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I’ve yet to have a game end before turn 8 so I don’t know what turn 4-5 nonsense you’re complaining about.

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LOL you think Mage is the problem this xpac...

 The only deck right now I’d truly say is problematic is the OTK rogue quest.  I’ve only seen it once and the guy came up short because I pressured him too much, but it looks like it can be done really early.

I just wish mage players would do something other than no minion mage.  It’s just so damn boring to see every mage doing the same thing day 2 of an expansion.  They’re no better than the face hunters and aggro shamans running no new cards.

You literally faced the deck once and beat it, and you think it's a problem. Great feedback, just great.

Also I'm playing spell mage and I'm definitely playing new cards, and I just don't give a damn if you think this is boring, why would I play minions if the deck works better without them ? Tried with minions, it was weak, quest took longer to complete, it just wasn't worth it. You are essentially asking mage players to not ever refine their deck and stick with day one theorycrap decks or some shit blizzard recipe so you can enjoy ladder a little more. Sorry not sorry but no. What are you playing that makes you so much better than face hunters and aggro shamans ? 

 I played against it once. Doesn’t mean I haven’t heard the busted shit it can do, this deck has been mentioned a lot on the boards, regularly killing people by turn 6/7 as an uninteractive combo.  Learn to read between the lines.  Also the quest is easy to fit in with minions, and arguably could be better especially with the candle elemental can just let you cycle your ignites over and over, and Antonidas dealing 18 damage on his own.  Everyone just got lazy and watched streamers talk about how busted no minion mage is.  I’m not convinced that’s the best version, it was just the easiest to make because the deck already existed 

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LOL you think Mage is the problem this xpac...

 The only deck right now I’d truly say is problematic is the OTK rogue quest.  I’ve only seen it once and the guy came up short because I pressured him too much, but it looks like it can be done really early.

I just wish mage players would do something other than no minion mage.  It’s just so damn boring to see every mage doing the same thing day 2 of an expansion.  They’re no better than the face hunters and aggro shamans running no new cards.

It’s not 100%.  If they rng those little stealth spell damage guys it’s hard to deal with them because druid doesn’t have a way to kill them and it causes all sorts of issues for you throughout the game.  Quest druid is good but it has a serious weakness to taunt minions.

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Gotta luv those Day 1 Face Hunters who genuinely hate HS and its community, just trying to suck out the Fun. Heh, good thing they run into another Day 1 Asshole (me) overwhelming them with cold Ass DR DH.

 You know what’s satisfying against face hunters?  Bonk druid.  Watching their health melt away while you’ve got like 40 armor is satisfying as hell

It’s day one, chill out.

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 but of course they appoint a woman on this position.

 What the literal fuck, dude? You talk about how a guy deserves to be fired, and you say something like this in the same post?

People living a sheltered life be like ^

Not everyone on the planet is being exposed to the same woke, progressive sentiments as you are. This is an open forum, open to the rest of the world, it's not your facebook feed.

 Not to mention his sentiment was they did it to save face, which he’s likely correct

I came here for this exact information lol.  Good to know

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The game is simply NOT fun at the present moment. They keep printing new and more OP cards in order to boost sales and attract more whales.

 

Battlegrounds are a breath of fresh air, but it is not competitive and interesting enough to attract viewers - face hunter, miracle aggro druid and no minion mage are the selling sheet - make your opponent rage quit due to RNG, which was a core NO NO before...

 Oh no the company wants to make money, how evil of them…you don’t have to pay to play this game.  Free to play is very easy with the options they give you, you just have to invest some time.  If you don’t invest the time then you don’t care enough about the game for it to matter.  It’s as simple as that.

In case you weren’t aware they work like 2 expansions ahead of what’s released, which probably causes a bit of these issues.  I don’t think they actively try to make some classes broken and others garbage.  I think a lot of their design philosophy is “hey this is a neat idea,” which would explain why some things are interesting or cool but not very good *cough*freeze shaman*cough* ultimately though a company of a couple hundred people or whatever (I dunno how big the design team is really) is never going to be able to theory craft or play test as well as a player base of a few million people.

Take the theory crafting streams with a grain of salt, there was deckbuilding restrictions, but I don’t get why people are butthurt.  Early access catches bugs and gives the rest of us a bit of an idea of what we want to focus our time on.

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This is a legitimate question.  Climbing can be such a hassle.  There’s nothing worse than being 1 win away from a rank floor only to go on a long losing streak.  Just happened to me for the 3rd time in the last couple days.  Even more frustrating is when you lose matchups you should win, and not because you played bad, but because your opponent just draws like a god and you get the shaft.  It leaves such a bitter taste because there’s just nothing you can do, nothing you can learn from it.  I’ve been pushing to try and regain my lost bonus stars after I went on a rather long hiatus but this keeps happening and every time it does I just put the game away for a few days so while I should be much higher than I am, I just can’t bring myself to sit there and bash my head against the wall of god drawing face hunters and elemental shamans that I should be beating.  I just feel like progress is being stolen rather than actually lost.

 
Everybody knows that, that's part of the game. If you feel you're on a losing streak, quit for the day and come back the next day. There's nothing you can do about bad luck.

