What kind of variation can be expected in these yearly Core rotations?
I'm not sure we've hit the right number yet. We'd like to observe how WoW cataclysm Gold players respond towards the Core set, and then see what they think of it, and what their use rate is, and such things. As we move forward, we're probably considering ballparks, between 30 to 35 percent. I believe that from year an year that it could vary but I'd think that a good baseline of it to remain the same every year.
Another significant addition that amazed me was Spell Schools. It is basically an equivalent of a tribe. This seems to offer an abundance of design flexibility. Are you trying to solve an issue in design?
Not really a problem However, it was something we had thought about for some time and it seemed like the perfect moment to take it on. It certainly opens an enormous design possibilities for us. The ability to design holy archetypes to priests, being able to design fire and frost archetypes as well as arcane archetypes derived from Mage and Shaman as well as nature archetypes to Druid. It's a design area that we haven't yet explored. With the advent of these Spell Schools We have the chance to explore that. Therefore, you'll certainly witness some of that in Forged in the Barrens.
It appears that it allows you to limit your options to make sure they don't go out of control. For instance for instance, you already have Bruce'kan, who's got the Nature Spell Damage +3. If you printed a generic card that reads, "Spell damage +3," you'd be able to see the combo becoming wildly unpredictable very quickly. In in this manner, it looks that you are in control.
Exactly. We can decide which spells are nature-based. We can determine the cheap Cataclysm Classic Gold precise scope of these spells, however it's definitely a powerful card. In the decks you have seen, Lightning Storm has been typed as an elemental spell. The lightning storm spell was damage and four mana for three. That's pretty impressive.