This is the first expansion pack I haven’t purchased full tilt in years. I’m one of those idiots who has spent hundreds of dollars per year on this game for many years running.
Here is my thing: I hate net-decks, and chasing the meta. My favorite part of this game is to experiment with some bizarre deck that may have a 40/60 chance at winning in casual, but probably only 20/80 in ranked.
Now that everything is ranked, the loss of a casual play mode has completely killed the way I enjoy the game. I’ll probably get the hottest net deck and play once a day to check the boxes and get my quests, but the joy has been sucked out of HS for me by this change.
Oh well, at least I’ll be spending less money on HS. Wife will appreciate that.
This is not correct. How Casual works now is the game recognizes what kind of deck you have selected, whether it is Wild, Standard or Classic. Then, when you queue, it will automatically select your opponent that is using a deck from the same mode. So, if you play a Standard deck, it will match you with an opponent also playing a Standard deck.
I don’t blame the OP for being confused. Blizzard released this change to the game UI without any advance notice or explanation, in-game or otherwise. Even veterans were confused. Blizzard has to be more clear about how some game functions work. Add this to the list that includes the 11-star ranked bonus.
This is the first expansion pack I haven’t purchased full tilt in years. I’m one of those idiots who has spent hundreds of dollars per year on this game for many years running.
Here is my thing: I hate net-decks, and chasing the meta. My favorite part of this game is to experiment with some bizarre deck that may have a 40/60 chance at winning in casual, but probably only 20/80 in ranked.
Now that everything is ranked, the loss of a casual play mode has completely killed the way I enjoy the game. I’ll probably get the hottest net deck and play once a day to check the boxes and get my quests, but the joy has been sucked out of HS for me by this change.
Oh well, at least I’ll be spending less money on HS. Wife will appreciate that.
Casual standard is the only mode I currently play. I'm sure I queued for some games a few hours ago, so yeah.. It still exists.
This is factually incorrect. Casual mode only ques standard decks to other standard decks in casual mode, and same for wild decks. You do not ever play standard vs. wild in casual.
Blizzard did fail to properly communicate in client how Casual queue works, and I won't repeat it because others on the thread have already done so to a tee. So bright side being what it is, you didn't lose Casual queue!
However, there's a pervading issue with non-Ranked queues in every CCG - Hearthstone, LoR, MTG Arena, etc. Casual queue isn't really that casual, is it? You'll get the occasional person playing a deck that's purely for fun, but you'll see just as many people playtesting decks they intend to ladder with, or people wanting to pubstomp casual players between stretches of ranked games. This may not be as true now if the queue is peeking at decks to see what both players are playing, but I'm not sure if it measures statistics-based power or competency when doing so.
tldr: casual still exists - yay! but casual isn't always casual - boo.
This is the first expansion pack I haven’t purchased full tilt in years. I’m one of those idiots who has spent hundreds of dollars per year on this game for many years running.
Here is my thing: I hate net-decks, and chasing the meta. My favorite part of this game is to experiment with some bizarre deck that may have a 40/60 chance at winning in casual, but probably only 20/80 in ranked.
Now that everything is ranked, the loss of a casual play mode has completely killed the way I enjoy the game. I’ll probably get the hottest net deck and play once a day to check the boxes and get my quests, but the joy has been sucked out of HS for me by this change.
Oh well, at least I’ll be spending less money on HS. Wife will appreciate that.
How'd you manage to lose casual? You just can't find the button or.....?
It's still there, dude. Idk what you're confused about here.
Not in standard it's not. It's only in wild.
Nothing has changed.
On the queue screen, click on the Format button. Four more buttons will pop up. One of them says "Casual." Click it if you want to play it.
This is not correct. How Casual works now is the game recognizes what kind of deck you have selected, whether it is Wild, Standard or Classic. Then, when you queue, it will automatically select your opponent that is using a deck from the same mode. So, if you play a Standard deck, it will match you with an opponent also playing a Standard deck.
Standard casual is still a thing. You just queue into casual using a standard deck.
You'd think you'd try queuing a game and realize that the deck you choose determines your format before making a dramatic post mourning your loss.
If you choose a standard deck you're in standard casual
I don’t blame the OP for being confused. Blizzard released this change to the game UI without any advance notice or explanation, in-game or otherwise. Even veterans were confused. Blizzard has to be more clear about how some game functions work. Add this to the list that includes the 11-star ranked bonus.
That said, you're still going to run into 95% netdeckers. No way around it, sorry.
Casual standard is the only mode I currently play. I'm sure I queued for some games a few hours ago, so yeah.. It still exists.
This is factually incorrect. Casual mode only ques standard decks to other standard decks in casual mode, and same for wild decks. You do not ever play standard vs. wild in casual.
Blizzard did fail to properly communicate in client how Casual queue works, and I won't repeat it because others on the thread have already done so to a tee. So bright side being what it is, you didn't lose Casual queue!
However, there's a pervading issue with non-Ranked queues in every CCG - Hearthstone, LoR, MTG Arena, etc.
Casual queue isn't really that casual, is it? You'll get the occasional person playing a deck that's purely for fun, but you'll see just as many people playtesting decks they intend to ladder with, or people wanting to pubstomp casual players between stretches of ranked games. This may not be as true now if the queue is peeking at decks to see what both players are playing, but I'm not sure if it measures statistics-based power or competency when doing so.
tldr: casual still exists - yay! but casual isn't always casual - boo.
please don't bully my son
Got it. Thanks for clarifying. I don't read all the patch notes. I just play the game.