Has anyone else given thought to this cards design? Seems kinda like sleezy marketing/trickery to me. This "top 8 worst cards" video talks about her a bit... but basically says that she's designed to trick newer players into having higher expectations for pack opening (thus incentivizing them to buy more packs). What do you guys think?
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I couldn't disagree more with pretty much all of the video posters comments on Elise. The trash pack fillers and The Rogue legendary I agree with. But in no way do I see Elise as a marketing strategy.
By the time someone has gotten this far in the game and have even gotten a chance to open Elise from a pack they will have gone through dozens if not hundreds of card packs and understand the basic drop rates of cards and that despite what you get from Elise for pure value purposes you will not get that when you head to the shop.
The card adds pure value for control matchups. It's to give you a little more late game ammunition and fill your hand. It's definitely no tier 1 card I think but it will fit into very specific archetypes much like the original iteration did.
And lastly her bashing of them re using Elise as a character is just childish and unnecessary. Elise represents a unique aspect of Hearthstone. The explorers were the first non WoW characters introduced giving them freedom to expand their lore and set design beyond just redoing famous raids and locations. I personally think it's great that they're keeping their hearthstone lore alive by reprinting old characters in new ways.
The legue of explorers was a huuuge archievement of this dev team imo. since it was the 1st thing comming from hearthstone making it into confirmed WoW lore.
It would be a waste to let them just turn into dust. i apprechiate the comeback of at least 1 legue member in this set.
The asumption Elise is like a marketing thing is just ludicrous. Its not that everybody gets her for free or anything.
The card is just insane and will see a lot of play in midrange/control decks especially since shes neutral shell be all over the place.
Has anyone else given thought to this cards design? Seems kinda like sleezy marketing/trickery to me. This "top 8 worst cards" video talks about her a bit... but basically says that she's designed to trick newer players into having higher expectations for pack opening (thus incentivizing them to buy more packs). What do you guys think?
I play Hearthstone and other games on my youtube channel: ManyMiniMoose
I couldn't disagree more with pretty much all of the video posters comments on Elise. The trash pack fillers and The Rogue legendary I agree with. But in no way do I see Elise as a marketing strategy.
By the time someone has gotten this far in the game and have even gotten a chance to open Elise from a pack they will have gone through dozens if not hundreds of card packs and understand the basic drop rates of cards and that despite what you get from Elise for pure value purposes you will not get that when you head to the shop.
The card adds pure value for control matchups. It's to give you a little more late game ammunition and fill your hand. It's definitely no tier 1 card I think but it will fit into very specific archetypes much like the original iteration did.
And lastly her bashing of them re using Elise as a character is just childish and unnecessary. Elise represents a unique aspect of Hearthstone. The explorers were the first non WoW characters introduced giving them freedom to expand their lore and set design beyond just redoing famous raids and locations. I personally think it's great that they're keeping their hearthstone lore alive by reprinting old characters in new ways.
The legue of explorers was a huuuge archievement of this dev team imo. since it was the 1st thing comming from hearthstone making it into confirmed WoW lore.
It would be a waste to let them just turn into dust. i apprechiate the comeback of at least 1 legue member in this set.
The asumption Elise is like a marketing thing is just ludicrous. Its not that everybody gets her for free or anything.
The card is just insane and will see a lot of play in midrange/control decks especially since shes neutral shell be all over the place.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/card-discussion/188156-new-legendary-card-elise-the-trailblazer
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