I am certain we won't see a new class unless it happens at the start of a year. Rotation is when they get the most eyes on the game, and it gives them a chance to give a new class a fighting chance without creating a bunch of cards for them that are just going to rotate as every class would have 50+ cards more than a base "Death Knight". That's why they had to do the Demon Hunter Initiate set; A late-year DK release means they have to account for two extra expansions.
Next year though? I still think we'll see Monk before Death Knight.
I was definitely in the boat of "I'd love to just buy cards" but the current system feels good enough. Pacing on unlocks has been alright, but I do know that players later on talk about it slowing down so if I end up in that realm, maybe I won't be as happy.
I've only ever bought a battle pass, never felt like I needed to be buying a ton of gold bars to have fun with the game - Hearthstone's Runestones on the other hand...
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Honestly though, there might be some decent value in it for aftermarket sales while acquiring some other cards for personal use. Getting some mint oldschool lands would be such a cool addition to the card collection and would be fun to use in sleeved decks.
With them being non-tourney legal though, I was expecting this to be much cheaper. Definitely a premium, but with cards having changes on them, in a lot of cases these are just going to end up as "official proxies" so making them more affordable woulda been nice.
Yeah, Secret Rogue just needs to become a core mechanic.
I like that they are doing a team thing, will lead to more interesting answers, but damn do I hate the crazy handles all over the replies and when the "dumb" questions are asked, all of them pile on. I think it's great to get to know the team more, we saw a lot of that flavor in Dean's Q&A sessions, but it would be nice if they responded to "real" questions too.
Also, the amount of responses that were just GIFs was a bit silly.
I had some things to take care of and will be slowly getting back into the swing of things over the next week. I will be absent though the week after, for definitely not World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King things.
I've got a lot of things to get realigned with our Out of Cards (and more) efforts and due to that I'll likely not be as present in the news unless urgent stuff needs to get out and folks aren't around. I wish there were more hours in the day to do everything. I like doing everything!
What a way to end the week. Plenty of folks have been leaving Blizzard over the past few years so I'm never surprised when I see leaving announcements on Fridays, but this one was a little unexpected, but also not entirely.
Dean hasn't been as active recently and when you see activity drop, there's usually a good reason for it. He's also been on the Hearthstone team for an eternity and at some point, you do want to move on.
I'm aiming to get an update in this weekend to change our deckbuilder back to older functionality. We made a change that overall should have only sped-up the deckbuilder but unfortunately this ended up being not the case. It's certainly a shame because a lot of time was spent on it but it looks like some machines and browsers just aren't a fan of indexeddb support, despite being a web standard and working across the board with the exception of people on Firefox Permanent Private Browsing Mode, which is a very niche group of people using it, which is already a niche of users using Firefox.
So yeah, aiming for something late Sunday more than likely. If not Sunday, definitely Monday, the day before Castle Nathria launches.
He's a super salt mine and honestly, it would be better if he just stopped playing Hearthstone at this point. I'm sure his mental health would improve too.
Prime example of how to engage. I'm surprised Blizzard even bothers to engage with him anymore.
Fun fact! There are assets in the client for Alliance card frames. Hearthstone originally had Alliance and Horde cards, a part that carried over from WoW TCG. They ultimately abandoned it but left the assets in.
I wish we had sub-tribes as it would add a ton of flavor to the game, but I understand it is better to keep Hearthstone simple at the core. MTG's tribes are exciting to read even though they can be a mouthful at times.
Treants, Whelps, and Imps all definitely deserve something - it's almost as bad as the Alliance and Horde issue with Mercenaries. I wish there was a good spot on the card for an extra icon. The least they could do is put a tooltip over these sub-tribes so when you mouse over them you get to see what they belong to. Maybe something could work with the top right corner of cards. Even ignoring legendary cards, it would be a bit awkward to change the shape of our beloved frame, but the text box could never be used for such an icon as it should be made available for the description. Maybe the text box just needs to kick things off with Imp. Envoy gets a bit more crowded but it would make it clear as day that its a part of the mechanics, much like when we call upon doubling the Battlecry keyword via Brann Bronzebeard. Making subtribes a keyword could also open up a ton of design space. Kitten Beast archetype when?
Though honestly, I think just making Imp the tribe itself and then making it required knowledge that an Imp is always a demon as well would work too. The game has gotten more complicated over the years as the playerbased has matured, I don't see this being a major pain to do.
I am certain we won't see a new class unless it happens at the start of a year. Rotation is when they get the most eyes on the game, and it gives them a chance to give a new class a fighting chance without creating a bunch of cards for them that are just going to rotate as every class would have 50+ cards more than a base "Death Knight". That's why they had to do the Demon Hunter Initiate set; A late-year DK release means they have to account for two extra expansions.
Next year though? I still think we'll see Monk before Death Knight.
You're very dumb.
I was definitely in the boat of "I'd love to just buy cards" but the current system feels good enough. Pacing on unlocks has been alright, but I do know that players later on talk about it slowing down so if I end up in that realm, maybe I won't be as happy.
