I'm just a below average player who happened to love this game (and/or the cards).
Lately, I found myself playing less and less because of,,, well, maybe kind of same as others.
However, I still want those in game gold and card packs for my card collection.
So, too bad but I still have to play the game.
(maybe I'm one of those few who are genuinely excited to have new "need no win" quests coming)
Lately, I developed a weird mentality to play this game, to match my sub-par play style/quality,
just to be able to press the play button without feeling any shitty any more.
I call it "Conceding mentality" (or Loser mentality maybe).
I found it surprisingly working very well for me, a guy who have no intention to play competitively,
but just to stay connected, collect gold and cards.
My preparation:
1. collect those "zero win" quests, reroll others.
2. make your own "fun deck", with any class. any decks that would make you feel happy playing it. funky combos that you (and only you) wholeheartedly believe that it might work, would work, should have worked (but never work).
My conceding mentality:
1. Opponent is Shaman => concede
2. Opponent is Control Warrior => concede
3. Opponent is Tempo/Freeze Mage => concede
4. Your starting hand/draw is shitty? => concede
5. Your RNG sucks? => concede
6. Your opponent RNG is god roll? => concede
7. For some reasons you didn't concede since No.3, but got Mana Wrymed->Coined->Arcane Missilesed->Mirror Imaged => concede
8. Got Fiery War Axed turn 2 and 3 => concede
9. Got Fireland Portaled => concede
10. Got Yogged => concede
11. Got Arcane Giant(s)ed => concede
12. Got Malygosed => concede no need to concede, you are dead anyway
12. Got Backstabbed twice in a roll? => concede
13. Got Swashburglared into Tirion (that you don't even have it) => concede
After you adopted above mentalities, I assure you would find yourself at rank 20 in no time,
(actually only No. 1-3 would make you straight to rank 20 in less than an hour anyway, depending on your current rank.)
But somehow, you will also find that this game became digestible again.
If you do those concedes automatically and do not use your brain to compute any of them, you would feel really REALLY zen.
Zero salt involved. Absolute Zen.
Does anyone share some of those mentalities? and care to share yours?
Cheers,
PS. no need to bash me as a loser, cos I already knew that.
But if you need to do so to feel empowered or improve your self-esteem, I really can't stop you to do so.
Zen is when you are at peace while playing against shaman, concentrating only on the best play you can make without worrying that his deck is better. It is actually playing the difficult game but having no negative or positive emotions based on outcomes outside your control (like the winner) but only negative and positive emotions about things under your control (how well you play).
Personally I concede against control Warrior and Priest in the casual room because I can't justify 20 minute + games.
I don't see how you can love the game when you lose, and when you can't play the best cards and combos in the game,the bread and butter of HS, you should try ESL or Faeria or Runescape: Chronicles, maybe they will be a better game for you, less RNG bullcrap.
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The 1st step towards a better game is firing Mike Donais! We had enough of his "skillful" balances!
No bro, just no. Try to do your dailies with the loss mentality, without conceding. Play fun decks, you may lose more often than you win, but it's so fun to outplay boring decks!
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Remember playing Control Shaman with Reincarnate shenanigans? No? It was fun, here's a refresher!
First of all, those new quests made me install the game again, so I can say that we are on the same side. But...
NEVER, ever concede.
I mean, really. For the obvious practical reasons, what if you face all those "cancer" decks in a row? You will concede 10 games without even playing? And what if this becomes a trend? Imagine people always conceding to Shamans (and to be honest, every class can have a "fun" deck, so no need to ban them altogether). Then people would play Shaman even more, just for the possibility of getting free wins.
If you like you're deck, if you're having fun, then most of the time the opponent doesn't matter. Just keep playing and don't concede ;)
Or.... you could just challenge yourself to become better. Thats kind of the whole point when your playing a game right?
The skill ceiling for most decks is so low that, for control, all that's left is hoping he hasn't drawn the threats you can't counter with the cards you've drawn -- or that you draw the counters you're inevitably going to need to win.
And as mage, you hope your opponent's isn't a warrior, or that he doesn't draw his armor cards.
...
I wonder if the game would be more skilled if players played with their hands revealed. Playing with known information requires more skill than playing with hidden information. Or other skills, rather, because gambling with odds is a skill. Just not a particularily useful one.
When you're playing agaisnt a rogue and you think it's miracle . On turn 5 it stats the turn with Cold Light Oracle with Shadowstep then plays it again. Mill rogues literally makes me rage the most. Lol
Play a meta-countering deck. Ive been playing a janky pirate warrior that loses vs control but absolutley dominates midrange (shamman cough cough) and ive used it to get to rank 12 on a huge winstreak. Your deck doesn't have to be good if it counters the meta.
I'm glad you've found your calling (I'm assuming you're a Johnny since you mentioned you like making fun decks). You should come to Wild if you can afford it, most decks you'll run into from rank 20-5 will be original/fun decks.
Everyone should stop trying to tell each other how to enjoy the game and have fun on their own terms.
Hi guys,
I'm just a below average player who happened to love this game (and/or the cards).
Lately, I found myself playing less and less because of,,, well, maybe kind of same as others.
However, I still want those in game gold and card packs for my card collection.
So, too bad but I still have to play the game.
(maybe I'm one of those few who are genuinely excited to have new "need no win" quests coming)
Lately, I developed a weird mentality to play this game, to match my sub-par play style/quality,
just to be able to press the play button without feeling any shitty any more.
I call it "Conceding mentality" (or Loser mentality maybe).
I found it surprisingly working very well for me, a guy who have no intention to play competitively,
but just to stay connected, collect gold and cards.
My preparation:
1. collect those "zero win" quests, reroll others.
2. make your own "fun deck", with any class. any decks that would make you feel happy playing it. funky combos that you (and only you) wholeheartedly believe that it might work, would work, should have worked (but never work).
