HoF is more wallet friendly to players, less destructive for fun decks and let's be honest, Wild can't be balanced anyways, so to keep balancing it is just not sensible
OP cards are the ones that are destructive to fun decks .Wild cant be balanced proeperly , but developers should keep it as balanced as possible imo.
Formats that allow every card to be used in TCG's (like the Wild format) are impossible to balance with out limiting design space forever. Peoples biggest complaints against these games are the cost, and the Hall of Fame option is the most wallet friendly. I say good job blizzard.
I do not like the idea of HOFing instead of fixing bad, new, design. Genn and Baku would have rotated in just 1 year, but Blizzard knew that HS would suffer from their continued existence. There isn't much more they could do to admit the cards were a mistake.
They might as well have deleted them and given everyone the dust, if they were going to make such a blatantly desperate change anyway. It's quite clear from the recent nerfs and this exceptional rotation that, for the first time ever, Blizzard can't handle their own cards.
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Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health. - Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
They might as well have deleted them and given everyone the dust, if they were going to make such a blatantly desperate change anyway.
Mmmm... At first I was going to tell you such a thing wouldn't have been a good idea (obviously in a polite way, you are my dear Morkimus after all, hehe :P), but after thinking about it for a while, I think you are right, that would have been probably the best move. :)
I disagree. Before HoF existed, cards were nerfed to the ground to never be playable anywhere. I don't think that is better. Cards like Genn and Baku are very dufficult to nerf correctly, and the dust refund policy is better for HoFed cards for most players.
The mistake was that they included the HoF after the first standard rotation.
If a HoFed card indeed destroys Wild, it will be nerfed, but that has not been anywhere close to the case so far. Problematic cards in Wild have rather been broken new synergies: Barnes+resurrect+AOE options, Star Aligner+Melon+Aviana+Kun, Giants+Naga. Currently Even shaman+Wild syneergy, Pirate rogue+Patches, Kngsbane+Oil and Odd paladin+Mustard/QM/Loatheb are all strong, but I don't think the current HoF class will create any problems.
If anything, I would have wanted CB, Mana Wyrm and druid ramp to be HoFed rather than nerfed...
HoF is good for popular cards that are *consistent*, but not broken. Nerf in that case would kill cards that are perfectly fitting in Wild.
HoF or Rotation is bad for cards that are either *broken* or potentially broken. In that case you need nerf.
In the case of Baku/Genn, people are mistaking "consistency" (their real property) with "brokenness" (something that cannot really belong to upgraded hero powers. It MAY belong to some specific synergy cards, but not to Genn/Baku).
Remove from game.
Fun > Meta
OP cards are the ones that are destructive to fun decks .Wild cant be balanced proeperly , but developers should keep it as balanced as possible imo.
I dont think dust is a real issue.
Formats that allow every card to be used in TCG's (like the Wild format) are impossible to balance with out limiting design space forever. Peoples biggest complaints against these games are the cost, and the Hall of Fame option is the most wallet friendly. I say good job blizzard.
Wow, you mean everything?
Including the Warsong Commander that gives Charge to every minion, the Undertaker that gets +1/+1, the 2 mana Frost Nova, the AoE Savagery?
... I would at least like to see how it is in this day and age, at least for a month. Tinkmaster alone would be huge.
Blizzard doesn't give two shits about wild though lol
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As a Wild player, I like HOF for Classic cards. Azure Drake, Ragnaros the Firelord and Sylvanas Windrunner were good calls to lower their oppressive playrate in both modes. Coldlight Oracle and Power Overwhelming are also considerably healthy in their new home.
I do not like the idea of HOFing instead of fixing bad, new, design. Genn and Baku would have rotated in just 1 year, but Blizzard knew that HS would suffer from their continued existence. There isn't much more they could do to admit the cards were a mistake.
They might as well have deleted them and given everyone the dust, if they were going to make such a blatantly desperate change anyway. It's quite clear from the recent nerfs and this exceptional rotation that, for the first time ever, Blizzard can't handle their own cards.
Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health.
- Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Mmmm... At first I was going to tell you such a thing wouldn't have been a good idea (obviously in a polite way, you are my dear Morkimus after all, hehe :P), but after thinking about it for a while, I think you are right, that would have been probably the best move. :)
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Only a Sith lives with absolutes.
HoF is good for popular cards that are *consistent*, but not broken. Nerf in that case would kill cards that are perfectly fitting in Wild.
HoF or Rotation is bad for cards that are either *broken* or potentially broken. In that case you need nerf.
In the case of Baku/Genn, people are mistaking "consistency" (their real property) with "brokenness" (something that cannot really belong to upgraded hero powers. It MAY belong to some specific synergy cards, but not to Genn/Baku).