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.
Better packs outcomes.
Really, more than 80 packs of the new expansion, only 2 legendarys and I have to craft all needed epics and for the free legendary weapon I get the terrible shaman one.
Impossible to be worse than that.
Seriously with all the cost problems in the game and the lack of content, and the awful ladder system, what you really want is some superfluous shallow cosmetic nonsense?
My desires are not the same as yours. We're already getting a ladder revamp anyway so there's not much point in bringing it up again.
Cost problems are blown out of proportion in some ways, but yes, it definitely would be nice to see something on that end but honestly, I don't know what I exactly want to see out of it so again I didn't feel the need to bring it up.
Focus less on what I want and more of what you want. Exactly how do you want Blizzard to address the cost issue?
we should do a vote campaign of best deck/hearthstone card/created card of 2017. It would be very interesting.
maybe a guaranteed legendary in every packs or 20? 40 is too freaking much
The 50 percentile should be rank 12 (currently 18) or players deserve an explanation why.
Definitely agree with the sentiment of a friendlier and more thoughtful community. If you're acting like an internet tough guy or demeaning the ideas of others then you're not the solution, you're part of the problem.
I think one of the cool things they could do is grant the current legendary card back for the first time you achieve legend, but also every month you could earn a special version of the card back for that month that only people who got to legend that month get. For example, it could be an all gold version of that month's card back.
My biggest wish though is for them to implement whatever changes to Ranked mode they've been hinting that they've been developing for the past year. I think Ranked mode has a ton of room for improvement and I'm excited to see them finally make those changes. I assume they won't do that until the first set of 2018 drops and the yearly Standard rotation happens, but as long as it happens sooner rather than later I'll be happy.
I want a 2V2 mode, desperately
Also re-work of old card backs, because they look so lame compared to the newer ones (including the legend card back, which looks really lame)
The ability to sort decks in the client.
I'd like to see customizable emotes.
The fireworks and snowflakes effects during the Midsummer Fire Festival and Frost Festival were pretty cool (and I still miss the sorry emote).
I will also c/p what I wished for last year but didn't happen
I'll keep my wishlist minimalist and modest, I only want one thing :
More detailed patch notes that actually clarifies what's being changed. That would be nice <3
- More refined ladder
- More game mode (that support wild cards too)
- Tournament mode
- Achievements
- Daily login rewards
- More cosmetic options
- And last but not least: LESS RNG ELEMENTS!
-Automatic squel
- a stats page (winratio , total wins/looses , with classes ect)
- get old card backs
- more alt hero skins
In game tournament mode would be nice
All I want is something different than cardbacks. Hell I dunno but cardbacks just feel so boring lately...maybe something like a unique board, unique cards, unique special effects for your cards or whatever if you hit certain milestones and we‘re good