Hearthpwn

same reason I am still married, I haven't found anything better yet

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no more miracle rogue,

 

 there will always be a miracle rogue

I've reached the gold cap a couple times when tavern brawl was something where each game was win or lose by turn 2-3, or even turn 1.

I guess I have also occasionally reached it when grinding to legend on my day off, but farming for it, day after day, no way.

As for the complaining about casual, yes its annoying when you try to play a 'fun' deck and it gets smashed by optimized top tier net decks over and over but the lesson is not that 'casual needs to be changed to suit what i want it to be!', but rather ''fun' decks are never fun'.

nope, it is boring

i click play and the game starts and it is even lock and i am bored.  then i realize i am a boring person, then i feel bad about myself and then i misplay because i'm sad and then i get punished and lose and then i feel even worse about myself and i blame hearthstone.

Why do humans always have to play god?  Do we really need all these manipulations? Why can't it just be three random cards?  Sure, you get some awful picks and some awful drafts and it feels unfair to lose to one good card you were never offered, but it actually fosters SOME skill in game play of making the most of your resources and getting the most out of your crappy cards.  I guess i answered my own question, people don't want that, they just want to win. 

So you get the arena we have now where every paladin has steed on 6, vinecleaver on 7, steed #2 on 8 and then silver sword somewhere; every druid has UI right on 10; every mage has an overflowing AOE bucket of at least 6 board clears in various combinations of meteor, blizzard, flamestrike; and every rogue has a 1/2 weapon on two.  Bring back the arena days of board clear being precious and rare, getting value out of bad cards being important and coaxing my chillwind yeti's to 7 wins.

remove all aoe cards and have a 50/50 deal damage to all minions equal to the current players mana at the start of every turn, problem solved

why can't we hall of fame people who make short sighted, reactionary and ignorant threads?

at least i know what the first legendary i will open will be

cute but useless. 

you never want to top deck it

you never want to have it in your hand at all vs aggro

vs control, you should know pretty much every card in their deck and have a reasonable guess at their hand and what to play into/around..he might be better if he changed in to a card left in their deck that WASN'T in their hand

vs combo, does it matter? you beat them before the combo goes off or you don't

 once i had someone add me after i beat them who was really clever.  first they said, hey do you have the 80g quest? only after i said nope did they being throwing insults at me 

brilliant

I think the best solution is to force Activision into Hall of Fame and keep Blizzard as the core set in Standard. 

Arena for one run is heavily dependent on luck, far more than climbing the ladder over say, one evening.

Arena over time is considerably more skill intensive than constructed over time. However, to understand this point you need to not be an idiot.

FWIW - the fifth expansion of each Standard cycle increases the available card pool by less than 15%. If "Game-Balance Yoda" designed every card, and the HS community was perfectly rational, the expected outcome of Boomsday would be that the meta-game would change by about 15% - you'd get three entirely new decks among the twenty most-played, and you'd get a handful of new cards in every other deck. Yoda doesn't design the cards, and the HS community isn't perfectly rational - but you get the idea.

So far, there are four decks among the HSReplays Top 20 which didn't exist prior to the expansion. One of the grooviest is Deathrattle Rogue, which endured community derision prior to release, as yet another failed attempt by the design team to "make Deathrattle Rogue a thing." It currently has a win-rate of almost 52%. Of the 100 most-played cards in Standard, 14 are from Boomsday (WW = 6, K&C = 19, KFT = 13, Un'Goro = 7, Evergreen = 41.)

There are other metrics for analyzing the performance of a new set, but altogether, Boomsday appears to be performing as well as should have been reasonably expected. Folks that insist that every new release should completely transform the meta-game are ignoring the maths, and blaming the designers of the game for the consequences of their own unreasonable expectations. At the end of the day, a new set is a 15% change to the meta-game.

Also - the OP clearly misspelled "shittiest".

I've dusted Gruul twice already, and I'll dust him 100 more times if I have to. There will never be an instance where that card is playable. Quote me on this. If Gruul ever becomes meta, I will craft a golden copy.

It's bone or be boned in this meta. Better make sure you're the first to do the boning.

Sweet, I can fill it with all my lifelong friends like Mr Poopy Butthole, Uncle Steve, Cousin Nicky, Mr Beauregard, Frankenstein's Monster, Sleepy Gary, and of course Pencilvester. 

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GG Blizz!

This made me uninstall finally! 

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So, I just finished getting to legend in standard with quest rogue, and I thought I'd post my stats to show just how bad this deck is.

As you can see, I finished with a horrible 56% winrate, the lowest winrate I've ever had with a deck I climbed to legend with (highest was post-nerf S36 aggro shaman @ 65%, last season was aggro murlocdin @ 62%).

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The overall winrate for quest rogue is < 50%. My winrate with a given deck is usually ~ 8 - 10% higher than the average.

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Eater of secrets is a horrible tech card. It has a huge downside (crappy stats), and is relatively high cost. Compared to other tech cards which have no downside (hungry crab, golakka, both have stats of a vanilla minion).

Something like a

1 mana 1/2

Battlecry: Destroy all secrets, deal 3 damage to the controlling hero for each secret destroyed.

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i don't know how to properly evaluate your card, as i think costing 1 mana is way too powerful (because think about it, you spend 1 mana to destroy expensive value, mage secrets costing 3 mana, and you put them even more in behind), but dealing 3 damage to yourself for each enemy secret (max 15 damage) is ... dunno

if i could suggest an anti-secret tech card myself, it would still be with the stats of Eater of Secrets, but it will draw you a card - something like Gnomish Inventor, inspiration from Flare

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I agree we need actual cards to counter secrets. A one drop is unworkable however. I want a card I can actually use in midrange/control decks.