 Yeah been doing that all month and hasn’t done me any good.  It’s like I’m just not allowed to have win streaks sometimes.  I had to stop watching streamers because they’ll get like 5-6 opponents in a row that draw or play like ass and I’m like, where are those people at my rank?  Everyone draws like a god.  It’s been like a week since I saw an opponent with a bad opening meanwhile I’m busting my ass for every win.  Doesn’t matter if I play a top tier deck or an off meta deck, feels like every game is stacked against me…I’m sitting here just trying to get to platinum 5 and the game keeps slapping me down a couple ranks every time I get close.  Was 1 win away yesterday and got slapped down to 8.  Got within 2 wins today then slapped back down to 8.  I hate when people talk about how easy it is to climb, or if you’re stuck at a rank it’s because you need to get better.  Yeah that’s BS.  I’m at the mercy of matchmaking and the draw engine right now.  My game play has zero bearing on my rank and it’s frustrating.

 The guy before me told you the truth. Your question was how to deal with frustration. You quit from the game when you feel like tilted. Thats it. You cant do anything about bad luck.

Maybe, just maybe there is an other issue. You are not playing your decks optimally. Maybe you are missing the optimal plays. The hardest thing in hearthstone is learning from your mistakes because no one will tell you when you make a mistake. You have to figure it out all by yourself unless you have a friend who is spectating you and telling you what would have been a better play.

 
I know the difference between “damn I should have played that better,” and “I just got facerolled by a perfect drawing hunter and all my tools I need are buried in the bottom of my deck.”  The whole point of this thread was because I know the difference.  It’s really not hard to figure out when you should have played a certain spell or minion, or depending on the deck, if you should have held something instead of playing it.  Those things are all very easy to analyze when you look back on a game, and that’s easy to deal with because I at least might have had a hand in the outcome.  But when the outcome is decided when you click play…yeah not so easy.  Yeah putting the game down because of bad luck makes sense, been doing it for days at a time all month.  The problem is I’m getting really tired of my luck being so bad, and every time I have to just give up it’s so annoying.

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I pick any one of the horrible things that have happened in life, reflect on it for a second, and realize I'm playing a computer game while sitting in a house I own near a refrigerator full of food and drink, and there's a locked door and security system between me and the many many real problems and predators in the world.

 yeah #firstworldproblems for sure

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This is a legitimate question.  Climbing can be such a hassle.  There’s nothing worse than being 1 win away from a rank floor only to go on a long losing streak.  Just happened to me for the 3rd time in the last couple days.  Even more frustrating is when you lose matchups you should win, and not because you played bad, but because your opponent just draws like a god and you get the shaft.  It leaves such a bitter taste because there’s just nothing you can do, nothing you can learn from it.  I’ve been pushing to try and regain my lost bonus stars after I went on a rather long hiatus but this keeps happening and every time it does I just put the game away for a few days so while I should be much higher than I am, I just can’t bring myself to sit there and bash my head against the wall of god drawing face hunters and elemental shamans that I should be beating.  I just feel like progress is being stolen rather than actually lost.

 
Everybody knows that, that's part of the game. If you feel you're on a losing streak, quit for the day and come back the next day. There's nothing you can do about bad luck.

 Yeah been doing that all month and hasn’t done me any good.  It’s like I’m just not allowed to have win streaks sometimes.  I had to stop watching streamers because they’ll get like 5-6 opponents in a row that draw or play like ass and I’m like, where are those people at my rank?  Everyone draws like a god.  It’s been like a week since I saw an opponent with a bad opening meanwhile I’m busting my ass for every win.  Doesn’t matter if I play a top tier deck or an off meta deck, feels like every game is stacked against me…I’m sitting here just trying to get to platinum 5 and the game keeps slapping me down a couple ranks every time I get close.  Was 1 win away yesterday and got slapped down to 8.  Got within 2 wins today then slapped back down to 8.  I hate when people talk about how easy it is to climb, or if you’re stuck at a rank it’s because you need to get better.  Yeah that’s BS.  I’m at the mercy of matchmaking and the draw engine right now.  My game play has zero bearing on my rank and it’s frustrating.

I’m mostly glad that mage didn’t get any RNG nonsense cards this expansion.  It’s my favorite class but I got sick of the clown fiesta nonsense they kept making.  On that note this expansion seems very light on the RNG and the power level of the cards seems pretty high.  I’m really hoping this phases out of a lot of the random nonsense we’re dealing with right now.

This is a legitimate question.  Climbing can be such a hassle.  There’s nothing worse than being 1 win away from a rank floor only to go on a long losing streak.  Just happened to me for the 3rd time in the last couple days.  Even more frustrating is when you lose matchups you should win, and not because you played bad, but because your opponent just draws like a god and you get the shaft.  It leaves such a bitter taste because there’s just nothing you can do, nothing you can learn from it.  I’ve been pushing to try and regain my lost bonus stars after I went on a rather long hiatus but this keeps happening and every time it does I just put the game away for a few days so while I should be much higher than I am, I just can’t bring myself to sit there and bash my head against the wall of god drawing face hunters and elemental shamans that I should be beating.  I just feel like progress is being stolen rather than actually lost.