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.
Control metas happened both with Jade Druid & Priest (this meta & last meta).
For 2018, I want less swingy cards... I'm tired of living in a world where games hinge on Prince, or Bonemare, or a hundred other things that skew the game massively based on when they're drawn. Every single deck feels like a combo deck right now, where if you happen to open the right hand you're so far ahead it's stupid. Raza on 5, Anduin on 8, Prince on 2, Cubes early on, Quest Mage, Spiteful Summoner on 5 or 6 if you have coin, make it stop D:
Remember when they nerfed Call of the Wild because games hinged too much on it? What happened man?
Edit: Ok, I enjoy playing Warlock, but still D:
Are you actually upset about get free adventures every expansion?
A return on investment....300 bucks over 2 years
Just one wish : replace the free pack reward from Brawl -> give a free arena ticket instead each week.
Good Hearthstone 2018 to all!
This! TBH I would like free arena ticket even with reduced rewards.
No more cheat-value cards, and a nerf to all the existing ones...
Also... bring adventures back.
To be able to rearange the cards in your hand
Masterful
I would literally hand shuffle the entire game like I do in MTG. It's so addictive
Tournament system into the game for Arena, tavern brawl and/or constructed. mainly constructed. I mean there are a lot of good players in the bottom ranks that doesn't even wanna ladder. a tournament system alike "the real tournaments" might push us a little more, maybe not as much as getting into legend and join those HTC tournaments, but just a proof showing that you're equally good as those "pro players"(this system probably won't happen)
New adventure, missed them since the Night of Karazhan.
2 VS 2 input? just hearing based stuff from their own taverns.
No more Fireside gathering requirement just to get one thing in limited time, we already have large problems getting what we want from the packs and some other stuff.
I'm a simple guy. When it comes to wishlist, I just wish blizzard would stop inventing cards like patches, corridoor creeper and voidlord. These cards restrict the meta, its not fun when everyone is playing the same type of decks.
If there are no synergies between new cards and existing ones, players will just choose to include cards with the highest value. I reckon that SYNERGY is an important factor to make this hearthstone more interesting.
Also, would be glad if there are more festivals in hearthstone.
More rewards for winning against a friend or in a fireside gathering. Although I personally like the 80g challenge a friend quest, it's a rare pick.
More spells and minions that are dependent on card position (e.g Crushing Walls).
Revise some probabilities in generating cards:
- For non-legendary cards: If you already have 2 copies of a card (either normal or golden), significantly reduce the probably of getting a 3rd copy of the same card from packs. It's frustrating opening 6 copies of a common card after opening 40 packs, or taking forever to complete the basic set even if you've been playing for years.
- Golden cards should only have a conditional probability of pick (e.g. if a card has a 1% chance from a pack; then if you get that card, there's a 25% chance that card would be golden). The point is I don't want golden cards to affect the probability of getting a specific card regardless of the cosmetic aspect.
Return the Sorry emote.
Option to select ‘Random’ card back. Changes every game.
"I want a better community for the new year? What do you want, hearthstone community?"
"*terrible suggestions from bitter people who are upset the game isn't giving them even more free content then it already is*"
For 2018 I want no more comments sections plzthanku
quest visibility on all screens
change deck order
win streak and rank stars displays
What's the point in making a wish list. Team 5 can't balance a game to save its life. I had hope with Un'Goro, but pretty sure that was just a freak accident. They actually nerfed Hex and Fiery War Axe while planning to give Psychic Scream to the most powerful class. *shakes head*
Yeh, how many expansions didnt aggro shaman and pirate warrior rule? Priest been dead for very long time, it was decent around start of hearthstone til like ungoro