The Official Hearthstone : Heroes of Warcraft Thread

Ha, just had a great ranked game against another shaman.

First time I have played vs the same class that I have been playing as.

Was a tough match for me, as you can see in the spoiler, but I still managed to come out on top. :D

 
Well I gotta say despite not even signing up for the Beta I've been watching a lot of this now and it looks like really good fun :) Feel like I pretty much know how to play even though I never have!!! I do wonder how much it will come down to rich-kids building decks of really powerful cards however, and whether or not an average F2P player can get by on unlocks alone... I guess there is always Arena mode though which eliminates that problem a bit

When does the Beta end?
 
Well I have only spend £7 for a few packs so I get the beta card (golden Gelbin Mekkatorque) and don't really feel disadvantaged, certainly winning more than I'm losing anyway. By winning any 3 games you get 10 gold, daily quest gives you 40 and this is usually win 2 games with class X or Y.

150 gold gets you into the arena where as you say purchases don't matter so if you can build a decent deck there and get a few wins you'll get plenty for your gold.

Overall as someone who hasn't played card games extensively before I just feel this is a really well made, well presented little game that you can either have a 10-15 min game here or there on or easily spend a whole evening on it because when you build your own deck and the combinations start working really well it can be quite addictive, especially when you pull a game back from the edge with some good decisions.

At the same time when you get annihilated by someone who just gets all the right cards at the right times it can be frustrating but the games are short enough and you can always concede so you're never really wasting time.

Several nights this week I've gone on intending to play a game or two, and ended up spending much longer on it, so I am finding it fun at least :)
 
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Hearthstone is a triumph of branding and hype. It's a pretty average TCG of which there is a ton out there now.

I was pretty excited when I got the beta, dropped £35 on the 40 pack option and had fun opening them. When I got round to playing I wasn't really blown away by the gameplay. It's basically a dumbed down version of Magic the Gathering that piggybacks off Warcraft's lore/brand in order to get an audience. Blizzard know how to market well, so with streamers and beta invites they've had a bunch of people frothing at the mouth to play, but when you strip away all the rubbish it's a pretty average game.

I've got no doubt they'll find some way of resurrecting the old WoW TCG loot cards into Hearthstone which will guarantee its success either way.

As a sidenote, when they wiped everyone's accounts I expected to get the money I spent on all the booster packs refunded to my battle.net account. I didn't think I'd get the real money back, but I thought I might at least be able to spend it on something else like WoW subscription fees. Instead I got a bucketload of Hearthstone gold that I'll never spend. It's a really minor point, but I felt a tinsey wincey bit exploited.
 
Jolteh said:
Hearthstone is a triumph of branding and hype. It's a pretty average TCG of which there is a ton out there now.

I was pretty excited when I got the beta, dropped £35 on the 40 pack option and had fun opening them. When I got round to playing I wasn't really blown away by the gameplay. It's basically a dumbed down version of Magic the Gathering that piggybacks off Warcraft's lore/brand in order to get an audience. Blizzard know how to market well, so with streamers and beta invites they've had a bunch of people frothing at the mouth to play, but when you strip away all the rubbish it's a pretty average game.

I've got no doubt they'll find some way of resurrecting the old WoW TCG loot cards into Hearthstone which will guarantee its success either way.
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Agree with this, would have felt hugely ripped off if I had ever dropped RL cash onto/in the game.

Feels very rng based (but I assume all TGC games are the same)
 
Jolteh said:
As a sidenote, when they wiped everyone's accounts I expected to get the money I spent on all the booster packs refunded to my battle.net account. I didn't think I'd get the real money back, but I thought I might at least be able to spend it on something else like WoW subscription fees. Instead I got a bucketload of Hearthstone gold that I'll never spend. It's a really minor point, but I felt a tinsey wincey bit exploited.
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Most of your post (about the quality of the game) is quite interesting, but this last paragraph just reads as "I made an assumption, was wrong and am annoyed" rather than the game's makers having done anything wrong. Was there nothing in the beta T+Cs that explained what would happen to transactions in-beta?
 
I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just playing with the starter deck and getting absolute OWNED by 'matched' opponents. Seems so unbalanced atm. Kinda ragey.
 
Fuggan said:
I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just playing with the starter deck and getting absolute OWNED by 'matched' opponents. Seems so unbalanced atm. Kinda ragey.
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Its very very RNG based imo. Tried a paladin deck last night (no amazing cards) and won 1 in 10 matches roughly. Some games I was pulling 6 and 7 cost cards at the start of the match so getting curb stomped and in other games pulling 1 and 2 cost cards around the 5/6 cost turn so didnt have anything decent to play to chip away at the hp of my opponent.

Most annoying game so far is down to my last 3 hp, opponent has nothing on his/her field and no cards left in their hand. I'm stacked my side and will hammer the 10 hp they have left on my next turn. So he goes pulls out a 3hp charge card and kills me. I wasn't happy. Oh yeah, also played my 1st opponent that dropped a legendary card down..yay.

Only advice I can give is to unlock all the hero's and play each one in training against the npc's to find a style you like. By all accounts the mage is the weakest until you get some good cards.

Some cards are extremely op though imo, the Shaman hex card and the warlock card that summons a 6/6 demon but also does 2 or 4 damage when laid down is nuts (for the card cost that is).
 
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