I’ve played about 20 games a day for the past 2 weeks. I have been sitting at rank Diamond 5 and 4 for this entire duration. I encounter only about 4 different decks at the MOST every day. I make my own decks exclusively and adjust for the meta as best I can.
I encounter these decks typically:
Super insane mega card copy priest that has an answer for everything - 50% of games
Curse Card DK - 35% of games
Rush Paladin - 8% of games
Rush hunter - 5% of games
Other decks - 2% of games
Does anyone make their own decks anymore? Its so tiring to see the same decks over and over and over. Its obvious as to why people copy them, they just want to get to legend any way possible in most cases and have no brain cells of their own to try any other way.
Unless you’re in the top 1% of the top 1% of skill, doing anything other than copying off of the people who are is objectively the wrong answer. To pretend otherwise is hubris, not intelligence. And if you’re in Diamond 4 after the 25th of the month, you’re not in the top 1% of the top 1%.
just going by your description of your experience homebrewing,i wonder. why would anybody homebrew?? sounds like its unfun. thank you for convincing me that netdeckling is superior. you do us all a solid by pointing this out. good gaming to you.
If you want to see different decks, its simple.
Make a radical change to your deck, especially ones that will counter the ones you are paired against.
Then the super awesome rigged blizz system will change who you face.
Same as you, I have sat in the mid diamond for the last several weeks facing the same 3-4 decks.
Changed my deck…I am now at close to 20 games in with zero of the previous 3-4 deck matchups, but now a completely different set of decks I had encountered exactly zero times in the last several weeks.
Maybe if the blizz matchup system was actually random and not obviously rigged it would be more fun/less frustrating.
Bro an archetype isn’t a netdeck if it’s obvious. There are multiple versions of these decks and it’s also pretty obvious what cards to put in if you want to win. That being said the game is different than it was 10 years ago, the “Pandora’s box” has been opened and can’t be shut.
Yeah Im not a fan of netdecking but I gotta admit, when I took a chance on Totem Shaman deck because I actually didnt need to craft anything to make the deck, I went from always hovering Bronze 10 to Bronze 5 to now Im at Plat 10. Its nuts. But yes now I do see the same exact strats over and over again so the staleness of it gets to me as it does the OP. It makes the game boring after a time. Im talking standard. In Wild I still see all sorts of wacky fun things. I rock my Baku Druid + Quest and its a dream how fast i complete that quest. Normally itd take most the match, now its about 5 rounds in and Im already with the bear in hand. So homebrew isnt any more inferior to netdecking than someone’s garage basketball hoop is to a Highschool gym’s hoop. They provide the same thing its just one has a lot more people funding one than the other. By fund in terms of HS i mean “competitive mindset / rank seeking”. The hoop over the garage is just for fun, no one is gonna have a competition there. Anyone from the 7 yr old thats never held a ball before to SpaceJam MJ himself can enjoy it for what it is and no one should look down on it at all or compare it to the other. The folly I think is that there used to be a dichotomy of the choice of gameplay where you could run casual wild or ranked wild, casual standard or ranked standard, and now its just casual out by itself, which is it who know? and Standard and Wild are always ranked. So do you take a standard homebrew to casual only to meet all wild stuff? doesnt sound great to me. Or Bring your wild homebrew to face people trying out standard netdecks before they possibly lose rank that season in the proper format? Not a great scenario either.
Solution: Bring back the dichotomy of the Wild and Standards both having their own Casual modes so you know what you are getting into better than the bag of donuts that is the current casual mode.
Or just make a new mode that is Homebrew only. Eventually you either put in too many cards that were in a netdeck and it denies its validity to be played. Totally arbitrary and many a threads of crybabies would ensue. lol. However give this mode the most and best rewards. The most prestige. If you got 100 packs for reaching Unobtanium 1 Rank with a 100% homebrewed deck that had 0 cards in it that are shared with a netdeck in history… you might give it a go to see how far you get. lol. Not everyone would, and I dont expect everyone should, but there would be some that would find the challenge as a call to action for them. Others would rather be lazy and netdeck. Others still wouldnt know it existed because of “BGs man, I only play BGs”. lol
It is better to play a copied deck from someone rather use a creative deck. After all your just winning with netdecks. Then complains that Hearthstone is boring.
I dont see the problem with people preferring homebrew over netdecks. To me its like the difference in skill of hunting a Bear down with your bare hands and a spear, versus using a long distance rifle and scope. One takes way more out of you to be able to accomplish a successful hunt (a win in HS) versus the other taking far less of you for a more consistently successful hunt (easier wins overall and more plentiful). Neither option is really better or worse than each other, more of just a preference in terms of higher honor with the melee approach than with the ranged one. Sure someone will be the smart-alic and say its way smarter to go ranged (netdeck) when hunting that bear. But you respect the hell out of a person that took one down in a melee hunt (homebrew win) than you do with some yahoo that ranged one down from a distance (netdeck win).
If all you care about is winning, then sure, netdeck away. But if you care about other things, then have your fun where it can be found. No one’s gonna tell me different about Baku decks not being fun. And I just make them up as I go each time, making subtle changes each time I do. Just the same as a Duels Deck drafting would go. Its never the same carbon copied list of cards each time.
insightful, i fully agree. i have no problem with either netdecking, or homebrewing. i take issue with homebrewers complaining their deck (can’t win/keep facing) the same netdecks. then, they imply they have some purity because their deck is different, and insult everyone else for being “smoothed brained netdeckers”. they choose to play suboptimal decks then try to martyr themselves as the “pure” hearthstone player.
I see this as a pessimistic take on game design. In terms of how I play currently, yes, I absolutely care about pursuing what I find fun instead of winning. But in an ideal game, winning and fun aren’t separate things, they’re aligned to be essentially the same thing. That’s the way things are supposed to be.
Players caring about fun instead of winning are kinda like scavengers in a post apocalyptic storyline, they might be doing what makes sense in the moment but they’re an indicator that the world is over. Hearthstone is over and we’re just picking at the remains.
i actually just clicked auto complete my deck … quests are evil. And i should be shot i suppose. winners also should be rewarded with a card from the losers deck. spoils of war should be a thingggggg
