Rise of Shadows Q&A - April 22, 2019

What do you think about adding a new game mode where it is dungeon run/monster hunt/ rumble but you play other people instead of computer

Also can you say what you plans are for ros single player or when you can say. I can’t wait.

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These little hidden interaction voiceover lines are super fun to add. We try to do them where they’ll be most impactful, but not clutter things up with having too many. Rise of Shadows features a ton of lore-important characters, and so we picked the lines we liked best, and tried to spread them out between multiple characters. I’ve seen people notice and comment on a few of them, but I’m not sure if anyone’s found them all. I believe there are 8-9 (depending upon how you count it) of these in Rise of Shadows!

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Are there any specific mechanics/cards that you can say for certain are NOT going to be introduced?

What is a question that you were really hoping someone would ask today?

When will we be getting the Classic set replacements for Naturalize, Divine Favor, and Doomguard? And can we expect to get some for the Neutrals that were HoF’d.

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Will we see any replacements for HoF’d neutral cards?

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That’s the philosophy going forward, and we’re OK with letting the old-style cards just rotate out of Standard and stay in Wild.

But as you point out, Pilfer is a special case; it’s in Classic. Because of that, we are considering whether we should change it. But, we haven’t settled on a fix just yet.

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One of the earliest cards I pitched in Knights of the Frozen throne was Mass Teleport: “Fill both sides of the board with random minions.” It sounds really silly and fun on paper, but once you realized the opponent always had initiative over your minions, you just died. 100% of the time. I thought “Well maybe as a dreamy card it’s fun. Or what if the enemy has a full board?” But it just never happens. It SOUNDS SO COOL. It feels awful to play it every. single. time.

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Question concerning the competitive format: are you pleased with specialist format?
On the other hand, are there any plans to allow dual class format (eg. druid/warrior or rogue/warlock…) as it appeared during a brawl in order to have an alternative to standard & wild?

Thanks for the answer pal. Have a good day.

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We’ve been working on figuring out what an awesome long term cosmetic reward would look like. Medium and long-term goals are one of the most consistent pieces of feedback we’ve gotten from long-time players so we’ve got some stuff we’re looking into to address it. Nothing to announce now, but it’s something we’d like to improve.

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Hello,
Can you please tell me if you plan to make 2vs2 and 3vs3 avaible one day?
In my mind, it the the most important feature lacking in hearthstone.
Thank you.

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So are you going to yet again ignore answering about the possibility of a rerelease of Tyrande. Please, all we want is a yes or no answer.

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Khadgar as well. Since this is RoS, and we have Khadgar as minion, why can’t we also get him as Hero?

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“If” the tournement mode comes out would you consider implementing a build your own format mode?

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We already got 9 more deckslots during the YotK, we don’t really need more. I understand if you want them though.

I noticed that you guys said you don’t have a problem with Elys on ladder. But its not making for a very fun game as a control player. I heavily appreciate the valuegame that has been added back with the removal of DKs and other sources of infinite resources, but I, and other control players are not a big fan of Elysiana. Matches can and will be decided on who can shuffle in more Elys (an arms race) or whoever has the better luck with her.

Can you go into more detail in why you believe shes not a problem on ladder? Its not very fun having to run her in every control deck as a tech to herself, and I think shes particularly toxic for the health of the game.

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We’d love to bring back the Tyrande alternate hero and things like missing Card backs. It’s one of the most asked for things from the community. It’s frustrating knowing you missed out on something while you were away or before you started playing Hearthstone. We’re working on the right way to get them in to your hands. :smiley:

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Thank you for this reply, this makes me happier than I was.

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I can agree with giving out hero skins for the collectors but card backs shouldn’t, they should remain as a reward to people who played during that time and shouldn’t be given away to all the whales.

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This is something we’ve been discussing on the art side as well - general things like what do those medium- and long-term rewards look like, more specific ones like what would be an awesome 1000 wins reward, etc.

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