My conceding mentality:
1. Opponent is Shaman => concede
2. Opponent is Control Warrior => concede
3. Opponent is Tempo/Freeze Mage => concede
4. Your starting hand/draw is shitty? => concede
5. Your RNG sucks? => concede
6. Your opponent RNG is god roll? => concede
7. For some reasons you didn't concede since No.3, but got Mana Wrymed->Coined->Arcane Missilesed->Mirror Imaged => concede
8. Got Fiery War Axed turn 2 and 3 => concede
9. Got Fireland Portaled => concede
10. Got Yogged => concede
11. Got Arcane Giant(s)ed => concede
12. Got Malygosed =>
concedeno need to concede, you are dead anyway12. Got Backstabbed twice in a roll? => concede
13. Got Swashburglared into Tirion (that you don't even have it) => concede
After you adopted above mentalities, I assure you would find yourself at rank 20 in no time,
(actually only No. 1-3 would make you straight to rank 20 in less than an hour anyway, depending on your current rank.)
But somehow, you will also find that this game became digestible again.
If you do those concedes automatically and do not use your brain to compute any of them, you would feel really REALLY zen.
Zero salt involved. Absolute Zen.
Does anyone share some of those mentalities? and care to share yours?
Cheers,
PS. no need to bash me as a loser, cos I already knew that.
But if you need to do so to feel empowered or improve your self-esteem, I really can't stop you to do so.
This is not Zen. It is opting out.
Zen is when you are at peace while playing against shaman, concentrating only on the best play you can make without worrying that his deck is better. It is actually playing the difficult game but having no negative or positive emotions based on outcomes outside your control (like the winner) but only negative and positive emotions about things under your control (how well you play).
Personally I concede against control Warrior and Priest in the casual room because I can't justify 20 minute + games.
Or.... you could just challenge yourself to become better. Thats kind of the whole point when your playing a game right?
.
I thought it was a "concede mentally" at first. As in, play as if loss is normality and win is a gift.
Then I realised you actually meant conceding.
So I don't even get why you play at all.
Actually, I don't get why I am replying to this troll thread.
I can't understand why you do this... Make no sense to me! But if you loses a lot, don't let that affect you, you can always improve while having fun
My in game BattleTag: Stalonge #1927
I don't see how you can love the game when you lose, and when you can't play the best cards and combos in the game,the bread and butter of HS, you should try ESL or Faeria or Runescape: Chronicles, maybe they will be a better game for you, less RNG bullcrap.
The 1st step towards a better game is firing Mike Donais! We had enough of his "skillful" balances!
#FireMikeDonais
for me zen is when you face with some shit deck again meta deck and beat it
sry for bad english
No bro, just no. Try to do your dailies with the loss mentality, without conceding. Play fun decks, you may lose more often than you win, but it's so fun to outplay boring decks!
Remember playing Control Shaman with Reincarnate shenanigans? No? It was fun, here's a refresher!
First of all, those new quests made me install the game again, so I can say that we are on the same side. But...
NEVER, ever concede.
I mean, really. For the obvious practical reasons, what if you face all those "cancer" decks in a row? You will concede 10 games without even playing? And what if this becomes a trend? Imagine people always conceding to Shamans (and to be honest, every class can have a "fun" deck, so no need to ban them altogether). Then people would play Shaman even more, just for the possibility of getting free wins.
If you like you're deck, if you're having fun, then most of the time the opponent doesn't matter. Just keep playing and don't concede ;)
I only share #4 , #6, #7, #10, #12a (hehe) and not as a general rule, only sometimes, depending on my mood. I may add
14. Turn 10+ and opp plays a multi-legendary deck and I'll never catch up again
15. I just made a horrible mistake and concede out of frustration ^^
16. Warriors reaching 40+ armor
And as mage, you hope your opponent's isn't a warrior, or that he doesn't draw his armor cards.
...
I wonder if the game would be more skilled if players played with their hands revealed.
Playing with known information requires more skill than playing with hidden information.
Or other skills, rather, because gambling with odds is a skill. Just not a particularily useful one.
I always concede when i make a wrong move. Then the tilting which increases mistakes starts to increase exponentially.
I have no zen mentalities I WILL CRUSH YOU
I used to always concede after a lucky Totemic roll or a Yogg ( both prenerf ).
I can bear "light" RNG but no bullshiet RNG
When you're playing agaisnt a rogue and you think it's miracle . On turn 5 it stats the turn with Cold Light Oracle with Shadowstep then plays it again. Mill rogues literally makes me rage the most. Lol
"One who knows nothing, Understands nothing.."
This obviously is a joke right? That's definetly not Zen buddy.
Here's a different idea.
Play a meta-countering deck. Ive been playing a janky pirate warrior that loses vs control but absolutley dominates midrange (shamman cough cough) and ive used it to get to rank 12 on a huge winstreak. Your deck doesn't have to be good if it counters the meta.
Meow
Pirate warrior dominating mr shammy? I don't know, for me this is a 50-50 matchup and sometimes a funny race to face ^^
Every player has their definition of what they call fun.
Spike: Fun=winning. Hates netdeck-haters
Johnny: Fun=making cool/original decks/synergies. Hates netdeckers.
Timmy: Fun=winning with style. Loves RNG.
I'm glad you've found your calling (I'm assuming you're a Johnny since you mentioned you like making fun decks). You should come to Wild if you can afford it, most decks you'll run into from rank 20-5 will be original/fun decks.
Everyone should stop trying to tell each other how to enjoy the game and have fun on their own terms.
People who refuses to play aggro out of principle are even worse than people who play exclusively aggro.
One should seek to become a complete player and play all archetypes, including ones that he despises for whatever irrational reasons.