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You can't cry over what we are going to lose when we still don't know what we are going to gain!!

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Nah, I've managed to get to rank 5 with a Midrange N'Zoth Hunter me and a friend came up with, winrate with it wasn't too bad from what I remember too. So, while netdecking gets you refined decks, it's way more fun and fulfilling to get to high ranks with your own creations. 

 Midrange Hunter? So innovative, much new, such wow.

Changing 2 cards from the decks online = I am a deck builder now!!

That is not how deck building works.

When I look at the the newer batches of cards they are releasing, its seems to me like they tone down the overall power level of the new released cards.

If this assumption is true, then Priest and rogue automatically will become viable again as soon as the last power creeped batches of cards have rotated out. This would be truly a lazy approach to fix the problem, but it would also fix it in the longer run.

The thing I dislike about the card design is, that if it works well it might be game deciding on the back of a rng coinflip. (in minion based decks)

Could be the "super greed"-deck enabler with cards like Ysera, Sylvanas, Cairne, Rag, Y'Sharaj. Or just in a simple deathrattle deck.

Quote from Rjomario >>

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In the old days, this would have given me board initiative and run the opponent out of resources.
But he proceeded to play 15 power on board and 33 worth of stats for 9 mana and was only overloaded for 2 the next turn so he could pile on even though I could address his board.

There is something rotten in the game when stuff like this can happen.

 

I like the card design number and effect wise. It seems niche usable, not universally good.

However... why rehash an already existing character? They could have easily put a image and name of a random paladin hero and it wouldnt be questioned at all.

Either they make jokes about themselves being uncreative (maybe Blizz started to cut costs at the design end) or its really just an early aprils fools.

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By introducing this card Blizzard created a situation where they dont have to balance out their game (Mysterious Challenger this time).

I rate 2/10 for your efforts Blizz, way to maneuvre the game in a unhealthy future.

 It's always been new cards over nerfing cards (well, at least like, 95% of the time), how are you still surprised?

By introducing this card Blizzard created a situation where they dont have to balance out their game (Mysterious Challenger this time).

I rate 2/10 for your efforts Blizz, way to maneuvre the game in a unhealthy future.

Blizz invited again streamers, players as well as some podcasters to their headquaters (Eg. Thijs, Firebat, "The Angry Chicken" guys&galls, etc.).

Info I have so far: From Thijs stream I caught, that he is leaving this monday to the USA. Firebat said on his stream that he signed a contract that prohibits him talking about the new expansion. The announcement of the announcement for the new expansion is coming on next Friday.

Here comes my speculation:

A whole week is a relatively long time. I am guessing they will be playtesting the coming nerfs to the Classic & Basic set maybe as well the coming Expansion. Maybe creating decks for showmatches like the one we saw before they released TGT. Another thing is that Yong Woo stated we will soon see a cool preconstructed Brawl again. This might be a opportunity to give a sneak peak into the Expansion.

What are your wild guesses and do you have some further information that would let us construct a more solid prediction of the coming events?

The Blue Post reads like a preemptive apology for an expansion full of useless cards. I guess they are worried about rocking the mood-boat of the community even more.

I agree with the points you made. Especially the publicity one.

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The card pool would be smaller than Standard, and the meta would be completely unbalanced relative to the environment the sets TGT/BRM/LoE were designed for.

 

 

Soon there will be the release of the Standard Mode as well as the new Expansion.

Blizzard already indicated that there will be changes (nerfs) to some of the basic and classic cards. In my opinion it is critical that they change stuff in a way that the basic and classic card sets are balanced in a standalone manner. Otherwise they have to repeatedly address issues with the upcoming content which limits their design space (jadajada...).

My idea would be to rush the upcoming patch and release it in some kind of beta state:

Standard Mode Beta:

Only Basic & Classic cards plus TGT and LOE.

Instead of their best bet for the nerfs (which usually meant elimination of the problematic card (not talking about beta)) they would be able to fine tune the adjustments to the cards and reiterate the nerf process until everyone is more or less happy.

Pros (in my opinion):

-more players than they can ever hire to test their nerfs, and thus alot more solid adjustments

-with each adjustment, the meta and thus the decks would change leading to a great diversity (deck building paradise, kinda like a 'Constructed Brawl Mode')

-It would give the players the ability (or at least the illusion) to be more involved in the evolution of the game

-BB & crew could show off how capable, creative and fast they can be with new ideas.

Cons:

- It is additional work for Blizzard.

The problem I see is that a fast implementation is not that easy.

My suggestion how to implement it would be: make a parallel beta client which clones the personal card collection but where you cannot craft or disentchant cards. Also no rewards for playing in the 'Standard Mode Beta'. Or if they want to be generous: give every player that was involved in the testing an additional Legendary Loot crate at the end of the month (until the Beta phase is over).

How to get Blizzard doing it: Well, if enough of you guys like the idea and talk about it, they will eventually listen and maybe even make it happen in some way or the other. So... talk about it (in a constructive manner)!

And sorry for the bad english.

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