Yeah, I've told a few people past week or so that I really enjoyed hearthstone a lot, because I really loved some of those cards. Wild arena has been fun, it's good to compare and contrast what the game has become to what it once was

I've probably said the same thing in a different way 100 times now but hearthstone's biggest problem is the power level of early game cards is too high, it makes balance impossible

also now that im at 6 wins in this tavern brawl every opponent is the same cubelock lol. such fun.

i went 8-3 in my one run - 9 of the matches were vs paladin

1 drops are busted. they should never print another 1 mana 1/3 ever again

Playing turn 8 cards on turn 8 is so year of the Kraken. This is year of the Mammoth, turn 8 happens on like turn 4 or 5 now.

Nice caps, but they're plenty of decks where people don't do anything but dick around for the first half of the game. Playing random ****ters that heal or blow up the board on curve to absorb damage is zzz. Which is exactly why getting rid of freeze mage and other archetypes that Blizzard has done is ****ing stupid.

Also, the problem isn't early game's being too powerful. It's Blizzard has killed off things that prey on aggro. Fiery War Axe and killing off control warrior is one of the dumbest things Blizzard did. I literally just killed a control lock turn 4 with facehunter. I would literally never touch hunter if warrior was legit.

tl;dr Blizzard keeps pumping out random unbalanced horse **** at all levels of mana and made the game boring the past year.

Duskbreakers the single most powerful anti aggro ever printed

I thought a bit more about Coldlight Oracle. It is pretty rare that card negatively impacts me when I'm playing against it unless I'm playing against Rogue, in which case it is absolutely infuriating. That being said I don't really know if there's a similar feeling as when you're getting milled and praying that you don't burn a critical card. I think it's a well designed card and shouldn't be getting HoFed. I'd much rather see Vanish get ****ing punted into oblivion -- THAT is really the card that I hate.

Is ranked still busted?

Ranked is down and they canceled the dev stream tomorrow because of it sadly

Ranked is back up. Seems like people are starting at odd ranks like some people starting at rank 1 5* and i seem to have moved from rank 12 to rank 11 without playing a game.

I dislike shadowstep if anything in rogue. It allows for nearly all the really obnoxious things rogues can do. Making super Cleefs early, burning 4-5 cards in one turn, Leeroy shenanigans back in the day. I don't think it needs to be HoF'd, just raised to at least one mana.

Vanish itself really doesn't too much. It's usually the other stuff that compounds it. Like if you were to run it in any other rogue deck besides mill you would just die from tempo loss.

I just think Blizzard could have altered the mana cost on Coldlights and shadowstep and solved the problem. Rather than indirectly hitting other classes.

it's continually amazing to me how the most seemingly minor changes to their client will almost certainly wreak complete havoc on the game. I will continue to believe their source code must be an absolute disaster, or they have a really incompetent dev team.

I'd go for #1, because I've researched their team and they all seem pretty qualified. That's what you get for trying to maintain a huge game like this in lol unity.

Three free packs next week tho

I find the new animation they've added until you get 5 wins per month painfully slow. I thought the after game animations were too slow before.

I think coldlight oracle was supposed to provide card draw to murloc decks but instead it's mostly used in mill decks.

Yea this guy’s just straight up wrong and has no idea what he’s talking about

Found a good reply on reddit that pretty much nails it:

hearthstone was never meant to be a big deal. it was just a small team messing around but it caught on like crazy out of nowhere and had to scale super fast. Not suprised its a total mess.

My biggest complaint is not “spaghetti code” but rather obviously poor coding practices done with a terrible large scale platform like unity. I think there is a ****load of evidence for the “poor practices” argument.

They absolutely need to refactor at some point, which will be expensive in the short term, but will save them so much headache in the future.

The guy made a really good point about them wanting a senior developer for a while now.

There’s a way to decompile the dll’s and view the client code so i may sneak a peak at it soon, i’m super curious about a few things

agree

What? Blizzard was already a huge ass company that was going to have an automatic following with new games. This was a full decade of WoW cashcowing for them supplemented with Diablo and SC money. Blizzard might not have projected Hearthstone blowing up to the levels it did, but they weren't aiming small either. Team 5 itself might have been small but they had huge amounts of resources other game devs would drool over.

I dont think it’s that they didnt expect it to successful, it was that beta was more sucessful than they realized it would be, so they rushed a release and their prototype became their main client and now it’s likely too late to change.