Dude, you're about 18 months late to this conversation. In short, you are wrong. It was the best move for the overall health of HS long term.
If they didn't introduce the rotation then we would have the problem of always having to get new, more powerful cards to replce the best ones from the prev sets. So there's a chance people would still be running Piloted Shredders and Shielded Minibots. Unless they actually gave us cards that are more powerful than those which would be ridiculous. Same for Totem Golem, Haunted Creepers, Nerubian Eggs, Emperor T - the list goes on and on. You cant just print more powerful cards to replace others. I mean how do you make a 3 drop better than Muster?
Rotation forces the meta to change and shift and that's a good thing. Yes it does get stale like a month after a new set but that's a different problem. Imagine how stale the game would have been if we never had a rotation in the first place.
Aside from tons of salt your post offers nothing constructive. Wild is actually awesome and there's a great variety of decks on the ladder from ranks 15 to 5. But you either don't play it ever or you're one of the top legend players where yes, there is less variety. I know which one my money is on.
Saying that the devs are lazy etc is a rubbish argument. It's not even an argument actually. They do their best to balance the game. Sometimes they make mistakes but they're getting better at reacting quicker and fixing things when they notice it. Now people will jump to Barnes nerf three years too late but the truth is, Big Priest's win rate isn't an issue ito power. It was just super crap to lose to. Anyway, this conversation is so 2016...
ANd here in wild meta no one's running piloted shredder nor Muster for battle while the 3 drops of choice are Flying Machine and Kirin Tor Mage, plus the Renodeck staple neutral legendaries like Brann and Zola
ohh thanks for all the advise, i dont own some cards for some of the suggestions but seriously thanks to the guy that suggested Jades, adjusted a Jade druid deck to be able to deal with secret mage and have been having a decent run against renolock even if they manage to geist my idols (the trick has been in using the idols to grow Golems before t6 and as for secret mage, basically autocompleting a Jade Druid then getting rid of 1 branching Paths and 1 ferocius howl and adding 2 Ironwood golems on top of the hecklebots
voted 5 for awesomeness and replayability: plenty of decks to be played like secret mage or Mech paladin Voted 0 for balance, decent AoE is of epic rarity or higher, so whoever vomits board first usually wins
So the potential awesomeness isn't viable, which means it's not that awesome. How awesome is it to try a control deck, only to be molested by primitive aggro decks?
you could always play Dragon priest using Duskbreaker
voted 5 for awesomeness and replayability: plenty of decks to be played like secret mage or Mech paladin Voted 0 for balance, decent AoE is of epic rarity or higher, so whoever vomits board first usually wins
i have the opposite experience, need any card from the basic set? Play zephyr's when playig him would leave you at a mana crystals equal to the cost of the spell you're trying to cast, need SW Death? play him when you have 5 mana remaining so that his battlecry accounts the 3 mana crystals you'd have left , need Silence? Play him when you have 2 Mana remaining so that he prioritizes giving you the 0 mana card, need Brawl? Play him with 7 mana remaining. Kazakus though, i almost disenchanted kazakus yesterday, do you need an option to transform minions, deal face damage or deal AoE damage?, well, never get it offered and have some useless "add randomd demons to your hand" component offered instead, having that "random demons" component taking up the space of what could have been that one ingredient you needed and making you settle for something suboptimal for your situation like drawing cards or freezing a minimal amount of minions, is super frustrating, it wastes your time and space for an effect you didnt even needed nor wanted, while Zeph only dissapoints if you don't know how to play him.
gee' i don't know, maybe they dont have enough cards but they want to experience this "new" gamemode anyways? this gamemode that their friend told them about because for new players unlocking wild is something rather obscure and exciting since you have to craft a wild card to unlock the mode and for that you have to do some shenanigans with the my collection filters, and none of this information is neither obvious nor detailed somehwere in the client.
We've been down this dead-end road enough times already. The name of the year has no bearing on what cards are created within that year. As others have stated, it is instead an indicator of the theme for the year and as such, thematic cards are produced that tie in with it.
Doesn't matter.
If they had year of the Murloc and no Murlocs it would still be a let down to lots of players. Year of the Dragon is turning out to be a missed opportunity. How can you not see this?
i didnt' see you complaining about there being no Mammoths on the year of the mammoths, you should know better by now.
