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Quote from Cromp1990 >>

It’s alarming how many big names have jumped ship recently, feels like activision wanted all the power and didn’t care about seniority so everyone peaced out.  I’m gonna guess he will join dreamhaven like everyone else 

It's really not. The average worker changes jobs every 4 years. In fact, this is often a requirement in order to keep growing your salary (which is a whole other issue).

People change jobs constantly. It's only a perceived "OMG" moment because of notoriety and fan culture.

When a player signs with a new team, there are hundreds of articles written about it. When a salesman moves from selling steel to selling aluminum, no one gives a single fuck.

Quote from Pythonproduct >>

 Sauce?

 playhearthstone 20.02 patch notes

I'll help. Things that beat Watchposts:

- Spells
- Cheating mana
- Weapons
- Ignoring them

Things that lose to Watchposts:

- Playing a fair, midrange deck.

Also, things that haven't been good in standard for some time:

- Fair, midrange decks.

Quote from Leaga >>

They didn't forget anything. Due to the backlash at launch, they announced a bunch of changes to the rewards track including more levels with less XP grind per level, subbing out many packs in the rewards track for gold, and the removal of events to make room in the base system for more rewards. 

 This is the answer to what happened. The increased XP that was planned to happen during events was, in part, shifted to simply be part of the reward track because people are greedy/impatient.

He's staying on as a freelancer for now.

As said above, things that can go "infinite" have a cap for mechanical and practical purposes: Shudderwock, Bladestorm, Defile, etc.

no

Awesome. Later

Quote from TicTacTimeHS >>

 I probably won't, but I also don't want to give more money to those greedy mofos.

 Then stop playing?

you people....

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Quote from P4dge >>

Nerf everything, give us all 1/1 imps with a single 3/3 rabbit and it's a race to whomever gets the rabbit to stick first. Hero powers should be a neutral power that is shared across the board, I suggest 2 mana heal your target for 0, that shouldn't be too strong but it can be monitored and changed as needed. 

 Well, I'll be cleaning coffee off my monitor for the next few minutes, thanks for the ill-timed laugh

 No worries, I've gone past the point of trying to engage and discuss now, just roll out the rabbits my friend. 

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1 million % agree with you and of course the trolls here are all priest players, so they obviously dont see the problem. The potentual toxicity of discover mechanics and card producing cards has been a topic of discussion in hearhtstone for years now and its not just the discover mechanics, its the RNG mixed with the fact that the player that never runs out of cards usually wins. Its fucking broken. No wonder heathstone has been dying over the years. 

also, why the fuck are there so many creatures that have discover built into them now?? the 3 cost 1/3 scorpid with poisionous and discover for example, there is no way in hell that would exist 3 years back, its fucking stupid how busted that is and now the game is filled with bullshit like that. Couple years back only 2-4 classes had discover cards and they have like 2 or 3. Now every class has at least 2, but priest and mage have like 12 and that is not including neutrals either. 

So yes, its gotten out of hand. 

And for all the "Oh quit your crying, people always complain about priest" its losers like you that only play the most busted class regardless of what it is because you cant win a game any other way. 

 I don't know what to say to this. Its a dishonest post from the get go, you are just writing off any possible motivations for people disagreeing with you and have made it so that in your own head, these people must have the specific motivation you have concucted. I'm not going to slam your intelligence but it's a really short sighted, ignorant thing to do. 

You're literally just ranting at this point, you don't seem in control of your language, you've just vommed onto the screen basically. You are acting and speaking irrationally, so I have zero way of discussing this with you. Irrational people don't do conversation well, I've learned this over the years. 

I hate to bluntly just say 'you're wrong' (you are) because one should generally explain their argument and I should point out why you are wrong. But you've made it clear that you will instantly assume I am a priest player (I do play all the classes but priest is certainly one of the lower and I haven't played it properly for a good while). I certainly don't have the Bias you have convinced yourself that I must have in order to disagree with you.

