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Old Gods Expansion Could Have Included Titans
The Golden Wisp podcast had Peter Whalen, Hearthstone Game Designer, on to discuss the design of the Old Gods expansion. There were a few interesting bits of information he had to share about the design around the expansion and card nerfs.
Hopefully Titans will one day be a thing in Hearthstone!
Quote from Peter Whalen
- The team wanted to do an expansion featuring Old Gods vs The Titans but couldn't find room to flesh both out within 130 cards.
- C'Thun and his buffing minions had used a keyword called Ritual / Ritualists.
- They don't want to add too many new mechanics to the game - it can make it more difficult for new players to understand the game.
Card Nerfs
- Ice Block, Alexstrasza, and Sylvanas Windrunner were all nerf candidates.
- Keeper of the Grove was going to be increased to 5 mana, but they instead made it a 2/2.
- Blade Flurry was considered to be changed to a single target ability.
- Ancient of Lore was a tough nerf, but they want Druid to feel different every year.
Deck Spotlight: C'Thun N'Zoth Control Priest
Poor Anduin hasn't seen much play on the pro-scene, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with him! Shock191919 brings us a Rank 5 Priest Control deck tonight which makes use of the Old Gods C'Thun and N'Zoth, with N'Zoth being more of a back-up plan.
- Build up your C'Thun, get some cool stuff from Museum Curator.
- Soak up damage you've taken via Twilight Darkmenders or protect via Twin Emperor Vek'lor.
- If they aren't dead, build your board again via N'Zoth, the Corruptor.
The deck costs 5520 dust, and you can find the contents of it below. Check out the writeup to learn more about the deck.
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The Angry Chicken #152: "Format Wars"
This week on The Angry Chicken, the crew discussed the americas spring prelims, the various competitive formats and what pros have to say about them, the usual crazy game stories, and your emails.
Watch episode #152 of The Angry Chicken below! You can find previous episodes over on their YouTube channel and you can give the cast a follow over on @TACPodcast on Twitter.
Don't forget Garrett, Jocelyn, and Dills will all be doing a live recording of The Angry Chicken at CreateCon in Orlando, Florida on July 30th. For tickets and information check out CreateConvention.net.
They do not get tired to carry this bullshit about the new players?
Alexstrasza should have been nerfed. It's very frustrating to play against with the lack of healing in standard.
and doomhammer. 5+2 mana for 16 dmg? with the potencial for 10 dmg burst and for the class with the best cards this expention?
I came here to say the same thing. Imo Ice Block breaks the game. It really limits design space.
Just look at the recent Brawl where you made a deck with two cards. 15 Ice Blocks really wasn't fun.
Ice block is definitely good, but it shouldn't be nerfed... Nerfing it would kill Freeze Mage, and Freeze Mage is definitely not overpowered while being one of the few decks in Hearthstone that require a lot of skill to play well.
i understood every single word in that reply, u just got rekt mate xD the other guy is right
They aren't really fun to play against either so I'm surprised that dodged the nerf bat.
i feel like Ben Brode and his crew always do stupid shits "just for fun" and then they realize that what they did is not what they mean, and happens when they want to do something "good" and then that "good thing" is just fucking bad as hell... A BIG example is c'thun... it suppose to be the meta right? but what happened? C'thun is just a trash tier 3 deck.... another example is Reno Jackson.... They made that card just for fun.... those stupids didn't espect to be a competitive card.... i meanif you really sit and read the card it seems like a joke for a card game... but surprise !... Reno is fucking op... that's the problem with ben brode and blizzard... i honestly think they can't do good job for this game... i know my comment is so salty xD but is really the tue what i said... Sorry for bad english tho, is not my main language.
Now those corrupted legendaries hurt me even more, we could have had Titans instead. Well, hopefully we'll get Titans soon enough anyway.
Thinking about it more, that's probably why they opted to do the corrupted cards in the first place.
5 mana Ancient of Lore would have been much better, I think.
but then the new priest card should be cheaper. 6 mana 6/5 or 5/6 is the way they should have gone, but i think i would prefere drake
He probably ment 5 mana Keeper of the Grove. If so, I agree with him
Yeah 5 mana Keeper is balanced. But good old Blizzard wanted to remove the card from the game instead :(
Indeed, thanks :)
variety <> complexity. So... boring
They wanted to make another Savagery from Blade Flurry
Should have nerfed alexandra. It's time to let go off freeze mage. It's a boring and highly uninteractive deck.
The mage class deserved a better control/archetype.