{"id":2443,"date":"2014-07-23T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:46:54","slug":"hearthstones-curse-of-naxxramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/2443\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone&#8217;s Curse of Naxxramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was eagerly awaiting Hearthstone&#8217;s first single player adventure, the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/hearthstone\/en\/blog\/13665269\/beware-the-curse-of-naxxramas-4-11-2014\">Curse of Naxxramas<\/a> because I was hoping that it would be a fun single player experience that I could play offline.  Now that the expansion is finally out, I&#8217;m kind of disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a loose structure of a plot, the expansion can really be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15 battles against new heroes and set decks, where you win a new card for each victory.<\/li>\n<li>Class challenges where you use a set deck and hero, and fight another set deck\/hero combo.  You get another card for each victory<\/li>\n<li>Heroic mode where you can win a new card back if you complete it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first wing (of 5) was free so I tried it out.  I got through the 3 battles and 2 class challenges pretty quickly (on the first try).  I was disappointed that the single player was simply more straightforward card battles.  Sure the new cards are fun to see (and possibly use), but there&#8217;s no real collecting aspect to the game (i.e., you can&#8217;t grind for anything new).  <\/p>\n<p>I had saved up in-game gold to potentially buy additional wings.  It costs 700 gold, but if you want to spend real money you get a slight discount ($20 for remaining 4 wings).  I had considered just buying the wings and using the gold on additional card packs; but I also realized that I would always get more gold to buy card packs.  So I might as well spend it on wings.  Now I&#8217;m conflicted.  You&#8217;re basically paying 700 gold for 6 new cards (one of which is legendary).  If you spent it on packs, you would get up to 35 new cards, with at least 7 of those rare or better (but possibly no legendaries).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad that the single player experience just isn&#8217;t great enough that the decision is easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was eagerly awaiting Hearthstone&#8217;s first single player adventure, the Curse of Naxxramas because I was hoping that it would be a fun single player experience that I could play offline. Now that the expansion is finally out, I&#8217;m kind of disappointed. While there is a loose structure of a plot, the expansion can really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10000],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}