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Massively in particular has a highly questionable overall quality of content. It's a useful aggregate site because they cover pretty much the gamut of MMO-like experiences, but I just skim the article listings and then go to the original source they're covering for content. I don't think I've...

Mostly looking forward to the combat system and the climb to level cap. I'm interested in seeing how telegraphs work in practice. I'm sure I'll take a class to cap, do all the dungeons in hard mode, mess around with my house a little bit, possibly level an alt, and then most likely lose...

I'd guess not. Or if you can, it shouldn't persist through to the real game. If they do things well, alpha should be a total sandbox with access to all PvP cards, with a full wipe after that. Alpha's mostly going to be about breaking the fundamental underlying game (Ie, the Magic 1.1 part)...

I understand people wanting their own forum guild, but if you're looking for a solid base of people to play with, the F13 guys seem pretty serious about the game, and the threads over there have been a lot more active than these have been. Think they've got about 35k invested in the kickstarter...

It would be, yes, but Dungeon has been gone for a couple of days also. Collector is best after that, most likely.

The only guild talk I noticed was Draegan mentioning that he was going to be running with the f13 people. I'm going to do the same with one of my accounts, and create a RL/old MMO friends guild with my other.

Rumor has it you'll get a code emailed to your kickstarter or paypal address, and then create the account with that. Whether that ends up being exactly how it's done or not, no, you aren't insane. No account creation yet (other than forum account if you're really interested in watching the...

It's possible (and what I would expect out of your average F2P game), but I really don't expect that of these guys. Maybe I've just been lulled into a false sense of security by Cory's laid back "I'm just another nerd who really wanted to play this game... so I made it" good guy demeanor, but...

It's really not, compared to other games on the market. M:TGO is 4$ per pack. Some of the facebook/kongregate/etc. ones get as ridiculous as 10$ per booster. I'm curious what other digital TCGs beat out Hex pricewise. None come to my mind, but I certainly don't know the complete field...

As long as you do more than a third of your year of free drafts, you got your money's worth from the upgrade from king. Any extra platinum/gold you can parlay your alt-art cards into is just gravy.

I wouldn't mind doing some group content again. Had a pretty decent healer set up when I stopped instancing. Had done all the elites and the first three nightmares and ankh in challenge mode. Gave up with Hell Fallen and haven't seen a non-holiday dungeon since. I'm Pacific time though, so...

Well, they all come with a year worth of drafts, which is a 364$ value if you use all of them, so yes. As for which one, probably collector. Ignoring the free year of drafts, Guild master definitely isn't worth it. You could just get another king and get more value. Raid leader... probably...

New article up on the deck builder:http://hextcg.com/data-editor-paradise No new information if you've been paying attention, but a good overview of the features it has. Some fun spoiled cards also. Another big bruiser dragon with the potential to get ridiculous if left on the field, and a...

They hit most of the points I wanted out of the raid experience: Stressing the puzzle aspect and needing specific decks to realistically down raids, unique raid mechanics allowing for a wide design space going forward, and giving raid specific loot. I pretty much assumed that would be the...

New article up on raiding:http://hextcg.com/dragon-slaying/ Running to a meeting, so can't talk about this as much as I might like, but god damn, this looks like fun.

I keep telling myself that it doesn't necessarily mean the game is broken, but yeah, watching some of their livestreams, I get the fear. Haven't been able to watch much of today's stream because I've been on my commute, but when I looked at the twitch chatroom, it was mostly just a page full of...

Yeah, I tried to address that in the value perspective section of my post, but it probably wasn't clear. I should have said that if you're a PvP player, the DC perk wouldn't be directly useful to you. It's only actually worthless to someone if they flat out refuse to PvE at all (and obviously...

I suddenly want to experience it much less. That dungeon was so broken it was almost impossible to tell if you were doing something as intended or just accidentally exploiting it.

I promise I'm not being sarcastic here, but ... Guild Wars 2 had puzzles? Do you mean the jump puzzles, or am I just completely blanking on something? Or is this something added post release? I actually didn't play much beyond getting my first character level capped. The thing with TSW and...

Other than some stray holiday ones that were limited time, I don't thiiiink so. I actually haven't gotten around to checking out the most recent issue yet, so I might be missing something there. Oh. There is the raid that they added. My friends had pretty much all given up on the game by the...

I'm assuming the only people still looking at this thread have already pledged, but just in case... New update:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...e/posts/500379 New stretch goal at 2.1 million. I think the only part people will really care about is that everyone gets some set 3 boosters...

