In the blink of an eye, 2021 is almost over, and although the Year of the Griffin is not completely over, it is not too much to sum up at the end of the year. This year's Hearthstone can be said to be full of twists and turns, the barren land has begun to see the beginning, the horse racing environment in Storm City plus activision Blizzard storm has caused Hearthstone's reputation to plummet, fortunately at the end of the year, Otranc finally saved some.
Tempering of the Barren Lands
When the Barren Land was first launched, the outpost system was unexpectedly very useful, or it was very disgusting, especially the full sealed ride at that time, it was really difficult for people to vomit blood at every step, and another very hot card deck was the Fool Law, but the popularity of the Fool Law was not because of any good cards in the Barren Land, but because the environment was withdrawn + the Barren Land did not have a high fee card, so that the pool of high-fee cards instantly became clean, remember those days when they were killed by cattle and cattle?
After the outpost and the Law of Fools were weakened, the environment became very slow, to what extent? At that time, the deck with a very high winning percentage in the high segment was to control the priest, and the priest could even solve all the scenes to win. After the environment slowed down, Tiktez's speed limiter functioned, and in the Barren Land version of the Twitter Q&A, Tiktez was seen every week, and every day someone asked: Why not cut 688? The environment is so slow, in large part because the cards in the Barren Lands are relatively weak, because the first version of each year stays in the environment for the longest time, so it is also the most conservative.
In addition to building ladders, tavern wargames also ushered in a new race of wild boars. When the wild boar man was first launched, it was still quite fierce, and the wild boar man of Tianhu killed all sides like a canopy marshal, and almost everyone in the tavern war chess at that time was playing wild boar man, and for a time Tess's winning rate was actually raised to the T1 level.
The Wild Boar Man soon ushered in the balance patch, arguably the fastest balance patch in the Tavern Wargames, a large number of Wild Boar People were weakened, although there was also the Thorn Curse + Pig Tooth Captain combo, but in the subsequent patch was also tragically balanced. The Boar People have since fallen into the abyss and never returned, and now these balances have basically been adjusted, but in the face of other races that have been redone, the Wild Boar People can only be reduced to auxiliaries.
Wailing Cave
The Cave of Wailing can also be regarded as a mini-package that can be recorded in the annals of Hearthstone, less than a day after it was launched, the new Ma Huang Thief Technique swept the Wild Ladder, and the four fees in the case of Tianhu can be killed, the only restriction is the length of the round, which makes the wild already chaotic environment even worse. Finally, the Soul Thief is also the first forbidden card in the Kitty Construction Mode, and now it seems that if it were not for the ban on this card in the Wailing Cave, the Stormwind Version Quest Technique would be even more terrifying (although it was already terrible), it can be said that the chaos of Stormwind City has been laid at this time.
In this mini-package, there are many other combos, such as Super Fande, originally Chao Fan De was just a set of entertainment card groups, but the appearance of Anna Cordera made The strength of Super Fan De increase by several times in an instant, and the performance of Chao Fan De in the Grand Masters Global Finals was also seen, but fortunately it was also weakened later.
Assemble under Storm City
The chaos of Storm City can be seen from the preview season, shortly after the release of the magic and interesting card of The Elvin Wild Boar, the storm of Activision Blizzard began to ferment, with the red dragon refusing to release new cards, European and American anchors, especially North American anchors collectively followed the trend, only the prince said that Activision Blizzard's pot, should not be backed by players and the game creation team that carefully designed these cards, the new card was released as scheduled, and the prince could be treated. Despite this, the final press conference was cancelled.
The environment in the early days of StormWind City can be said to be very bad, the warlock once again showed the power of Ma Huang, and this time not only wild horse racing, but also the standard soared, and the task magic task method A hunting and so on These autistic card sets led to the magical scene of no one in Storm City in the early days. In the end, after repeated balance patches that kept weakening, the warlock mission eventually became the second forbidden card in the wild, and the mage task was also weakened.
Another very powerful Storm City card, no other than the Battlefield Officer, as a white card, the strength is comparable to the orange card, even if it is weakened in the end, but her voice "Attack, attack fiercely!" "It still reverberates over Hearthstone, and every time I see two slightly larger monsters on the opposite field and reach 6 fees, I am worried.
