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I don't really enjoy it either. I feel design team did a great job creating new archetypes but the balance team totally screwed up everything. And since they are in charge of balancing, I don't expect any major changes in the coming patchnotes.
I have played since the launch of 1.0, so I've experienced a lot of different broken metas. But most of them were due to 1/2 problematic decks, and the meta was still way slower than UiS. Now every class have at least one busted deck. I guess for some people it's a good sign, but to me it's just frustrating to have no real space to experiment.
/rant.I am just auto conceding every warlock I see. What's the point? You can't beat them nearly enough to make it worth your time. I, too, have played since 1.0 and I'm to the point where I don't log in every day anymore, I just clear a quest or two so they don't backlog. Nothing is fun to play, nothing is fun to play against. I have every legendary from every expansion (except those I strategically dusted). I don't know how much longer I'll bother playing because this simply isn't at all fun. My last 10 games, 7 were warlock, 1 DH 1 Mage and 1 paladin. Much fun. Lost every game. I'll just accept D5 as my 'top' this season and probably skip the next xpac or quit all together. It is a damn shame you can't sell your stupid account./rant
10000% agree
Hahahahahahahahahahah yea ok….
Jade druid interacted with the board. This is the most trash and solitaire meta ever. Like 4 decks being played on ladder that are 100% uninteractive. Whoever says this meta is the best or that is good is a clown!!!!
What is so infuriating about the state of the meta is that Team 5 pretends like nothing's wrong. There seems to be no rush to fix things, and no admission that the last round nerfs was woefully inadequate. They should all be fired. They're so bad at their jobs, and just don't give a crap. But Iksar tweets a lot at people!!!! Wow, what a hero.
This post sums it up well: There are multiple viable archetypes, the meta is very diverse, every deck has a gameplan and tries to play accordingly instead of just preventing the opponent from executing theirs. Sounds great overall. Would it make you feel better about the meta if all decks were running some vanilla 3-mana 3/4s with the goal of trading on the opponents' vanilla 2-mana 2/3s?
If Solitaire is the thing for this people have way better options than HS. >.<
I play tier 1 GM broken decks in rank 20 and have 95% winrate, so im fine :)
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PremiumThey did a round of nerfs, nerfed the wrong cards, and the meta got worse as a result of a balance patch because blizz won't acknowledge that questlines are a cancerous concept, just like any quest that is good is cancerous.
They won't admit the problems and try to do minimal nerfs on the new expansion cards.... at least until the next or two expansions later.... when people are more salty on the newer cards and forgot their saltiness on the previous cards... typical Blizz marketing strategy.
I think Gadgetzan felt worse than this. Demon Hunter right as it was released was the worst point for me but it didn't last long thankfully.
Stormwind was designed long before the community ever saw Barrens or had any chance to complain about it.
But thank you for bringing up Boomsday Warrior, because that dismal memory makes me feel MUCH better about the current meta.
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland
Oh man, you 'memba Tickatus?
... I 'memba.
Seems like such a distant memory. Here were all were, making countless threads about how much Tickatus was ruining the game. So many in fact that the mods even made a Tickatus discussion thread so everyone could come to one place to complain.
And yet... the people continued to make their own personal salt threads.
It was never ending.
Until... this happened.
THE. WORST. META. EVER.
Truly and honestly. This is the one guys. This one tops it all. We'll never recover from it. And there will never be another meta as bad as this one again.
Until next expansion. Jesus F. Christ...
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PremiumThe amount of viable decks is the single dumbest argument and metric that exists for evaluating the health of a meta and OCG/TCG as a whole, and should be entirely disregarded. It is absolute nonsense. In fact, in trying to use it as your metric, you have instead just made an attempt to counter an ACTUAL argument and metric for the health of the game: How much variability is there.
Right now, the game has only 2 different decks. I give 0 shits about whether or not the deck is a priest, a hunter, a paladin, mage, warlock or whatever. That's arbitrary, and it doesn't matter at all. In standard right now, there are 2 decks: Extreme aggro, or OTK combo. The reason for this, is ENTIRELY because of the strength of the combo strategies, and NOT of the strength of the aggro strategies. The extreme aggro exists solely as a countermeasure to the combo decks, because they ARE the only thing that can compete, let alone survive, against combo.
Hearthstone, right now, is fundamentally at a point where it has to make a decision - and only one of those decisions is right: Does it want the game to continue along this trajectory, effectively eliminating every single other deck in the game from ever having a remote chance, OR
Is it going to allow players to interact in more key fashions, in order for any sort of slower deck to have options to curtail the strength of combo decks.
Its been worse during Tempo Mage/Burn Shaman double-o-meta. IT may have been worse during some Patches primetime or Unleash the hounds early state.
Nevertheless it is incredibly weird time and I do fear for the future of HS with quests being in game for like what, 2 more years ? Keep in mind the moment Meta slows down a little bit, perhaps giving some space for decks like control Warrior, there is always a priest questline that completely destroys eny control.
So you went to bgs which is also not fixed since it came out. Lol
As I said in other threads, HS is going through a gigantic transition right now: Team 5 wants faster games AND wants control to have faster wincons.
The problem is, achieving BOTH those objectives in a single expansion was simply impossible, they had to choose one to go with now and we all know which one they chose first.
I believe the mini-set is going to give control tools to survive longer/finish games faster, since they know any card game needs all three archetypes to have SOME level of representation to be healthy.
The meta right now is super unhealthy rn cuz its incomplete. We have 2/3 of a game, and the miniset will give us the missing third, thats what I think/hope.
Transitions are always difficult, they knew people would lose their shit, but if they believe its something the game needs going forward, I dont judge them.
Still believe the Warlock Quest needs a nerf though, it completely craps on the whole point of Wild being a place with more variety, that mode has only one deck now.
So nobody can have a different opinion? I like the meta too.