It definitely is. Astalor has 70%+ play rate in Diamond-Legend. The card almost certainly is on the chopping block.

Tradeable is really one keyword they shouldn’t be abandoning like they do with most of the expansion-related ones.

It’s not a “joke”, it’s a mistake.

If it was a Tier 1 deck then it would be a huge deal. But with the current DK power level, not being able to ban it gives no advantage… because no one would want to ban it anyway.

They seriously misjudged the power level of Death Knight – but in the other way compared to Demon Hunter. I’m honestly not sure which one is worse, haha.

Sadly we don’t know. Like Sun said, it’s usually 2-3 weeks, but it can be as short as 1 week and as long as over a month. So it’s just guessing at this point.

Before Runestones, every bundle was listed in the Battle.net shop too and it showed the date when it was leaving shop. I left some feedback for the devs saying that they should show it in-game but we’ll see, even if they agree they probably won’t implement it any time soon.

Maybe their line of thinking was that Diamond Liadrin is obtained by getting all of the MotLK Legendaries, so you don’t really “need” another random MotLK Legendary if you own all of them already?

If you purchase Pass before December 20 (that’s the cutoff from what I understand) then yes, you will be eligible for the compensation. Compensations will be given after December 20 so you won’t get anything right away, but you should get a random MotLK Legendary next week.

“It makes the chance to get golden legends fewer”

It doesn’t, Signature Cards don’t replace Legendaries in your cards, they’re “bonus” cards. If you didn’t get them you would get a Common (or Rare, I can’t remember) card instead.

The only downside is that they replaced Golden Legendaries from Mega Pre-Purchase Bundle :/

It wasn’t confirmed yet, but I think that there will be a regular mini-set for March of the Lich King too. That’s why I used air quotes when calling Path of Arthas “mini-set” 🙂

There will be no refunds for Legendaries from rewards track, they are replaced completely by the re-rolls.

I actually did forget, thanks for the reminder!

Honestly it will be a bit hard to make an anti-DK deck since all three Runes play differently and have different weaknesses.

We’ll first have to see which DK decks end up being most popular and successful, and then we can come up with something that counters them 🙂

No idea, someone at Team 5 really likes the class. Mage has most cosmetics of all classes in general, including skins.

It sounds like they try to do both – group them by expansions and THEN offer cards from a given expansion that fit into your deck.

However, it feels unnecessarily limiting, I’m not really sure why they’re doing it this way. I’ll try to ask someone from Team 5 when I get an opportunity.

Good question! Last time I’ve seen some unofficial player numbers (based on data collected from deck trackers not official stats, but that was all we had), Duels was a bit more popular than Mercenaries. Not sure how it is now, though.

Thanks for the report, I’ll let devs know. They will try to iron out all of the bugs after the weekend.

I added Plague Strike back, it was my bad, I set its mana cost at -2 instead of 2 by mistake and it didn’t show up because of that.

Actually you are right – there’s a narrow period (the first few days of the expansion) during which the old system was better. However, I still think that it’s better overall – not only it’s more consistent, but players will actually know about it since the reroll prompt will pop-up when needed. I’m sure that most of the casual players didn’t even know about the full dust refund period at the start of the set and how they can potentially benefit from it.

I don’t believe it will apply if you already own both cosmetic and non-cosmetic copy of a card, but I wish they did something to give people an option to reroll them.

We don’t have official numbers, it’s probably the least popular game mode, but it’s not “dead” by any means, it has a pretty healthy and most importantly a very dedicated playerbase.

Oh yeah, 3% is still a TON of money in this context, and no company would like to just drop their revenue by 3% for no reason. I just wrote that because I immediately started hearing that they lost their biggest source of income etc. which might not be exactly true for the company as a whole.

But I honestly think that for Blizzard itself it might be closer to 20-30%. I know that playerbase does not scale 1:1 with spending, but in case of Hearthstone, China is by far the biggest region. If we look at the number of players reaching Legend, China alone is comparable to three other servers combined! WoW is also huge in China, around 1/3 of the whole playerbase was Chinese (stats are from a few years ago so it might have changed a bit, but it just shows how popular the game is there). Overwatch or Diablo are not AS popular as HS/WoW, but still big.