Come on, there is no need for that. I think this was probably the most frustrating brawl I ever played, but in the end it's our own decision to stick with it until you get your pack or just not play it.
Calling this play a comedy of errors would be generous. The directors tried in vain to get these actors to act out anything with a vague resemblance to a plot.
Rexxar finally gave me my pack by smorcing after the +5/+5 buffs landed on a Wolpertinger and Trampling Rhino.
When my Anduin healed the opponent, the opponent was already at full health, so I thought it was a nice touch of realism. But judging from these reactions he also does it when the opponent is not at full health?
There was some kind of network problem and when the stream died YouTube's player decided to automatically switch to a VoD of a different tournament instead of waiting for the stream to come back.
I think they must have realized long ago that their streams did much better on Twitch, but Google paid to have HS esports as a YouTube exclusive and that contract likely hasn't run out yet.
Budget park is frightening in the dark All the squirrels are coming back to life Someone wound Guff into a rage I admit it's kinda scary And not to mention hairy When eight attack is heading towards my face Oh no!
Retiring if you don't find a Mysterious Stranger on the Heroic Air Totem map seems to be worth it though: you can retry the map quicker and the fact you'll get coins for random mercs instead of a fixed set is an advantage too.
I like it so far! I haven't opened a lot of packs so my collection is nothing to brag about, but I'm enjoying it anyway.
One question, how many legendary daily quests were we supposed to get? I think I only got 2 quests for a few packs, I thought it would be more.
I think there were only two legendary quests, but there are more packs to be had in the PvE storyline.
Packs aren't a very efficient way to grow your collection though, Hearthstone Mathematics did a video on it. You can get the most rewards doing the tasks from the task board.
You can get one more task each day by buying an extra task slot with gold and you can get tasks by meeting Mysterious Strangers at the mystery locations on the maps. Heroic Air Totem is the easiest mission to farm those.
I agree that a lot of quality-of-life improvements are desired or even needed in some cases, like showing alliance/horde and merc tribes when picking artifacts, which task number you've completed for each merc, listing merc abilities in PvP.
Something I appreciate is being able to find new tasks via Mysterious Strangers while doing PvE runs. With ladder, it feels very unrewarding to play longer stretches on a single day because the reward track progression is minimal and the rank bonus doesn't come until the end of the month, so I wish they'd introduce something similar there.
I think that redesign looks better than the all-golden borders, but what I'd really like is an option to have the animated card art in a regular border.
So far I like it better than I thought I would, but I had pretty low expectations. I'm not sure that it will have lasting appeal though.
I didn't pre-order. I did buy the 5 euros bundle, but I won't buy the 20 euros bundle unless I'm still playing this mode regularly by the end of the month.
Difficulty in PvE seems to range from somewhat challenging to ridiculously easy. In a few battles tactics matter, but often it's just a matter of whether your pile of stats is bigger than the enemy's. I've only done the first page of the Barrens so far, maybe things get more spicy later on.
Heroic missions bumped the opponents up a few levels, but other than that there doesn't seem to be much of a difference. Maybe XP is higher because of the higher levels? The coin rewards looked pretty similar to normal mode.
I'm not sure yet if I want to do PvP. I'll probably watch a stream to get an idea of what it's like.
I'm not sure "loss of passion" is fixable though. The problem is that getting lots of practice is essential to playing Hearthstone well: even the best players perform worse when they don't play enough games. Few people are going to stay motivated to put in that many hours year after year.
Come on, there is no need for that. I think this was probably the most frustrating brawl I ever played, but in the end it's our own decision to stick with it until you get your pack or just not play it.
How far we're willing to go for a pack?
Honestly though, I think the idea is kinda cute, but it needs much better AI to actually be enjoyable.
Rexxar finally gave me my pack by smorcing after the +5/+5 buffs landed on a Wolpertinger and Trampling Rhino.
When my Anduin healed the opponent, the opponent was already at full health, so I thought it was a nice touch of realism. But judging from these reactions he also does it when the opponent is not at full health?
Not quite Magikarp level, but if you have no way to create fire combos, Baron Geddon is pretty bad.
Even if they were cheaper, I'm not sure I'd want to buy coins, since what that effectively does is shorten the time before I run out of PvE rewards.
It offered me Garrosh instead of Diablo and I don't have either in my collection, so it might be random after all.
There was some kind of network problem and when the stream died YouTube's player decided to automatically switch to a VoD of a different tournament instead of waiting for the stream to come back.
I think they must have realized long ago that their streams did much better on Twitch, but Google paid to have HS esports as a YouTube exclusive and that contract likely hasn't run out yet.
Budget park is frightening in the dark
All the squirrels are coming back to life
Someone wound Guff into a rage
I admit it's kinda scary
And not to mention hairy
When eight attack is heading towards my face
Oh no!
Retiring if you don't find a Mysterious Stranger on the Heroic Air Totem map seems to be worth it though: you can retry the map quicker and the fact you'll get coins for random mercs instead of a fixed set is an advantage too.
I think there were only two legendary quests, but there are more packs to be had in the PvE storyline.
Packs aren't a very efficient way to grow your collection though, Hearthstone Mathematics did a video on it. You can get the most rewards doing the tasks from the task board.
You can get one more task each day by buying an extra task slot with gold and you can get tasks by meeting Mysterious Strangers at the mystery locations on the maps. Heroic Air Totem is the easiest mission to farm those.
Galvadon! The last kaleidosaur.
He's not that bad if you can summon four.
Galvadon! The last kaleidosaur.
Almost extinct, let's clone some more.
I agree that a lot of quality-of-life improvements are desired or even needed in some cases, like showing alliance/horde and merc tribes when picking artifacts, which task number you've completed for each merc, listing merc abilities in PvP.
Something I appreciate is being able to find new tasks via Mysterious Strangers while doing PvE runs. With ladder, it feels very unrewarding to play longer stretches on a single day because the reward track progression is minimal and the rank bonus doesn't come until the end of the month, so I wish they'd introduce something similar there.
I think that redesign looks better than the all-golden borders, but what I'd really like is an option to have the animated card art in a regular border.
They are active now. At the top of the chat window you can find your progress.
Usually if no time zone is mentioned, it's Pacific (PST/PDT), since that's where Blizzard is located.
If I recall correctly, clicking the "drops enabled" link takes you to a page that shows progress. There is such a page in any case.
The drops haven't started yet though.
I got two packs earlier today. I watched GM last weekend and the packs for that were slower than usual, but I did get them eventually on Sunday.
I guess Blizzard wasn't able to pinpoint exactly who missed out on packs and decided to send everyone who might not have gotten them new packs.
So far I like it better than I thought I would, but I had pretty low expectations. I'm not sure that it will have lasting appeal though.
I didn't pre-order. I did buy the 5 euros bundle, but I won't buy the 20 euros bundle unless I'm still playing this mode regularly by the end of the month.
Difficulty in PvE seems to range from somewhat challenging to ridiculously easy. In a few battles tactics matter, but often it's just a matter of whether your pile of stats is bigger than the enemy's. I've only done the first page of the Barrens so far, maybe things get more spicy later on.
Heroic missions bumped the opponents up a few levels, but other than that there doesn't seem to be much of a difference. Maybe XP is higher because of the higher levels? The coin rewards looked pretty similar to normal mode.
I'm not sure yet if I want to do PvP. I'll probably watch a stream to get an idea of what it's like.
I'm not sure "loss of passion" is fixable though. The problem is that getting lots of practice is essential to playing Hearthstone well: even the best players perform worse when they don't play enough games. Few people are going to stay motivated to put in that many hours year after year.