Hearthstone

[Kz]

lol HS u should be able to be self sufficient especially if ur good at arena's.

[Kz]

god damnit blizzard i want a fucking key god damnit!

[Gogan]

The wave of keys sent out Friday, October 4th to NA and EU regions have now completed. Please check your emails.

We will not be sending waves over the weekend.

=(

[Gogan]

My initial impressions after the weekend:

Overall, fun game and about what I expected. I think those of you that have been waiting will enjoy it. It has a lot of potential and hopefully they don't wait years for expansions.

That said, there are some things that are definitely still missing. It's beta of course, so maybe things will be different come release. I assumed they were pretty close to release since they stated they won't be doing any more account wipes, but now I'm not so sure.

* No achievements screen. There are achievements in game and for certain achievements you even get special cards (e.g. acquiring all murloc cards nets you a special murloc card). It would be nice to see a list of which achievements are out there so we know what to work towards and what we can expect.

* No non-arena means of farming gold. There's a daily quest worth 40 gold, and after that you get 10 gold for every 3 games or so that you win, but that's just not enough. For those of us that won't be consistently getting 7-9 wins in arena (which, despite what KZ says, is not so easy), it'll take a long time to get enough gold to compete. Maybe there will be more quests come release. We'll see.

* There's a "practice" mode which lets you play against the computer with a custom deck, but there really needs to be a practice mode for arena style decks as well. The RNG inherent in the arena draft is just so different from pre-built decks, it would be nice to get some practice at it w/o forking over all your gold.

* Along the same lines, it would be nice to have more AI levels than just Normal and Expert. Three levels seems to be the standard, and it would be even better if they took a page from Starcraft's book and let you choose a play style for the AI, e.g. Murloc deck, control deck, beast deck, etc.

* Rewards for leveling up each class aren't so hot right now. I think the concept of getting the class-specific golden commons is ok, but getting the same ones each milestone is not. For example, I got the hunter's golden Tracking card when I hit level 15 and when I reach level 20 I'm going to get the same thing. Lame. Getting a class to level 60 should eventually net you each of the class's golden cards, and unless they change the curve (e.g. not every 5 levels) it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.

* I wish your rank (e.g. bronze, silver, gold, etc) was class-specific. Additionally, your stats should be broken out per class too. Right now it only shows you how many total wins you've had in Play mode and Arena mode. I'd like to see number of losses, as well as win/loss ratio per class. It would be nice to see which classes I'm most successful with.

* The UI is pretty confusing. For example, the Play and Arena stats are displayed on the quest log screen. In order to see which cards I'm missing from my collection, I have to go into Crafting Mode. Huh?

* You can only make 9 custom decks. Dunno why. Seems ridiculous. That's basically only 1 deck per class. I can easily see wanting to make multiple kinds of deck per class. They really shouldn't limit the number of custom decks.

* Apparently there's going to be a ladder system which resets each week, but there's no sign of it in game. Maybe they're still working on it. But hopefully they build a UI for it in-game so we can see where everyone is at on the ladder. I also hope they have multiple ladders, with some lasting more than just a week. This should be the heart and soul of the game, and it's a little concerning that it's completely absent right now.

[Kz]

nice review one other thing i think it needs is its own Tournament Mode. i think if they did something like a poker Sit n go type thing that would be amazing. where like 10 or 20 people buy in and play it out and winner takes 70% or w/e they wanna do.

[Fusa]

Originally Posted by Gogan

* No non-arena means of farming gold. There's a daily quest worth 40 gold, and after that you get 10 gold for every 3 games or so that you win, but that's just not enough. For those of us that won't be consistently getting 7-9 wins in arena (which, despite what KZ says, is not so easy), it'll take a long time to get enough gold to compete. Maybe there will be more quests come release. We'll see.

I laughed at the 7-9 wins for every win someone has to lose, so there will be a lot less people with 7-9 wins then there will be people getting 5 wins

[Kz]

nother wave going out. check ur emails. u can get multiple ones too apparently so if you have one check anyway.

https://twitter.com/CM_Zeriyah/statu...14030806695937

[Kz]

more again today. anyone get lucky cuz i sure didn't

[Gogan]

No extras on this end.

[Blake]

if u do get extra i say u give them to me and not KZ. just to hear him cry