What Shuckie said. Also you can look at it this way: did the money/time spent provide for an entertainment for the time being? If so, then just accept that and see it as an investment into your hobby. Some ppl spend more money on a single night out than it costs to buy a preorder for an expansion for example.
Just see it as money/time spent on having fun, dont feel obligated to stay with something you dont have time for just cause you invested into it. You eventually stop partying as well (or as often), once you dont have time for that anymore either :)
This is nothing new, dont surrender for a small possibility your opponent will BM and throw or DC etc. It is just matter of your mind-set and time spent.
Some ppl can get tilted staying in a match like that, or by the opponent's actions. Or that win might not be worth spending another 10+ minutes in the game when you know you are most likely going to lose. Depends on the deck you play etc.
I get what ur saying, but it is not something that isnt just common sense and everyone has to decide for themselves if it is worth it in their current game or not. I wouldnt call it a hard rule or anything.
40 percent not to draw is a pretty big deal, but that's why they run solitary monk as a full play set, you can just clock people with that card instead as a last resort. It doesn't matter what your list is always be prepared to win without a champ or if it dies, if you do that you have no loose state and only win states.
I've actually been around since Blackrock Mountain, but I only started playing Wild last year and dusted all my rotating cards before that. I had completely forgotten about triclass cards. Shame on me.
Wouldn't it be more convenient for us to make them show up in all the classes they are playable in instead of the neutral section? I'd prefer to see them in three different places instead of only one where I can't use them in 7 out of 10 cases. Shouldn't be too much of an effort to program a pop up warning when you try to dust one of them that informs you about the fact that your "copies" in the other two classes will be gone as well.
With 10 classes I doubt we will get a tri class card, but we might get 5 class or double classes so only of they reuse the concept to some degree I can see them making such changes
They kinda did that with EVIL vs Explorers and Galakrond. I think if anything, this will be the direction they will continue rather than something like tri-class cards in the future.
I enjoy how doing these competitions makes ya very aware of Blizzard's unwritten design rules. Most folks here, it seems, agree that a good fan card should be something which could be printed - flavorful, balanced, not complicated, etc. - which limits the pool of acceptable ideas but, I think, brings you closer to the game in a satisfying way.
That is very true. Ppl will always like if the card(s) look as close to being passable additions to the game as possible. Be it balance, flavor, art etc. You can still come up with some cool ideas even within the "general" constrains of this type of card design and it is that much more rewarding when years later, you see Blizzard making a card that you made before. Quite a few ppl from competitions like this had that privilege in one form or another.
I am not sure how many ppl would actually use this, so probably not worth dev time, but i could see it being implemented either in the text editor as a new feature (button) or as a bbcode with a parameter, that would simply create an element with a time you input and would start counting down from the moment you submit the post. Not sure if it could then live its own life or if stuff like editing a post would pause/disable/reset it, it would depend on the capabilities of what can be coded, which Flux will have to answer, but again, cool stuff, but not sure if worth the time spent on it.
Has there been any word on second rotation yet? Feel like we're WAY past the mid point of the expansion now.
Nope, not a peep. If they were going to do it they would probably do it with Felfire patch or when Adventure launched. I dont think there will be a new rotation until the next set. Kinda sad they at least didnt say as much, or anything really.
@Sinti, Do you have any recommendations for which cards to buff and how?
Like all of them :D Just imagine your line-up, ok? How are you killing anything? Maybe in first few rounds, when minions have single digit health. Totems having 0 attack also means they are not damaging enemies when they are targeted, being free pickings most of the time too. I guess you could/would pick other stuff alongside them and picked only specific totems at higher tiers, but i dont think that would work. The problem is the 0-attack, you can give them any ability you like, but if they are free pickings, they are going to suck. And that is exactly my point, totems do not attack, they are just a bad tribe for BG.
Maybe if Amalgam was brought back, then totem synergy could be build mainly around that, but it would obviously make every other tribe that much stronger as well.
Nice effort and i get where ur comming from, but Totems are just bad tribe for battlegrounds. It doesnt make sense for them to attack, i know you already explained yourself, but still.
Also, like anything but the Tier6 stuff is super weak, you could not run that composition and expect to get to the last tier, let alone win.
