Yeah, turn times are the same for you and your opponent. Animations times are not, or rather animation times can go well over the turn limit, but all plays would had to be done within the turn limit. So your opponent is not cheating, just the game does not have another way to resolve the actions then to play out every animation and it takes time ;-)
In the past this could have been abused, the animation would actually eat up time from your turn instead, but shouldnt be an issue anymore, as Thonson said.
Good job! Portal is an interesting mechanic, but maybe a bit complex for HS standards. Like you could play different Portal cards and have the effects "banked up" in certain situations, then it could become very confusing, for both your and your opponent, what do you have in store actually :) I get that by specifying "minion/spell/card" you open up more ways to design your cards or balance them, but at the same time you open up yourself to more confusion. If it was just "a card", then the next card would always consume the Portal ability and would not be possible to have it saved up for several turns until you finally play a spell for example, by which point neither you, nor your opponent might count on that no more lol. But i like your cards overall, so keep doing what ur doing ;-)
Plague of Madness (2): I am not sure how will this card perform, but at first glance this looks like super strong tempo card. Yes, you are giving your opponent a way to kill off two of your minions, but can he really afford the face hits? If you are playing fast tempo rogue as you should, i think this should give you more advantage than it gives to your opponent, more so cause you are the one dictating when the weapons come into play.
I don't get it, isn't it Inner Fire that's the problem? And attack-health swappers, I guess
Hardly, you have Topsy Turvy and like three neutral minions that swap stats. Inner Fire can be (easilly) replaced for the combo.
They said that since Divine Spirit is a thing, we are likely to see 6/4 minion than a 4/6 for priest for example. So that card is apparently restricting design space already. I dont know if i see it as a problem personally, but w/e.
If find that using Dr.Boom make everything more easy: deck are thin so just keep putting bombs into their one until they blow up.
Especially when you get to the penultimate boss, whose entire Hero power is a passive mill of both decks.
That can actually backfire hard, if he is burning the bombs instead of drawing them :D but i guess once he is in fatigue its a guaranteed win, if you didnt manage to get it by then.
BEEEES!!! (1): Basically Shadow Bolt, but can be better. Also druids dont have much decent removal, so this is a big deal for druid in arena.
Weaponized Wasp (3): If you can activate it then its basically Fire Elemental level broken, probably more. But the condition is quite hard for arena, so it will most likely be just an understated 3-drop. Maybe we will get more Lackey generators for shaman or neutral ones, then this could rise in value.
Impbalming (2): Blastcrystal Potion was a premium removal in arena. This is pretty much the same, but with a different downside. Worse one, but not an immediate one. Id expect this card to perform well.
Earthquake (1): Super premium board clear. Volcano was amazing and it wiped your board as well, so the duality does not mean much (would be beyond insane, if it didnt touch your board lolo). The fact that the damage is split in two waves makes it so you can clear tokens like for example after you kill Eccentric Scribe, which is amazing.
We've got achievements done and they'll be coming out this week. Notifications are up next so expect them real soon! I know how important they are to help direct people to active discussions and content, I regret not launching the site with them.
Notifications definitely are important and I am behind this 100%....but can we please not have achievements?
It's probably too late to ask at this point, but honestly it detracts from being in a community. The only people who find the need for achievements are the same people who derive personal value from their XBOX Live gamerscore. I mean to be perfectly honest, they weren't even achievements in the full sense of the word. Hell, beating Gears of War 3 on hard actually has more merit to it then "create a deck with Deathwing in it".
I have to disagree with you though I applaud the courage to stand up for what you believe in.
Achievements encourage interaction on the website which helps bolster the community more than anything. I've personally witnessed what they can do for a website and the love our community members have for them which is why they were a top priority. I think it is important that we can showcase how active someone has been on a site in a way that isn't just post count, even if some of the achievements are silly.
Ultimately it is a system designed for fun and if it isn't something you're interested in, you aren't required to participate - much like how we don't force people to click on fan creations content on the homepage. I think people who loved achievements before will really like what we've done with them here.
Thanks Flux. I can understand that entirely, and to some degree I think achievements can be at least fun; I just get concerned that it becomes another form of gatekeeping (reddit karma, instagram follows, # of achievements). It sometimes comes to the point where I've seen people reject the opinions of others just because they dont have enough achievements, or because they just joined the site <X> days ago.
That's the only place my concern came into play. We'll see how it pans out here too.
This was never a problem before (on hpwn), and when someone did dismiss a user, it was usually when they had a low post count; and new or very old account, and these ppl were just being jerks for all the wrong reasons and they would be jerks no matter what. I dont think iv ever seen someone dismissing another person due to not having enough achievements on the site to be honest.
I can see how xbox gamescore or something like that on a different platform could make you worry about this, but from our past experience, i think we should be safe in this regard (knock on the wood).
It‘s a little cheap to call it a three weeks long event imo. We get the quests only for 7 days and after that it‘s just a tavern brawl with some backstory and a little added complexity.