In the Stormwind version, Hearthstone made a racial redo of the Tavern Wargames, many of which were replaced, and in an instant the Tavern Wargames seemed to become a new game. However, in the beginning, it really experienced all kinds of chaos, the initial is the bug of the dragon smuggler Yang Chaoyue, the dragon stream in the tavern wargames can raise thousands, and then the collapse of the jumping frog stream and the mechanism problem are even more jumping countless people, and during this period, the updated clown Torch skin can even gain attack power, can only say that the code of Hearthstone, I am afraid it can not be looked at directly.
After the dragon bug was repaired, the frog parrot weakened, and the revenge mechanism that everyone had questioned before also justified himself, the impatient doomsday prophet with super effects, so that the average ranking of Akai and Renault rose sharply, and finally it was slashed, and the core of the tavern wargame was officially moved from 5 fees to four fees, and the four fees finally got rid of the situation that the dogs were not right.
In Stormwind City launched there is also a mercenary war mode, to be honest, players who like this mode will like it very much, players who don't like it will feel very bored, in fact, until now Qingfeng can still see a lot of small partners discussing the gameplay of mercenary war discipline on the platform forum. When the mercenary war season was first launched, the wind evaluation was very poor, especially domestic players have long been accustomed to various mobile games, and this kind of gameplay has long been commonplace. But as the anchors "get out of prison" and start their PVP journey, players feel a little fun in this mode.
However, just when the mercenary war discipline wind review warmed up, the designer's riot operation came, the mysterious stranger changed everyone very dissatisfied, the witty players came up with the way of mutual voting, ironically, the discussion of the major forums during the mutual voting period reached a very high point for a time, and finally the official modified the mechanism, and many players have never touched the mercenary war discipline since this time. Qingfeng is not so cold to this model, but it is not so annoying, but because there is really no energy to go to the liver, now it is not so much, and the reward is still stopped in the Winter Spring Valley.
During Halloween events, Hearthstone and Diablo dream linkage, Diablo is also breaking into the tavern wargame and duel mode. The big pineapple was still quite weak when it first entered the tavern wargame, and after a boost, the strength was slightly better, but then the official mistakenly carried out a second wave of reinforcement (which Iksar admitted), resulting in Diablo really becoming the big demon in the tavern wargame, and when he left, the players even beat the gong and drum, rejoicing. But I have to say that this time the linkage is still quite good in terms of creativity and form of expression, and I hope that other works can be linked later!
Death Mine
In the early days of Stormwind City, the standard mission battle was very weak, in addition to the fact that in the horse racing environment, the standard mission battle speed was not fast enough, and the standard pirates were not high enough quality is also one of the reasons, and with the slowdown of the environment and the supplement of a large number of pirates in the death mine, the mission battle instantly became the sea overlord, and one of the culprits was Mr. Heavy Fist in the death mine. One thing to say, due to the delay in the launch of the mini series, the Death Mine version entered Otranc almost without time to balance, and Qingfeng felt that this card still had to be rebalanced.
In fact, if you take a closer look, although Stormwind City is a version of Hearthstone's plummeting reviews and players distrusting the game, this version has launched a lot of new content. In addition to the word-of-mouth plummeting because the environment of the Stormwind City version is too poor, as well as the impact of the Activision Blizzard storm, there are a large number of bugs that are not modified for a long time when various new content is launched, so that the player's experience is very poor, and the Storm City version has launched a large number of skins, although Iksar's statement is to let Hearthstone's profit structure shift to the skin and increase free game content, but the perception impact on players is very bad.
Ortrank's rupture
In fact, in the middle of entering the Otranc version, the environment has been well balanced, and the deep iron caveman card, restrained a large number of autistic card sets that the players criticized before, actually let the environment "fast attack, medium speed, control, OTK" perfect restraint loop up, if the Stormwind version of the early days is a group of demons dancing, then the early Days of the Otranc version is the real blossoming, and even the plagiarists such as the partial entertainment card group have a good experience.
Of course, at present, Otranc has only been carried out for less than a month, and there are mini versions and other updates. The previous balance patch weakened the owl technique and the sword of the former dynasty such as the lock throat thief, the vampire blind, the super vande, etc., although the number of pirate wars began to increase, but now the overall environment is still quite good, and I hope that the future can continue to be maintained, do a good balance and mini series.
Anyway, 2021 is about to pass, Hearthstone has also gone through a bumpy year, although it has been talking about Hearthstone Pills, but the real pills, or reluctant, I hope Hearthstone can get better and better!