So far haven't faced any quest decks of old. On launch day I played quest warrior coz needed 1 more win for weekly quest to get extra gold for packs, glad to say I got rekt and ended up just making new decks anyway to get the win.
It's still quite early but having so much fun with big beast hunter and Wing Commander Ichman, thought he was going to be terrible but he's not bad.
Plenty other control decks like deathrattle priest and big paladin that are seeing success. Can't win against paladin once they play Lightforged Cariel. Need to start adding weapon tech to all my decks now
Very nice, also had a similar deck coz all the new freeze shaman cards are pretty great and locks out any weapon based decks.
Kind of like how all the discovers and random card generation is locked down to just commons and rares too. Just shows Blizzard has the technology to make these brawl blocks it's own game mode.
Anyone else having issues completing the FAV gameplay achievements? They showing as zero progress for achievements like "You are not Worthy" (Lightforged Cariel one)
Bugs for achievements not progressing like the "You Are not Worthy" Achievement. Played Lightforged Cariel and even let my opponent slowly and painfully kill me and have zero progress :/
A lot of streamers do videos like these towards the end of an expansion which is pretty cool. Kinda like a retrospective of why we voted certain cards so highly. I think in this case it's obvious everyone is excited about the hero cards, so they get the spotlight even if they end up seeing little play.
Ah thanks for the explanation. Glad the battlecry triggers first before Najak's deathrattle so you keep the mind controlled minion. Good interaction to know
As much as I enjoy me some deathrattle rogue, I do believe the support isn't there yet. There's only 12 rogue class cards that are deathrattle specific: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/rogue?has_mechanics=5&collectible=yes&standard=yes so I do think tempo rogue with a small deathrattle package will be more successful. Burgle + deathrattle will be far too inconsistent I believe.
Unfortunately I do think the current bleed rogue will be superior than deathrattle and burgle 😓 happy to be proven wrong.
I do hope freeze shaman is going to be good, it'd be so funny if it becomes a tier S tyrant coz then we can all bring out our dated freeze shaman memes from KotFT. The freeze mechanic is quite a painful experience, especially if you're a weapon based deck like weapon rogue, pirate warrior or DH. It can be compared to immune in a sense if you exclude direct damage spells.
I'm not understanding the synergy with Teron Gorefiend and Najak Hexxen. Wouldn't Najak give the minion back if killed via Teron? And the second Najak deathrattle would whiff as there's no minion to give to the opponent.
Lots of achievable achievements, similar to the Stormwind ones. There are more "win game" ones than previous expansions but the requirements aren't hard at all.
Bare in mind, there are 6 achievements that require you to play specific hero cards.
Definitely looking forward to control warrior. Being forced to play pirate warrior just to get wins isn't a fun experience at all. It's more a chore. I'm sure even old synergies like Lord Barov and Rancor can be great in control warrior. Lord Barov + Iceblood Garrison will be a sweet combo too.
Rotating set format - So many ppl like this idea and I'm sure blizzard have stats for this coz there's some Brawl Block Tavern Brawls that have had this exact format in the past, see:
Blizzard's usual excuse is they don't want players to have to re-build their decks every time the sets change. Which I find is a BS answer as it's part of the experience. For eg: we get TGT, MSoG, WotOG and DoD this month, that's awesome! Lets see what new combos or meta decks can be made just with these cards! Entire sets like TGT can finally be used instead of getting virtual dust sitting in the collection.
My favorite idea would be having all the hero card expansions like KotFT, RR, WW, DoD, BDP and FAV all together so we can see which hero cards are the best.
Definitely crafting Lightforged Cariel if I don't get her in packs. As for big paladin itself. I think it'll be much more consistent if you include Vanndar Stormpike.
So far haven't faced any quest decks of old. On launch day I played quest warrior coz needed 1 more win for weekly quest to get extra gold for packs, glad to say I got rekt and ended up just making new decks anyway to get the win.
It's still quite early but having so much fun with big beast hunter and Wing Commander Ichman, thought he was going to be terrible but he's not bad.
Plenty other control decks like deathrattle priest and big paladin that are seeing success. Can't win against paladin once they play Lightforged Cariel. Need to start adding weapon tech to all my decks now
Very nice, also had a similar deck coz all the new freeze shaman cards are pretty great and locks out any weapon based decks.
