Old Guardian's Articles
The Patch That Changed Everything – The Best Decks in the New Whizbang Meta!
Blizzard set some big expectations for patch 29.2.2. It is not your usual balance patch, but a patch “about the general design direction of the game” – an incredibly ambitious goal. With more than 30 nerfs or buffs, the patch certainly has the means to deliver a major change, but how much has truly changed? […]
Quests Give More Rewards And Take a Lot More Time to Complete – Analysis of the Quest Changes
Update: Blizzard already announced that they are partially backing off from those changes. We still don’t know the new numbers, but they will be somewhere between the original and the current ones. Extra XP will stay. Learn more here. Every once in a while, a small bullet point in patch notes turns […]
The Best Decks from the Masters Tour Spring Championship 2024!
One of the main events of Hearthstone esports, the Masters Tour Spring Championship, was played during the weekend. 16 players qualified for the tournament through exceptional ladder performances and they met on the battlefield of a best-of-five Conquest-format tournament with one ban. Therefore, each player brought four decks to the tournament. While […]
How Good Is the New Whizbang? Should You Craft Splendiferous Whizbang?
One of the ways Blizzard has reminisced about the first ten years of Hearthstone in Whizbang’s Workshop is its namesake, Splendiferous Whizbang. The original Whizbang the Wonderful was released in The Boomsday Project in 2018, and it offered players a cheap way to play a wide variety of decks. A deck that consisted […]
Welcome Our Demon Hunter Overlords – The Best Meta Decks After the First Balance Patch
The first balance patch of Whizbang’s Workshop was launched on Thursday. Before the balance patch, we had a fairly narrow meta with five clear top-tier decks: two variants of Paladin (Flood and Handbuff), Spell Token Hunter, Aggro Demon Hunter, and Control Warrior. Four of these decks were hit with nerfs in the patch. […]