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I've been playing ESL for a little bit now, too, however you need to understand that the only reason you like it so much right now is that it's very new. Eventually, if it lasts as long it will certainly suffer the same sort of problems you're having with hearthstone. Keep in mind hearthstone was once new and exciting, too.
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Peple here need to understand one thing, Hearthstone isn't F2P friendly. Seriously if you look on games like Elder Scrolls Legends or Shadowverse, it's sad to see how much time HS require from you to get decent collection. I've played hearthstone since early closed beta (before account wipe) hitted legend in 9 seasons, got like 98% collection of useful cards, spend money on each adventure (cuz they are actually worth it's prize) but boy i hate every new expansion that come out to this game, like every single time i have 10-12k gold saved and i get juicy 3 legendaries and few crappy epics for my 3-4 months grind, then i need to waste another 2-3 months to get most of the valuable cards in this expansion, so maybe i can play with every deck i want in last few weeks before another set come out, cool right?
Now let's see TES:Legends, i played it for 3 weeks now and i got 73% of collection as a f2p player. I got 100% commons and 95% rares, more than half of all epics, and 35% of legendaries in the game. There are around 40 legendaries in the game already, that means i have ~14 unique legends after 3 weeks of play. How many of you had that much in HS after 3 weeks? Even soft spenders? i probably have 14 legends after naxxramas came out :) Actually i plan to spend my cash for packs in this game next month just because it rewards me for time i spend there even tho packs themself had as shitty drop rate as Hearthstone (well exept you have much more double rare packs than 40-dust ones, but epics and legendaries have similar drop rate).
In HS you're getting 10 gold for every 3 wins, so if we take 50% win ratio and around 10 min game it's 10 gold per hour. 100 gold per 10 hour, one fucking pack per 10 hours, that's how blizzard reward us for playing their game.
Here you're getting 15-35 gold for 3 wins + a card (most of the time it's common or rare, sometimes you can get epic or full pack, one time i got a Legendary), play time is actually similar to Hearthstone for aggro, tempo decks so it's still 1 reward per hour but here you'll get ~250 gold, 5 Commons, 4 rares and Epic on avg after this 10 hours, so it's worth like 5 packs of value in dust compared to HS. Also there is cap for gold, same like Hearthstone, 30 wins per day but for heavy players that doesn't mean no rewards after that if they wanna play more cuz you still get a card reward after each 3 wins.
Now to sweet this a little more you even get rewards for playing AI, refined aggro deck can beat expert AI in ~7-8 minutes and it gives you 15 Soul Gems (dust), so it's avg. 7 games per hour = 105 Soul Gems. So you can spend 10 hours this way (i know it's boring but hey) to basically farm dust for a legendary or to get ONE pack in Hearthstone.
Now let's go to arenas. There is Solo Arena which is cool, first few tries are good for new players to get into game mechanics and learn a little about deckbuilding before they get stomped by Arena players (or maybe not?) and get some juicy rewards (for 8-9 wins you'll get ~100 gold, 2 packs, 150 dust and maybe and epic or even Legendary so good stuff). But after few wins, around rank 5 (you will increase you rank in solo arena with each 9-win) the AI can be pretty tough, expect basically constructed deck in each enemy + sometimes lane effect or other bonus that favour their deck so if you get shitty draft you'll end with 4-5 wins so it's not easy rewards anymore. I still play it sometimes as a fun AI Tavern Brawl-like thing but versus arena is miles better in terms of reward.
Now let's compare HS arena vs Legends arena (i won't compare 0-3 wins rewards cuz you won't get much stuff here in any of the games, well in Legends you can expect random ~100 dust here and there):
Hearthstone Legends
4 Wins
Pack, 40-60 Gold + random reward Pack,~50 Gold + 3 random rewards from pool - a pack, rare/epic, ~80-150 dust
5 Wins
Pack, 45-60 Gold + random reward 2 Packs, ~80 Gold + 3 random rewards from pool - a pack, rare/epic, ~120-150 dust
6 Wins
Pack, 75-85 Gold + random reward 2 Packs, ~120 Gold + 3 random rewards from pool - a pack, epic, ~140-250 dust
7 Wins
Pack, 150-160 Gold + random reward 3 Packs, ~160-210 Gold + 3 random rewards from pool - a pack, epic/legendary, ~150-500 dust
So yes, standard 7 win reward is like 3 Pack, 200 gold, an Epic/Legendary and 150-200 dust, so it's basically worth more than 12 wins in HS arena in terms of gold value (yes in hs you get a lot of gold on higher wins so you can spend it again for a lot more rewards etc.) Also there are arena ranks, meaning if you hit few 7-wins you get higher rank and you won't be matched with new players.