I've only ever bought a battle pass, never felt like I needed to be buying a ton of gold bars to have fun with the game - Hearthstone's Runestones on the other hand...
I'm aware of the issue at it will be resolved in an upcoming update.
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Sorry for the trouble, but this check on our login and registration pages has cut down on spam enormously, which makes our lives a lot easier. I wish there was something we could do to make this work, but I'm going to have to trust Cloudflare on this one because they protect millions of websites and the integrity check is definitely used on a good chunk of them without issue - and plenty of folks are still able to login at that!
Collecting is a helluva drug.
Honestly though, there might be some decent value in it for aftermarket sales while acquiring some other cards for personal use. Getting some mint oldschool lands would be such a cool addition to the card collection and would be fun to use in sleeved decks.
With them being non-tourney legal though, I was expecting this to be much cheaper. Definitely a premium, but with cards having changes on them, in a lot of cases these are just going to end up as "official proxies" so making them more affordable woulda been nice.
I really like that they kept it consistent. It makes it very easy for someone coming from another game to know what it means.
Yeah, Secret Rogue just needs to become a core mechanic.
I like that they are doing a team thing, will lead to more interesting answers, but damn do I hate the crazy handles all over the replies and when the "dumb" questions are asked, all of them pile on. I think it's great to get to know the team more, we saw a lot of that flavor in Dean's Q&A sessions, but it would be nice if they responded to "real" questions too.
Also, the amount of responses that were just GIFs was a bit silly.
That is correct!
Thanks for the welcome back =)
I had some things to take care of and will be slowly getting back into the swing of things over the next week. I will be absent though the week after, for definitely not World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King things.
I've got a lot of things to get realigned with our Out of Cards (and more) efforts and due to that I'll likely not be as present in the news unless urgent stuff needs to get out and folks aren't around. I wish there were more hours in the day to do everything. I like doing everything!
What a way to end the week. Plenty of folks have been leaving Blizzard over the past few years so I'm never surprised when I see leaving announcements on Fridays, but this one was a little unexpected, but also not entirely.
Dean hasn't been as active recently and when you see activity drop, there's usually a good reason for it. He's also been on the Hearthstone team for an eternity and at some point, you do want to move on.
I'm aiming to get an update in this weekend to change our deckbuilder back to older functionality. We made a change that overall should have only sped-up the deckbuilder but unfortunately this ended up being not the case. It's certainly a shame because a lot of time was spent on it but it looks like some machines and browsers just aren't a fan of indexeddb support, despite being a web standard and working across the board with the exception of people on Firefox Permanent Private Browsing Mode, which is a very niche group of people using it, which is already a niche of users using Firefox.
So yeah, aiming for something late Sunday more than likely. If not Sunday, definitely Monday, the day before Castle Nathria launches.
Fixed the issue, may take a moment to go through though due to cache.
I also moved this thread to the correct forum and updated the title to be more descriptive of the issue.
Thanks for the report!
It's not a core title here, but if there's something cool we pick up on we'll post about it =)
He's a super salt mine and honestly, it would be better if he just stopped playing Hearthstone at this point. I'm sure his mental health would improve too.
Prime example of how to engage. I'm surprised Blizzard even bothers to engage with him anymore.
Assuming it works the way that other Secrets + Battlecry interactions do, which should be the case, Battlecry resolves before the Secret. See Snipe.
The way it works is:
Some of this is deals starting to dry up unfortunately since the page is prime day specific =(
Fun fact! There are assets in the client for Alliance card frames. Hearthstone originally had Alliance and Horde cards, a part that carried over from WoW TCG. They ultimately abandoned it but left the assets in.
I wish we had sub-tribes as it would add a ton of flavor to the game, but I understand it is better to keep Hearthstone simple at the core. MTG's tribes are exciting to read even though they can be a mouthful at times.
Treants, Whelps, and Imps all definitely deserve something - it's almost as bad as the Alliance and Horde issue with Mercenaries. I wish there was a good spot on the card for an extra icon. The least they could do is put a tooltip over these sub-tribes so when you mouse over them you get to see what they belong to. Maybe something could work with the top right corner of cards. Even ignoring legendary cards, it would be a bit awkward to change the shape of our beloved frame, but the text box could never be used for such an icon as it should be made available for the description. Maybe the text box just needs to kick things off with Imp. Envoy gets a bit more crowded but it would make it clear as day that its a part of the mechanics, much like when we call upon doubling the Battlecry keyword via Brann Bronzebeard. Making subtribes a keyword could also open up a ton of design space. Kitten Beast archetype when?
Though honestly, I think just making Imp the tribe itself and then making it required knowledge that an Imp is always a demon as well would work too. The game has gotten more complicated over the years as the playerbased has matured, I don't see this being a major pain to do.
Great article!
Glad it was an easy fix! Sometimes files get cached incorrectly and thus you ended up with broken stylesheets =(