So.. its 2016 and Hearthstone has come along way and while some find the ladder cancerous others find it great and the best it's ever been
Fact is in the current meta all deck archetypes & play styles are viable! mostly listed as: Aggro,Midrange,Control,Fatigue,ComboOtks among others..
But when does it become too much? I fear that you wont be able to just ride 1 type of deck/class to climb/progress and I'm not sure if its a bad thing or not.. so many mixed opinions. Ofcourse none of us want to go back to the days when zoolock or facehunter dominated the ladder and just aggro face decks in general but currently with so much variety it's also very possible to find yourself stuck just because you ran into your deck/class counter and become part of an endless loop where you don't rank down but don't progress either.. Thoughts?
There is actually a point when some strategies start to get hindered by variety.
For example, in MTG, modern has recently "suffered" drastic changes after the banning of Birthing Pod, key card in a dominant deck at the time. What followed was an explosion of decks that came back, now that their oppressor was no more (also pod players had to come up with some new deck to keep playing). Ultimately, the result was a huge problem for reactive decks, like jund/abzan, because you need to react to too many different things throughout a tournament to win the whole thing. Even with a 15 cards sideboard, you still couldn't reliably answer every single deck: some rely on strong lands, some dump hundreds of artifacts, some want to burn you fast, others play lots of 1/1 flying tokens... and even with very specialized tech flexible sideboard cards, you just won't be able to deal with every strategy.
Now, HS is light years away from MTG in terms of specialized tech cards. Seriously, you can literally play the best version of the deck you're playing and it's going to be good enough. There is no deck that is aiming to hinder all other decks by abusing very effective cards... I mean, there are control decks... and those are not going trough the best time in HS history, but they can still have a good win ratio in the hands of good pilots.
Variety is awesome. Everyone can play decks they feel like playing and progress on the ladder. It is also great experience for new players ensuring that they are exposed to heaps of different deck types. I think this type of environment makes people think very hard about deck composition and their choice of tech cards. I don't think variety could ever be an issue.
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Everybody agrees on variety to be good, and that's why some of us want Mysterious Challenger to be nerfed, for instance. Like I wanted Undertaker to be nerf because of being really too powerful: people were extremely divided (in fact, between the one abusing of it, and those having enough self-esteem to play something else), but today everybody agrees on the nerf to be good for variety.
I think LOE was a very good step (after the semi-fail of TGT) toward more diversity and a game which valorize value more than tempo.
I hope blizzard will one day see that while they always gave more weapons to early game the forgot the late game, deck lists being now limited to cards which cost is between 1 and 6 (+ Dr. Boom)
Ladder feels very grindy right now. Not saying thats a bad thing just an observation. When face was all the place it was easy to play a deck that shit on aggro and climb fast.
Funny how people hate RNG, but love "Varied metas". With a meta that has a lot of decks, your win is basically decided by RNG. Want to play freeze mage? Well, there's a 10% chance you lose on the spot and there's nothing you can do about it! Basically, my point is that you can't "read" a varied meta, so you just need to play any competitive deck and hope for the best.
Ladder feels very grindy right now. Not saying thats a bad thing just an observation. When face was all the place it was easy to play a deck that shit on aggro and climb fast.
Which is why I now wonder if having a single archetype dominate was so bad.
So.. its 2016 and Hearthstone has come along way and while some find the ladder cancerous others find it great and the best it's ever been
Fact is in the current meta all deck archetypes & play styles are viable! mostly listed as: Aggro,Midrange,Control,Fatigue,ComboOtks among others..
But when does it become too much? I fear that you wont be able to just ride 1 type of deck/class to climb/progress and I'm not sure if its a bad thing or not.. so many mixed opinions. Ofcourse none of us want to go back to the days when zoolock or facehunter dominated the ladder and just aggro face decks in general but currently with so much variety it's also very possible to find yourself stuck just because you ran into your deck/class counter and become part of an endless loop where you don't rank down but don't progress either.. Thoughts?
Or you play no skill Secret Paladin and get to legend.
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Variety is better so one deck doesn't control ladder.
To answer your question, variety will never be a problem.
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There is actually a point when some strategies start to get hindered by variety.
For example, in MTG, modern has recently "suffered" drastic changes after the banning of Birthing Pod, key card in a dominant deck at the time. What followed was an explosion of decks that came back, now that their oppressor was no more (also pod players had to come up with some new deck to keep playing). Ultimately, the result was a huge problem for reactive decks, like jund/abzan, because you need to react to too many different things throughout a tournament to win the whole thing. Even with a 15 cards sideboard, you still couldn't reliably answer every single deck: some rely on strong lands, some dump hundreds of artifacts, some want to burn you fast, others play lots of 1/1 flying tokens... and even with very specialized tech flexible sideboard cards, you just won't be able to deal with every strategy.
Now, HS is light years away from MTG in terms of specialized tech cards. Seriously, you can literally play the best version of the deck you're playing and it's going to be good enough. There is no deck that is aiming to hinder all other decks by abusing very effective cards... I mean, there are control decks... and those are not going trough the best time in HS history, but they can still have a good win ratio in the hands of good pilots.
Variety is awesome. Everyone can play decks they feel like playing and progress on the ladder. It is also great experience for new players ensuring that they are exposed to heaps of different deck types. I think this type of environment makes people think very hard about deck composition and their choice of tech cards. I don't think variety could ever be an issue.
If you feel like going on tilt, just do it. Feels good.
Everybody agrees on variety to be good, and that's why some of us want Mysterious Challenger to be nerfed, for instance. Like I wanted Undertaker to be nerf because of being really too powerful: people were extremely divided (in fact, between the one abusing of it, and those having enough self-esteem to play something else), but today everybody agrees on the nerf to be good for variety.
I think LOE was a very good step (after the semi-fail of TGT) toward more diversity and a game which valorize value more than tempo.
I hope blizzard will one day see that while they always gave more weapons to early game the forgot the late game, deck lists being now limited to cards which cost is between 1 and 6 (+ Dr. Boom)
Ladder feels very grindy right now. Not saying thats a bad thing just an observation. When face was all the place it was easy to play a deck that shit on aggro and climb fast.
Funny how people hate RNG, but love "Varied metas". With a meta that has a lot of decks, your win is basically decided by RNG. Want to play freeze mage? Well, there's a 10% chance you lose on the spot and there's nothing you can do about it! Basically, my point is that you can't "read" a varied meta, so you just need to play any competitive deck and hope for the best.
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