What's on Your Hearthstone Wishlist for 2018?
Last year, Iksar tweeted asking everyone what they wanted to see for 2017 and we posted about it to see what you wanted to see in 2017. so let's do it again!
HearthPwnians, what stuff do you want to see from the game next year?
Flux's Wishes for Hearthstone 2018
Having a two-line news post felt like a terrible way to get the discussion going, so here's what I want to see.
A New Druid Hero
It feels so wrong that we only saw three new heroes during 2017. After Prince Arthas came out with Knights of the Frozen Throne, and although the flavor was great for the expansion, we still were left with 2 classes that were still missing an alternate hero. Fast forward to October, just over two months later, Warlocks finally received a new hero in the form of the adorable gnome, Nemsy Necrofizzle.
Druid is now the odd one out and we've got no idea when we're going to see an additional face for the class. Hopefully, the method of acquiring the new Druid hero won't leave us kicked to the curb like Nemsy did with broken Fireside Gatherings and requiring us to be social / grab a GPS spoofer.
I'm not even going to bring up the topic of each class not having an easily accessible alternative hero, that's for another day.
More Cosmetics
Let players show off more! It would be great to see a mix of obtainable in-game cosmetic items and those that could come from a shop.
- There's definitely more room for new card backs coming out of various criteria.
- Let us obtain flair for our names. This could be displayed beside/under our name.
- Flair could provide a slot to showcase a statistic (like lifetime brawl wins, lifetime 12 arena win runs, highest legend rank).
- Flair could also just be a fancy badge that showcases something you achieved or purchased.
- More fancy board elements for heroes. Why stop at 500 wins, the counter doesn't!
Some ideas for cool things they could add:
- A card back to the shop that costs 10,000 gold. The entire point of it is to showcase your wealth. Level it up by spending another 10k gold.
- Something unique for getting all nine heroes to 500 wins. You're already tracking this, make up a card back!
- Reward players with a card back who have obtained Legend multiple times. The Golden Legend Cardback!
- Golden hero borders that could evolve to be hit with more sparkle. Adorn them with class-specific flair like a frost effect for Mages which gets better the more wins with the class you have.
- Name flair for all the basic stats available - total wins, total arena wins, and others that are certainly available internally.
- Name flair from the shop that could let you better represent your favourite <x>. A flashy Hunter trap, a cute little Murky face.
- Think of it as if they were a traditional avatar - they could even show up on your friends list!
- Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft II, and StarCraft Remastered all have avatars. Even Diablo III does if you consider Avatar Borders. EVEN DIABLO THREE!
- Interactables that could be on your side of the gameboard - extra stuff to play with! Buy 'em in the shop and have some rewarded for completing cool
achievementsquests.
This is just a small piece of the overall cosmetic puzzle; The important thing here is to help bring more uniqueness to the game. There are certainly better ideas out there that I am certain we'll see in the comments below.
Additional Unique Tavern Brawls
Back in September, I touched upon Tavern Brawls being too repetitive. I personally feel that over half the brawls being repeats is not a great way to truly figure out the mode and ultimately leads to more negative vocal reactions here and elsewhere in the community. That negativity has without a doubt resulted in more players becoming jaded when it comes to the game as a whole which without a doubt cannot be good.
By having more new brawls added to the game, we can consistently enjoy new experiences with Hearthstone and will hopefully see less negative discussion about the Hearthstone team being "lazy". That negative public perception that is picked up across the web and in the faces of potential new players certainly isn't a good thing and is hopefully taken into consideration when they decide what to toss up next.
While we're at it, seeing more stats on brawls overall would be wonderful. The last time we saw brawl play-rates was back at BlizzCon 2015.
A Friendlier Community
There's a lot of negativity within all the hot places for Hearthstone discussion and although a lot of is without a doubt justified, we should all try and be more constructive with our comments.
- Personal attacks against game developers, pros, and even your fellow players are not getting us anywhere and is the area with the largest room for improvement.
- Saying a card, deck, or play is terrible/shit/cancer doesn't actually help anyone. Explain your process to encourage discussion and teach others.
- Quit the political and regional attacks. Stuff can't always come out at the same time everywhere and discussion of subtropical fruit doesn't contribute to gaming discussions.
These things not only apply to Hearthstone but to other games you play and communities you are a part of.
If you want a game that's not hearthstone in 2018, I have great news for you: there are about five thousand of them!
I also have terrible news for you: asking for a game that's not hearthstone in a thread about what we want to see in hearthstone in 2018 is a dumb thing to do!
Tyrande available for everyone, I'm sick of Anduin
After the bland Idols of Azeroth and even Spider Brawl repeating not long ago there better be a Deck Recipe Brawl coming up. Deck recipes have been by far my most replayable ones, always different, always fun to try cards I don't have.
There should be one after every expansion imo
My Wish is a:
2 Vs 2 Player Co-OP Mode, if one hero exits the game, AI takes control of this hero. When one friendly Hero survives, the Team wins, even if one of them died in this game. Also, would be cool the possibility for the dead player to continue watching the battle.
Wishlist:
- More deckslots, 18 still isn't enough for a guy like me who doesn't like to delete his old favorite decks.
- Achievements.
- The ability to spectate a friends arena draft.
Just save the code in a notepad file if you are full
Thanks for your attention and happy new year.
I agree with every single one of those but sadly I'm pretty sure the incompetent hacks who "work" on this game won't do a single one of those.
Free booster packs.. That adds new C'thun cards for example.
cheaper packs?!
+ Class Identity
- Power Creep Neutral Cards
+ Class Identity
- Power Creep Neutral Cards
Better luck when opening packs.
Only legendary I've gotten was through the 10-pack guarantee for the new expansion, as well as the free weapon
ACHIEVEMENTS
It seems to me I am not the only one who wants it and most of people's wishes could also be done with Achievements.
Auto-Squelch
To be honest I would like to see some endless quest I could do for small amounts of dust. I always hate after doing my quest that I don't have anything other than grinding out 500 wins for my gold heros. Stuff you wouldn't have to win for like, play 10 cards in one turn gets you 5 dust at the end of the game, or destroying 8 minions in one turn gets you 3 or heck wining with out a playing a card gets you one free dust. I think it would help cost while adding something to work at even if you only get a few games a day/week.
I think a just win mode that has no cap, that you can get stuff for every so many wins would be nice to. I don't mind casual so much because there's no real stake on the out come but it would be nice to have a mode that say every 100 wins I get some cards or gold or flair things. I also like having a big number counter go up.
Lastly id like to see a card exchange, with most of the legendaries now being class oriented and often required in decks, if you end up with the shaman wep or class legendary, it would be nice to exchange it for the same type of card for like 20-30% dust value. I cant play most variants of warlock because I have the shaman, mage, priest dks, but not the warlocks. Having that price means so when I want to play the decks that I have 28/30 for but missing the key legends, means i can trade my shaman or priest one and warlock away. When I cantplay cheep decks that sad panda me, like pirate warrior even if it makes me feel dirty.
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A coop brawl at least once every 3 months.