Hearthpwn

First things first, this will happen every month. Everyone gets set back to bronze and matchmaking will take a bit to really refine as everyone's MMR is composed based on games played.

So far, I've spoken with a few players who have done some testing and here's how the matchmaking seems to work (unofficially, of course):

Based on your skill, efficiency, deck composition, and rank, you'll get matched with people who best line up with you. 

For example, you'll face a player who makes a lot of mistakes if you make a lot of mistakes, too. You'll face a lot more meta decks if you run meta decks, too. Running off-meta? Your opponent is likely to be doing the same. Win streak? Your opponent probably has one going, too.

Don't let the initial newness/weirdness of ladder turn you off from it. Get a feel for how it works and how you can best approach it.

Best of luck!

Better if you discover it, might end up being a niche play, but that's a solid 12 to the face if there's no opposing minions 

This was the best use of 1600 dust I've ever spent. Time to lose 7 times in a row on ladder, baybeeeee

Worth not trying to out-value turn 1 8/8's with taunt.

Small note: it's faster to do the combo with Topsy than with Smite. Smite's animation is longer

Ok

Don't use this against Lazul... I should have checked before I found out she revives with a new deck and 50 health. Otherwise, I crushed her and burned her C'thun.

Quote from lostkiwi >>

I hit legend for the first time a few days ago, and I have to say, based on my experience at dumpster legend ranks, the majority of my opponents have been Rogue.

In rack, I would say Rogue would easily be the most common class I played against from Rank 5 through to where I am now.

I would imagine that Hunter would be much more common at higher ranks though since it's a cheap deck and therefore more accessible to a lot of players.

 I think pretty much all the most trusted data shows rogue consisting of at least 1/4 of ladder as a whole. Legend supposedly has over 35% rogues (as reported by Vicious Syndicate in their last report, #151). Hunter is doing well, but honestly rogue is better, just requires more flexibility since it's biggest source of power is the value it generates through things like 0-cost cards (Galakrond and Wand off of Toggwaggle) and stolen class cards. I faced a rogue the other day that used 4 other classes to beat me, because all their own base cards had nothing I couldn't handle.

You made some good points as to why you're leaving, so it's a little sad you're leaving now that you've only recently begun posting.

Good luck on the dad stuff, though! Hearthstone has been a favorite of mine while dealing with kids at night, like rocking them back to sleep and the like, so hopefully some time away helps you find either a new game or a break to let you come back with a renewed enjoyment.

Here's a clip of me crushing Avalanchan: https://youtu.be/EmLcnSYIddg

P.S. - I don't "have a YouTube" per say, just found this was an easy way to share clips, since I've never done it before. Any better ways that you or anyone else knows of?

Just decimated every boss with this that I faced, especially Avalanchan and Kriziki

Thanks for sharing!

I would say it is normal, since Eye for an Eye says "when" and not "after".

But yes, I wish they change it so that Flare wouldnt get Counterspelled...

I guess it's about knowing the matchup. . Wild is wild.

I really like the animation for Garrosh, it’s subtle but he is breathing very heavy. 

We, as a community, really need to move past intentional roping and revenge roping.  Good sportsmanship should be the standard, the baseline, you should take pride in playing a fair game and see yourself as setting a good example of what that looks like.

Will people continue to do it spitefully? Sure. But there are also loads of reasons a person might appear to be roping you that are not malicious—difficult/thoughtful plays and sequencing, connection issues, random crashes. 
When we choose to see something as a slight and deserving revenge we perpetuate a cycle of BM, and it simply doesn’t have to be that way.  

”an Eye for an Eye leaves the whole world blind”

Quote from Leifster >>

DH players must be ropeded every single turn including the mulligan.

Sometimes they have bad draw and you get the upper hand and can win fair and square. In these games it´s easy to get exited and forget to rope. No, No! It’s very important to keep roping in these situations!

Only by consistent and widespread roping can we stop these people from ruining the game.

 

 This is so childish. I don't enjoy playing demon hunter myself and I don't enjoy playing against it but other people do and if I want to share space with other people then I have to accept that what I like isn't "right". Some people have a lot of fun with the archetype and class, they are enjoying the game. Roping them simply because you've built an internal prejudice against an entire group of people based on nothing except your personal feelings is just a really, really shitty way to be. 

It's people like you that contribute to what feels like such an intolerable, petty, selfish society at the moment. When I play a control deck, maybe the opponent feels exactly how you do but about me. Everyone will have different tastes and likes, this is stuff you should have learned when you were 3/4 years old.

So either you grow up and stop being such an ignorant jackass or you're just going to continue the cycle of people being shitty to each other because they don't comply with your view on subjective things. 

Hope DH gets nerfed into oblivion, cuz that class is a fucking joke

I like the MTG reference

Because budget players want to make sure their investments are well thought-out?
Because certain people see no progress and wish to improve at the game?

I could ramble on how I find any deck "trivial to build and use", but what would that accomplish? Let people enjoy what they enjoy.

Compared to the other hunter decks out there....this one is awful.

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