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The nerfs aren't live yet?
We are hoping to put the patch out within the next hour. After that it takes some time to propagate to phones etc.
The nerfs aren't live yet?
We are hoping to put the patch out within the next hour. After that it takes some time to propagate to phones etc.
Yeah they mentioned this earlier so that they wouldn’t get sued for doing that.
I don't think we have ever said anything like this.
So many great designs.
Deadly moves is actually a design we almost shipped a few years ago. Nothing was wrong with it, we just ended up going with something that was more specific to the theme we were designing to.
Please please please do a "Anduin Reborn" event like "Rise of Mechs" where the whole class gets tweaked. PLEASE. It would be the most awesome thing ever.
I don't think we would call it Anduin Reborn because there are a bunch of different priest heroes, but I like the general idea.
Mike invenglobal says the nerfs will be live on Monday. Is it true or is it after GMs?
Yes, the title of the article is August 26th.
I'd rather see them HoF Lightwarden. It was a minor problem in Heal Zoolock and a bigger problem in this recent Tempo Priest.
We agree that priests need some extra attention and work in the future.
I know the first instinct is to make fun of first buffing then nerfing Luna's and Extra Arms, but I actually like these kind of experiments and hope they do more of them.
Thanks for the positive thoughts.
Our design philosophy is that it is better to push the limits and make exciting changes and exciting new cards than to do the safe thing and risk having a less fun game.
We are happy with the results of the buffs and if players end up with some dust then maybe they can use that to experiment with a new fun deck.
Read moreSome answers from memory, paraphrased. Watch vod for exact answers.
He is playing highlander mage at rank 2 on stream on his own account.
Rank 1 now.
Q: unnerf warsong?
A: potential for broken shit with charge, won't do it, but may design a better version in the future.
Q. SOU was good for wild, did you design cards specifically for wild in mind?
A: nope just design cool cards and happened to be cool for wild this time.
Q: design how many expansions in advance?
A: 1 year ahead is setting theme (like good vs bad guys/ league of evil etc), 1 set in early stage, 1 set in balance, 1 set in shipping preparations (marketing, golden animations, giving cards to streamers to reveal)
Q: Do you guys ever tweak expansions last minute to adjust for the meta from the current expansion since they're balanced so far in advance?
A: yes, deadline is 2 weeks prior to ship date, we have meeting to playtest with met...
Just a quick heads up that these are not my literal answers, many of them could be taken differently without my words and my context.
Also, I didn't spend a lot of time on the answers, it was a live stream while I was ranking up, so please keep that in mind too.
Happy Birthday Man
Thanks man!
Actually I am pretty rusty but I took today off work for my Birthday and I am streaming Hearthstone Ranked Ladder with my daughter Melody.
Feel free to stop by. I won't be spoiling anything new but happy to talk about my thoughts on existing stuff. Game Design questions are especially good.
twitch.tv/melodyserafina
External link →Wonderful work!
Hopefully they are prioritizing a nerf patch before the Single Player Content patch
Yep, we will give more info on balance changes this week hopefully.
Awesome job, this is a very hard to do on Heroic!
We actually talk a lot about intrinsic rewards vs extrinsic rewards and they apply differently to different situations.
Here we decided that putting a reward of some object behind this incredibly hard task would probably cause people to grind it out even if they didn't enjoy it, just to get the reward. We prefer for tasks this hard to let people complete them because they enjoy the process (this is called an intrinsic reward).
We do put a reward behind beating each wing once because that is a much more attainable goal for most people.
Glad you enjoyed Heist so much, and I am sure you will like the new adventure we will start talking about in a week or two.
Taught Zephyrs how doomsayer works
I don't know why but that's super cute. Like I imagine /u/mdonais sitting down in front of a whiteboard with the little guy and giving him a rundown.
That is exactly how it works :)
One quality that most casters have is an ability to talk about the game at a high level. Communication is a huge part of working as a team and Cora has always been great at that.
Another part is understanding the meta and why it changes. Which cards are most important to each deck, and how a deck might change if a card was added or removed.
Another important aspect of final design is understanding which cards are fun or exciting. Casters and streamers tend to have a very good idea of which cards make for fun gameplay and scenarios.
Cora did great on all of these aspects and we are lucky to have her as part of the Hearthstone team. I look forward to working with her.
Thanks for writing up this list of Hearthstone Idols.
Cards like this turn a card game into a story you want to celebrate and tell your friends about. To me this is the most important aspect that other card games fall short on. It is hard to hit the sweet spot on these designs of being clean designs, with mind blowing results.
Each of these makes me proud of the design team for going above and beyond.
PS: My favorites are Rexxar, Whizbang and Reno Jackson. With an honorable mention to C'thun.
Thanks!
jk, they brought in breakfast so we could play HS today :P
He said on stream that there might be one, but not sure if he wasn't just messing with us. :)
No there is not, and I don't think I said that there might be one.
Just a question: how difficult would it be, design and implementation-wise, to add cards and scenarios like Flare? Maybe not to recognize the kind of secrets the opponent has, but just the multitude of them, and Zephrys recognizing the value in that spot? Genuinely curious
I have gotten flare before I am pretty sure, I would certainly expect it against multiple secrets. Let me know if you aren't seeing it and anything else weird.
By the way we made a couple small hot fixes to Zephrys today including changing when you get weapon destruction (Harrison) to be more accurate and Silences/Mass Dispel will appear at the right time more often.