I like the overall flavor and as already mentioned the cohesive art style. Some cards are kinda powercreeping a bit (not literally), for example Pandaren Guardian is definitely a better Shieldmaiden.
One thing i dont like, and at this point it is probably too late, is the new keyword. I really dislike keywords that have (x) attribute in them. Yes, there is Overload, but that has a pretty clean UI. You would need to make something like a mechanic icon at the bottom of minions picture, same as for trigger effects and such, and even then having to constantly hover over minions to check how long until the effect triggers, even more pain in the ass for mobile users ... these kind of mechanics are not meant for Hearthstone. I get wanting to add more complexity, but you need to do it in a HS friendly way, this is not it unfortunately.
All that being said, this is still a custom set, so you can do whatever the hell you want and ultimately, the strife i have with that i suppose doesnt matter in this setting, so good luck with finishing your set! Maybe someone will read this and take it to heart when designing their own set in the future so my rumbling is worth something :)
It's a subjective POV, but I feel stretching new exp announcement so late is... Too late. And players might get away from the grip of the game in the meanwhile.
AoO has already exhausted its traction, players need new stuff, even just some reveals to fantasize about, but we need new stuff.
Nerfs can refresh the meta a little bit, but the fact some nerfs are happening on the same classes over and over for the same reasons actually reinforce the impression of overwhelming staleness, instead of dispelling it.
I'm struggling to find motivation to get back to Wild D5 despite 10stars and the fact I absolutely enjoy my homebrew Aggro Reno Paladin.
Anyone else feeling the same?
They still have about a month till the usual August launch, so they r well within their norm with the announcement, but yes, it should come pretty soon id imagine.
Btw, what is Aggro Reno Paladin? How, why?:D I need a decklist!
Also, don't think this entire year is dedicated to Outlands like some people, it just doesn't make sense in the realm of Hearthstone to stay in one general area for an entire year.
Yeah, they did say it wouldnt be another year long story. So the next expansion should be something different. Im very interested to see what it is.
Idk, makes his ice block weaker, but could make him more useful overall?
Does it tho? Discover has always been more powerful and consistent than just drawing from a random pool of cards, albeit relatively small. How does it make it weaker?
Never mind, didnt realize it only offers Mage Secrets now, my bad haha. It could be an interesting change, tho the Discover effect could still be pretty strong.
Very good overall flavor and class mechanics! Looking forward to more!
Sunlight - could probably be 2 mana
Poison Master Sera - haha, i tried to make this exact effect for rogue several times, it seems to fit well in your class
Grow an Oasis - love the overall flavor of this
Reclaim UnGoro - might be too easy of a requirement, hard to say without playtesting
Krank the Towering - i get why you made it, but it does not fit in your class imho, the effect that is
Galakrond's Patience - at first this is kinda underwhelming, but if the class would not have too much other healing cards, this could be an interesting way to focus on more control playstyle with your weapons, since you could just heal up whatever dmg you would take; esp. if you would combine stuff like Sera's Scheme with Man-Eater Tendril, that is a pretty juicy combo right there.
I mean yes, that could have easily been the decision and it would also make sense. That being said, they rather nerf cards than buff them, so making a decision to release cards on a higher power level and see what's what with a commitment to adjust when needed was not a terrible one imho. If they went ahead and released some of those cards in their now nerfed state, i think a lot of ppl would not even give them time of day.
Hard to say for sure what went behind the scenes, but it is the first new class added to the game since the launch, so i think it is a learning experience for everyone.
While i understand where you're coming from, we do not want to create any such obstacle for newcomers, having to "spam" forum just to be able to post a link to the picture you want to share with others? Not a great experience.
We are always working on ways to tackle spambots, reporting them definitely helps. We hope to implement a better system in the future to deal with them better.
Well that's why I suggested that unspent mana reduces the cost of your next hero power instead. The Hero Power is usually pretty insignificant so it wouldn't enable many combos and only really affect Inspire cards.
You might be underestimating what decks would this create, tho it could be very interesting to see :)
Ah, interesting. I'm not very familiar with the RTS, and have never played Warcraft III, but thanks for letting me know. I thought there might be something like that, but I couldn't find anything solid online and opted to play it safe. I'll look into that and possibly edit it in sometime in the future.
Honestly, i dont think Spell Mana would work for Hearthstone, would create HUGE balance issues. There would have to be a whole overhaul, not really worth it, and certainly not something they would be willing to do imho.
In general, I agree with the sentiment that "cool" cosmetics should be cash-only. Honestly, I am at a point where I kind of feel bad I haven't given Riot any money yet: I've been playing almost daily since open-beta, have nearly all cards, and am enjoying much more than HS, yet I've given Blizzard ~$100-150 over the years and Riot $0--entirely because HS would do the devilish thing where I felt like I had to spend cash to make competitive decks whereas LoR is extremely generous in crafting resources if you're patient and play regularly.
The one exception is that I wish they would provide a few more non-cash cosmetics. They already have given rainbow poro pet, rainbow poro emote, and moonshine poro as time-limited free-bees and region-specific cardbacks as progression rewards, and I use those liberally. They also have done the ladder-based icons, but honestly I think those all look like trash. And no non-cash boards. Again: I do think all the "cool" cosmetics should be cash-only as that's essentially Riot's sole revenue stream, but I would also like to see a few more offerings along these lines.
Looking at League, they do have a small portion of cosmetics for shards, so maybe, eventually, they will make something like that in LOR as well. The game is still very young. Shards also came into existence in LOL only after few years of the game being out. Not saying they have to take few years to implement it here, but like i said, the game is young.
