Old Guardian's Articles
Weekly Quests Are Actually Good Now? Is It Safe to Return to Hearthstone?
Oops, they did it again. Blizzard played with the Hearthstone rewards systems by changing the weekly quests to be more rewarding but also to require multiple times the effort in patch 29.2 on April 16th. They reduced some of the requirements a little in a hotfix on April 19th, and promised more changes after they […]
How Incredible Are Dr. Boom’s Inventions? The Hearthstone Meta After the Mini-Set!
Dr. Boom’s Incredible Inventions mini-set launched on Tuesday, and it brought some new top-tier decks to the Hearthstone Standard meta! In this article, I will survey what the meta looks like now in the early days of the mini-set, and where it seems to be headed. We had the vast 29.2.2 balance […]
The Patch That Changed Everything – The Best Decks in the New Whizbang Meta!
Blizzard set some big expectations for patch 29.2.2. It is not your usual balance patch, but a patch “about the general design direction of the game” – an incredibly ambitious goal. With more than 30 nerfs or buffs, the patch certainly has the means to deliver a major change, but how much has truly changed? […]
Quests Give More Rewards And Take a Lot More Time to Complete – Analysis of the Quest Changes
Update: Blizzard already announced that they are partially backing off from those changes. We still don’t know the new numbers, but they will be somewhere between the original and the current ones. Extra XP will stay. Learn more here. Every once in a while, a small bullet point in patch notes turns […]
The Best Decks from the Masters Tour Spring Championship 2024!
One of the main events of Hearthstone esports, the Masters Tour Spring Championship, was played during the weekend. 16 players qualified for the tournament through exceptional ladder performances and they met on the battlefield of a best-of-five Conquest-format tournament with one ban. Therefore, each player brought four decks to the tournament. While […]
