Let me preface by saying: for about a year and a half, I made rank 5 every single month. In December, I basically stopped playing competitively, so I slipped way back in ranks.
This month, started rank 12, and decided to try to push for just rank 10. I queued up a variety of different tier 1 decks, and played each for at least 5 games. Made it within 1 win of rank 10 twice, lost both times. Currently, I'm no better than where I started out the beginning of the month, at rank 12.
It seems to me that most matchups are almost pre-decided. It rarely feels like my decisions matter at all to the outcomes of the games. The only question that matters is whether the matchup I queued into is favorable or unfavorable, whether they draw the cards they need to counter me, or not. Or whether my draw is terrible or not.
Bottom line: in the past, when I was playing competitively, it felt like my decisions mattered to game outcomes. Now, in the current meta, I feel like my decisions barely matter at all. Example: I played a game against odd paladin, made excellent decisions through the whole game, kept his board super under control, and would easily have won. BUT he played Prince Liam ... and got Talanji, who pulled a free Kalimos from his hand (both from Liam) ... and then just to cement the dumb luck, he had a leeroy for exact lethal later on. How on Earth does skill matter in a game like that?
I doubt anyone cares, but I feel like I'm finally just done with the game.
TL;DR: Way too random these days, way too little impact from skill versus random luck of who your opponent is, combined with luck of the draw.
It's late in the season, new year, new meta , many cards going to wild, and a new set coming. Things are stale, thats the way it is, i'm a casual player and I find the same thing down at rank 20-15 where I normally sit with my 15 characters (yeah it's too many :) )
I queue into net decks all the time even that far down with people WANTING so badly to rise up they give away the fun aspect of the game, many are only as good as me because they make the occasional errors and misplays like I do but the quality of some higher skilled players tuned deck will get the the win most of the time and not their decision making which as I said isnt great like mine.
Just wait for the year of the raven ends, things should improve
It's been this way for a while now which is why I only play for daily quests these days. It's the effect of balancing the game way too much for it to be worth the time. They need to stop listening to the "community" so much and focus on having something that is fun to play for people who aren't part of the community which is the other 95% of the player base. Don't cater to whiny fuckboys.
I've actually found that if I a) stop caring about the ladder and b) accept possibly losing to all the try-hards out there playing the same netdecks as every other try-hard... I'm having a great time in the meta (Wild in particular). There's a lot of unique decks out there to be played (actually, even in standard). The player base just needs to actually play the Casual Mode... casually.
They usually do settle down a whole heap of decks just leave the meta, and new ones will form; the first set of the year usually has the strongest cards in it, but also interesting things to build around and experiment with. Wild is cool often , so unpredictable , you only occasionally come across a net deck there (at least low down on wild ladder)
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Let me preface by saying: for about a year and a half, I made rank 5 every single month. In December, I basically stopped playing competitively, so I slipped way back in ranks.
This month, started rank 12, and decided to try to push for just rank 10. I queued up a variety of different tier 1 decks, and played each for at least 5 games. Made it within 1 win of rank 10 twice, lost both times. Currently, I'm no better than where I started out the beginning of the month, at rank 12.
It seems to me that most matchups are almost pre-decided. It rarely feels like my decisions matter at all to the outcomes of the games. The only question that matters is whether the matchup I queued into is favorable or unfavorable, whether they draw the cards they need to counter me, or not. Or whether my draw is terrible or not.
Bottom line: in the past, when I was playing competitively, it felt like my decisions mattered to game outcomes. Now, in the current meta, I feel like my decisions barely matter at all. Example: I played a game against odd paladin, made excellent decisions through the whole game, kept his board super under control, and would easily have won. BUT he played Prince Liam ... and got Talanji, who pulled a free Kalimos from his hand (both from Liam) ... and then just to cement the dumb luck, he had a leeroy for exact lethal later on. How on Earth does skill matter in a game like that?
I doubt anyone cares, but I feel like I'm finally just done with the game.
TL;DR: Way too random these days, way too little impact from skill versus random luck of who your opponent is, combined with luck of the draw.
It's late in the season, new year, new meta , many cards going to wild, and a new set coming. Things are stale, thats the way it is, i'm a casual player and I find the same thing down at rank 20-15 where I normally sit with my 15 characters (yeah it's too many :) )
I queue into net decks all the time even that far down with people WANTING so badly to rise up they give away the fun aspect of the game, many are only as good as me because they make the occasional errors and misplays like I do but the quality of some higher skilled players tuned deck will get the the win most of the time and not their decision making which as I said isnt great like mine.
Just wait for the year of the raven ends, things should improve
You may be interested in this thread : https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/212005-group-therapy-need-to-blow-off-steam-mega-salty :)
It's been this way for a while now which is why I only play for daily quests these days. It's the effect of balancing the game way too much for it to be worth the time. They need to stop listening to the "community" so much and focus on having something that is fun to play for people who aren't part of the community which is the other 95% of the player base. Don't cater to whiny fuckboys.
I've actually found that if I a) stop caring about the ladder and b) accept possibly losing to all the try-hards out there playing the same netdecks as every other try-hard... I'm having a great time in the meta (Wild in particular). There's a lot of unique decks out there to be played (actually, even in standard). The player base just needs to actually play the Casual Mode... casually.
They usually do settle down a whole heap of decks just leave the meta, and new ones will form; the first set of the year usually has the strongest cards in it, but also interesting things to build around and experiment with. Wild is cool often , so unpredictable , you only occasionally come across a net deck there (at least low down on wild ladder)