@OP: Basically what others have said, the game is F2P and the monetization comes from cosmetics, same as with LOL. Be very glad that is their model.
I will just add that I'm an old HearthStone whale, and since Gwent's android premiere I have been slowly but steadily drifting away from HS.. This is actually the reason I came over here to the forums now - wanted to ask if you guys (mods, @Flux, anyone?) considered covering this game along HS, LOR and M:TGA ? Not exactly sure where to post this question, hope it gets noticed.
We did consider it in the past, but there wasnt much audience for it. If we see enough forum activity about the game, we will create its own separate subforum and if there is enough to warrant spending time covering the news, then we will also.
That was a surprisingly creative theme. Good luck to all of you! My favorites are Back Alley Sniper and Storm Captain.
I also want to say thanks to the community and especially to the veterans for introducing me and the other noobs into the world of custom card design. The whole season was a blast and I got sucked in deeper and deeper, culminating in a custom expansion I'm working on right now (nothing to show yet, I only have a new keyword and 6 or 7 legendaries done to get the shiny OP cards out of my head). This is a great, helpful and positive community and I'm proud to be part of it. I'm looking forward to what's next!
Nothing can make us happier than helping a newcomer find its way into card design and being sucked right in haha! Good luck with your expansion, im looking forward to see what you come up with ;-)
Pretty good implementation of all the Primes overall. And about Zixor, i too think that the ability might be trying to portray him phasing in and out and being so fast that he appears to be in multiple places at the same time.
Yep, they're introducing alternate arts for the cards. Make way too much sense not to
They'll probably also have "golden" versions of cards, like Hearthstone does, though I can also see them going the Gwent route, at least for the champions.
I wonder if it will be cards, or only Champions, something akin to skins in LOL. They are already doing card backs and boards, maybe the card art is the next step.
I like the overall flavor and as already mentioned the cohesive art style. Some cards are kinda powercreeping a bit (not literally), for example Pandaren Guardian is definitely a better Shieldmaiden.
One thing i dont like, and at this point it is probably too late, is the new keyword. I really dislike keywords that have (x) attribute in them. Yes, there is Overload, but that has a pretty clean UI. You would need to make something like a mechanic icon at the bottom of minions picture, same as for trigger effects and such, and even then having to constantly hover over minions to check how long until the effect triggers, even more pain in the ass for mobile users ... these kind of mechanics are not meant for Hearthstone. I get wanting to add more complexity, but you need to do it in a HS friendly way, this is not it unfortunately.
All that being said, this is still a custom set, so you can do whatever the hell you want and ultimately, the strife i have with that i suppose doesnt matter in this setting, so good luck with finishing your set! Maybe someone will read this and take it to heart when designing their own set in the future so my rumbling is worth something :)
They still have about a month till the usual August launch, so they r well within their norm with the announcement, but yes, it should come pretty soon id imagine.
Btw, what is Aggro Reno Paladin? How, why?:D I need a decklist!
Yeah, they did say it wouldnt be another year long story. So the next expansion should be something different. Im very interested to see what it is.
Does it tho? Discover has always been more powerful and consistent than just drawing from a random pool of cards, albeit relatively small. How does it make it weaker?
Never mind, didnt realize it only offers Mage Secrets now, my bad haha. It could be an interesting change, tho the Discover effect could still be pretty strong.
Very good overall flavor and class mechanics! Looking forward to more!
I mean yes, that could have easily been the decision and it would also make sense. That being said, they rather nerf cards than buff them, so making a decision to release cards on a higher power level and see what's what with a commitment to adjust when needed was not a terrible one imho. If they went ahead and released some of those cards in their now nerfed state, i think a lot of ppl would not even give them time of day.
Hard to say for sure what went behind the scenes, but it is the first new class added to the game since the launch, so i think it is a learning experience for everyone.
While i understand where you're coming from, we do not want to create any such obstacle for newcomers, having to "spam" forum just to be able to post a link to the picture you want to share with others? Not a great experience.
We are always working on ways to tackle spambots, reporting them definitely helps. We hope to implement a better system in the future to deal with them better.
Good luck on your next project :)
You might be underestimating what decks would this create, tho it could be very interesting to see :)
You really should change that!
Honestly, i dont think Spell Mana would work for Hearthstone, would create HUGE balance issues. There would have to be a whole overhaul, not really worth it, and certainly not something they would be willing to do imho.
Hear, hear!
I enjoyed our competitions very much, even tho i wasnt as vocal lately, i still voted on every single card. You guys did a damn good job!
What?! I guess i was living in a lie all this time! Which is it then?:o
So they r tracking the 'nonexistant' pity timer after all, eh? Haha.
Looking at League, they do have a small portion of cosmetics for shards, so maybe, eventually, they will make something like that in LOR as well. The game is still very young. Shards also came into existence in LOL only after few years of the game being out. Not saying they have to take few years to implement it here, but like i said, the game is young.
@OP: Basically what others have said, the game is F2P and the monetization comes from cosmetics, same as with LOL. Be very glad that is their model.
We did consider it in the past, but there wasnt much audience for it. If we see enough forum activity about the game, we will create its own separate subforum and if there is enough to warrant spending time covering the news, then we will also.
Nothing can make us happier than helping a newcomer find its way into card design and being sucked right in haha! Good luck with your expansion, im looking forward to see what you come up with ;-)
Pretty good implementation of all the Primes overall. And about Zixor, i too think that the ability might be trying to portray him phasing in and out and being so fast that he appears to be in multiple places at the same time.
I wonder if it will be cards, or only Champions, something akin to skins in LOL. They are already doing card backs and boards, maybe the card art is the next step.