You can still do that. Server has never mattered very much in TSW (another thing they did pretty well). Whenever you log in to a zone you end up in whichever server's version of that zone is least congested (unless you manually teleport to a groupmate in another zone)

It's probably a highly subjective issue, but for me, the thing TSW did really well was encourage puzzle and story based gameplay. Even the most bland "Kill the zombies!" quest in the game had *some* elements of discovery or puzzle solving. If someone played the game with a browser window open...

Depends on what sort of player you are. If you're mostly interested in structured PvP, Dungeon Crawler is worthless to you. If you mostly care about PvE, 2 copies of 6 alternate art rare/legendaries a year is nice, but not really that big a deal unless you're actually a collector If you're...

I still regularly pay my subscription fee even though the game is now pseudo-F2P, and I only log on a couple of times immediately after an episodic patch to play the new quest lines. This game has far and away the best storyline and NPCs of any MMO, and surpasses most single player RPGs. I can...

Sounds like they have the tech to enforce it if every card has its own cryptographic signature. At least as far as duping and the like goes. I hope they've got some good DBAs on their team. The game hasn't even launched and there's already tens of millions of cards (or will be once people...

I'm trying to be Zen about it. I never had a black lotus either (though I did have all the moxes and lots of the other power 9), and it didn't ruin my M:TG experience at all. I just hope there's some easy way for them to reflect how close you are to collecting all of the cards you possibly...

Well, stretch goals mean that all of the kickstarter exclusive cards come with their gear, which is pretty nice, that and the 860k stretch gave everyone at king+ 2 random legendary pieces of equipment. But yeah, with 1300+ pieces of equipment, it's going to take a while to gear up your PvE...

Yeah, I actually liked the fights I experienced in there. Honestly, I was pretty happy with Rift raid design in general (stopped raiding before Hammerknell, so I can't comment on anything past that). But god, the trash in RoS was just inexcusable. Pretty much the only thing I've experienced...

River of Souls, the second raid released was just a gigantic nightmarish mess of trash. And I agree about what Ambiturner said re: Secret World. TSW was almost entirely trash pack (which frequently teased some boss abilities) -> boss -> trash pack -> boss, etc. Made the dungeons much less...

Like Pyros said, PvE is an entirely different set of cards, almost as large as the base PvP set (~300 in PvE, ~350 in PvP). Obviously, having a ~650 card set to work with is going to give you more combo opportunity than a ~300 card set, but it's not like you're going to be facing down dragons...

New Hex article up with some more information about the PvE side of things.http://hextcg.com/exclamation-points...uestion-marks/ Still sounding pretty great to me. Looks like they've got a pretty wide range of things you can do in the single player experience. I like the idea of having to...

Seriously one of the worst MMOs I've ever played. I couldn't find a single thing they did right in the very brief time I played it.

The wildstar telegraph system seems to color-code everything though, so it shouldn't be a matter of "Ok, that green glow, is it a heal zone, or is it the mobs poison cloud?". It's going to be a matter of "Red bad! Blue good!" I'm curious how some of the medic abilities work. Most of their...

Yeah, I really don't like that they put abilities on the paths. The soldier path specifically does seem to have a cc break, which practically screams "mandatory" for PvP. Hard to tell how that will shake out combined with their limited action slots though. If every class can get sufficient cc...

Have you been using the plugin trick? Use something that auto-reloads the page looking for the tier you're interested in. I believe you can configure auto refresh plus for chrome to do thishttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...cpelijih?hl=en. Just have it search for "1 of 913", set it to...

I expect we'll hit 1.8 million pretty easily. Only need around 33k a day to reach that, and with the recent kick-it-forward from Project Eternity bringing in some more people, the past couple of days have been above 50k. Sort of doubt we'll hit anything past that unless there's a larger than...

Yeah, path stuff is really only fun as long as long as it's a nice flavorful extra. It's meant to be all about playing the way you want to play. As soon as they put any real chunks of content behind path locked areas, it becomes a matter of balancing groups around 2 dimensions instead of the...

This would be pretty cool, though it has the problem of being content that takes some amount of work to create that a relatively small number of people would end up stumbling over. Maybe I'm underestimating how much they're going to try to encourage people to roll around the non-instanced zones...

People don't really seem interested in the article play by play, but today's Kickstarter update has some semi-big news. The 1.5 million to unlock tablets was hit. They announced that any future stretch goals would be for post-release. 1.8 million is the next one and it will be a book by some...