When was Peak Hearthstone in your opinion? The “Wrath of the Lich King” in WoW, of Hearthstone
For me it was Witchwood, Baku and Genn (Odd and Even) created new and interesting archetypes with hero power focus and deck building restriction, I often wonder why they never printed any more “if your deck has only even/odd” cards like Gloom Stag or the 5 mana Priest one that is a 4/4 moth which doubles Health (I forget), or everyone knows the 2 mana 2/3 eel that deals 2 damage. I really enjoy building my decks with Even or Odd so for me that was when Hearthstone was at its Peak. Do you think they’ll ever get back to Even/Odd? What was your favorite time in Hearthstone?
I have the most nostalgia for the year of the dragon because that’s when I started playing. I had never played a ccg before, I had no idea what a meta was, and I mostly playing f2p “i don’t know how to build a deck” highlander dragon mage. i acted like Milhouse Manastorm waiting for my 10 mana play that i never got to do. i hated quest priest with a passion. good times
The statistically correct answer is Knights of the Frozen Throne. A lot of players who’ve been playing since the beginning didn’t really notice right away, and felt the decline on a bit of a lag, but that’s when the playerbase was at its absolute zenith.
From then the game was in decline until Scholomance, and it’s been growing since then, although still nowhere near that Frozen Throne peak.
These are both extremely close to being statistically correct. Only off by 1 expansion.
Zoolock, Midrange hunter, Jade shaman and Pirate Warrior, nice times.
Similar to Kobolds
But Mean Streets of Gadgetzan for me - that’s my personal peak.
Midrange and aggro shamans - my next challenge when I have free time is to hit legend in wild with the exact same decks xDD Let’s test the powercreep xDD
I cant remember but I think the 2 most skill intensive periods in hearthstone were patron warrior and the cubelock days.
For me though hearthstone started its slow decline back when they introduced cthun. That set the stage for the boring linear card design they have now. What to me started the massive decline was crystal core rogue which was incredibly bland design. Crystal core led to possibly the most idiotic deck ever created in quest hunter… which leads into the 2nd most idiotic deck ever created in naga dh and culminates into where we are now with the boring linear card design of things like sif and odyn and I guess at this moment brann.
As far as personally the two periods of time I enjoyed hearthstone the most were when battlecry quest / shudderwock were both in the game and the period of time where cagematch custodian and arid swarmer were both in the game. Doomhammer elemental shaman was probably the most powerful deck I ever played and shudderquest shaman was the most fun deck.
The decks had not crept into powerhouse they are now, so you could compensate bad draw with good play. I don 't recall turn 5 lethal from that period either.
Knights of the Frozen Throne because that’s when I started playing.
By that point, I had only played Yu-Gi-Oh as my first card game with some friends in summer school. But we didn’t know English well so we made up the cards’ effects on the spot.
Anyway, I played Knights of the Frozen Throne when it came out and loved Deathstalker Rexxar’s build-a-beast ability. I think that’s what caused my infatuation with cards that create non-collectible cards such as the as the new Khadgar.
But I think it was best around ungoro or knights of the frozen throne.
GvG was the first expansion so they got a lot of things wrong, Grand Tornament was when it started to really get fun. But I think it peeked at knights .
I think for me Ungoro was probably the 2nd best, I also really like Adapt it’s like a buff that you choose/discover which is cool obviously Windfury but things like Stealth, Poison, Attack, And the stat buffs (and maybe Elusive that one time it helped) what a great keyword, Ungoro I think also added Quests right? I seem to remember playing the Queen Carnassa and Barbabus quests in Ungoro oh yeah and the Kaleidosaur which I still use lol
Mean streets is also great, rounds out the top 5 for sure. Tbh I also really liked The Grand Tournament (despite it being maybe the worst expansion) I’m still waiting for those cards to be “updated for Twist/Wild” or something lol (I know Justicar was but I mean all the others like they did for Caverns of Time). The Grander Tournament. The Grandest Tournament. They have so much potential
Un’goro was my favorite set but my favorite time to play the game was when Ilgynoth was in standard but after it was nerfed. That was the most fun i had puzzling out wins in games with a combo. They have only become easier since then.