Hearthstone Beta!

[mightyoak]

Jan 27, 2014 11:02:34 GMT @colosal said:

I started to play yesterday too and as cuzbot said is a good game but too simple, you just cast and hit...

I still prefer SE over HS

See you on IRC!

[Unruler]

Jan 27, 2014 9:11:54 GMT Cuzbot said:

I just started playing the Beta of this game today. It is very fun. I used to play WoW so it is cool to see the old characters I used to love.

The game is pretty simple, no sacrificing is nice. I was just practicing so I don't have any idea how arena is at all.

Arena is crazy fun. You get to choose a hero, then one card out of three until you build a deck and you go play others until three loses or 12 wins. It's pretty random, but it's all beauty of it, you don't need any cards of your own and for 200 g you can get pretty long run and make those gold back.

I was playing arena a bit and just from the start I run into two mages, one of which had raging worgen (3/3 that goes windfury +2 attack when damaged and mage can damage his own cards), so I killed one but he played 2 0/2 taunts and another raging worgen, and I couldn't kill that, so yeah ended up taking 10 damage next turn, stabilized at 6 health, finished me off with fireball, well, I had to say I was raging at that time.

Next game freaking mage again, casts murlock that gives both player 2 cards, I was like well ok fine, but then Mountain giant (8/8 that costs less for more cards in your hand)at t5, well I assassinated it, he drops another one turn later! I mean what are the chances, those are like rare, so I took 8 damage, and he had pyroblast to kill me, what a joke.

But then 2 games I played against priest and druid that did almost nothing to stop me. So yeah, sometimes you win sometimes you lose.

The game has really good animations and interactions, super polished. Blizzard are always pretty awesome when making games. I found it to be too cartoony for me. I remember people saying that to me when I used to play WoW, that was their reason they didn't like it. Now I know how they feel, I didn't at the time.

Yeah, I like art style, they haven't got huge art like in SE, but small art but it fits perfectly in small icons.

Jan 27, 2014 11:02:34 GMT @colosal said:

I started to play yesterday too and as cuzbot said is a good game but too simple, you just cast and hit...

I still prefer SE over HS

I don't think sacrificial mechanic is to the detriment of the game, the whole game balanced around not having it: 30 card deck, 2 card per deck limit (1 for legendaries) and draw engines are less crucial and common.

But I think that card design is overall better: cards have character, interesting abilities, not resorting to walls of text in description (like SE does now). It doesn't feel balanced at all though, I mean 10 damage Pyroblast for mage is such a joke, there are almost no minions with 10 health, so they designed this card specifically for face melting I guess.

Mages are just way too strong: they got it all: protection as health gain and minion freeze, unprecedented amount of burn (considering you can buff your spells with minion's spell damage boost, burn gets even stronger). So 2 fireballs 2 pyroblasts are more than enough to kill a hero, so it's just like SE in this regard XDD

[maru]

Im also playing this too. But SE is still better in terms of strategy. just like colly said, just cast and hit.

[darkenheart]

playing it. yeah se is better but hearthstone is funnier.

[Atletico]

I feel same as colly

[meeklosh]

all the Europeans out there, give meh your TAGS NAAW

[darkenheart]

after playing this game for a bit, the usual winner is the one who has card advantage. if you're topdecking, you're likely losing already. its about timing the use of cards and doing combos. anyway, the added graphics and fun/ny sounds in the game are what se needs as well.

[Deleted]

i was about to level up and the game crashed! never happened in SE with me.

[meeklosh]

Feb 11, 2014 22:54:58 GMT @colosal said:

i was about to level up and the game crashed! never happened in SE with me.

LOL

[Deleted]

My first legendary and it sucks

[meeklosh]

Feb 16, 2014 2:28:08 GMT @colosal said:

My first legendary and it sucks

Actually I saw it being used in many Tier 1 decks as it can heal too, if your Hero's health is below 15, when you play Alexstrasza it goes back up!

[darkenheart]

i want to get a hold of a ragnaros!

[darkenheart]

okay probably the worst arena deck i ever got a shaman deck without overload spells. then i taught i'll just make a rush deck then but no bloodlust as well. my god. after beating a noob and getting 1 loss, i decided to just retire the arena deck and get my booster prize.
and finally my bad luck turned to a legendary luck ;P
so here it is my first legendary card. pure awesomeness

[Deleted]

My 2nd legendary:

[meeklosh]

Funny, I got my Legendaries with only few victories, too. Maybe that's the trick, if you want to get a legendary card, win only few games, lol

[darkenheart]

lets get some losses then! lol

[Deleted]

I had to win 4 games in arena to get the last one so yes, a few victories will give you better prizes

[Evil Clown]

Feb 19, 2014 15:05:31 GMT meeklosh said:

Funny, I got my Legendaries with only few victories, too. Maybe that's the trick, if you want to get a legendary card, win only few games, lol

seems to be true. whenever i have a good win-loss ratio i dont seem to be getting any legends. when i was like 4-3, i got alex >_>

[darkenheart]

ssssshhhhhh the secret to success in hs is losing lol any of you guys care to share your huge loss ratio decks?

[meeklosh]

Feb 20, 2014 1:45:04 GMT darkenheart said:

ssssshhhhhh the secret to success in hs is losing lol any of you guys care to share your huge loss ratio decks?

Play SE