Also, if this is such a winning deck, why aren't people bringing this deck to high level tournaments and winning with them?
B/c until now, all the high level tournaments were Specialist, and this deck has like 2 flex spots. Also,Team NoProsHere still listed it as T8 Capable. So it was still "fine."
Is there any honest reason to suppose that there won't be a balance patch before the end of the month? Given the response from the balance team after the two most recent expansions, it seems likely that we'll have something announced this week. If so, complaints regarding the "direction" of HS simply seem pointless, since we know that many of the OP's complaints will soon be addressed.
In any event, there are currently twenty decks with win-rates above 50% on HSReplays - I suspect the only folks who can honestly complain about the "direction" of the game are all the precogs who know which of those twenty decks will actually survive ladder attrition over the next few weeks . . .
I suspect we may hear something after the first week of GM S2 is in the books.
Don't expect any kind of discussion about issues here. You will be told you are not playing the game right, or you haven't played enough games, or that you are wrong and (as always) all style of decks are viable. Bonus points if you are directed to the salt thread
The thing is...that's all correct. Aggro is very much not dead. Indeed, it's the best response to Mage. He's obviously missing something. And he probably should have taken this to the salt thread.
Almost everyone agrees - those cards need nerfs. But 2 cards (that are from multiple sets ago) are not a the damning indictment of the game's direction that you profess.
I've been playing several versions of Quest Malygos. It beats up on Warrior. It has chances against Mage, so long as they don't have Galaxy on five. But it's not good against Aggro. It's so difficult to find the right reactive tool (and there aren't many of them in the deck) let alone doing so without floating mana.
Maly seems better than the Quest OTK-Bees deck. But I'm partial. Bees was, for me, a disappointing card in general, so I'm kind of biased. I need to play a bit more with the non combo versions of Quest Druid (Nomi, King, and friends). My guess is that all these versions will have similar win rates against various classes, and one will emerge as the "best" and push the other ones out.
IMO it's between the Nomi/King endgame and the Maly endgame. OTK-Bees seems too gimmicky to me.
But it's obvious that the deck needs some sort of defined endgame plan. "Summon cool Choose One things" isn't good enough against anything except for aggro decks that you've already stabilized against.
I suspect that Maly may ultimately the better version because all of the cards can be used more flexibly than King and Nomi, and it doesn't care about Freeze. Plus, the Nomi thing can have some fatigue issues if your opponent is clever.
I have considered it a lot. I don't think it does anything to help against aggro (Consecration is better there).
Recently, I've been using Subdue and Truesilver in some of the tech spots. I don't know if they've been enough to help. But they tackle early giants fine.
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B/c until now, all the high level tournaments were Specialist, and this deck has like 2 flex spots.
Also,Team NoProsHere still listed it as T8 Capable. So it was still "fine."
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"fanboy"
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https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/212005-group-therapy-need-to-blow-off-steam-mega-salty
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I suspect we may hear something after the first week of GM S2 is in the books.
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It's a good deck, but not very fun to play IMO. "Braindead aggro" jokes aside, this one doesn't have many meaningful decisions to make.
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The thing is...that's all correct. Aggro is very much not dead. Indeed, it's the best response to Mage. He's obviously missing something. And he probably should have taken this to the salt thread.
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Wait for a nerf.
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tl;dr this is another "nerf Luna/Boom" thread.
Almost everyone agrees - those cards need nerfs.
But 2 cards (that are from multiple sets ago) are not a the damning indictment of the game's direction that you profess.
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It really is just 2 big problem cards that have been problem cards for the last few months.
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Fair enough. I typically play things that have game against Warrior.
It's a very RPS meta at the moment, sadly.
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It is not worse than coin+Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
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IMO it's between the Nomi/King endgame and the Maly endgame. OTK-Bees seems too gimmicky to me.
But it's obvious that the deck needs some sort of defined endgame plan. "Summon cool Choose One things" isn't good enough against anything except for aggro decks that you've already stabilized against.
I suspect that Maly may ultimately the better version because all of the cards can be used more flexibly than King and Nomi, and it doesn't care about Freeze. Plus, the Nomi thing can have some fatigue issues if your opponent is clever.
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I have considered it a lot. I don't think it does anything to help against aggro (Consecration is better there).
Recently, I've been using Subdue and Truesilver in some of the tech spots. I don't know if they've been enough to help. But they tackle early giants fine.
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I'll take it one step further. It's not coincidence, it is done expressly, and it is only targeting the OP.