You just play 5 cards that “Discover” something.

Only 40 cards with no extra life makes running Renathal a downside with no upsides, that’s not the way to go IMO. Maybe try changing the life boost value, let’s say make it 35 HP instead of 40 HP.

Denathrius starting from 0 would also make sense, but I’m not sure if both need nerf. Denathrius is so popular because Renathal is so popular – 30 card decks don’t run Denathrius nearly as often. So nerfing Renathal might also indirectly nerf Denathrius.

I understand both sides of this argument, but I think that if they pushed the patch on Monday, that would be enough to do at least some playtesting for the tournament.

If they wanted to do something like Thursday-Friday patch then I would be against it, because the decks would change after they were already sent and locked in, that wouldn’t be very fair for people attending the tournament.

There always need to be some compromises, and doing pros dirty is also not good. But overall, I think that the general playerbase should be prioritized when it comes to balance update timing (maybe outside of something like World Championship, but that’s once per year).

I honestly don’t know. Part of the deck list was hidden in the card page for Muck Pools (official HS card database), and people found it. But before they found the rest it turned out that someone in the Chinese community found the full one (maybe by datamining?)

Once it was figured out most of the people stopped looking for it so I don’t even know if it progressed anywhere.

Thanks for the feedback, I moved that to the beginning of the section. Sorry about your ranks 😀

I know that not every player likes that, but I don’t really mind it. Quite the opposite in fact. When you consume so much HS content as me AND also play the game, it gets boring pretty quickly. So patches and new releases every few weeks are helping a lot. Plus more content to cover is always good for the website 🙂

The thing is, YT is not as a popular of a streaming platform as Twitch. Most of people don’t sit on YT to watch gaming streams, even more so 3 years ago. Recommendations algorithm is also mostly based on videos and not streams, many people don’t even know that there’s a whole category for gaming streams. So if you’re looking for something to watch, you can easily stumble upon HS tournament on Twitch, but not necessarily on YT. People who knew that they were happening and were heavily invested into esports could switch relatively easily, but people who were watching more casually often didn’t even know that there’s a tournament happening. And most of the HS community was present on Twitch, not on YT.

That’s the biggest thing that hurt HS esports during the switch IMO. YT stream also wasn’t perfect ~3 years ago and while yes, pausing and rewinding is a GREAT feature (you can also do it on Twitch but you have to go to the saved videos which is a pain in the neck), the stream was often buggy and choppy for many people. I remember a lot of negative quality or sound-related feedback when they first switched to YT.

But ignoring all of that, the best thing is that without the contract, they can stream on both Twitch and YT. If someone prefers one platform over the other,

By small, I meant that it’s not going to be one of the “major” content patches (X.2, X.4 etc.), which are generally announced at least a few days before their release. I suspect that we’ll see a lot of balance changes, I would be surprised if there were less than 8-10 card nerfs/buffs. Plus probably some bug fixes.

Thank you. I’m not happy about it either. Not even the battle pass itself, in my opinion that’s okay if it only had cosmetics. The problem is that they paywalled the 4 hero picks. I really hate that. But the only way I would see Team 5 changing it is either people quitting BG in masses or nearly no one buying the new season pass… and I don’t think that’s going to happen, sadly.

Yeah, I usually just delete those kinds of comments, but this person keeps commenting super negative stuff all the time and I really wanted to reply.

Also, thank you 🙂

Well, if you want to get technical, “Battlegrounds Perks” no longer exist, all of the perks are available for free, except 4 hero picks instead of 2, which are a part of a Season Pass. But it’s a new item, you can no longer buy Battlegrounds Perks at all.

But yes, 4 hero picks instead of 2 is the only exception to the “you can still buy everything you could with gold”, but it’s also explicitly stated in the post.

Why do you even keep commenting if that’s the only thing you have to say? We post everything about the game – the good, the bad, the neutral. You can’t ignore, for example, me saying that Runestones are a terrible idea and I don’t like it and then complain that I write about something else and say that I’m paid by Blizzard. I posted those shop updated for like 2 years already and I will keep posting them because at least a part of our viewers are interested in new cosmetics/bundles/whatever.

I feel like you should just quit Hearthstone because it doesn’t sound like you have a healthy relationship with the game.

I don’t think that those “it’s cheaper by a few cents” is a big problem. It’s stupid, but people probably wouldn’t buy a smaller bundle many times to save for a single candy. But it is much worse in the UK.

You can save over 6 pounds by buying 16x 500 Runestones bundle as opposed to 1x 8000 Runestones. It’s crazy.

Source for the UK prices: https://twitter.com/coL_Sottle/status/1564667559227654144

We don’t block people from Iran for political reasons if that’s what you’re suggesting. Our parent company has decided to block users from a few select countries because otherwise the company would have to adjust to some local laws, which would cost them some money. And given that our traffic from those countries is small, it just wasn’t worth adjusting for the very small revenue they would get. I’m really sorry about that. I would, of course, prefer the site to be available in every country, but it’s strictly a financial decision and it’s not up to me. I’m glad that you still found a way around it, though.

Right, Blizzard updated the blog post for playoffs so I changed it here too 🙂

No idea yet, Blizzard never really officially talks about Amazon Coins, so it’s hard to say.

But given that Runestones can be purchased in-game, I think that you will still be able to buy them using Amazon Coins.

You’re right, 10 Gold per 3 wins was also obtainable in Battlegrounds. However, given how long the average BG match is, that extra Gold was negligible. If you were an average player (50% WR) and played 4 Battlegrounds matches per day, you only got ~6.6 Gold per day on average. That’s ~200g per month.

(Still, it might be worth mentioning in the article.)

I’ll copy it from the article:

“Some pairings will get adjusted depending on the difficulty – more powerful rewards might have higher Quest requirements, and vice versa.”

Probably yes, I suspect that those extra mechanics like Darkmoon Prizes, Buddies and now Quests will be rotated in and out from time to time.

I’ve seen a lot of ideas for DK Hero Power, for example:

– Deal 1 damage to a minion, restore 1 health to your Hero.
– Summon a 1/1 Ghoul with Rush that dies at the end of your turn.
– Something related to Reborn mechanic, e.g. “Give a friendly minion Reborn. Destroy it at the end of your turn.”

But it honestly all depends on what kind of in-game mechanics they will tie DK with. Maybe they will have to make something that synergizes with his toolkit, so without knowing it we can just guess.