No clue yet, but probably yes, since official HS tournaments have been nearly exclusively Standard for years now.

I don’t think so, since they’re just fanart. But I would also love to see some of them in game!

My biggest hope is that they make the entire core set free. The game is already expensive enough, so it would be amazing for new players to be able to get into the game and actually own a bunch of solid cards they can play immediately.

The core set could contain some cards from current Classic, some cards from older expansions and some cards newly created just for that purpose. Librams or Lightforged (Pure) cards would make a great add. It would make sense to add Paladin some class identity in core set, because right now it doesn’t have one.

Of course, that’s just what I would love to see, it probably won’t happen, but one can dream 🙂 Still, I can’t wait to learn more about the Classic rework and what they’re planning. Besides the Battle Pass issues (which have been fixed already) the game has been heading in the right direction for a while now.

I thought that saying “instead of 50” made it clear. Because right now we have 50 base levels, not 50 levels in total.

But I’ll edit it to be more clear.

And I agree, communication should be much better over the last 2 months, but it’s better late than never.

Yes, it also happens to me, it looks like more achievements are slowly loading and when I try to scroll while they’re still loading it gets all choppy. I just wait a bit before starting to scroll and it works fine then. But I hope that it gets fixed soon.

Hey, I’m waiting to see if they announce a nerf patch over the next few days, and if not then I’ll cover it this week.

Yes, AFK farming XP is a problem and I hope that Blizzard addresses it. While I haven’t faced any AFKers myself, it happens and Blizzard should send a warning first and then if people continue doing it give them a short ban or something (like 24h… then maybe 3 days if they continue and so on).

But as for the XP required to level up and get Gold – you’re forgetting about Weekly Quests, which are nearly half of the Quest XP. So if you count only Daily Quests, you earn less… but you get a big chunk of gold for finishing your Weeklies too.

6k from Weekly + 7k from Daily = 13k = ~9 levels per week (after 50) = 450 gold per week = 64 gold per day on average just from doing your Quests, it doesn’t count any XP you’re getting from. So it’s still more than we had previously.

We don’t have one yet, but we’ll try to cover it soon 🙂

When playing OTK or C’thun decks, Priest is one of my biggest fears. A well-timed Illucia can completely mess up my gameplan. When playing C’Thun, I just try to play a piece whenever I draw it, but sometimes it’s impossible and I need to hold it for a turn or two. And it’s even worse when playing something like ETC Warrior – I need so many combo pieces for the combo that my opponent just waits until I have like 5-10 cards left in my deck and then drops Illucia, steals the combo and I’m done.

In fact, stats show that Priest has worse matchup vs most of the Aggro decks than against stuff like ETC Warrior.

It was the issue of using ” instead of ” in card tags (simple things like that sometimes mess up with the tags). Thanks for pointing it out, I’ve fixed it!

It’s nice to get 800 Dust for a Rare card, isn’t it? 🙂 I had two golden Dreadlord’s Bites myself.

No idea yet, but my guess would be mini-set release mid-January and new expansion mid-March. So you still have a lot of time 🙂

That’s how it worked in the last week’s Brawl, I didn’t have time to test this one and I assumed that it works the same. Sorry, I already fixed it, but there’s no reason to get so worked up over something so irrelevant.

What do you mean? If you played enough to get 10k Gold in the old system, you should have even more than that this time around. I usually got to around 8k and I should have around 10k this time around (plus all the non-Gold rewards).

You still earn Gold after level 50. It’s 50 not 150, but you level up 3 times as often, which means that you end up with the same as it was before.

…while reducing the necessary amount of XP by 2/3 and increasing the number of levels from 150 to 350.

In other words, it’s literally the same amount of gold in total, you’re just getting smaller amounts more often now (which is always better).

No idea, I’m pretty sure that the official stance is “up to 30 days”, but they usually came out a few days after the tournament. So I would GUESS later this week or early next week.

Maybe they will release a new bundle closer to Christmas, like next week. We’ll see 🙂 It would be weird if they didn’t push anything out, because I’m pretty sure that we had some Christmas bundles for a couple of years now (e.g. Dame Hazelbark last year).

We might still get some buffs / nerfs, we’ll learn more in the patch notes that should be shown quite soon! 🙂

You get all 4 for picking Jarla 🙂 Both finalists give you 4 packs!

And yeah, move to YT was terrible for HS Esports. Tournaments on Twitch had WAY more viewers. I hope that they will bring it back to Twitch eventually, but probably not soon because of the deal with Google.

I wouldn’t call it a win for F2P players – most of them still opened lots of packs from Darkmoon because they didn’t know how much impact it will have on the meta, so it’s not like they saved much. And there’s still a few Legendaries from the expansion you might want to craft as they improve older decks.

Plus, a stale meta is not a win for anyone – yes, it’s technically cheaper if you don’t need that many cards from new expansion and still have success with many decks, but so what if the game isn’t that fun because it didn’t change much. Maybe mini-sets is something they’ve accounted for and didn’t want to make base expansion too powerful, who knows.