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Game Developer, Dean Ayala on Dual-Class Cards in Hearthstone - "Good Chance We'll Revisit Dual-Class"
On Twitter this evening, Dean Ayala, Game Designer and Cool Hearthstone Dad, asked the community to send him in questions. One of those questions...
Hearthstone's Shadow Priest Is Returning! A Different Direction for the Community Favourite
Dean Ayala was on Twitter this evening answering community questions. One prompt, on Priests, asked about the design of the class to which we received...
Blizzard Discussed Changing Warlock's Hero Power In the Early Hearthstone Days
Cool Hearthstone Dad, Dean Ayala, is answering follower questions this evening on Twitter and had an interesting bit of lore on the Warlock Hero...
Hearthstone's First Expansion of 2021 Will Have a 100 Level Rewards Track Instead of 50 (Battle Pass)
Dean "Iksar" Ayala was out on Reddit tonight responding to feedback on the Hearthstone Rewards Track for Madness at the Darkmoon Fair. In his post, he...
Iksar Talks About Possible Future Achievement Changes - Point Rewards, Claiming, Notification Timing
Hearthstone Designer, Dean "Iksar" Ayala, answered a bunch of community questions on Reddit this past weekend and gave us some interesting insight...
Ulduar is on Blizzard's Whiteboard, Will Come to Hearthstone One Day
On Twitter, Dean Ayala asked the question, which Warcraft theme do you want to see in Hearthstone? When prompted with Ulduar, he confirmed that...
Dean Asks: Which Warcraft Setting or Expansion Theme Do You Want in Hearthstone?
Hearthstone Game Designer Dean Ayala has asked the question - which Warcraft theme do you want as an upcoming expansion?
The question is asked because...
Blizzard is Trying Different Health Scaling and Card Tier Damage for Battlegrounds in Playtesting
Dean "Iksar" Ayala has commented on internal playtesting for Battlegrounds that is evaluating if changes are needed to the damage seen in the...
Journey to Un'Goro's Crocodile Race, Reptari, Was Scrapped in Development
Hearthstone's Journey to Un'Goro expansion launched all the way back in April 2017. It brought us the first Legendary spells to the game through...
Hearthstone's Iksar Talks Card Balance & RNG - New Patch Coming Before Expansion 2, Possible Dragoncaster & Rogue's Galakrond Changes
Yingdi, a Chinese web portal for card games, had a chance to interview Hearthstone's Dean Ayala this past month and they spoke about card balance,...
Demon Hunter Nerfs Arriving Today! More Hearthstone Outland Balance Changes Coming Soon - We Were Not Prepared!
Dean Ayala just tweeted out some rather surprising but very welcome news - Demon Hunter is getting nerfed, and the balance changes are due...