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.
I think there should be unique achievements, just like in WoW
1. Non-rigged matchmaking. No, don't lie Ben you have this, we all know that.
2. No forced lose streaks. No, don't lie again Ben, you have this one as well.
2. No broken cards. I'm staring at you Psychic Scream and Voidlord
3. Higher bonus star rewards for a season.
4. Faster reconnect on disconnect especially on phone and tablet.
5. Disable fancy animations mode. I want to play, not watch the animation of Raven Idol like in the current Tavern Brawl.
6. Ingame history and stats
7. Deck restriction for Wild mode, like you need to have atleast 2 wild cards in your deck to play Wild.
8. Gadgetzan preorder cardback, that they forgot to create last year.
9. Smarter mulligan, like if I throw back cards, they should not come back to my hand, right?
10. More deck slots!
"I wish the community wouldn't be so terrible in 2018"
"Oh yeah? Well I wish the matchmaking wasn't RIGGED AGAINST ME by BEN BRODE HIMSELF to make me lose EVERY GAME I PLAY and I have PROOF THAT HE IS TARGETING ME!"
Actually they don't.
You just have duplicate of that card that "reappears" in your Mulligan choices
I agree with number 10, but 9 would make no sense in a card game. You aren't allowed to game randomly shuffled opening hands in physical card games (they don't even allow you to 'mulligan' in most cases) so why should HS allow you to heavily manipulate opening hands to dig for perfect starting hands?
It does make sense. Look at hsreplay stats, Standard and Wild has less then 1% difference for every class in win rate. That means, most people when they get salty just switch to wild and play with the same deck. And that's just not good.
- Earnable gold through pve, Even if its incredibly minor rewards.
- 9 new deckslots. Just so we can have 3 decks for 3 heroes per page.
- better arena rewards. Especially at higher wins.
- allow us tondrag and drop decks to swap their positions, so we can sort them better.
- bring back the "sorrg" emote. People BM with "thanks" any way so who cares
- annihilation of patches the pirate
Maybe some chat box, so we can chat with our opponent? Heheh
Emote BMing is bad enough thanks
PvE content that lets you grind for gold other than quests.
Let team 5 do their thing like they used to without being micromanaged by bean counters.
Wow those are really well thought out and all really good ideas :)
1) a meta that makes drooling face aggro decks permanently lose and cry
2) kill jade druid
A control player is crying here, OMG.
Just go back to your fancy Railgun Priest and Cubelock, and enjoy the wonderful SIlence meta you always wanted.
repeatable quests, or monthly quests...
Repeatable quest: Win 50 games with hunter, gain 10 extra gold... this quests is auto rerolled to another quest... (just an example) keeps people playing, with a reward on the horizon.
Monthly quests: Each month a quest comes like: Win with X class against a Y class... this is being tracked and at the end of the month you get 1 gold for every time you completed it... Or something in the line of: Win 100 games with warlock, reward 100 gold.
A new game, ive spent over £500 and these shit new expansions ruined it all.