While I'm fine with the balance nerfs I'm a tab bit disappointed that Team 5 didn't pick up the patron/Corpse Explosion interaction during internal play testing. It should not be up to the community to find these broken interactions. Team 5 need to setup test automation to run through each of these scenarios, even if it's as simple as for eg: Play X Minion with Corpse Explosion = see results, then repeat with another minion. I.E. combinatorial testing
This game is getting bigger and bigger with each expansion and it's clearly obvious that Team 5's QA can't keep up.
Yup correct. I played both The Scourge and Lord Marrowgar so that would've been 14 undead with those 2 cards alone and the quest only progressed to 7/15.
[Added 12/6] We are temporarily disabling pack openings for Standard Packs and Class Packs while we investigate a potential issue with those packs.
How hilarious we finally get a bug that's beneficial to players and Blizzard disable packs within an hour. Can't have everyone getting too many legendaries, even if they the drab signature ones 😅
And I laugh that they call it an "issue". It's an issue for Blizzard, not for players
In all honestly, it'll probably be worth it in the long run seeing as you'd get 3 legendaries. Where on average you'd only get 1 legendary if you spent the gold on packs.
Guess I'm opening 76 packs with gold instead of 96... I'm just hoping at least 50% of the cards are usable in the upcoming meta.
Having KotFT in Standard for a month just goes to show how much the power level has risen since 2017. As mentioned above, there was only a handful of cards that saw play in the existing meta. The 1 card that surprised me the most was Forge of Souls as it managed to pull Warrior out of the dumpster.
It should be noted that we'll see many more Unholy DKs running around at the beginning of the expansion seeing as most unholy cards reside in the core set. I still refuse to buy the Path of Arthas set so am hoping Frost DK is the weakest out of the 3 regardless of the DK show match results.
Overall, I think most* of these gameplay achievements are easier than previous expansions. The only RNG related 1 is Cheese Touch and it shouldn't be that difficult to complete seeing as Sire Denathrius will probably still be a menace
Also, a little "hack" on those mega bundle giveaways 😉 watch a smaller content creator with less viewers for a higher chance of getting a mega bundle. You're also supporting the smaller HS content creators which is never a bad thing either.
That's strange, I swear I saw Celestalon talking about how Halduron Brightwing couldn't have a signature card coz of the artwork. Did I miss something?
So in case anyone doesn't know wow lore, Chromie is actually a bronze dragon like Anachronos and Nozdormu. Pity they didn't add any dragon synergy, even to the equipment. Guess there's too much existing synergy so they just went a different direction.
As per Celestalon's comment, the diamond versions are decided by artwork, not by playability. We don't know what goes into designing these diamond cards aside from that. Artwork and the card's viability have nothing to do with each other either so expect many more diamond cards to be unplayable.
That's a good thing to keep in mind - that Team 5 are aware of the DK HP and charge being so game winning. It's good to know we won't be seeing that many buff spells or cards that could be abused with the HP.
But remember, the risen minions don't count as corpses themselves and there's a lot of cards that consume corpses to make risen minions. You'd have to be running an Unholy focused deck to properly make use of Cold Feet Pact
Yea... we know from experience that Big Demon DH never works out so not holding any hope out now. Blizzard would need to release better cards than this but I'm sure this big guy will pop up now and then from random generation.
This spell is really good in egglock, I wouldn't be surprised if the archetype makes a comeback with this spell. 2 mana is decent for this effect and I'm sure we'll find a nice combo where you want to kill a certain minion and trigger it's deathrattle.
This card seems quite appropriate for this page 🙃
While I'm fine with the balance nerfs I'm a tab bit disappointed that Team 5 didn't pick up the patron/Corpse Explosion interaction during internal play testing. It should not be up to the community to find these broken interactions. Team 5 need to setup test automation to run through each of these scenarios, even if it's as simple as for eg: Play X Minion with Corpse Explosion = see results, then repeat with another minion. I.E. combinatorial testing
This game is getting bigger and bigger with each expansion and it's clearly obvious that Team 5's QA can't keep up.
Yup correct. I played both The Scourge and Lord Marrowgar so that would've been 14 undead with those 2 cards alone and the quest only progressed to 7/15.
How hilarious we finally get a bug that's beneficial to players and Blizzard disable packs within an hour. Can't have everyone getting too many legendaries, even if they the drab signature ones 😅
And I laugh that they call it an "issue". It's an issue for Blizzard, not for players
If Shatterskin Gargoyle was printed a few years ago, it'd be playable. So this just goes to show how much power level has risen in recent years.
Must...resist...buying...Path of Arthas...
In all honestly, it'll probably be worth it in the long run seeing as you'd get 3 legendaries. Where on average you'd only get 1 legendary if you spent the gold on packs.
Guess I'm opening 76 packs with gold instead of 96... I'm just hoping at least 50% of the cards are usable in the upcoming meta.
Having KotFT in Standard for a month just goes to show how much the power level has risen since 2017. As mentioned above, there was only a handful of cards that saw play in the existing meta. The 1 card that surprised me the most was Forge of Souls as it managed to pull Warrior out of the dumpster.
It should be noted that we'll see many more Unholy DKs running around at the beginning of the expansion seeing as most unholy cards reside in the core set. I still refuse to buy the Path of Arthas set so am hoping Frost DK is the weakest out of the 3 regardless of the DK show match results.
Overall, I think most* of these gameplay achievements are easier than previous expansions. The only RNG related 1 is Cheese Touch and it shouldn't be that difficult to complete seeing as Sire Denathrius will probably still be a menace
Foul Fowl is pretty hilarious and I expect Blizzard to top this next expansion. Bring on all the cheesy puns!
Think it's also worth mentioning that some content creators are also doing giveaways on Youtube, like Zeddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wV3VFiCeI4
Also, a little "hack" on those mega bundle giveaways 😉 watch a smaller content creator with less viewers for a higher chance of getting a mega bundle. You're also supporting the smaller HS content creators which is never a bad thing either.
That's strange, I swear I saw Celestalon talking about how Halduron Brightwing couldn't have a signature card coz of the artwork. Did I miss something?
Zeddy confirmed in this video that the tavern pass has the same value as previous ones.
But we should be seeing more events like the DK and Winter veil ones that should*** give us more rewards to make up for the new class.
So in case anyone doesn't know wow lore, Chromie is actually a bronze dragon like Anachronos and Nozdormu. Pity they didn't add any dragon synergy, even to the equipment. Guess there's too much existing synergy so they just went a different direction.
Ah, found out you can link the card ID to show the correct coin!
Had to get this one, for obvious reasons. Ended up crafting a few cards but it was worth it!
As per Celestalon's comment, the diamond versions are decided by artwork, not by playability. We don't know what goes into designing these diamond cards aside from that. Artwork and the card's viability have nothing to do with each other either so expect many more diamond cards to be unplayable.
That's a good thing to keep in mind - that Team 5 are aware of the DK HP and charge being so game winning. It's good to know we won't be seeing that many buff spells or cards that could be abused with the HP.
But remember, the risen minions don't count as corpses themselves and there's a lot of cards that consume corpses to make risen minions. You'd have to be running an Unholy focused deck to properly make use of Cold Feet Pact
Yea... we know from experience that Big Demon DH never works out so not holding any hope out now. Blizzard would need to release better cards than this but I'm sure this big guy will pop up now and then from random generation.
This spell is really good in egglock, I wouldn't be surprised if the archetype makes a comeback with this spell. 2 mana is decent for this effect and I'm sure we'll find a nice combo where you want to kill a certain minion and trigger it's deathrattle.