If I’m ‘over invested’ in Hearthstone, it’s financially.
As a player who’s been involved with the game since classic, I’ve put quite a bit of money into it (let’s be real, it’s always been expensive).
Obviously anyone who’s played Hearthstone since classic would be passionate about it and want it to do better.
That’s not really being ‘far too emotionally invested’… you definitely read too far into my original post.
Not sure what your purpose is here because so far you’ve simply been resorting to attacking my personal character since your original comments were proven silly and presumptuous.
Dunno how weak they make it out to be but it’s certainly not god tier, but it’s also quite effective if you know how to use it and your opponents don’t know what they’re up against and so they don’t prepare ahead of time. Though with some people saying they face warlock 99% of the time, you’d think they’d come prepared every match.
That’s actually a good point you accidentally made, all the Quests with ’ I win the game now’s rewards are a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off and ruin Standard or Wild.
The rewards need to be toned down or, as you point out, design space for new cards is permanently reduced.
That’s quite apart from the fact that quests produce stale and linear gameplay ( you know pretty much exactly what an opponents deck is going to do from T1).
It’s easy to see that designing quests is good fun for the devs, but they’re a terrible addition to the game imo.
When they remove or quest lock goes out of rotation it will return to the dumpster where it belongs, soon as they do somethin to hammer the numbers of shamans will drop as well not a lot till the quests are gone than it will be the real good shamans or the real bad and dumb shamans lol quest priest is laughable because thats the only quest that has real requirements meaning more than 2 mana to complete
Actually, if you listen to the podcast, they say that the Stealer of Souls version of Warlock is 48%. And that, if people want it to be nerfed, they shouldn’t be talking about numbers the archetype doesn’t have, they should focus on how un-fun it is to play against. Which it is. But in terms of actual performance on ladder, it’s not oppressive.
Handlock Warlock, though, is stupid good. The one that Flesh Giant and Darkglare were nerfed to reign in. That didn’t work, btw.
They also say that Quest Shaman is another potential Tier S deck if Blizzard had nerfed Handlock successfully, and done something about Stealer of Souls.
Keep in mind this was literally the case for Quest Mage as well; everyone and their duck was targeting it, and that’s why it was at 48-49% before the nerfs.
Naturally this didn’t stop the Mage Squad from losing thier minds over a “tier 3 deck” getting “unjustly” nerfed
How weak do they make it out to be? They actually said that Warlock is not “overpowered unbeatable” deck, which is true. They also said that it’s still problematic, which also seems to be the case.
Half of Vicious Syndicate is a narcissistic butt. I have no idea why RH works with Zacho when he has so many other much more pleasant people to talk with on podcasts.
Zacho is at least. He was really uppity about people being upset with the meta and he seems like someone that won’t back down when his own pride is on the line.
So if Quest Warlock is having the same effect on the game as Quest Mage, and has similar winrates, that should mean we can expect a real Quest Warlock nerf next patch?
Because if that doesn’t happen, then killing Quest Mage was unjust.
Honestly, I fully expect it to be nerfed. Its rate of play, combined with the myriad of complaints waged against it, will push T5 enough to do it. Just like mage. I just hope warlock has at least one decent deck when this quest is nerfed. Without this quest, I’m unsure what we have.
