I’m a big fan of the Draenei and their whole backstory, so thought the Great Dark Beyond concept was cool. Opened 50 packs, got 5 legendaries which is probably the best legendary pull I’ve ever had. Still had to craft Velen and Yrel. Made a trash Libram Starship Paladin deck and queued up 5 games. Went 3-2. What I found is that the Exodar Starship Mechanic seems meh. I think we’ve seen way more powerful mechanics in other sets. Playing some trash cards that eventually make like a 9/8 divine shield taunt that does some piddly 9 random damage to the board is barely good in a meta that can drop a full board of 4/3s by turn 5-6 and just close out the game, or whatever nonsense Rainbow Shaman is doing with asteroids nowadays. Not to mention, most of the cards I was playing with were very reminiscent of a Libram Paladin deck I already played with extensively when it was first a thing, or actually playing with the old Libram cards from Yrel.
I also returned to the game after not playing for 8-10 months because of this expansion. The theme is very cool, but the legendaries are not that powerful. Still, better to have a few good legendaries than just totally power creep the previous sets. And I think the starships will probably get better when they will release the miniset, I believe that will bring some more starship support.
First, welcome back. It’s been a year already? Damn. Second, I imagine the mechanic will see a massive buff as it’s sort of the centerfold of the set. Give it time, I guess. In the meantime, Tourist Paladin is pretty good, I’ve been playing it for quests. Maybe try that?
If you paid money for those, then that’s on you because you could have looked up the full card lists, watched some let’s plays, researched the meta decks, etc.
While he should have researched the product, he still has every right to complain about it. I’d say quite a legitimate complaint considering Starships suck and they’re a cornerstone of the expansion. They’re supposed to be, anyway.
To be fair, you’re playing Libram Paladin which is really slow and likely will get some buffs soon, and you’re playing Starship Paladin which isn’t really a thing since Paladin has no Starship support. It might get it in the expansion though, so who knows.
Either way, the Starship stuff is really fun and has powerful pay offs in classes that have support for it. For example, DK can load up a massive 12/15 minion taunt with mega armor gain and deathrattle summon 2 10 mana minions and with Spellburst to summon them before. Plus, you can give it reborn. So the payoff in DK for Starship is like 10x better than anything Paladin can do.
I say wait until mini-set and hopefully Paladin gets a slight Libram boost.
I have been playing Hearthstone since it was released. Star Craft (a cool game) has runined HearthStone and has no place in the game. Goodbye HearthStone.
