This is a weird one. I quit HS for a year right after Old Gods and again right after Rastakhan came out. Both times it's been for the same reason and I don't know if it's something HS can fix.
You see, I'm a Johnny. I have no fun playing a deck I didn't come up with myself. I understand that with decks online and high ranked players sharing their decks it's unlikely that my homebrews will ever be legend tier decks. Having said that I have the most fun when I'm doing relatively well with a deck I came up with myself. I love when my opponent isn't sure what I'm going to do next. I love seeing the interplay that I 'designed' coming off at just the right moment. I'm not bad at recognising interactions either. I played a Face Warrior that did well before Patches was printed, I played a Big Beast/Secret Hunter before Boomsday. Just before I quit recently I made it to rank 12 with an Elemental Shaman homebrew that I loved playing then Rastakhan came out and it was back to the drawing board. Bottom line I always feel like I'm being penalized for making my own decks. It takes forever after an expansion comes out to reorient myself to the new meta and all the while I'm being crushed by Spikes who netdeck optimized decks. And I'm genuinely not salty about that. They play the way that makes them happy. That's good. I just wish there was a mode where the way that I play rewarded me instead of punished me. Occasionally Tavern Brawls satisfy that itch with their faster meta turnover. But that's for half the week, I can't show it off (no ranking there) and every other week or so there's no deckbuilding component.
So how do you fix something like that? I honestly don't know. I wish there was some kind of ranked mode that rewarded creative deckbuilding. Like could decks be autobanned from a mode if they shared to much in common with a popular deck? I dunno. Could there be a ranked Tavern Brawl mode with deckbuilding restrictions (only rares? only 10 cards? only 1 legendary? top 10 cards are banned?) that changed each season. No idea. Maybe rather than a whole new ranked mode that split the player base there could be some kind of in game reward added for those of us that stack wins with innovative decks? Card backs? Trophies?
Don't get me wrong, I love HS and I never rage quit or shitpost on a bunch of forums before I leave. I always just slowly stop having fun or watch a new expansion approach with dread at my lovingly-crafted homebrew losing its edge and I know it's time to bow out. I'll be back at some point hopefully. I just know I'd be back sooner and back to stay if I felt like HS was rewarding me for deckbuilding in a way I could show off.
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yay, finally I get downvoted :D
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Strange, im getting up-voted by most of people downvoted :O
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Playable , anti-zoo
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Down voters are hunter mains ?
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idk, kinda boring
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play this vs priest, casts Mass Ressurection , concede :)
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nah, u must have sylvanas in play first of all :)
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Play this vs priest, get mind controlled , concede :)
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he might be warlock legendary :O EVIL
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that's an auto-include in my decks :)) it heals for 8 and trades .