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Shudderblock’s text explains why.

If it was Rush you could choose not to attack, and with the "shot" mechanic I'm guessing they have to attack an enemy minion as long as a valid target exists.  Also, with Rush you could choose the order in which they attack, and I'm guessing with this you have to attack in the order that they are summoned (left to right).

I assume they mean they will add the Noz quest in on a day that isn’t the 15th to make up for the missed quest.   But we shall find out.  Probably will happen sometime after the patch for the mini set launch.

This whole topic is like if someone said “wth” to Paladin and Shaman getting excavate cards in the mini set when they hadn’t had any in the main Badlands set.  We knew a while ago that some classes without class Starship Pieces were going to get them via the Terran cards.

Resurrecting an old thread but yeah… When it happened last time it was due to the special quest having to be programmed into the system.  Guess they programmed it to go through 2024 and forgot to extend it like last time?  Will wait to see what they do.

Any game that is losing users instead of growing their base is technically “dying”, so in that sense… probably.  It is almost 11 years old.  But is it completely dead or heading towards death soon?  I don’t think so.  The few places I have been able to find user numbers (which may or may not be reliable figures) the number of DAUs seems to have dropped significantly from the peak, but also has been steady over the last couple years with slight up and down fluctuations, which likely depend on the set/meta.

I mean I expected a repeat of something awful.  So my expectations were met.  5/5 stars, Blizzard...

I'll add, I had hoped for a three set story similar to Shadows, Ulduum, and Dragons.  Or even the Barrens, Stormwind, and Alterac year.  Didn't even need a solo adventure to go with it, just a story told through the cards and themes themselves.  But couldn't even do that.  I still had hope before the Perils mini set because we had some League of EVIL members in the Workshop with one slight reference to Rafaam with Puppet Theatre. Then the second set was a resort run by Marin the Fox.  So I had hope we'd see Toggwaggle invading the island resort to get his long awaited revenge for Marin plundering the catacombs, followed by some scheme of Rafaam aided by Lazule, pulling all the EVIL members in to help.  But sadly... nothing.

Hell!  After the shitty trailer for Whizbang's Workshop, we stopped getting announcement trailers for the sets, and then stopped getting new boards.  So I rarely expect anything beyond more cards and more cash grabs now.

Side note, Twist is Wonders XL now.  I don't think there was ever an announcement of this.

Could have also made the announcement of the announcement for card reveals of the mini set today... Maybe tomorrow.

They didn't even prepare anything cool for the game's 10th anniversary...

Not really. Warlock cards sucks a lot and missed the whole fcking Zerg theme.

Yeah I think with their current staffing level, it’s taking all of Hearthstones workforce to keep standard/battlegrounds/arena running.

solo adventures, twist, duels, mercenaries, and game boards are all getting shelved.

There are a lot of new skins and pack bundles in the shops, which is likely because blizzard is forcing the team to focus on content that instantly generates money.

I don’t blame the devs, because they’re underpaid engineers who also play the game and try their best, but I hope the upper echelons of blizzard make sure to prioritize gameplay a bit more often

The decks when the card was fundamental are going to still being playing the card and the decks when the card wasn't that relevant are going to cut it off.

But... that was exactly the problem with the card - it was too efficient, so a lot of decks used it. You didn't even have to plan to use the spell damage. The goal is to make it a bigger investment so that decks that don't need it stop using it by default - expanding deck diversity in the meta, so the decks that want Ethereal Oracle look more different from every other deck.

Fundamentally, I just read this statement and hear you saying "I think the nerf will work".

Work together, guys. Not just tryng to kill your partners, for the love of god sake. 

Pirate DH is the fastest killing deck at the moment. I don’t think it’s going to be missed

I don`t see how to nerf Skydiving without killing this card (and killing Pirate DH in Wild).

But at last Quest Warlock will be nerfed again.

"Is Heroic Brawl worth it for me?"

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, it is a scam set up to drain your gold reserves ahead of the miniset launching next month so you're more likely to have to spend real money on it instead.

who knows when there will be a mini set?

"People aren't using the new cards we designed"

Don’t people get angry at the developers when the new cards and decks aren’t used because they’re weak and unplayable?

For example, I’ve never seen a Hearthstone player say anything nice about the Rastakhan’s Rumble expansion. Why? Because “the cards suck,” “these cards are unplayable,” and “the developers missed the mark on this one.”

Actually, I've realized that a big reason players love a certain expansion is its high power level and significant impact on the meta.

Rather than let us play the decks we want to play

what decks are you wanna play? You want to play those decks for your entire life?

YO! THEYRE NERFING RESKA!?!? FINALLY!!! And reno too!!! HELL YEAH! Murder that stupid card. Worst mechanic ever added to HS. Just delete reno, or hey, let's have a comprimise because a lot of people like playing the reno mechanic despite it being the least creative, least interesting way to play the game. Make reno 6 mana or something, not effect the board and make it so you can choose which hero power he gets each turn. That'd at least be fun.

I hate all the buffs though. They're very scary. People dont realize how good the demon hunter crewmate deck is lol. This one guy made a list and I have like an 80% winrate with it. I predict that that deck is going to be the new one people wont shut up about until the next patch. Also, starships arent half as bad as people whine that they are. It has the potential to be an extremely oppressive mechanic. I predict that Star Vulpera will be a staple in every deck.