So I've been playing Hearthstone for 4ish years, and I took a break before Goblins V Gnomes and came back for Un'Goro.
I have been playing a lot of ranked play in an effort to get my golden heroes, and I am only a couple away from having them all golden finally. But, I find I am getting the most joy out of things like these recent Tavern Brawls where we get to play the Rastakhan Run, but against other players.
I have also actually strayed away from Standard, and went back to playing Wild, and enjoying more of the goofy and zany decks that people come up with in that format, but still work. I find it fascinating that while there are a large number of people that are playing this game competitively, there are still a number of people that are just playing the game because it is fun.
Now I get that winning is fun. And getting that Golden Epic every month is incredibly rewarding. But maybe it's my apathy, but I stopped caring about that reward and just want to have fun more than anything.
So I'm curious, where does everyone else find the most enjoyment in playing and why?
Crafting and playing my own decks is the most fun. Only then a victory feels realy good. I also prefer to play things that people don´t use. I moved to wild this season for the first time. I don´t know if i will be able to hit legend being stuck at R4 and the time is limited but i am satisfied that my deck works and i get invited and asked for the decklist :-).
For years, I play Reno/Kazakus decks. Sometimes adding Nozdormu, Flame Leviathan, Mayyor Noggenfogger :s My winrate approximately 30%. Whenever Blizzard nerf cards, its always possitive effecting to me :)
I also like to see myself as a special little snowflake and enjoy playing home brew decks that actually work or try interesting decks people from sites like this or streamers come up with.
I do this in both standard and wild (usually reach rank5 in both) but enjoy wild more since there is at least a little bit more variety in the opponents decks it feels like (I would play standard only if I would enjoy facing only beast hunter, wall priest and gallery priest, but nah)
My all time favorite decks are probably steal priest, reno-deathrattle priest and reno-deathrattle warrior as well as renolock(all including N'Zoth the corrupt or of course).
I also like to dabble in the mills, have been doing pretty well with old school milldruid(no togg) and mill lock with howlfiend and felreaver-treachery combo.
And pretty much every stupid ok-combo that I can find and afford I will try to make work at least once
In standard I enjoyed rush warrior the last couple of days, although it is a net deck (vs) it is appealing to me since it features lots of new cards, feels fresh and I did not have a single mirror match in 20+ games(like I said, 80%is Priest and hunter for me atm).
Crafting and playing my own decks is the most fun. Only then a victory feels realy good. I also prefer to play things that people don´t use. I moved to wild this season for the first time. I don´t know if i will be able to hit legend being stuck at R4 and the time is limited but i am satisfied that my deck works and i get invited and asked for the decklist :-).
Homebrewing my own Tempo decks and variants in Wild. Which is why i absolutely love Genn Greymane (and no, not because of top usual Even decks, but because of Rogue, Druid and hopefully Priest in some future).
But lately I fell in love with Standard Myracle Rogue, and the fact i wasn't able to customize it efficiently is compensated by its incredible power in the current Standard meta: you feel like you can defeat any opponent, given the proper card draw (and so far I think Myra's Unstable Element always led me to the burst I needed to seal the game).
I don't particularly enjoy playing one archetype vs another if the RPS factor is too high, but I do enjoy playing 50/50 and slightly favoured/slightly unfavoured matchups (for this reason I played a ton of Even Warlock in Boomsday meta as it was pretty much 50% vs everything and opponents weren't able to hide from a skill matchup by queueing a polarising deck).
Aggro (plus tempo and midrange) mirrors are highly enjoyable for me because they are what Hearthstone is all about. Fighting for board, micromanaging trades and optimising mana usage and are deceptively difficult to play optimally.
I also really enjoy slightly unfavoured control vs combo matchups (provided I have a means to control their win condition) and finding creative ways to beat them (for example Stonehill Defender > Cornered Sentry > Shield Slam against Mecha'thun Druid as Odd Warrior, or making sure to Polymorph 2 of the same minion as Control Mage against Wall Priest to get double value by denying a minion from their res pool completely while adding sheep to it).
There are loads of playstyles I enjoy in Hearthstone, any game that's not a foregone conclusion is enjoyable to me.
Like: Tempo (except zoo), Midrange, Control with BIG minions.
Don't like: Full face aggro because I feel weak, and often run out of options early, I only play it if it is an amazing metacall. Mill, fatigue and OTK decks never sat well for me either even though I did enjoy Raza-priest a bit right before it was nerfed.
Homebrews are ok, but they have failed for me so many times I don't really bother anymore.
I love decks that need a lot of thinking process to work. By that I don't mean necessary clunky lists, but I try not to play those archetypes in which your sole objective is to vomit your hand on the board the fastest possible.
I also love highly synergistic decks which force you to think ahead, planning what you will likely do in the following turns.
