Developer Insights: Live Stream Q&A – Year of the Mammoth – February 21st
After the announcement of the Year of the Mammoth a lot of people are going to have a lot of questions! Which is why Blizzard has planned another developer live-stream where they will answer your questions about all the planned changes coming with the next Standard rotation and onward.
Tune in February 21st at 11am PST (20:00 CET) on the official PlayHearthstone Twitch channel!
You can leave any questions you have in the comments below, and we'll send Blizzard the best ones!
Quote from PlayHearthstoneWant to learn what’s on the horizon for Hearthstone in 2017? Join us on February 21 at 11am PST for a live Q&A session on Twitch. This week our developers will be reviewing the upcoming changes for Year of the Mammoth, so tune in to hear their thoughts on topics like: set rotation, expansions with missions, and the Wild format.
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- Tweet @PlayHearthstone with the hashtag #QA with your question
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We’ll see you there!
Nah they wouldn't release again a set you can't use
With the cards that are being moved to wild (From Standard) will you still be able to open them in classic card packs after the rotation?
One of the devs confirmed that you can't get the rotated cards in packs any more.
Why would you want a card you can't use?
I care, that's why i won't disenchant rag or sylvannas or any rotated adventure cards for now, but,if i got idk Ragnaros from a pack after he gets rotated , but i can't use in normal mode, i would be pretty angry with itit's like getting Dr.boom from packs right now when GvG isn't a thing anymoreit's like getting Dr.boom from packs right now when GvG isn't a thing anymore
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- Kind regards, 2017 meta game
I'd rather them fix the game than add a really unbalanced class into Hearthstone
Any thoughts on reworking the Classic set of cards?
Many classes have horrible classic/basic set cards while something have almost all the tools they will ever need. Wouldn't it be beneficial to iron what what the classic class cards is supposed to be and then even out the field between classes?
You found the answer; money. Its a shame that most decks need at least a new epic to work. P2w by design. You can often skip the legendarys but epics are needed.
The most enjoyable time is short after exp/adv for me bc you can try new stupid decks by yourself and adv gave you cards slowly so so you could refine those. Sadly they fucked too many up so the meta didn't change much
They need to make an alternate purchasing path for us collectors. They should sell complete sets for a flat price. How much this should cost is debatable but they could also make cards purchased in this manner non-disenchantable. As collectors we onyl disenchant extra duplicates so this would not be a problem. Making cards non-disenchantable would also hopefully lower the price of buying complete sets as you could not disenchant and carry over dust to next expansions (which collectors don't do anyway).
Questions for the stream:
A. Filler cards?
B. I think that something that helps diversity in the meta extremely is having all tribes equally viable. So will you help all the tribes that are seeing no play right now (mechs for example) and will you create new tribes, as they're really fun to collect and make decks of?
How active will Team 5 be on wild? Are you considering adding some kind of "wild pack" and are you planning on doing any wild rebalancing? I understand you are trying to preserve the same look and feel as with old metas but some cards and archetypes might be a bit too strong at the moment.
I believe that they should help free to play players, being one myself, some of us can't afford paying all we receive into these expansions to stay competitive. If you are truly free to play you can't pass rank 20 until half a year of struggling. Whenever these expansions come out we are the minority being pushed back even more. It would be nice if with each new expansion would come with like 5 free packs or something. Also I know saving gold is advised but people who just start don't know about what new expansions mean and the changes to standard like cards going to wild. What i'm trying to get at is free to play isn't even an option if you want to be able to have fun limiting your options in a game full of options. When a f2p player works hard to get the dust for one legend and gets wrecked by someone with 4+ legends and high dust decks f2p can only dream of playing there's something wrong there.
5 free packs ? haha its just nothing, you should say 30 free packs at least since less is completely useless
Question for the stream:
Could Blizzard increase the drop rate of gold cards in packs, thereby awarding more potential dust, in light of the increase to three expansions a year?
Will Rogues ever get a new weapon?