Blizzard to Update Deathstalker Rexxar to Include New Beasts
There was a bit of outcry this past weekend about Rexxar not getting updated beasts. The Hearthstone team agrees with the community that they should have updated his Build-a-Beast Hero Power and an update to it will make its way here in the future. No date is yet available for the update, but we've been told they'll let us know when they have more information to share.
Some beasts may end up being not included on his hero power, much like how King of Beasts is not included.
Quote from KeganbeGreetings,
Many players have noticed that Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power does not include any of the new Beasts that were added with the Kobolds & Catacombs expansion.
Since then, some players have provided constructive feedback regarding the state of Deathstalker Rexxar, and we agreed that a change to the Hero Power was warranted.
As such, we will be updating Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power to include new Beasts going forward. Please be patient, as this is a fairly complicated endeavor and we may need to start with a smaller change before a more permanent solution is implemented. We don’t have a date for this change to share with you today, but we will provide more information once we have it.
Please also note that as new Beasts are released, we may need to mark some of them as exempt for various reasons, much like how King of Beasts is currently excluded from the pool of Beasts that Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power can pull from.
Thank you for providing constructive feedback. We see your love and passion for Hearthstone and believe that the best way to make Hearthstone better is to do so together.
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The beasts are pulled from two lists. One with only keywords/blank, the other with special text
But Nesting Roc also has keyword and text and its in the pool of beasts, weird...
Nesting Roc Gains taunt and doesn't already have it like King of Beasts.
So many people always complain about the point where they argue that Blizzard isnt open for good constructive feedback.
Now we all see they are! Good Job Blizzard, Hunter the most fun DK of all ( not the strongest )
We did it boys! Dire mole all the way!!!
Nesting Roc+ DIre mole = Ancient of War for Hunter, OPieOP
Hm, so i guess one of the reasons that makes this complex for them to change, is the amount of text that some cards like King of Beasts has, so. they have to see manualy how much text each card has for all the languages...
I guess this could be solved with some dinamic text going on the card ? or maybe some zoom thing when you click in the description ?
I don't know, but i think there is simple ways to solve this, so, all beast cards like king of the beasts could be included on Deathstalker Rexxar card pool...
i think the problem was with the categories. Since Rexxar pulls from beasts with texts, and beast with only keywords (and KIng has both)
Holy shit, Blizz actually listened to the community. Now I'm hyped for the changes of Deathstalker Rexxar with every expansion!
One change down, several hundred more to go. One small step for humanity, one huge step for hearthstoners! ;)
Instead of hardcoding every single combination of beast, they now have the opportunity to future proof it by making something dynamic. If they do it right, with proper rules, they shouldn't have to touch him ever again.
The people have spoken and we were heard. It's a glorious day. Thanks to everyone who stirred up a shitstorm. Even if you just shitposted, you contributed to this working out.
What a time to be alive
Cool, there's no reason it wasn't like that from the get go.
Random remark about woes of a small indie company.
Thank you very much Blizzard for listening to us. We appreciate it. (There are some haters regardless of what you do, but thats how life works).
Why was King of Beasts excluded from Build-a-beast ?
My guess is that its text is way long.
kinda. more that it has multiple abilites, and one triggers in the "generic" pile for beasts, and the other triggers in the "tech power" section, which are the two beast types your choosing from. making it techincally possible to get a 10 mana king king.