Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone else has a "hearthstone persona" or "gaming persona" that you wouldn't ever tell your Friends and Family About!

• I exclusively t1-netdeck
• I spam emotes as soon as i feel like winning safe, while having Opponents autosquelched
• When someone adds me on bnet for whatever reason after a game, I pretype and copy stuff like "AHAAAHAHAHA time to uninstall loser xD", paste that and immediately unfriend before the other guy can answer
• I sometimes rope on Purpose after my turn is clearly over, generally when I am about to lose

So as you see I am clearly a toxic Player, but only so in hearthstone. I have no reasoning or Agenda for my behavior. I am generally a chill player, easy to communicate with in mobas, WoW raiding etc. 

It is neither "blowing off steam" nor making me feel superior, it's just "part of the game" for me. Maybe I encountered that behavior in opponents before and felt like it got to me, so I feel the urge to give it back. It boggles me though, as i dont feel like I am that kind of a narrow-minded Person in any other part of gaming or life in General.

What is it that makes hearthstone, and only hearthstone bring out the worst, most destructive and pathetic behavior in me? Is anyone Feeling similar?

Cheers

P.s: I know that showing self-reflexion and awareness of toxic behavior does not justify it by any means or redeem me in any way as a Player.

Yeah Hearthstone sometimes brings out a side of me that I'm not proud of:

• When I get unlucky against a netdecking player I will often rope them if I'm dead the next turn. Meanwhile a bunch of swear words are likely to leave my mouth.
• I'm far from a violent person IRL, but sometimes the salt piles up so much that I just have to hit my desk or a pillow (sometimes multiple times). I wasn't proud when one day I punched my desk so hard that it resulted in clearly visible cracks. Honestly I hate that it can get to me that much in general. I really envy people who can completely keep calm after they are continuously plagued by terrible rng.

I'm the same as you as in that only Hearthstone really brings out this side of me. A lot of people would probably recommend us to stop playing, but I still enjoy the fun sides of Hearthstone too much to do that. I've played League of Legends a lot (and still do occasionally) and while I can of course get salty playing it I don't get nearly as angry when I play Hearthstone, and trust me when I say the League community can be quite toxic.

Like you said, I don't think showing self-reflection and awareness of toxic behavior justifies it, but it's probably still good to face your shortcomings in order to improve yourself. :)

Cheers

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Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone else has a "hearthstone persona" or "gaming persona" that you wouldn't ever tell your Friends and Family About!

 

no, there is not, I would be okay telling any of my friends or family about any of my bad mannerism in hearthstone.

• I netdeck and I dont care for making my own decks. Just dont find it fun. At the start of an expansion I will try things for sure, but other than that idc
• If I draw the exact same card I was going to play or an equaly good option, I will always play that card to see if I can tilt my opponent.

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• If I draw the exact same card I was going to play or an equaly good option, I will always play that card to see if I can tilt my opponent.

• Same here.

• I try to discover lethal / hit good rng on missiles etc. even though I still have 100% ensured lethal in hand.
• I once or twice roped my opponent every single turn of the game in a Tavern Brawl since I didn't have cards to construct a playable deck, but wanted the free pack.
• I don't care about netdecking - I play decks that I enjoy whether they are T1 aggro face decks or my own trash brews. Sometimes I want to mess around with Espionage or Rafaam and other times I have the same amount of joy from just playing Bomb Warrior or Cyclone mage.

Yeah. None of the above. It's a game. Having fun. Why get upset?

The ropers are the worst. They know they are going to lose so each turn they rope. What sore losers. Just concede or accept your fate of losing. Everyone loses matches. No one is 100% or ever will be.

I use decks from the internet. I don't always use the ones that are defined as "t1." I don't think it's bad to use netdecks. The game is made so you have to optimize your decks. I do tech my decks, though, or swap out things depending on my mood, but I am definitely not a "home brewer." I want to win games and I play to win.

Other than that, I don't have any other things to confess and I wouldn't be embarassed if my friends or family observed me playing the game. Also, I think that if people in general thought about what their mom would say if she knew what they were doing on the Internet, people wouldn't do so many terrible things on the Internet.

I don't think Hearthstone is a unique game for "bringing out the worst" in people. The worst exists in people and they allow it "to be brought out" or not.

I'm neither better or worse than anyone else. I do get irritated with this game sometimes, that's for sure. I just don't understand why people think it's interesting to abuse emotes, trash talk on chat, and do other types of things that I see as wasted energy.

I suppose if I were to confess anything it would be that I'm that player that squelches my opponent after emoting a greeting and then saying nothing more for the rest of the game. I don't even emote "well played" after taking the winning shot. Maybe that's my rudeness, not sure. It definitely stems from a desire to concentrate and not be distracted by the emote system.

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I suppose if I were to confess anything it would be that I'm that player that squelches my opponent after emoting a greeting and then saying nothing more for the rest of the game. I don't even emote "well played" after taking the winning shot. Maybe that's my rudeness, not sure. It definitely stems from a desire to concentrate and not be distracted by the emote system.

This is perfectly acceptable behavior. If you don't like the emote system, no rule of etiquette obliges you to use it.

As for the OP, I hope they get some therapy now that they have admitted to themself that their behavior is somewhat toxic. Using copied decks is fine, but the rest of that stuff is just pathetic. Selfishly trying to ruin other people's enjoyment of the game is an inappropriate response to losing. The correct response is to try to improve so you can beat them at the game. If you don't think you can do that, it's time to stop caring so much whether you win or lose, or stop playing entirely.

