Hearthpwn

Wildpaw Gnoll was #1 on my list of needed nerfs, so I am glad they are addressing it. 

LEMIWINKS LEMMMMMMIWINKS LEMMMMMMMMMMMMIWINKS

I hit legend with a similar version of highlander hunter the last 2 seasons. My question is, how do you feel about Negrand Slam? I have never run it as I feel that it is generally too slow against most aggro decks. Often times, my games end with dragon queen alexstraza if not earlier. Do you feel that it is really worth running over a card like acidic swamp ooze or phase stalker with 2 secrets? 

Literally most of the players did actually answer the question... 

Isn't mech hunter statistically the #1 deck in the game right now? No changes to that deck?

I would say you are "good" if you can hit legend rank at all. The argument that it doesn't take any skill and it's just a grind is BS. There are plenty of players who attempt to navigate a tier 1 deck to legend ranks and fail because of sub-optimal plays.  A lot of R5 players think "I went from R15 to R5, so I could easily push to legend if I just had more time." But the fact is that from around R4 to Legend you will encounter 99% tier 1 decks and players that are making few mistakes. So ultimately, it comes down to correct mulligans, optimal plays, RNG and simply the match-up to decide who wins. Back in the pirate warrior day I would say that bad players could pretty easily make a legend push, but in this meta, it does require some good decision making. 

It worked for Tom Brady... It worked for Roger... I am totally going to start cheating now too! Thanks Hearthstone for letting Roger play! You have shown me and the other children the secret to success!!! 

They are not. They never do. 

The hearthstone devs be like "Hey our game is dyeing, we better focus on the tournament scene!"  SMH

Here is another thought: Create a new ranked game play that bans certain cards from each class. These banned cards  would rotate weekly forcing people to constantly create new decks. ideally the banned cards would be cards that are generally considered to be "must haves" for standard meta decks. 

It is actually really funny to me that the devs are so simple minded that they are reaching out to the community to come up with the ideas that they lack the creativity to come up with themselves. But i guess that's what happens when you lay off 800 employees and give your CEO a 15 million dollar paycheck. 

There is a 0% chance that they will ever make cards/ expansions cheaper. They want to make MORE MONEY. That is priority #1. 

1. Stop focusing only on new players! I used to love HS and play it every day and now I am playing so little that I am occasionally not even finishing my daily quests. I have all golden heroes, 12 arena wins and have hit legend multiple times in both standard and wild. So I feel like I don't really have anything left to "earn" in the game aside from more legend ranks and some cards that I won't even play because I can already play almost any meta deck. I don't mind paying $60 per expansion. I don't even really mind that they just nerfed my control paly deck to the point that it is no longer playable, even though I just spent 3600 dust to craft it a month ago. All I really want is some more cosmetic items that I can earn by winning ranked games etc. These cosmetic items would cost the devs practically nothing to add to the game.

Here are a few specific ideas that would keep me playing: Glowing golden heroes at 1000 ranked wins. How about Diamond heroes for 2500 ranked wins. Maybe a new card back for hitting legend on standard and wild. Or a special card back if you hit legend 10+ times. Literally anything that I can play to earn something simple and cool would be amazing.

I understand that I am in in very small percentage of players that have essentially "beaten the game" and that Blizzard isn't really looking to accommodate the 1% of players that have also done this, but these changes would be SOOOOOO simple to make. Seriously, just give us some diamond heroes for 2500 ranked wins. How hard would that be to do??? 

2. Stop nerfing classic cards and fix the real issues: I'm talking about you Genn and Baku. (Maybe fire the devs that came up with these ideas as well). Baku and Genn tremendously limit the creativity of deck building moving forward. And for the devs to say "oh sorry, we didn't realize that Genn and Baku would be meta defining" is simply unacceptable. The community was making broken decks by hour 1 of the expansion release. But the truth is that the devs make these unbalanced cards intentionally to make more MONEY.

Let me explain how this works: Certain, strong or even overpowered cards get created and everybody has to craft them if they want to remain competitive on the ladder. Then a few month later they nerf these cards and create a new meta which then forces you to craft some other cards. So rather then releasing a balanced expansion  where you can safely craft cards, they instead make it so that you think are crafting a "safe" card but then suddenly they nerf it to the point that its no longer even playable. A great example of this would be the recent druid nerfs. Da Undataka was supposed to be a "safe craft" as it was an important card in Taunt druid. Then a few weeks later they nerfed some druid classic cards and Da Undataka stopped seeing play and some new legendary cards became relevant, forcing players to spend more money and craft more stuff. I guarantee you this was an intentional move by the devs. 

3. Where the hell is the tournament mode? You could "buy-in" a ticket to a HS tournament by spending gold similarly to the way you play arena. You could even have a low and high stakes variation of this. For example: Say I want to play a "high stakes" tournament, so I opt to play the 1000 gold buy in tournament. This puts me in a pool of 16 players who then choose 3 different decks (all different classes required) Then I randomly match with 1 of the 15 other competitors in a best of 3 series. If I lose I make nothing. if I win, I make it to the top 8 players, then the top 4, top 2, and then play for the title. With 16 players at 1000 gold per entry we would then have 16,000 gold to award out to the top 3 players. Say maybe a reward of 3,000, 5,000 and 7,000 gold being awarded to the top 3 finishers. This is just a rough idea of how a tournament mode could work but I am sure that something similar to this would be highly popular among competitive players. 

However, with all that being said... We all know that blizzards #1 priority is to make SWEET PRECIOUS MONEY and nothing else really matters. Prove me wrong.

stay woke

too bad I spent 3600 dust to build an OTK paly deck... RIP

Rank 3 legend in wild.