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.

No idea yet since it’s just datamining. I hope they use Legendary Quest slot, but from the patch notes it sounded like everyone will get 2 Daily Quests (normal + Nozdormu).

3 months is still very quickly by Hearthstone standards, haha 😀

Yeah, I’m not sure why they still keep pumping “alternative” version of basic Heroes when there’s so many more they could pick. Like Fandral would be much better for this theme than Malfurion.

It still looks great, don’t get me wrong, but Fandral would be even better.

Yeah I think that Shadow Priest will be an Aggro deck itself for it to work, since a lot of the reactive spells are Holy. But it still needs some more support, we’ll see what other cards they reveal later.

Sorry to hear that, I disenchanted it on the patch day and it was all fine. I’d just send a support ticket if I were you (if you care enough about it, of course, haha).

I think that some variations on a “main character” from a class is good, but I’d also like more diversity. E.g. Warrior is really cool – they have Garrosh, Magni, Deathwing, Annhylde and Rokara. A lot to pick from and design of each of them is quite different. Shaman is also good, for example. But Valeera is the biggest offender –

I think that having multiples of the same character mostly comes from the fact that recently they introduced Rewards Track portraits, Tavern Regular portraits and Book of Heroes portraits, all depicting same characters and all piling up. Hopefully things will get more diverse again soon.

Definitely, I know a lot of people who play Hearthstone but never played or don’t like WoW.

I LOVED WoW, it was one of my favorite games in the history. Played it between 2007 and 2015, with breaks. I usually started the expansion, played for a year or so and then quit until next set. Sadly I no longer have time for an MMO (back in the day I could spend hours every day playing it, right now it’s no longer possible), but I still get tempted to get back from time to time.

Thank you. I should have probably mentioned it in the post – I’ll add it! 🙂

I think it’s a mix of both. Now that they want to release all Book of Heroes AND Book of Mercenaries before next Standard year, they have to pack a lot of them. So they probably decided to focus on that downtime period between mini-set and another expansion.

I’m not a big fan of those adventures anyway, I liked the Dungeon Run style PvE content way more, but I know that a lot of people like them, and it’s free content, so I won’t complain.