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He hopes that Blizz will listen to him and implement his ideas to fix competitive Hearthstone instead of focusing on “fun game mechanic” aka. Lifecoach also offered not play competitively in the beginning of this expansion/new meta to not have an unfair advantage. Blizzard accepted! They invited him to Blizzard HQ for 1 week.

He offered Blizzard to help altering the next expansion and fix the metagame for competitive play.

Mostly because of the fun mechanic we call RNG.

Lifecoach was tilted increasingly often during his streams while playing HS within the last year.

Translation of the main points which was originally grabbed from a youtube comment: Because it is in German, I will give you a summary of the main points he talked about which I mostly grabbed from VdeVenancio’s Reddit post. Lifecoach released the above-linked video this week. Lifecoach – Helping to improve the next expansion You can find more Hearthstone videos on this playlist.This week, two of G2Esports‘ Hearthstone players, namely Lifecoach and RDU, released very interesting content which may lead to a more competitively interesting future Hearthstone.

Then again, Blizzard has a ranked mode in the game and hosts its own tournaments, including a big one planned for this year's upcoming Blizzcon event.įor more of Hearthstone at its most serious, high-level play, check out our Grand Tournament launch day livestream video below. Of course, some players have rolled their eyes at these complaints, noting that Hearthstone is meant to be more casual and fun and not so serious. He also uses some harsh language that might bug some people, so watch out if you're sensitive to that.

#COMPETITIVE HEARTHSTONE PROFESSIONAL#

As someone who's been playing the game and watching professional tournaments for a long time, Noxious has a great sense of which cards are too random to even be used in a competitive setting, and which are so powerful that they could arguably ruin any serious strategy. In the video above, popular Hearthstone player NoxiousGLHF explores every single RNG card in the game, beginning with the base set and moving through the Goblins vs. That narrative gained a lot of steam when some big matches at a recent tournament had their outcome almost completely determined by random effects. While popular decks and strategies are still shaping up from last week's newly launched Grand Tournament expansion, a popular complaint is popping up around various Hearthstone fan communities that the RNG has gotten out of hand. That would be much harder to accomplish using physical cards.īut with each subsequent expansion set, Hearthstone has added more cards with random effects, and they appear to be increasing in power.

When you have a card that, for example, summons any random two-cost minion in the game, the computer can do the work of pulling that minion at random. In a lot of ways, the ability to have RNG beyond just 'what card did you draw' is what sets Hearthstone apart from physical card games. Hearthstone has always been a game that embraces what the community calls 'RNG' - short for random number generator, the idea of elements that are determined completely at random.

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