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[S] Upgrading cards to their golden form, crafting card backs, and (some) hero skins is one project that they are actively working on.

THX GOD!!! Explorer's Map will be MINE! FINALLY!

I think they should back Kathrena Winterwisp that was realy usefull in old metas. And I afraid a little about Ultimate Infestation .

How  is this even possible - no  plans for Secret Mage?! The most oppressive and disgusting deck in wild..

no nerf in secret mage = garbage, most cancer deck ever for 2 years and bliizard give more and more secrets and sinergy all expansion 

Can anyone ask him why they keep printing mana cheat cards and other cards that encourage hitting face when it comes to hunter?

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He's personally played with the idea of a card that costs more than 10 mana and you have to spend mana over the course of many turns in order to actually use it.

 

That's an interesting concept. You'd never have to waste mana crystals by doing nothing with them.

 Shirvallah was exactly like this. 25 Mana to start and cost was reduced by cost of spells you played.

I actually wouldn't mind all the classes getting their hero cards back in the core set. They would add one more semi-permanent option to deck building. Obviously some of them would need minor tweaks in power level. Just keep them strong, but not too strong that every single deck includes them even if they don't synergise with the deck (Zilliax).

He's personally played with the idea of a card that costs more than 10 mana and you have to spend mana over the course of many turns in order to actually use it.

That's an interesting concept. You'd never have to waste mana crystals by doing nothing with them.

Secret Mage and Darkglare Warlock is something they discuss every patch, .2/.4/.6. There are no plans for now.

This statement confirms that they either don't care enough to address problems in wild OR don't care enough to even look into it. I just can't believe that the team would reach the conclusion that wild it okay the way it is right now.

Zeph is also one of my favorite cards, but its too soon to add it to the core set. We all need a break from strong cards at some point.

Sure makes me cranky that Priest is the only class Blizz seems to focus on when it comes to their class identity when Hunter literally doesn't have one.  Scratch that, Hunter is the class where they aren't allowed to do anything fun or interesting.  Or Draw.  Or Heal.
But yeah we gotta make sure Priest players can enjoy their shadow priest fantasies.

Don't you know? Hunter is the aggressive class, going face is their indetity, it's been like that since 2014! But it seems that wasn't enough, so they got a brother called Demon Hunter, which has as its identity doing everything Hunter does but in a better and cheaper way. I guess some of the devs have some long lasting childhood grudges involving their siblings.

As much as I hate giving warlocks this much power, Defile being back would keep everything balanced against aggro metas. I just hope they don't bring back any Wild cards that just have rotated

I need to write this as calmly as possible, as hardcore anti-aggro cards (e.g. Reno etc) have a dedicated fan base with people who don't like the aggro playstyle, BUT:

Defile is undercosted. And not just undercosted, but brutally undercosted.

It'll be in slower Wild Warlock decks forever for precisely that reason. There is no way 2-mana Defile should be allowed back in Standard just because it is a card that requires skill to use effectively.

If we could ask Blizzard to provide the data of every cast of Defile, what would the average real-world amount of damage it does to a board would actually be? Around 3? Around 4? For a cost of 2-mana? There is an argument that some undercosting is OK because it often needs to be played alongside a cheap minion or spell damage minion. There is an argument that some undercosting is OK because that rewards a skillful use of the card. Fine.

But not 2-mana. That is ridiculous. Let's imagine that the lead designer of Hearthstone said his favorite card was a 3-mana Leeroy Jenkins. Time to question his competence?

I have been saying it for a long time - Defile is broken at 2 mana.  It's oppressively powerful, actually.

See, people love Defile because they think it's a "smart" card.  Blizzard likes it for the same reason - it makes people THINK they're smart when they use it and kill a bunch of stuff.  They get these "spot the lethal" videos posted where someone uses define to chain a bunch of death rattle token kills and punch through for lethal.  And Blizzard has shown that highlight potential trumps balance a lot of the time.

But the reality is, it's not that difficult to easily set up board states with 1-health increments in order to clear a bunch of stuff.  It was TOO easy for Defile to kill multiple targets.  A board clear for 2 mana is unbelievably broken and Defile was broken.  Even dealing 3 damage to everything for 2 was broken and you got that a ton of the time on early turns.

Zephyrs is the same thing.  Another card Blizzard was very proud of that is broken at 2 mana.

If Zephrys becomes core set I’ll uninstall. I hate the way that Highlander decks have 2 neutral cards in every single one but are supposed to feel unique. Zeph is my most hated card in standard by a wide margin.

I agree.  Blizzard was too proud of Zephrys to nerf it out of 2 mana, which it is unbalanced as.

Decks should not be able to produce answers so consistently that aren't even in their class.  And the decks that weren't even Singleton decks running it so they could get a massive finisher late in games just showed how problematic the card was.

Iksar thinks that deckbuilding shouldn't be a core part of the Hearthstone experience.

Wait what ? Without deck building what's left of this game ?

Edit : core set Zephrys lol

I did, but still I don't think that saying deck building shouldn't be a core of this card game is a good way of putting it.