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You dont really get the point. There are decks out there which are T3, T4, meme decks etc. And they can get punished hard. Yes, you say they should run more wincons. You could also say: just dont play that deck then. Go play a T1 deck instead.

I am an achievment hunter myself but I have to say the concept of achievments in HS is just shitty designed by people who have so little experience in game design. Not everyone is playing for ranks, some are playing for achievments. There are cool and hard achievments indeed, does feel rewarding. But what does not feel rewarding? When you have achievments where you have to...

1. Grind hard, e.g. Use gone fishing to get 60 cards which didnt start in your deck. (2 Copies per deck, so AT BEST you need 30 Games to complete it, under the assumption that you 1. Live long enough to play the card 2. Draw it 3. Have cards at the bottom which didnt start in ur hand. It is NOT rewarding.

2. Keep playing a suboptimal deck against optimal decks because its ladder

3. Play cards that are literally shit and wouldnt see any play if the achievment didnt exist. It does change tho, for example pet collector was garbage when it was an achivment which granted exp (so when it got released basicly). The card became good with a later expansion (sunken city)

Overall, feels shit that you have to earn them in ranked modes. Sometimes I do face other achievment-hunters are we basicly just farm our progress and dont push for a win. Thats very nice actually. Some achievments suck because when you want to pull them off (e.g. kill opponent with the sword of 1000 truths) your opponent concedes before. Bad design, as usual from Team 5.

I dont take their "we want it to feel rewarding thats why you have to do them in ranked"-bait. Doing achievments could be seen as questing in an MMORPG. You do it, its not too frustrating, but farming 4 boar meat in elwynn forest as a quest doesnt feel that rewarding.

Zeddy is the guy who delivers the salt some ppl need (as Kripp does not do that anymore, he doesnt play any non-BGs). His videos are clickbait, begging for subs, announcing giveaway etc. It makes sense because thats his life, thats how he is makng money, it doesnt matter if he has dislikes, every reaction (upvote, downvote, comment) is promoting his channel. Often times, he does go over the top, making an issue way bigger than it actually is, but some stuff is just true.

For example the major game-breaking bugs, when Nellie-bug was around I completly stopped playing constructed (because I usually play 4 hours a day on my tablet while I am doing cardio), but on tablet/mobile, restarting the game is equal to losing immediately. Took long time to fix it, excuses were like, patches are huge effort yadda yadda, well how about coding a function to disable specific cards without releasing a patch?

In the past there were (personal) attacks on people n stuff. To be fair, at least he is adressing some issues, the way he does that is just not okay. On the other hand you have content creators who seem to completly avoid critic of Blizzard, as they just want to have a good relationship to get some Card Reveal, Event Invites etc. In the past, the old community manager of HS sucked (Chris or so), he even blocked Zeddy lol. Remember when Savjz was blacklisted from Blizz because Chris and Savjz wife had a disagreement?

Team 5 making sure to lower the quality of everything. Client, cards, balance.

QUests are the worst happening to HS. Thanks for that Cora. Fuck off with your broadcasting degree.

Hiring Cora for Team 5 was the worst decision they ever made. She has no degree in game design (in fact, she has a degree in broadcasting), zero experience in game design before joining Team 5, she was not an e-sport HS player, just a commentator, yes she was a good netdeck-piloting player but not even a good deck builder. Terrible, just terrible. Quests haunting standard for another year and Wild forever. Thanks Cora! Its insane what Team 5 became..

Dude pally was good. And with divine shield it makes it very hard to handle

Battletag: Miguel#2932
Region: EU
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DONE, thanks guys

Battletag: Miguel#2932
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, you go first, I can show

I tried contorl warrior but impossible to counter mech mage and pirate warrior. Pirate warrior has infinite value so I even lose in the long run. Mech mage is barefly running out of steam, due to the discoveries, they easily end up with 3 oder 4 sharks and turn more into some kind of combo deck, dropping 3 sharks and some cheap mechs and kind of OTKing you. Well done Team 5.

>30 gold max per day for winning 10 matches

Thats actually wrong. In the past we got 10 gold for 3 wins. That means, 30 wins get you 100g which was the daily cap.

Dont know if you can do something similiar because the reward track of the pass now has cosmetics, cards, gold and packs. I would assume getting gold now is way easier. Getting 30 wins was hard and took a long time. Imagine if your winrate is about 50%, it means you would have needed 60 games to get it.

Now, if you are able to reach the tavern pass to level 100, you get 50 gold per additional level. 1 Level over level 100 requires 1500 exp. I would say an average gay will give you over 100 exp (does not matter if you win or lose). 

The problem is that menagerie isnt as strong as it was 2 metas (or so) before. And with buddies, it got even worse (except of course a few heroes) because some buddies push you to stick to 1 tribe. If you get lightfang now, it is usually too late, just like Nomi. On tier 4, lightfang in my opinion would be way too strong, that could totally snowball out of control if you get it early.

We already had cards like this, e.g. the pala spell who did draw your lowest cost minion and buffed it. We will have to see if it is playable but it doesnt seem so.

For the dev stuff:

Cora (the girl in the clip) is a dev at Team 5. Her brother is also at Team 5. Cora was a former player and caster. She has a degree in broadcasting (not game design). We dont know the full Team 5 and their roles, but we know that Gallon, Chakki, Boarcontrol and Cora, all 4 of them are players and now designers. Iksar once said "we hire designers not players" which is kinda ironic, because afaik none of them has any degree in game design or something similiar. A lot of the old devs left/switched project like Mike Donais, Peter Whalen, etc. I understand that it is hard for Blizzard to find new employees because the reputation of Blizzard is dogshit, but I really really really would prefer if they would hire fresh graduated gamdesigners instead of just "people they know". Give them a fucking chance man. Quests of UiS and the Buddies in BGs showed me that the designers are lacking a bit of game design knowledge. Both things make the game very boring because games play out very similiar (Pirate quest: ppl play pirate, get Juggernaut, gg)(Buddy in BGs forces you to play a specific style/archtype, yes you can switch but for example, the Murloc buddy is dogshit if you dont play murlocs, while the other heroes have synergistic buddies which make them stronger so you would have a disadvantage if you dont go murlocs). Overall very unhappy how they approach the game, we joked for years about playtesting but it really seems that its not existing anymore.

And dont get me started about the client. Its a fucking mess. Back in the days spaghetti code was a meme.

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So many people wearing their babyrage as a badge of honor is amusing.

The questline has you doing one thing in 5 different modes, so chances are everyone is going to have at least one mode they don't like (for me personally, it was Battlegrounds and Duels, but at least I only had to slog through one game of Battleground and not "place in top 4" like the weekly I have to reroll every week).

The people proudly proclaiming that they're deleting the quest out of spite remind me of the people who "protested" Keurig by smashing their expensive Keurig machines (that, yanno, they already paid for).

 You can do duels and BGs afk, sign in, go afk. For mercs. You cant. You have to go to so many battles. You dont get that, boy.

Its funny how they have different event quest which require you to play Duels but not Arena. Mike Donais who left the team was a fan of arena, now it seems like it doesnt get any love from Blizzard at all. Arena was my fav mode but it got murdered already years ago, I tried giving it a chance several times but with bullshit like DH release, new Ysera etc its not worth my time.