Thursday, December 7, 2017

Kobolds and Catacombs Live

First of all, you need to see this:


Ok, with that taken care of:

Kobolds and Catacombs is the new Hearthstone expansion, heavily inspired by tabletop RPGs, especially the quintessential member of the genre, Dungeons and Dragons (the name of the expansion is clearly a reference.)

While the expansion itself has plenty of fun new cards, the thing I really recommend checking out is the solo adventure that comes with it.

Unlike previous adventures, which have had set bosses that you'd have to build decks to beat, in this "dungeon run," you build a deck as you beat bosses, gaining higher max health and powerful abilities, but also encounter far tougher enemies.

It's hard to build your deck around these enemies, as you don't know what boss is around the corner. So far, I've managed to beat three bosses in a single run - but to beat the whole thing, you need to defeat 8. With new decks each time (and no, you don't need to provide your own cards, which makes this great for players with smaller collections) you're going to have to try different strategies on each attempt.

It's lots of fun and it's an entirely PVE-based, so even though it's very difficult, it should be a relatively low-stress way to play, and because it changes every time, it'll stay fresh.

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