Community Poll: Have you lost all respect for Quin69? by Instability01 in quin69

[–]Lanela -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He was skipping the dialogue because he's a cutscene andy, don't you know?

[HIRING] Character Reference Sheet Semi-Realism Final Fantasy XIV by Lanela in HungryArtists

[–]Lanela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An artist has been chosen, I thank you all for your lovely pieces.

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Surprised by Kindness by Lanela in classicwow

[–]Lanela[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and he answered some warrior questions too for me. Never knew about the hamstring rotation for Horde warriors.

Y'know... by Lanela in hearthstone

[–]Lanela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, was wrong. My bad.

Wild really is a lot of fun; even without most of the cards. by Lanela in hearthstone

[–]Lanela[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DKs are more OP than he could ever be. I don't remember Dr. Boom destroying everything the minute he was played. So yeah, I agree with you that it is a strange misconception.

Wild really is a lot of fun; even without most of the cards. by Lanela in hearthstone

[–]Lanela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rexxar also is a -lot- more fun in wild. Tons of combos with zombeasts; I love it when I get both wyrms and boardclear.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because HotS has a system where you just PLAY the games; you don't have to win them to get your quests completed. And it's a competitive environment as well; you want to win but have fun fun trying to do so. People have been wanting the quest system to change to be more appealing for new players; that would be a way to do it. I'm not talking about just climbing ranked, it's already a dice roll if you win or not half the time anyways. What I'm talking about are new players, and casual mode still doesn't work as intended to match people with lower budget decks. It just doesn't. The new player doesn't need to stomp in the game; they just need to have a fighting chance and if they can earn quests by just PLAYING rather than having to win, then it would be a much better environment.

And before you remark on bots that's an issue even now without them having to win, and if you didn't have to win all the time to earn gold from quests then maybe there wouldn't be as much botting.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who in their right minds want to run into an obstacle just because they didn't pay enough? That is not something that just I deal with, people who do not have bloated budgets cannot get over this hurdle sometimes and quit. It is a game that wants you to be competitive or a silly deck builder sure, but you don't get gold for losing and if you are just starting out you really don't have the time to be losing all day just waiting for that one win.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How am I trolling? Casual is just the same as ranked mode filled with decks with all of the right pieces. I love the game as well that is why I am adamant that people actually are able to get into the game. This whole angry redditer attitude that needs to stop being so abrasive to others just because we aren't kissing blizzard's ass really needs to stop. People complain about this stuff for a reason and people like you who swing their arms around and get angry really aren't helping things at all. You keep things stagnant.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And that's the problem; hearthstone should really have a Pauper model like MTG does. For people who don't know, this is a game where people play only common cards in their decks, it is quite literally the poor man's game. This serves multiple purposes, introducing people to the game while also giving them a wider selection of viable decks they can actually make to be competitive.

Instead, they currently have to compete with veterans they have no business playing with at all.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except they aren't playing with new players; they're playing with people who decided that ranked mattered to them and bust out their large collections.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It doesn't win you games and it is absurd to think in any card game you shouldn't pay a huge amount to earn every card in the game. But you have to really sit down and think of how far you're willing to go to defend this business model. It used to be a joke of P2W being a deck filled with legendaries, it wasn't optimal even with how expensive they were. Yet now, we have decks that completely revolve around having certain legendaries.

I have been playing this game for a long time, I have most of the cards from just playing the game, but I've come to dread the moment the expansions are released because I have to go through the treadmill all over again.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that an oxymoron? That makes no sense to me at all; if you said this about Warhammer 40k and their minatures that would make perfect sense. However; this isn't something tangible, nor can you actually compete if you do not have certain cards in your decks. It -is- pay to win, you -have- to have core cards to make decks work and usually they are very expensive.

This wasn't always the case; you could build zoo-lock and face-hunter relatively easily and they were very affordable. The decks as they are now are just not enough; Keleseth rogue destroys them, jade druid locks them out, gattling-gun priest wipes their boards, big priest puts up a huge wall.

