I am sure many of you remember Pirate Warrior and why it was nerfed. Everyone played it as it was a guaranteed win. Very few decks could counter it so it grew very popular and for the popularity and lack of counter decks it was nerfed to the ground. It wasn't interactive. It was warrior playing a single player game.
Now rogue isn't as bad as why it wasn't nerfed to the ground and still viable.
Rogue is the most popular deck played as of right now. It has ONE counter and that is control warrior and the only deck that consistently can beat Rogue. That isn't a balanced deck.
A balanced meta means looking at each deck individually not the overall meta. A balanced meta means that you take a deck and examine what it wins against. What is loses against and what decks it plays against that can go either way.
A balanced deck will be strong against 2 or 3 other decks/classes. It will have 2 or 2 counters and the rest of the classes will be neutral - match can go either way depending on skill, rng, and card draw.
For example let's take control warrior; Very weak against hunter and mage right now. Those are the counters. A well played Murloc deck can out value Warrior but murloc players are usually dumb so point goes to Warrior. Mech Paladin has an advantage over Control Warrior but not a guaranteed win. Poorly played or card draw can put Warrior on top.
Control warrior is strong against Rogue and Priest. 98% of the time it is a guaranteed win.
Druid can go either way. Control Shaman can go either way.
That is a balanced deck.
Rogue did not have that. It had one counter and was strong against all other classes and decks as why it became the most popular deck on ladder and casual.
The nerfs came and needed to come. Rogue isn't dead now. The same deck can still be played but will be balanced as it will have more counters and still strong against some decks and some decks will be a toss up on who wins as they are equal in power, value, and potential.
It is important to remember that you won't win every game. A 50ish% overall win rate is great and means the deck is balanced and the meta is in a good place. When you play Hearthstone and you play against a varied assortment of classes and decks then the meta is in a good place. Playing mainly against rogues is a bad thing for the health of the game.
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wow, its like you were trying to be funny, but you were not actually trying.
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man, I already did not like asking for upvotes, but I can put up with it because I understand that you want to be sure people like your deck before putting to much effort into it. but 50 upvotes is insane!!! asking for 20 is a bit much, 15 is doable, 10 is reasonable. but 50. . .
this is just too much.
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I would love to craft him, but the problem is I am only at 200 dust, so I am just hanging around till nerfs come. then the dusting can start.
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the nerfed equality so that they could have more space to make more AOE spells for paladin.
there were no meta paladin decks that were there because of equality, so if they were to make nerfs just for the sake of shaking things up, then they would not have picked equality.
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if you pay attention, you will see that every comment posted over 20 minutes ago has at least one downvote.
coincidence? I think YES!!!
there is no guy going around downvoting all the comments, that seems pointless
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this is true, so stop asking for a tournament mode.
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blizzard is not lazy, they are just careful to not make mistakes.
if blizzard just prints the first dumb idea that comes into their head in order to give us content faster, then it would all suck, and we would call them bad designers.
but if blizzard moves slowly, and waits to give us the best content, then they are called lazy because we waited to long, and it did not meet our insane expectations.
designing games is hard, especially for such a large audience.
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didn't you read his post? cuz it was only like 2 sentences.
he was saying secrets are too was to predict, and are therefore, boring.
*edit* nevermind, it was like 5 sentences
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tournament mode died because it was impossible.
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I don't understand at all what you are driving at.