Hearthpwn

I m actualy pretty hyped for this mode! Normal Hearthstone has been dead for me for over 2 years or so. I sometimes play Battlegrounds but I mainly watch kripp play it while I eat LOL. Now that I know that even if I would buy all pre-orders It wont ruin the PVE fun, (though it's probably wise 'for fun' not to spend your coins on the really low level parts) but instead add to the fun: 'You can make loads of different Merc Teams' instead of being limited to the few Mercs you have. And as I mention before the amount of coins you get are just enough to get 2 skills to breakpoint (skill level 3) but atleast you will have that for all Mercs you get. I think that's a much better way of doing things instead of letting players have 1 maxed out team, and nothing else.

Having seen most of the streamers that got early acces I think the PVE content is going to be very interessting and HARD in the later parts. Mainly because the PVE part this time is actualy going to be rewarding, so Blizzard needs players to FAIL. Unlike how they did things before and make it so that everybody can get it done...

I am a bit concerned about the PVP part that happends after 1 week. As in that you will be running into the same 4 or 5 Merc teams because those are the best so everybody is playing them. (including you) Just like standard Hearthstone becomes super lame with the same 4 or 5 decks each season.

But while I m thinking of these possible Merc Team combinations I m getting more and more excited with the much larger ways I can make them work. Especially when I m realizing that the NO-BRAINER Teams like: 'Diablo + Fire Mercs' is not going to work and that a good working Diablo team is looking quite different from the original fire setup. Not to mention that other NO-BRAINERS like Team Orc or Team Human aint going to be that strong. Atleast not compared to the more 'creative' Teams. So this all in all got me really hyped! It has been long since ive been this excited about a game.

And about the visuals... I like it clean as it is! The animations would just get in the way of planning and playing lol. And after a week your bored of them anyway. Allso when I see Raid Shadow Legends, it feels like I m on a Casino website with bells shining everywere just to get me spend my money. HS still got that nice atmosphere, though the shop gets flooded with more and more useless garbage. Why spend money on a lame 'Mega Bob' skin that loses to the original and worse Kripp actualy uses it...

Though I have not yet done so I m pretty sure I m going to pre-order all. I m still bussy thinking up new Merc Teams, but it starts to look like I want to play with 90% of them lol.

OPENING PACKS REGARDING COINS.

So when you open 100 packs you get on average arround: 4200 to 5400 rare coins, 3500 to 4500 epic coins and 2800 to 3600 legendary coins. Note that you get coins for Merc's you dont have! So those coins are divided over all Mercs you can collect.

On average this means you get arround: 233 to 300 per rare Merc, 206 to 265 per epic Merc and 165 to 212 per legendary Merc. Leveling all their skills to breakpoint (wich is level 3 for most Mercs) costs 450 coins. So you dont even reach that. Should you want to max a Merc's skills and 1 of their equipment slots your looking at 1700 coins. If you do all equipment it will be 2760 coins.

All in all your mainly getting a large variety of low level skill Merc's to chose from instead of a maxed out team that grinds the F2P players into the dust. The F2P player will be forced to stick with mainly 1 Merc team but it will be arround the same strength as those who pre-order. And if the F2P players focus on grinding coins for these Mercs, he will be able to keep up in power with the pre-order players. But once best 'Merc combinations' are known the F2P players will be at a obvious disatvantage. Though only slightly because of the average breakpoints for Merc skills. The 'task system' that each Merc can do should help reach those breakpoints. (though some Merc's will have expansive breakpoints)

Conclusion: pre-order packs = PAY FOR FUN! Even if you buy all pre-orders your just getting a large variety of Mercs but not much power. If you want to PAY 2 WIN you need to buy over a 1000 packs!!! I dont think the amount of whales who do this will ruin PVP. But obviously the top spots in the rankings will be reserverd for whales/streamers.

Personaly I think this game will be boring and frustrating in just a week for players who go F2P, because they get stuck in their grind with the same Mercs. Players who pre-order will probably have alot more fun, but might get frustrated later on because getting their 'Merc Build' at the proper skill level could take ages.