Hey everyone,
I wanted to share some thoughts on the recent patch and how it’s impacted my experience with Hearthstone. Lately, I’ve been feeling that the game has become quite unbalanced, and it seems to have lost some of its core essence.
One of the biggest issues I’ve noticed is that many decks are capable of finishing the game by turn 5, which leaves little room for strategic play. It feels like the game has shifted towards relying heavily on RNG rather than skillful decision-making. Instead of crafting a strategy and thinking several moves ahead, it often comes down to which player draws the right cards first.
I miss the days when every turn felt meaningful, and there was a real back-and-forth between players. Now, it seems like there’s less emphasis on tactics and more on who can deal the most damage the quickest. It’s frustrating to face a scenario where a well-timed combo can end a game before it really begins.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Do you feel the same way, or have you found ways to adapt? Let’s discuss!
Thanks for reading!
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I’ve been trying to adapt to the BS of standard by playing evolve rush shaman but there’s one other class that I think could MAYBE survive the turn 4 armies. The one class who I was able to beat heroic mode galakrond with and his armies of 8/8s on turn 4. Warlock. No warlock deck in particular, rather it was one card as a whole that made me think Warlock might still have a foot in the door. Wing Welding, titans card set: discard your highest cost card. Deal damage equal to it’s cost to all minions. This one spell may not seem like much but it’s a 4 cost board clear, it COULD hold the line. I’m just not sure whose worth keeping as an emergency discard bait in standard rn. In wild I usually use Aranasi Broodmother or Sire denathrius, but giants may be the missing piece here
Well I’m back from my warlock experiments. The results are as follows: with the release of the miniset it allows warlock to use soul searching as well as tidepool pupil to potentially duplicate symphony of sins and/or sin of envy as many times as they want. I also got to experience how busted imployee of the month is when used on Gnomellia
You’re no longer the core demographic the game makers are targeting. The turn 4 ‘quick game players’ most likely pay better.
I assume the same people like slot machines which is why the game has turned into a subtle casino as well.
The balance team for Hearthstone are cosmetic at this point, it’s outstanding how many stupid broken cards plague the game atm, nothing will change because the game is about fleecing as much money as possible out of players now. Lifecoach seen the writing on wall years ago, he was completely right about the direction of the game.
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It’s only going to get worse each expansion release. This team has proven to take the lazy route time and time again in pushing out exceedingly more over powered cards each release to ensure sales don’t drop. They also do not utilize the rotations like they should to reset the power level like we saw this past one. Standard was at its highest point of power level at release of this past expansion.
I had a small amount of hope when they announced they would course correct on the power level but have since done barely anything.
This is the game now. It’s not going to change while people that try to redefine power creep publicly are calling the shots.
Both the OP and you appear to misunderstand the mechanics of the gameplay itself; I do not blame you too much; most of the complaints that call for nerfs do that.
If you play a mid-range (“combo”) deck you are NOT expected to win over fast(“aggro”) decks; that’s the default nature of the game itself; fast (“aggro”) kills combo.
You are expected to win over slow(“control”) decks and those are fewer now; the fast(“aggro”) decks aren’t infallible; they are weak against slow(“control”).
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