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Quote from theeshyguy2000 >>If you're playing Ranked for fun or intrigue then you're already doing Hearthstone wrong.
This is the saddest statement I've read for a long time...
Sure, playing a cardgame in your free time can't honestly meant to be fun. Playing HS with grimness and ill ambition will surely make people grow up and save society! 😉
#grind4worldpeace
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Honestly, I'm happy about this. Services like HSReplay are a big part of why metas get solved so quick nowadays. It's very easy to determine the best thing when there's a website that just tells us what it is within a day. Less people using it = less data = harder to draw conclusions = more time to experiment.
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just in case it really is mostly based on your best performances over some time or peak mmr - you could try to tank your presumed skill al you wish. it wouldn't do jack shit or the system recognizes a very unusual pattern (that's why there's a threshold implemented). basically it won't change much of anything at all. but nice try, i guess
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So, the goal is to tank your MMR so you can play against bad players...
Maybe if you fake a head injury, you could do well in the special Olympics too!! Maybe take gold, and feel like a champ!!!
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I basically haven’t played much the last couple months but yesterday I win streaked from like R20 to R17 (so impressive right) and I log in today and find that I have a star bonus of freaking 8 lol. That’s equivalent to what, getting gold rank on reset? Nice
I also think it's sweet. Then you find a 4 page thread full of conspiracy theories and incessant whining about it. It's insane lol
The one guy is trying way to hard to make up issues with it
Regardless of how people feel about it, this is an issue. You should only be able to get an 8 star bonus having finished last season at a minimum of rank 8 3 stars. The fact you somehow got it all the way down at rank 17 is proof that the bonus algorithm isn't working properly or as advertised at all and kind of invalidates the effort people put in to achieve that bonus reasonably thinking that being higher rank was the only way to get it. Frankly I can see why people wouldn't be happy about this; you basically reaped the rewards of achieving rank 8 when you only got rank 17.
I tend to disagree.
Been playing since Naxx, with varying levels of engagement over time. Probably for the first half or more of 2019, I was a Rank 5-3 player. Never bothered with the Legend grind. But then I stopped playing Constructed much for a few months, all the way down to the bottom, pretty much. The past few sets weren't that exciting to me, but there are were some rank-based reasons I didn't get back in.
First, it's not really fair to take "Dad-Legend" decks against folks at Rank 20. There used to be a lot of threads about low-rank folks who get stuck playing against Tier-1 stuff and have a lousy game experience. On top of that, it felt kinda bad both to have a long grind back to a rank which more accurately relates to what my rank is, if I maintain some average playing time.
So along comes this, and I start things off at 8 or 9 stars. That's going to get someone like me out of the basement pretty quick, and hopefully newer players will be less likely to face lazy-but-experienced folks like me. When there's a change in ranking systems, you want a system that gets proven folks out of the dumps quickly. That's to everyone's benefit, since bad matchmaking lead to bad times all around.
That said... we won't really know too much about how well the new ranking system works until next month. That's when the real test will be, when we're rolling over within this system.
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There's a separate issues that this game doesn't really reward long-term grind well enough. The 10g per 3 wins is a pretty meager benefit compared to what you get from the first few games in questing. That should be higher. End of season rewards should feel like a nice perk, rather than the big payoff.
But the way to fix it isn't to leave skilled players in dumpster ranks. That's how you get long-time players to quit.
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Bahaha, this thread sums up SOOO much about this community.
"This site has provided me with an insane amount of useful resources and information for years. Now they would like some compensation to reimburse them for all of the money and time they have put into the site, so we should... (find another site, boycott them, etc.)"
So pathetic. Probably be the first people to force a union on a company, and/or strike if a company couldn't afford raises.
I want everything, but I shouldn't have to do anything for it!
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deliberately tanking your MMR is dumb - you'll get fewer bonus stars next month
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It won't fix my sleep schedule? Wtf Blizzard, how am I supposed to get a good night's sleep then?
