Let trio die. It would be an abysmal idea for other tournaments. Maybe in GM it could half work but not in single elim tournaments.

;D

O_o

Sorry but that would be the worst way to design a card game. That’s the opposite intent of this entire article and all the responses. I’ve always wanted to have a time bank system.

Tardis you are a grand fool, obsessed with attacking h0ly. Compared to the info h0ly gave, you seem like you are the one without a clue. You have given 0 reason to believe you have any credentials.

This is just China grind garbage. I hate everything about this project – looks like Blizzard has gone full blown retard about grind & freemium formula for its hamster in a wheel ideas for games. Seems Blizzard has absolutely forgotten about the type of intrigue and presentation that made their games successful in the first place. Notice that everything has to look peachy and pseudo-violent to appeal to China’s terrible tastes. This seems great for anyone who can watch the Warcraft movie without throwing up.

This Iksar strikes me as one of the most out of touch oblivious entitled developer I’ve ever heard from.

And going second in the game means losing at least 5% more. Which is basically a huge difference and for 2 skilled players means the coin player loses like 80% of the time. They’ve never admitted how broken that aspect is.

And no combined global collection, like that’s the unreasonable thing, not them failing to do that in the first place. Spoiled dopes collecting paychecks to do nothing.

Not trying to be negative, but what kind of horse crap blowover of the dust debacle was that??

They need to take away cards that were crafted with the phony dust ASAP. I had 15k dust and thought they wouldn’t go in and touch it or I would have 10 more legendaries that I definitely need.

It’s funny because garrote is the dumbest deck in the game.

Oh no, I really loved the skin until you said that.

I hope that actual attrition control can be playable but that seems hard to accomplish as of now. Their last balance update was horrible as well (buffed 3 warrior pirates shortly before mini-set added cannoneer & Smite, removed Illucia for no reason). It would be hard to do worse than that update.

Tardis just loves trolling about Illucia, don’t feed him.

Yeees. Nobody can pretend that Illucia is a problem in shadow priest. Look at the meta now! How would a strong shadow priest ever be considered a problem in this meta? Plus don’t kill the best control disruption card and pretend it was because of some fringe reason in aggro priest. And in the same patch they buffed THREE warrior pirates, shortly before the mini-set gave them the cannoneer and Smite!

And also, the last balance update they did was objectively abhorrent. They went overboard on 3 different unjustified pirate warrior buffs (before mini-set added yet another crucial pirate). If they wanted to push that then why couldn’t they just wait for the mini-set when it would get a natural buff, rather than artificially funnel the meta to a non-interactive non-intuitive simplistic deck to rule the meta when the deck was already fine?? Someone won the Stormwind major tournament with pirate warrior which really shows how overboard they went pushing it for a boredom balance update. The other genius thing they did was ruin Illucia in the dumbest way possible. They killed the card’s effect but were too dumb to remember that they should be reverting the mana nerf from 3 to the original 2 or 1 mana to even be remotely playable. Once everyone disenchanted it then the mistake was permanent as Illucia could never be opened from a pack again after disenchanting. But if they had kept the card as it is we could have a nice tech option for actual fun skill disruption plays against this fresh and proper meta. And surprise surprise priest is nowhere to be seen now for 2 entire sets. Must be pretty smart to delete a card for an archetype (control priest) that is notoriously impossible to play with in this meta. Two thirds of the year control priest is unplayable but they kill the one good creatively designed card that it even had. If they wait until January that’s still only a month or less of this meta which doesn’t even have any problems right now. Some people would ask for balance updates every week if they could. But a card game with set expansions 6 times a year SHOULD NOT PLAN arbitrary balance updates in advance without any reasoning other than casual boredom.

Seriously just because people are too lazy to try to design their own decks doesn’t mean everyone else should suffer their a-d-d. There is massive room for growth and experimentation right now and nothing is broken. And I would say if there was. I’ve said before they need to stop thinking that balance patches are planned meta designs like a new set, but this is ridiculously early to be thinking about a balance patch. ONE WEEK after launch of a major set. Come on now. The owls are slow and I rarely face an owl-lock. I seriously don’t know where the idea of a balance patch would be coming from unless maybe they want to make control decks better or buff something specific.

Who would expect a balance patch one week after launch??? I don’t even think anything needs a nerf except maybe the trogg but I’m not even sure about that.

In other words, better than average card balance and meta shift this time around.