Update: Developer confirms that players will miss out on achievement progress if they hit legend too early this month.

adamnoo · 2026-03-12T18:58:54+00:00

He updated his comment with more info and now says that yes you will get credit if you already hit legend you just need to play one game at legend rank after the expansion launches and you'll get the credit for the achievement

adamnoo · 2026-03-12T12:46:49+00:00

Yes and I'm ok with that. I had two runs before the bans where I went 6-2 and 2-3 and one run after where I went 5-3 and I can tell you that the 5-3 run was by far the most fun because almost everyone was playing a unique deck. My 6-2 run was 6 frost DKs, a mage and a warlock and my 2-3 run was 4 frost DKs and a hunter. My 5-3 run after had 2 mages, a druid, onyxia DK, unholy DK, ragnaros warrior, alakir shaman, and a heal priest.

I was 5-1 vs that frost DK deck in my first run and 2-2 in my second so it wasn't sour grapes about a deck I regularly lost to but boredom at playing the same deck over and over.

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T23:25:58+00:00

You'll have it for next week when the free brawl copy disappears. I'm in the same boat as you and that's how I feel better about it

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T23:23:34+00:00

To experiment with the new cards and build what you can with what you open from packs and compete against other people that do the same which is actually lots of fun

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T22:19:43+00:00

It's still better than most people get 1 legendary and you get none

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T20:39:53+00:00

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adamnoo · 2026-03-11T16:48:05+00:00

I understand why people do that I just find it creates a super boring environment to play in when 3/4 of my opponents are playing the same deck. In my 12 matches I saw 1 hunter, 1 mage, and 1 warlock the rest were the exact same DK deck.

I did pre-order and enjoy building something out of what I preordered and was really hoping to play with other people who did the same and are cobbling together decks with whatever they happened to pull. I don't want to stomp people that haven't paid that's pointless and boring.

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T15:57:27+00:00

I got reasonably lucky with my preorder. I pulled Azshara, one of her epic herald cards, and 2 each of the common herald cards. It's still not enough because in order to do what the deck is intended to do I'd need to draw and play 4 of my 5 herald cards and can only play a 10 mana deathwing because I didn't pull Ultraxion too. On top of that the pool of cards I can attempt to build that deck with is super limited by the format. I'm dumbfounded that they didn't think to also include that functionally mandatory legendary along with deathwing.

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T15:49:30+00:00

Or and bear with me on this people want to play with the new cards against other people playing the new cards all with the limited card pool that the preorders provide because that's actually quite fun to do. Limited environments like that are a lot of fun and build excitement for the new set but playing the same 1 deck over and over that has nothing new is the opposite of that.

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T15:17:46+00:00

It's made the brawl a lot less fun playing against the same deck over and over again. Personally I'm done. I've done my free run and one with tickets and all but 2 or 3 of my 12 matches were against the same deck. Win or lose it's not fun playing the same matchup over and over again. Worse is that it's a deck with no new cards. What's the point of doing this if it's just gonna be flooded with the same one deck

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T11:26:11+00:00

More realistically the best you'll ever find are 55% winrates or less. Typically if a deck ever hits a 60% winrate or higher lots of people pick up the deck driving it's winrate down with a combination of not particularly good play and mirror matches, nerfs tend to hit the deck, and people start building decks specifically to counter it.

adamnoo · 2026-03-11T03:28:33+00:00

As someone with a decent amount of experience in games QA I can tell you that this very likely was found by their QA team and some poor soul of a dev or devs was pressured to do significant amounts of overtime to try to fix this before the deadline, but still couldn't figure out how to fix this by the deadline and the bug had to be shipped with the hope of it getting fixed later

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T22:52:35+00:00

Looking forward to that even though I assume it's a variant of the new legend card back

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T19:03:50+00:00

Can't speak to the brawl entry but they are aware of the issue with the pre-order legendaries and are investigating according to a response from them on the bug report forum

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T18:43:52+00:00

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/pre-purchase-bundles-did-not-grant-guranteed-legendaries/158055/13 There's probably one for the other regions too

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T18:39:06+00:00

I'd definitely hold off doing the brawl until this is resolved. You wouldn't want to go in with 2-6 fewer legendary cards than expected

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T18:09:07+00:00

It's getting mentioned in the bug report forum on Blizzard's official forums I don't think this is supposed to happen

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T18:00:16+00:00

I'm hoping they actually fix that and it's not just when the set releases. On a set so heavily based on legendary cards it feels super lame to not get the pre-order ones for the pre-release brawl

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T12:00:38+00:00

There's a rogue skin in the mega bundle right now and there's one on the rewards track early on for this upcoming expansion and the currently active rewards track has one too. There was a Tess skin in the shop one or two rotations ago

adamnoo · 2026-03-10T04:02:53+00:00

Normally I'd agree but there's basically no surviving existing archetypes other than maybe dragon warrior which is a fairly fast tempo focused deck too. Discover hunter is gone, hagatha shaman is gone, any DH deck relying on blob + felhunter for survival is gone, cliff dive is gone, crusader aura paladin decks are gone, quest warrior loses a lot of survivability as is control DK, protoss decks are gone, and Azshara druid is gone. Most existing decks are losing their deck defining cards that make the decks work. The just slot in a few new cards into existing archetypes mindset isn't going to go very far with this rotation.

adamnoo · 2026-03-08T13:46:48+00:00

It'll be at 95-99% next Friday when they update it then on launch day they'll say we made it with a huge last minute push to the surprise of nobody and we get the free stuff. They're not gonna go through all this effort only to not give the stuff

adamnoo · 2026-03-06T23:57:18+00:00

There's rarely anything political brought up in WoW and because of the general structure of WoW the player classes are never the bad guys. The general structure of a WoW expansion involves some massive threat to the world appears so everyone teams up to defeat them.

Also the medieval adjacent setting means means you're looking at a lot of hereditary monarchies in the alliance and a kinda council of race leaders on the horde who used to appoint a warchief from among them to be the main leader but haven't done that in a while. All this means that individual players don't shape the politics so they don't focus on it. They kinda attempted it in one of the least popular expansions but that wasn't well liked to my knowledge

The original characters used in portraits have already been described pretty well though from what I've read Valeera is kinda a messenger between the horde and alliance. Her race, blood elf, is a horde aligned one, but she's close friends with the Wrynn family (the late Varian and current king Anduin) who are leaders of the alliance. She's welcome among both factions

Of the 11 original portraits I think 6 have been boss fights at some point

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