So I'm honestly left with the assumption that you're a low rank player. I don't want to 'get good' you but in this case, I think you would benefit by being open minded and looking to learn, rather than abusive and short sighted. I suspect you don't want to learn though, you just want to rant.

Let's stay with what rank are you and what's giving you trouble? There might actually be some help and advice that gets you over the bump. 

I'm by no stretch a priest main, but I play it from time to time and I cannot believe I'm hearing people complain about it. By no stretch of the imagination is priest in good place right now. Control Priest a tier 2/ tier 3 deck that has decent matchups against some of the major meta decks, but is only heavily favored versus hunter. It also, BTW, is one of the only decks that can keep secret pally under control.

To call priest a "busted class" is laughable.

I'm utterly at a loss at the complaints in this thread. As near as I can tell, the bulk of the complaining about warlock is that it is heavily favored against control (mainly priest, as it's other the most common control in the current meta). Seriously? That's the issue? Control priest is heavily favored against aggro decks (which are right now a sizable portion of the meta) and secret pally. There's one freaking deck you're almost certainly going to lose to: Tick Warlock (and to a lesser degree, non-Tick Control Warlock). What deck are you willing to be weak against? Seriously. If you're not willing to have some type of viable meta deck that your favorite deck is weak against, then you're not actually asking for a balanced or healthy meta: you're a shrill partisan for your favored class who wants to win without trying.

As has been pointed out, warlock is very weak against hunter: in the non-Tick Control Warlock deck I've been playing, hunter crushes me unless I get very lucky early on. That's fine: I understand I'm likely to lose those matches.

For all intents and purposes, in games against priest, Tick Warlock is essentially a 3 card combo deck. Corrupt with Jarax, burn 5 with Tick, burn 5 again with Y'shaarj. That combo doesn't end the game, but it does put priests under the gun to end the game quickly, something they can't do very easily (especially with 2 mana 6/6s running around). Control decks are always weak to combo. Why should you be any different?

According to VS, control warlock is a tier 3 deck. Yup, totally something to complain about.

Warlock so strong that It lose to Rattlegore on its own :D

You can concede with any deck.

It's fairly predictable whenever this happens that you see a lot of folks saying that a corporation has the right to do something as if that's the end of the argument.

Lots of folks sit secure in the knowledge this will never happen to them because not only do they not engage in such abhorrent behavior, they would never be stupid enough to put themselves in a position where they could even be accused of such.

Hopefully, for their sake, they will never be shown how absolutely naive this position is.  As a person who has had to fight thru several years of unfounded accusations while in school and very nearly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of work to a university's "right" to toss anyone out who faces an accusation, regardless o the specifics or foundation of said accusation, I have to say that anyone can find themselves in this situation and when you do, get ready to find out that you in fact have no friends, no confidants, and very little influence with which to combat the situation.

To be honest, at this point the only thing to do is to hope and pray that Zalae was guilty of the accusation.  I know how that sounds, but given that punishment has already been visited, it's really the only just state of being.  We used to embrace the concept "better to let ten guilty men go free than punish an innocent," and no, that concept was never meant to be applied ONLY to government.  Now, accusations are assumed true unless you happen to occupy positions of power in one political party (not intending to open a political discussion, it's just that in the past 5 years, there have only been two individuals who I've seen been given the benefit of the doubt by the mob . . . one a former President and one the current President).

Someone brought up the example of Johnny Depp.  That's probably the worst of all the public examples we've seen, as nearly every piece of evidence points to the conclusion that Depp was not only innocent as an accused abuser, but in fact a fairly prolific victim of abuse.  I prefer to look at the example of Chris Hardwick, a man who spent years ultimately successfully defending himself from these accusations, though in the end his career was all but destroyed and the losses, both socially and financially, were barely countable.  Hardwick's story shows exactly the combination of luck, resources, and effort needed to salvage a life once these accusations take off, and it's important to realize that he wasn't half guilty, or a little guilty.  By everything we know, he wasn't remotely guilty.

