How are new player going be able to join hearthstone after expansion drop with low card pool they have? unless they are will to drop a large amount of money to play catch up your going to be steamrolled.
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Pretty much.
It’s going to be an uphill battle regardless as obtaining even commons and rares will take time. Would be worth disenchanting some mediocre cards to get cheap staples that carry their own weight, examples:
Classic: Wrath, Explosive Trap, SI:7 Agent, Faerie Dragon
RoS: Ray of Frost, EVIL Miscreant, Sludge Slurper
SoU: Worthy Expedition, Desert Spear, Phaorah Cat, Restless Mummy
DoD: Emerald Explorer, Dwarven Sharpshooter, Crazed Netherwing, Galakrond cards, Neutral dragons…
AoO: Bogbeam, Libram package, Renew, Spymistress, Frozen Shadowreaver
Of course, that requires that the player know that these are cards that you always want to keep in collection, which is a barrier in itself. But this will reduce the learning curve somewhat, as well as the power level difference while a player is building up a collection and decks.
That being said, any “newb” mistakes resulting in loss of tempo during gameplay like bad trades, wasting spells etc , can get severely punished by the opponent, and hence create an “unfun” feeling.
DQ Alex being one of the most unfun cards to play against if you’re running a “fair tempo” deck - the nerf should help somewhat.
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A new player cannot have it, obviously. That player will be able to have a decent standard collection only after the rotation.
But hey, at least they are giving a free deck that isn’t trash tier, so they are not forced to play with a random deck with the 2 legendaries they got in their first 10 packs!
Not that bad
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most new players dont expect to make it to legend on the first month
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Almost tempted to create a (common mistakes) new players series… Nice to see you posting again.
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I have a couple of F2P accounts in various stages of progress.
it is absolutely possible for new players to build a descent collection, make descent decks with no money spent. it just takes patience, time, and smart resource managment
New players need to focus on popping their dailies, unlocking the new player quests, and getting their collection off on the right foot - that means NO CRAFTING or DISENCHANTING!
there’s plenty of ways to get wins. Demon Hunter’s basic and initiate set is an excellent starting point. you can easily take a deck like that into Causal as a new player and get some wins.
new players can also take advantage of grinding Brawls where you don’t have to build your own deck… to make some win gold
(and i’m a Gold ranked player on my best day)
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You certainly don’t want to be mass disenchanting stuff early on, but you won’t lose anything disenchanting a Kidnapper or Arcane Golem. Cards like that
I’ve always been an advocate for lending decks to new players so they can get a good feel for Hearthstone. If there was a way to give players a taste of their new virtual addiction to see how great it is with loaner decks, that’d be great and immersive. However, with a game that can get competitive like Hearthstone and every other card game out there, money needs to be invested so one can grow their collection.
Think of it like you were buying a new video game for MSRP. Drop that much money into Hearthstone packs and look at a good deck to play in Standard to climb the ladder. You won’t have an amazing size collection, but use your patience to collect gold and buy packs that way if you want to reduce the amount you spend on this game.
What’s new? This is a collecting game after all.
see, you’re catching on. working as intended
they have to spend hundreds of dollars to catch up. LOL
Want to know what would be nice? Since we are this many expansions in to hearthstone they just made the classic collection completely free and not be able to be disenchanted. That way all people could do is focus on getting gold for adventures or packs for the current rotation of expansions.
you mean brawls like this week where you have to make decks from your own cards? good joke mate…
@DarkHeaven: Activision expects them to drops lots of cash on the game ofc and sadly to many people do it…