After what the community will agree was probably the stalest meta ever change is coming to Hearthstone.

Some changes are small upgrades, like allowing people to pick a random card back, others are huge like rotating Baku and Genn when the next expansion hits.

Those could be seen as normal changes for any game but Blizzard been having its share of questionable decisions and Hearthstone in particular is very slow to react to players complains.

Now, I won't go as far as say the next expansion will be the best thing ever, the new cards may create an even worse meta but at least the game showed some sign of life instead of looking the ship sinking and merrily saying everything is fine like they been doing.

I saw a (NSFWIsh) twitter post about a sexy Scorbunny cosplay and I had to make a comic about it.

Outside of that, I come with a new plan… I want to try to finish at least one game per week and write about the process, I'll call it Game Diary and post the progress (or lack of it) here.

Probably will start with Wargroove since I'm halfway thru it and won't be hard to finish it. Hopefully this will mean I'll try more new game instead of raging about Overwatch.

p.s. I tried Apex Legends but the left-handed me found too hard to hit so many buttons with my keyboard hand sitting on the arrow keys. I guess I need one of those gamer mouses with extra buttons or change to a new keyboard layout.

Not much to say but I did a (NSFWish) pic to showcase my Patreon a bit.

Most people dislike Mirana face but I always dislike Drow so I'm glad with the changes,I even like the new pants since her old swimsuit looked kind out of place, specially the heart shaped hole below the chest.

It's not like you saw much of her legs anyway giving the camera angle so you only see her legs on fanart.

I still don't like her model a lot though, she suffer from the same problems Phantom Assassin does which is her design being a big shade of blue. Also shoulderpads.

But hey, it's bette than before so there is that.

The new Dota hero, Ares, is here, and his main gimmick is his foward facing shield who can absorb 70% damage of attacks.

If this hero appeared 5 years ago I'd say it was imbalanced but modern Dota is a different beast. Magic damage is everywhere and scales well into late game, both with talents and items like Veil of Discord. If Ares even turn into first pick material people would just pick Viper or craft Silver Edge.

So while I think the hero is strong, especially as a position 3 offlaner, I don't think the Bulwark part is the best part of the kit. I think people will pick him because of the ultimate which played right can easily win a team fight.

To close, I found the hero visual kind on the ugly side. His anatomy is kind of freaky and he looks like a cartoon character lost in a more realistic game. Still, since you only will see him from the top it may work. I'd totally buy a cosmetic to cover his face though.

I almost drew Mars as Sailor Mars or just as a big red ball because I loathe his model, but I fear people would not get it.

I have friends who play both Path of Exile and Warframe which brought me back to the game and I imagine how much of those game success is due to the players active effort to bring more players.

While this comic may make Path of Exile looks scary if you only want to finish all the acts you can pretty much do whatever and be able to «beat» the game.

However, if you want to be optimized to do post-endgame stuff you really want an app like Path of Building or at least a site like Poe Planner to plan your build and probably sacrifice your first character to the Path of Exile gods. God, did my first witch sucked…

However, Path of Building really does the heavy lifting showing you how much extra damage and life you get with this or that talent so it's more a matter of knowing a specific juicy talent exist instead of if you should pick it or not.

And if you end up with a shitty build (like me) just let the game rest for some months and come back on a new season after they reset the talents. It's not free respect like I'd wish but it's enough for me to yolo some builds and not regret I'd lose my time if it won't work.

p.s. For those curious, I'm currently running a Rain of Arrow Ranger focusing on Frenzy, Health and Evasion with Phase Acrobatics.

I think your 1st Path of Exile character should be whatever. There is no way you'll get it right unless blindly follow someone else builds and while it will work you'll have no idea why so you can't tweak it.

Most PoE players will tell you to pick several health talents but it's not until you make a char without them you realize how important it is.

And while I'm not a fan of the whole «no free point respec» thing they do full resets now and them so just fix your characters when this happens.

p.s. I already regret picking Endless Ammunitions on my Deadeye Ranger so I'll probably change it to an Avatar of Slaughter Raider Ranger in the future but until than I'll enjoy covering the whole screen with my arrows.

It's a known fact it's harder to aim with a joypad than with a mouse to a point company doesn't allow cross-play between PC and consoles.

Knowing that, when companies make a game for a console, they know they want to avoid some situations. Most combats will happen in what I call «the shooting gallery». You enter a room or a street and the enemies will all on plain view of sights at your front. with perhaps some kind of cover to run after they notice you. Said enemies will almost never have much mobility, no dashes or jumps, and nobody will surprise flank you by the side or back.

The reason is simple, it's hard to do an instant 90 or 180-degree turn on your joypad so combat it's almost like an on-rails shooter.

If you remove the sci-fi or military dressing, it's not unlike those shooting galleries full of ducks and prizes and I don't blame the devs by doing that if their goal is to sell on consoles but for me it makes for uninteresting PC shooters.

If you played Halo on console decades ago (and liked it) may be worth replaying it on PC just to obliterate the Convenant using mouse and keyboard. You'll probably feel like the Chief himself.

I think all the games I play right now try to nickel and dime me in a way or another.

I hardly buy any of this shit, but the constant peddling annoys me and I wonder with how many games asking for spare change how many of them are getting any kind of money at all.

More often than not when a company makes an annoucement is some microtransaction bullshit instead of stuff which I care so I pretty much turn off my ears about anything the company says and even them I still need to have the in-game screen littered with ads for their AMAZING deals.