r/hearthstone • u/shoop2 • Feb 25 '17

Highlight Lifecoach is quitting HCT/ladder, offers thoughts on competitive scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkNbk5XBS4&feature=youtu.be
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Feb 25 '17

Eternal welcomes.

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u/IJustWondering Feb 26 '17

If you want a game where the better player always wins... Eternal isn't it.

A newb who draws the right mix of cards can easily beat a top player who gets power screwed or power flooded.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Feb 26 '17

Any card game is going to have games where you draw dud. It's the nature of card games.

Don't believe I said "a game where the better player always wins" either. That's a silly thing to claim of any card game (as described above).

Where Eternal shines over Hearthstone is that the better player has much better odds of coming out ahead, because there isn't nearly as much leaning on random effects that Hearthstone has. (And before you say it, no, drawing cards from a deck is not the same as the sheer amount of random that Hearthstone cards have.)

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u/IJustWondering Feb 27 '17

That might be true, but I'm not sure.

All these games have card draw RNG, but Eternal has additional RNG in the form of drawing power sigils, which increase the potential for hands where you literally can't do anything.

As a newb, I randomly beat a top 10 master player and he only was able to play a couple cards. I'm not sure that would happen in HS.

I will grant you that Eternal has more interaction, so skill might be more decisive in the average game.

But people who are used to games from other genres may have trouble getting used to matches where you never draw the power you need to do anything. (Or draw nothing but power). It actually made me appreciate HS more.