I wonder if the content team would consider making the weekly tavern brawl a dedicated news article.
I know there is a link to the current brawl on the right, which shares it's posts with all previous times the brawl has been seen and the appearance dates of which are listed, and I like the efficiency of that - it's very clean.
But it doesn't feel like a shared experience that we get with a front page article on the subject where experiences/decks are shared etc. They don't seem to garner much in the way of community feedback most weeks whereas a new article likely would.
Positive message addressing many of the concerns people have.
Seems an even clearer promise that new system will be better than current, and not harmful to f2p.
Glad to read that, and once the new system is live, analyzed and accurate comparisons drawn, I expect the promises to be kept (even if adjustment their end required).
And if they are, and it's a plus for everyone no matter how you play, then I'll say "good job".
Yeah but not from portals which is the only time I ever saw him.
I played a lot of Ysera in wild (dragon jade druid) and it was always fun when he popped up.
Admittedly it screwed me sometimes, and perhaps was less fun for my opponent especially if it meant they couldn't do their turn properly, so I can see why the change is happening.
Would prefer it to be fixed, though their current implementation of their server + 2 x client model makes this problematic. So like many are saying perhaps a new effect would be nice.
Don't forget that it's a progressive system, where you can only enjoy high level rewards when you nearing the end of the expansion.
For examples, you may be getting that sweet Legendary cards rewards at the end of the 4th month, and it sounds pretty awful, why? because you need all the legendary at the earliest time possible. Getting them at the end of expansions only benefit collectors, and not F2P players.
Plus, yeah, no more 80+ packs for the next expansion
As Lee suggest it was 5000 golds, I was so shocked because I alone manage to get 8900 golds for scholomance without even reaching the daily gold cap. Only 6 wins average per day plus daily quests.
I'm telling you, honestly I don't like this battlepass system.
EDIT. I approve that video by Hearthstone Mathematics when they suggest "Pay or Get Out" to F2P.
Pretty much everything you said after seeing the video in my feed. (aside from 5K gold cap as already pointed out).
Right now, on 3 regions I just do daily quests and get to D5. That's 9K gold or so each expansion cycle for each region.
If I can't open 80+ packs on expansion day release for a similar amount of effort it's much worse/less generous. I don't care about cosmetic hero skins and the like.
Will wait to see what the final system is but the one proposed in the survey results is MUCH worse.
I hate misleading marketing (I don't even know if I had to put misleading in front of marketing there). Be careful Blizzard, most people aren't stupid (or so I like to think).
I wonder what the least most popular are? Hold on, let me check my collection and I'll tell you as I only got a few and they'll probably be on the list :P :P
I think it is simply that old decks are still legal (i.e. you could still make the same deck with the SA card pool), so there was no need to reset them.
I think that's probably what it is. If that's the new normal then we'll only get a rotation once per year.
I play on all 3 regions, and usually get a good opening, and ok one, and a below average.
This time I'd say all 3 were below average.
NA
Scholomance Academy
P 72
E 15
L 3
LE 0
LL 26
EU
Scholomance Academy
P 78
E 17
L 4
LE 0
LL 34
ASIA
Scholomance Academy
P 73
E 16
L 3
LE 1
LL 21
P = Packs
E = epics
L = Legendaries
LE/LL = how many packs ago that rarity was opened.
So if we discount the 3 legendaries here that are guaranteed in first 10 packs, and remove 5 packs from the total of each region as an average, I opened 208 packs and got 7 legendaries for an 29.71 average - way higher than the 20 pack average.
Of course given I'm way into the pity timer on each region (26,34,21) I'll continue opening them when possible for the next legendary and the average will drop. It will still be below average though for all 3 regions.
Another quadrimester has passed. We've been saving our gold and many of us their hard earned cash. We are excited for the new expansion, new metas and new mechanics. Scholomance Academy is upon us.
Here's how you can help. Favorable synergistic pack openings results for both myself, and my fellow OOC members.
I want to hear the Innkeeper scream golden legendary like he's just sat down too fast on something sharp. I yearn for those moments where the unrevealed card has that sweet yellow glow around it. And then you exclaim "that's one of the ones I wanted!" and family members look at you like you need some therapy.
Anything you can do to shine your RNG wonderfulness on us in a beneficial way would certainly be appreciated. Trust you are keeping well since they fiddled with you to prevent duplicates of all rarities.
Hi
I wonder if the content team would consider making the weekly tavern brawl a dedicated news article.
I know there is a link to the current brawl on the right, which shares it's posts with all previous times the brawl has been seen and the appearance dates of which are listed, and I like the efficiency of that - it's very clean.
But it doesn't feel like a shared experience that we get with a front page article on the subject where experiences/decks are shared etc. They don't seem to garner much in the way of community feedback most weeks whereas a new article likely would.
