LOTI 194 : The Witchwood – Paladin

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo: Gold: 1830 Rank 14, Druid Wins: 336, Paladin wins: 632  +390 gold

Vastidious: Gold: 2430, Rank 20, Paladin wins: 233   +420 gold

News

Blizzard Taiwan – Hearthstone Promotion (source)

Blizzard is running a promotion where you can purchase tea to obtain points, which you can redeem for Hearthstone rewards

500 points – 1 Card Pack

2500 points – Khadgar Hero

Chances to win a grand prize of 600 card packs

HCT Summer Championship is here

June 28-July 1 (Watch here: https://www.twitch.tv/playhearthstone)

Best of 5 Conquest, each player bans one of opponent’s decks, top 2 from each group move on to single elimination.

Prize pool of $125,000

$60,000 for 1st & 30 HCT points

$40,000 for 2nd & 25 HCT points

$20,000 for 3rd & 4th & 20 HCT points

$12,500 for 5-8th & 15 HCT points

$7,500 for 9-16th & 12 HCT points

Group A – Viper, XiaoT, Tansoku, Rase

Group B – BloodTrail, Nalguidan, A83650, YuYi

Group C – Jinsoo, Rugal, Turna, Dog

Group D – Leaoh, killinallday, glory, BunnyHoppor

Tavern Talk – June 27th

* Do you have any plans for new emotes or emote customization?

We have added special hero emotes for events like the fireworks in last year’s Fire Festival and also recently updated emotes for mirror matches. We want to keep doing similar things! We don’t have any plans to change the base emotes though.

* Are there any updates on future game modes, like a co-op or multiplayer feature, 2 vs. 2, or 2 vs. AI?

We’re always experimenting with different ways of doing these in Tavern Brawls and Fireside Brawls, and plan on continuing those experiments at some point in the future. The challenge for us is to really figure out what makes them fun and interesting. The few of our crazy ideas that survived our play tests have gone on to become some of our best brawls and single player content. And let’s not forget the upcoming in-game tournament mode—the ability to use multiple decks in an online tournament with a group of friends is very appealing to us.

* Will you be looking at making more minion Types like Kobolds or Spirits?

Some of our best theme decks are built around minion Types. Elemental decks, Murloc decks, Mech decks all hinge on the minion Type and are a great starting point for deckbuilders. However having too many minion Types can cause collisions, where one card looks like it could be several different types. If you see a Demon wearing an eye-patch, do you expect it to be Pirate or Demon? What about a mech that looks like a bear? Would that be a Beast or a Mech? We run into these issues a lot, and they will come up more if we add more Types to the game. We have looked at adding new Minion Types before, such as when we playtested a Cultist minion Type when we designed C’thun for Whispers of the Old Gods, but this is not something that we have plans for just yet.

Espo Mode

A Less Friendly Game of Chess

How it Works

Build a deck using six cards. No duplicates are allowed.

You will be given either the White King or Black King.