Netdecking is great; but it’s great only if you know how to use it; most people use it very badly and they need to stop if they want to stop whining every time there is a balancing patch.
Stop netdecking the most popular deck you found; pick the least popular netdeck with a good win rate; high win rate that is popular will lower on future stats because of mirroring.
Look at what happened today: Blizzard released a balancing patch and people started whining “75% of the netdecks on VS are unplayable”; no: netdecks on VS are not all the netdecks; learn to find less popular netdecks.
Stop falling like lemmings off a cliff because you picked the most overplayed netdeck that had a high win rate that was later hit with mirroring and then with balancing patches.
Riggitus Algorithmus I have summoned the deletion squad because this thread is pointless. Why does it matter what deck people decide they want to play?
I agree whole heartedly!
As someone whose only recently been exposed to the VS Battle wiki grade “meta deck + winrate” site (and was so offended by what I saw there that I had to violate the Geneva Convention to “correct” what I saw)
I’ve been seeing no shortage of mindless sheep decks that just stand around eating grass for the whole fight and run away in fear the moment one of their 3 cards that may as well not exist without one another gets hard countered by the Big Bad Bluff.
I’m so… tired of seeing these same uninspired barcode decks so much on my rampage up the ladder, even in wild I see people running the EXACT SAME OVER INVESTED, TOO FAT TO MOVE DECKS THEY DID IN STANDARD WITH LITERALLY NO CHANGES WHATSOEVER.
Occasionally I see diamonds in the rough trying something new and unheard of, but they’re so few and far between!
So I beg of any able-bodied patron in this Salty Spitoon to think twice before looking at the so called “professional” decks. Stop for just a few minutes and look at your collection and ask yourself, “what can I do with what I got?
Just how far can I get with this inch before I have to take a mile?”
Or you can take the needlessly complicated way to the top I did.
-Look at in game seasonal deck recipe, think you could get by substituting a legendary or two on it. In my case, using A F Kay instead of pylon Zilliax in Pirate DK.
-Try the deck and realize it sucked as is and substitute the expensive buffers for cheaper/more consistent buffers.
-deck still sux. Randomly get demon hunter’s tourist and realize Shaman can use literally every component of the strat for himself.
-Try the deck on shaman and become obsessed with trying to get maximum damage from anything you can legally get buffed with Windfury
-Accidentally create a full on pesticide when you were just trying to make a really big fly swatter HA HA. LIKE SWATTING INSECTS!
I took the good with the bad for 5 years straight. I stayed in my lane, didn’t tell a soul my ranking or “win rate” despite knowing it was essentially dead in the water. When Lone ranger Reno and Odyn came out and the only “fun” or “professional” decks on the ladder expected “being annoying” alone was a win condition. Did I complain? No.
Cause Reno was neutral. I figured “if anyone can do it, meh.”
But when BSM mage came in and said “I can do something better than any of you!” And was VERY CLEARLY draining the last honest independent thinking players from the game…
I said NO.
I have been watching the mosquitoes feed and get fat on those around me simply because everyone thought the mosquito gambit was invincible! Nobody ever thought about how to fight off the hive mind, only how fast they could join it!
I’ve been dead and indecisive for 5 years, I accepted those answers yesterday but today’s the day I live, and choose to show others they can live too!
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different.
I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture.
A city where the Warlock would not fear the Counter Spell.
Where the Priest would not be bound by petty morality.
Where the great would not be constrained by the small!
I chose to build my home in the middle of the Mage’s Ocean not because it was impossible to build it there, but because it was impossible to build it anywhere else!
You’re telling me learn to deal with it? THIS IS ME DEALING WITH IT RIGHT NOW.
Tantrum?! Complaints? Frustration?
With NO due respect, Señor Stardust. If you were truly numbed to the salt mines with more years of experience and more scars than me under your belt by now you would have wanted to either finally get tough and “break” the game to the point that everyone can see clear as day that you’re “showing them all” OR. you would have said
“Aw Geez, I can’t win more cards if I can’t win PERIOD. I should stop playing ladder altogether and go to Battlegrounds!”
And DIED. Like I did for so long. Wanna know what made me step into the light? The thought that would have made apparently more sane people quit the game altogether, especially if they had it combined with the previous highlighted thought? Especially when I consider Casual play even more of a joke than what Duels went down in history as?
“Aw Geez, I literally have nothing to win in battlegrounds besides fashion! AND IT SUCKS. AND I CAN’T EVEN WIN IN BATTLEGROUNDS ANYWAY!!1!”
I’m not complaining so much about the house we all live in being both metaphorically AND literally on fire as much as I am when I see how divided the people of the house was on what to do in an emergency situation! Everyone fled for their lives trampling over each other, when the fire could have been stopped easily before it got out of hand.
So as the literal and metaphorical Volunteer Fire Department worker responsible for putting the fire out in the end, I am allowed to point out when I did the deed, I was just doing what I know easily remedies the situation with zero casualties that “worked when I tried it the first time”, while the “professionals” wasted at least 22 “professionally trained” grunts just following the training they have been given to improperly solve what I already discovered the most efficient (albiet chancy) way of removing. And then people like you try to accuse me of witchcraft and consorting with mad men when I show them my way and very rightfully say “Was that so hard?” after I do what I know’s always solved a spontaneous combustion and GRAB A LABELED FIRE EXTINGUISHER. when I see a fire start.
So. when I take one look at a win rate website, and what I see makes me want to VOMIT knowing that a false shepherd has lead so many astray. Know that when I attack the tier list with a sledgehammer and inadvertantly destroy the game in the process of trying to bring a C tier Class or Strat higher than a wrongfully crowned D tier Defect leading in the popularity vote.
I do not gamebreak and preach out of spite nor malice, it is the light that seeks to purify those who remain without absolution.
I will become death, destroyer of worlds, and it will be your fault. And that. Is.
You can’t stop people from netdecking. A large portion of people will just play what they think will give them wins. So to prevent netdecking, blizzard needs to work on creating less cards that allow easy-to-play decks that allow fast wins. Like less braindead aggro spam and easy OTK decks.
Aggro is not braindead and OTKs are easy to screw up if you’re not used to playing them.
Assigning IQ and morality to a deck style is dumb. It’s like judging someone for how they take their coffee. Just because it’s a different flavor than yours doesn’t give any indication on their IQ or morality.
Actually, I do Oatmilk (Barista Lovers) in mine because the acidity in coffee causes stomach upset. Milk cuts the acidity however, it needs to be similar temperature to the coffee.
During the hot months, I make cold brew but I drink it black because it has less acidity.