Possibly me just not understanding things, but the interface seems to have changed a bit. Is it no longer possible to play “Unranked” Standard and “Unranked” Wild?
If I want to test out Standard decks, is there a non-Ranked way to do that?
The mode you’re looking for is Casual. You choose between Casual and Ranked above the blue button to queue into a match.
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I didn’t really play casual before, but isn’t this different? I only see one casual mode where before you would go to Wild or Standard then choose casual or ranked. Now there’s just one casual.
That’s what I’m seeing
“Casual” now seems to mean you can use all of your cards (Classic versions too, I guess? Otherwise it’s not significantly different from Wild). If you want to play Standard, it seems like it has to be Ranked. Or there’s some way of playing Unranked I’m missing on the new interface.
So you are in Hearthstone menu, press the “Play” button, the uppermost button of the menu. Then, in the top right corner you will see a sign which, if you press it, you switch between Standard and Wild. Then, choose your deck. After you press on your deck, in the top right corner you can switch between Casual and Ranked, right above the picture of your hero.
So, for example, I enter Hearthstone and want to play a Tickatus warlock deck at Wild mode, in the Casual mode. I click “Play” button in the main menu, then I look in the top right part of the screen and I click the icon to switch the mode to Wild (if it’s not Wild already). Then I press on my “Tickatus warlock” deck. A new window appears in the right, with my warlock hero and down below there’s the “Play” button. Before I press “Play”, I look at the top of the screen and choose my game mode (between Casual or Ranked).
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Are you on mobile or PC, because I’m on PC and don’t see what you’re describing. I try to play my wild warlock deck, for example. After clicking Play, the button on top right gives me 4 choices: Classic, Standard, Wild, Casual. I select wild, then select my deck, but that button on top still gives me the same 4 choices.
I did queue into a casual match using my new Classic priest deck and it looked like my opponent was also using a classic deck, so maybe it just puts you into the appropriate queue based on deck selection, but I’m definitely confused.
Just to confirm: are you sure this is still true post-patch?
Looking at things right now it seems like they got rid of Standard Casual, though I may be mistaken.
Apparently, there is only one Casual mode now.
But you get queued up based on the type of deck you have selected:
- If you queue with a Standard deck, you’re matched with other Standard players.
- If you queue with a Wild deck, you’re matched with other Wild players.
- if you queue with a Classic Deck, you’re matched with other Classic players.
Source:
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Ah. This makes sense now. Thanks everyone.
Wow, that’s confusing. They could have at least given us a popup explanation of some sort. People who don’t follow the game online aren’t going to know what happened.
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Oh, the new patch changed it. News to me.
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You have to click the little box on the top right to go to unranked now.
This is crazy confusing for people. Ridiculously bad UI design.
The average player will have no idea it is hidden behind that little box, fire your UI designer.
Tried Queueing up at unranked. 2 minute wait and counting…normally it is 10 seconds…this is so confusing and badly hidden that no one even understands how to enter this mode.
worst.UI.decision.ever congoratz
This actually makes a lot of sense, but definitely should have been communicated more broadly.
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they didn’t take away non ranked standard. try reading the above comments again
Are you able to read the answers given by people or are you a “write only” guy ?
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CLICK on the ICON… it will pop up the options… WHA BAMMM!!!
its casual mode now, which uses all cards…so yes they did take away non ranked standard
No they didn’t. Read again
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You are not reading properly.
The deck is created in a given mode, wild, standard, or classic.
When you choose to play causual, it will match you based on the deck (wild, standard, or classic) to an unranked match against another player from the same category.