I believe you’re overestimating Blizzard’s testing. If there’s any, it’s minimal, as evidenced by broken cards being spotted by players before they’re even released.
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When you print a card like Odyn, it’s not exactly being nostradamus to anticipate people will play Odyn with armor card like heavy plate or shield block.
I could come up with an unrefined Odyn warrior without looking up any website, it’s not exactly rocket science.
And then my homebrew card would look like a netdeck with a few unusual cards maybe. So when it comes to that, what is the difference between homebrew and netdeck, really?
Shudderwock would like a word with you.
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You’ll find that making your own deck that becomes successful ultimately leads to a deck that is already available on “the sites” if that’s what brings you joy, discovery on your own, then that’s great. But some people don’t have that kind of patience or time.
Personally, I like to try stuff on my own for a few weeks but eventually you just gotta give in and see what actually is working.
“Yes and no” at several levels.
a) While you can netdeck a few archetypes for each class in a relatively predictable manner: there is always room for customization inside the same decks: for instance the top Legend players routinely take a netdeck and replace only 3 or 4 cards to make it better.
b) Predictability is a handicap; even if “theoretically the deck becomes worse”(it may not even become worse but for the sake of argument assume it’s theoretically worse): it may become “effectively better” because others won’t predict all your cards and they’ll defend badly.
c) IT DEPENDS ON OPPONENTS; every single deck that is considered “best” practically-always depends on other decks being bad against it; e.g. if everyone played the same “best” deck(mirroring) then all of them become BAD (exactly 50% win rate on avg).
Also Blizzard are unlikely to be perfect at their predictions; e.g. a Dev just admitted that they changed a card ONLY BECAUSE THE ART CHANGED (they removed the types from it because it became neutral as art); also it’s obvious they can barely balance Standard[(if at all) and they appear to not be able to balance Wild so they have limits and their limits at being able to balance the game often show].
all my decks are from 2020 or 2021. however, I recently lost to someone playing basic cards like Sen’jin Shieldmasta. It was like I was in a time warp but they curved out perfectly.
It isn’t worth the hassle. These people are so hopelessly deluded as to be irrational.
I just flag them and move on now.
There are days I run out of flags, which is a new thing.
I opened a support ticket on that, actually.
Just put them on ignore and move on.
I don’t know how, his profile is hidden
Also, isn’t that a temporary solution? Like, a one-day thing?
Doesn’t matter, it’s high time I learn to control my emotions. Just because they’re irrational doesn’t mean I have to be
Go to your own Profile > Preferences > Users and you should see a space to add a member to your Ignored and Muted lists. Start typing their name and they should pop up, choose Forever as a duration and you’ll never have to see them again
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If you click on your icon picture in the upper right of the screen, a drop down menu appears.
In the right column at the bottom is a person icon, click that and choose preferences.
There is a tab called users in the preferences menu, and clicking that will show you a list of the ignored people. You can add to that by typing a portion of the tag, then selecting the correct tag from the list.
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Thank you!
Will probably do it when I feel like losing control next time xD
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I make all my own decks. I could probably do better with a net deck but I don’t mind that I never get further than platinum 5. My current fave is a naga and demon mix demon hunter with the titan as my heavy hitter. I also like frost DK.
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