Anyway, hope it never happens to you.  You'll be singing a different tune by then, but no one will care.

EDIT:  I do find it hilarious in a very sad way that folks who will lay down some of the most horrid insults toward Blizzard when they don't like a card game's meta are suddenly cool with it when the same company plays sole arbiter of punishment with a person's livelihood.

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Quote from Kurgo >>

This thread is absolute gold. Here I thought integrity in a competitive game meant not cheating but no, apparently integrity is doing your best to win? That's one curious concept right there. Your frankly dumb archery example is not about integrity, it's called sportmanship and it's not in any way, shape or form required (and in fact I wouldn't fault the archer for taking his shots, hardly his fault if the other is incompetent enough to have faulty equipment) to have "integrity". 

But even discarding that, the absolute balls to call integrity of all things in a children's card game when you don't have to play it competitively...there's a word for that too, but I'll be kind and leave it to your imagination. Newsbreak, when playing a competitive anything most people want to have fun and, again, for most people having fun = winning. And, will ya look at that son, you win more often by net-decking (which has always been true of literally every dccg since they were a thing). If you get your kicks by climbing ladder with your homebrew deck (which is basically identical to thousands of other decks, that I'm certain about because that's how deck building works) then you do you, but don't come whine like a little baby when you keep facing people who netdeck. Why on earth should they try to have less fun by playing suboptimally? To do you a sodding favour, you hilariously selfish hypocrite? Give me a break. Go play casual if you're triggered by people playing to win, that should maybe calm you down a little.

Then again, after seeing creeps comparing having integrity to employing personal touch (I don't even want to know where, what or whom), maybe it's just as well most hearthstone players don't have integrity. Yuck.

 lol   I didnt think it was having balls, just expressing where I stand on HS and why I play. I play to explore the cards and get ful value from my collection. I take no satisfaction winning with decks that are op and supposed to win. Thats me. I call this intergtrity. I correllate too other areas of life, where I could take advantage of the situation and win at all costs, or I can play with Integrity. 

I dont play the game to win at all costs. Yes I play ladder, but under my values. 

Theres enough room for everybody to play regardless of opinions. I never told people they have to do this, I just asked general questions in order to generate a dialouge and get peop;le thinking of this topic. 

We the players are the ones who determine what gets played. If maybe even a couple people say, nah, im not going to be apart of the problem, then I consider that awesome.  

Sorry, I'm throwing the BS flag here. You told anyone playing the most common, best deck in Standard right now to "Have some courage and integrity, dont be a part of the problem, live in the solution. Lead by example. Grow up." And now you have the audacity to say that you never told anyone what to do? That's simply not true.

The fact is that you stated right up front IN YOUR FIRST POST that anyone who is playing the best deck right now lacks integrity. Because of the way they play a frickin' game. On a lark, I looked up some of your previous posts. In this one https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/card-discussion/246091-remove-tickatus-from-the-game-already?comment=132 you said "Grow up and let others be themselves." Why don't you practice what you preach?

No minion Mage has been breezing past these. Warlock was good as well due to all the removal.

They will be more effective against certain strategies and once you get used to what classes and decks run them, you'll mulligan accordingly, hold removal etc.

There's nothing wrong with not playing optimally right now, we don't exactly know what to expect, when, what we need to plan for etc but then that's the most fun bit for me. I've swapped out cards in the mulligan which I've really regretted come turn 2/3 when I realise what the deck I'm facing is actually about. I've used removal too early, over commited on the board without realising a new method of dealing with that board is around and it gets cleared etc.

You will lose games now that you won't lose in a month or so. This over reaction to what is essentially your own lack of competence currently is premature.

You may also be playing aggro decks in which case, these cards are designed to punish you. That doesn't make them OP. The meta had been so hyper aggressive for so long, it's a good thing (imo) that it appears to be slowing down. 

It's probably just strong against your deck full of minions, it's a very average card overall.