Hearthpwn

So after the steam any new "hype"? I mean it was a let down from the start for me. As mentioned before reprinting of mechanics is just tedious with just making it a class card and tweaking the stats.

-Shuffling bombs (yes I know they want to make an archtype).

-Summon random minions for mage (new archtype with Khadgar). Insane with double ragnaros as 9 mana....

-From the stream the rogue could have had an insane turn 5 play. Coin togg > prep > summon 2 legandries (imagine 2 grommash/2 tirion). So it seems the high-rolling RNG is gonna be back again. I am not complaining about RNG I am complaining about high-rolling that early in the game.

-Dr Boom is back! 

The only interesting new addition for me is the lackeys.

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I stopped counting a very long time ago.

But if I were to make an estimation.. I'd say between 2000-5000, unfortunately.

I wish I had never touched the game or at the very least remained F2P. But then again, I would have wasted my money on something else.. so perhaps spending it on HS was a decent choice.

 

What you see right here are just golden cards

 Oh my that is an expensive collection! If I were to win the lotto or somehow being a multimillionaire/billionaire, I would probably obtain an entire golden collection. And before you say I'm the type of winner that would be broke in a year, no I wouldn't. I'd buy packs with dividends earned from the winnings.

But yes, I'd create tier 10 decks in full gold just to mess with peoples minds.

Bro I have been doing that for the past 2 months, playing with full gold decks that make no sense just because i want the golden coin in my hand! I wish they introduce an "All Gold Mode" if you pay2win then whatever it doesn't matter but most people will have crappy decks, because having 30 good golden cards for a tier 1 deck is damn expensive and justifiable for a game mode that is casual

I wish there was a save replay feature to show you the action of kicking around optimised decks in wild like odd paladin, even shaman and cube lock.

Now regarding the OP, I too have spent a lot (2 accounts one for me and the wife) but no more after this rotation as we both have a lot of gold saved and as many have mentioned it is not worth it anymore. The difference you get is a few more legendaries and epics but rares and commons are easily covered by the saved gold. Plus this rotation is gonna be generous with dust refunds

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Actually, the new expansion looks great to me.

When the rotation hits, year of the mammoth is out and with that all those crazy OP cards, making the new cards and the cards of year of the raven relevant and not underwhelming anymore. It's gonna be a whole new game imo.

I'm looking forward to the nex expansion a lot.

 I agree that the rotation will probably be the best to date as the power level in year of the raven is way less than the previous years. But there always seems to be this loop that HS enters, 4 months of rotation xpac is slow, but the nerf hammers have been more recent which is a good thing. The best thing is baku and genn leaving early which is straight up blizz admitting it was a mistake making them *limits design space* indeed.

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.... The mods didnt even update the expansion menu since its reveal or added the countdown timer. Seems nobody is interested.

*Disclaimer: this is not flame thread, this is the best website still for HS news and updates, however the hype around this expansion has been minimal at best and we are about 2 weeks into release!

 Yeah, cool. Let’s judge the expansion based on the less than 10% of cards that have been shown. Seems reasonable.

 Yeah, cool. Let's not read the thread or have a bit of sense of sarcasm. Seems reasonable.

On a serious note that 10% of cards reveals are nothing to be hyped for, old recycled mechanics and reprinting of cards names instead of making up new characters. Yes that is lazy design and story telling. 

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.... The mods didnt even update the expansion menu since its reveal or added the countdown timer. Seems nobody is interested.

*Disclaimer: this is not flame thread, this is the best website still for HS news and updates, however the hype around this expansion has been minimal at best and we are about 2 weeks into release!

 Maybe because this time Blizzard create the countdown timer for reveals . Check playhearthstone

 

 Not sure if you are new the site, but we always had front page countdowns even for the reveal stream.

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I see a lot of people saying "expansion is boring", "I'm not hype at all", "same characters, lazy blizzard"... but when the exp comes, everybody is gonna play it and stop complaining about. Worst thing to do is judge something by its half, wait a little more and you see if it is "boring" or nah. Btw, stream reveal is gonna be today, so we'll actually see some cards in play, then you can judge better

 of course we are going to play it, but some people do quit and some do come back just for the rotation to see if the game did get better. But beleive me this is the first time I dont pre-order, the saved gold is enough.

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Flux did update hearthstation though.. seems like they plan to shut down hpwn.

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Whoah, first i have heard of this site. I had to scroll down on google to find it...Surely they would do a front page announcement that Flux was leaving/working on something new? Not embracing the change just yet. 

 Woah neither have I ! Will check that website as well now :)

.... The mods didnt even update the expansion menu since its reveal or added the countdown timer. Seems nobody is interested.

*Disclaimer: this is not flame thread, this is the best website still for HS news and updates, however the hype around this expansion has been minimal at best and we are about 2 weeks into release!

**EDIT: As the stream has been live and countdown added, this thread is now regarding the hype (or if uninterested) in the new expansion as mechanics and story. For me as mentioned before the reprinting and using old card names again kills it for me. We defiantly didn't need another Dr.Boom or a crazy Toggwaggle.

