In a recent interview with InvenGlobal, Game Director Ben Lee and Production Director Nathan Lyons-Smith provided some insight into their thought process behind all of the major changes and additions to the game coming with the Year of the Phoenix. Here are the interesting bits from the interview.
- The new ranked system was designed to match players against others of similar skill, something that did not always happen in the current system, especially at ranks 20-18. It aims to fix the current rank stagnation experienced by many players on the old system.*
- There are no plans to develop a new Hearthstone client.
- They expect Demon Hunters to catch up with other classes within a year.
- Warrior might receive changes with regards to Charge and Warsong Commander in the future.
- More classes are not impossible in the future. Focusing on Demon Hunter for now.
- The team is looking at the future of Basic and Classic sets, noting some of the cards have become irrelevant over the years.
*Read up on all the changes coming to the ranked system here.
Quote From Ben Lee When Hearthstone was in its early days and people were hoping a tenth class would be added, many hoped for Death Knights, following World of Warcraft's path. But then we had Death Knight cards in Knights of the Frozen Throne. Does that rule out that we'll ever see Death Knights as a class in Hearthstone?
Who knows? The thing is: we'll see how this goes. We'd love to hear player feedback. If players love this, then adding more classes is definitely something we could entertain in the future. Right now we're focused on our next year with Demon Hunter and the other classes. But it's not impossible, of course.
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They need to do a new class every 2 years imo. The game was getting VERY stale until they announced this and now I can't friggin wait! I've been playing Hearthstone since Beta and this seemed like an impossible dream! I hope we get Monks next and I hope WoW adds a new class to their game as well.
Well, the DID just add Lifesteal and Rush to the Basic set with the new Demon Hunter cards, so that technically makes them evergreen, right?
I haven't been this hyped for Hearthstone since the intro of Death Knights. Absolutely loving the direction the team is taking Hearthstone, and looking forward to the year ahead!
Almost nostalgic of a simpler time, where 9 deck slots was all that technology could afford, and 9 classes was the max, for the sake of UI
Hoping to eventually see Deathknights and an Undead tribe type!
I would love a Mists of Pandaria Expansion with a monk class introduced for it to thematically fit. Death Knight, unfortunately, won't have a better theme than Frozen Throne in my opinion.
They could do a full Deathknight class with a Shadowlands set in a few years.
I agree, they encompassed the iconic Deathknight feel so well with Icecrown, but if they were to introduce Death knights they'll run with the new themes that have been explored since Legion - all the Bolvar development, and a huge aspect being that now all races can be death knights - lots of artwork and themes to explore in that department, it'd be pretty hype!
I think the newest wow expansion to drop is going to explore a whole new bunch of DK stuff too.
We most likely won't see Deathknights for a long time.
I think it would be okay for a death knight clad even though we had frozen throne and death knight cards, because that was just current classes turning into death knights and not a real deathknight, makes sense to me(a monk or a demon hunter would never turn into a deathknight anyway u_u) so I say bring it on, but the thing about a deathknight class instead of a monk or a demon hunter for example, is the release would be all about the new class, and with frozen throne being a thing that existed, idk how they'd tie in an expansion to deathknight, like many have said they could easily do a mists expansion for the monk if they wanted to add that as a class, since we dont have a lot of pandaren in the game already, but with deathknights we have a lot of themed cards around them already idk how they would make it work, but it's possible somehow I'm sure.
Monk would have to be next since they already have done Deathknights. Adding Monk whenever they finally do a Mists of Pandaria expansion.
Warrior absolutely needs changes made to Charge and Warsong Commander. The Charge nerf is now really dumb since they added Rush to the game. Warsong Commander should just be unnerfed and sent to HoF.
they could always do a retake on Death Knights, Boomsday style.
It would be kinda awkward tbh since they’ve already made Death Knight cards (cards generated through The Lich King and Arfus).
Boomsday style? how do you mean?
well, Boomsday was basically just a remake of GvG, expanding on the mech theme.
You could do the same for KoFT by doing a new take on the Death Knight theme and reintroduce it as its own class.
like have a focus on the Ebon what's it called ? the Death Knight club in WoW instead of Arthas and Friends?
They could add new classes in a temporary way, that last just for 2 years until they rotate to wild. So you would see new cards for that class for 2 years and then you'd change to a different temporary class
that would be kind of a scam, seeing how no budget player would even want to invest into a class that's gonna go away within 2 years.
i agree it would suck for budget players, but rotating classes would be a good way to keep the meta fresh imo. Too bad it just doesn't make sense considering that every class has to get new standard cards and what would be the point of printing new standard cards for a class if it cant even play in standard
edit: I meant rotating classes, not rotating temporary classes like the op said.
Play adventures that's what those are for....you want to play a new class? Try dalarahn heist....
If they really wanted to make a deathknight class they could just change the name and the names of the deathknight cards. something like lich cards idk.
edit: I do think it is very good they are not rushing classes for the sake of having more classes though.