That being said, I think the answer might be Midrange-Control decks.
I like the "old school" control type matches, where you battle for card advantage and outplay your opponents. Or steal priest / burgle rogue, where you can (have to) adapt to a situation with the cards you get > leveraging your resources to create card advantage again in the end.
Thats why i like arena the most, it is (or was for a long time) the closest thing to it. Nowadays you cant rly play these type of decks on ladder, i mean you can, but you will not enjoy it too much, either you loose too fast, or if you manage to put off the early aggression, almost win on a spot. Then there are all those OTK decks with Mechathun, Togwaggle and such. Rly not a great enironment to play the type of game i enjoy.
I mean i still play it, i dont have the greates of winrates, but at least im having fun playing what i love, problem is what i wrote earlier, either aggro smorces you down fast, or if you can survive long enough, they just quit and you dont get to enjoy the control aspect of it, cause your opponent is out of breath and there is no point for him to play it out anymore :(
What I play depends on my mood; sometimes I love the efficiency of aggro decks, sometimes the grindy control-style or a flashy combo. I mostly just like tinkering with decks to be honest.
I find the most fun in playing friendly matches, something I feel people don't do that often!
I like Combo and Midrange the most. Depending on the deck I can also enjoy aggro (but I often feel so weak) and some control decks (I love big spell mage, with some big minions in it aswell)
What I dislike are decks like Odd Warrior whos win condition is to stack armour out of range and remove your minions with 1 spell while sitting arround and just doing absolutely nothing. It just feels unfun for me to play against, my wins against them dont even feel satisfying.
I have to say that I personally really like Control and Combo play styles.
In years passed, I played MTG and started to judge through the DCI. I just started to feel like the environment was becoming stagnant and that the few changes that were coming through were not good ones. Which is why I loved finding Hearthstone.
Currently I am loving my Warrior Dragon deck in Wild that I made. Absolute control deck. But I also have a hard time straying away from typical "net decks" like Exodia Mage, Mecha Priest, Mecha Druid, and of course... Anything Warlock.
I mainly play wild due to its card pool. And have fun for mostly play meme or my homebrew decks, ofc for casually. But in ranked? nope not gonna work against those brainless aggro smorc decks like they kill you on turn 5 and you can't do shit 😂 So at the beginning of season, i just rush to rank 5 (just for season reward, otherwise not worth my time grinding against same aggro decks all over again aaand ofc big priest) with control tier 1-2 decks and then mainly play casual where aggro decks are less than ranked wich means even my homebrew/memedecks could have 50% winrate, so that way i can have fun. Furthermore my favorite decks are meme-ish and homebrew control/combo decks. As you see i really hate aggro decks like they just smorc you and requires no skill. I know decks should be paper rock scissor bla bla bla but still. And for who plays those decks, i would say what's the point, i mean you just grind and get to the legend, grats you're 6000-7000th legend then what? even rank 5 and legend rewards are almost same. All Hail Meme decks and screw those aggro decks 😂
ps: guys just create your own decks and have fun, btw sorry for my bad english 🙂
I used to play constructed only with an odd Arena run here and there. I was desperately trying to get to Legend and I've finally done it with a deck I've created myself. After that, I guarded the Rank 5 gate with my shitty meme decks for a long time. Whenever I found an effective netdeck I liked playing, I went for Legend casually and believe it or not, you can get to Legend a lot easier when you're not stressing about it.
My favorite deck type is definitely Mill decks. They are just so satisfying and hilarious to play. I also love Reno and mostly control decks. Wouldn't mind an effective tempo deck as well. And I love secrets! Secrets are just way too much fun.
Nowadays, I play Arena %90 of the time, because I think I'm gradually getting better at it. My new goal is to get 12 wins with every class. (Shaman, Rogue, Druid left)
I like the "old school" control type matches, where you battle for card advantage and outplay your opponents. Or steal priest / burgle rogue, where you can (have to) adapt to a situation with the cards you get > leveraging your resources to create card advantage again in the end.
Thats why i like arena the most, it is (or was for a long time) the closest thing to it. Nowadays you cant rly play these type of decks on ladder, i mean you can, but you will not enjoy it too much, either you loose too fast, or if you manage to put off the early aggression, almost win on a spot. Then there are all those OTK decks with Mechathun, Togwaggle and such. Rly not a great enironment to play the type of game i enjoy.
I mean i still play it, i dont have the greates of winrates, but at least im having fun playing what i love, problem is what i wrote earlier, either aggro smorces you down fast, or if you can survive long enough, they just quit and you dont get to enjoy the control aspect of it, cause your opponent is out of breath and there is no point for him to play it out anymore :(
Arena is more about drafting a good curve and 90% of the successful decks you draft will be mid-rangey, with both early-game strong minions and AOEs. I enjoy getting greedy on my drafting process (picking 4 Dragon Roars or 3 Thought Steals for example), but usually the run won't last long enough for me to play out those greedy cards.
