I stopped playing Hearthstone after 8 years of playing it, it's problems just kept slowly accruing while the modes they added didn't draw my attention enough. PvE content was basically dead and it didn't seem like they wanted to add more. After that I didn't really want to start another card game because I started Hearthstone from Beta, so I amassed so much shit. I get this feeling with online card games that if I didn't start playing when it launched, I'll just be behind and its not worth it.
Well I did start playing Runeterra a couple months after I quit Hearthstone because I heard the PvE content is fun. And yeah, I can confirm Path of Champions is pretty fun. Takes the baseline of Slay the Spire (so baseline fun), and does its own stuff to spice it up. I started before the big rework, which was honestly more annoying beforehand. Progression was tied to individual champions, which would make it slower. The balance for some of the adventures were also way too hard.
The big rework did make it way more fun. Three tiers of progression (Champion level to upgrade your healthpool/deck/ability to upgrade stuff mid run, General levels to upgrade shops/rerolls/revives, and champion dust or some shit to upgrade an extra passive for specific champs) makes it better to just start from the bottom on new champs. The champion dust is kind of fucked because they are tied to specific champions, its not general dust; so if you max out a champion, you can just keep getting dust for them that you can't do shit with. There are more quests focused on the PvE and there is more story stuff to keep you engaged. I have run through all the content and maxxed out 1 champion and only have weekly/daily quests to keep me playing and I wish there was more endgame because there is only 1 max difficulty adventure. It does have slightly different end bosses, but its 90% the same every run so that sucks. They also said they were gonna shift major focus away from PvE and I don't know from their wording if they were just gonna stop updating it or only have a couple people working on it, but I hope to God they keep updating it.
Besides the Path of Champions, I haven't really engaged with any constructed content, but I will say this game gives you so much free shit its insane. Hearthstone doesn't really give you jack shit, like yeah you can get gold to buy packs, but Runeterra's multiple battlepass system just gives you proportionally more.
So yeah, if you really want a card game rogue like to try out, I recommend this
Update: Shortly after they did the big Path of Champions update they announced that they would also put way less focus on it. I feared that what they released would be it and it wouldn't be updated anymore. Well they just added 4 new champions and ONE new adventure. All the champions in the big update had 2 story adventures unique to them and would give you rewards like any other adventure. These 4 do not have them. They did add a new level 3 difficulty adventure that you can play with any champion, but that still provides me with 8 less reward opportunities. It just really annoys me.
They also updated the game so you can get wild shards to upgrade champions so one of my previous complaints is gone so thats cool.
Well I did start playing Runeterra a couple months after I quit Hearthstone because I heard the PvE content is fun. And yeah, I can confirm Path of Champions is pretty fun. Takes the baseline of Slay the Spire (so baseline fun), and does its own stuff to spice it up. I started before the big rework, which was honestly more annoying beforehand. Progression was tied to individual champions, which would make it slower. The balance for some of the adventures were also way too hard.
The big rework did make it way more fun. Three tiers of progression (Champion level to upgrade your healthpool/deck/ability to upgrade stuff mid run, General levels to upgrade shops/rerolls/revives, and champion dust or some shit to upgrade an extra passive for specific champs) makes it better to just start from the bottom on new champs. The champion dust is kind of fucked because they are tied to specific champions, its not general dust; so if you max out a champion, you can just keep getting dust for them that you can't do shit with. There are more quests focused on the PvE and there is more story stuff to keep you engaged. I have run through all the content and maxxed out 1 champion and only have weekly/daily quests to keep me playing and I wish there was more endgame because there is only 1 max difficulty adventure. It does have slightly different end bosses, but its 90% the same every run so that sucks. They also said they were gonna shift major focus away from PvE and I don't know from their wording if they were just gonna stop updating it or only have a couple people working on it, but I hope to God they keep updating it.
Besides the Path of Champions, I haven't really engaged with any constructed content, but I will say this game gives you so much free shit its insane. Hearthstone doesn't really give you jack shit, like yeah you can get gold to buy packs, but Runeterra's multiple battlepass system just gives you proportionally more.
So yeah, if you really want a card game rogue like to try out, I recommend this
Update: Shortly after they did the big Path of Champions update they announced that they would also put way less focus on it. I feared that what they released would be it and it wouldn't be updated anymore. Well they just added 4 new champions and ONE new adventure. All the champions in the big update had 2 story adventures unique to them and would give you rewards like any other adventure. These 4 do not have them. They did add a new level 3 difficulty adventure that you can play with any champion, but that still provides me with 8 less reward opportunities. It just really annoys me.
They also updated the game so you can get wild shards to upgrade champions so one of my previous complaints is gone so thats cool.