Hearthpwn

Since Naxx I've really liked the PvE content in Hearthstone and even though I don't play the game anymore, I log in at least every expansion to go through the PvE challenges (I especially liked the adventures and creating decks to beat them).

I won the Rumble Run once and I'm not touching it again. Obviously all the modes up to this date had an RNG aspect to them, sometimes a frustrating one, too. But this one? Like, seriously... If a boss has exactly the same skills as you, but always a more fine-tuned deck and starts at a higher mana, what can you do to actually win? How can 'skill' matter in such a situation? You can only count on luck and bad bot algorithms. Which is, in my opinion, pure nonsense, and I rate the Rumble Run the absolutely worst PvE Hearthstone content so far.

I really like MTGA, especially the draft mode, but I don't think I will play it much longer as the economy is just terrible if what you want to do is building some tier 1 decks. The vault system has the worst ratio of getting new cards for unusable copies I've ever seen in a card game (HS has a dust exchange ratio of 1:4 and it's a standard one in TCGs - MTGA has like 1:30...). Unfortunately it doesn't seem like fixing the economy is on the devs priority list, even though there are tons of people who refuse to spend their money, mostly because opening a 5th copy of a rare/mythic card is equivalent to getting nothing from a pack. 

I was like 'Oh, it's out already? Time to play!'. Tutorial done, seemed nice, then I checked how unbelievably f2p unfriendly the game is and stopped caring about playing it at all. Which is a shame since I've always liked MTG. Of the bigger CCG I've played in (terms of being f2p friendly, as I don't intend to spend money on this kind of games) it's the following - Gwent>>>ESL>Hearthstone>>>>>MTG...

I really dislike this card for two reasons - its art, inconsistent with the general art direction of the game, and its text, which I think is not worded correctly and should be "Deal damage equal to its Attack...". Not only because it, imo, sounds more correct, but also because a very similar card, Dragon's Fury, is worded this way.

I think this card may be very powerful, especially in control matchups. Often playing around wrong card may cost the player the game, and this card, especially during several turns, gives them a lot of information about which cards they have to play around. And when the need arises, or a very powerful card is copied, it can be played.

Animated cards, or whatever else fills the role of MTG foil cards, are the equivalent of skins and cosmetic items in other games and I think these are the most fair sources of profit for the company owning the game, especially in titles which are supposed to be f2p. I would never suggest Blizzard should make all cards animated, especially because they would have to balance the loss of profits in another way, which could be much less player friendly, so while some players would be happy seeing the eyes of their favorite card glow, it would overall be a huge loss for the playerbase.

I have been playing HS since the open beta. For a long time now I've only been doing daily quests, if playing at all. I consider the hunter DK to be the most fun card released in the history of HS and when I made a deck with him, it was the first time I had some real fun in HS since a long time. I would prefer his hero power to reduce the cost of the zombeast by 1 to be considered competitive, but still, combining any two beasts is  a really cool effect. I would never have guessed that they would not update his beast pool with new expansions, especially for such a petty reason...

I find it fitting that the best raid gets the best weapon.

As far as I can tell from the early and not stabilised meta, most of my predictions were quite right, the biggest exception being probably the shaman DK which I thought was going to turn out much more powerful. I also expected Skulking Geist to have a bigger impact on Jade Druids than it had.

Don't worry, there is a solution! If you craft them first, you won't ever open them in packs!

I'm more interested in evaluating the underhyped cards then the so called overhyped. So what I think are the underhyped cards are

Fire Fly. Do not underestimate how useful this 1 drop can be. It helps to complete the hunter quest because it is a 1 cost minion and it also gives you an additional 1 cost minion, it is a cheap elemental which gives you another cheap elemental giving you the fuel to trigger the effects of cards which have powerful effects that only trigger if you played an elemental the turn before. Also this can also help you to complete the rogue quest easier because this card and igneous elemental give you flame elementals, and igneous elemental can give you two flame elementals. This is such a cheap useful little minion.

Glacial Shard. This little guy is not only another cheap elemental for activating cards with effects that only trigger if you played an elemental the turn before, but freezing an enemy can be absolutely invaluable because it can stop a powerful minion potentially attacking your face or another valuable minion it can be especially invaluable against players who are only interested in smashing your face in with weapons.

Stonehill defender. This guy is a silverback patriarch that has I know a guy slapped on to it which is very useful for the warrior quest because it give you a taunt as well as being a taunt itself.

Devilsaur egg. Very underrated in my opinion, if warlocks ravenous devilsaur eats this, you could end up staring at a 5/5 and a potential 4 mana 7/7, also with umbra it becomes a 3 mana 5/5 with an additional egg with it.

Hallucination. Much more consistent than swashburglar because as well as almost guaranteeing to get a good card as we know from Drakonid operative's effect, it gives you information on what type of deck your opponent is playing, and it is only 1 mana.

I actually think there are a lot of just generally useful cards in this expansion. What has annoyed me about watching streamer reviews is that unless a card is obviously super powerful, than it is considered trash or "won't see play" which is just not true. I think this is the first expansion in a long time that actually has quite a lot of useful cards, not super powerfully amazing but not terrible either and can be incredibly helpful in certain decks. I really look forward to this expansion.

Sooo some guy essentially asked if they gave Priest this card because it was a bad class. 

The developer answers 'no', Then continues to explain how (dragon) Priest is not very good, so they gave Priest a very strong card to fix this. Which is pretty much what that guy said, but worded in a different way. 

King of Beasts would like to contest for that honor of ugliest design

It's not fun, it's not challenging, it's just a pain in the butt.

