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 😀

I should probably mention it in the post. You can watch all the VoDs on official Hearthstone Esports YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV7woL1v23u3sc_Uo10dy9g

I think that Common, Rare & Epic are more about complexity (but even then honestly it’s not always very consistent). Legendaries can also have this rarity because of complexity, but there are tons of Legendaries with simple effects. So in many cases it’s more about balance. They don’t want you to put two copies of them into your deck. For example, assuming Nature Shaman would be a very strong deck, having two Bru’kans could really break it.

I’m not a Saudi prince, but if you want to send someone your bank details… 🙂

Oh damn, I forgot about that nerf. Yeah, it made Bloodbloom really useless.

They gave Tyrande again for free because the initial promotion was region-restricted. People from many countries couldn’t officially registered for Amazon Prime. Only like 7 or 8 countries were eligible, so devs promised that others will get access to it eventually.

I think it became available in some Asian countries like a few months after the initial promo, but the rest of the world had to wait over 3 years :p

I’m almost sure that Call to Arms at 4 will bring Even Paladin back in Wild. Pulling three 2-drops from your deck for 4 mana is insane.

It was fun, but it was mostly a gimmick. It was only played briefly, shortly after its launch, and didn’t appear in any builds in the last year or so. That’s why I didn’t put it on the list. Maybe could have added it as a honorable mention 🙂

Yep, Kayn is not rotating out, it was a mistake.

Sorry about that, since Demon Hunter Basic + Intiniate + Ashes of Outland released at the same time, many people (including me) couldn’t remember which card is from which set.

I think that they used Ashes of Outland cards, because they didn’t have anything else to add to the Demon Hunter’s Core Set. Basic & Demon Hunter Initiate didn’t have many cards to pick from. Other classes had hundreds of cards to pick from, so they didn’t have to include any Year of the Phoenix cards.

I’m not 100% sure, but I would think so?

Update: Apparently, Celestalon confirmed that the cards will stay Basic after rotating out. Only their Core Set versions will have changed rarity. So it looks like you won’t be able to disenchant them after all.

Yes, a lot of the cards that rotate out will have their nerfs reverted. It will all most likely happen with the expansion patch (20.0) which should be out a few days before Forged in the Barrens. The only problem is that we still aren’t 100% sure when Forged in the Barrens comes out.

I think that only the basic smilies (like 🙂 or 🙁 for example) are recognized by WordPress, and you have to write them like : ) (just without space in between), so you can’t do anything more complex.

I don’t know about iOS, but Arcane Tracker was a thing on Android, right? I never used tracker when playing on mobile, so I’m not up to date on that.

And to clarify – I never said that official deck tracker should not be developed. I’m just saying that it’s a huge undertaking that will require a lot of dev time to create and even more to keep it working across all platforms and saying it’s not a thing because “devs are lazy” is disingenuous to put it lightly. Game dev is way more complicated than “oh, this thing would be nice to add to our game and some players would like it, so let’s do it!”