Hello,

I own the basic game, Lair of the Wyrm, a hero and monster collection (Visions of Dawn), and now i bought Labyrinth of Ruin and Heirs of Blood. As i see at the Shop Item Cards of Labyrinth of Ruin, I think that is better than them in the basic game and the fisrt expansion (LotW). I have not read the campaign of LoR yet. I think that as the game progresses through expansions, the heroes have more options to get better and have precedence over OL. And I don't think that the new deck will help him.

There are new options for the heroes for sure- some of the options for the OL can be pretty brutal, though.

A lot of the new overlord stuff is very strong. Further, the heroes aren't guaranteed items in the shop deck, and some of the new items aren't so great either. The single best weapon in the entire act 1 shop deck is the crossbow from the base game, so don't be so concerned with power creep.

The new monsters are fantastic as well.

Overall balance remains pretty solid throughout the expansions.