Upcoming changes from BlizzCon panel

Mind Control – Cost increase to 10
Starving Buzzard – 2/2 to 2/1
Unleash the Hounds – will be changed Not sure yet –
Ranked Play Revised – Golden Heroes – 25 new ranks – Every game you win, you get a star. You can go up and down ranks. One month seasons.
Legend Rank doesn't go up and down.
Ranked Play Card Backs – Season card rewards – back of the cards look different
Golden Heroes – Win 500 games in ranked to get it.
Arena three new keys – 12 wins now.
Reconnect if you get disconnected
Making a big entrance animations on legendaries

RagequitBM

Canada2270 Posts

November 09 2013 00:43 GMT

#2047

Kinda surprised no pyroblast change. Basically having 20 health against a mage is a big handicap I think. Though I suppose once you have the cards needed to make good aggro decks the mage doesnt even get to turn 8, but still. It's a little annoying to play against.

Wuster

1974 Posts

November 09 2013 02:17 GMT

#2048

Here's another announcement:

From Blizzcon:
Single-player Adventures!
To supplement expansions, we plan to release Adventures! These will come with a smaller set of cards that can be unlocked and will provide new strategies to explore.

Is this the ground work for having co-op raids ala the WoW TCG? I hope so!

silencefc

United States875 Posts

November 09 2013 03:52 GMT

#2049

Yay, hit Master 3-Stars in Constructed after going 8-0 today. Do the rankings actually mean anything?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

November 09 2013 04:12 GMT

#2050

No they dont.

Irave

United States9965 Posts

November 11 2013 00:08 GMT

#2051

Since its usually difficult to find streamers streaming constructed. I present to you Max. http://www.twitch.tv/Nyhxxx

Aaaand http://www.twitch.tv/gnimsh

Slardar

Canada7593 Posts

November 11 2013 02:11 GMT

#2052

I feel like I'm stuck in this twilight zone of fail now in Hearthstone.

Stuck at a level in Play ---> Decks are shit ---> Can't win get any gold ---> Can barely Arena --> Arena decks suck --> Rinse and repeat.

KillerSOS

United States4207 Posts

November 11 2013 17:34 GMT

#2053

On November 11 2013 11:11 Slardar wrote:
I feel like I'm stuck in this twilight zone of fail now in Hearthstone.

Stuck at a level in Play ---> Decks are shit ---> Can't win get any gold ---> Can barely Arena --> Arena decks suck --> Rinse and repeat.

Spend some money?

PardonYou

United States1360 Posts

November 11 2013 17:40 GMT

#2054

I know how you feel. I go on a twelve game winning streak, and don't advance in rank.

PushDown

Italy208 Posts

November 11 2013 17:55 GMT

#2055

Seeing how you can not drop ranking atm, I would guess that the "minimun" to enter increase for every player that gets to level up to 3M. Otherwise It wouldn't make sense if a 2M won several games in a row and did not level up.

Dunno, the fact that 3M is flood with random ppl with shitty decks is a fact. Whenver I play unranked I have way more fun with the players that are there than in constructed. I usually face monsters with full gold cards decks at late night in unranked, with really interesting decks ideas while in constructed I face random guys with fillers cards in their deck (at 3M).

The wonders of a ladder system in a Beta game are far to many hahah

serum321

United States606 Posts

November 11 2013 23:00 GMT

#2056

On November 09 2013 08:29 Zeon0 wrote:
Upcoming changes from BlizzCon panel

Mind Control – Cost increase to 10
Starving Buzzard – 2/2 to 2/1
Unleash the Hounds – will be changed Not sure yet –
Ranked Play Revised – Golden Heroes – 25 new ranks – Every game you win, you get a star. You can go up and down ranks. One month seasons.
Legend Rank doesn't go up and down.
Ranked Play Card Backs – Season card rewards – back of the cards look different
Golden Heroes – Win 500 games in ranked to get it.
Arena three new keys – 12 wins now.
Reconnect if you get disconnected
Making a big entrance animations on legendaries

I can't believe they are not nerfing northshire cleric. Change cost to 2 and when YOUR minion is healed plz.

Wuster

1974 Posts

November 11 2013 23:27 GMT

#2057

The reason the Northshire cleric was buffed was because Priests had terrible early game, so changing it back to 2 costs *and* nerfing it on top of that seems unnecessary.

Especially given this result from Blizzcon:

http://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/attachments/thumbnails/0/828/630/630/20131108230455374.png

(Those are the win % for 3 random days since patch / wipe).

Goldfish

2230 Posts

November 13 2013 09:21 GMT

#2058

So far, it seems a lot of people are really nice and good sports in this game.

A lot of people use the "Well played" emote before losing and winning.

Also, I had a game yesterday where this person took almost his time to make his first move. Then he said "Sorry" for it, which was funny, heh. I don't mind them taking a long time (if they aren't doing it purposely to troll) and but the "Sorry" was nice simply because it showed at least they weren't being BM. (I wasn't sure what to response so I just used the "Greetings friend!" response as Shaman, heh.)

It's just nice and I haven't had such a nice experience playing a bunch of random online players ever since Windows XP Internet Checkers >.>.

I really like that they don't allow you to type but just simply use emotes. So far, no one has been BM with emotes (like using sorry sarcastically or anything). There are some times like when I ended up giving my opponent a good card (with them responding Thank You... then I bust out "That was a mistake!") but that has all been good fun.

Kudos to everyone for being good sports and fun to play with.

Also I am reminded through the game how I like the WarCraft lore. I remember losing my WC3 and TFT CDs and it's one of those few times where I bought the game again (the battle chest version) and I played through the entire campaign again (multiple times actually) and I felt like that was money well spent (good old WC3).

I like the tutorial. Too bad it isn't repeatable (at least just for fun). If someone from Blizzard is reading... please make the tutorial and anything similar added in the future repeatable. I found the dialogue with Jaina and her opponent fun. (I liked the original VA for Illidan the most though. They had replaced him with someone else in WoW since the original couldn't returned, and I'm not sure if the person who voiced him for the few lines in Hearthstone is the same from WoW either because he doesn't sound the same but I haven't heard the WoW voice in a while, so IDK >.>.)

Also the game made me go on wowpedia and look up a bunch of lore articles (which was fun).

Overall, Hearthstone has been great. Can't wait to see what they add in the future. In terms of actual gameplay though, I haven't played enough yet but from watching streams and from the games I've played, I still feel it's a bit lacking compared to other CCGs, and not due to mechanics but card variety and card number but those things will definitely be improved as more new cards get added.

PushDown

Italy208 Posts

November 13 2013 12:07 GMT

#2059

On November 13 2013 18:21 Goldfish wrote:

I really like that they don't allow you to type but just simply use emotes. So far, no one has been BM with emotes (like using sorry sarcastically or anything). There are some times like when I ended up giving my opponent a good card (with them responding Thank You... then I bust out "That was a mistake!") but that has all been good fun.

The game has an option to mute your opponent emotes by right-clicking on their hero portrait and then left-clicking on the "Squelch" bubble.

RagequitBM

Canada2270 Posts

November 13 2013 17:10 GMT

#2060

I'm only BM when I play Warrior, since he seems to be a BM character. Whenever the opponent plays a card I use the "That was a mistake" emote, since it sounds like he's saying his opponents move was a mistake. Also, Hearthstone made me go look up some warcraft lore too, it's great.