Do they have a policy on refunding adventure cards?
I don't particularly need the dust/gold anyway, but with felwing this seems like a case of the card's rarity not being representative of the actual price players spent for it.
I agree here - it's one of a few good cards in the adventure you may have factored into your purchasing (money or gold) decision on. Now you'll get the option of 200 dust back.
By all means nerf a relatively new adventure card if it's making the game virtually unplayable - but surely it's not necessary here with so many other nerf candidates around.
I hear you, og. I feel that their ongoing ignorance of Ramming Speed's dominance is the biggest upset since their failure to nerf Unseen Saboteur, and that is in no way biased by the fact I have 3 of the latter.
I will add your just concerns to my official nerf campaign mandate - along with dapperdog's Chromatic Egg issue he's rightly expressed before.
(Though having 1 Unseen Saboteur in your collection might not be a bad thing sometimes).
Hopefully they'll finally address the elephant card in the room that's skewing the meta.
Yes - Ramming Speed of course. I have 5 of these and every one of them needs nerfing (with full dust refund available of course). Can't believe they didn't mention it.
For Wild, we know there has been a lot of very strong reactions to Quest Mage and Darkest Hour Warlock. These decks play in a one-player fashion similar to other decks we've nerfed in the past. There's going to be crazy combos in Wild, but we don't think these two decks in particular are healthy. Expect to see changes to Open the Waygate and Bloodbloom.
Finally for Arena, we are looking to do a full microadjust patch alongside these changes or shortly after. DH is still a little too strong here and we want to bring up the other classes to close this gap.
This new matchmaking system takes some getting used to!
Not played much on my NA account this month, so thought would play a few bronze/silver games for fun. I know things have changed so your MMR is the basis for matchups while you have star bonus, though I've not been able to see the rank of my opponents during games.
Added a friend after a long game (I lost), and was interested to see what the differences in ranks were. I was silver 8 - he was Legend 68. He of course won't have a star bonus and at Legend is presumably matched via MMR as well same as me.
Working as intended I am sure, but basing matchups only on MMR leads to some surprising matchups :) I was only Rank 5 last season on NA (60% winrate 15-10).
I totally understand that with everyone resetting to Bronze 10 each season, you don't want Legend players crushing lower skill players and that's fair enough.
Presumably:
- at my current Silver rank and facing high Legend players, I'm actually going to have "easier" matchups once I climb to somewhere in Diamond, lose my star bonus and face opponents based on Rank?
- I can't face high diamond players who are not matched via MMR if they don't have star bonus anymore?
Do I understand that right or have a got things wrong here?
Oh well, off to play more top 100 Legend players from the bottom of Silver :P
Yes I know it's been 4 months already! Since I last wrote, the world seems to be radically different and this also extends somewhat to Hearthstone. Once again, I ask for favorable synergistic pack openings results for both myself, and my fellow OOC members.
Times are hard for many at the moment, and a little respite from the real world when playing Hearthstone is a welcome change of pace for most of us. I hope everyone in Team 5 stays safe and wish the same for the playerbase in general (and indeed everyone else).
If you could see your way to raising our spirits and encouraging the Innkeeper to exclaim LEGENDARY! a little more often than usual it would be most welcome I am sure.
Have Team 5 announced what kind of paid content will be released after the Outlands expansion? Is it more chapters of this Demon Hunter story?
I'd like to budget for it if it's non skippable (some this year have been, last one wasn't but they gave us a heads up before I spent all gold on DoD packs).
I agree here - it's one of a few good cards in the adventure you may have factored into your purchasing (money or gold) decision on. Now you'll get the option of 200 dust back.
By all means nerf a relatively new adventure card if it's making the game virtually unplayable - but surely it's not necessary here with so many other nerf candidates around.
I will add your just concerns to my official nerf campaign mandate - along with dapperdog's Chromatic Egg issue he's rightly expressed before.