I main arena b.c. ladder at times just feels very repetitive and the old-school control versus control matchups are too rare to queue into.
So I've been playing Hearthstone for 4ish years, and I took a break before Goblins V Gnomes and came back for Un'Goro.
I have been playing a lot of ranked play in an effort to get my golden heroes, and I am only a couple away from having them all golden finally. But, I find I am getting the most joy out of things like these recent Tavern Brawls where we get to play the Rastakhan Run, but against other players.
I have also actually strayed away from Standard, and went back to playing Wild, and enjoying more of the goofy and zany decks that people come up with in that format, but still work. I find it fascinating that while there are a large number of people that are playing this game competitively, there are still a number of people that are just playing the game because it is fun.
Now I get that winning is fun. And getting that Golden Epic every month is incredibly rewarding. But maybe it's my apathy, but I stopped caring about that reward and just want to have fun more than anything.
So I'm curious, where does everyone else find the most enjoyment in playing and why?
Crafting and playing my own decks is the most fun. Only then a victory feels realy good. I also prefer to play things that people don´t use. I moved to wild this season for the first time. I don´t know if i will be able to hit legend being stuck at R4 and the time is limited but i am satisfied that my deck works and i get invited and asked for the decklist :-).
For years, I play Reno/Kazakus decks. Sometimes adding Nozdormu, Flame Leviathan, Mayyor Noggenfogger :s My winrate approximately 30%. Whenever Blizzard nerf cards, its always possitive effecting to me :)
I also like to see myself as a special little snowflake and enjoy playing home brew decks that actually work or try interesting decks people from sites like this or streamers come up with.
I do this in both standard and wild (usually reach rank5 in both) but enjoy wild more since there is at least a little bit more variety in the opponents decks it feels like (I would play standard only if I would enjoy facing only beast hunter, wall priest and gallery priest, but nah)
My all time favorite decks are probably steal priest, reno-deathrattle priest and reno-deathrattle warrior as well as renolock(all including N'Zoth the corrupt or of course).
I also like to dabble in the mills, have been doing pretty well with old school milldruid(no togg) and mill lock with howlfiend and felreaver-treachery combo.
And pretty much every stupid ok-combo that I can find and afford I will try to make work at least once
In standard I enjoyed rush warrior the last couple of days, although it is a net deck (vs) it is appealing to me since it features lots of new cards, feels fresh and I did not have a single mirror match in 20+ games(like I said, 80%is Priest and hunter for me atm).
So yeah, that is what floats my boat I guess
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I'm a Johnny/Timmy type of player, so I play very little aggro and combo. Tempo/Midrange and control style decks are just more fun.
Homebrewing my own Tempo decks and variants in Wild. Which is why i absolutely love Genn Greymane (and no, not because of top usual Even decks, but because of Rogue, Druid and hopefully Priest in some future).
But lately I fell in love with Standard Myracle Rogue, and the fact i wasn't able to customize it efficiently is compensated by its incredible power in the current Standard meta: you feel like you can defeat any opponent, given the proper card draw (and so far I think Myra's Unstable Element always led me to the burst I needed to seal the game).
I don't particularly enjoy playing one archetype vs another if the RPS factor is too high, but I do enjoy playing 50/50 and slightly favoured/slightly unfavoured matchups (for this reason I played a ton of Even Warlock in Boomsday meta as it was pretty much 50% vs everything and opponents weren't able to hide from a skill matchup by queueing a polarising deck).
Aggro (plus tempo and midrange) mirrors are highly enjoyable for me because they are what Hearthstone is all about. Fighting for board, micromanaging trades and optimising mana usage and are deceptively difficult to play optimally.
I also really enjoy slightly unfavoured control vs combo matchups (provided I have a means to control their win condition) and finding creative ways to beat them (for example Stonehill Defender > Cornered Sentry > Shield Slam against Mecha'thun Druid as Odd Warrior, or making sure to Polymorph 2 of the same minion as Control Mage against Wall Priest to get double value by denying a minion from their res pool completely while adding sheep to it).
There are loads of playstyles I enjoy in Hearthstone, any game that's not a foregone conclusion is enjoyable to me.
Like: Tempo (except zoo), Midrange, Control with BIG minions.
Don't like: Full face aggro because I feel weak, and often run out of options early, I only play it if it is an amazing metacall. Mill, fatigue and OTK decks never sat well for me either even though I did enjoy Raza-priest a bit right before it was nerfed.
Homebrews are ok, but they have failed for me so many times I don't really bother anymore.
