Analytic, educational Hearthstone
The upcoming Warlock legendary cards for Hearthstone’s Journey to Un’Goro expansion, Lakkari Sacrifice quest and Clutchmother Zavas minion, were revealed recently, and speculation on what kind of a form a discard-heavy Warlock might take has started immediately.
While there are still more cards to come, I will examine what we currently know and what seems possible in the future.
Continue reading “An early look at Discardlock in Journey to Un’Goro”
Hearthstone’s Journey to Un’Goro expansion card reveal season started yesterday with a bang as 11 new cards were revealed. Amongst them was one of the highly-anticipated legendary cards, Elise the Trailblazer, a spiritual successor to the immensely popular Elise Starseeker.
Continue reading “Elise the Trailblazer will be a control deck staple”
I wrote a guest post for Blizzpro on the viability of Dragon decks after the next Hearthstone Standard rotation, the Year of the Mammoth. If you’re interested, go check it out on their site.
The Year of the Mammoth will soon be upon us, and Blizzard has announced new changes to the way cards are released to Hearthstone. This year, there will be no stand-alone adventures, only three around 130-card pack-based expansions and single-player mission related to them.
This move adds more cards to the card pool, but what does it mean cost-wise?
Continue reading “How expensive is it to keep up with Hearthstone in 2017?”
The Swiss portion of Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) 2017 Americas Winter Playoffs was played yesterday, and the drama in the Hearthstone community over the Swiss format continues. Let’s take a deeper look at the tiebreakers and how different formats can change the results.
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For the 2017 season, the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) switched to Swiss format. While this change was requested by many players during the previous seasons, the implementation elicited a bunch of criticism. To be honest, I do not think it was as bad as the loudest critics said, but I think a proper examination into a fair and exciting Swiss tournament format for Hearthstone is warranted.
Continue reading “What is the most fair and exciting Swiss format for Hearthstone?”
With the Hearthstone metagame dominated by Shaman and Pirate Warrior for an extended period of time, balance changes were expected. Now, Blizzard has finally announced the upcoming changes, of which there are only two: changes to Spirit Claws and Small-Time Buccaneer. How will they affect the metagame?
Continue reading “Hearthstone balance changes for February 2017”
In an announcement yesterday, Blizzard revealed an upcoming change to the Hearthstone ladder system. Alas, it was not longer seasons or new matchmaking, but new ranked play floors. What are they and how will they affect the Hearthstone ladder?
Continue reading “Will ranked play floors save the Hearthstone ladder?”
One year ago, I examined the 2016 Hearthstone Championship Tour Europe Winter season on this blog. Back then, there were several lessons to be learned. Now with the Hearthstone 2017 HCT Europe Winter Playoffs just finished, it is a good time to take a look at what was discussed one year ago and compare it to how this tournament went.
Lately, I have been losing my drive to play Hearthstone despite the new expansion and the interesting changes to the metagame that it has brought with it. I have reflected on this quite a bit and can clearly identify why I find it so hard to find the motivation to play, and the reason is the ladder system.
In this post, I will first elaborate on my personal experience on the ladder system and then move on to a more general level to see how the issues affect many kinds of players.
Continue reading “There are not enough worthwhile games in Hearthstone ladder”