Hearthpwn

My thoughts exactly. If you push for it, it will push back at you. Just enjoy the game and ranks will come naturally.

Journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.

You need to be at 15 health or less, then you can concede.

If you're new to the game, start with something simple like Face Hunter or Libram Paladin until you learn matchups better. 

You earn equal amount gold from both ranked and casual games.

This is how one of my matches against Paladin that I played last night.

After barely surviving early onslaught and clearing board twice, I was hoping that I finally managed to stabilize and that I may have at least some chance of winning. Then at turn five my opponent played High Abbess Alura into Coin into Argent Braggart and result can be seen on the screenshot.

I think, no matter what one thinks at what Tier this deck belongs to, Paladin could use some card rebalancing. 

First he complains about robots, then netdecks and plays "THE" most robot deck in Hearthstone. IQ over 200.

Imagine that you apply for a job and your future employer gives you a contract that says: 12 hour shifts, no free weekends, no lunch breaks, no vacation and all that for below average pay. Even if you knew that this contract is just initial version and it's fully negotiable, by being as terribly appalling as it is, I don't think you'd be interested to stay and hear the next one.

The very idea that someone (important) at Blizzard thought that this kinda concept of a new reward system is something acceptable, no matter whether it's final or not, is worrying to say the least.

I wouldn't mind paying for this battle pass if it's fair, but this abomination that they have presented before us and called it "rewards" I wouldn't touch with a stick, let alone pay money for it. I can only hope that there are some reasonable people left at Blizzard that will scrap this awful idea and make things right and fair for everyone. 

Finally! Now just not to go overboard in the future with the amount of cards that generate cards (lackeys...) and we're golden.

We are also planning on repackaging (not reducing) the current rewards that you can obtain in Hearthstone and put that information in front of you in an easy to view and understand manner.  We want you to know how many rewards you've acquired, how many more you can earn and what steps you need to take in order to obtain them.

Right. Because current reward system of earning 50-60 gold of a daily quest and another 10 gold per 3 winning matches is way too complicated for a Hearthstone player to understand, you're going to make it easier to track by adding to it XP, cards, arena tickets, skins, cardbacks and different types of packs. Way to go Ben, now I know why you're game director - you're a master at using newspeak.

To all brilliant game developers at Blizzard - If you're reading this, get together and go to your company's sales and marketing offices and throw everyone out of window on the street. Or even better, just throw some coins out of window in front of them and they'll jump themselves after them. Don't let those greedy bastards ruin all the great work you're doing.

By the way, I'm not completely against battle pass system and I wouldn't mind paying for it if it's done fairly. But reading this kinda nonsense makes me really pessimistic about it. Angry too.

Quote from Mackie264 >>

Sadly this trend seems to continue with latest set, Scholomance Academy, dropping in 2 days. Most of us haven't been able to play with any of the new cardsbut I think we can all agree that cards like Lightning Bloom, Forest Warden Omu, Power Word: Feast, Secret Passage and Voracious Reader are just way overtuned in comparison to the rest of the set and even most standard cards. 

 OK, let's analyse those cards that you think are overtuned:

1.  Lightning Bloom - a card like this existed in Hearthstone for many years, only it was much stronger. It's called Innervate. It was finally nerfed though, but there were no war drums calling for it's deletion from the game because it was brutally overpowered.

2. Forest Warden Omu - I'm trying really hard to imagine a situation in which this card will be broken, and I simply cannot find any. It can potentially pull of some strong combos, but nothing that we haven't seen before.

3. Power Word: Feast - potentially strong arena card, but for constructed......far from being overtuned.

4. Secret Passage - just another overhyped card. It will be strong in aggressive deck types, pointless in others.

5. Voracious Reader - again, some aggro decks may love it, useless for anything else. 

If that's the best SA expansion has to offer, then we'll be fine.

Quote from Pizzacats >>

1. Secret Passage:  It's not always a 1 mana draw 5, but people are also overlooking how well this synergizes with shadow of death.  You can prep shadow of death and secret passage to draw shadows out of your deck for 1 mana and still have 7 mana to use with your 5 cards.  That's one of the ways i plan to use it at least. Plus, the card drawn after the shadow won't be sent back to your deck, since it's not included as one of the 5 cards, like how Galakrond doesn't discount cards after shadows.

