I’m sorry but the biggest problem with these puzzles was a lack of any objectives/rules.
I understand that any community based puzzles need to be hard. But even community puzzles need some form of information on the objective and some ability for individuals to complete them.
The riddles for finding the correct cards were ok but they wasn’t any real way to know you had to play against the AI or know that you had to play all cards in one turn. You could just about guess this but guessing isn’t a good puzzle design.
After this the only one that actually had a objective you could figure out by looking at the initial board state is Hunter.
Warrior and Druid you could just about work out the objective, if you had seen that type of puzzle before, but it would talk a lot of trial and error to figure out the rules of the puzzles.
The rogue one was an abomination. How are you to ever figure out the objective of the code of 4444444? Why give us 3 keys that do the same thing? Why were the health totals all different? Why those specific starting values? The only real way of solving this was through very time consuming maths and programming/brute forcing.
I didn’t seem to get my daily or weekly quest. Logged out last night before reset without any quests , logged in tonight no daily quest and weekly says refresh in 7 days.
When I first started gaming I am really bad at names and had a tough time thinking of one.
I can’t remember which game but when I needed a name for one all I could think about was the documentary on space I had seen the night before.
They were talking about the explosions that might have created the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies and they were much bigger than supernovae and they were calling them hyper-novae. And they were referred to as the most destructive thing in the universe.
So singular is Hyper Nova and I though the most destructive thing in the universe was an apt name for a gamer and it stuck ever since.
I like the fact you feel like you facing the leaders of the Kirin Tor I would have liked more variety but not totally random. I don’t know the current lore for Dalaran but I would have liked Rhonin to have been one. Maybe Kalec in his dragon form as Kalecgos.
I personally think it shows that Buffs don’t really do what people want. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind the buffs and they might have made a few cards better an shifted the meta a tiny bit. But overall Nerfs work much better than buffs.
Buffs either do one of a few things most will be insignificant.
Either...
Unplayable cards are still unplayable and don’t change the meta.
The cards that are now borderline playable see some play in fringe t2 or t3 decks but don’t change the meta.
A tiny selection of cards with buffs make some current good decks a bit better and make a small impact.
The only time you make a significant change to the meta with buffs are buffs that are OP and create power creep.
Like I say don’t get me wrong changes aren’t always welcome but buffs IMO are not as significant to the meta as people want when changes happen. Nerfs do a much better job.
I’m sorry but the biggest problem with these puzzles was a lack of any objectives/rules.
I understand that any community based puzzles need to be hard. But even community puzzles need some form of information on the objective and some ability for individuals to complete them.
The riddles for finding the correct cards were ok but they wasn’t any real way to know you had to play against the AI or know that you had to play all cards in one turn. You could just about guess this but guessing isn’t a good puzzle design.
After this the only one that actually had a objective you could figure out by looking at the initial board state is Hunter.
Warrior and Druid you could just about work out the objective, if you had seen that type of puzzle before, but it would talk a lot of trial and error to figure out the rules of the puzzles.
The rogue one was an abomination. How are you to ever figure out the objective of the code of 4444444? Why give us 3 keys that do the same thing? Why were the health totals all different? Why those specific starting values? The only real way of solving this was through very time consuming maths and programming/brute forcing.
In my opinion not a good design at all.
I didn’t seem to get my daily or weekly quest. Logged out last night before reset without any quests , logged in tonight no daily quest and weekly says refresh in 7 days.
I won’t derank either because of 1 jank card. I derank without the help. :’D
Community: are you going to speed up animations?
Blizzard: Yes
Community: how much faster will they be?
Blizzard: Yes
Edit: my bad just seen there is a blog on the main site
Yoggers Poggers!
When I first started gaming I am really bad at names and had a tough time thinking of one.
I can’t remember which game but when I needed a name for one all I could think about was the documentary on space I had seen the night before.
They were talking about the explosions that might have created the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies and they were much bigger than supernovae and they were calling them hyper-novae. And they were referred to as the most destructive thing in the universe.
So singular is Hyper Nova and I though the most destructive thing in the universe was an apt name for a gamer and it stuck ever since.
I like the fact you feel like you facing the leaders of the Kirin Tor I would have liked more variety but not totally random. I don’t know the current lore for Dalaran but I would have liked Rhonin to have been one. Maybe Kalec in his dragon form as Kalecgos.
I personally think it shows that Buffs don’t really do what people want. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind the buffs and they might have made a few cards better an shifted the meta a tiny bit. But overall Nerfs work much better than buffs.
Buffs either do one of a few things most will be insignificant.
Either...
Unplayable cards are still unplayable and don’t change the meta.
The cards that are now borderline playable see some play in fringe t2 or t3 decks but don’t change the meta.
A tiny selection of cards with buffs make some current good decks a bit better and make a small impact.
The only time you make a significant change to the meta with buffs are buffs that are OP and create power creep.
Like I say don’t get me wrong changes aren’t always welcome but buffs IMO are not as significant to the meta as people want when changes happen. Nerfs do a much better job.