I won't even go much into gameplay cuz it's basically superior, all i have to say is i see now how 9 classes in Hearthstone are shit design that make this game look like meta didn't change much in last 2 years "oh look, we have new set, your class wil get astounding 3 new cards, OMG META change". In Legends each color start with ~70 cards, that's like how much every class in hearthstone have in disposal after 2,5 years of expansions, if they hit 150 cards expansion you can expect like 25 new cards for each color, that's deck building options, not what we have in hearthstone. Warrior have 4 "different" archetypes right? then why 15 cards in each one are the same? because there are no options, most "innovative" decks in hearthstone have 2 different cards, omg a guy must think on this for like a year, such a deck creator ;) In Legends there are maybe like 3-4 cards that can fit most archetypes for each color, that's still like 10/50 cards not 15/30.
So yes, Legends is Hearthstone 2.0 in terms of gameplay for me, they improved on so many aspects it's really cool. Yes HS is superior in terms of Menu, Collection UI, card animations etc. but for me that's just additional fluff, not the most important thing in a card game. I will probably still play dailies and adventures because i invested hundreds if not thousands of hours into this game, but can't think about myself to waste time and grind another Legend with this gameplay.
Honestly, the fact that you cant drop ranks is what won me over to give the game a try. I play HS since closed beta, I have most of the cards already, I can even live with the shitty rewards you get for your time. But what bothers me the most is that you can dedicate 3 days of your time to get to a rank, and then loose that progress tomorrow after 1 hour of shitty luck. HS needs rank breakpoints badly (like you cant drop off from rank 15, 10, 5 and 2 once you got to it).
Hearthstone was so good at launch - it was everything MTGO needed to be but wasn't.
But that was it... nothing more, no real development that I value at all (new cards I take as a given and Tavern Brawl is simply too silly. Multi platform nice but whether I play on my laptop or ipad is of minor consequence)
Instead they were content they had created the perfect game and needed to change basically nothing.
So it is only natural than someone comes along and changes the things that suck about HS - and voila - sucks out half the player base.
For me it is decision time - I F2P for two years to get the cards on HS - it is gut wrenching to have to start again.
Hearthstone is only better in maybe 2 respects. First it doesn't take itself too seriously and therefore has a lot of humor, which "could" be better than the more serious TES. Second, Hearthstone has more card options currently. Other than that, TES is better. However, it is still very nearly a clone and I don't want to reward it because frankly it is not innovative enough. Think DOTA vs. LOL. Pick your preference.
The biggest complaint about Hearthstone is high RNG, and ESL follows in this tradition. A 1 drop with deal 3 damage to a random enemy on death, a 6 drop summon a random animal (some are insanely huge some suck), summon a random anarach, equip a random artifact, your minions gain random keywords, and so forth. Yes it has less RNG than current hearthstone, but much more than when Hearthstone started (the classic/soulbound set).
For those asking about the game, try it out. Go through the tutorial/solo campaign, do some solo arena runs, then play some casual or ranked matches. Do arena. See if you love the game, and love it enough to invest serious time into it.
There are so many card games, so if you don't absolutely love a game, there is no need to play it. The choices are endless.
i can talk hours about why TES legends is better than hearthstone but i will say my personal reason. i prefer elders scrolls cause people who play it dont BM. yeah in like 100 games 2-3 guys BMed me with behaviour that it was obviously mocking. after 2 days of not playing hearthstone at all my first opponent was otk warrior who roped me in every turn.