 So for your combo to work, all you need to do is: 

1. Be at 10 mana

2. Have Prep, Shadow, Passage in your hand and a minion on board that you want to use Shadow on

3. Actually draw your Shadows with Passage (which is not guaranteed by anything)

4. Draw 5 random cards and hope that at least some will be useful this turn

5. Have an opponent/board state that will actually allow all this to happen

What can I say but good luck and have fun!

Only deck type I see Secret Passage being strong is some kinda aggro Rogue. Everywhere else it's just too situational to be seriously considered.

Keep on focusing on the cosmetics and gold whilst missing the key issue with the game....

what the game needs is a truly random matchmaking based on rank.  people worry about gold and a couple of skins (and are so happy as the OP now that he will get more, calling it good news lol)ignoring that win rates are controlled by blizzards algorithm. 

get your free five decks and then embark on a 10 loss streak with your flashy new warrior skin 

I've seen a lot of bugs in many games, but I think Hearthstone is a unique one when it comes to one thing:

how come every bug that this game got has negative effect? not a single bug that has "positive effect"
(edit: I guess that Living Roots becoming epic can be considered as a positive one, but the effect was still minor)

its like:
-oops, you got no daily quests
-oops, no xp for you
-oops, no rewads for you
-oops, no free legendary for you
(the ones I remember from past):
-oops, the arena rewards didnt register
-oops, the pity timer didnt worked for you
-oops, you missed the heroic brawl, we replaced it now so no rewards for you
-oops, some of the cards are missing
-oops, some of your cardbacks are missing
etc etc

why there were no bugs that benefit the player?
*Doubt intensifies*

I may be wrong but most of the complaints so far seem to come from people who didn't log in for more like 30-60 min/week, because of various reasons. So, mainly those who tried to squeeze as much gold as possible with minimal effort by clearing their dailies, no more, no less. Some of them also admitted they'd never spend a dime on this game. I'm sorry, but if you refuse to spend money or time which could be utilized e.g. for balancing the game then you don't belong to the target audience. In the end, this isn't a gold farming simulator and if you don't have fun playing otherwise you'd better quit your "part-time job".

The new system aims to reward any playstyle, not just logging face hunter to grind your daily 100 gold from wins. I get that cheap aggro decks are the main choice for newbies if they want to climb the ladder and build up their collection. But please, let's not pretend that the min/maxers are anything but a minority in this community.

What they should fix though is people abusing the new system by roping or going AFK in e.g. BGs. Maybe it should count in-game actions or turns instead of pure game time.

Quote from RaraRacing77 >>

A while back the HS team specifically stated that when you re-roll a quest you get an "easier" one, where it was assumed that those that gave less gold (now XP) are considered easier to complete than the ones that give more.
It was also made that you could re-roll quests that you couldn't in the past.

Maybe someone can add a link to that article on this site?

Anyway, when we still had gold as reward I didn't mind that, but now with XP it is irritating (XP has more value because you need more of it the higher you get up the reward track - for gold you never realised it because I just spent what I had when a new expansion came around). For example, I have the daily "Play 3 games as Rogue/Shaman/Warrior" ... three of my least played classes (cuz they don't interest me much) ... if I re-roll I'll get a lesser-XP quest, where all I want really is to not play those three classes, so won't mind an equal value quest ... so off to casual I go ...

 Just to clarify my original post ... here is the info from 8 months ago when quest re-rolls were changed ...

Quest change - link takes you to another site.

The system is not rigged, but if you re-roll, chances are you'll get a lesser-XP quest (though you can roll up an "easy" quest if you are lucky).

Notes to take away:
- Do NOT re-roll a 1500 XP daily, as it will always be worse XP.
- Do NOT re-roll a 1000 XP daily, as chances are high you'll get a lower XP quest ... just go to Casual if you really don't like the quest.
- Re-roll 800 XP quest if you really feel like it, it can't give a worse return.

Wisp to 1 mana confirmed

Mage is so fucking ridiculous. It is the worst designed class at the moment.

Either you play the version where you get a million free spells from Evocation/ Sorcerer's Apprentice only to recreate them with Mana Cyclone, such that the entire game is based on random crap in your hand...

OR, you play the version where you entire strategy is to make it to turn 10, play the Amazing Asshole, and then wait/hope for random spells each turn to win you the game. 

Oh wait, there is also version 3, where you play a bunch of asshole cards followed by that fucking Turtle over and over again and the game becomes a long drawn out version of solitaire.

Fun and interactive.

summer 2018: goblins vs gnomes 2.0

summer 2019: league of explorers 2.0

summer 2020: old gods 2.0 ?