Wait, so Riot is paying people to promtoe Runeterra?

Runeterra Top Decks, here we come!

Devs have confirmed that they will all be available for Gold at one point, but no one knows when.

I think that splitting them between “just cosmetics” and “just packs” is best for consumers, though. People who want skins can only buy skin bundles, people who want packs can only buy pack bundles, people who like mixing both… can just buy both, haha.

Like, I know people who want the maximum pack value because they have weak collection, but they don’t care about skins. I’m in the opposite camp now – I have all the cards I want and more than enough Dust, so I don’t want more packs, but if I like some cosmetic then I might buy it.

But yes, I’m getting less and less inclined to buy cosmetics now that I have a few cool portraits for each class. They’re really pushing A LOT of them lately and it’s not a bad thing (it’s better for everyone if they earn money from cosmetics), but it just means that I will only buy the ones I REALLY, REALLY like.

Thanks for the update! Yes, I see people posting Rank 2 on Twitter, some even got Rank 3 already.

I think that instead of further nerfing the Warlock Questline, they will just remake it completely once it rotates out to Wild and the ban is lifted. Either make it a different condition or give it a different reward that can’t be exploited that easily in the format.

(Offtopic) I got a PS5 recently* and I’m waiting for Director’s Cut to come out before I try Death Stranding out. I’ve heard very mixed opinions, either praising the game or saying that it’s very boring. But I definitely want to try it out myself.

*It’s actually my first console ever, I’ve gamed on PC my whole life, but my GPU is close to dying, I can’t get a new one at a normal price, so I settled for a console to play through all the PS exclusives before (hopefully) GPU market will be back to normal in a year or two. So far I don’t regret, I’ve missed so many great exclusives.

It looks like mini-set will be released in the next patch after Mercenaries after all: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/united-in-stormwind-mini-set-releasing-in-next-major-patch-after-mercenaries-possibly-november/

That’s a bummer. I won’t judge Merc gameplay until I actually get to play it, though. I hope to get some early access too but Blizzard doesn’t like me as much as those popular streamers 😀

That’s a good point, the deck is very strong indeed. And assuming that Questline Shaman gets nerfed, it might become even better, because that’s the worst matchup. Of course if it’s such a big patch things might shift around and it might turn out that another counter pops out, but it will be pretty scarry.

Deck guides weren’t doing very well (sadly not that many people were reading them) so we’ve decided to cut them and redirect those resources elsewhere. Hearthstone is getting more and more content each year and we have finite amount of time to cover all the articles, guides etc. I would love to get back to them at one point, but it will be difficult now that HS will have even more content with Mercs 🙁

That would be hilarious. But if they nerf it again, they will probably do 12 right away to save them one extra step.

That’s why I’ve said it would be a really stupid, but from what I hear they never considered banning anyone for it. I’ve seen some questions about it, though, so I wanted to clarify that there will be no bans.

Some online games do ban players for intentionally exploting bugs. Not talking about some minor things, but stuff that allows them to cheat.

E.g. I can’t remember which one, but one of the online shooters let players jump “under” the map and shoot people from down there while they couldn’t respond with fire (since from their perspective shots came from the ground). People exploiting the bug were banned. And IMO for a good reason, because it ruined everyone’s experience.

Of course, the C’thun thing is not nearly as severe, but I’m just saying that they COULD issue bans for it – explotining bugs breaks ToS that every players sign when they register.

That’s a great point, you definitely should be able to inspect them closely without going back to your collection and looking for them. It will become even more difficult when more skins are released.

First part of puzzle 2 is different for everyone – you need to carefully enter all the minions stats, types and positions into the spreadsheet and you’ll get your own “code”. If you’re doing that and it doesn’t work, then double check everything, even writing one number incorrectly will give you a wrong code.

Oh yeah, I thought about sharing it, but in the end it’s exploiting a bug. Blizzard PROBABLY won’t ban anyone for it, but I don’t want to risk sharing it and making someone get banned. So play it at your own risk 🙂

Yes, his Deathrattle triggers before you summon a Treant so his effect still goes off.

I’m not saying that it’s better, I’m just saying that not having viable Control options for a while is not the end of the world and doesn’t automatically mean that the meta has to suck for everyone. We had tons of metas when some archetype or class wasn’t viable and I wouldn’t say that it was particularly problematic. The truth is that it’s nearly impossible to keep everything viable.

If the situation lasts for a few expansion, then yes, that would be a different story and I would 100% agree that something needs to be done. But players can’t expect that the thing they like to play will always be good in a game that’s constantly changing. Or rather, they CAN expect that, but they will be disappointed.

And as OG already commented, it was implied by Iksar that the silent majority of the players don’t mind the current meta, at least not enough to quit the game. Devs clearly know more about it than us, since they have access to all the stats and metrics we don’t.

And again, the article didn’t say anything about the “majority”. We don’t have the same stats Blizzard does so we can’t be sure about it with all certainty, but between the quote from Iksar and personal experience, it’s safe to assume that MANY players indeed like the meta. I don’t understand why you disagree with the use of that word. Like I’ve said, even if only 30% of the players like the meta, that’s still many players. No one tries to bend the reality and make it look like everyone online loves the current meta, that would be silly.

It’s pretty obvious that vocal minority doesn’t like the current meta, but it doesn’t mean that it’s not liked in general. You need to keep in mind that ~90% of the players don’t talk about the game on social media or forums, they just play it casually. Most of the opinions about the game you read comes from a very small percentage of the playerbase that have their own opinion bubble. And I wouldn’t be surprised if this meta was well-received among those players (at least that’s what the devs are suggesting – OG just quoted them on that).

Also, “many players” doesn’t mean “most of the players”. 30% of the players is still “many players”.

Fwiw, I like the current meta. Not because I hate Control decks – on the contrary, I also like them a lot. I just don’t mind that the game plays differently now than it did a year ago, and I hope that it will again play differently next year. I’ve been playing ever since Closed Beta so I lived through all of the metas and I embraced most of them simply because I like the change. If very similar archetypes with very similar playstyle were viable every expansion, the game would be much more boring in the long run.

Yep, nothing is exclusive, you can get all of that in-game. Although Diamond portraits you’re getting for Diablo/Lich King are very rare.

I’ve tried to look it up about that and I don’t think there’s anything official. I’ll try to ask the devs and update the guide, assuming they will want to share the info, haha.

Having dupe protection for Coins would be a pretty big deal. Fully upgrading a Merc and still getting useless Coins for it would suck.