Hearthstone

yeah magma rager is so shit, it doesn't even counter that. Play two, that's 6 mana and two cards. It's an even trade at best.

I wonder if he can ignore taunt or stealth for these attacks.

Beneath the Grounds is so much fun to use against Reno....Just freaking hilarious.

Not excited about the "last turn" mechanic.

Discard lock is definitely starting to have some really value-heavy cards, it was pseudo-playable before, if these new cards are any indication it should be viable enough. I do like Fire Fly but have to see how the synergy pans out. I don't think either of those other 2 "last turn" elementals are OP enough to see play, and both are hella weak in arena more than likely.

Edit: Yea even thinking about it more... the "best case" for those last-turn elementals is really not that strong. If the game slows down THAT much those are very weak compared to other late game cards anyway.

Have they said if jade golems will be elemental family?

I agree that the mechanic of "last turn" is fine, but the cards so far are way too weak for it to matter.

I like the last turn mechanic. It adds more strategy and depth to the game. I think it's fantastic.

It is interesting that this thread has died down a lot. I haven't completed any daily quests in a couple weeks. Wasting all that gold even though I know I'll use it someday. Just can't bring myself to do the quests haha. I guess other people are a bit burnt out as well? I wonder if that's the same across the game at the moment?

I play as much as ever. Tablet/accessibility thing is big with me too. I have a Gwent key I haven't even bothered with because I already assume it will be a clunky cluttered busy ugly UI that I can't stand like ES. I actually know something about WC/WoW lore too which really does help me enjoy the cards and themes. I'd be more interested in an original IP game at this point than some high fantasy/dark style shit that I never cared about with their other games.

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I guess other people are a bit burnt out as well? I wonder if that's the same across the game at the moment?

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Pretty much all of the stuff Ravishing said. The game is not in a good place, in general, at the moment. The fact that we drool at minor new mechanic introductions (such as last turn play) basically goes to show how desperate and invested some of us are.

There's a huge lack of content, especially considering the game studio we're dealing with. This isn't some homebrew, backwoods 3 man team doing everything from design, to development, to marketing. It's goddamn Blizzard. The fact that there's essentially 3 game modes, out of which 2 are mostly irrelevant to the biggest part of their base of paying players, is ridiculous. The game has been out for how many years? 3? 4? They should have so much shit that's it's overwhelming. Instead, the game has changed very little since release and they continue to alienate the people that generate their revenue.

At the root of it, for me anyways, is the fact that the game is based in the Warcraft universe. I love Warcraft. It's why i started playing Hearthstone and it's why i continue to play, versus going to some other CCG with clearly superior game play. But even at that, we're getting to a point where the content they're releasing has very little to do with Warcraft. I don't give a shit about some random, remote and irrelevant zone from WoW like Un'Goro. I don't want that shit being shoved down my throat for 4 months. The epicness of the Warcraft universe is totally being ignored. I thought that the dark tone and direction they were taking the game during WoTG was great. Epic content, big shit all over. After that Karazhan, while having a good amount of relevance to Wacraft, had some wacky art - which i didn't like. And then, aside from the name, MSG had very little to do with Warcraft at all. None of the cards were really memory evoking. I mean, Seargent Sally? Jades? Goons? Kazakus? Get the fuck out. Wtf... I mean, to devote a third of your annual content on such a small piece of lore, such as Gadgetzan, is ridiculous. Gadgetzan was some piece of shit town in a piece of shit zone that people spent 3 levels in and got the fuck out once they reached lvl 45. They didn't even have anything from Zul'Farrak, and ZF was the most relevant thing to do in Tanaris. The expansion could have been called Mean Streets of Fuckyourself and shipped under a completely new game for all the relevance that it had with Warcraft. So, are we to expect watered down garbage 3 times a year? Are we going to get "Wild Forests of Feralas" next? "Cold Winds of Winterspring"? "Dangerous Mountains of Redridge"? Like wtf? 3 times per year (expansion and/or adventure)? Just seems like a huge letdown.

And then there's the current meta and card set. What a piece of shit. Over 50% aggressive decks and enough other garbage (Jade druid) to counter anything that could counter the aggressive decks. Rock-paper-scissors done completely wrong.

However, none of this really surprises me. I work for a corporation myself and i understand how things work. If the bottom line is met and we're positive, giddyup. And they certainly have enough whales, like myself, to generate enough annual profit to stay afloat, regardless of how dank their product is. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Unfortunately though, i'm an idiot and i keep donating my money and wasting my time.

I like Un'Goro the zone but yeah the way they went full wtfdisney? on Kara and Gadgetzan was stupid. Keep it more to the original spirit of the WoW zones and less kiddie stuff IMO.

The problem I'm having with the expansion is that the cards are generally underwhelming looking so far, and I fail to see how rotation is going to affect this meta very much. Its likely to still be pirate/jade stone going forward still and that's very bad. They needed to have a really well executed and balanced expansion in MSG and they failed. Now we are stuck with those mistakes for a long ass time due to the rotation schedule.

Maybe later this year that gets shaken up more but that's still a long ass time. The approach to rotation in general has fatal flaws due to the imbalance of the classic set's class cards already and it appears headed to only exacerbate that problem.

Cartoonish, light hearted, pop culture references is one thing. It just seems like the earlier stuff retained a WoW feel and lately they've gone overboard on more "cute" aspects than the original design.

The meta was also the worst it had ever been before WotoG/year of the kraken launched. Shit just gets too stale towards the end.

The year of the rooster starts with this expansion correct?