Hearthpwn

Took three tries before teaming with someone who actually understood the goal of this brawl.

I'm willing to bet there are players out there intentionally sabotaging people as well, which really sucks. 

Easily one of the worst brawls ever. Not only is it 100% RNG fest, but its a LONG DRAWN OUT RNG fest. You and your opponent do nothing but idols for the first 3-4 turns. Games tend to go long past 10 turns each. It's just ridiculous.

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What is with the HS community constantly displaying this us vs. them mentality? If you play priest you are a brain dead monster. If you never played patron warrior you don't know how it is to pilot a difficult deck. If you don't make your own decks you are a pathetic little loser. If you make your own you are superior, unless you are losing to a specific class then either you built it wrong or again that whole class needs a nerf. Spend money on the game? You are dumb and responsible for making the game worse. F2P you are dedicated and have more reasons to complain. Can't we all just see it is a game? If you aren't having fun or enjoying it don't spend your money on it or don't play. Why are all these people spending their time on a forum like this that hosts decks if they never netdeck or have positive experiences with the game? Rant ended.

I don't know if it's that the game has actually gotten harder... there are decks people can play, and play POORLY, and yet still dominate and win.

I recently took about a month break, came back, made a weak version of a rogue deck that looked interesting and wanted to try out a bit before crafting cards to make it better... and here I am at rank 22 fighting pirate warrior and highlander priest. 

These people played terribly, but their deck was so superior to mine they won regardless.

I don't think that's difficulty level, I think it's a continuation of poor design decisions by Blizzard. 

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It is a card game with 9 classes and you said that there are actually 4 deck archetypes. According to this there must be 9x4 viable decks. When you saw 36 viable decks on ladder?  Never! Ok, I will be more generous, 2 archetypes for all classes. Have you ever seen 18 viable decks in ladder? I have not. So I recommend you to see my upper post. 

While There should be bunch of every archetype for every class (like 3 combo, 3 control, 3 mid-range, 3 aggro for only hunter), there is never more than 5 viable decks in ladder. Netdecking forces people to play same decks, Blizzard forces community to netdecking (with their engineering and their "Pro" and streamer players which are boosted by them). So you people keep believing netdecking is a growing way to the game. Sweet Dreams.

A better question is why do people think netdecking deserves criticism in the first place?

All these comments about building a healthy community with a bunch of varying deck types are silly. There are four deck types: Aggro, control, midrange, and combo. Everything is basically one of, or a merge of, those four types. Given that, along with the fact that card game design companies, like Blizzard, inherently create some cards to be better than others, there will always be a limitation on deck design.

Here's an example: A few months back I decided to homebrew a Warlock deck based around heavy removal and demon buffing (and if you say it's already been done, well, my point exactly) - I made it, played it, it did ok, but nothing great. Over the next few days I start to see similar decks pop up, and I go online and see it's the latest thing for Warlocks that people are trying. The optimal decks were better than what I put together with my limited card pool, but the gist of the deck was the same. Now, did I netdeck? No. Was my idea already out there, and in a better fashion? Yes. 

The point is, whatever you homebrew, odds are it's been done, and probably done better, by people who are really good at deck building. If it's not out there, then the odds are it's a terrible idea. If your homebrew gets roflstomped by a netdeck, then odds are your homebrew just isn't very good. Face facts.

As a father of two who works full time and enjoys doing things other than HS, I simply don't have the time (or patience) to sit around and homebrew for hours to try to come up with something that might win a few games and allow me to complete my quests. I netdeck (often needing to sub out some cards) and happily do so. I am grateful to the community that helps develop decks that I can try and that saves me time.

Netdecking happens for many reasons. To call it bad, cancerous, etc. is just silly, and a sign of immaturity. To think that this glorious community would instantly happen if people stopped netdecking is just idiotic and wishful dreaming.

No.

Good grief do these whiney nerf threads never end??

It was time to start saving gold last month.

As a big priest player in Wild I'll say this...

The amount of times I get Y'Shaarj in my opening hand, or the amount of time I draw all my bombs in the first 3-4 turns, is greater than the number of times I get Barnes by turn 4, easily.

This is quite the brilliant idea! Tweet it to Brode. Seriously.

Welcome to the internet where people don't think twice before posting stupid comments. It never stops to amaze me that people can't understand simple sarcasm or irony. 

I do have a tip for you next time. Don't 'defend' your post. Instead you should just go with it, and reply in a similar fashion to your post. Some might still not get it but you up getting a good laugh about it. 

these changes are fine imo. nothing special but what i would like to see is improve the rewards to push people to playing more and work harder to improve their ranks.

If this is all they could think of after more than an year from the announcement of the Ladders rewamp then I'm really disappointed: the boringness of the grind has not been touched and still there. It could be a bit less frustrating since you'll be dropped only of 4 ranks each Season but it still a system that rewards fast time-efficient decks over anything else.

They should have made a more drastic and deep revolution instead of just this light rewamp. Don't get me wrong: this are nice changes, but they should have been just a first step in the right direction, not the final result.

These changes did look a bit odd to me at first, but the more I consider them, the more I like them.

Uh, the brawl can be a real pain when you get paired with some player who does not grasp the basic concepts of the game. Letting me overdraw and copy my unbuffed hero power is generally a bad idea, as is buffing some useless minion or healing some own minion while I am on the brink of lethal. One even ignored all my desperate hovering over cards he should buff / heal. 

Fortunately, my fourth "companion" was a clever player: Together, we killed the pesky dragon with ease.

Much ado about 40 dust, I'd say. Definitely not a brawl I will play again (the only exception is with friends I can chat with during the match).

What is with the HS community constantly displaying this us vs. them mentality? If you play priest you are a brain dead monster. If you never played patron warrior you don't know how it is to pilot a difficult deck. If you don't make your own decks you are a pathetic little loser. If you make your own you are superior, unless you are losing to a specific class then either you built it wrong or again that whole class needs a nerf. Spend money on the game? You are dumb and responsible for making the game worse. F2P you are dedicated and have more reasons to complain. Can't we all just see it is a game? If you aren't having fun or enjoying it don't spend your money on it or don't play. Why are all these people spending their time on a forum like this that hosts decks if they never netdeck or have positive experiences with the game? Rant ended.

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I play brawls to complete daily quests if i currently don't have viable deck for selected class.