Hearthpwn

Quote from Dunscot >>

Gee Brain, what do you wanna do tonight?

The same we do every night, Pinky - open a thread to talk about nerfs!

  If this was Reddit I would've given you gold for this.

The non-business, money blinded, sane, balanced, non-blizz thing to do is to unnerf Wild Growth Equality, Flametongue Totem and buff Giggling Inventor (to boost the two counters of CW) to 6 and nerf Elysiana and Boom to 10. But that will never happen. So what will happen? Knowing blizzard probably some weird choices.

• They panic and nerf Shadowstep and Preparation killing Roque' identity, along with Elysiana and Boom to 10.
• They'll nerf Zilliax, the only good healing card left, because its everywhere. - its either this or nerfing doing completely reactionary: Brawl.
• Leeroy because its starting to kill design space and not let Zoo and Hunter take off after.
• Maybe even Edwin or Evil Miscreant just because it hampers design space or give the Roque too much tempo for future x-pacs.
• At this point, please let the Chinese take over or Tencent. Or start nerfing cards separately for Wild & Standard and add the 10th class to even out this one class running away with 25% of the meta and respond by killing class identities. This current business model has to stop.

Hi there! Could you change my name to ''Xiànxiàng'' please? Or give me the credit if the accents are too difficult.

Cheers.

Wasn't warrior about striking with weapons? The ''classic warrior' deck recipe ends with the text ''and allow your hero to take part in the battle with weapons''? ''Which one? Am I supposed to put Molten Blade in a CW deck?'' Nerfing Chilly Peace Axe? Well done. So after seeing Patches (at one point in every aggro deck up to tier 3 & oh yeah and along with Southsea Deckhand two charges within 3 turns, wasn't too powerful charge unwanted?), Frothing Berseker (a problem since Patron Warrior), they decided to nerf the only card that is both utilized in PW and CW. Lovely. 

Think a fine solution would've been for CW players to nerf it to only attacking minions. What they're basically doing is killing CW until the new cycle as you would need ridiculous luck from Grimestreet informant or Molten Blade or choose the realistic/safer option; curve more down with double whirlwind and 2x shield slam which kills your priest, mage and Warlock match-up as well.

But really, It stays funny of them exploiting those cheap bastards on Reddit that ask for nerfs just to slap them with more reprints and tournament players like me needing to buy 195/210 packs per x-pac now - or ~€210 or (200 packs needing 20k gold with a winrate of let's say 52/53% is ~65/75 hours for 20k without Arena is ~170 days to play everyday until the gold-limiter between x-pacs) - up from 175/185 packs/€200/175 days of playing.  So yes, they talk about design-space when nerfing these cards, but actually the game gets even harder for F2P if you grind and try to live up there promise of playing your class. So many cheap (.....) are nerfing themselves as playerbase. But shhh.

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Im extremely happy. Nice diversity, both shaman and rogue now have multiple different playstyles. All in all I'd say this is the best expansion! Maybe not as massively power-changing as GvG, but more balanced

Tier 1 / Aggro Shaman / Mill Roque / C'Thun Roque

Tier 2 / Hybrid Hunter / C'Thun Priest / Tempo/Yogg-Saron Mage/ Highlander Warrior / Renolock / Midrange Shaman

Tier 3 / Dragon Priest / MalyRoque / Patron Warrior / Control Paladin / Control Warrior / Dragon Paladin / Beast Druid / Zoolock / Freeze Mage

Tier 4 / Reno Mage / Deahtrattle Roque / Murlocadin / Handlock / Secret Paladin, Midrange Paladin, Face Hunter, Aggro Druid, Aggro Paladin.

For the OP: But Heartpwn should do these kind of prediction contest topics that would award, packs or some of a reward. Because be honest, if you get tier 1 and 2 right with this list, you would get mad stacks on every other betting site.

Personally I believe the guy is right because very other game does it. Ask the guys at reddit about FIFA about the scripted play you can all access with something simple as notepad and there you have it. So it does happen in games. But enough with the infantile amount of just saying things sarcastic or going off-topic without any facts.

A guy at Reddit did 5500 ranked games on ladder 4 months ago Answer: No. It itsn't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/3wfafp/is_matchmaking_rigged_lets_find_out/

Yes, it's only one account. And one user. But fact use validity. But for now let's just say no,

OP is right, and we know it. And as a EU player things are not that different. Maybe a little bit less.

Soon after starting HS years ago, I stopped watching Twitch: Insults, racism, rape threads. It´s even worse then twitter. If you need something read an article or watch pre-recorded stuff. Sportsmanship was lost the moment online gaming on the consoles got mainstream. I´m scared to add people nowadays. And I know some too, the moment I really felt sad was when a guy I wanted to compliment on his deck immediately asked after I added him if I was going to complain on RNG again. This is not something positive for any game. Just that mindset. The only way you can counter this is by not accepting any requests or build a skin like some of us did. And I´m squelching since Naxxramas. It does get better at higher ranks.

Now this started around 2005-2008 When Youtube was introduced, and online gaming became affordable on consoles with the PS3 and when torrents became widely popular. The problem is, that it is a reflection of the society, just like youtube comments, or twitter and facebook. People back in the days would just get ignored and you could just ´´force´´ them off the playing ground with your friends. Nowadays every idiot gets a free ticket to say nonsense or play along with no sportsmanship at all.

And they ARE the core. Believe it or not. They are what makes a game profitable. Those charts saying every age group games? They don´t care about that. They care about the same people you hate. Those are 12-18, the same fanatic adolescents you see on Twitch or Kripp´s comments section. They make the most buzz; when an expansion comes out. when a nerf happens, they will create buzz on social media (just look at HeartPwn, do you think someone with a job, children, a good looking girlfriend would talk about some format change 2 months from now), in schools (new players are kids, not adults). It´s the same reason Brianna Wu en Zoe Quinn got all the backslash.

They pay the most because they have the most free time, because normal adults, work and get in trouble for playing a card game at work because, well, you can get fired for anything these days. So accept it, and just build a skin. Because you will not change it. It will never change, and if this get fixed, by let´s saying banning these kinds of things, you will lose profit.

^^ This. But also something else;

If someone tries to use a hack tool, they are more tech savy to not need these kind of topics. So that gets me to this point. It seems... Just to start again the same unneeded discussion about deck tracker tools ''it's cheating, I can't install it/I can't win and I blame it on this''... you post a linkdump of symatec' malware blog. And it's OPs first post btw. What a welcome.

Lately there is a ridiculous increase in these kind of repetitious kind of complain/ban topics. Especially in general. 80% of all non pinned topics are complain or negative topics. It isn't fun.

Hi, as a long time player, I had all the cards and this deck made me become one of the best on the EU server for the first time. I couldn't keep up with the secret paladins on my EU server to get top 100, but nonetheless. It was great. So before ''wild'' decks go out of popularity (for at least) the coming year. Thank you for making this deck. Hope to see you in the coming formats.

PS: The most insane save was the double mine against a renolock who had lethal but still 12 cards.