Was looking for Wild balance news, and this is what was said:
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@IksarHS Will the balance team address the role of warlock, and to a lesser extent mage, in wild? Every expansion we seem to get a new uninteractive warlock OTK that makes the game unenjoyable until a balance patch happens Its class identity in wild seems to be "better than the others"
@Oakijak_HS At any point in a card game, there will be some classes more powerful than others. In Standard, this shifts more often because the card pool is smaller and sets have a bigger impact. It also happens because of set rotation. (Source)
@Oakijak_HS In Wild, individual expansions have a smaller impact because the card pool is bigger and the cards in the format never rotate out. (Source)
@Oakijak_HS This is the long way of saying I don't think it's that all Mage and Warlock cards are busted, power just shifts very slowly in Wild due to the nature of the format. (Source)
I hope seedlock will be addressed soon. I'm wondering if I'm going to actually win 5 games to get the cardback this month :)
Didn't do so well this time. Didn't get the portal maze and used solution.
Second one I gave a good go, and did try summing the health and attack mod 1000. Missed the tribe values though.
Went on tangents like treat the top number as a code, converting to hex/ascii, factoring them, thinking maybe needed code was based on battlenet ID etc. Perhaps minion stats based on name, flavor text so changed client language to see if it changed (it didn't).
Still - was still fun but missed the discord channel activity this time due to other things. I know they are not for everyone, and I failed this time but hope we get more in the future.
Most importantly though, the developers deserve absolutely zero harassment.
Totally agree. And I'm saying that as a wild player who, well, isn't really playing as the game isn't fun for me and many others right now.
Mercenaries isn't a resource draining treadmill I'm going to get on, and I'd rather there was a option button to just disable everything related to it in the client. But if it is (or turns out to be) for you- enjoy! People like different things and there's nothing wrong about that.
I'm not going to say I'm thinking about quitting because it could sound like I think anyone else should care and cause Team 5 to have sleepless nights :P Hopefully the Hearthstone part of Hearthstone get's addressed better than it has soon.
And I'll still not be playing wild except the bare minimum to complete my quests.
This season will be the first in 2-3 years I've not hit Rank 5/Diamond 5 or better. Sill in platinum I think - another pack and epic not worth it for me.
I got to 186 today (no pass) - did bgs to get up to the next level so my XP wasn't wasted. I agree about golden epics in the rewards track, some people love the cosmetic value but they are only good if you've not opened the non-golden already as far as I am concerned.
Had 5 quests on the edge of completion for the new track - and already claimed the level 20 legendary reward.
Had a good opening this time unlike last few expacs. And was lucky enough to win a mega bundle last night with less than 24 hours to go to launch.
So all in all, yay!
Good luck with your pack openings everyone if you've not opened them yet.
Hope we get a word search at some point or me worried about riot :P
Free skin - nice.
Note to self - play to 2 losses in your current arena run soon.
Casual mode quest completion!!!!! I've missed you.
Not asking for names, but if it's the person I think it might be, then i am not surprised.
I do not hold this person in high regard, and would further suggest they are not well suited for such a role. (i.e. dealing with people).
Like you say lots of great people in other areas though.
Yep - it's an issue reported on reddit too.
Quest log was full so decided to just lose 3 games in standard to complete my quests.
Tavern Brawl also works apparently though this week we have a rather unhelpful one for quest completion.
I was kinda hoping to reroll mercanaries legendary quest for a Hearthstone one.
Can only remove it though - ah well.
Yep same.
But lots of people will be interested and if it's your thing then great.
For those of us that aren't - glad we can reroll special quests these days rather than it sit there for months.
I did it in tavern brawl.
1 in my deck? Nah - 22!!!!!!!!!
Free wins for my opponents is my good deed for the day :P
Was looking for Wild balance news, and this is what was said:
I hope seedlock will be addressed soon. I'm wondering if I'm going to actually win 5 games to get the cardback this month :)
Interesting one.
Didn't do so well this time. Didn't get the portal maze and used solution.
Second one I gave a good go, and did try summing the health and attack mod 1000. Missed the tribe values though.
Went on tangents like treat the top number as a code, converting to hex/ascii, factoring them, thinking maybe needed code was based on battlenet ID etc. Perhaps minion stats based on name, flavor text so changed client language to see if it changed (it didn't).
Still - was still fun but missed the discord channel activity this time due to other things. I know they are not for everyone, and I failed this time but hope we get more in the future.
Most importantly though, the developers deserve absolutely zero harassment.
Totally agree. And I'm saying that as a wild player who, well, isn't really playing as the game isn't fun for me and many others right now.
Mercenaries isn't a resource draining treadmill I'm going to get on, and I'd rather there was a option button to just disable everything related to it in the client. But if it is (or turns out to be) for you- enjoy! People like different things and there's nothing wrong about that.
I'm not going to say I'm thinking about quitting because it could sound like I think anyone else should care and cause Team 5 to have sleepless nights :P Hopefully the Hearthstone part of Hearthstone get's addressed better than it has soon.
And I'll still not be playing wild except the bare minimum to complete my quests.
This season will be the first in 2-3 years I've not hit Rank 5/Diamond 5 or better. Sill in platinum I think - another pack and epic not worth it for me.
Do we still get 2 packs if we got them last week also?
I didn't think so, but I've been doing other things and I've kind of lost track :)
Yep as you can tell I didn't know.
The shop is so full of new things all the time to be honest I never go to it except to buy latest expac packs.
Me too just now :)
I'd love it if they had a Wild pack as rewards or even to buy in the shop.
Would be great for filling in a few gaps and I'd probably actually look at what rares and commons I got when opening :)
edit: there is? Gold spending time!!!!!!
Thanks so much for these articles. I'd have totally missed this otherwise.
<3 OOC
Great been waiting for this :)
We haven't mentioned the self damaging elephant in the room :P
That is impressive. Hope when it's more polished/complete it will open up both HS but also inspire other similar mods for other games.
I got to 186 today (no pass) - did bgs to get up to the next level so my XP wasn't wasted. I agree about golden epics in the rewards track, some people love the cosmetic value but they are only good if you've not opened the non-golden already as far as I am concerned.
Had 5 quests on the edge of completion for the new track - and already claimed the level 20 legendary reward.
Had a good opening this time unlike last few expacs. And was lucky enough to win a mega bundle last night with less than 24 hours to go to launch.
So all in all, yay!
Good luck with your pack openings everyone if you've not opened them yet.