Hearthpwn

This sounds a lot like you choosing to nerf cards you've recently lost to. Vexxalus? Really? 

Shockspitter busted af, Astalor played in every single one of the last ten games I've played, class or archetype irrelevant. Such fun. 

It was Renethal that was the big problem though. Yeah, that was the card that needed nerfing because there was some actual resistence against face aggro decks. 

Clearly, this thread is deeply salt fuelled but OP isn't really wrong either. I've been abusing Shockspitter Hunter (because if you're going to play ladder you need to basically be more obnoxious than your opponent) and it enables some real nonsense and doesn't really feel like it belongs in what a new meta should represent. The Renethal nerf really dumped on control decks hard and burst from hand has risen strongly from it and Brann does a lot of heavy lifting. 

I'm of the opinion that Brann should have probably been looked at once they decided to nerf Renethal because it's made it way more viable than it should be. 

Can confirm this deck is hilariously busted. Would be surprised if something from this deck doesn't get nerfed. It feels very overtuned. It's not rare to have multiple lethal options from hand with the spitters and Astalor. 

I present to you this...

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I don't really enjoy Hearthstone anymore but I'm in too deep (since Beta) so I keep playing but I'm finding my stretches of time away from the game are growing. 

There is no real variety and net-decking is pretty tedious (but basically necessary if you want to be competitive at all) so I don't find as much impetus to boot the game up as often. This is partly down to the fact that we just rotated a ton of cards out but it's more down to the philosophy of Team5 that I don't think has been good since Brode left the company. 

I'm finding way more fun to be had in Final Fantasy XIV these days

Don't know why people are surprised. Team 5 has been shite since Brode left. 

It's just not good enough. Even in its most ideal situation, you're still spending five for a 3/3 that clears a bunch of low health minions at its absolute peak efficiency. 

The rest of the time it's a dead draw and there are better options at the 5 mana slot.

Maybe if it was a 5 mana 3/5 with taunt that dealt 4 to all minion types it might see some play. 

Galakrond can easily fit in Priest without the full invoke package. It has one of the weakest Galakrond effects fully invoked but one of the very best hero powers so it is more than viable to put galakrond in alone without the package when it comes to priest.

 If you're going to have a moan at least understand what you're talking about first, eh.

Grim Fandango -- It's old now but there is a remastered version. One of the most unique settings and the best stories ever. Simply one of the greatest games ever made. 

Final Fantasy 9 -- Everyone has their favourite FF game. This is mine. 

Mass Effect Trilogy -- Epic Sci-fi done right

The Walking Dead Trilogy -- I never cared much for the TV show. Clem's journey is way more compelling

Hearthstone -- The stories I have to tell myself to keep justifying playing this fucking game are truly inventive. 

These salt threads are highly annoying, especially since we have a dedicated mega thread for it. your salt is not more worthy than those that post in the correct thread. 

THAT SAID, I don't subscribe to the idea that more shouldn't be done to keep wild a bit more balanced (it will never be properly balanced but truly degenerate decks ruin the format altogether.) 

Personally I'd like to see new wild modes that only utilize certain combinations of sets (you can change it every 1 or 2 months or something.) 

This would allow players to have fun in entirely different metas and it would be way more balanced because it wouldn't have every card available. 

If it became popular then I could see people buying more wild packs which could make it lucrative for Blizzard alongside keeping the game fresh in-between expansions but we all know they don't give a toss about the format and are only interested in keeping people jonesing for news sets. 

Having a legendary with a specific effect come down earlier or be able to be combo'd with other cards is often vital to the effect. 

Is a 6 mana 6/6 Zola the Gorgon preferable over the 3 mana 2/2 version we got? Clearly not. The 3 mana 2/2 version is WAY better. 

Stats, in that case, are in a distant third of importance compared to the actual effect and cost of the card. 

What is the better legendary? Bloodmage Thalnos with its paltry 1/1 stats or Majordomo Executus with its beefy body and effect? 

Bloodmage is a far better card. 

The effect of a legendary is way more important than the stats attached. That isn't to say that this is always the case of course. If you look at a card like Archmage Arugal then his 2/2 stats stopped what could have been a very good effect from ever really breaking into the meta because it almost never survived on board. That's usually the exception rather than the rule though.

What's Blizzard's idea on dealing with 5 secrets from all classes? Do they think as a casual player I'll memorize them, or am I OBLIGATED to use Hearhtpwn's secrets calculator? 

Umm, yes? It's a competitive card game in a ranked mode. You are absolutely meant to know the secrets your opponent could have played and which ones are currently viable in the meta. The fact that you would think having to learn some aspects of the actual game to get past PLATINUM ranked mode is unreasonable is asinine. 

Hearthstone is not a difficult game but having knowledge about the cards and decks currently being played is kind of mandatory if you want to continue progressing in ranked mode. Would you play World of Warcraft and expect to do well in raid content if you didn't know your own classes rotation or the mechanics of the fight? 

The game does have issues with balance and the design philosophy that Team5 employs is often inexplicable. There are valid reasons to be annoyed with the state of the game but I think your complaints are aimed at some really unavoidable features of CCG's. 

This might be bordering meme territory a tad but the concept is so bonkers who cares. I have to try this. 

There is a dedicated salt thread. 

There are hard counters for Bomb Warrior already in the game, although why you'd want to run them in this meta is anyone's guess. Just accept you got wrecked by a fully off-meta deck and move on.