Hearthstone

Off-topic from the current hunter discussion: Anyone have any insight into how match-making works for casual? Do they incorporate your constructed rank into casual match-making? Any links to info on the topic would be appreciated.

I remember hearing there was a "hidden" mmr of sorts working even in casual but that was a really old discussion. Someone might have a link to an old blue post on it though.

I started a Euro account from scratch a few weeks ago and I can say there is some sort of matchmaking going on with casual. When all I had were basic cards and I played casual games for dailies it always matched me with other people that seemed to have only basic decks, nothing but river crocs and bloodfen raptors and was super easy to knock dailies out. Once I traded in some gold for a few packs and started playing a few expert cards I never saw another basic deck again and matched against your typical casual player that 80% of the time completely outmatch any of my newb decks that contain just a few expert cards.

There should be something more robust then. Create a sort of "gear score" system internally, take highest rank attained, current rank, value of card collection, highest arena badge all into account. Surely there should be a way to make something like that work better than what Beagle describes.

There's definitely some kind of hidden matchmaking in casual. I suspect it simply uses your ladder rank for matchmaking.

FIVE hunters in a row, switch to control warrior, no hunters for six matches... Switch back to shaman, three hunters in a row.

I hate this game.

Iron Juggernaut .. dust or not?

Lusiphur_sl said:

Iron Juggernaut .. dust or not?

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If you need the dust. Its not the greatest card or anything.

I too would love it if they'd make silver/plat borders an option.

Regardless if Hunter is indeed too good or not, they are indeed broken. A lot of us have always said it, but the class is severely limited by its hero power andit essentially breaks the class because of it. It limits Hunter playstyle completely and also reduces the options Blizzard has for expanding and building upon the class. I can't stand Hunter for this reason. It is such a mindless class in so many ways. And I do agree that Freezing Trap is too strong, frankly the Hunter traps are too good overall and I think a big reason for that is how versatile they are. With a lot of other traps you can at least have an idea of what's going on and still make plays, but a lot of times with a Hunter trap you can't afford to make hardly any plays until you get the right cards to figure it out. Explosive Trap is overpowered too. Think about what it does and for that amount of mana. The fact it does face damage as well is just a larger nail in the coffin.

Alexzander_sl said:

I too would love it if they'd make silver/plat borders an option.

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And now, introducing a new rarity for Hearthstone, platinum cards!

Today is, literally, the worst day ever to have Priest / Warlock Dominance quest. Both classes are extremely weak versus the current meta right now. Literally the only things I'm playing against are Mech Mage and Hunter. Priest is just too reliant on combos and is too reactive while Warlock is actually in a bad spot right now.

Priest is fine against hunter and mech mage. Use Deathlords.

Indeed, 'I prefer getting Priest on my quest right now to any other class.

In regards to hunters and their "style" I would change the hero power to something similar to shaman .

Instead of totems just use their random traps and lower their strength.

Instead of freeze and remove a minion from board make it freeze minion and adjacent minions for 1 turn.

Instead of 2 dmg fire trap make it 1 dmg .

Snipe to 3 dmg and misdirection can stay the same.

Perhaps this way they can change not just the play style but also class itself .

vulken3_sl said:

In regards to hunters and their "style" I would change the hero power to something similar to shaman .

Instead of totems just use their random traps and lower their strength.

Instead of freeze and remove a minion from board make it freeze minion and adjacent minions for 1 turn.

Instead of 2 dmg fire trap make it 1 dmg .

Snipe to 3 dmg and misdirection can stay the same.

Perhaps this way they can change not just the play style but also class itself .

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That's a pretty interesting idea.

Morrow is right too, both of those traps are stronk, freeze with the recast penalty and explosive with the face damage. I was seriously expecting the face damage to get nerfed a while back while UT face hunters were all the rage. Its kind of a good thing how slow Blizzard is in a way because the nerfs would be awful if they were more kneejerk. Still, seems like when the do something its already months past when the problem was really at its height and the meta has evolved around it.

I just got cenarius and the only druid I've ever played is the comedy mill/fatigue build, so I'd like to build something that makes use of it. Any thoughts on the different types of druid decks that make use of it (ramp/midrange)? Any of those in particular tend to be fairly consistent throughout the seasons? I only really play druid to clear dailies so if I throw much dust at it I want something that does fairly passable regardless of meta. I'm thinking ramp sounds pretty mulligan dependent and easy to get screwed over so I'm leaning more towards something midrange, but figured I'd get some druid player feedback.