the thing is that hunter is still the cheapest deck, only 2 epics, 0 legendaries (some versions run Barnes but he's not necessary at all ) and the rest is commons and rares, well Quick Shot is kind of expensive but not that much really since two wings are actually affordable, and anyways hunter nowadays is not as strong as the abomination that was Naxx's undertaker hunter and 2 mana uth+2mana buzzard combo
everyone wan to win and climb fast. hunter, zoo, shaman, warrior and mage are solid choice in current meta.
almost every online game dominate by xxx strategic, deck, hero, class etc. always got one is most efficient one and everyone will use to win and climb fast . you cannot tell them to play inefficient deck and let you get the free win,
Aggro shammy + midrange/secret hunter are the flavour of the month(s). Have to get used to it.
Aggro Shaman has been the flavor of the month for almost a year now. Since LoE really. I'm getting pretty tired of Hunter as well though due to the fact that "midrange" hunter is so powerful and is pretty consistently played across all ranks and both modes. In standard between ranks 10-legend there are a lot of hunters. In standard legend a lot of hunters. In wild between ranks 10-4 there are a lot of hunters (wow so wild) and in both casual modes there are a lot of hunters. At least when I get tired of Shamans I can go to wild.
Midrange Hunter is getting tiresome. Killer sticky minions, plenty of removal and burst damage, and once you get to turns 6,7,8.... things start to get ugly. Even if you survive and fight back you are usually down to about 13-15 health by the mid to late turns so at that point you are probably dead to kill command, hero power, weapon, or a second call of the wild. Ugh.
Just came came after taking a break. I skipped the entire Wrath expansion because I hated it.
Now I came back and started playing. Started ranking up. Got to rank 10 and then I faced nothing but hunter. 5 in a row to be exact.
Turned the game off.
Is it back to this again? Is it hunter meta deluxe all over again like Naxx was I just really unlucky?
Rank 10 isn't the meta.
It is for rank 10. There's multiple metas. Tempostorm only reports the high end version. For the majority of players, it's not too relevant as they are in the lower ranks. For most folks, the rank 15-5 meta is the meta they really care about.
Though the point of the replies is to let the OP know that his 5 hunter experience isn't THAT typical. Hunter is popular but not as nasty as they were when he first played and shamans are much more common.
Unfortunately that "call of the wild" card is so good that people who dont have a lot of legendaries gravitate to hunter now because of it.
They gravitate to hunter because it's one of the only high tier decks that don't require a high expense to wield.
So basically newbies, instead of having to just lose all day in a P2W world have access to a powerful midrange deck without months of investment. And it's not a face deck or Yogg.
That's not unfortunate. That sure beats the "gotta play face decks" for some metas and the "gotta spend 2 months to create a viable deck.. and it's aggro" for the other half of HS' meta life.
CotW is why hunters finally abandoned going aggro and went back to a slower game. So that's something. The issue is that the 9-10 drops are either too weak or too random (hi Yogg). A viable 10 drop will be basically a CotW+2 in power level at minimum, perhaps more so since it's literally your entire turn.
That's what's being asked for when people ask for Control. The point to non-fatigue control is to stall until you have the mana to drop unstoppable expensive cards. You don't get 'unstoppable expensive cards' out of Troggzor and Gruul.
So how do you then stop such unstoppable cards? By playing Midrange and killing them with double CotW beforehand. Which is then stopped by double doomhammer after getting hit by Trogg at turn 5. Which is then stopped by Tempo styled Dragon decks. Which tend to stall the game too long against control long enough for the unstoppable cards to see play...
Just came came after taking a break. I skipped the entire Wrath expansion because I hated it.
Now I came back and started playing. Started ranking up. Got to rank 10 and then I faced nothing but hunter. 5 in a row to be exact.
Turned the game off.
Is it back to this again? Is it hunter meta deluxe all over again like Naxx was I just really unlucky?
Most people say It's mainly a shaman meta... Plus druid is on the rise.
So you were probably unlucky.
Aggro shammy + midrange/secret hunter are the flavour of the month(s). Have to get used to it.
Just came back to heartpwn after taking a break.
looking trough forums and everybody is complaining about a card or a deck or something.
i play strictly tempo mage this season and there are a LOT of shamans, so many that I started running arcane explosion to clear their board.
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I started playing only aggro/fast decks cuz I dont want to lose to Yogg. Anything but losing to Yogg.
the thing is that hunter is still the cheapest deck, only 2 epics, 0 legendaries (some versions run Barnes but he's not necessary at all ) and the rest is commons and rares, well Quick Shot is kind of expensive but not that much really since two wings are actually affordable, and anyways hunter nowadays is not as strong as the abomination that was Naxx's undertaker hunter and 2 mana uth+2mana buzzard combo
The Hunters probably Faced you
Just gonna leave this here
everyone wan to win and climb fast. hunter, zoo, shaman, warrior and mage are solid choice in current meta.
almost every online game dominate by xxx strategic, deck, hero, class etc. always got one is most efficient one and everyone will use to win and climb fast . you cannot tell them to play inefficient deck and let you get the free win,
Doomhammer is a delight to see compared to call of the wild imo.
i quit months ago due to midrange/aggrofest hunter/shaman/warrior tempo crap
checking to see if anything changed, looks the same
Midrange Hunter is getting tiresome. Killer sticky minions, plenty of removal and burst damage, and once you get to turns 6,7,8.... things start to get ugly. Even if you survive and fight back you are usually down to about 13-15 health by the mid to late turns so at that point you are probably dead to kill command, hero power, weapon, or a second call of the wild. Ugh.
and focking freezing trap. Horrible crap.
I win due to skill and lose due to bad RNG. :D
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
Unfortunately that "call of the wild" card is so good that people who dont have a lot of legendaries gravitate to hunter now because of it.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
I played over 60 games in rank 5 patiently over the weekend
Win rate only 45%- why you ask? because of 60 games 28 hunters. Yes half of it.
Until COW is out of rotation this game is ruined. its pointless.