Hearthpwn

Blah blah blah aggro is not a problem, game balance, etc etc.

Come of it, over 50% of the ladder right now is either aggro shaman or pirate warrior. It turns the game into a coin toss - either you have your answers by turn 5 or you are dead. Hearthstone is supposed to be about back and forth games right?... not tossing a damn coin.

It shows how ridiculous the current meta is frankly - the hero with the damage hero power has been squeezed out because it's too slow. We all used to rage about face hunter. So blizzard in their divine wisdom decided to counter that deck by making crazier and crazier 1 to 3 mana drops but generally not making them available to hunter.

There is no point playing casual - I just play low rank wild ladder games as any win there counts towards a golden portrait. So far I've only got Warlock and Paladin but every class is over 300 wins now. It doesn't feel like a grind as that is where I go to chill when hacked off with standard ladder to play some decks that are actually fun and not ending the game turn 5. Thankfully there are plenty of others doing the same thing. Rank 20 - 16 wild is where the game still shows it's potential - it's a shame Blizzard keeps pushing faster and faster curve decks on us.

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I still think that STB isn't an issue. Yes 3/2 for 1 can be annoying but playing a weapon MOST of the time is a tempo loss. The only tempo gain is from the 3/3 for 4 mana that gives a 2/2 weapon or nzoth's first mate... both of which aren't very good in themselves. The only benefit of a 1/3 weapon is being able to upgrade it to a 3/5 through 2 upgrades. 

I still felt that Cogmaster was way better as the mechs had good synergy AND tempo. I miss that type of synergy in today's game. The closest you get now is patches coming from a pirate and murloc synergy. A tiny bit from beast druid but it still doesn't have the mech feel of mech tempo/aggression. 

There are no decisions to be made when a game ends on turn 4, so there is no defending this PoS card or any other broken 1 drop, including the likes of tunnel trogg.

Next expansion we're getting a turn one pirate, spawn 3 1/1s. Then a turn 2 pirate that is "If your board has 3 or more pirates 4/4 charge". It's going to be great, they also have similar ideas for shamans.

I don't play either, but if I had to choose I would play pirate warrior. It's a theme thing, Shamans should not play more like Mage than Mage, where as it's perfectly reasonable as a warrior/berzerker to "hit face very hard with big axe".

Like with all OP decks it's down to a combination of powerful cards. However, if you can't see the problem with small-time buccaneer then you must be being willfully blind. Pirate cards are supposed to be more balanced than that, thanks to the tribe tag. It's another tunnel trogg, the card should never have been printed. This game really doesn't need anymore broken 1 drops.

I would embrace the inherent advantage Digital CCGs have and break out the nerf bat/buff bat. If they wanted to take away the 'full dust refund' thing to do this I would be 100% fine with that. The could keep the meta fresh so easily, bring back in old cards, let cool effects that have never seen light of day as they're attached to a terrible card see some play...

I still refuse to craft patches...the way it's now leaked into pretty much any weapon class along with the equally stupid small-time buccaneer makes me sad. Pirate mid-range shaman, pirate dragon warrior, pirate buffadin... /sigh

Please Blizzard, lay off the 1 drops.

What they need to do is stop printing cards that are just variations on the mana wyrm. No more ridiculous 1 drops, so we can move on to actually not needing Reno just to have a chance of survival, its pretty damned simple. You can throw a few nerfs round while you are at it. Cards should not be seriously ramping up in power or potential until 4 mana.

If I can make it to rank 10 with an 'all girl' hunter tempo deck, then I'm sorry but, yes, it is very much to do with your 'skillz'. Players never think they are playing badly, because if they could spot the mistakes, they wouldn't be making them repeatedly....right?

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My 'all girl' secret hunter deck can hit rank 10 no problem, it runs double elven archer and whole load of other 'bad' cards to fit the theme. No boobs? Not allowed in. People get very salty and add me regularly when losing to it.

 Lol. I like that!

On topic, I don't think this should be a reason to get salty.

How is this different? It's another loss. Move on.

My 'all girl' secret hunter deck can hit rank 10 no problem, it runs double elven archer and whole load of other 'bad' cards to fit the theme. No boobs? Not allowed in. People get very salty and add me regularly when losing to it.

So.....are they going to fucking nerf small-time buccaneer already? Patches isn't even that big of a problem but having to face 2 of these little bastards in every single pirate deck...OH MY GOD, they are fucking flame imps on crack, wtf were they smoking when they decided they were a good idea?!? Pretty much the most OP one drop ever. Just what we fucking needed more aggro OP 1 drops. IDIOTAS!