest, creating a scary board that can be answered to.
Doing Honour run with a friend in Baldur's Gate 3. Wasting my free time in League of Legends arena mode, so fast and addictive. Not much beyond that. I wanna get all remaining achievements in cyberpunk eventually and Legend in Hearthstone which i didn't manage to last month. Haven't been feeling great with Hearthstone lately since the decks i liked got nerfed and i had to make new decks. Enrage Warrior was peak fun, rip now tier 4 deck. Odyn warrior was amazing but now the meta deck s a 40 card list and i lost like 10 games in a row not drawing Odyn. DK is forced to run plagues which is fun for a while but again opponent never draws cards and i lose to better wincons. Feelsbadman. But battlegrounds is always fun to throw out when watching a film so there's that.
Wild pack bundles will never be good simply cause wild packs are horrible way of collecting cards. I'm still shocked they keep pushing them and not replacing them with catch-up packs for older expansions.
I just now realize that classes don't have equal chance of appearing. That doesn't seem right to me somehow. If they're this bad outliers i think card changes are better fix than reducing how often you see Paladin for example.
I respect your decision on this, if you believe using the platform would go against your beliefs and principles then you should quit it. However i am concerned about the repercussions this will have on the future of the site. Despite the changes since Elon took over Twitter still is a giant social media site, and leaving it might affect the already (seemingly) frail life of Out of Games. Concerns have been raised by me and others about the userbase of this site and abandoning Twitter seems more harmful than good. Plus you risk dividing your audience and alienating people who may find Jones to their liking.
Alex Jones to me never seemed that "evil", more like a clown and meme material. I suppose his show isn't shown in my country so i can't speak too much on the subject, the impact it has good or bad, but i personally am indifferent with his return.
You can get several copies of the same minion though. Imagine playing the paladin titan 4 turns in a row then drawing the real one. It gives you a possible near infinite number of copies. If you use the legendary from sunken city that puts collosals at the bottom of the deck you can ensure the option to play like 15 copies of those collosals before drawing them. Is it broken? Nah, too random, can draw the spirit too late to mater. But it's not weak at all, this will be like the prep for paladin in the future i'm willing to bet. They won't give paladin an specific tutor draws or any over the top legendaries they can play again and again with mirages.
I feel Quickdraw is a mostly worse outcast. Similar condition, if you just topdeck'd it/drew it then it's got the bonus active. But Outcast can be kept in hand till it's the left most to become active again. More than scry effects i feel we need re-shuffle for Quickdraw to work and feel good.
I have been on Out of Cards since it's creation, migrated from Hearthpwn after that whole fiasco. i admit i have never been an active member of this community with little posts and interaction. But i have come daily or weekly for some years now and.... well no kind way to put this. Site feels dead. Whole of it, Out of Games, not just the card part. Vast majority of news articles have 0 comments or 2 or 3 at most. Forums are inactive with the Recent Posts window showing threads that have last replies from 2 days ago to 2 weeks ago.
So, if it's not too bold or rude of me to ask, i want to know how things look from the dev side of things. What the site staff thinks and feels about the current status. I hope it's just me and things are actually going good, i like this place a lot.
My idea. It's a bit like The Nameless One, but for the whole enemy board. Wanted to include all "static" keywords but didn't have space. Could say "Steal all keywords from all enemy minions" but that feels somewhat lamer and not very hearthstone-y.
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linkblade91 - Would love this to be real but sadly it's way too OP. Either it's a 2 mana cheaper Pyroblast which would make Shadow/Undead decks insane, or it's just a massive heal+ free damage. You could heal for 10 and deal 10 damage to the enemy for 8 mana with no drawbacks. Only way to keep the idea and make it balanced i think would be something like "4 deal 8 damage to both Heroes. If you have 10 Health or less, this gains lifesteal."
Wailor - Chameleon is the best card here so far i think. Mage has had enough spell damage+2 cards for a while.
Demonxz95 - I definitely like it better than the abomination Blood Herald is, however sadly it is rather too similar. That stinky is in the game so we have to plan around it. 6 mana 2/2 should make it different enough.
