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I'm not even sure if this is allowed... It's originally from the Destiny Reddit 3.5 months ago, and more recently became a top post in the Hearthstone Reddit... It's hilarious how you can change a few nouns and it becomes Hearthstone... I'm sure lots of you have read it (heh), but I'm sure just as many haven't.

ORIGINALLY BY: Pwadigy On Reddit (Jan/20)

I have played dozens of competitive games over dozens of genres (not just video-games) and I have learned many things about people who play competitive games

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How did they know!!??

Quote from Guts6 >>

5 same decks, no innovation, boring af

 Yeah, because if you were playing for a $500,000 prize pool, you'd go for a creative meme deck...

There are 6 lackeys and 44 dragons in standard... So, the odds of generating Draconic Lackey, and then Dragonqueen Alex is 1 in 264. Then it's dead in your hand if you're not running Highlander until you play out duplicates.

Lackeys work in combo decks.

This is like saying Mecha'Thun is unfair, because you can be winning by a landslide, and then lose.

That's the point of combo decks. You need to save the right cards, and be lucky in draw, order and survivability to win.

Should the game just be whoever is winning, should always win? Player who hits the opponent first wins? 

People have such a hard time understanding the whole aggro < control < combo loop, and that you need all 3 to have a viable meta.

If you didn't have control decks, you you would ONLY see Face Hunter

If you didn't have aggro decks, you would ONLY see Tempo Rogue 

If you didn't have combo decks, you would ONLY see Rez Priest.

The meta NEEDS these archetypes, or it simply wouldn't work... Take away Rogue, and the meta will be mirror Ressurect Priest games non-stop.

Quote from DrZoster >>

Quote from tiny_spikey_boy >>

Join to the wild mode, We're inviting you. Jadę druid, Reno decks(mainly warlock and priest), dead Mans hand, odd warrior, cubelock. Man what are you waiting for? I am control player and i love cubelock and jade, moving to the wild was the best decision i've ever made. It is cheaper and more fun. 

 As somebody with mainly AoO and Classic cards, is it viable to get into wild? Or there's no point in it?

 I'd say most decks have 4-8 of 30 cards from AoO and Classic... that's if you have the viable cards from those expansion... Have a look at the wild decks on this site... If they have an expansion logo beside them that isn't AoO, then it's from another extension... There's some decent budget decks though. I think theres a fairly cheap Seret Mage you can craft to play Wild, but it's unlikely you'll be able to make a deck with what you have.

If Demon Hunter is by far the most played class, and it has a 67% winrate, how can it possibly be rigged to a 50% winrate? Not to mention the impossibility of climbing with a 50% winrate... You would enter legend, and it would be literally impossible to climb to a higher rank. If you climb later in the season, and entered at 15000, you could literally never make it father than a couple hundred spaces before falling back to 15000... You could ONLY climb if you had win streaks every run win 4, lose 4, in which case you would increase of a rate of 1 star per 8 matches, which is ridiculous. Decent players obviously climb much faster than that.

$100 bucks says the tinfoil hat brigade returns to let us know the links are broken, because Hearthstone is covering it up... BigTCG is controlling our opinions man! They're flashing subliminal messages in our game, so we'll drink Pepsi, and buy Huawei products!!!

Did it say anywhere that card rewards were part of the no duplicate program? I thought it was just for pack openings.

Quote from AssumedNewb >>

Agreed. I type this while roping a res priest every turn.

Hope this fucktard dies from ****

 Yeah... Because Rez Priest is in a big hurry to finish the game...

Quote from sxavalentine >>

At this point I'm convinced that this forum is full of DH fan boys that for the first time climbed to ranks that before couldn't even dream of and now don't want to see their beautiful class brought to a fair level. 

Or, people sick the 26 new "Nerf DH" posts every day. Especially when you can find 16 unique decks on HSReplay, spanning all 10 classes with records of 55%+ winrates. If the meta is "all Demon Hunter" (no idea what level this is taking place at, because post nerf, I see maybe 1 in 6 DH decks between D5 and D1... if these decks are playing "all Demon Hunters", and "Demon Hunter is so OP", how do they have ++ winrates? I played like 3 games in casual with DH, and don't have any of the expansion legendaries, so if I'm a fanboy, it's because I win 3/4 games against DH playing Pure Paladin, Galakrond Secret Rogue, or Lackey Warlock, the most common one I use being a homebrew... I don't even think I've seen a Demon Hunter deck listed on the HSReplay main page as "best deck" at any level, for any region in quite a while..  

I don't know what people are playing... Yes, DH hits hard and fast, but by turn 8, they're out of gas... Are you mad that they go face better than you? 

Quote from DickDraggin >>

To me Mage is exactly this, but I have been only playing 9 months so don't have the historical view.  People complain about the big Mage RNG swings late game because they had the game in the bag up until then.  But the game was only in the bag because Mage is so deficient early game and always has to climb out of a hole.  Late game Mage comes out swinging with big punches like the Amazing Reno... if it survives that long.  It definitely seems designed into Mage that you must struggle early and then get rewarded later with some massive plays with some variance which balances out in the end.  And that this is intentional by the Devs to make outcomes less determined by early play.

 Shhhhh... You can't make reasonable comments... Now they're going to attack your intelligence, because that would mean they lost fairly, and weren't  "punished by pure RnG""

Quote from AssumedNewb >>

Agreed. I type this while roping a res priest every turn.

Hope this fucktard dies from ****

 What do you expect to happen? Nothing will change and you wasted a lot of time you could have spent better. Sad, salty player...

System seems great until you don't play much for a month and then it becomes ridiculous. Who will have the time to grind 150 stars even with a winstreak bonus if you didn't play the previous month so have no bonus stars applied, surely it would make more sense to have the bonus stars applied dependent upon your underlying MMR and not your finishing rank given that players will be matched on MMR not rank now. I'm guessing even not playing a month won't actually affect your underlying MMR so would be fairer system. Then as players progress and got better at the game they automatically qualify for a higher level of bonus stars the following month. Then it's a bonus in relation to skill level not how much you played the previous month.

Quote from NoName11247 >>

IDK it seems even more grindy than before. When I'm lazy and climb at the end of the season I have about 60 to 80 % WR because ladder is filled with bad players or meme decks.

Now I'm matched with legend players the whole time. So assuming I never get a win streak I need 25 wins just for diamond league. Compared to 20 wins from rank 4.  And If I skip a month it gets real shitty because I don't get any bonus, need 150 stars and I'm matched against Bronze 10 players. So how exactly is this system any better?

I hope they fix ladder until the expansion comes out because I already expect it will be broken for a few days like every time.

 why was this down voted he telling the truth... if you dont play 1 morth you need to win 150 to get back to legned  befor you could skip 1 morth then you will be back at rank 10 and only had to win 50 win... this new way sucks

 Probably the breast card so far

Quote from user-24725583 >>

Arena filler. Wont see play

 The only filler here is you on this website

Without Facehunter in the meta the meta would be almost unplayable. Aggro is always good thing to have around as long as it's not the S++ tier deck like Undertaker hunter or pirate warrior back in their reigns.

Not working against Shaman, 100% of loses...But it's true that actually on 20 combats I fight against 20 shamans ... 

Edit: I confirm the more I play, the more I lose with this deck against all other class too, when the others are at turn 6 with cards ith 5 and more attacks, I cant do anything as there is only 2 AOE in this deck ....

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