Heroic Tavern Brawl is Not Happening this Week
Blizzard has confirmed that we will not be seeing Heroic Tavern Brawl this week...
Quote from @PlayHearthstoneJust to clarify: The Heroic Tavern Brawl is not happening this week. #soon
But We'll See it Before BlizzCon!
Thanks to Ben Brode, we do know that it is slated for before BlizzCon. That means either next week or the week after. Mark your calendars for October 26th and November 2.
Quote from Ben BrodeReally curious as to why the HS team didn't save Heroic tavern brawl announcement for BlizzCon.
Because it's coming out before BlizzCon
this should cost under 5 dollars, the w/l shouldn't be so one sided, and ben needs to stop taking mushrooms.
Anyone know how the matchmaking will work? Do you play a 1-3 player when you are 1-3? and Do you play an 11-2 player when your 11-2? If so its going to be insanely difficult to get the 12 wins. By the time you get to the top of the ladder even the best players will be flipping a coin to continue... 1/1000 probability to get amazing stuff really stinks. If they made 3 wins be worth your money and balanced out 3-12 at a more friendly spread this would be really fun. As is. I might play it once to try my luck, will probably go 2-3 and never play it again. Prepare to see 90% of the same shaman deck.
I wonder if there would be a little less complaining if Blizzard had introduced this as a completely new mode, rather than presenting it as a "Tavern Brawl." It's really not a Brawl in any sense (unless there are going to be weird rules they haven't announced yet).
If they called it "Heroic Tournament," and didn't run it in place of the Brawl... well, there would still be complaining, because you'll always have vocal people who want everything for free. But I imagine it would be different.
Climbing the ladder has gotten so boring.
I am thrilled that Tournament mode is finally here. As someone else pointed out, none of you people complaining must have ever played in a pay tournament before. Compare this to a poker tournament or Magic Online. For Magic Online you pay more than this and you're locked to your chair for 6-12 hours and hope the tournament doesnt crash. Payout is less and also weighted heavily to the number one player. That's reality people.
As for value, the value I get from this is the same value I get from watching UFC live instead of in repeats. For $9.99 I'm going to be excited about and on edge for each of my games. That's value to me.
"Tournament mode is finally here"?
Please explain to me how this is in any way different from arena, besides the 80% chance that the reward you'll get is worth less than the 1000g entree fee?
yeah but in magic you have sideboard to balance your 1 deck vs all matchups. here it just cant and wont work.
if you think this is tournament mode pls link me a hearthstone tournament streamed in this format cause i never ever saw one where you didnt have multiple decks so thats what i expect from tournament mode in this game.
Different from Arena - Wow, you got me there.
I've been testing decks all week trying to come up with something original that beats the meta. So, to answer your question - my skill at deck building and playing vs my skill at drafting and hoping I get to pick Mage and lots of Flamestrikes.
In case somebody missed it, here are the rewards.
So basically, you have to get at least 5 wins just to get 1000 gold worth of packs / gold / dust. And statistically, only about 20% of runs end with 5 or more wins. Which means that 80% of all players who do this thing will end up being better off if they had just bought 10 packs.
Oh, and the people who are good enough to get like 10+ wins probably already have every card they want and just do it for fun / the prestige.
Conclusion: It's pretty much just the biggest cash grab in Hearthstone's history.
You seem to be confusing "Tournament" with "Sale"
"Yes, I would like to enter your poker sale please"
Here you are sir, for your 10 dollar entry fee, you get ten dollars back!
Sweet!
you play 5 times for a fee ? if yes you can make 5 times 1 win = 5 x 2 packs = 10packsc = 1000 gold in shop
or am i wrong ?
Why there won't be first free entry like in arena?
Especially since the free pack was originally just supposed to be a limited time promotion that has stuck.
Honestly though there's a lot of brawls I'd never log into and play if it wasn't for the free pack.
Because of the big negative communit feedback
Good that they have decided to postpone it.
It may be revised terms and especially the price, so do not be so greedy.
I dislike this Heroic Brawl quite a bit. If they could please just have two tavern brawl option I wouldn't mind it so much but I really like getting a free pack every week. Tavern Brawl is something I look forward to and having it be missing for a week bums me out. Especially for this opportunity for uber-hardcore stupid player with a mega deck that thinks they can luck into 9 wins against other uber-hardcore, stupid, bloodthirsty players with mega decks.
It doesn't seem well designed at all.
I like that kind of brawl but it needs improvement. It needs a free ticket or better rewards for the lowest wins.
Needs definitely a free run in first week, yes!
Like the regular arena was free for the first run for new players :)
In competitive hearthstone it's really hard to achieve a 65% winrate consistently and everything even higher is nearly impossible. If only high level players participate in the brawl no one is expected to score higher than 6 wins average and casual players will have a hard time even get to 3 wins.
Also, you need to check out the reward table Blizzard has released. You barely break even with 6 wins. [see here]
You need to be very good at the game to make a profit from the brawl - and 12 wins is pretty much impossible without an insane amount of luck.