He's also said he came back to HS because of this mode after only playing in the early days, and he's a caster from Heroes of the Storm (which means he's unemployed...) so Blizzard probably just wanted to use his talent as a caster, which he is obviously good at it after watching for a while. That along with Frodan constantly reminding us how Amaz, Dog, Hafu, etc are all returning to HS because of Battlegrounds... it's almost like a low key tactic to try and get any players watching who quit HS to come back.
Who is this caster with Frodan, and why would they pick a caster who doesn't play the game, and also doesn't know who the players are or how to pronounce their names correctly. But you know... Go, Doombringers. Strong start with that 1 pt after first round...
Funny thing... I was bored and decided to play an Auto Completed Paladin deck... it gave me this deck. This EXACT deck is what the game suggested I play as the best Paladin deck right now. And in my handful of games with it so far I haven't lost yet, and I've faced some top level decks like Evolve Shaman and Secret Highlander Paladin.
Mostly 60g, some 50g which often seem to reroll into 60g, and I've gotten one 80g challenge on my main as well as an alt account since the change, and a few of the pack rewards for playing solo content.
Overall it's been very nice, especially since I have two alt accounts, so the "play 3" quests make it super easy to clear my quest queue for those.
Nevermind, you already did. Shocking they weren't helpful. Don't know if this is one of the things you tried, but perhaps you can try uninstalling HS and then reinstalling to see if that fixes the issue.
Hero Power: Each player is given a “Ready” button they can click if they are done with all actions of their recruit phase. If all players have clicked this button, time skip to Combat phase.
Okay... not a great hero, but would be a great feature!
True, but this mode could be easier for them to try and balance often. If a card, or a few cards, are pushing one strategy too far in front of all other, they can either change the tier so it can’t snowball too early, alter stats/effect quickly if it’s not a collectable, or just remove it from this mode and swap in a similar but less powerful collectable card.
Only time will tell what their balance strategies/timeframes look like.
Wait. How would Scaled Nightmare work, since after each battle, your minions reset?
I didn't know there were upgraded cards either. Are those just rarer versions of the normal cards?
All your cards except for the Classic ones also have the wrong watermark. Not your fault though. It's a weird HearthCards glitch where importing an existing card into their database gives it the watermark of the set after that card instead of the one for its own set.
EDIT: Now that I'm looking at the fact that Micro Machine and Rockpool Hunter are in Battlegrounds, I guess enchantments carry over, so in this case, this works fine. Me big dum dum head.
I haven't payed attention, but do you know if Micro gains attack at the start of the combat phase? And does that carry over or do they only keep the buffs from Recruit phase?
Just a heads up if you haven't seen it, but there is a special Battlegrounds streamer event coming up. It has community voting for teams of 4, rewards that can be earned, etc. Not a ton of detail, haven't seen it announced anywhere, but it popped up when going to playhearthstone.com today.
That seemed to be my world prior anyway, so not having the ability to squelch and some people taking advantage of knowing it's disabled is frustrating. In a non-related note, talking with a friend recently we determined that I also have a much higher tendency to get roped than anyone I know... *BabyRage*
I personally don't mind the way it's currently set up, but a little less time between initial reveal and the daily reveals starting would be nice. The easiest way to do that might be to wait another week or so for the initial reveal. But of course with BlizzCon they had to do the reveal when they did. For the other two sets in a year they could wait to shorten that gap.
I'm not sure why everyone suppose that he refreshes your mana crystals
Probably because in the past if it didn’t give usable mana crystals it would say “empty mana crystals” and this doesn't say “empty”.
However, the wording of “set” like Zihi as opposed to “gain” like with Astral Communion would likely mean you’re right. Just went with refresh as per the card not saying “empty”. But now that you’ve brought it up, any crystals gained could very well be empty due to the ambiguity of what “set” means. I think Zihi is the only card with that wording for a mana count interaction and it goes in reverse.
Claw
Seeing as some people will get more than 1 pack based on the team they chose, maybe wait until AFTER the event is over. Maybe even a few days after...
