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.
my wishlist is:
1 free deck randomly chosen for everyone every expansion or on registering new account. I think that this will help more new players to come to the game.
1) why randomly chosen? In order to not flood ladder with same decks.
2) it may be some more basic decks. Or to be playable only in casual.
3) Game will be more friendly to F2P people and it may encourage more people to come to the game.
I just want more Burgle cards for Rogue.
And more alternative heroes, one/two per class is so booooring.
4 player free for all mode :0)
Sounds good, doesn‘t work.
Wish list: Bigger Deck like 35 cards instead of 30, More Mechs, Bigger daily quest rewards 50 coins being the minimum, since we have more expansions each year, Wild card/pack discount.
Access to all heroes for all players, even if we have to pay for them. Like, to have an option to either pay for Tyrande, Gnome, Khadgar etc. or wait for an eventual promotion to get them free (which will never happen in my country anyway).
More emotes and none of that Wow bs
I still to this day reach for the Sorry emote... It's kinda funny one of their april fool's day jokes was revealing more emotes.
Dude what I want is a LEGENDARY SPELL not quest the dose not count but something that can upgrade like spell stones like Rod of Roasting for mage but nurf of-cause Primordial Wand for palle of cause . Just any thing form the dungeon but non of the passive shit unless it on a minion that you can kill. And where is our blood spells that costs Health instead of Mana they have in yu gi ho e.g Bloodbloom but permanent
What language is this?
more fun events not only tawern brawl.
A legendary totem for Shaman
And no cards like Keleseth, Bone mare, cobalt, and creeper
A tournament mode with different formats like they have on magic online , like pauper, modern , standard etc. Also daily, weekly and monthly tournaments with different prize pools. Even a head to head two man tournament where you could wager gold or packs. And yes, a new druid hero.
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I really hope that 2018 will bring at last some of the following:
What I have wanted for a while was titles that could be put in place of the a worthy opponent when you queue into a match these could be obtained via quests achievements or special rewards kinda like the card pack we got from dungeon run or arthas from lich king fight
More free content for f2f player haha