Here’s What You Need To Know About Hearthstone’s New Card Expansion…

18 responses to “Here’s What You Need To Know About Hearthstone’s New Card Expansion…”

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   ryhawk

   August 5, 2014 at 10:52 am

   Yup its a great introduction. Don’t let the elitist MtG players tell you otherwise.

   As an old WoW player, it was such an easy way to learn the genres

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   evilmonkey

   August 5, 2014 at 10:55 am

   Is it something I should be investigating?

   Definitely, I started playing a few weeks ago, it’s very easy to pick up, and also very addictive.

   @pupp3tmast3r

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      pupp3tmast3r

      August 5, 2014 at 11:10 am

      @markserrels

      As someone who’s played a fair few TCG’s over the years I can safely say Blizzard have captured lightning with this one. It’s one of those games that’s incredibly easy to understand but equally difficult to master. Given it’s free to play try out the tutorial (5-6 AI matches about 5min each) and see how you feel.

      It’s also one of those games you can play for about 15min to an hour a day and make some solid progress so it’s really convenient when I don’t have a lot of gaming time on a work day!

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         evilmonkey

         August 5, 2014 at 11:15 am

         By the way man, I finally beat Maexxna. Went back to it, and beat her on the first try.

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            pupp3tmast3r

            August 5, 2014 at 11:38 am

            Attaboy! =P See told you, you could do it!! Now onwards to the plague quarter! I actually got my ass handed to me by loatheb twice before swapping decks and wiping the ground with his FACE!

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               TUALMASOK

               August 5, 2014 at 4:34 pm

               If you have a solid deck then it really comes down to luck of the draw. It’s rare you get your perfect starter cards, but it seems so much more common to get a full suite of high level stuff you can’t use straight away.

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         lf1mtank

         August 5, 2014 at 2:14 pm

         Four hours disappeared when I first got into the beta lol

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3. 

   mdolley

   August 5, 2014 at 10:55 am

   I kept seeing the iPad version show up in the app store and then finally decided to see what it was.

   I am now absolutely hooked. It’s a really well designed game that just fun to play. I am not particularly good at it but those moments when you pull of a combo of cards that does something effective you feel awesome.

   I strongly suggest everybody downloads it and does the intro matches. They will give you a good sense of what the game is about and the only cost is a bit of your time.

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      piat

      August 5, 2014 at 11:16 am

      I wish I had a tablet for this very reason, it is definitely not something that is going to see play time when I sit down in front of my PC but is a fun game.

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4. 

   warcroft

   August 5, 2014 at 10:57 am

   “how difficult is it to get into Hearthstone? Is it something I should be investigating?”
   The game is extremely easy to learn. But it all comes down to fine tuning your deck as you learn the deeper mechanics.
   The game is great to play because of the surprising attention do detail in every little aspect of its design.
   The look, the sounds and music. The little animations and voice overs. The whole package.
   Its a very enjoyable game. Im no master at the game, but I do love killing an hour or two with a bunch of games.
   Its just fun to play.

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5. 

   wa1dofoo

   August 5, 2014 at 11:16 am

   Yep, definitiely give it a shot Mark. It is very easy to learn but like all good games, hard to master. It allows you creativity to develop your own decks, which can be alot of fun even when they’re not successful. And as others have said, it’s very, VERY addictive.

   Perhaps the biggest selling point I can give you Mark, based on your time available to play games, is this: this is the ultimate quick to play, short session game, and is highly enjoyable. A match will take anywhere from 5 – 20 mins. You can play for a quick few games when you have a spare hou, or if you have more time to committ it can easily turn into a few hours.

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6. 

   pupp3tmast3r

   August 5, 2014 at 11:46 am

   Could this be your next set of articles mark?! An Idiot in Hearthstone?! =O

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      wa1dofoo

      August 5, 2014 at 11:51 am

      I would love to see this. No offence to Mark, I know his time is very limited. However I would have loved to see him get into more of WoW and hear his experiences. He only just scratched the surface, not evem (also mentioned in his articles).

      Hearthstone you can become decent at easily within the space of a month. He may need to spend some money on it though to get more flexibility with cards…

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      1. 

         pupp3tmast3r

         August 5, 2014 at 12:24 pm

         If he spent 30minutes a day doing the daily quests he’d have farmed enough gold to for 2-3 arena runs a week. I basically made it to rank 22 with just cards from Arena runs and then bought packs last week for the first time.

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      2. 

         markserrels

         August 5, 2014 at 12:38 pm

         No offence taken! I get your point completely.

         I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of WoW players came into the game at that moment in their life when they had time to burn. In high school, early years of Uni. That time in your life when you had a tight circle of friends that socialised and played games together.

         In a sense I think I missed the boat. I was playing Halo around that time, I was playing GameCube/Xbox/PS2.

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   2. 

      mdolley

      August 5, 2014 at 12:36 pm

      @markserrels tours the country and does a series of Fireside Gathering events with the Kotaku community!

      http://eu.battle.net/hearthstone/en/fireside-gatherings/

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         orgatyrant

         August 5, 2014 at 2:52 pm

         I would gladly shout the man a beer or 7 if this came to fruition!

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7. 

   brancha

   August 5, 2014 at 11:51 am

   It is strangely addictive. Yes, it is free to play, but it doesn’t scream at you for cash. I’d sort of lost interest until the expansion gave me new cards to play with.

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   lf1mtank

   August 5, 2014 at 2:30 pm

   Hearthstone is everything MtG has been trying to do for years in trying to convert its game into the electronic format. While no doubt simpler, it is also gets rid of a lot of the unnecessary crap that crowds a magic board and fully takes advantage of being digital.

   All the while the game has a very rich meta game with deep subtle mechanics. Is the depth not in the same league as magic? Probably but those arguments always forgets the original argument that magic has a bajillion more mechanics. Depth is contextual and relative to a game’s original mechanics.

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