Arena Only Cards from BlizzCon to be Added "In a Few Months"
If you've been wondering when we'd see the special Arena Cards shown during BlizzCon, partially wonder no more! With replies from both Ben Brode and Mike Donais over the weekend on the question, it sounds like we'll be getting them before the new expansion hits, likely during the lull where they need to make Hearthstone spicier.
If you forgot what the cards were, here you go!
Brode and Donais Respond
Quote from Ben Brode and Mike DonaisWhat happened to "Arena only" card's that were shown on Blizzcon?
It’s still coming! (Ben Brode)
We are going to add them to arena in a few months. (Mike Donais)
They will be added right before the next expansion so that players are enticed to blow the gold they saved for packs on arena tickets so that they are more inclined to purchase packs for money.
We do it then usually because it’s when people are most bored with constructed. We just focus on making the game as fun as possible, and keeping the game fresh and interesting is an important goal for us.
Often we discuss the dip in excitement around “month 3” of the expansion cycle, and how to make the game more fun in that period. Cool events is one of those tools. Sometimes it’s an Arena event, but it was Double-Gold once too. We have some other fun ideas still to come! (Ben Brode)
Blizzard again :
They will be added right before the next expansion so that players are enticed to blow the gold they saved for packs on arena tickets so that they are more inclined to purchase packs for money.
Funny shite :p
Free-entry events pls!
Also, add those cards to constructed!
Yes. Let's give bonkers card draw to priest, a hand full of voidlords to warlock and stealth auctioneer to rogue. These cards are far too strong to add to the game.
You are speaking like we don't have broken cards in constructed already.
And like Wild does not exist.
Well I primarily play wild but my statement still holds. You give priest huge draw power in wild and Reno Razareaper becomes even stronger. Sure conceal is in wild but the stealth card for arena is arguably stronger as it gives the card draw too and you rarely need to stealth more than one minion. Yes we have broken cards in standard and wild already but that doesn't mean we should add more into the mix.
Smoke Bomb is a card I've been wishing for in Standard for a while. They'd probably have to nerf Auctioneer to like 4/2 though.
i just want to know if those cards will have a golden version, and it is free or need to craft it, i want to see this golden cracling doom
I loved the Fire and Frost events for helping me build up a gold pile for the release of Frozen Throne (although I ended up spending all of my gold on Arena runs and practicing going infinite), I wouldn't mind seeing more events like that in the future!
" wE jUsT fOcUs oN mAkInG tHe gAmE aS fUn aS pOsSiBlE " yeah sure ...
Well dungeon runs are amazing, they just need to expand on them or give more incentives to play them.
Amazing? Ehhh... would say they were good, but devs surely forgot how strong charge is and why they nerfed warrior's Charge and Warsong Commander.
Above that, "interactive" quest rogue.
I'm sure they've got some kind of a Ben-Brode-laugh-o-meter as a reference during the card design process to define just the right amount of fun.
Uhhh, arena only cards?
Like, it was announced? When? Back in Un'Goro?
Ah, the ol announcement before the announcements that announces the announced future to be released updates announcement
A free ticket with the launch would be cool. But does Blizzard have the bank for it??
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Making Hearthstone Spicy Again