Amazing guide, indeed.

If anyone needs a video sneak peek Kriparrian, Trump and maybe Slyssa (I’m not 100% for her) they have videos.
Kripparian did the tutorial along with one bounty.

Again great job Stonekeep.
Is a very detailed guide that helped a lot!

I’m a bit sceptical about this mode and I disagree that is roguelite genre cause it seems more like TB RPG / Gatcha game with cards.
Secondly, I don’t understand why the hell is inside HS ?!
Is not a mode, is a hole different game based mostly on HS but has nothing to do with HS.
Both BG and especially Merceneries are different games and the least they have to do if they keep those two modes tied with HS game client is to bring different resources, different reward roads, different ladders (with rewards ofc).
At the moment, BG has no ladder rewards and no rewards track but still they drop buddles for monetization.
BG needs to get some free rewards (skins, boards, new emotes, etc) along with real money spend buddles otherwise is waste of money and pointless to play a game against players (no casual matches) with no rewards for.

Nice bundles…
But…
Unfortunately they are only available in the game shop and not on blizzard website shop.
So, you can’t use different currency to save some money and gain a better deal.
E.g. 29.99$ = ~25.65€

Just made it today Top1000 with Murloc Paladin (Prismatic Lens and Tip the Scales version).
Insane win ratio, from 5diamond to legend undefeated and then from 1964 to 997 with 1 loss !!!
Not bad for… tier2 (?!) deck 😛

There is some kind of bug with BLOWTORCH SABOTEUR.
I was DH and a warrior played me that, but the effect lasted forever… !!!

“Don’t call for the nerfs, don’t make big rants and so on until the meta stabilizes.”
Well said… BUT…
I’m pretty sure reddit has defferent approach… And I don’t think players will change anytime soon.
Every single time they’re asking for nerfs no matter what and the funny thing is that all they’re playing those decks only.
I can’t understand why people keep calling for nerfs before even try out other decks that might have a chance against those.

Anyway, I’m expecting nerfs mid-month cause last expansion has a huge amount of impact and from the cards I saw from this expanion can’t see a clear game changer.
Hope to be wrong…
For sure DH will dominate ladder in the start cause of the hype, but I don’t expect to keep that for too long. And when hype goes off then the real problem that wrote above will come in table.

Thanks for answering and those infos.
I’m playing for closed beta and if is hard for me to get those infos, I can’t imagine how hard will be for a new player.
Maybe you could do a paragraph on the article about new system and rewards or a new newbies article with these.

Thanks again

There are some questions that didn’t have been asked or answered.
Firstly, new players rewards (+30 packs) will still be given? Cause the first 25 ranks have been made for those only and none could go down there again.
And second question, will be the legend card back still on as a first timer legend reward?
They mentioned about the season chests and monthly card backs but they didn’t mentioned anything about legend’s card back.

Shadowverse did it over a year ago ( new class), why not HS?
So, I believe there is some truth on thise leaks.
I, also, hope for a new basic set according to their intentions for correcting heores Identity.
In addition, I wouldn’t mind if they think to change a bit the rotation. For e.g. every 3 months the older expansion leaves when a new is coming out.
Other changes I was thinking is to rework the rewards on 5 and legend rank.
At least on Legend rank cause for most people that have hit that rank in the past just one time is irrelevant to climb, especially cause it has almost the same rewards with 5 rank.
And last but not least, it would be great to move away classic set on wild… Is super irrelevant and supports nothing in standard.

I agree too that the idea to announce nerfs only for Shaman so early is too risky.
Now, we already have three decks from three classes that seems to be very strong with so much aggressiveness…
If Shaman goes from tier0 to tier 2 or lower meta will face a huge problem with no real midrange deck and a very few slower decks like Highlander Mage or Handlock (?) that will be playable only on high legend rank.
The fast and aggressive decks are a big part of HS but is this what the majority really wants ?!
In fact, I can’t understand how the devs translate the word “fun”… Is not fun to play against decks that highroll a lot (deathrattle rogue aka quest rogue v2.0) and can win in 4th round without any interaction to be possible (face hunter).
If they only fix 2-3 problematic cards from Shaman and the mutate highrolls would be fine.
But I’ve never seen in HS a tier0 and some tier1 decks to survive from nerfs!
Always, they went from being unstoppable to oblivion !!!

I think that HS is stιll on “ER”…
When they started in the middle of this year possitive changes in the end of it they turned around again, e.g. adding wild cards was nice idea but bad implementation. Same goes for creating BG, was very wrong time to bring it in Blizzcon (I think more earlier could be better), cause they couldn’t focus and do right moves on HS core game let alone to have many problems on different modes same time.
I don’t believe and haven’t convinced that Blizzard overall wants to be back where was in the past old good days… They just pretend that they want to…
I only hope that will interact in good way next year when they will have infront of them the real problem that is coming soon… aka Riot!

The article is great indeed.
Buut…
I will be realistic by simply put that this expansion will be the most irrelevant of all in history of HS.
Most players will hit rank 5 and legend really quick before even hits the meta and then will dive in on BG.

Oh, a card from Shadowverse… ????????
Anyway, 4/5 rate.
Otherwise, 5/5 if dragon druid will be worthy and playable (tier2 at least).

I beat all 8 bosses in under 20mins and no golden sceme card…
At least took the pack…
LoL

When I thought with “buff” update Devs have learned to change things they came with this to destroy a bit this thought.
Why they keep remove cards from standard and through them like is a recycle bin on wild… ?!
If they want to make a more accurate road for the identity of classes then CHANGE TEXTS on those cards… Is so easy to do it !!!
If they think that this would confuse players then, again, simply remove those cards entirely and then add new cards…
They keep care only for wallets and to burn a f2p player’s resources with these moves… obviously!
I feel like they are trying too hard to do a move forwoard, as they say that want!
When they do 2 steps infront, after a bit of time they do 1step backwoards… sad.

Anyway, these new cards aren’t OP or garbages… but they had and still have chance (a small one) to make bigger-drastically changes to the intended direction.

Last but not least, in my opinion, these aren’t nerfs or balance changes… Is absurd το criticize them as that.
I feel that if there will be a huge problem with standard’s current meta then we will get in about mid July a nerf patch.
But I don’t think there is a need, cause since in that time we will start to countdown for the next expansion that will change meta (little or more) anyway.

Prep should be nerf from “0” to “1” cost and raiding party “draw 1 pirate, combo add a weapon” and stay at “3” mana cost.As for evil should be “3” cost mana card with 1/2 stats.
Also, mage is really fking annoying and I have for a very long time why blizz along with many players showing so much love to “cancer” decks like zoolock, token druids, etc.
As for hunters… There were over 2 years that hunter was unplayable and isn’t OP deck against all others… never became.
Warrior is fine, besides brawl… that’s the only card should be nerfed to ground.
Last but not least, why on earth most ppl want a real fast match ups…?!
If you have not time to play a game, sad, but just dont play…Isn’t blizzard’s or any of player’s problem. It’s selfish to ruin rest of us that want to sharp our mind a bit and have fun same time…
Besides, isn’t fun at all to loose against brainless sh*t or high roll fiesta decks (aka mage).
That’s why game already lost over than 60% of high ranked player base, also why there are less than 5% new players. (additional reason is “grandmaster” access- big joke)

PS> Mark my words, real soon you will all start asking for nerfs on Paladin… (Hope to be wrong)

Theo’s decks ?!
And why there is no mention for him ?!
He said that I will find his decks here 🙁