For some reason it's 2.99 GBP which is 3.36 EUR or 4 USD.
Not that I was going to buy it but I thought was noteworthy.
Feel like we went on the journey of it's creation ourselves, which makes it even more special now it's here.
Will definitely use it once we get it.
Linked above already but in that article the embedded Twitch video doesn't work for me. This can be used instead:
https://www.twitch.tv/search?term=Card%20Back%20Art%20Livestream
Thanks for the reminder - I'd totally forgotten!
Positive message addressing many of the concerns people have.
Seems an even clearer promise that new system will be better than current, and not harmful to f2p.
Glad to read that, and once the new system is live, analyzed and accurate comparisons drawn, I expect the promises to be kept (even if adjustment their end required).
And if they are, and it's a plus for everyone no matter how you play, then I'll say "good job".
Yeah but not from portals which is the only time I ever saw him.
I played a lot of Ysera in wild (dragon jade druid) and it was always fun when he popped up.
Admittedly it screwed me sometimes, and perhaps was less fun for my opponent especially if it meant they couldn't do their turn properly, so I can see why the change is happening.
Would prefer it to be fixed, though their current implementation of their server + 2 x client model makes this problematic. So like many are saying perhaps a new effect would be nice.
shh Marin the Fox might hear you :P
Well that's the thing - we're given a free legendary.
But aside from niche legendary effects for all intensive purposes it's a below common rarity with no dust value you can only put one of in your deck.
But I guess it's better than a real legendary you actually have to pack or craft.
If you're interested
Yes, yes I am.
Packs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty much everything you said after seeing the video in my feed. (aside from 5K gold cap as already pointed out).
Right now, on 3 regions I just do daily quests and get to D5. That's 9K gold or so each expansion cycle for each region.
If I can't open 80+ packs on expansion day release for a similar amount of effort it's much worse/less generous. I don't care about cosmetic hero skins and the like.
Will wait to see what the final system is but the one proposed in the survey results is MUCH worse.
I hate misleading marketing (I don't even know if I had to put misleading in front of marketing there). Be careful Blizzard, most people aren't stupid (or so I like to think).
Team 5 - I will make my judgement when we see what's actually implemented.
If I'm earning less gold per expansion cycle (8K on all 3 regions maybe) with the same time, I will consider your promise broken.
On the other hand, keep the promise but let people play in a way that is best for them, and I will applaud you.
Great article!
I wonder what the least most popular are? Hold on, let me check my collection and I'll tell you as I only got a few and they'll probably be on the list :P :P
Managed to get that last legendary on each of my accounts.
NA 38 packs
EU 39 packs
ASIA 34 packs
Like I say, haven't done very well this expansion.
I think that's probably what it is. If that's the new normal then we'll only get a rotation once per year.
I play on all 3 regions, and usually get a good opening, and ok one, and a below average.
This time I'd say all 3 were below average.
P = Packs
E = epics
L = Legendaries
LE/LL = how many packs ago that rarity was opened.
So if we discount the 3 legendaries here that are guaranteed in first 10 packs, and remove 5 packs from the total of each region as an average, I opened 208 packs and got 7 legendaries for an 29.71 average - way higher than the 20 pack average.
Of course given I'm way into the pity timer on each region (26,34,21) I'll continue opening them when possible for the next legendary and the average will drop. It will still be below average though for all 3 regions.
And to be fair epics were slightly above average.
Though in summary it felt like this:
i.e. pack after pack with no legendary
Hi there
Usually I leave my arena runs on 2 losses for a free ticket for expansion launch, but this time that hasn't happened.
Did they decide to add SA to arena but not reset the arena runs?
I could easily have missed this already being announced or discussed - apologies if so.
Great job and great writeup!
Playing the same deck (or close to it) myself at the moment.
And in other news, July season rewards give you SA packs! yay!
Dear Pack Opening Algorithm,
Another quadrimester has passed. We've been saving our gold and many of us their hard earned cash. We are excited for the new expansion, new metas and new mechanics. Scholomance Academy is upon us.
Here's how you can help. Favorable synergistic pack openings results for both myself, and my fellow OOC members.
I want to hear the Innkeeper scream golden legendary like he's just sat down too fast on something sharp. I yearn for those moments where the unrevealed card has that sweet yellow glow around it. And then you exclaim "that's one of the ones I wanted!" and family members look at you like you need some therapy.
Anything you can do to shine your RNG wonderfulness on us in a beneficial way would certainly be appreciated. Trust you are keeping well since they fiddled with you to prevent duplicates of all rarities.
All the best
outgoingzero
Let's call it fluffer for now. No wait, that's bad.