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I love decks that need a lot of thinking process to work. By that I don't mean necessary clunky lists, but I try not to play those archetypes in which your sole objective is to vomit your hand on the board the fastest possible.
I also love highly synergistic decks which force you to think ahead, planning what you will likely do in the following turns.
That being said, I think the answer might be Midrange-Control decks.
I like the "old school" control type matches, where you battle for card advantage and outplay your opponents. Or steal priest / burgle rogue, where you can (have to) adapt to a situation with the cards you get > leveraging your resources to create card advantage again in the end.
Thats why i like arena the most, it is (or was for a long time) the closest thing to it. Nowadays you cant rly play these type of decks on ladder, i mean you can, but you will not enjoy it too much, either you loose too fast, or if you manage to put off the early aggression, almost win on a spot. Then there are all those OTK decks with Mechathun, Togwaggle and such. Rly not a great enironment to play the type of game i enjoy.
I mean i still play it, i dont have the greates of winrates, but at least im having fun playing what i love, problem is what i wrote earlier, either aggro smorces you down fast, or if you can survive long enough, they just quit and you dont get to enjoy the control aspect of it, cause your opponent is out of breath and there is no point for him to play it out anymore :(
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What I play depends on my mood; sometimes I love the efficiency of aggro decks, sometimes the grindy control-style or a flashy combo. I mostly just like tinkering with decks to be honest.
I find the most fun in playing friendly matches, something I feel people don't do that often!
I like Combo and Midrange the most. Depending on the deck I can also enjoy aggro (but I often feel so weak) and some control decks (I love big spell mage, with some big minions in it aswell)
What I dislike are decks like Odd Warrior whos win condition is to stack armour out of range and remove your minions with 1 spell while sitting arround and just doing absolutely nothing. It just feels unfun for me to play against, my wins against them dont even feel satisfying.
I have to say that I personally really like Control and Combo play styles.
In years passed, I played MTG and started to judge through the DCI. I just started to feel like the environment was becoming stagnant and that the few changes that were coming through were not good ones. Which is why I loved finding Hearthstone.
Currently I am loving my Warrior Dragon deck in Wild that I made. Absolute control deck. But I also have a hard time straying away from typical "net decks" like Exodia Mage, Mecha Priest, Mecha Druid, and of course... Anything Warlock.
I mainly play wild due to its card pool. And have fun for mostly play meme or my homebrew decks, ofc for casually. But in ranked? nope not gonna work against those brainless aggro smorc decks like they kill you on turn 5 and you can't do shit 😂 So at the beginning of season, i just rush to rank 5 (just for season reward, otherwise not worth my time grinding against same aggro decks all over again aaand ofc big priest) with control tier 1-2 decks and then mainly play casual where aggro decks are less than ranked wich means even my homebrew/memedecks could have 50% winrate, so that way i can have fun. Furthermore my favorite decks are meme-ish and homebrew control/combo decks. As you see i really hate aggro decks like they just smorc you and requires no skill. I know decks should be paper rock scissor bla bla bla but still. And for who plays those decks, i would say what's the point, i mean you just grind and get to the legend, grats you're 6000-7000th legend then what? even rank 5 and legend rewards are almost same. All Hail Meme decks and screw those aggro decks 😂
ps: guys just create your own decks and have fun, btw sorry for my bad english 🙂
I used to play constructed only with an odd Arena run here and there. I was desperately trying to get to Legend and I've finally done it with a deck I've created myself. After that, I guarded the Rank 5 gate with my shitty meme decks for a long time. Whenever I found an effective netdeck I liked playing, I went for Legend casually and believe it or not, you can get to Legend a lot easier when you're not stressing about it.
My favorite deck type is definitely Mill decks. They are just so satisfying and hilarious to play. I also love Reno and mostly control decks. Wouldn't mind an effective tempo deck as well. And I love secrets! Secrets are just way too much fun.
Nowadays, I play Arena %90 of the time, because I think I'm gradually getting better at it. My new goal is to get 12 wins with every class. (Shaman, Rogue, Druid left)
Hats off to you. I loved Limited with MTG, but I was good at it. I think the best that I have done in Arena is 5 and out.
Arena is more about drafting a good curve and 90% of the successful decks you draft will be mid-rangey, with both early-game strong minions and AOEs. I enjoy getting greedy on my drafting process (picking 4 Dragon Roars or 3 Thought Steals for example), but usually the run won't last long enough for me to play out those greedy cards.
I main arena b.c. ladder at times just feels very repetitive and the old-school control versus control matchups are too rare to queue into.
I can agree with that. When I hit the ladder, its a crap shoot with loaded dice as to which deck you're facing.
Where as with Arena, it's more like Roulette. Not a whole lotta theme or incredabuilds come from it.