Classic Hearthstone will be played on June 2014 patch, Patron Warrior became a thing a ~year later 🙂 Maybe they will introduce some expansions to Classic at one point, but it won’t be playable when the format releases.

When Starcraft gets more air time than you…

But I still wonder why HotS failed so badly. The game was really fun, especially for a more casual MOBA fan. Granted, I haven’t played in in years, because I didn’t have enough time for another online game, but back when it first launched and within the following year I had a great time with friends.

I wouldn’t say that they contradict each other, to be honest. They aren’t against game modes where you use cards from your collection – in fact, that’s what keeps the game alive, because it sells packs. And I agree with him that introducing lots of modes that wouldn’t take your collection into account would devalue packs a lot.

But like Iksar said in the previous Q&A’s, he wants to make them more accessible to people who don’t like deck building part by giving people an option to just get straight into the game like we do in Battlegrounds. In fact, Cosntructed already kind of does it with auto completed decks – players don’t need to build and can let the game do it for themselves. But I imagine that many people don’t know that and they would like to make it easier / more clear, like again – just clicking one button to play with an auto-constructed deck from your cards and get straight into the game.

Long story short = having modes that use your collection doesn’t necessarily equal having to build decks. They can let the game build a deck for people, or maybe use pre-made decks for those who don’t like deck building part.

Maybe he meant the new cards, not the returning cards 🙂

There are no official stats, but some people are doing “unofficial” calculation by hitting Legend and then conceding all the way to the bottom.

The latest one is from November, though: https://twitter.com/glormagic/status/1333476058570518529

The numbers vary heavily between months – expansion month right after Standard rotation is usually the most popular, with the numbers getting lower and lower as the year passes (with bumps during 2nd and 3rd expansion months).

Why would you do that, though?

Oh they know that Twitch is a better platform, any non-Esports event is streamed on Twitch, they just signed a big contract with Google which forced them to stream HS Esports on YT.

Yeah, it’s sad that HS Esports on YT still doesn’t have drops :/

It would make sense for Tavern Brawls to be updated with non-Classic packs, because Classic Packs will be now useless in Standard (and I think that Standard will still bel the “main” way to play the game). But we’ll see what they do about them.

Yes, you need to hit level 10 with a given class to unlock all Core Set cards from that class. So if you have Paladin at level 60, you have all Paladin cards.

To unlock all Neutrals, you need to hit level 60 between all classes. So e.g. if you have Warrior, Rogue and Shaman at level 20 you will already unlock all Neutrals. Or your Paladin at level 60 will also unlock all Neutrals already 🙂

Well, yes and no.

First of all – if I understand it correctly, the Classic cards from Core Set won’t be playable in Classic format if that’s something you want to play.

Also, cards from Core Set won’t be added to your collection permanently. Core Set will be updated yearly. Let’s say that in Core Set 2021 we will get Brawl for free, but it won’t be available in Core Set 2022. If you disenchant it, then you won’t be able to play Brawl in Wild.

But if you only play Standard, then yes, you can disenchant Classic cards.

Level 10 on a class to unlock all Core cards from that class.

Neutrals will be unlocked based on the summarized level across all classes (a total of 60 levels needed, so e.g. 6 classes to level 10 will give you all Neutrals).

With the upcoming Standard rotation, so shortly before the next expansion releases. We don’t know the exact date yet.

I’ve seen that idea the first time Puzzle Labs were released and I still agree with it wholeheartedly! It would be amazing! But I guess that giving the player tools to create new puzzles would be too much dev time.

I didn’t see any English translation, sadly. I used Google Translate on this page and while it’s not perfect, it’s readable: https://yx.blizzard.cn/news/detail/105/48861

Treenforcements, Guess the Weight or BEEEES. Guess the Weight is the best if you face more slow decks, BEEES if you face aggressive ones, and Treenforcements is somewhere in between.

Rising Winds is good because of flexibility between card draw and board presence, but it’s not a key card 🙂

Maybe if we keep asking about dog expansion, they will eventually deliver 😀

At least Hunter had a proactive plan and Deathstalker Rexxar was only a backup.

Book of Heroes adventures giving 5 packs would definitely be nice 🙂

Arena is locked – as in you can’t draft new decks – shortly before season changes. But other than that, I don’t believe it’s closed at any time.

But yeah, Heroic Duels should normally work all the time, it was just temporarily disabled due to some bugs 🙂