It’s the least interactive deck they’ve ever made and it is oppressively unfun to play against.
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I encourage you to utilize a positive perspective of Hearthstone, namely on the standard ladder. We all need to work on our tilting. Tilting drastically impacts your overall success with any deck.
Anacondra Druid is the highest performing deck versus Quest Hunter. The deck has a fairly high skill ceiling. Practice makes perfect, however, and so I highly recommend you try and learn how to play it.
Below I’ll include the most played Anacrondra Druid variant that is a very good counter to Quest Hunter.
Your Best Bet
Anacondra Druid
Class: Druid
Format: Standard
Year of the Gryphon
2x (0) Innervate
2x (1) Earthen Scales
2x (2) Moonlit Guidance
2x (2) Jerry Rig Carpenter
2x (3) Wild Growth
2x (4) Escaped Manasaber
1x (5) Wildheart Guff
1x (5) Spammy Arcanist
2x (5) Nourish
1x (6) Lady Anacondra
2x (7) Scale of Onyxia
2x (8) Primordial Drake
2x (8) Miracle Growth
1x (8) Kazakusan
2x (8) Celestial Alignment
1x (9) Malygos the Spellweaver
1x (9) Alexstrasza the Life-Binder
1x (10) Raid Boss Onyxia
1x (10) Lokholar the Ice Lord
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To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
I cannot dispute that Quest Hunter is very powerful (rank-depending). In my experience, it does well even at D4-D1. The deck is very solid, and has very close to no bad matchups.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I’ll try my best to answer any questions you might have.
Edit: It may be useful if you could upload a replay or two. Skilled forum players will be more than happy to provide you with advice on how you should play against Quest Hunter (not that here’s much you can do, sadlY.)
So the best deck against the zero-skill questline hunter deck is one that requires a lot of skill. There’s also an area on ladder where this brainless deck has no competition at all. Sure sounds like some balancing is in order. Where’s the nerfs, Blizzard?
After seeing a lot of complaints here, on Twitter, and on Reddit, it’s likely the questline will be nerfed, probably in the way of adding an additional requirement to complete the questline. That sounds fine on the face of it, perhaps. However, it would most definitely have negative impact on the deck to the point that it may go the route of Quest Warrior (albeit, that deck had to be nerfed due to its power-level relative to the low skill ceiling involved.) That made sense.
Quest Hunter is not overpowered. Quest Hunter is tier 2 at D4-D1, and it’s tier 3 at top legend.
I’ll concede that it can be immensely frustrating to match into a Quest Hunter, especially for certain classes. Although, I find the deck rather interesting, it is not unbeatable in the slightest and it should not be killed by any metrics available.
Arguments of emotion play a slight part in what’s nerfed and what isn’t. The more important metrics to consider are winrates across top ranks (where the least amount of misplays occur), playrate, and to a much lesser extent, feelings might play a slight role in these nerf/buff calls.
You don’t need to play the best counter to Hunter to beat it with reasonable consistency. I’m smoking them with Naga Mage. It’s Pirate Warrior again, all you need to do is know what the deck is capable of and know its weaknesses, and adjust your play accordingly. This is true of any deck, but the more linear a deck is, the more true it is.
I fully agree with this, but you may wish to reword the title of your post as this has nothing to do with power level and everything to do with design…
I play Wild and the deck certainly feels toxic to me however, so complain away lol.
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