Frustration bought me here.
Firstly, let me say - I don’t need any comments from die-hard HS fans who have somehow managed to complete every aspect of the game. I am not here to troll or even to post replies to anyone who replies to this topic. I am here to voice my opinion and hope that the developers will realise how bad they are at designing a game.
The so called “solo adventures” of HS are completely without balance. You go from one boss which is so easy to beat, that you can literally sleep through the match… to the next boss being so insanely difficult that you might as-well delete the game, because it will lead you to an infuriated state of unenjoyment. Even if you manage to pass that boss, you will not feel any amount of enjoyment for having done so.
Let me give you a prime example of what I mean… Ashes of Outland, Challenges, Magtheridon! Absolutely pathetic!
Do You, Blizzard, honestly expect me to sit there for hours on end to pass this one boss? Crafting deck after deck, doing endless battles with each deck until the random number generator finally decides to give me my cards in an order which will allow me to win against the totally over-powered hero power of this computer controlled opponent?
And this isn’t the only boss which has such an insanely imbalanced set of cards and hero power.
So far, in countless years of playing hearthstone, I have only managed to complete a few of the solo adventures.
In “The Frozen Throne” adventures, I cannot even get past “Lord Marrowgar”. It is a complete joke. If I cannot get past one of the first bosses, then do you honestly think I am likely to spend money to face the rest?
In “Karazhan” I completed the first wing on normal mode, then tried the heroic mode and class challenge, only to find they are so insanely difficult that I cannot be doing with wasting my time on them… Never mind my money!
I recently purchased the “The Dalaran Heist” expansion, simply because it was at a discount price, and you get the “Zayle, Shadow Cloak” golden legendary card with the purchase. Managed to play through the first wing of the story mode with the paladin, but that took far too much of my time. Managed to win enough to get the card packs out of the first 4 wings… That’s all. No point in wasting my time trying to get the rest, as it will take me about a year of playing before the random number generator allows me to maintain a winning streak against 8 randomly chosen Over Powered bosses.
My point here, is that if you actually want myself and other players like myself to spend more money on this game, then you need to balance the difficulty of the solo adventures. There is no ramp to the difficulty of the game. You win so easily, or you burn so hard. It is frustrating, and not fun at all. Like I said, even when you win against this faceroll fest, you don’t feel any enjoyment, because by that time you feel like you are owed the win. Your response is “finally, ffs! What a complete waste of my time for something so unrewarding!”
Finally, let me just say, I don’t care for the die-hard HS forum dwellers coming saying “you just don’t know how to play the game” or “read what to do on forums and watch youtube videos, or install third party apps which keep track of cards”… Because it is supposed to be a game. Supposed to be something which can be enjoyed without needing to study hard and dedicate my life to. I do understand the mechanics of the game, I am not an idiot. So please do not imply that my opinion doesn’t count, simply because you possibly would like the game to be more difficult, or you find it easy as anything. I am here to state my opinion, that is all.
What I do like about the game, is being able to collect cards, and play against my brother and my friends. The game has a lot of potential to be fun, but the imbalance of the game lets it down.