I remember long ago when they revealed an entire adventure set day 1 and said they'll try to do something different each time to make things interesting. Forgot if this was before or after they had the "vote which card to reveal next" gimmick. Well, they never did anything interesting since.
Until now.
I think for me the DLC is a 9/10 with that single missing point because of the last boss. But overall it has to be the best DLC ever made, it's the equivalent to Elden Ring 1.5. Not a full sequel but almost a whole separate game. The level deign, exploration, improvement on old formulas like catacombs, all awesome. Most bosses are amazing too, Lion Dancer is a highlight. Some are more meh like Gaius but overall more hits than misses. Even the last boss is superb spectacle, ignoring the rest. And when it comes to lore, overall it is incredible again. Shaman Village, Metyr, Messmer, the Hornsent, Bayle, all amazing. Yeah lack of some topics like Gloam Eyed Queen is sad but there was no way it could address everything. Messmer was never going to be the final or main boss, that's just how fromsoft likes things. The main game had Malenia and Godrick all over the ad campaign. "Obstacles on the way to the real boss" is the rule for their DLCs. Bloodborne DLC had Lady Maria but final boss is Orphan of Kos. Dark Souls 1 had Artorias but Manus is the final boss. Dark Souls 3 DLCs are weirder i admit, not much focus on anyone and short as hell. More like 1 DLC cut in two. But you get the idea. Sadly that's what makes the final boss disappointing for me. With the expectation something even more amazing comes after Messmer, the buildup of Godwyn and especially talks of "reviving a brother's soul"... fully expected Godwyn to be the promised consort. Radahn just feels bad, it comes out of nowhere with no foreshadowing in the main game, 0 connections between him and Miquella to even hint he's so important to the young Empyrean. It also makes Malenia and Radahn's duel confusing and a bit more lame in hindsight.
But the glimpse in Marika's origins and motivations, the jar lore, dragon civil war, Finger origins and more on the Greater Will, the Hornsent and Crucible stuff, finally details about the ancient ruins that are all over the world and seem to be the foundations upon which it is built... can't say the DLC lore is bad. The last boss is a sour taste but everything else is so sweet it balances it up for it, for me.
For reference Elden Ring itself is 48 GB. that's about a 1/4th of the whole main game as dlc. Waaay bigger than just Limgrave. And this isn't counting reused assets.
Shambling Zombietankmakes a lot more sense when you look at the handbuff package DK got. Lesser Spinel Spellstone, Amateur Puppeteer and Darkthorn Quilter solidify what i always suspected, that the BBU rune combo is handbuffs and minion copies. Same as UUF is plagues and excavate. You can see the trend from older cards like Blood Tap, Vicious Bloodworm, Nerubian Swarmguard, Malignant Horror, etc. Whether it will work or not, can't say, probably has too little corpse generation. but for a short while the deck was viable i think after Festival miniset when DK got Hollow Hound
I cannot believe it... after all these years, it's finally here.
Unicorn Priest
Also i love dracthyr are slowly making their way into hearthstone, favorite race from WoW.
Crab is the definite better option. The boar is simply too overpowered, having all your minions take 4 damage whenever they attack the enemy hero feels way too oppressive. And it can stack too. If you look at the rewards the azerite legenderies are all rather mellow in effect. Snake was an outlier. The rest... summon two 8 drops, give you a titan, give you 4 random (often useless) spells, or rez a buffed minion. They're not weak don't get me wrong but it's nothing out of this world. Just board swings most of the time that die to boardclears. The crab fits most in line with the rest, creating a scary board that can be answered to.
Doing Honour run with a friend in Baldur's Gate 3. Wasting my free time in League of Legends arena mode, so fast and addictive. Not much beyond that. I wanna get all remaining achievements in cyberpunk eventually and Legend in Hearthstone which i didn't manage to last month. Haven't been feeling great with Hearthstone lately since the decks i liked got nerfed and i had to make new decks. Enrage Warrior was peak fun, rip now tier 4 deck. Odyn warrior was amazing but now the meta deck s a 40 card list and i lost like 10 games in a row not drawing Odyn. DK is forced to run plagues which is fun for a while but again opponent never draws cards and i lose to better wincons. Feelsbadman. But battlegrounds is always fun to throw out when watching a film so there's that.
