#378 - The Angry Chicken: “Scholoromanced”
08/12/2020
• Garrett • Jocelyn
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Intro
Welcome to The Angry Chicken!
Top of the Show Topic: Scholomance Launch
Post-Launch Meta
- First Day of School, Argent Braggart, Two-Shields, Alura, Devout Pupil
- Gift of Luminance & Blessing of Authority
- RaFaEl’s List
AAECAZ3DAwKEwQPD0QMOrwebrgOcrgONtgPKuAP9uAPquQPruQPsuQPKwQOezQPA0QPK0QPg0QMA - Garrett’s List (adapted from RaFaEl’s)
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- Voracious Reader brings even more draw.
- Demon Companion
- Marrowslicer or Spirit Jailer (one or the other) seem to be the only inclusion of Soul Fragments into this archetype. No Fragment consumers. Just the base heal seems to be enough value.
- Druid being able to add +4/+4 to all their minions as soon as they have 5 mana in some cases is leaving a sour taste in people’s mouths, even if that is an extremely lucky draw
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News
The Survey
Via out.of.cards
Over the weekend Blizzard sent out a survey to some Hearthstone players. In it there is mention of a “paid track” that sounds very much like a Battle Pass.
- Both Paid & Free versions
- Would last roughly 4 months. Goal to start at the launch of a new expansion and end at the release of the next.
- Earning the maximum amount of xp per week would take you 16 weeks to get the full 100 levels of the battle pass.
- XP replacing Gold rewards from quests
- A max of “about” 9000xp per week from quests and playing games.
- Total XP required for Lv.100 is 145,000
- No word on if the daily max for wins is changing.
- Potential rewards include:
- Latest Expansion Packs
- Prior Expansion Packs
- Upgradable Hero Skins
- Experience Boost for the Pass
- Arena Tickets
- Individual Random Cards
- A Choice of Hero Skins
- Alternate Art for The Coin
- Expansion Card Back
- Gold
- 1 Non-disenchantable Golden Legendary (Likely a unique legendary and not random)
- 2 Upgradeable Hero Skins (3 levels of upgrades each) (Jaina and Rexxar)
- 20% XP Boost for the Pass
- Alternate Art for The Coin
- 17 Packs for the Latest Expansion
- 14 Packs for a Prior Standard Expansion
- 4 Arena Tickets
- 2 Legendary Cards
- 2 Epic Cards
- More upgradeable hero portraits.
- Emblems by your name depending on your current experience.
- Crafting cost discounts for cards from the current expansion.
- Customizable visual emotes.
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Game Director Ben Lee on the Battle Pass/Progression System
In this week’s AMA Game Director Ben Lee gave a very lengthy response to concerns of a Battle Pass system replacing the Gold rewards we currently get from completing Daily Quests.
Ben’s opening statement defending Hearthstone’s efforts in the last year
- Ben opened with defending the past year of Hearthstone mentioning that the team has made it “easier and more affordable than ever for players to acquire an awesome card collection, including making the game more friendly to our free-to-play-players.”
- No duplicates
- Free competitive decks for new/returning players
- Increased ranked rewards
- 1st time ranked rewards
- More rewards through in-game events
- Free single-player Adventure content
- Which I’d like to point out doesn’t really help build your card collection and doesn’t give me hope for future free single-player content to change that. Most engaged players already had Kael’thas.
- “we absolutely intend to maintain the value that players can earn within the game and keep the flexibility of purchases that current rewards provide.”
- “We are undertaking a major rework of our rewards and progression systems. A survey did go out about this recently with the aim of gathering information to help us refine the design of the systems.”
Goals of the new system
- “One of our goals for this new system is to allow you to play Hearthstone your way, you won't be tied to playing only Standard or Wild in order to obtain the majority of the games’ economic rewards anymore.
- Repackaging (not reducing) the current rewards
- Make this easy to view and understand.
- “We want you to know how many rewards you've acquired, how many more you can earn and what steps you need to take in order to obtain them.“
- Broadening the benefits of the existing Tavern Pass system
- Supplement the rewards of the upcoming progression system with new cosmetics.
- “There’s been some discussion that a huge time investment would be required to complete the levels in the system. We don’t intend this to be the case.”
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Meaty AMA Yesterday
Roundup via HearthPwn
Basic/Classic Set
- New modern Basic and Classic set is something that Team 5 has been working on and we will see the result with 2021’s first expansion! [SOURCE]
- Because of this there will be no new replacements for the 5 neutral cards from the Classic Set that rotated to Wild earlier this year. [SOURCE]
- They're asking about which cards we want to see in Standard (from wild) beside Whizbang the Wonderful. [SOURCE]
Battlegrounds
- The Tide Razor and Nat Pagle, Extreme Angler are in the process of being redesigned. Tokens generated by other cards might be a problem that they'll address in the future. [SOURCE]
- Balance changes will be happening pretty soon! Eudora was called out. [SOURCE]
- Murlocs will get nerfed, Beasts will get a boost. [SOURCE]
- Battlegrounds should get their ranking reset soon, seasonal resets (not monthly), and many more to come. [SOURCE]
Arena
- Their main focus is on developing new game modes while keeping Arena in a stable place. [SOURCE]
- Set rotations are coming back in December with the next expansion release. [SOURCE]
Balance Changes
- With the next card rotation to Wild, we will see quite a few nerf reverts from Rise of Shadows, Tombs of Terror, or Descent of Dragons, they also pointed out that they want to revert nerfs for some cards that are currently in Wild already. [SOURCE]
- Buffs are trickier to get right so in the future, we'll rather see buffs to correct classes and get them in-line with others instead of trying to make drastic changes like Luna's Pocket Galaxy. [SOURCE]
- They are now closely looking at how decks are shaping up and in particular, they are looking at how they feel to play against (like for example Kael'thas). [SOURCE]
Scholomance Academy
- If Dual-Class cards would become a staple in Hearthstone, they'd get printed in a lower amount than we saw in Scholomance Academy. [SOURCE]
- There are no plans on printing more Dual-Class cards in a foreseeable future. [SOURCE]
- The first Dual-Class pair was Priest/Warlock and the last one was Priest/Paladin. They wanted their mechanics/themes to overlap with each other. [SOURCE]
Features
- Upgrading cards to their golden version is something that they want to do in the future, but they're focused on doing "big things" right now. [SOURCE]
- They have a list of smaller features that they are gradually adding into the game, the upcoming feature will be the ability to flip through pages in the Collection Manager using the scroll wheel. [SOURCE]
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Arthas/Death Knight Tease
During the recent AMA redditor kullehh asked “are you planning anything that has to do with the undeads from world of warcraft”. To which Game Director Ben Lee replied:
> Cutting to WotLK clip
“My son. The day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name, Arthas. My child. I watched you with pride, as you grew into a weapon. Of righteousness. Remember, our line has always ruled with wisdom, and strength. And I know that you will show restraint, when exercising your great power. But the truest victory, my son, is stirring the hearts of your people. I tell you this, for when my days have come to an end, you, shall be king.”
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