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Quote from vNihilism >>

Maybe it's because half the class legendaries are 'mercenaries'. Their artwork is designed specifically as a hero portrait that upgrades into something cooler in the Mercenaries mode.

 Ok, this could make sense if its the case. 

Quote from PetiteMouche>>

They are not poorly drawn they just look like low level characters, because that's the point, this expansion's art is great and most cards are looking very good and detailed.

Every expansion there is someone saying the art is getting worse because they don't like the style or because of one particular cards that looks meh, but the technique is not getting worse and they don't know shit about technique anyway.

"barrens is such a rich area with cool views" did you even play world of warcraft or what ? 

barrens is a hot and empty desert, and characters wear shit clothes and armors, there are beasts and quillboars everywhere and this expansion is totally taking advantage of that.

Do you even know how to draw ? I find it funny how some people critisize art style and claim it's "average" or "butchered" but their eye couldn't tell the difference between 2 artists

Overall Blizzard artists are extremely talented, and non-artist people shouldn't ever have the right to critizise art, because they can't understand what's behind it and can't be constructive about the critisism, all they see is "oh that's pretty, great artist" and "oh that's not pretty, shit artist".

Can you actually name cards from the barrens that you consider poorly drawn and tell us why precisely? It doesn't make much sense to critisize an entire expansion's art, be specific.

This is just so overly unrelated that i won't even try to debate you. It seems you didnt analize my post. My main critic with the art is that its plain boring. NOT because the characters look "weak" (starting equipment) but because its just a plain drawing of them in a close up without conveying anything else. As someone mentioned darnasus aspirant, that art does convey a sense of mystery, intrigue and the background some story. Kargal Battlescar is another good example, he is doing an action, you can see where he is doing it so you get a good sense of the theme. But even though Kazakus and Saurfang art are great, they are just flexing sparks and angryness but no sense of conveying a story. (they could have added a golem to kazakus art).

Anyway this is just my perspective, no need to agree ofc.

Oh true that! I def agree with you. I guess i can (even if this is not the real reason) give blizz a pass this exp because of the quantity of cards introduced. Still though...iam every exp a lil bit more dissapointed with the art. At least there are some new mechanics going on.

And for people excusing the bad art for simplicity that barrens is a low lvl area doenst mean the art has to be this shitty. You can have amazing artwork with very simple lookin characters. For example the new pally card "conviction". Great pose, simple looking character, the background conveys a story. 

It seems this expansion had a very deep dip in the quality of the cards artworks. One of the most important aspects (imo) of any ccg for me is the art and this expa it is abysmal. The legendaries are almost all closeups of a "averagely" drawn characters in very boring poses and a blurry background.

Barrens is such a rich area with cool views and it sucks they are not taking advantage of that. It feels as if blizzard being the small indie company they are saved some bucks by butchering the art.

What do you think? Am i being a bit too harsh? Or spot on? 

Holy shit i never log in and comment but the phase at how the exp tracker levels up is outrageous!! I dont have enough time to play every day so this new system fucks up not-hardcore players. This is def the last exp since vanilla i pay for. (Plus i had terrible luck in opening packs) so added to how hard it is to open packs now i feel im left out of so many decks.