Hearthpwn

Quote from DiamondDM13 >>

I'll address you by points.

1. You are looking at this from an entirely ridiculous perspective. Hearthstone is very expensive, but comparing Hearthstone, a Strategy Card Game, to any normal video game, like an Action game, a Shooter, and so on, is completely nonsensical.

Strategy Card Games are, have been, and likely will always be very expensive hobbies. This has been true far before Hearthstone came out, and from someone who played decades of physical strategy card game, HS is actually not very expansively comparatively.

If you want to argue how expansive HS is, you are perfectly free to do so, but please, avoid making a comparison with anything that is not exactly the same as HS. Compare Apples with Apples, not Apples with Oranges.

2. Rock Paper Scissors is what a perfect balances looks like in any Strategy Card Game, anyone who doesn't enjoy this aspect of card games might need to look elsewhere. Either that, of hope for unbalanced game states, where decks are at a much higher power level compared to the rest, meaning they easily and consistently overpower other decks, regardless of their natural advantage, just by sheer brute force.

Blizzard shouldn't make changes just to "refresh" the Metagame, they have a large audience they don't want to alienate with constant card changes (Yes, card changes easily alienate players, anytime a player sees a card needed for decks they enjoy changes, it is a heavy reason to stop playing, as they no longer can play what they enjoy). They need to make changes when there are balance problems, which is not the case right now, the game has been very healthy in terms of balance recently. You haven't played for long, but the game was largely unbalanced across all these years, you do not want to ruin what they achieved just for the sake of refreshment.

3. If the game is boring and not fun, that is usually a clue to do something else, like take a break. The more you play, and the more consistently you do so, and the more frequently you do, the higher and higher is the chance that you hit that breaking point. The Diminishing Returns point. Past this point you are just going to keep obtaining less and less amounts of enjoyment out of this activity, because you are exhausting yourself constantly doing the same thing.

The actual problem in Hearthstone right now, is the fact that Blizzard want to juggle two directions for the game which are just not possible to coincide. Having a truly widespread appeal, casual, wacky game full of crazy stuff to do will not work for a very competitive and extremely engaged scene, like those players that played absurd amounts of hours, be it very engaged players, streamers, or competitive players.

While you might want to point to games like Magic The Gathering for cases of both directions working, I'd ask you to check again, and see if they actually work for the first direction above.

The casual appeal of Hearthstone, where you can easily just pick it up and play at any point without much issues to get back in, where you expect a constant base of knowledge and cards that provides the pillars for this direction of the game, does not match with the hyper competitive approach, which requires constant changes, constant release of content and a very strong competitive circuit to enter. Reality is there is no sweet middle spot they can reach, because almost the entire player base is on one of the extremes, the very casual, and the very engaged.

 1. I do agree hearthstone as a card game is expensive but you can't compare it to other games, I never cared about dropping 100-150$ per expansion but really gets me is all the card rotating out makes that investment useless. Ya ok you can "play those cards in wild", wild sucks - majority of people don't play it. disagree? then why do i queue up against the same opponent 10x more often, why does it take 2min at times to find a match, why am i being paired with someone 10 ranks away from mine. I can go on forever about wild. but not getting full value out of my money is my problem 135cards in an expansion and at best 30 are used is a waste - ao yes i agree hearthstone is expansive in that regard.

2.what on earth are you smoking 'rock paper scissor a perfect balance" i don't ever remember hearthstone being this polarizing. countless people who actually play this game 5+hours a day (kibler/zalae/forgotisname..........) all agree this is a problem. People who actually play this game for more than 5min a day realize this is a problem

3.STFU, people like you are the problem. This game has been out for what 4years now, NOTHING as far as achievement/rewards have been added this is long overdue for that.

don't spend a dime dude, like people said wait for a promo, next expansion you can get maybe 50packs with a hero or something and this is coming from someone who dropped more than 1200$ on this stupid game already

cool deck man, lot of fun

Quote from Billie_Lurk >>

I'm genuinely curious about how many cards from boomsday and ww are even seeing play in the meta right now. I would guess it's less than 5 percent. The classic set and basic cards are a blight on this game and are well over 40% of the meta at all times. Even the next expansion will barely have any impact. Blizzard has gone on record saying that this year was meant to bring the power levels back in. You should expect a meta like this or very similar until next rotation.

 "Blizzard has gone on record saying that this year was meant to bring the power levels back in" THEY DID?

Source please

bro so many people have already mentioned this. Love the idea, post it on reddit so blizz can see. The more people that keep posting the idea the better chances of it actually happening.

Ahhhh this must be what team 5 has been spending most of their time doing, cause it sure hasn't been making the game more enjoyable.

Agreed

Quote from ColinthePyro >>

The Boomsday meta is 20x more diverse than anything we saw in Year of the Mammoth. I'm having a blast with stuff like Lady in White Priest, Deathrattle Hunter, and Even Shaman.

If you're complaining that the meta is stale now, I think its more that you're just bored of the game in general rather than the specific meta. There are no game-breaking decks right now

 you may be right about being generally bored of the game, or a combination of things I can't put a finger on it but like others have mentioned  just feels the same, not many new cards being used, any deck I try to make that different or utilizes new cards either in standard or would just gets demolished by top tier decks.

Matches seems like a coin toss at times, I play aggro i get matchup with warrior unwinnable, I switch to warrior I get matchup up with togwaggle druid or infinite damage priest/mage 

I have all 9 heroes gold, 12 wins arena, been to legend. Nothing really to work towards at all. So for me hearthstone maybe something to hang up for a while I'm sure allot of veteran players feel the same, don't see many streamers on these days or are playing something else 

Let me sum this up

-Tournament mode is Cancelled (Sorry put on HOLD......ya whatever its cancelled)

- Nothing is being Nerfed (Cause this meta so much fun)

-4 new classic cards (3 of which are all RNG garbage)

-New Hero portrait (that you need to pay for)

-If you paid for beginner packs before you'll get them for free now (This is a +) 

That's pretty much all you need to know

Quote from Horkinger >>

Depending on your collection, I guess.

For Druid you need Innervate + Naturalize or Dreampetal Florist

For Warlock you need galvanizer + cataclysm + bloodbloom

and for priest you need Coffin Crasher + Reckless Experimenter + Ticking Abomination + Hemet, Jungle Hunter (the last one for consistency

If you can make all of them, I think most people will recommend priest since it is allegedly the best/most consistent one. I personally think that Druid is okay as well, since Druid as such a lot of good cards and can empty his deck acceptable fast while drawing the combo. I never played the warlock one, but Strifecro has a video playing it.

 no you don't need Dreampetal Florist, for priest u could do galvanizer + 2 coins from Gilded Gargoyle + Shadow Word: Death

making this thread was also a terrible mistake 

Title says it all, should they start releasing gold cards at some point?

 i was thinking upping the hero ranks to 100 and start giving golden rewards much like how they did it with basic set to rank 60.

Maybe anybody that already has golden card gets full dust value?

What would be a good way to do it?

YES thank you hearthpwn, during new expansion im on this site at least 40 times a day lol. thanks for all the hard work

If you summon mechs and the magnetic happens to be on the left of another mech will they merge ? The keyword "magnetic" implies that it should, or is it more of a battlecry thing.

Using that 9 mana legendary warrior spell this kinda matters, im sure there plenty other situation