I stopped playing shortly after Rastakhan's Rumble came out because I felt the game was stale and boring, and felt kind of cheated by the cost to enjoyment I got out of buying into the expansion. Despite not playing in months, I've been following the spoiler season for Rise of Shadows. A lot of the cards look interesting, and a lot of the worst offenders for ruining fun will be rotating out.
I'm hoping to see something similar to the release of Un'Goro, which was some of the most fun I've ever had playing Hearthstone. I'm not a F2P player, but I'm not someone who wants to throw good money after bad. What do you all think about getting back into the game?
Definitely gonna be a great, fresh era for Hearthstone. With Un'Goro, Frozen Throne, and Kobolds rotating out, we're losing a LOT of bullshit that has been in this game too long which should make for some really fun play.
I've always been a huge fan of the first set of every year due to the rotation, so I'd say it's definitely worth getting back into for anyone on the fence. So much new stuff!
I have been playing since the launch of Knights of the Frozen Throne, and played less and less a little while after The Witchwood nerfs came in. The game felt stale due to the cards from 2017 (Journey to Un'Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne and Kobolds & Catacombs) were way more powerful than the 2018 cards. The rotation is for me exciting because a lot of "infinite value" cards will be rotating out (like Death Knights). I have pre-ordered from all the expansions since K&C and I will now, as the rotation will shake the game up by a ton.
Getting back into the game now seems better than ever. If you haven't played the game for more than 2 months (according to Reddit) you are awarded a bunch of packs to open (FOR FREE!).
Honestly, this is the freshest the game is going to feel since Un'Goro. When year of the Kraken rotated last year, it barely shook anything up just because of the power level of the Mammoth sets.
Add on top of that, Blizz rotating Genn and Baku early... no one knows what the meta is going to look like. It's going to be a great time of experimenting!
Now is definitely a good time to start playing again!
To be perfectly honest I will say I am looking forward to playing a bit more again when this expansion hits simply because we're going to lose 3 of the most powerful sets we've probably ever had and because of those the sets that have followed just haven't been able to compete hense why the game hasn't been so great lately, not to mention we'll also be losing all the odd/even decks too which is also great so i'm actually kinda excited again to try some new decks out.
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Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
Getting back into the game now seems better than ever. If you haven't played the game for more than 2 months (according to Reddit) you are awarded a bunch of packs to open (FOR FREE!).
Can you post the source for that? I can't believe them rewarding people who HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME while not giving something of equal worth to THEIR ACTUAL PLAYERBASE.
They’re giving 15 RR packs for players who’ve been missing out, too lazy to search for the sourc rn
A lot of games do that for players coming back cause they missed quite some stuff; plus, you also have events, don’t act entitled
Getting back into the game now seems better than ever. If you haven't played the game for more than 2 months (according to Reddit) you are awarded a bunch of packs to open (FOR FREE!).
Can you post the source for that? I can't believe them rewarding people who HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME while not giving something of equal worth to THEIR ACTUAL PLAYERBASE.
The following quests are part of the returning player experience, awarded one at a time in the order shown below. The first is part of the Return of the Hero challenge. These quests are awarded only to returning players (i.e., players whose account has been inactive for a few months). The required amount of inactivity is not known, but known to be longer than 4 months.
I've stopped playing this game more or less year ago, checking out every expansion for a little, then getting out because game feels not fun.
I have to say this is the first expansion I am optimistic about. Most of the unfair cards will rotate out, and new ones look fun. Will definitely try it.
This upcoming meta is gonna be BONKERS. With Mammoth, Baku/Genn, Naturalize and Divine Favor(!!) rotating out, all these powerful and/or intriguing Shadows cards coming in, and a bunch of Raven cards probably seeing more play it's gonna be a very different experience. Also Shadows cards show a move towards winning with value, but mostly not cheated or infinitely generated value, and I think that will be really fun and fresh after dealing with so much combo/minion cheating/infinite value.
I think the player base has been calling for cards to be more fair so we don't get so many ubiquitous cards like Rexxar or whole-deck-revolves-around-it-like-the-sun cards like Katherina. I think they've delivered with Shadows. There are powerful cards but they're generally conditional and/or understatted. I think a few broken cards slipped through. Heistlord Togwaggle....umm....is this a tavern brawl WTF? Seems broken to me. And Archmage Vargoth...holy what the hell? We'll see though. When I saw Togwaggle I was like "Oh SHIT. They were so close to resetting the power levels and now they done fucked it all up again!" but with more cards revealed I think we'll have powerful cards but an overall power level reset to a much less swingy, rinse and repeat meta. I'm concerned about these crazy Rogue cards...but they're pushing a kind of control Rogue which hasn't worked yet so maybe it won't be so OP.