Another thing is there would have to be a lot totems to populate the tribe, since now only 3 tribes can be in one game. I can see it being like a neutral one off or something, but not a whole thing for BG.
Amazing article, as always! Great lore info about some of the seemingly random names of some HS cards (for a person who does not know WOW lore) like Sunfury Protector or Shattered Sun Cleric!
I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.
So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.
What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out.
I like these weapon names :D Must have been a fun design process.
What Shuckie said. Also you can look at it this way: did the money/time spent provide for an entertainment for the time being? If so, then just accept that and see it as an investment into your hobby. Some ppl spend more money on a single night out than it costs to buy a preorder for an expansion for example.
Just see it as money/time spent on having fun, dont feel obligated to stay with something you dont have time for just cause you invested into it. You eventually stop partying as well (or as often), once you dont have time for that anymore either :)
You will have to expand your train of thought for us to give you any kind of answer :)
This is nothing new, dont surrender for a small possibility your opponent will BM and throw or DC etc. It is just matter of your mind-set and time spent.
Some ppl can get tilted staying in a match like that, or by the opponent's actions. Or that win might not be worth spending another 10+ minutes in the game when you know you are most likely going to lose. Depends on the deck you play etc.
I get what ur saying, but it is not something that isnt just common sense and everyone has to decide for themselves if it is worth it in their current game or not. I wouldnt call it a hard rule or anything.
Crime?! Crime in my city?! I think not!
Thats not how combo decks work tho :)
They kinda did that with EVIL vs Explorers and Galakrond. I think if anything, this will be the direction they will continue rather than something like tri-class cards in the future.
That is very true. Ppl will always like if the card(s) look as close to being passable additions to the game as possible. Be it balance, flavor, art etc. You can still come up with some cool ideas even within the "general" constrains of this type of card design and it is that much more rewarding when years later, you see Blizzard making a card that you made before. Quite a few ppl from competitions like this had that privilege in one form or another.
I am not sure how many ppl would actually use this, so probably not worth dev time, but i could see it being implemented either in the text editor as a new feature (button) or as a bbcode with a parameter, that would simply create an element with a time you input and would start counting down from the moment you submit the post. Not sure if it could then live its own life or if stuff like editing a post would pause/disable/reset it, it would depend on the capabilities of what can be coded, which Flux will have to answer, but again, cool stuff, but not sure if worth the time spent on it.
Technically, you can see it in patch notes which we do collect, but having a kind of timeline with graphics and stuff would certainly be cool.
Nope, not a peep. If they were going to do it they would probably do it with Felfire patch or when Adventure launched. I dont think there will be a new rotation until the next set. Kinda sad they at least didnt say as much, or anything really.
Very different drawing from your deck and generating a random card tho.
Ups, fixed :)
If you are already playing other highlander decks, i say craft away.
Like all of them :D Just imagine your line-up, ok? How are you killing anything? Maybe in first few rounds, when minions have single digit health. Totems having 0 attack also means they are not damaging enemies when they are targeted, being free pickings most of the time too. I guess you could/would pick other stuff alongside them and picked only specific totems at higher tiers, but i dont think that would work. The problem is the 0-attack, you can give them any ability you like, but if they are free pickings, they are going to suck. And that is exactly my point, totems do not attack, they are just a bad tribe for BG.
Maybe if Amalgam was brought back, then totem synergy could be build mainly around that, but it would obviously make every other tribe that much stronger as well.
Nice effort and i get where ur comming from, but Totems are just bad tribe for battlegrounds. It doesnt make sense for them to attack, i know you already explained yourself, but still.
Also, like anything but the Tier6 stuff is super weak, you could not run that composition and expect to get to the last tier, let alone win.
Another thing is there would have to be a lot totems to populate the tribe, since now only 3 tribes can be in one game. I can see it being like a neutral one off or something, but not a whole thing for BG.
Amazing article, as always! Great lore info about some of the seemingly random names of some HS cards (for a person who does not know WOW lore) like Sunfury Protector or Shattered Sun Cleric!
Its funny they are calling it A.R.A.M. :D I guess, technically, we are all going mid anyways, since there is no other path :)
What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out.
On the topic: that is definitely Mirelurk ;-)