Battletag: NoahMcGrath#2711
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, I show you the quest, you go first.
I read the changes wrong, my bad. Thought it said "The general Priest class appearance rate has been increased." but it's "class cards"
Woo! Gonna try and make an effort to be more active here rather than a passive watcher
Rip my Gromm+location ping+faceless finisher.
Wild pack bundles will never be good simply cause wild packs are horrible way of collecting cards. I'm still shocked they keep pushing them and not replacing them with catch-up packs for older expansions.
I just now realize that classes don't have equal chance of appearing. That doesn't seem right to me somehow. If they're this bad outliers i think card changes are better fix than reducing how often you see Paladin for example.
I respect your decision on this, if you believe using the platform would go against your beliefs and principles then you should quit it. However i am concerned about the repercussions this will have on the future of the site. Despite the changes since Elon took over Twitter still is a giant social media site, and leaving it might affect the already (seemingly) frail life of Out of Games. Concerns have been raised by me and others about the userbase of this site and abandoning Twitter seems more harmful than good. Plus you risk dividing your audience and alienating people who may find Jones to their liking.
Alex Jones to me never seemed that "evil", more like a clown and meme material. I suppose his show isn't shown in my country so i can't speak too much on the subject, the impact it has good or bad, but i personally am indifferent with his return.
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You can get several copies of the same minion though. Imagine playing the paladin titan 4 turns in a row then drawing the real one. It gives you a possible near infinite number of copies. If you use the legendary from sunken city that puts collosals at the bottom of the deck you can ensure the option to play like 15 copies of those collosals before drawing them. Is it broken? Nah, too random, can draw the spirit too late to mater. But it's not weak at all, this will be like the prep for paladin in the future i'm willing to bet. They won't give paladin an specific tutor draws or any over the top legendaries they can play again and again with mirages.
I feel Quickdraw is a mostly worse outcast. Similar condition, if you just topdeck'd it/drew it then it's got the bonus active. But Outcast can be kept in hand till it's the left most to become active again. More than scry effects i feel we need re-shuffle for Quickdraw to work and feel good.
I have been on Out of Cards since it's creation, migrated from Hearthpwn after that whole fiasco. i admit i have never been an active member of this community with little posts and interaction. But i have come daily or weekly for some years now and.... well no kind way to put this. Site feels dead. Whole of it, Out of Games, not just the card part. Vast majority of news articles have 0 comments or 2 or 3 at most. Forums are inactive with the Recent Posts window showing threads that have last replies from 2 days ago to 2 weeks ago.
So, if it's not too bold or rude of me to ask, i want to know how things look from the dev side of things. What the site staff thinks and feels about the current status. I hope it's just me and things are actually going good, i like this place a lot.
First Dracthyr in Hearthstone! Seems they're considered full dragons
My idea. It's a bit like The Nameless One, but for the whole enemy board. Wanted to include all "static" keywords but didn't have space. Could say "Steal all keywords from all enemy minions" but that feels somewhat lamer and not very hearthstone-y.
Feedback:
linkblade91 - Would love this to be real but sadly it's way too OP. Either it's a 2 mana cheaper Pyroblast which would make Shadow/Undead decks insane, or it's just a massive heal+ free damage. You could heal for 10 and deal 10 damage to the enemy for 8 mana with no drawbacks. Only way to keep the idea and make it balanced i think would be something like "4 deal 8 damage to both Heroes. If you have 10 Health or less, this gains lifesteal."
Wailor - Chameleon is the best card here so far i think. Mage has had enough spell damage+2 cards for a while.
Demonxz95 - I definitely like it better than the abomination Blood Herald is, however sadly it is rather too similar. That stinky is in the game so we have to plan around it. 6 mana 2/2 should make it different enough.