We also got hand disruption! A further shift away from combo and towards value, but not just control value. Midrange/zoo should be strong too.
I think it'll be the change we've been waiting for and it won't disappoint. It'll still be Hearthstone though. Still rage inducing. Also remember Arena is going to change a lot too and it'll feel very different. If you're gonna jump in (and if you are you know it. Don't kid yourself) do yourself a favor and buy a prepurchase bundle with Amazon coins or iTunes or whatever. Save 15-20% with the coins and then get 25% more packs than you normally would for $50. Be smart and get 40% more value. Just sayin..
I am not thinking it, i know i will come back. Well at the very least till war of the spark launches. But honestly this is the first time after so many years that i am optimistic about the game.
I'm sorry to spoil the mood, but if you quit for oppressive cards you are going to be back for a very very very short time. There is zero difference between the Mammoth Rotation and the Dragon Rotation to me. Cards that have been in the game for two years are leaving and the previous year's set, which was underutilized, will now rise as the "broken" cards you hated in the past- the cycle continues. I love Hearthstone and have played it for three and a half years, but this is a very natural curve of card life in formats that rotate sets. I promise you you'll be back in 2020 saying "Man who is excited for Witchwood and Rastakhan's Rumble to get out of Standard?!?!". Then it'll be time for the cards now you love so much to be the backbone of the decks you hate. This is a healthy cycle, but don't spend money and buy back into the game if you think Blizzard magically broke the cycle- it simply exists in rotating card games.
I basically stopped playing beyond daily quests and goofing around shortly after Rastakan. This game is just not fun when Hunters are on top (sorry not sorry). They have the most boring decks to play and play against and half of them are cocky BMing idiots and it just made the game tedious and boring. Looking forward to Rexxar going away, I'm just annoyed they got Zuljin too.
I stopped too after Rastakhan's Rumble cause of hunters. Was bored of droods before for the same reason. I wanted to uninstall and never play again HS. But to be honest with the rotation it's look intresting. So I give HS a last try.
I am ok with a popular deck but 50% hunter (or any class) with different viable deck. It s just boring.
I'm sorry to spoil the mood, but if you quit for oppressive cards you are going to be back for a very very very short time. There is zero difference between the Mammoth Rotation and the Dragon Rotation to me. Cards that have been in the game for two years are leaving and the previous year's set, which was underutilized, will now rise as the "broken" cards you hated in the past- the cycle continues. I love Hearthstone and have played it for three and a half years, but this is a very natural curve of card life in formats that rotate sets. I promise you you'll be back in 2020 saying "Man who is excited for Witchwood and Rastakhan's Rumble to get out of Standard?!?!". Then it'll be time for the cards now you love so much to be the backbone of the decks you hate. This is a healthy cycle, but don't spend money and buy back into the game if you think Blizzard magically broke the cycle- it simply exists in rotating card games.
My opinion on Blizzard is quite low, so I won't ever buy anything from it. But imo new expansion introduces pretty fun concepts and I'd like to try these out before quitting for good. This is the last cycle I'll be able to play by disenchanting all the wild cards, next one I simply won't have enough dust unless I'll start having fun again.
I have been playing Eternal for the past 3 months but I am very excited to get back into Hearhstone. The rotation will make this game really fresh, unlike the previous rotation.
Played since the release, quit 3 months ago. New expansion will be fresh for 2 weeks, then it will be boring again. As long as Blizzard doesn't care about the game, no new mods, no tournament mode, I'll not return.
Yea I'm getting back in the game I left right after the release of K&C because I felt like the game had become a bit repetitive for me and I thought a break might be nice, the timing is just coincidence that there's a rotation so I completely missed all the odd/even stuff (sounds pretty bad to). It feels so weird seeing the DK cards go, they are to date some of my favorite cards ever printed, but man did they push the power level of decks through the roof.
I can clearly see that Blizzard has a new approach on setting the power level of the cards lower, as I read what's been printed in the most recent 3 expansions they have WAY turned down the power creep, which is probably a really good idea. I'm looking forward to Shadows but I'm not sure I'm sold on buying the pre-order. I got a couple more days to think about it. So far I don't see anything much in the set that looks like a "MUST HAVE" and that's probably a good thing. Because in the Mammoth year, I feel like you HAD to buy a lot of packs to win, too many must have cards.