Imagine, they would add some blackrock mountain cards to standard for this timespan!? Maybe even Emperor Thaurissan...? Or Rag itself?
Still, i like this stuff! People stay involved, free packs (i‘ll never complain about those) and the world quest for the card reveal is some next level shit! A total counter would be amazing, not even speaking about Highscores...
Well, you do get a chance to get golden card as a reward from each tavern brawl plus SOU packs, so while it might seem cheap, they are not lying.
I mean "free" packs are free packs, but i find this artificial bloating of viewership as a rather dishonest practice. Id rather they made the tournaments interesting to watch by making the game itself more interesting, not buying views with packs lol ...
Yeah, turn times are the same for you and your opponent. Animations times are not, or rather animation times can go well over the turn limit, but all plays would had to be done within the turn limit. So your opponent is not cheating, just the game does not have another way to resolve the actions then to play out every animation and it takes time ;-)
In the past this could have been abused, the animation would actually eat up time from your turn instead, but shouldnt be an issue anymore, as Thonson said.
Good job! Portal is an interesting mechanic, but maybe a bit complex for HS standards. Like you could play different Portal cards and have the effects "banked up" in certain situations, then it could become very confusing, for both your and your opponent, what do you have in store actually :) I get that by specifying "minion/spell/card" you open up more ways to design your cards or balance them, but at the same time you open up yourself to more confusion. If it was just "a card", then the next card would always consume the Portal ability and would not be possible to have it saved up for several turns until you finally play a spell for example, by which point neither you, nor your opponent might count on that no more lol. But i like your cards overall, so keep doing what ur doing ;-)
- NEW CARD -
1=Excellent, 2=Good, 3=Average, 4=Poor, 5=Terrible
Plague of Madness (2): I am not sure how will this card perform, but at first glance this looks like super strong tempo card. Yes, you are giving your opponent a way to kill off two of your minions, but can he really afford the face hits? If you are playing fast tempo rogue as you should, i think this should give you more advantage than it gives to your opponent, more so cause you are the one dictating when the weapons come into play.
What do you mean? Warlock is part of EVIL league represented by Rafaam himself :o
Hardly, you have Topsy Turvy and like three neutral minions that swap stats. Inner Fire can be (easilly) replaced for the combo.
They said that since Divine Spirit is a thing, we are likely to see 6/4 minion than a 4/6 for priest for example. So that card is apparently restricting design space already. I dont know if i see it as a problem personally, but w/e.
It doesnt activate the Villain tho, correct?
Yeah, you have to do it in one sitting and choosing treasures or even playing ladder in the meantime still counts toward the 40/60 minute goal.
That can actually backfire hard, if he is burning the bombs instead of drawing them :D but i guess once he is in fatigue its a guaranteed win, if you didnt manage to get it by then.
I legit expected this to say dust it lol. Interesting deck. Probably too slow, but can be fun :)
BEEEES!!! flavor text should have read"Sting like a butterfly, float like a bee!" :) And yes, in this order!
- NEW CARDS -
1=Excellent, 2=Good, 3=Average, 4=Poor, 5=Terrible
BEEEES!!! (1): Basically Shadow Bolt, but can be better. Also druids dont have much decent removal, so this is a big deal for druid in arena.
Weaponized Wasp (3): If you can activate it then its basically Fire Elemental level broken, probably more. But the condition is quite hard for arena, so it will most likely be just an understated 3-drop. Maybe we will get more Lackey generators for shaman or neutral ones, then this could rise in value.
- NEW CARDS -
1=Excellent, 2=Good, 3=Average, 4=Poor, 5=Terrible
Impbalming (2): Blastcrystal Potion was a premium removal in arena. This is pretty much the same, but with a different downside. Worse one, but not an immediate one. Id expect this card to perform well.
Earthquake (1): Super premium board clear. Volcano was amazing and it wiped your board as well, so the duality does not mean much (would be beyond insane, if it didnt touch your board lolo). The fact that the damage is split in two waves makes it so you can clear tokens like for example after you kill Eccentric Scribe, which is amazing.
This was never a problem before (on hpwn), and when someone did dismiss a user, it was usually when they had a low post count; and new or very old account, and these ppl were just being jerks for all the wrong reasons and they would be jerks no matter what. I dont think iv ever seen someone dismissing another person due to not having enough achievements on the site to be honest.
I can see how xbox gamescore or something like that on a different platform could make you worry about this, but from our past experience, i think we should be safe in this regard (knock on the wood).
Well, you do get a chance to get golden card as a reward from each tavern brawl plus SOU packs, so while it might seem cheap, they are not lying.
Priest does not have a board clear in the core set ... poor Holy Nova, nobody likes you :(
Im looking forward to this!
Good idea, but this is something that might happen down the line, not right now ;-)
I mean "free" packs are free packs, but i find this artificial bloating of viewership as a rather dishonest practice. Id rather they made the tournaments interesting to watch by making the game itself more interesting, not buying views with packs lol ...
Hell yeah!