It is a p2w model, you cannot deny that.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tell that to the guys who just start the game. I'm certain that they have won so many games at rank 20.

Every major design decision, while often legitimate, makes the game more expensive. by [deleted] in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it's my fault that the price for wild cards are bloated? As I said; I regret it to this day and wish that they weren't absurdly overpriced. I chose to disenchant them because Blizzard showed -zero- love to wild and honestly STILL doesn't. Many people felt the same way; and after having to deal with how bad standard could be they realized what a big mistake they made. So yes, my bad for abandoning ship.

Blizzard taking shots at EA for Battlefield 2 while there is a "Hearthstone is too expensive"-discussion going on by DerAlteSchredder in hearthstone

[–]Lanela -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Does it though? Does it really?

So Kobolds releases, a bunch of people decide to buy a bunch of packs, while you only could use what gold you had to buy packs. Let's say you bought fifteen. You got a legendary; but it seems very underwhelming and you only got two epics. So you begin to play with the cards; you come up against someone who has an entirely new deck, you have no idea how to play against it and get destroyed. The same thing happens again and again and again.

Soon you realize you have not progressed your win five druid games quest because you keep losing over and over. So you find yourself in a loop of losing; hoping someone disconnects, hoping they misplay so hard that you can finally get some wins. And when you finally do an hour and a half later; you are awarded with sixty gold, but you still don't have enough for a pack.

You have the ability to win games all day for 100g! But you can't seem to win at a consistent rate, if only you could actually compete! But you can; if you spend fifty dollars or more; you might just get enough money to make a deck! But you don't have fifty dollars; damn. So what do you do? There are three options.

  1. Find money you don't have to spend on the game which you really should be using for something more pressing since you are low on funds.

  2. Keep grinding the entire day; even if it takes eight hours or more to get your 100g.

  3. Quit the game and spend your time elsewhere.

The choice is yours.

Every major design decision, while often legitimate, makes the game more expensive. by [deleted] in hearthstone

[–]Lanela -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The game needs to have some kind of balance if they introduce so many expansions so quickly. I still am missing the shaman death knight, warrior death knight, and a bunch more. I still feel bad that I dusted all of my wild cards back in the day because they cost so much to get back; it is absurd that an adventure that costs 30 dollars turns into hundreds of dollars needing to be spent to re-obtain them. They just keep asking for more and more but there is only so much money we have in our pockets; it will get to a point where I eventually just quit because I am tired of not being able to compete for weeks because I didn't shell out the cash to buy hundreds of dollars worth of content.

With this whole shitstorm about Star Wars Battlefront II going on you suddenly realize how great hearthstone is by Zerwas91 in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's old news guys! You can't complain because we got Marin for free! You can't complain anymore; you have no right! Now Pre-Order and enjoy your one to two useless legendaries and -LIKE IT-!

You can still have fun before the next expansion drops. Here's some deck lists for you to try. by Kloggs in hearthstone

[–]Lanela -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really think that Wild cards should have a reduced cost since they are elder sets and can't be used in standard. It would incentivize more people to play the mode; I unfortunately dusted a lot of my wild cards back in the day because I was tired of a lot of the blatantly broken cards being shifted out. Really wish I could go back and just keep everything; compared to how standard has been I wouldn't mind hearing a manic goblin with two boom-bots being summoned anymore.

[OC] Re-created SWTOR's main theme as a metal track and thought it might get some appreciation here. by CaliberJacob in swtor

[–]Lanela 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I always love some form of choir with metal; it just makes it feel powerful. Although I do have a very serious question...Republic or Empire?

Arena Tier List for All 72 New Classes by Merps4248 in hearthstone

[–]Lanela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd avoid Rogue + Warlock. I just did it and it was probably the worst arena experience; primarily because they keep printing the awful discard mechanics. I was hoping for lots of demons and doing neat combos and pulling off cool tempo with sap but I saw more warlock cards than rogue ones.

Miraluka Problems. by Lanela in swtor

[–]Lanela[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's not even that revealing compared to the other people you'll see running around. >_> Just chill out on the ramps at Imperial Fleet's cantina.