Hearthstone

I was going to post that video too.

Kibler makes excellent points. Pretty much agree with all he says.

Since the expansion, My HS playing time has dropped off a cliff. I simply have no interest in this rock, paper, scissors meta. I was trying to play Control Warrior a couple of weeks ago and when I get matched against Jade Druid, I just conceded straight away. That is no fun at all when one deck type can hard counter an whole archetype. Whilst if I try to play another type of quirky deck, I get rolled over within 5 turns from all the Aggro. The meta is basically optimised Aggro Warrior/Shaman, Jade Druid or Reno decks or GTFO. My favourite class is Rogue and I know Miracle Rogue is strong at the moment but I really want some variation since I have been playing Miracle Rogue or some slight variation of it for what seems like an eternity now.

My favourite deck - Mill Rogue, is also completely dead because of aggro and Jade.

Arena is pretty fucked because of the huge card pool

I am very sure Team 5 will do nothing to change Hearthstone for the better now. Kibler even said he warned them about the evergreen set problem way back and they still went ahead with it. That is just arrogance. The fact that the pirate package went live without them realising the insane synergy it has with cheap weapons Warriors and Shamans is nothing short of ridiculous.

I also just log in to clear my quests in Casual these days and get my weekly free pack from Tavern Brawl and done. I am pretty sure I will drop the game altogether very soon now as I don't even feel like doing that anymore.

I've sadly replaced my HS time with Overwatch but the difference here is it won't cost me $100+ a year. Not sure why anyone would get into this game now.

ex-genj said:

I've sadly replaced my HS time with Overwatch but the difference here is it won't cost me $100+ a year. Not sure why anyone would get into this game now.

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Well, OW and HS are kind of very different games. Obviously there's a lot of overlap on this forum of players but in the wild, most people that play OW may not have interest in HS and vice versa.

I hit my breaking point last when I played 6 shamans in a row. The ladder is cancer.

wormie said:

I like jade shaman but i stalled at around 10. RIP. Still terrible at reno and refuse to play pirate aids. Quests and nothing else for me I guess.

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What version are you using? I'm 1 star away from 4 using the N'zoth version. Consistently beats reno decks, aggro shaman, and miracle rogue. Freeze mage is a joke; I just had one of them concede when I countered Alex with Brann + Jinyu to heal for +12.

Aggro warrior is dicey but I win 99% of the time if I can get the right opening hand (the ideal being Mistress, Swamp Ooze, Maelstrom Portal)
Dragon priest is a toss up and usually goes to whomever curves better
Only played against jade rogue twice. Curb stomped it once, got curb stomped by it once.

Shaman - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn

If they nerf pirates then they better edit Kazakus as well.

Lol "if Pirates don't lose some steam, the developers will intervene." Not gonna happen you idiots. Patches is too strong. This is what I told anyone that was on the fence about crafting Patches. I said, just craft him, you'll eventually be able to get all your dust back, and the same is probably true for Small-Time Buccaneer.

Ravishing said:

Patches is strong but fine, STB is OP and the main problem.

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STB is definitely worse overall. But the Patches mechanic is super strong, for reasons already discussed. MTG learned this long ago. It's just not as noticeable because the benefit it brings happens behind the scenes, whereas a 3/2 on turn 2 is very visibly oppressive.

I'll be happy to bring in all the dust from all my saved up STB's.

I built a retarded Mage deck...

babbling book
mana wyrm
frostbolt
Sorcerer's apprentice ******
Arcane Intellect ******
Flamewalker ******
Forgotten Torch
Ice Block
Fireball
Cabalist Tome

The starred cards are the only important ones...You can mix others in, but those are the engine. You could probably do something similar with Rogue, but it lacks the sorcerer's apprentice, but does have prep...Drawn cards are 1 cost spells to discover a card. With the Sorcerer's apprentice you can basically just go infinite. Iceblock is fun too.

I had good luck with midrange jade shaman with evolves and dopplegangsters. Got rank 5 and pretty much quit standard after that. It's okay vs aggro, and control matchups are pretty easy, since 3 six drops are very hard to clear unless you have a twisting nether and if I have any kind of board I just bloodlust them dead.

Wild I got rank 10 with pirate hunter, there is no practical difference between standard and wild ATM. Pirates are everywhere.