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Dear Universe. I hope this will be a awesome expansion. I wanna see 2 things:

1. More "crazy" or uneven stats. Maybe 4 mana for a 8/2 with "can't be targeted by spells or hero powers"? Lich King could had been like 7/12 instead of the classic 8/8, 5/5,6/6 etc etc.

2. A card to counter BIG PRIEST.

 

Warrior: Cornered Sentry

Shaman: Devolve Hex

Priest: Potion of Madness

Warlock: Treachery

Mage: Polymorph Potion of Polymorph 

Neutral: Tinkmaster Overspark Weasel Tunneler Hungry Dragon The Beast Gravelsnout Knight Hungry Ettin   Saronite Taskmaster

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hope that this is awesome card encorage big priests players to start playing fair priest decks.

Big Priest is boring I agree but its more common from 15-10 from my experience and in wild. This won't affect wild meta that much 

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Good, but super boring. Not worthy of an orange gem IMO.

Also weird have Lazul as both a hero and a minion.

 Don't worry, in 2 years it will be an epic/rarepriest card. Just likeTerrorscale Stalker andPrincess Huhuran 

And yes it not weird only, its lazy design as well! Hagatha on the board and as a Playable hero card! Same with Dr.Boom. 

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Kobolds powerlevel was insane. I'm confident RR will have a contribution to the future metas post-rotation but it won't be as meta-defining as K&C was.

 I agree that kobolds had an insane power level. And i do hope that RR does become more invovled in the meta. But what cards do you feel are sleeping? Like toggwaggle waited till azalina and discount drud card were introduced

For me the good thing that might come out of RR is more minion based meta and trading, as most spirits (priest, paladin, warrior, hunter, rogue, warlock) want you to build a board

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Rise of Shadows has this "oh crap I forgot to write that essay let me do it on the bus" look to me. The live videos are not HD, for example, and the latest flag was that they recycled the (albeit unused) artwork from Omega Defender. For the latter, I totally understand the desire to up-cycle an existing resource, so as not to waste effort(s) and cut a corner or two. It's there, use it -- fine.

Another thing is that they are taking characters and ideas that already exist and recycling them. The "bad guys" are all from previous expansions. Instead of creating a new story they borrowed from everything prior. It just seems like it's lacking  that "one hundred and ten percent" caliber of effort. You know what I mean?

I've noticed little things like this since Ben left. Is anyone else noticing these drop-in-quality breadcrumbs?

EDIT: My comments above are 90% about presentation 10% about recycled mechanics. I don't demand that nothing be old and everything be new. I do however think that quality is key.

 I agree 100% with you and stated that lazyness in other posts. Twinspell is a branch of echo. The evil characters are ok but why exisiting and a just rotating ones? Also why reprint same card names over and over (hagatha now), dr.boom will have a 3rd card?

Like the warcraft lore is full of characters! The Defias brotherhood could have made an evil league!

I was looking through my collection and I noticed that I have a lot of RR cards missing (lots of legendaries, epics with no copies at all and even hunter's common weapon lol). And mainly because it is the first time I didn't preorder an expansion and just spent a few gold on its packs, and oddly so I reached rank 2 this month for the first time -Tempo Pirate Rogue/Odd Mage/Mecha'thun Druid- (meaning the expansion cards are not entirely needed for climbing). 

I am wondering if you guys think that the power level of the expansion is what the future holds? Like compare it with Kobolds expansion (the expansion right before the rotation), the cards we are losing from Kobolds are meta defining (cube/spell hunter/rez stone/zola/Katrena/King Togg...etc....). Do you think RR will have its cards elvate in value eventually or is it another Grand Tournament xpac with no contribution.

why print this !! Fiendish circle is still there you know! and it doesnt even see play or make sense.

Should be 2 mana to justify having it in opening hand and then summon 2 1/1s (overpriced from druid or paladin version but scales)! Warlock doesnt have level up or soul of forest (yet) for token to be viable.

Not only that, this whole expansion campaign has been utter garbage imo! Less reveals, less communication, the art looks terrible comparing to other xpacs for me, reprinting of old card name is meh (cant they come with new theme characters?).

For the first time ever I am not pre-ordering an xpac, not saying that I would quit the game but I rather just spend gold this time around and buy the adventure wings with money.

why is it so hard to understand, his text is very clear (and so is Toki's). He will transform them into standard cards in standard.

Ya the fact that for each expansion they are trying a new format of reveals is just too much confusing. But as many have pointed never has there been a reveal stream without an announcement  date. They will prob do a 5 min video again today/tomorrow dumping some random cards and announce that coming Monday is first video reveal + kickstart reveal season.

Either way the waiting is killing me.

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The quest that we get are waste of time and all are the same the only difference is the gold one is 50 one 60 100 but the classes are the same the mec is point less same with demon one . I swear these devs don’t have a creative bone in there body.

I agree mate but what do you suggest some samples of new quests to be added? I rather them work on achievements before adding more quests. Afterall, as you said it is about the amount of gold per quest that you log in per day to finish.

Edit: I just noticed that OP and others are discussing quests as a mechanic and I am talking about daily quests here ^^