https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/our-deck-builder-was-updated-for-forged-in-the-barrens-theorycrafting/

For that reason I just ignored them. I finished like 1/5 of them while just playing the game and don’t really care about the rest. They don’t give that much XP anyway.

I think that you should be able to finish them in unranked, but I disagree about friendly games. You could just set it up with a friend (or alt account) and finish the hardest ones very easily.

Yeah, it’s a huge launch and it’s a bit confusing. I’m writing a roadmap for what launches when right now, should be up very soon!

Honestly, it heavily depends on what archetypes you like to play. If they were supported by the Darkmoon Faire mini-set, then it might be nice to get it.

But long-term, I’d probably get 40 packs from The Barrens and save 2k gold for Barrens mini-set that will come out in ~2 months. Darkmoon Faire will stay in Standard until 2022, Barrens until 2023, so an entire year longer.

It’s hard to answer this question without knowing way more details.

Next time you try adding 67 cards to the database at the same time 🙂

Haha, CET is my time zone, so it would be weird to not include it 🙂 Most of our viewers are from US and Europe so when we have both PT and CET, it’s either “their” time zone or they can easily calculate their own based on those.

It was a translation 🙂

Just to be precise, it’s much better than Keleseth effect, because it buffs the board and hand too. Keleseth only buffed deck.

This is Keleseth’s effect PLUS Smuggler’s Run effect PLUS Mark of the Lotus board-wide +1/+1. All in one.

It’s more like Mistcaller, but 2 mana cheaper… and still better, because it affects board too.

They probably did some research and decided that the gains will be bigger than losses this way in the end. But hopefully they will experiment with Tavern Pass in the more expensive pre-order. We had pre-order values change many times over the years, after all.

I think you misunderstood it.

They promised events that will give extra XP in the old rewards track, before revamp. The plan was for rewards track to give less XP and for it to be bumped by the event rewards to the current levels.

But people didn’t believe Blizzard about events plus complained that XP shouldn’t be tied to events, so they reduced the necessary XP to hit level 50 INSTEAD of doing XP through events.

So what they did is a bit like giving people all the XP events, but without events. Instead, events gave regular stuff like packs.

And I’m not arguing whether it’s a good approach or not – just saying that they delivered exactly what they said they will deliver. And honestly, I don’t have much to complain about when it comes to new rewards system. Especially now with 100 levels instead of 50 for “base” part, progression should be quite smooth and rewarding. Now the only thing I’d really tackle to make HS actually F2P friendly is even more rewards for new players (because regulars can already more or less keep up) and an upgrade for the Dust system.

Well, it depends on whether you want to finish them for the Darkmoon Faire or the Barrens rewards track. Unless you haven’t hit level 50 in the current track, I think that saving them for the new one is a better option.

I’d probably finish just enough to hit next level (e.g. if you have 1k XP I’d do one Quest to get 1.5k) and leave the rest for new rewards track.

But ultimately there isn’t much of a difference there.

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/you-cant-get-blademaster-samuro-mankrik-from-pre-purchase-legendaries-as-a-part-of-duplicate-protection/

I think that it’s a business decision. Average person who can throw away $80 on the Mega Bundle can also afford extra $20 for the pass, so bundling those together would probably lose them some money.

But I also wish that Tavern Pass would be a part of big pre-order.

Last season was a bit of a mess in general, many players couldn’t complete any Quests for a few weeks so they got boosted by a lot as a compensation. Plus there were like two remakes of the system.

But yes, everyone starts from level 1 and you work your way up. In Forged in the Barrens, the “main” rewards track will have 100 levels with different rewards (gold, cards, packs, tavern tickets for Arena/Duels etc.) and then after level 100 you will get flat 50 gold / level (up to 400).

Thanks, I already fixed it. But yeah, Rogue would really like some AoE 🙂

Pricing wasn’t announced yet. Last time it costed $19.99, so I’d guess the same. Maybe $24.99 because there are more cosmetics now.

When I first saw it I was 100% sure that it’s a Hunter card, but the border seemed weird and I had to double-check it. Really feels like they scrapped it from Hunter and gave to DH instead, both flavor and effect-wise, lol.

Those are old Kazakus’ effects, the new one will be different. Like, we already know that you can pick to give the minion Taunt, something that wasn’t a thing with creating a potion. If I had to guess, I’d also say that Rush is probably one of the effects, possibly Lifesteal?

If old Kazakus is something to go by, 1 mana option was very often the best one. Against Aggro you nearly always picked 1 mana option, because it was highest tempo.

Thanks! But I wasn’t bragging, really! I was genuinely surprised that 8k is that high.

I’m in Top 300 on EU in Standard – now that’s bragging 😀