He's also said he came back to HS because of this mode after only playing in the early days, and he's a caster from Heroes of the Storm (which means he's unemployed...) so Blizzard probably just wanted to use his talent as a caster, which he is obviously good at it after watching for a while. That along with Frodan constantly reminding us how Amaz, Dog, Hafu, etc are all returning to HS because of Battlegrounds... it's almost like a low key tactic to try and get any players watching who quit HS to come back.
Who is this caster with Frodan, and why would they pick a caster who doesn't play the game, and also doesn't know who the players are or how to pronounce their names correctly. But you know... Go, Doombringers. Strong start with that 1 pt after first round...
Not sure, could just be that they haven't announced a reveal stream date/time yet.
Funny thing... I was bored and decided to play an Auto Completed Paladin deck... it gave me this deck. This EXACT deck is what the game suggested I play as the best Paladin deck right now. And in my handful of games with it so far I haven't lost yet, and I've faced some top level decks like Evolve Shaman and Secret Highlander Paladin.
Mostly 60g, some 50g which often seem to reroll into 60g, and I've gotten one 80g challenge on my main as well as an alt account since the change, and a few of the pack rewards for playing solo content.
Overall it's been very nice, especially since I have two alt accounts, so the "play 3" quests make it super easy to clear my quest queue for those.
I get the feeling they just threw this tournament together to fill the gap between BlizzCon and the next GM season.
I’m doing Into the Fray, Frightened Flunky, and Dragon Roar.
Really fun against Freeze Mages with Mana Wyrm, not so much against IF Priests.
Along with others I have a locked in 4 card deck, can’t retire it, AND it shows the rewards chest open. I never got any rewards!
While you wait to see if anyone here experienced this as well, might want to still drop a note in the Blizzard forums.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/
Nevermind, you already did. Shocking they weren't helpful. Don't know if this is one of the things you tried, but perhaps you can try uninstalling HS and then reinstalling to see if that fixes the issue.
Nozdormu!
Hero Power: Each player is given a “Ready” button they can click if they are done with all actions of their recruit phase. If all players have clicked this button, time skip to Combat phase.
Okay... not a great hero, but would be a great feature!
True, but this mode could be easier for them to try and balance often. If a card, or a few cards, are pushing one strategy too far in front of all other, they can either change the tier so it can’t snowball too early, alter stats/effect quickly if it’s not a collectable, or just remove it from this mode and swap in a similar but less powerful collectable card.
Only time will tell what their balance strategies/timeframes look like.
I haven't payed attention, but do you know if Micro gains attack at the start of the combat phase? And does that carry over or do they only keep the buffs from Recruit phase?
Just a heads up if you haven't seen it, but there is a special Battlegrounds streamer event coming up. It has community voting for teams of 4, rewards that can be earned, etc. Not a ton of detail, haven't seen it announced anywhere, but it popped up when going to playhearthstone.com today.
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/vote/battlegrounds
That seemed to be my world prior anyway, so not having the ability to squelch and some people taking advantage of knowing it's disabled is frustrating. In a non-related note, talking with a friend recently we determined that I also have a much higher tendency to get roped than anyone I know... *BabyRage*
You should open a ticket on the official HS forums, link this screenshot to them. Probably just a bug. Add it to the current bug list...
I personally don't mind the way it's currently set up, but a little less time between initial reveal and the daily reveals starting would be nice. The easiest way to do that might be to wait another week or so for the initial reveal. But of course with BlizzCon they had to do the reveal when they did. For the other two sets in a year they could wait to shorten that gap.
If they started it right away the hype season would end weeks before release, as opposed to days before release.
Probably because in the past if it didn’t give usable mana crystals it would say “empty mana crystals” and this doesn't say “empty”.
However, the wording of “set” like Zihi as opposed to “gain” like with Astral Communion would likely mean you’re right. Just went with refresh as per the card not saying “empty”. But now that you’ve brought it up, any crystals gained could very well be empty due to the ambiguity of what “set” means. I think Zihi is the only card with that wording for a mana count interaction and it goes in reverse.