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This should be interesting for you:
They tried many different Hp like 2 mana +1 attack,can be used twice each turn or 2 mana +1 attack gain +1 wrath (new DH exclusive resource)
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Class identity is a very important concept in hearthstone that separates it from other TCGs, the most certainly should not give it up. They do however need to stop stating it’s important all the while crapping all over it. For example, warlock. The whole thing about warlock is power at a cost, yet the only prevalent warlock deck on ladder uses a deck list containing 25 or so warlock cards and none of them fall into the class’s identity. Giving up class identity means giving up on hearthstone.
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Whether or not Alex needs to be nerfed is a point of opinion, but it is worth noting that neutral cards have been nerfed for being overly prevalent and mitigating class weaknesses too well. Alex is powerful, prevalent, and mitigates multiple class weaknesses.
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I definitely think there’s some sort of corrective mechanic built into card draw and matchmaking. Win too much and your draws get weighted different (which hilariously favors low curve decks and why aggro never truely dies). If your class has a bad matchup you’re more likely to see it if you’re winning a lot. This is all impossible to prove but there’s enough incidents of hilariously unlikely outcomes and weird coincidences that you’d be hard pressed to make me believe it’s not the case.
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I wanted to start a thread like this for people who can hate a card but also understand it doesn’t need to be nerfed, mostly because I’m bored.
Ogremancer
I can’t stand this card. Mostly because I’m playing token druid right now. Slap this on an empty board and you instantly win vs a token druid. No cards in that deck can kill it and all but 2 trigger it’s effect and anything that they do summon likely dies to your free minions. I’ve been having a run of seeing this card every time I’m about to go up a rank and it just makes me sad.
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This card was busted before the nerf but now it seems fair. That said when your opponent coins this out on turn one and you can’t kill it. It’s a bad feeling.
Strongman
i see this card a lot against control lock and corrupt druid. It sucks getting an opponent near death and seeing 2 of these guys slapped on the board for free. In this meta it’s not really busted because it’s so slow. If the meta ever shifts though I wonder if it has the potential to be problematic. Regardless I wouldn’t mind a slower meta, not a fan of aggro metas.
Gibberling
The irony of hating this card and playing token druid. This card is singlehandedly responsible for some of my most dirty wins. Sometimes it just makes me want to take a shower.
Illidari StudiesandDouble Jump
i hate these 2 cards for the same reason. Demonhunter outcast shenanigans for days in their aggro decks drives me nuts.
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Some cards aren’t worth 1 mana, just saying.
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Cthun is a perfect win condition for control decks, but they can’t run him because of control lock. Your advice is pretty lame. You’re telling people to just play a different deck, as if that “solution” isn’t indicative of the problem everyone is complaining about.
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Tickatus is NOT a tech against OTK decks. Any OTK deck with decent cycle is going to shit all over control lock and Tickatus because the deck is almost entirely reactive. It’s entire game plan is to simply remove everything. No, Tickatus is Best used in a control matchup where Warlock can lose the fatigue game because of their hero power. It thins your opponent’s deck out. Problem is you can play it multiple times, and use it in conjuncture with Jaraxxus to just curb stomp every single slow deck out there.
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I’m sick of control lock in general. The deck is like 70% hard removal. You can’t play any sort of board centric game against them, it’s a total waste of time. there’s no thought involved with the deck. They don’t have to be smart with removal like most control decks do. The healing is stupid. I’ve dealt like 60 damage to a warlocks face and still lost because their stupid soul fragments kept stacking on top of each other. And just when you think you’ve got them they just drop 4 6/6 taunts for 0 mana. I’m irritated this deck didn’t get slapped down in some way. It’s so toxic.
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You have 2 copies. If you want to dust your core cards scroll down to the legacy set in your collections. If you play wild or classic don’t do this though.
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If you use metamorphosis it’ll consume that too. Found that out after finding deck of lunacy in the discover pool. Not sure if it was intended or not.