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Like a number of other players, I'm pretty distressed at the announcement of the new formats. I'm someone who loves playing gimmicky combo decks like OTK Shaman and Dreadsteed Warlock. For decks/tribes relying on specific mechanics spread over a few expansions to pull off combos, losing one of those pieces will mean your deck is useless in standard mode. So those of us who want to play decks like these have been given the Wild Format as a way to make up for it. Here's why it's still a problem.
Blizz's policy for nerfing cards is to add new cards to counter them, rather than actually nerfing. If cards like Undertaker and Warsong Commander still were too powerful after too long, they were then nerfed. A common card that people complain about is Mysterious Challenger. Blizz can now tell people that MC and pally secret in general is being nerfed because of the loss of Avenge, Shielded Minibot and Muster for Battle in Standard Format. Although this is true, the issue has not been fixed for Wild Format and secret pally can continue to reign supreme. Add to the mix the idea that Blizz will probably bring out some strong new pally cards to compensate for their loss, and paladin has gained even more strength in Wild Format.
Now the purpose of this is not to complain about secret paladin. Sure it's strong but it's not at Huntertaker levels yet. My worry, however, is that some decks will become broken beyond belief in Wild but be fine in Standard, leading to Wild becoming a cesspool that contains only 2-3 decks. Maybe Blizzard will keep Wild in mind when balancing, but I'm not too optimistic.
My second frustration is that certain decks will always remain playable because of key components belonging to the basic set (Combo druid, Control Warrior, Handlock) while other decks that rely on new mechanics or new tribes will completely disappear (Mech Shaman/Mage, Dragon decks eventually, Demonlock). The only way Blizzard can prevent this is by constantly releasing similar cards when they are retired, just changing the stats and names. Either that, or they'll just let some decks disappear while others stay intact forever. I find this to be an annoying way to deal with balance.
Sorry for the rant but as someone who loves messing around with a variety of decks, this news comes as a huge disappointment.
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Wild it is. I have quite a collection so I want to be able to use that. Also this is a huge moneygrab from Blizz...not sure if I wanna keep playing/supporting this in the future...
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Ruining everything is a bit much, but the warsong nerf was terrible (killed a free card), and Boom should have been nerfed a long time ago.
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I have spend a lot of money on Hearthstone, and I don't like the idea of the Standard mode being the default. I'll be using the Wild format once it's live, and I'll play Standard once in a while. I don't like having limits, and not having access to some of my favorite cards in the game (Neptulon being one of them)
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making the boss fights unplayable and cutting out gvg pack uncool blizzard uncool all the rest is nice though
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Am I right that every year we'll be racing to collect cards that will eventually be unusable in Standard? If so, why would anyone spend any money on card packs?
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I wish there was a,"This card needs a nerf, but not this brutally," option to click on instead of the second one. Really, just take away health from the Good Doctor himself and the card would be a lot more manageable. For Example, 7/4 battlecry: Summon 2 boombots. Now even a shredder can handle boom.
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I like the variety in decks. If you think the meta is too aggo, where were you during the facehunter/zoo lock era? It's nice to see a matchup start up and I have to guess what archetype my opponent is playing instead of just knowing because that class has only one viable option.
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Quote from SupaHotFire96 >>Please stop with this nonsense. ZOOLOCK IS NOT a hard deck to play. It's probably hard to master, but then again, just look at Warrior or Priest. Your excuses, like, "the positioning is hard", are lame. You need to know what? How will you position minions so you can buff taunt them later? Or is it hard to position dire wolf alpha?Stop it now.P.S.: I agree, it's harder than huntard or secret paladin.
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They aggro better than hunters too.
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So your problem with arena is that the RNG in the draft is no longer compensating so heavily for shitty play? Cry me river.
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These are bots, they are being used to grind out a few cards/gold, then the account is sold. Because the world can afford to waste energy/resources like this right? Worse than crypto, it's enough to make you cry into your cornflakes.
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Younglings don't remember the previous two Mega-hunter metas.
- Undertaker Hunter, tier S deck.
- Face Hunter, top of tier 1 deck.
Also there have been multiple metas where hybrid hunter and mid-range hunter have fluctuated from tier 1 to tier 2.
Personally I like deathrattle hunter...its the slowest successful hunter deck we've seen, it has some really cool combos and it's full of flavour.
Emerald spellstone though, that card is just poorly designed, the pay off too high and too early at turn 5 if you mulligan with luck. High roll cards that come into play too early suck for everyone, and reduce the skill in the game.
Aggro hunter is always bad for the game, but sadly its consistantly been hte deck blizzard seems to want new players to use, as its so cheap. Either that or some kind of aggro paladin. Pay-to-have-fun sucks.
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Build something yourself...sub rank 10 almost anything I throw together works in wild - Mechwarrior with all the GvG card +boom was a laugh. Shaman with every good overload card + sepllstone and the overload unlockers. Beast druid with menagerie wardens for copying. Reno legendary warrior with 20/30 cards legendaries....the possibilities are endless.
The cool thing about wild is when a new exapansion comes out, you can take the bad cards from it that are waiting for stanard synergy and get it immediately with old cards to create some fun thats powerful enough to win plenty of games. Never dust anything and treat wild as the true casual/meme mode in the game. Don't worry about climbing too high, once you starting hitting all the try hard big priests and mill rogues it's time to go back to arena.
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I don't really watch streamers though, I just play because I enjoy it. I don't really care about the pro scene either.