Yes, I'm thinking of going back to Hearthstone once again. Been playing since Naxx, pre-order every expansion and adventure, been playing fun and casually, but quit after Psychic Scream was revealed. Literally quit after thumb-sucker Priest moved all cards in the board to my deck without any drawbacks. I hope the card designer to stub his toe everyday. It was a difficult experience, especially after Naga Sea Witch gave a terrible experience in Wild. I even missed about four cardbacks past year, since I only played Arena and Arena when I missed Hearthstone. The last time I enjoyed playing ranked in Hearthstone was actually when Un'goro came out. Nevertheless, I'm so interested with upcoming expansion, but damn... there are so many must have cards.
I stopped playing shortly after Rastakhan's Rumble came out because I felt the game was stale and boring, and felt kind of cheated by the cost to enjoyment I got out of buying into the expansion. Despite not playing in months, I've been following the spoiler season for Rise of Shadows. A lot of the cards look interesting, and a lot of the worst offenders for ruining fun will be rotating out.
I'm hoping to see something similar to the release of Un'Goro, which was some of the most fun I've ever had playing Hearthstone. I'm not a F2P player, but I'm not someone who wants to throw good money after bad. What do you all think about getting back into the game?
Definitely gonna be a great, fresh era for Hearthstone. With Un'Goro, Frozen Throne, and Kobolds rotating out, we're losing a LOT of bullshit that has been in this game too long which should make for some really fun play.
I've always been a huge fan of the first set of every year due to the rotation, so I'd say it's definitely worth getting back into for anyone on the fence. So much new stuff!
I have been playing since the launch of Knights of the Frozen Throne, and played less and less a little while after The Witchwood nerfs came in. The game felt stale due to the cards from 2017 (Journey to Un'Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne and Kobolds & Catacombs) were way more powerful than the 2018 cards. The rotation is for me exciting because a lot of "infinite value" cards will be rotating out (like Death Knights). I have pre-ordered from all the expansions since K&C and I will now, as the rotation will shake the game up by a ton.
Getting back into the game now seems better than ever. If you haven't played the game for more than 2 months (according to Reddit) you are awarded a bunch of packs to open (FOR FREE!).
Honestly, this is the freshest the game is going to feel since Un'Goro. When year of the Kraken rotated last year, it barely shook anything up just because of the power level of the Mammoth sets.
Add on top of that, Blizz rotating Genn and Baku early... no one knows what the meta is going to look like. It's going to be a great time of experimenting!
Now is definitely a good time to start playing again!
#nerfbarnes
To be perfectly honest I will say I am looking forward to playing a bit more again when this expansion hits simply because we're going to lose 3 of the most powerful sets we've probably ever had and because of those the sets that have followed just haven't been able to compete hense why the game hasn't been so great lately, not to mention we'll also be losing all the odd/even decks too which is also great so i'm actually kinda excited again to try some new decks out.
Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
They’re giving 15 RR packs for players who’ve been missing out, too lazy to search for the sourc rn
A lot of games do that for players coming back cause they missed quite some stuff; plus, you also have events, don’t act entitled
Took me five seconds to google it, dude:
https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Quest#Returning_player_experience
Returning player experience
The following quests are part of the returning player experience, awarded one at a time in the order shown below. The first is part of the Return of the Hero challenge. These quests are awarded only to returning players (i.e., players whose account has been inactive for a few months). The required amount of inactivity is not known, but known to be longer than 4 months.
Quest: "Ready for Action"
Quest: "Back in the Game!"
Of course I still playing right now and will still play when rotation hits .
I've stopped playing this game more or less year ago, checking out every expansion for a little, then getting out because game feels not fun.
I have to say this is the first expansion I am optimistic about. Most of the unfair cards will rotate out, and new ones look fun. Will definitely try it.
This upcoming meta is gonna be BONKERS. With Mammoth, Baku/Genn, Naturalize and Divine Favor(!!) rotating out, all these powerful and/or intriguing Shadows cards coming in, and a bunch of Raven cards probably seeing more play it's gonna be a very different experience. Also Shadows cards show a move towards winning with value, but mostly not cheated or infinitely generated value, and I think that will be really fun and fresh after dealing with so much combo/minion cheating/infinite value.
I think the player base has been calling for cards to be more fair so we don't get so many ubiquitous cards like Rexxar or whole-deck-revolves-around-it-like-the-sun cards like Katherina. I think they've delivered with Shadows. There are powerful cards but they're generally conditional and/or understatted. I think a few broken cards slipped through. Heistlord Togwaggle....umm....is this a tavern brawl WTF? Seems broken to me. And Archmage Vargoth...holy what the hell? We'll see though. When I saw Togwaggle I was like "Oh SHIT. They were so close to resetting the power levels and now they done fucked it all up again!" but with more cards revealed I think we'll have powerful cards but an overall power level reset to a much less swingy, rinse and repeat meta. I'm concerned about these crazy Rogue cards...but they're pushing a kind of control Rogue which hasn't worked yet so maybe it won't be so OP.
