Whereas we can always just build a deck and try it out in casual mode play, sometimes you want to try a specific deck against a specific deck. Perhaps a new Paladin control deck you've been working on against a Warlock murloc deck. There's no easy and convenient way of doing that, other than getting a friend to field the opposing deck.
We already have AI in the game. It's not the most intelligent AI, maybe a tad worse than your average player. Even if Blizzard didn't improve upon it, we could still use it to test decks against.
For some future Hearthstone update, perhaps allowing us to assign a deck for the AI to play, and then play decks we're developing against the AI.
Blizzard could go one better and allow us to create decks with cards we don't yet own, so that we can evaluate them in practice mode. Maybe we're not quite ready to spend the dust on a Lorewalker Cho, but we have some deck ideas revolving around that card. We'd like to rest Cho in those decks before spending 1600 dust. Practice mode could be a great way to evaluate cards before spending the dust on them.
Of course, if Blizzard went in this direction for practice mode, it would be beneficial to ramp up the skill of the AI system. A tougher practice opponent means better deck evaluation.
As much as this might be a good idea, it all comes down to priorities and development resources on the Hearthstone team.
Whereas we can always just build a deck and try it out in casual mode play, sometimes you want to try a specific deck against a specific deck. Perhaps a new Paladin control deck you've been working on against a Warlock murloc deck. There's no easy and convenient way of doing that, other than getting a friend to field the opposing deck.
We already have AI in the game. It's not the most intelligent AI, maybe a tad worse than your average player. Even if Blizzard didn't improve upon it, we could still use it to test decks against.
For some future Hearthstone update, perhaps allowing us to assign a deck for the AI to play, and then play decks we're developing against the AI.
Blizzard could go one better and allow us to create decks with cards we don't yet own, so that we can evaluate them in practice mode. Maybe we're not quite ready to spend the dust on a Lorewalker Cho, but we have some deck ideas revolving around that card. We'd like to rest Cho in those decks before spending 1600 dust. Practice mode could be a great way to evaluate cards before spending the dust on them.
Of course, if Blizzard went in this direction for practice mode, it would be beneficial to ramp up the skill of the AI system. A tougher practice opponent means better deck evaluation.
As much as this might be a good idea, it all comes down to priorities and development resources on the Hearthstone team.
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Poetic.