Have you tried the new quest taunt warrior? using fireplume's heart, shaggy and armagedillos? it eats secret mages alive, i was using that to counter secret mages with relative ease until murphy's law kicked in full force and i found myself fighting a sea of Renolocks
Murloc Warleader and Shield Slam are my bets, no, i dont hate any of the cards but they kinda fall in the pattern that Blizzard uses to HoF/nerf core cards, generic cards that are used on every deck of a particular strategy plus im pretty sure that Mountain Giant and Sea Giant are safe for at least an extra year since both need heavy support to be ran, like mg wasnt even a consideration until Conjurer's Calling got printed and Sea giant needs a way to reliably go wide, like Even Shamman's hp which is not always avaliable
Zephyrs always gives you the answer for the avaliable mana you should have spent mana so that after playng Zeph you'd have 5 mana left to ensure the holy nova
go to wild, wild is mythically infamous for being expensive which is far from the truth, sure you need to pay a shiton if you want to play a renodeck but such is the nature of highlander decks, you want to run more good stuff, but for regular decks, many of them are tremendously adquisible in fact, many viable decks like Dragon IF priest, Mech hunter, and Secret mage are super cheap with a maximum of 2 legendaries investment, and well the aforementioned mehc hunter is dirt cheap if you already own zilliax and got Sn1p Sn4p during the free event.
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ANd here in wild meta no one's running piloted shredder nor Muster for battle while the 3 drops of choice are Flying Machine and Kirin Tor Mage, plus the Renodeck staple neutral legendaries like Brann and Zola
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ohh thanks for all the advise, i dont own some cards for some of the suggestions but seriously thanks to the guy that suggested Jades, adjusted a Jade druid deck to be able to deal with secret mage and have been having a decent run against renolock even if they manage to geist my idols (the trick has been in using the idols to grow Golems before t6 and as for secret mage, basically autocompleting a Jade Druid then getting rid of 1 branching Paths and 1 ferocius howl and adding 2 Ironwood golems on top of the hecklebots
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Finished the Murloc plagueboss in my first Attempt, with Reno and the Treasure that reduces costs from your hand whenever you play an odd-cost card
edit: yeah, it also had open the waygate and Mana Cyclone
edit 2: won because of that Iceblock-like trasuere that does 20 damage
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you could always play Dragon priest using Duskbreaker
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voted 5 for awesomeness and replayability: plenty of decks to be played like secret mage or Mech paladin
Voted 0 for balance, decent AoE is of epic rarity or higher, so whoever vomits board first usually wins
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i have the opposite experience, need any card from the basic set? Play zephyr's when playig him would leave you at a mana crystals equal to the cost of the spell you're trying to cast, need SW Death? play him when you have 5 mana remaining so that his battlecry accounts the 3 mana crystals you'd have left , need Silence? Play him when you have 2 Mana remaining so that he prioritizes giving you the 0 mana card, need Brawl? Play him with 7 mana remaining.
Kazakus though, i almost disenchanted kazakus yesterday, do you need an option to transform minions, deal face damage or deal AoE damage?, well, never get it offered and have some useless "add randomd demons to your hand" component offered instead, having that "random demons" component taking up the space of what could have been that one ingredient you needed and making you settle for something suboptimal for your situation like drawing cards or freezing a minimal amount of minions, is super frustrating, it wastes your time and space for an effect you didnt even needed nor wanted, while Zeph only dissapoints if you don't know how to play him.
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gee' i don't know, maybe they dont have enough cards but they want to experience this "new" gamemode anyways? this gamemode that their friend told them about because for new players unlocking wild is something rather obscure and exciting since you have to craft a wild card to unlock the mode and for that you have to do some shenanigans with the my collection filters, and none of this information is neither obvious nor detailed somehwere in the client.
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Or should it be minions only??
Feel free to discuss!
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i didnt' see you complaining about there being no Mammoths on the year of the mammoths, you should know better by now.
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Have you tried the new quest taunt warrior? using fireplume's heart, shaggy and armagedillos? it eats secret mages alive, i was using that to counter secret mages with relative ease until murphy's law kicked in full force and i found myself fighting a sea of Renolocks
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Well, my Pocket meta is filled with Renolocks and i'm honestly having troubles beating them now, any tech or deck recommendations to advance?
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Murloc Warleader and Shield Slam are my bets, no, i dont hate any of the cards but they kinda fall in the pattern that Blizzard uses to HoF/nerf core cards, generic cards that are used on every deck of a particular strategy plus im pretty sure that Mountain Giant and Sea Giant are safe for at least an extra year since both need heavy support to be ran, like mg wasnt even a consideration until Conjurer's Calling got printed and Sea giant needs a way to reliably go wide, like Even Shamman's hp which is not always avaliable
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the best way of finding out is finding it yourself
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Zephyrs always gives you the answer for the avaliable mana you should have spent mana so that after playng Zeph you'd have 5 mana left to ensure the holy nova
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go to wild, wild is mythically infamous for being expensive which is far from the truth, sure you need to pay a shiton if you want to play a renodeck but such is the nature of highlander decks, you want to run more good stuff, but for regular decks, many of them are tremendously adquisible in fact, many viable decks like Dragon IF priest, Mech hunter, and Secret mage are super cheap with a maximum of 2 legendaries investment, and well the aforementioned mehc hunter is dirt cheap if you already own zilliax and got Sn1p Sn4p during the free event.