Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Priest does seem solid. Just got Warlock up to 10. Once I have a set of Murlocks, that'll be my go-to for questing purposes.

Mrrrrrrrgrrrrl!

Yes. There are shared cards, class-specific cards, and a class-specific hero power. The game modes are Constructed and Arena; Constructed is you playing with a premade deck from your collection against other players with premade decks (ranked/unranked), and Arena is where you pick one of three randomized heroes and construct your deck by picking one of three random cards over and over again, and then you play against other Arena players.

If you're into watching stuff like this (I thought I wasn't, but I found out I was), I recommend this guy. He's brilliant at the game and delivers the occasional deadpan humor, and he talks less than TotalBiscuit and those other Hearthstone casters.

Here's a full Arena run by him:



Edited, Jan 13th 2014 2:54pm by Mazra

You're not locked into it in terms of "I am a Druid and I will always be a Druid."

It just means that the class is your deck's "type." It's a lot like land cards from Magick, which determine what cards you can use. Except now the effects are less intense. Instead of choosing to build a green deck, and only really having green cards/lands, you get to build a Shaman deck, where you get some Shaman cards, and you get some shared cards. And it's nice because you could be running a Shaman deck and your opponent could be running a Warrior deck, and you could both use the same card, and it might have very different synergy and play a different strategy for you two.

But if you don't like playing as a Shaman, all you have to do is build a deck of a different class. You "unlock" a class by beating an opponent of that class (AI in training or another player), and you fully unlock the basic deck by leveling that class to 10.

As far as I can tell, there's no benefit for leveling past 10 besides showing off your experience, sort of like one form of ranking.

Your class determines some of your cards and your hero power. You don't HAVE to pick class cards in your deck, although you usually do, because that's why you chose the class.

Hearthstone is not as complex as MtG, but it's strangely engaging, and the Warcraft theme makes it oddly familiar.

I don't think accessibility is a problem with MtG, at least not to the extend that you need people to play against and with. If you've got people playing and learning the game at the same time as you are then the game is simple enough, I managed to learn to play the game with my friends when I was 9 or 10 and none of us could read English. Money and people to play with are the big drawbacks to the game and pretty much the reasons I don't play it anymore.

That all said, the complexity of MtG is what has kept me interested in the game, the total freedom it gives on building and testing decks to do anything you want in whatever way you want is the best part of the game.

Also, I got Torchlight 2 since it was cheap on steam and I'll be without proper internet for ~2 weeks after I move. It's a fun game.

Well yeah, obviously. MtG tournament play is about the metagame and there's hundreds of mechanics and tactics. It's a whole different game than it is when you're just playing friends or even small time MtG tournaments.

Don't worry, I remember that, too. Then I didn't pay attention to it at all for a decade, and then I started playing a little with their online offerings and it was just insane.

I like complex. But if I can't play you as a casual hobby, I'm never going to play you. I like when a game is accessible, and there's room to grow and develop skill. But I haven't been able to get into super competitive games like LoL or DOTA2 because of the skill threshold required just to be able to not suck horribly.

They haven't done the big "everyone who opted in gets in" wave yet. Talking about possibly next week for that.

What job did you get, Tails?

Back to work for me!

Only restriction doctor still has me on is that I can't lift, which sucks. Guess it's cardio for the next month.

Oh, and I obviously can't use Percocet and commute. So hopefully Tylenol is sufficient to get me through the day.