Quick recap on the stages of design (I should really flesh this out as guide material since it is interesting)
Initial Design starts everything off. They name the cards, decide on their art, and give them their identities along with initial stats. This process takes 4 months.
Final design takes over after the initial design team gives the set a pass. They also spend 4 months on the set. The set is finished around 2 months before it gets released, though they do sometimes still make some changes closer to the set launch if they have balance concerns.
This means multiple sets are in production at the same time, with the core concepts of each one coming even before initial design. (Let's make a dark themed, old gods set!)
The December set which should release the first week of that month will have wrapped up final design at the start of October. That does give Gallon a month and a bit of time on the team during that process, but I'm willing to wager most of the time will be getting setup at Blizzard and learning about all their processes. The first set I'd expect to see any of his balance work / contributions on is April 2021. 3 sets if we count Scholomance not being released yet. Since I believe the entire team gets together to discuss themes for new sets, I don't believe he'd have any say in that until sets coming out in 2022 or possibly the last set of 2021.
Glad you enjoy both it and the recently updated card search!
The card search was a long time coming. I'm thankful we can wrap that new tech that was built for it onto other parts of the site now because database forms have not been the best around these parts :sweat:
Yeah, I hated that it was difficult to find those last ones without wasting a lot of precious time. I want to figure out something clean to get the cards you're missing on this page too so you don't need to check the expansion guide
You've asked for this for a couple of expansions now and I'm glad to present we have a functional version of what I've decided to name the "Tavern Crawl".
Everything here is on-site cosmetics, no digital giveaways for Hearthstone packs this time around. COVID has been a pain in the ass with ad revenue only starting to recover since it being junk all year, so doing a paid giveaway wasn't in the cards this time.
Good luck!
PS. This is all going to go away when the expansion launches with no more credit being obtainable. You've got a little less than a week until then, so get to it. I'll add a countdown in to make it clear when it expires.
If there is a specific golden legendary you want to craft, you should do it first because of how legendary protection works. Legendary protection prevents you from opening up a duplicate legendary card until you've opened all legendaries for that particular set.
When I initially looked at Blizzard data for the dual-class cards when reveals started, it showed they had flagged them as a "primary class" and then as the multiclasses. I wrongly assumed it was going to stay this way so our data import from the client today flagged all the dual-class cards as neutral!
Definitely going to have Regis on as my main. Will be hopping around collecting decks from all the streamers though to help give people something to play on day 1.
As much as I know people don't like that, they do well and bring us nice traffic for launch!
Quick recap on the stages of design (I should really flesh this out as guide material since it is interesting)
Initial Design starts everything off. They name the cards, decide on their art, and give them their identities along with initial stats. This process takes 4 months.
Final design takes over after the initial design team gives the set a pass. They also spend 4 months on the set. The set is finished around 2 months before it gets released, though they do sometimes still make some changes closer to the set launch if they have balance concerns.
This means multiple sets are in production at the same time, with the core concepts of each one coming even before initial design. (Let's make a dark themed, old gods set!)
The December set which should release the first week of that month will have wrapped up final design at the start of October. That does give Gallon a month and a bit of time on the team during that process, but I'm willing to wager most of the time will be getting setup at Blizzard and learning about all their processes. The first set I'd expect to see any of his balance work / contributions on is April 2021. 3 sets if we count Scholomance not being released yet. Since I believe the entire team gets together to discuss themes for new sets, I don't believe he'd have any say in that until sets coming out in 2022 or possibly the last set of 2021.
Most excellent!
Glad you enjoy both it and the recently updated card search!
The card search was a long time coming. I'm thankful we can wrap that new tech that was built for it onto other parts of the site now because database forms have not been the best around these parts :sweat:
Only open your packs. No online allowed =(
Yeah, I hated that it was difficult to find those last ones without wasting a lot of precious time. I want to figure out something clean to get the cards you're missing on this page too so you don't need to check the expansion guide
Hey all,
You've asked for this for a couple of expansions now and I'm glad to present we have a functional version of what I've decided to name the "Tavern Crawl".
Everything here is on-site cosmetics, no digital giveaways for Hearthstone packs this time around. COVID has been a pain in the ass with ad revenue only starting to recover since it being junk all year, so doing a paid giveaway wasn't in the cards this time.
Good luck!
PS. This is all going to go away when the expansion launches with no more credit being obtainable. You've got a little less than a week until then, so get to it. I'll add a countdown in to make it clear when it expires.
There are ways to do it, but it's a complicated setup.
If there is a specific golden legendary you want to craft, you should do it first because of how legendary protection works. Legendary protection prevents you from opening up a duplicate legendary card until you've opened all legendaries for that particular set.
Good reminder, I've made a note that you can't craft cards.
The whole reasoning behind it is so everyone that attends is on an even playing field of RN... at least that's my assumption.
Deploy is out with fixes for this in the deckbuilder, card listing, expansion guide, and decklists.
If anyone notices anything funky anywhere else, please let me know!
Hey all,
Going to get something out as soon to fix this.
When I initially looked at Blizzard data for the dual-class cards when reveals started, it showed they had flagged them as a "primary class" and then as the multiclasses. I wrongly assumed it was going to stay this way so our data import from the client today flagged all the dual-class cards as neutral!
This will be a fun update.
Hacker!
Hahaha! That's both awesome and sad =(
At least your backup plan is working well!
FeelsBadMan
I believe there is something in Battle.net account management that shows you.
Pushed an update a little earlier to add multiclass cards to each of the class sections. They will still remain in their own sections too.
Yeah, not sure what that was all about but it sounds like there's going to be something juicy in the patch notes
A site update has gone out today which focuses on revamping our card listing page.
Changes
Hearthstone
Bug Fixes
=D
Definitely going to have Regis on as my main. Will be hopping around collecting decks from all the streamers though to help give people something to play on day 1.
As much as I know people don't like that, they do well and bring us nice traffic for launch!