Regis had a pretty interesting idea recently. He said they should add ten new heroes, but keep the old ones as well. That way all the old thematic hero powers and treasures aren't removed from the game, but the meta is refreshed with a whole new set of them.
Frost spells don't necessarily have to Freeze. According to Dean Ayala, the reason Freeze Shaman was so laughable back in KotFT was the entire package was nerfed after the balance team realized that consistently freezing stuff was obnoxious to play against. I have a conspiracy theory that Thrall, Deathseer was a Freeze-based card at that point, given that card's theming and voicelines.
With Frost spells, they can just be regular spells with the Frost tag.
Drek'thar might be neutral (or tied into some other mechanic) considering he's the general for the Horde in Alterac Valley. We don't know anything about the set's mechanics yet. Maybe he'll be a Druid/Mage/Shaman/Warlock/Warrior card and Vanndar Stormpike will be a DH/Hunter/Paladin/Priest/Rogue card, or something like that.
First week of December, most likely. That's going off of every third expansion aside from LoE and Darkmoon, which were released in November.
The expansion announcement is typically at Blizzcon, which would be a week from now normally. Since there's no Blizzcon this year, it's not clear when the announcement will be exactly, but it should be soon.
The Stockades would make way more sense story-wise, considering Varden and Scabbs are escaping from there. I still hope it's that, otherwise the story's about to take a weird hard right.
One of my all-time favourites brawls for sure. Little sad that we're going lax on the Halloween brawls. Hopefully next week we'll have Rise of the Zombeasts as per October tradition.
Go with Diablo because his skillset is based on his Heroes of the Storm abilities and I want someone at Blizzard who isn't a designer to remember HotS exists.
I still don't understand Blizzard's insistence on cycling the same fifteen brawls on repeat forever. I get that no one is developing them anymore, but there are so many. There is no reason to repeat brawls more than once a year.
For me, this has been the least enjoyable meta since Gadgetzan. I hate playing combo decks and I find aggro boring, so I haven't had anything fun to do. The only time I even played this month was last Saturday to finally get the card back and some occasional tavern brawls.
"Removing the heals for Quest rewards is probably a no go; even though it would slow down Flesh Giants it would likely just offer the deck for aggro as lunch on a silver platter."
So? God forbid the thing that wants to hit itself in the face actually having to pay a price for doing that. That would change nothing about control and combo matchups, but if you give it glaring weakness to the other archetype, then suddenly it's not so ubiquitous that it ruins the ladder.
I personally think removing the Lifesteal would be the best solution. It would nothing about how the deck is played or built - so people can keep their decks if they like to play - but it would still greatly lower its impact on the meta and give it a much-needed weakness.
The Hearthstone card backs section of the site hasn't been updated since May of this year. I don't mean to be pushy, but I'd like the images of the missing card backs for the wiki, and I'm not sure where else I can get them (other than making ugly cropped screenshots, which I really don't want to resort to).
Mankrik is good by accident. He and Katrana are very similar - extremely memey cards and characters with memey effects but vanilla stats. It's just that Mankrik happened to be a useful card as well.
Regis had a pretty interesting idea recently. He said they should add ten new heroes, but keep the old ones as well. That way all the old thematic hero powers and treasures aren't removed from the game, but the meta is refreshed with a whole new set of them.
Frost spells don't necessarily have to Freeze. According to Dean Ayala, the reason Freeze Shaman was so laughable back in KotFT was the entire package was nerfed after the balance team realized that consistently freezing stuff was obnoxious to play against. I have a conspiracy theory that Thrall, Deathseer was a Freeze-based card at that point, given that card's theming and voicelines.
With Frost spells, they can just be regular spells with the Frost tag.
Drek'thar might be neutral (or tied into some other mechanic) considering he's the general for the Horde in Alterac Valley. We don't know anything about the set's mechanics yet. Maybe he'll be a Druid/Mage/Shaman/Warlock/Warrior card and Vanndar Stormpike will be a DH/Hunter/Paladin/Priest/Rogue card, or something like that.
First week of December, most likely. That's going off of every third expansion aside from LoE and Darkmoon, which were released in November.
The expansion announcement is typically at Blizzcon, which would be a week from now normally. Since there's no Blizzcon this year, it's not clear when the announcement will be exactly, but it should be soon.
The Stockades would make way more sense story-wise, considering Varden and Scabbs are escaping from there. I still hope it's that, otherwise the story's about to take a weird hard right.
Also I want a new Hogger card.
One of my all-time favourites brawls for sure. Little sad that we're going lax on the Halloween brawls. Hopefully next week we'll have Rise of the Zombeasts as per October tradition.
I changed something about this card. Ten bucks to anyone who can figure out what it was without looking it up.
Not actually; I can't verify whether or not you looked it up.
Go with Diablo because his skillset is based on his Heroes of the Storm abilities and I want someone at Blizzard who isn't a designer to remember HotS exists.
I love the Raven Idols brawl.
More brawls in rotation means more people get something interesting more often. Not every brawl is meant to be for everyone.
I still don't understand Blizzard's insistence on cycling the same fifteen brawls on repeat forever. I get that no one is developing them anymore, but there are so many. There is no reason to repeat brawls more than once a year.
For me, this has been the least enjoyable meta since Gadgetzan. I hate playing combo decks and I find aggro boring, so I haven't had anything fun to do. The only time I even played this month was last Saturday to finally get the card back and some occasional tavern brawls.
Lives rent free in my mind as what I personally consider to be the worst card in Hearthstone.
"Removing the heals for Quest rewards is probably a no go; even though it would slow down Flesh Giants it would likely just offer the deck for aggro as lunch on a silver platter."
So? God forbid the thing that wants to hit itself in the face actually having to pay a price for doing that. That would change nothing about control and combo matchups, but if you give it glaring weakness to the other archetype, then suddenly it's not so ubiquitous that it ruins the ladder.
I personally think removing the Lifesteal would be the best solution. It would nothing about how the deck is played or built - so people can keep their decks if they like to play - but it would still greatly lower its impact on the meta and give it a much-needed weakness.
"Diablo is available as part of one of three pre-purchase bundles, each including an iconic Blizzard character!"
Interesting. I hope that means a StarCraft and Overwatch character as well.
I haven't played Constructed since week one. I've been doing all my quests in Tavern Brawls.
Questlines were the biggest design mistake since Genn and Baku, mark my words. This has easily been the least fun meta in Hearthstone.
The Hearthstone card backs section of the site hasn't been updated since May of this year. I don't mean to be pushy, but I'd like the images of the missing card backs for the wiki, and I'm not sure where else I can get them (other than making ugly cropped screenshots, which I really don't want to resort to).
It was the case before.
Mankrik is good by accident. He and Katrana are very similar - extremely memey cards and characters with memey effects but vanilla stats. It's just that Mankrik happened to be a useful card as well.
The brawl articles aren't reposted, just bumped every time one is reused.