The Road to Level 50 - What's Your Choice?
Everyone playing Hearthstone, casual and hardcore alike, has been on the road to reach level 50 in the new Reward Track, where we will get the new Hero Portrait of our choice, out of the 10 main Heroes. Most people will get there in the life of this expansion, so we pose this simple question: If you have already reached level 50, which portrait did you go for, if you are still working on it, which one do you have your eye on?
I went with Nightslayer Valeera, because I honestly think she looks best among the ten portraits, plus I'm not really a fan of the Maiev portrait and I'm quite far from getting 1000 wins.
As for the others, my ranking (from most desirable to least) is as follows:
1) Demonbane Illidan - I honestly like this portrait, looks quite intense.
2) Cenarion Malfurion - an interesting, more "forestal" take, but I already have other alternates I like
3) Garrosh of Might - finally a Garrosh who wears a shirt! Were it not for Deathwing, this would rank higher
4) Felheart Gul'dan - definitely looking rad, but, like with Garrosh, N'Zoth has set up a defensive perimeter around my Warlock portrait.
5) Giantslayer Rexxar - an improvement over he 1000-win portrait (though anything is better IMO than "suddenly looks 100 years old" Rexxar), but I prefer Alleira
6) Earthfury Thrall - I like this take, but I already have enough alternates I like to push this away from the "priority" list
7) Uther Lawbringer - Uther got jacked here! While I would like to complete the "Book series", I already have Arthas and the 1000-win portrait, both of which look better IMO
8) Arcanist Jaina - I like her, but, as with Uther, the numerous available alternates make her less desirable
and last and most definitely least
9) Anduin of Prophecy - the prophecy apparently being "The King will get run over by a raindeer and, while he heals, we'll have to cast in his role an understudy sporting Boris Johnson's haircut, hoping nobody will notice the difference". Skip.
THE LIGHT SHALL BURN YOU!
I mean, if you like the portrait, I'm glad for you, and if you see him as Kristoff, more power to you.
Me, I'd need some serious beer goggles before I saw a resemblance though.
To each their own I guess *shrug*
I have already all golden animated heroes and last month I got my new portrait for druid. I am glad some new graphics are much better than the previous 1000wins ones (the deformed warrior pic was horrid). The paladin, however, is quite a mediocre art, compared to the other paladin graphics we have: it will be my last one for sure
I am torn between Jaina and Valera. Mostly cuz i am simp.
Valeera because of her only 2 portrait
I choosed Valera because it's looking so cool.
I am literally (not figuratively, literally) at the point where the next game I play, win or lose*, will get me to 50. And I have to admit I am torn - I think Valeera is far and away the best of the bunch, but I don't play rogue a lot. The rest seem to be more or less minor upgrades to me. Take the best skin and not see it all that often? Or take a "meh but at least a wee upgrade" skin to at least get some utility.
Hmmmmm.
*there IS the possibility that i will not spend one (1) mana in the next game and thereby not complete the "Spend 500 mana" quest where i am currently at 499/500. Next opponent could bail when seeing the matchup. But I think that the confidence here is appropriately high.
No poll?
It's not a meta decks of the week thread. Can't spend too much time on it.
We don't actually have the option to add polls to News posts. It's on my wish list. :)
I went with Uther since I don't have a decent Paladin skin I actually do like. I do have the Headless Uther but it having the same voice lines as OG Uther just doesn't fit the Halloween theme of the skin.
Valeera would be my next choice but I don't mind using Maiev instead in the meantime.
If you want a paladin portrait, you can get Lady Liadrin, just by installing WoW and get to lvl 20, the game is free to play to a certain level (or perhaps its a trial or something like that), I did it some time ago. At lvl 50 I chose Garosh because I didn't have any Warrior skin, and tbh I don't really like any of the lvl 50 Portrait except the Rogue, but I have Maiev and I think she looks better.
omg, headless uther looks awesome. i don't have it, but i envy those i encounter with the skin. however, now, with what you shared, i envy a bit less...
same voice lines? that's tragic, really :(
i love the LIadrin but i just can't grind WoW even to lvl 20 :( currently stalled at lvl 9, WoW just isn't fun for me.
Blizz said a while ago that they will add a new voiceline which will fit more. But up till now nothing happened. I hope that they will do it, cause that's the only reason I bought that skin.
Chose Illidan as I don't expect to hit 1000 wins with demon hunter anytime soon.
Same here. Same reason.
My best climbs have always been with Rogue, so I gave some love to Valeera and took her skin. I think I am in the minority, though, as one who also likes her 1,000 win portrait, Cap'n Valeera.