It seems prep is the uber enable of this deck. T3-4 vanish or t4-5 quest activator... But does quest rogue become unplayable without prep?From a control standpoint prep vanish allows the rogue to wipe your board, potentially mill you, the opponent, and have mana left over for 3+ cheap 5/5s to fill their board.If it were straight vanish or straight quest it would give opponents a lot more breathing room to respond?Also, if prep is the enabling offender you'd be killing the current maricle rogue as well as balancing quest rogue at the same time if it received any changes.The meta is overall really accessible right now, but as mentioned t1-2 decks are being tuned. I feel with quest rogues access to cheap tools it will continually get stronger as it counters more and more classes effectively. It's hard though for any class to tech straight against it unless you go full agro, but Ying and Yang meta.
If playing without prep means losing to aggro, then I would guess it very well could. If you don't already have a board when you play it, 5 mana do nothing is a pretty big tempo hit when you could be close to dying.
Mill is a valid strategy which punishes greedy decks, though it is stronger in Wild with Gang Up and Brann Bronzebeard for the Coldlight Oracles. I don't see an issue with mill existing as a strategy.
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That's not what he said. Wanting the game to get better is awesome. However, he said it's entitlement to expect something and think you deserve it for basically nothing, which, is true.
Most players who are on this forum have brilliant individual ideas. However, most, not all, are ideas in a bubble. Just watching card creation competitions and the winners each month it's clear this community as a whole prefers and wants ridiculous and OP cards. If all the top rated fan cars went into HAS the game would be so beyond broken and imbalanced... You think the meta with arguably the most playable decks right now is imbalanced. Games in HS could be won in 3-5 turns long before MSG and if you don't like the current flavour of the standard meta there's this awesome thing called rotation.
Thing is everyone wants something now. HS has already been here for years and will stay for many many more. Instant changes while gratifying will do nothing but thin out HS faster. Dev teams need to plan for months and years down the road. Not nerfs tomorrow. And ya some Dev teams cater totally to their fan base. T5 takes its own inspiration while including the fan base. I can totally respect their artistic right and choice to excerise that freedom and keep it their game.
So yes he's right, the community has a heavy sense of entitlement. Support for success doesn't mean anyone owes anything to you. Maybe a thanks for playing, but we get that already in the form of free card packs and card backs regularly. But we want and deserve more! Wait what's that called, entitlement.
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Blame game confirmed. It's your fault so we are okay being little arrogant shits about your work and efforts. Cool story.
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I'm 50/50 here. I agree as any artist is exposed to subjective opinion T5 needs to accept negative criticism. However, no human being has to subject themselves to thinga like death threats, harsh insults and general abuse from their community either. The Dev team has seen what Mr Bride has weathered being the face of HS and if I was in the position, as social as I am, I too would not want to expose myself to that.
The main fact is it's the devs game and they ultimately can do as they please including expose themselves publicly to the community or not. The real problem here is many in the community think their opinion is right and if they don't get what they want everyone else should be damned for their suffering and entitlement.
It's arrogance and childishness by a vocal few that have left T5 in this awkward state of wanting to be involved in community conversation (key is conversation NOT listening to demands) but not wanting to suffer through it. Everyone who wants more should remember our opinions are simply that, opinions and crucifying others for disagreeing just ruins it for everyone.
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I refute. Really. It's a subjective opinion with no evidence. My refutle is clearly right based on my own subjectivity. Care to elaborate further?
Also, dragon priest stomps all pirate decks and jade druid too, kinda awkward that this totally contradicts both points in your statement.
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Operative as said is a good choice but it's still slow. If you discover something that fits curve it could be a better draw, or in a control matchup deathwing or ysera for late game.
Operative can almost never be a bad choice it might just not be the BEST choice. Boys from the men kind of decisicon and all that.
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Please lock this thread. Its OP trolling and others feeding. It's just a thread full of unconstructive rhetoric.
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