The Official Hearthstone : Heroes of Warcraft Thread
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5000 gold seems quite steep to me... and if so then does it not represent a bit of an ugly problem creeping into the business model?
Up until now you could make it as an F2P player - you'd progress and build up your deck more slowly but not that much more slowly, and at least you always had a random chance of opening a pack and getting a really good legendary or whatever... If they're locking sets of the cards behind effectively a huge in-game gold pay-wall (not sure if that's true but it sounds it) then it's a much more "in your face" move to force people to top up their in-game gold with real money if they don't want to be left behind (assuming the new cards are really good, which some seem to be)
I may have mis-read the announcement but could be a worrying sign if true
Up until now you could make it as an F2P player - you'd progress and build up your deck more slowly but not that much more slowly, and at least you always had a random chance of opening a pack and getting a really good legendary or whatever... If they're locking sets of the cards behind effectively a huge in-game gold pay-wall (not sure if that's true but it sounds it) then it's a much more "in your face" move to force people to top up their in-game gold with real money if they don't want to be left behind (assuming the new cards are really good, which some seem to be)
I may have mis-read the announcement but could be a worrying sign if true
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Im with you on that. The deck is boring to play, and boring to play against. Much prefer playing with or against a tempo rogue deck.
Facerush hunter beats miracle and is cheap as hell, bring it back if you want to fight it. Hell I think trap hunter would be pretty amazing vs miracle, they would be forced to clear traps constantly at significant cost of life / minions.
Naxx cards you can make with the dust IIRC and they will drop from packs, I don't think there's any restriction as such. One could argue that all the F2P players could just accumulate gold for a bit and buy the expansions with that to be fair. I think it's all fake until blizzard have said anything, years of wow has taught me to wait for blue news rather than stuff like this although it is fun to speculate
5k/90USD is really steep for f2p though, if this isn't a deliberate leak to make 2k seem good then the only other option to me is it's a big fat fake.
Naxx cards you can make with the dust IIRC and they will drop from packs, I don't think there's any restriction as such. One could argue that all the F2P players could just accumulate gold for a bit and buy the expansions with that to be fair. I think it's all fake until blizzard have said anything, years of wow has taught me to wait for blue news rather than stuff like this although it is fun to speculate
5k/90USD is really steep for f2p though, if this isn't a deliberate leak to make 2k seem good then the only other option to me is it's a big fat fake.
No mate. They show up in your Arena picks after you acquire them but they cannot be crafted or obtained from packs. Only way is completing the objectives within the Adventure Mode itself.
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5000 gold? A bit? I'm more than happy with the fact that its taking me quite a long time to collect all the vanilla cards - I just try to complete all the daily quests and spend the money on Arena (where 3 wins or more seems to get you back the 50 gold difference between Arena or a pack)...But 5000? Jeez (even 2000 to be honest)...
Actually if 2000 across the 4 non-free wings means about 500 gold to enter each wing, I could live with that... it's like the cost of ~3 arenas
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I thought 2500 gold total would be acceptable, I've even managed 2000 so far since they said that its coming. But 5000 is far to much an amount, hears hoping that its fake.
I do some times wonder if blizzard are sneaky at times and put this stuff out this way to gauge reactions to the information.
I do some times wonder if blizzard are sneaky at times and put this stuff out this way to gauge reactions to the information.
When oh when are they going to have the concede button on the main board and when can we have more emotes to say please concede ...
I am totally fed up winning games by 30-10 with 15 on the board only to have to watch a guy hmmm awww hmmm his way through his final turn.
I don't think it's on purpose I just think people don't know it's a setting and it's in the settings cog it's the one thing about the game I'd change.
I only play casual so get a varied gameplay i'd imagine i'd have to study the game more to play arena or ranked but don't have the time.
I am totally fed up winning games by 30-10 with 15 on the board only to have to watch a guy hmmm awww hmmm his way through his final turn.
I don't think it's on purpose I just think people don't know it's a setting and it's in the settings cog it's the one thing about the game I'd change.
I only play casual so get a varied gameplay i'd imagine i'd have to study the game more to play arena or ranked but don't have the time.
Anyone else get disconnected quite often?
Last night was bad (3 disconnects in 1 game & at least 1 disconnect each other game) im sick of getting disconnected and then reconnected to find my life points or minions obliterated
I don't seem to get disconnects in any other online game that I play, and my connection remains completely intact whilst being disconnected from the hearthstone server.
Hi BTW do you know that mobile users play against PC users so the discos could be coming from people playing their ipads/tablets on the go.
I have an ipad and sometimes I get discoed moving from my router to my wifi extender. I know it should be seemless but it does seem to disco quite often when moving around my house. Would hate to play it on 3G
Ah crap OK then I'm not really cool with that
Just sub-divides the players into haves/have nots. Guess lots of priests playing aoe silence will appear. I'm one of the other savers who has stockpiled 2k. It took about a month but I've been doing it slowly as I play arena and average around 5 so not enough to go unlimited but enough to go positive with dailies.Ah crap OK then I'm not really cool with that
I'm pretty sure Blizzard are savvy enough not to **** up what they have with HS. If the image leaked is accurate I would imagine the theories of decreasing prices through rewards obtained in wings to make the next wing "cheaper" have merit.
The pricing structure seems odd and confusing and Blizzard usually like to keep things like that as simple as possible. It's probably fake.
run the game in windowed mode, so you can do other things while you wait.
Well at least you can look out the window.Can't on the ipad
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Seems very strong - I guess the Deathrattle is supposed to be a drawback, but it could easily be combined with some Battlecry cards for interesting effects.
Just had an awesome game as Priest vs Mage. I had a 17/44 tusk fella (stacked all my +2 hp and double healths on him), waiting for the killing blow and he pulls out a polymorph.. no more 17/44 minion (lesson learnt). So we're still both scrabbling in single digit hero HP, he brings me down to 1 and I manage to nuke him the next turn!
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Sometimes it's good to put everything into one card.
Here's my miracle priest deck that's got me to rank 10 so far! (only **** taken about 4 months to find something that kinda works. Any suggestions to improve the deck are more than welcome)
Same concept as miracle rogue. Stormwind knight, divine spirit and inner fire take the place of Leeroy, shadowstep and cold blood. (With a power word: shield the Stormwind knight is a 28/28 charge minion for 10 mana)
Auctioneer/cheap spells and cleric/blademaster is your card draw, the other slots are filled with important board clears.
It's so satisfying beating rogues at their own game!
Here's my miracle priest deck that's got me to rank 10 so far! (only **** taken about 4 months to find something that kinda works. Any suggestions to improve the deck are more than welcome
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Same concept as miracle rogue. Stormwind knight, divine spirit and inner fire take the place of Leeroy, shadowstep and cold blood. (With a power word: shield the Stormwind knight is a 28/28 charge minion for 10 mana)
Auctioneer/cheap spells and cleric/blademaster is your card draw, the other slots are filled with important board clears.
It's so satisfying beating rogues at their own game!