(Though having 1 Unseen Saboteur in your collection might not be a bad thing sometimes).
Hopefully they'll finally address the elephant card in the room that's skewing the meta.
Yes - Ramming Speed of course. I have 5 of these and every one of them needs nerfing (with full dust refund available of course). Can't believe they didn't mention it.
You used 'apocryphal'. Didn't need to read more before 5 stars.
Thanks for the input guys.
Yes it was indeed wild - and hence a lower population of players on the ladder.
I'll keep an eye on how things go as I hopefully climb :)
Hi all
This new matchmaking system takes some getting used to!
Not played much on my NA account this month, so thought would play a few bronze/silver games for fun. I know things have changed so your MMR is the basis for matchups while you have star bonus, though I've not been able to see the rank of my opponents during games.
Added a friend after a long game (I lost), and was interested to see what the differences in ranks were. I was silver 8 - he was Legend 68. He of course won't have a star bonus and at Legend is presumably matched via MMR as well same as me.
Working as intended I am sure, but basing matchups only on MMR leads to some surprising matchups :) I was only Rank 5 last season on NA (60% winrate 15-10).
I totally understand that with everyone resetting to Bronze 10 each season, you don't want Legend players crushing lower skill players and that's fair enough.
Presumably:
- at my current Silver rank and facing high Legend players, I'm actually going to have "easier" matchups once I climb to somewhere in Diamond, lose my star bonus and face opponents based on Rank?
- I can't face high diamond players who are not matched via MMR if they don't have star bonus anymore?
Do I understand that right or have a got things wrong here?
Oh well, off to play more top 100 Legend players from the bottom of Silver :P
Yeah ok that was pretty good :)
This guy is always awesome. Hope he gets card reveal again next time.
And ideally involving Jania and Valeera if things are safe enough to do some filming with them by then.
Yes - but you didn't think Blizzard were just going to let us open pack after pack of nerfed cards disenchantable for full value right?
This was needed after they changed things so duplicate protection applied to all rarities. A better system for us by far :)
We'll get full dust refund option when the client patch goes live - this is server side only as a quick fix temporary measure.
Already LIVE on NA
... at least until you've opened max copies of that rarity in that set...
Perhaps I didn't understand your post, or there is sarcasm/humor that didn't come across for me.
But are you saying your winrate with Demon Hunter is less than 2%?
If so, can I just check you strategy isn't to start a game, and then go and paint the spare room for half an hour?
That's why you wait at least 2 weeks 1 day before crafting when a new expansion comes out!
Dear Pack Opening Algorithm,
Yes I know it's been 4 months already! Since I last wrote, the world seems to be radically different and this also extends somewhat to Hearthstone. Once again, I ask for favorable synergistic pack openings results for both myself, and my fellow OOC members.
Times are hard for many at the moment, and a little respite from the real world when playing Hearthstone is a welcome change of pace for most of us. I hope everyone in Team 5 stays safe and wish the same for the playerbase in general (and indeed everyone else).
If you could see your way to raising our spirits and encouraging the Innkeeper to exclaim LEGENDARY! a little more often than usual it would be most welcome I am sure.
All the best
outgoingzero
How this guy wasn't made evergreen I'll never know. Travesty!!!!
Having looked at my pack tracker, I find I've opened 78 packs without a legendary. (And 12 epics which is also below average.)
This is possible because it's across different sets and 3 regions.
But it's still pretty bad luck - but that's Hearthstone.
May your packs tomorrow be lucky :) :)
Have Team 5 announced what kind of paid content will be released after the Outlands expansion? Is it more chapters of this Demon Hunter story?
I'd like to budget for it if it's non skippable (some this year have been, last one wasn't but they gave us a heads up before I spent all gold on DoD packs).
Everything in the article sounds reasonable and sensible in the current climate.
However, I hope there will be plenty to make up for it this time next year and we're all still here to enjoy it :)
I got bonus 10 stars for getting Rank 5.