Have made it to Legend with homebrew nonsense all but one month since MotLK launch - that one month I instead hit Legend with Plague DK in Badlands after Reno Warrior got Brann.
This month I’m fizzling at Gold 5. The game is just that freaking boring. Have lost the last 6 games in a row to Handbuff Paladin. I’ve faced one non-Paladin in the last two days.
I do not want to play Reno Priest. Have not been this bored with Hearthstone in memory. At least Stormwind had whacky gameplay.
4 versions of rogue
4 versions of warlock
1.5 versions of pally
2 versions of priest
1 version of druid
2 versions of DK
2 versions of Mage
2 versions of Warrior
2 version of Shaman
2 versions of DH
→ all played in high legend
3 versions of Hunter → this is the only class not played in top legend
Now, I do realize that everyone is entitled to their own subjective opinion. I also realize that objectively, the number of players fell.
But you can’t say the meta is “boring”. It’s never been crazier. Ever.
Btw, I’m not defending the designers, they’ve made a lot of mistakes and appear to be clueless. But players in lower ranks playing a completely different game is entirely their own fault, not the designers’ fault.
“My fault” that I’m seeing 90% Handbuff Paladin and 10% Reno Warrior and don’t want to play Reno Priest. If I wanted to be in Legend, I’d do that, as I have for many months playing whatever I want. But I don’t want to be in Legend, I want to have a good time playing a children’s card game.
Umm, I don’t know about you, but if my goal was only to reach legend, I would play anything I want and still make it, that’s how easy it is to do now.
Your argument boils down to “whatever is strong, is boring AND you have to play a strong deck to hit legend”, which is objectively not true, because BOTH parts of the argument are false.
Twice now you’ve said that the game is “objectively not boring,” when it being boring is a matter of opinion.
I’m glad that you’re having fun in your tiny pocket meta but most of the game is completely shot. I’m not the only person expressing this sentiment, I’m not even the only person who regularly hits Legend expressing this sentiment.
You’ve completely omitted playrate here in the first place. This list looks a lot less compelling when you note that three decks make up roughly 45% of top Legend, and the rest are nearly fringe.
And how many of these decks rely on Reno? Reno has homogenized gameplay to a staggering extent.
Anyone who claims to play at as high a level as you do would not be anywhere near these forums telling everyone how good they are. I think you are dishonest and all your clout chasing makes you look insecure and pathetic. No one who plays this game at a high level would need to come here and try to get as much attention as you do. No way.
Reno, lone Ranger ought to be banned from wild when badlands rotates. Making it unplayable in both standard and wild
On a more series note they should revert the uncounterable status from Reno and other badlands cards, and make the battlecry balanced by making it affect your own board as well as your opponent’s. Then it might be okay for the game.
He’s dumpster legend material. He gets early legend every month and in a couple of days he’s already sitting at trash legend, where he just stays until the end of the month. Then another month starts and his cycle continues… LOL
I’m just sad there’s overwhelmingly negative comments left on the forum
Like, if you’re that dissatisfied with the game, why not just stop playing? Do you really have to spread the negativity around? None of the devs will read them. You only (try) make other players in the same basket like you miserable.
Grow up and stop whining, it’s bad for your mental health.
Then stop coming on these forums trying to clout check everyone. No-one cares how good you are or are not at this game. Its actually a worse look going into everyone’s threads trying to tell them how much better than them you think you are.
I dunno where this diversity is. All im seeing is the same decks ive seen dominate the last 2 maybe 3 months, in some cases longer. To me thats really boring. We got handbuff pally, insanity lock, drill rogue , warrior on repeat.
Occasionally a highlander, usually priest, whos looking for one giant swing turn. Zamari priest is back on top which is never good as its effectively a solitaire deck, and shopper dh back in its toxic glory.
What really gets me about this meta is why the hell did the nerf the stuff they did if we are just coming back full circle. Why touch something broken if you just want to leave it broken? They have done zero progress in addressing swing turn power outliers as they have expressly said was their priority. If anything things are worse than when they started.
Because again we should take anything team 5 says as “market said we should say this so here we are”.
And while i not think it is bad faith. We have the problem of team 5 itself not having agency about anything on this game anymore.
Vs says “something” is bad. “Something” gets nerfed as if team 5 cared about the opnion of the playerbase and that is it.
I even go as far as saying that the instant they start to actually do something by themselves we gonna get some crazy backslash because of how much wrote in stone the opnion of the community about the game is even if they actually manage to deal with some problems.
Anyway it is their own fault for letting it go this far during the years.