Everything is so random, you have no control over building a deck with good synergy.

But even if you manage to do so and had the pleasure to start with a decent shrine, you just know that the final boss will be a counter match up or/and will draw godly and you will draw complete shit.

At least that's my experience so far. Either I die at the first or second boss due to simply not having a chance with the given deck, or I have no problems up to the final boss where I never had the slightest chance due to bad draw or unholy draw by the boss.

I'm playing Hearthstone for over 4 years now, played every possible single player mode to completion and have achieved anything a normal hs player can think of (rank Legend, several 12 win arena runs, but not every hero golden), so i think my opinion is not complete waste.

This mode is utter shit. Nonstop frustration due to unfair matchups or bad starts plus boredom and random cards offers who can ruin a decent run just don't form an amazing single player experience. For some it may sound salty, but i like hard and challenging, it's just that the Rumble Run is completely bad design from start to finish and should not exist in this form.

I hope Blizzard will do much better next time, it's sad to have this Rumble Run experience where something awesome could have see the day of light.

If we ignore Kingsbane for a second: What’s the point of giving a weapon lifesteal only for a single turn?

The card went from an excellent card design (that got broken due to other cards) into a terrible card design.

Control.

Boring AF.

I'd love to give Artifact a try, but there are so many competing CCGs with no paywall for entry that I don't think I'll ever get there.  I'm fully willing to shell out $20 for a game but I feel like Artifact is different in that I'm just paying the entry fee and if I really want to have fun I have to keep paying more and more (like a physical card game).  It's a pass for me for now. 

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The economic model is not sustainable in the long run unless you're dedicated to be a paying player. People are already whining that hs, of all things, is not f2p friendly.

 Are you like 12 years old? Not because you're logic is flawed, even though it is, but because you don't know the original card game model.

Let's say i just start the game when it comes out tomorrow, which i will, i open my packs that i get just for buying the game, and make a deck that i like, this deck is better than average in the casual queue which i will mainly play in, and after 1-2 months i either get tired of playing the one deck that i have or it starts getting bogged down by other decks. In hearthstone i would have no choice but to keep playing it, since i don't want to pay the money to buy packs to HOPEFULLY get the dust required to make another one. But in artifact all i have to do is sell the cards on the market, or recycle them and buy new ones, it's literally that easy. Except without the original models' problems of having to try to figure out amazon or ebay, and if the card i want is in good condition.

But oh no, 2 more months have gone by and the same thing happened, where my new deck is garbage just like the last one, what do i do? The same thing.

Dear child, I'm a mtg investor, I've never tried to hide that here, buying and reselling cards is one of the things that I do for living and this model is not sustainable for someone with your idea of remaining in the game. It doesn't work the way that you think it does. Saying that you can just sell stuff that you've bought to get the premium new stuff or just better new stuff is as flawed as when people say dumb shit like ''I buy a box of mtg and then I resell stuff and get my money back''. You buy your cards for your above garbagetier casual deck, ok, and then, like you've said, it becomes garbage so you decide to sell those cards and buy yourself new ones on the market. That is not going to work the way that you've imagined it will.

If your cards are garbagefire trash why would I ever, ever want to buy them from you? You'll never sell them back at the price that you've payed for them and good luck selling it at a reasonable discount, or at all, if they are trash. People who will buy single cards for constructed are not the people who will waste their time playing casual. If they are there to pay actual money for individual cards to play constructed then they are more than most likely there to buy actually good cards for top tier decks to play in constructed for cash. They don't care about what you're here to sell. Why would they?

At best you can recycle your cards. It is 20-1 ratio. Your deck has 40 cards. I'm not sure if you can recycle cards that you got in the starter decks but I'll assume that you can't. So you went online when the game launched to spend money on cheap cards and you've bought around 20 cards, in this scenario, to upgrade your decks. If you've failed to sell any of them then you've just got yourself 1 ticket. Good on you, that is some pretty decent value right there xD recycle is great for people who actually buy packs, as it should be, not for people who have this idea that you do.

Well, hearthstone mainly uses "this minion"... here are some examples of a fraction of hearthstones' cards

Gahz'rilla, Saronite Chain Gang, Wrathguard.... just to name a few that use "this minion".  It seems cards now are getting inconsistent in text

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The economic model of Artifact is beyond dumb. Good luck. 

 U kidding me?  The economic model is what collectible cards were all about when they became popular in the mid 90's. U basically can go infinite with just 20 dollars upfront.

Ive seen a lot of doubts about Artifact concerning many aspects but each time i see someone going against its economy i just FacePalm on spot.

 You surely have an interesting definition of the word infinite.

Care to share it with us?

While I don't want to speak on behalf of the fellow you are questioning - lots of folks seem to think that they can play Artifact as if it were a stock market. In principle, once you pay an "entry fee" to begin collecting cards, you can simply sell the expensive ones you open in packs in order to purchase new cards as they come along . . . rinse and repeat for every expansion.

It won't work, for lots of pretty obvious reasons. Kripp posted a video a couple months ago on the "price of being competitive" for different games. A lot of IRL MtG players who want to be "local store tournament competitive" will buy a booster box of every expansion - $100+ a few times every year. It seems likely that Artifact is pursuing a similar kind of model - a relatively small player-base which is heavily invested in the game. If so, it wouldn't be too unlikely that players would have to spend a few hundred dollars every year in order to remain competitive. Some of that cost can be offset by selling old, expensive cards - I could sell my Mox Ruby in order to "buy" a few competitive decks - but ultimately, it isn't going to be a particularly effective economic strategy.