Won't happen unless Blizzard quits the Flavor of the Month class balancing with expansions it has been doing for god knows how long.

Artifact from valve is looking pretty sick

first few videos of actual gameplay

http://www.************.com/games/ar...ay-for-it.aspx


it seems a lot more complicated than HS or any other online card games ive seen

***game informer is a banned site really?

here's the reddit post with the article linked

https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/co...at_animations/

I would say this is my least favourite meta in several seasons for sure.

Just fricking make Reno evergreen in standard. I want him back.

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Reno is ridiculously toxic

So it's kind of like Elder Scrolls legends but instead of 2 lanes it has 3 lanes? Seems like it's going to be complex.

Though the fact that the game is NOT free to play is intriguing.

Man, HS really is the stone cold nuts in terms of being the easiest to pick up and play and most fun card game out there. I've played a bit of a bunch of other card games like ES:Legends, Gwent, Eternal, Shadowverse and none hold a candle of HS in terms of just being fun to play. Blizzard is like the Apple of video game makers.

i think this will happen until they sort out the base set. Some classes like mage will always be a thing because mana wyrm/frostbolt/fireball are so good yet classes like shaman priest and now warrior (since they nerfed everything good) are reliant on OP cards from expansions. When they don't get those cards the classes suck

theres a lottt of different stuff. each player picks 5 heroes in their decks which affects some of the other cards they can play, very unclear on how that works.

Positionning is super important as your card has an attack pointer and you can soak attacks or let them through if theres nothing defending their path. I think attacking units dont trade, you both end your turn at the same time I think and both sides attack each other ?

I saw that phantom assassin attacks in diagonal, and I think some heroes like Sven cleave attack.

Cards also have colors which afaik we have no idea how that works yet.

You can also purchase cards/buffs with gold during the match which is also something unexplained yet. Gold is NOT mana. Mana goes up 1 per turn like most games.

You also have infinite room for minions in a lane, no cap. Also no cap on handsize.

You also draw 2 per turn (your deck is 40 cards with max of the same card at 3).


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Seems super skillful. If you ever got salty about Hearthstone RNG or bored with OP curve-stone decks, I don't think this game will disappoint you. Or at least that is their target audience.

maybe my frustration is because i'm playing wild. Every game in wild these days is either vs big priest, spiteful priest, burn mage, aggro paladin, or some kind of warlock abusing voidcallers and malganis or some kind of warlock abusing naga sea witch into giants. Every single other deck you could create just loses, probably every other deck will lose 90% of games. It's a complete ****show farce.

Heading back to standard i think.

Yeah it's pretty busted. I was playing big priest in wild earlier. Nothing like rezzing 2 tags on turn 4.

made a thread for Artifact for those interested.

got lots of new information this week.

The Witchwood new xpac.

New mechanic: Echo. Cards that have Echo can be played multiple times in the same turn. I.e. if you have a 3 mana cost card, you could play it twice on turn 6, or three times on turn 9, etc.

New mechanic: Rush. Its Charge but only for attacking minions.

Some neutral legendaries revealed: some that will reduce cost or boost hero powers if you make decks with only even or only odd costed cards.


Also at the end of the trailer they tease some sort of 8 cost Legendary called "Hagatha..." something? Shaman legendary or something? Couldn't tell.

Justicar is back!!! I wonder if you can make a fatigue warrior with only odd costing cards. You get shield slam but no execute, you get deadman's hand but no sleep with the fishes, no skulking geist, but no jades either.

In general I like these kinds of cards. Even if it only works for a few classes, it's fun to try to make them work with each hero.

Though the teaser showed those cards being fairly high cost which kinda sux imo.

Rush is directly stolen from Shadowverse, wow, lol

@synth, Dead Mans is 2 mana

preorder is 50 for 70 packs, which is awesome

Charged devilsaur?

Yes but SV uses Rush for charging minions and Storm for charging face or minions

exact same word, which is kinda hilarious.

looks like a hero card

Slow pony

New expansion time is the best

no reveals til March 26 monkaS

Still better than only revealing ticking abomination.

Seems like some lazy design with many cards of the first reveal. I don’t want to pay again for the same card albeit in the standard format. Echo already exists but their just formalizing it—it’s used in unstable evolution.

Glenn is Reno like and basically Raza for all classes. Baku is like Justicar and gets all of the same buffs....lol.

Azalina which battle cry is replace your hand with your opponent seems like it could work in some decks. But a 3/3 for 7 mana seems like it could backfire way too often.

Nice meme cards Blizzard

The key with those cards is that they are not Reno, Keleseth, Raza, etc. The effect is on start of game, not when played. Definitely trying to attempt the draw RNG issue.

Man, I said I wouldn't put any more money into HS and then they go and offer 70 packs for 50 with the preorder. I even resisted enough to not buy the Mammoth Bundle.

pre-order + 3 free packs + 1 class legendary for logging in is a really nice step up and a new threshold for the minimum expac offering

I'm still riding out a ton of battle.net balance that I bought with 4 million WoW gold before quitting recently but this is a really nice precedent to set for future expacs