Kind of like how all the discovers and random card generation is locked down to just commons and rares too. Just shows Blizzard has the technology to make these brawl blocks it's own game mode.
Anyone else having issues completing the FAV gameplay achievements? They showing as zero progress for achievements like "You are not Worthy" (Lightforged Cariel one)
Bugs for achievements not progressing like the "You Are not Worthy" Achievement. Played Lightforged Cariel and even let my opponent slowly and painfully kill me and have zero progress :/
This must have been my worse pack opening of all time 😭😭😭💔💔💔
4 class packs (DH, Warlock, Rogue and Paladin)
9 standard packs (1 golden)
96 FAV packs
And I get this garbage 😭
What did I do to deserve this!?!?! Wtf is Vanndar Stormpike and Drek'Thar in packs to begin with?
(Also got Najak Hexxen and Wildheart Guff)
He also starred in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (seeing as it was referenced above 😁)
A lot of streamers do videos like these towards the end of an expansion which is pretty cool. Kinda like a retrospective of why we voted certain cards so highly. I think in this case it's obvious everyone is excited about the hero cards, so they get the spotlight even if they end up seeing little play.
Ah thanks for the explanation. Glad the battlecry triggers first before Najak's deathrattle so you keep the mind controlled minion. Good interaction to know
As much as I enjoy me some deathrattle rogue, I do believe the support isn't there yet. There's only 12 rogue class cards that are deathrattle specific: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/rogue?has_mechanics=5&collectible=yes&standard=yes so I do think tempo rogue with a small deathrattle package will be more successful. Burgle + deathrattle will be far too inconsistent I believe.
Unfortunately I do think the current bleed rogue will be superior than deathrattle and burgle 😓 happy to be proven wrong.
I do hope freeze shaman is going to be good, it'd be so funny if it becomes a tier S tyrant coz then we can all bring out our dated freeze shaman memes from KotFT. The freeze mechanic is quite a painful experience, especially if you're a weapon based deck like weapon rogue, pirate warrior or DH. It can be compared to immune in a sense if you exclude direct damage spells.
The stall will be real this expansion.
it's there in the 2nd table. A bit misleading as the 2nd table say the achievements don't reward XP, but it's just typo
I'm not understanding the synergy with Teron Gorefiend and Najak Hexxen. Wouldn't Najak give the minion back if killed via Teron? And the second Najak deathrattle would whiff as there's no minion to give to the opponent.
Lots of achievable achievements, similar to the Stormwind ones. There are more "win game" ones than previous expansions but the requirements aren't hard at all.
Bare in mind, there are 6 achievements that require you to play specific hero cards.
Definitely looking forward to control warrior. Being forced to play pirate warrior just to get wins isn't a fun experience at all. It's more a chore. I'm sure even old synergies like Lord Barov and Rancor can be great in control warrior. Lord Barov + Iceblood Garrison will be a sweet combo too.
Rotating set format - So many ppl like this idea and I'm sure blizzard have stats for this coz there's some Brawl Block Tavern Brawls that have had this exact format in the past, see:
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/tavern-brawls/117-brawl-block-gods-gadgetzan-gurubashi
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/tavern-brawls/123-brawl-block-tinyfin-mode
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/tavern-brawls/135-brawl-block-feeling-adventurous
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/tavern-brawls/112-brawl-block-year-of-the-mammoth
Blizzard's usual excuse is they don't want players to have to re-build their decks every time the sets change. Which I find is a BS answer as it's part of the experience. For eg: we get TGT, MSoG, WotOG and DoD this month, that's awesome! Lets see what new combos or meta decks can be made just with these cards! Entire sets like TGT can finally be used instead of getting virtual dust sitting in the collection.
My favorite idea would be having all the hero card expansions like KotFT, RR, WW, DoD, BDP and FAV all together so we can see which hero cards are the best.
Awesome word search to get hyped up for the expansion 🤩
Definitely crafting Lightforged Cariel if I don't get her in packs. As for big paladin itself. I think it'll be much more consistent if you include Vanndar Stormpike.
Theorycrafting Druid in Forged in the Barrens
Totally understandable copy pasta 😁
Great review though, excited to finally play beast druid, it's been a long time coming.