Just like with Diablo Immortal, Lost Ark and this game I wouldn't even care that much about p2w, as long as the huge pve focus of the game is perfectly enjoyable without feeling pressured into spending money.

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blizzard fans have made it adamantly clear that they do not want mobile only games.

Your mistake here is to assume that that's the target audience. Just like Diablo Immortal this is not supposed to appeal to already existing customers, but to reach no ones from a completely different, and extremely profitable, market.

Clash Royale but as a pve focused game with different maps, bosses and raids. I will definetely check it out.

Now I want to see a alternative timeline where the devs have to make a blog post explaining why a whole expansion won't be available to play until the next major patch for next month.

A few moving pieces in this case means:

• Designers: Coming up with balance changes
• Programmers: creating a new build (including client bug fixes)
• Testers: testing the new build
• Localizers: translating the patchnotes
• Stores: accepting the new bulid

Also any changes to any card ever basically means "this didn't go as planned".

The point is that they never claimed to make aggro decks too strong (compared to other decks) on purpose. That's also backed up by the fact that there were and are a bunch of non-aggro decks which are perfectly viable for climbing.

I think he's reading too much into what was actually said in the article.

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Q: Speaking of the meta, will we see more Control themed decks in Sunken City? If not, do you think Control still has a place in Hearthstone?

A: We try to cater to different player types as much as we can, that can be challenging depending on if it’s a faster or slower meta. With the rotation we’ve added a lot of big cards with the Colossal minions, so we want the game to slow down a little bit and see how that goes. We want players to have fun and a great experience. 

The reason aggro decks rise to the top is because a lot of our players want short games, especially if they’re on mobile. A 30 minute control game during a commute or a break at work is just not the experience many players are looking for. Not to say those experiences are invalid, because we obviously want them available as well.

All he said was that they try to make the game appealing to all kinds of players and that aggro decks are so popular because most people enjoy shorter matches, while also saying that they want other deck types to be viable as well. Nowhere was it stated that they want aggro specifically to be stronger than other decks. Or in other words: Even if the game was 100% balanced, you would still play against aggro decks in the majority of your games.

Honestly I feel like this is one of the most balanced day 1 metas so far. There is no deck or even card I can point towards and say "I don't even know how I could possibly beat this". Something that I couldn't say about the start into the DoD or AoO expansion for example.

or they are just going in a chronological order of the wild expansions. They also most likely would have announced that already if it's going to happen any time soon.

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but while that might continue to be true, they want to mark some milestones with it as well, i guess, so we can expect some "big changes" when those things happen.

That's kinda what I meant, I probably should have been more specific. I was talking about regular big updates in the past like Dragons, Pirates, Elementals, Quillboars, Refresh and Buddies and the upcoming Nagas.

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Mercenaries will continue to have updates like events, balance changes, bug fixes, and general improvements in every patch, but the team will be shifting its major content beats to the X.4 patches. That means that the next bunch (and we do mean bunch) of new Mercenaries, Bounties, and Tasks will come in a few months.

It's great that they finally got the point where the mode and team is in such a position that mercs can have a update cycle similar to BG, just like promised when the mode launched. Not that it wasn't BG like, but instead of 1 big and multiple minor patches each month, Mercs only had monthly "medium sized" patches.

Though I do wonder if they are pushing the Mini-set a month back for this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't "seasons" just a description of what they are already doing since its launch?

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she is pretty much the icon of the set

Is she really? I mean, yeah she's the most important character lore wise, but the trailer and expansion artworks focus on Finley, Ambassador Faeli and their expedition.

It's also worth noting that the post confirms that the patch will go live tomorrow

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with the launch of Patch 23.0 on April 5

More than you'd think. Wether it's as a main mode, a routine to grind the daily tasks, a way to kill off a couple minutes or to experience the regular bounty additions.

This seems incredible hard for pvp, since Onyxia has barely any health, requires a cooldown ability and only pays off a turn later if she does not die before you can use a fire ability.

For PvE almost every wanky combo works, but the slow nature of it basically assures that it won't be the best option, which is fine if you only want to have fun. I would probably pair both of them with either Cornelius as a tank or Ragnaros for more aoe damage with his 3. ability. Oh, and ofcourse cookie in the backline + some other stuff.

Since when do you guys have early acces to the patchnotes?

I don't care about cardbacks for the most part, but this is my favorite one so far.

The curses are added directly to your opponents hand, so ideally you already gave him a bunch of curses before (since each deals more damage than the last), then play this card and deal and heal a bunch of damage at the start of your opponents turn. Or your opponent (for whatever reasons) already had one or more curses in his hand.

Well, Murlocs and most likely a couple more curse cards. They usually go with 2 themes for each class each expansion plus a few random cards.