I notice this persistent influx of players coming here, voicing their dissatisfaction as to a few aspects of Hearthstone. The biggest complaint is probably that matchmaking is maliciously manipulated in order to counter players via their opponents’ decks. Another big offender is the claim that randomness is what lost these players the match. The opponent must’ve had God-draw, while seemingly your mulligan and drawing RNG is suspiciously bad. Now, there’s one fantastic way to move on from conspiratorial and RNGesus explanations, and to actually improve. How can we accomplish this?
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Signing Up and Deck Tracker
Here’s what to do. Firstly, visithsreplay.net. The site is completely safe. Sign up for a free account – simple and easy to do. After you do this, download the Deck Tracker program. This is immensely valuable. From showing cards left in your deck, the potential secrets your opponent has on-field, the amount of cards in each player’s hand, and more. You are almost certainly disadvantaged without this tracker.
Now, after you’ve gone through this process, you will be able to visit hsreplay.net and click on the “My Data” tab, and from there “My Replays”. This will allow you to watch your replays, which is a fantastic way to improve your gameplay by observing what you could have done instead to have won (you can’t always win, of course, but, nevertheless). However, most of us need a third-person perspective for the best results in receiving legitimate advice on how you could have played better. Aside from finding someone to coach you, this is likely the best way to improve your gameplay and, even, deck building.
Now, when you click on “My Replays” under “My Data”, you will see a long list of all matches recorded while using Deck Tracker. It’s important to examine these replays yourself, but more importantly, to share those replays here. I understand some players get somewhat nervous to do this, expecting to get ragged on, but you won’t. Players here appreciate the effort, and usually will gladly examine your replays to provide you with invaluable advice – what you could have done better, what you may want to replace in your deck, and so on.
As an example, I’ll share a replay of mine below to demonstrate how you can do this. You need to put your replay link in between backticks ( ` ), and it will allow players here to visit the replay and help to analyze the match. And so, the next time you’re fed up, and are willing to improve your gameplay, I very highly recommend you do this instead of claiming decks are overpowered, or that matchmaking is working against you.
Below is an example of how you can share your replays on this forum.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/Gt3HaTzr2pYdw4cMv7xPwR
(Note: This replay is of a meme versus meme. I’m not looking for advice on this one, but, wanted to demonstrate how to share these nuggets. If I happened to miss anything regarding this topic, please, add onto it!)