We also got hand disruption! A further shift away from combo and towards value, but not just control value. Midrange/zoo should be strong too.
And there are just straight up cool new cards that do cool new things, like Archivist Elysiana, Plot Twist, Swampqueen Hagatha, Nine Lives, Keeper Stelladris and Mana Cyclone.
I think it'll be the change we've been waiting for and it won't disappoint. It'll still be Hearthstone though. Still rage inducing. Also remember Arena is going to change a lot too and it'll feel very different. If you're gonna jump in (and if you are you know it. Don't kid yourself) do yourself a favor and buy a prepurchase bundle with Amazon coins or iTunes or whatever. Save 15-20% with the coins and then get 25% more packs than you normally would for $50. Be smart and get 40% more value. Just sayin..
I am not thinking it, i know i will come back. Well at the very least till war of the spark launches. But honestly this is the first time after so many years that i am optimistic about the game.
I'm sorry to spoil the mood, but if you quit for oppressive cards you are going to be back for a very very very short time. There is zero difference between the Mammoth Rotation and the Dragon Rotation to me. Cards that have been in the game for two years are leaving and the previous year's set, which was underutilized, will now rise as the "broken" cards you hated in the past- the cycle continues. I love Hearthstone and have played it for three and a half years, but this is a very natural curve of card life in formats that rotate sets. I promise you you'll be back in 2020 saying "Man who is excited for Witchwood and Rastakhan's Rumble to get out of Standard?!?!". Then it'll be time for the cards now you love so much to be the backbone of the decks you hate. This is a healthy cycle, but don't spend money and buy back into the game if you think Blizzard magically broke the cycle- it simply exists in rotating card games.
True but balance is a thing and it's been out of whack. It'll be hard for that not to get better with Mammoth rotating.
I basically stopped playing beyond daily quests and goofing around shortly after Rastakan. This game is just not fun when Hunters are on top (sorry not sorry). They have the most boring decks to play and play against and half of them are cocky BMing idiots and it just made the game tedious and boring. Looking forward to Rexxar going away, I'm just annoyed they got Zuljin too.
I stopped too after Rastakhan's Rumble cause of hunters.
Was bored of droods before for the same reason.
I wanted to uninstall and never play again HS.
But to be honest with the rotation it's look intresting.
So I give HS a last try.
I am ok with a popular deck but 50% hunter (or any class) with different viable deck.
It s just boring.
My opinion on Blizzard is quite low, so I won't ever buy anything from it. But imo new expansion introduces pretty fun concepts and I'd like to try these out before quitting for good. This is the last cycle I'll be able to play by disenchanting all the wild cards, next one I simply won't have enough dust unless I'll start having fun again.
I have been playing Eternal for the past 3 months but I am very excited to get back into Hearhstone. The rotation will make this game really fresh, unlike the previous rotation.
Played since the release, quit 3 months ago. New expansion will be fresh for 2 weeks, then it will be boring again. As long as Blizzard doesn't care about the game, no new mods, no tournament mode, I'll not return.
Yea I'm getting back in the game I left right after the release of K&C because I felt like the game had become a bit repetitive for me and I thought a break might be nice, the timing is just coincidence that there's a rotation so I completely missed all the odd/even stuff (sounds pretty bad to). It feels so weird seeing the DK cards go, they are to date some of my favorite cards ever printed, but man did they push the power level of decks through the roof.
I can clearly see that Blizzard has a new approach on setting the power level of the cards lower, as I read what's been printed in the most recent 3 expansions they have WAY turned down the power creep, which is probably a really good idea. I'm looking forward to Shadows but I'm not sure I'm sold on buying the pre-order. I got a couple more days to think about it. So far I don't see anything much in the set that looks like a "MUST HAVE" and that's probably a good thing. Because in the Mammoth year, I feel like you HAD to buy a lot of packs to win, too many must have cards.
Yes, I'm thinking of going back to Hearthstone once again. Been playing since Naxx, pre-order every expansion and adventure, been playing fun and casually, but quit after Psychic Scream was revealed. Literally quit after thumb-sucker Priest moved all cards in the board to my deck without any drawbacks. I hope the card designer to stub his toe everyday. It was a difficult experience, especially after Naga Sea Witch gave a terrible experience in Wild. I even missed about four cardbacks past year, since I only played Arena and Arena when I missed Hearthstone. The last time I enjoyed playing ranked in Hearthstone was actually when Un'goro came out. Nevertheless, I'm so interested with upcoming expansion, but damn... there are so many must have cards.