Thanks for pointing it out, fixed.

2 at the least, 6 if he sticks for at least one turn.

Well, they already started. Ashes of Outland still had a bunch, but last year still had much less than previous ones. And now in Barrens we got just a few cards like that.

And who’s an “idiot” in this context? Because I don’t know what you’re referring to.

Don’t worry, we all thought that at some point. I only realized it’s a leg/boot when I saw the card in high res, could never tell it in-game.

The same thing goes for Carnivorous Cube, that flail looks like a cigar.

Sorry about misinformation then, I relied on other sources when I was writing it and when Quests first appeared in Asia I’ve read somewhere that it’s an extra one.

But I fixed it. It’s a shame, I hoped it will be an extra Quest.

It is with XP boost from Tavern Pass, bu the base XP is 1500 🙂

I know some of the players from EU and NA (dreads, ShtanUdachi, SilentStorm to name a few), but yeah, for the most part its a separate community. It’s quite similar to Duels, which has some very consistent players who constantly get 12 wins runs but you don’t hear about them much, since neither format is very popular. But some people really love them.

Thanks for posting, I just added your list 🙂

Oh, that might be what he meant. I thought that he’s talking about Heroes and not players and was really confused.

I would love some more social features. If guilds come out, I’ll create one for HSTD 😀

I took a closer look and indeed, it is similar to Blackrock Mountain pre-order card back, but it’s more… “molten”? It makes sense that its similar, since Ragnaros was summoned in BRM, he ruled BRM and his fight in WoW happened in BRM.

I need to start complaining that I don’t earn enough money now, maybe I’ll win a lottery or something, haha.

At least Shaman is viable now, it would be a nightmare to do it when the class was in the dumpster :p

To be fair, Ragnaros doesn’t really “represent” any class, but since this is Hearthstone and Blizzard doesn’t actually have to follow the lore, I think that Shaman works best. Shaman is the master of elements, and Ragnaros is one of the four original Elemental Lords. Two other Elemental Lords – Al’akir and Neptulon – are Shaman cards too. Sulfuras is a mace, and maces are more of a Shaman (and Paladin) weapon than Warrior weapon in Warcraft lore too (Warrios are more about axes and swords). And when it comes to Warlock and flames, I’d say that Warlock focuses more on Fel flames (the green ones) – yes, the class can use regular ones too, but not more than Shaman (and Mage is the class using them most anyway).

So overall, I’d say that if I had to pick a class for Ragnaros, Shaman would be my first pick.

“Only idiots pay for nice looking clothes, you just look better but clothes are clothes.”

“Only idiots pay for high quality food, it just tastes different while providing the same nutrients.”

“Only idiots buy decorations for their house, it’s a waste of money, they don’t do anything other than looking good.”

Or even:

“Only idiots pay for games since you can just download them from torrents.”

Yeah, no.

We won’t necessarily be back to the problem, because from now on they can design random card generation with taking a better card pool into account. For example, Jandice Barov would most likely cost 6 from the get go if it was released after Core Set got introduced.

And yeah, I would love to see Death Knights back in action. They weren’t balanced very well (most of them were OP), but heck, they were incredibly fun to play with.

I actually checked other expansions before writing it, and ~40% is the average number if we use similar criteria. So 28% was definitely below average. Probably should have mentioned it in the post itself.

But like I’ve said, I expect the number to rise by the end of this year – of course assuming that Blizzard knows what they’re doing and put those specific cards into Core Set for a reason (since they plan to explore those synergies).

That’s definitely true – removing so many of the “filler” cards from Basic/Classic has bumped up the power level on random card generation by quite a huge margin. But I feel like it’s only a temporary problem, as the number of cards that generate other cards has went down significantly recently. In Barrens we have just a few of them – in particular Venomous Scorpid and Runed Orb are the only two that see common play. That’s almost nothing compared to some older sets.

If they keep things that way (less discovering or adding to hand from a random pool of cards), once 2020 sets rotate out, we should have a meta that’s not very focused on random card generation. In fact, right now the only deck that really takes advantage of those effects is Control Priest (and people hate it for that). Most of the other popular meta decks are nearly free of those effects.

To be fair, the basic Demon Hunter deck was way more powerful than it should be. Especially before all the nerfs – you could run a free DH deck and it was better than most of the full meta decks. Demon Hunter balance was a mess in general, but now they more or less fixed it.

And I’m not sure why would you need to play the basic deck specifically? If you want a cheap option to finish the weekly 5 wins, there are some you can pick from (like Elemental Shaman or Face Hunter). Yes, they are not completely F2P, but if you play the game at all you should get enough free packs / gold to build them. I just feel like I’m missing something.

Datamining didn’t say anything about ranked, so I would guess so. But we’ll see in ~2 weeks, can’t be sure yet.