I’ve returned to Hearthstone recently at the beggining of Barrens and I must admit, what a luxury it is to have duplicate protection now.
There was nothing worse in classic days than getting two of the same useless legendary in a row.
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Exactly, I believe that with core set things are a lot easier if you don’t want to spend any money with the game.
And there’s also several new things like reward track, weekly quests, and different game modes that can help you to earn gold, dust, packs and resources to build your stuff.
It might not be perfect, but I’m quite sure that it got a lot better through the last years. And come on, HS IS free to play, spending money is totally optional.
Yep. HS is much easier to get into these days and do just fine without spending money.
New players get tons of free packs progressing through the apprentice ranks on top of receiving free deck. Plus the new reward system is quite generous.
In this regard HS has improved quite a lot so I must give Blizzard credit where credit is due.
If only they did better job at balancing, but that’s a different side of the coin.
New players have to buy in, thats just the way it is and was.
If you are expecting a good experience from the game then drop some coins.
This game is unplayable even if you have money lol.
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I’ve been playing Cutelock for the last couple days, only one legendary. Then there’s discolock, another crazy cheap deck that can hold its own.
You get plenty of free packs just by playing the game- and your choice of fully competitive decks for what, $20? Not worth it if you already have a collection, but a fantastic bargain for new players who want to jump straight in.
The f2p model is SUPPOSED to entice players to spend money. If you want new content, it’s going to need to be paid for by players. Nobody’s going to maintain and enhance a video game for free
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What’s the legendary you use for cutelock?
Just soularium; I used the deck on tempostorm
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That’s a good one to fit into the deck.
This is a compromising topic. I can build a deck of available cards that are free and get to the 5th rank of the diamond. A deck of class and available neutral cards. Learn to play, understand the current meta and ranked. There is no need to deceive anyone here with your ignorance of the Hearthstone game.
Doesnt cubelock require 5 legendaries (Malganis, Guldan, Skull, Zilliax, N’zoth) and 8 epics (Dark Skies, Carnivous Cube, Faceless Manipulator, Voidlord)
It’s cutelock not cubelock. Made up of zero and one mana minions then you sacrifice them to give +1/+1 or summon 5/5 very quickly then use hand of Guldan to refill.
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Never heard of such deck. Is it how good compared to reno and cube?
It has always been like this. I’m surprised you just figured this out.
im glad people aren’t just saying that stupid thing of “it doesn’t cost a lot” and then bring up examples of basic decks which no one ever plays but somehow f2p players are expected to play and have fun with.
You’re lying. If you’ve been playing every day since expansion you should have one deck already, even if you were completely green and had nothing at the start (unlikely.)
Several meta decks aren’t even expensive, so you could have more than one. A meta face Hunter deck costs barely 1000 dust. hsreplay net/decks/#sortBy=dust&sortDirection=ascending
This game absolutely showers you with cards when you’re new. Newbie league gives you 24 packs just from getting through all 40 ranks, and then it gives you a pre-made deck for free. This doesn’t even count all the other free stuff the game gives out from reward tracks, Tavern Brawl, special event quests, Legendaries for the first 10 packs you open of each set.
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is it fun to play only one or two decks?
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I think it’s ok, fast but once you lose board control to AOE it’s hard to come back. No staying power like cubelock or reno.
Actually I’ve been trying out standard and it does feel like I am playing only one or two decks. Warlock is always tickatus. Mage is always no minion mage. Priest usually is that card generation and discount combo (although recently there is the corrupt version).
So you don’t really need a lot of cards at all.
Shakou belongs to the school of thought that unless you own every card in the game then the only other possible alternative is that you can’t play the game at all. I wouldn’t pay much attention to that mistaken and deluded sort of mindset because it falsely imagines that F2P gamers can’t play the game at all, let alone compete.
But with the free Core set, a free competitive deck as a total gift, and plenty of free packs easily earned with either Blizzard gimmies or gold? The reality is that it is fall-off-a-log easy for any player to have plenty of perfectly good decks within a very short period of time.
Will they have EVERY card and be able to build EVERY deck? No … but that’s how you tell the difference between a competent player and a bad player. Competent players can recognize the fundamental reality that CCGs are games that are DESIGNED to be played with incomplete collections. So competent players understand that they don’t need to have ‘every’ card or play ‘any’ deck in order to have plenty of variety and to compete even at the highest levels of the game.
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