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What is it that makes hearthstone, and only hearthstone bring out the worst, most destructive and pathetic behavior in me? Is anyone Feeling similar?

As far as games go, they don't get much more emotionally-safe than Hearthstone. If you're triggered by emotes ... I don't know what to tell you. Maybe play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

I used to be really bad at getting super tilted, especially after I had invested a good sum of money for the first time in to HS. When I was more serious about HS, I used to get mad enough where a game or a few could literally ruin my day and put me in a real shitty mood (fucking RNG..), this is definitely something I wouldn't like to confess to my family. Though I have never added someone to rant at on BN, just seemed too petty.

Nowadays the worst thing I do is now is to delay lethal and try to play out as many cards as possible despite the opponent being clearly dead, which can tilt me when it's done to me. But I have learnt to just close out and stop playing for a while, or for the day.

I'll sometimes get irritated more than i often would, due to RNG or me making a stupid misplay, other than that im basically the same. My brother on the other hand is 100% not. He's really calm and barely talks until he starts playing and then constantly screams

I only have bad behaviors towards those who behave badly towards me

• If you rope me every turn, I will do it back.  I am not a serious player trying to grind legend every month and typically play while also watching a movie or show.  So I can take as much time as you want to waste in a single game.
• If someone spams things like "Well Played" on turn 2 or something similar I will usually not emote back, maybe even squelch.  But if I end up winning that game I will spam emotes right back to them right before I make the winning play.

As for netdecking, which many people are mentioning here, I don't mind it at all.  I sometimes build my own decks from scratch, other times I pull an existing list and try to adjust it to the desired win condition/combo.  And sometimes I just pull a list straight off of community page like this one.  A lot of people who play this game don't have the recognition of potential synergies needed to be a great deck builder, which is fine!  Even if you are playing a deck you didn't build you still need to know how to pilot it well to be successful (unless you're playing a high-rolling deck like Big Priest).

• I occasionally play Big Priest in Wild because sometimes I just want to farm gold!  But I have typically played my own version which is less high roll, and more about the memes with  win condition of 2 to 4 Ragnaros the Firelord and a Drakkari Enchanter to just watch a second Cataclysm rain down on my opponent's board and face!  I typically pull it off with 2 or 3, but in one glorious instance I had 4 Rags and the Enchanter for a huge eight random 8 damage blasts!  Built this deck around the last Fire Festival (the one Ragnaros had, not the con artist music festival a few years ago).
  • EDIT: Just in case this last confession peaked your interest (and in case the Fire Festival returns soon): https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/1810-cataclysmic-priest

I have an easy solution for players that rope ... I surf the internet. I never let it bother me, I just use the time to do other things while I'm playing.

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I only have bad behaviors towards those who behave badly towards me

• If you rope me every turn, I will do it back.  I am not a serious player trying to grind legend every month and typically play while also watching a movie or show.  So I can take as much time as you want to waste in a single game.
• If someone spams things like "Well Played" on turn 2 or something similar I will usually not emote back, maybe even squelch.  But if I end up winning that game I will spam emotes right back to them right before I make the winning play.

As for netdecking, which many people are mentioning here, I don't mind it at all.  I sometimes build my own decks from scratch, other times I pull an existing list and try to adjust it to the desired win condition/combo.  And sometimes I just pull a list straight off of community page like this one.  A lot of people who play this game don't have the recognition of potential synergies needed to be a great deck builder, which is fine!  Even if you are playing a deck you didn't build you still need to know how to pilot it well to be successful (unless you're playing a high-rolling deck like Big Priest).

• I occasionally play Big Priest in Wild because sometimes I just want to farm gold!  But I have typically played my own version which is less high roll, and more about the memes with  win condition of 2 to 4 Ragnaros the Firelord and a Drakkari Enchanter to just watch a second Cataclysm rain down on my opponent's board and face!  I typically pull it off with 2 or 3, but in one glorious instance I had 4 Rags and the Enchanter for a huge eight random 8 damage blasts!  Built this deck around the last Fire Festival (the one Ragnaros had, not the con artist music festival a few years ago).
  • EDIT: Just in case this last confession peaked your interest (and in case the Fire Festival returns soon): https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/1810-cataclysmic-priest

Do you play BP in casual or ranked?

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I'm far from a violent person IRL, but sometimes the salt piles up so much that I just have to hit my desk or a pillow (sometimes multiple times). I wasn't proud when one day I punched my desk so hard that it resulted in clearly visible cracks. Honestly I hate that it can get to me that much in general. I really envy people who can completely keep calm after they are continuously plagued by terrible rng.

I am typically well-behaved, but I can get super salty if I get in a bad run of games and have been wound up enough to punch my desk as well. I have children and they have witnessed it once and I had to act like there was some valid reason to lose my shit while looking at pixels on my phone. Not good. I hate to admit that a bad run can really mess with my mood for a whole day! I need to learn how to take it easy... 

If you go out of your way to BM me (more than just a single emote or two) and I am winning then I will drag out your loss and BM you back infinitely more. Once in arena I was going to finish my turn and take lethal when my opponent started BM emoting for no reason other then the fact that they lost. In response I drug out the game for an extra 12-15ish turns, destroying every top decked minion (including Ysera), emote spamming them, roping, card hovering/target canceling, and I even healed them for 4-5 turns into fatigue with no cards left before letting fatigue take them.

I'm an Ice Cream Shaman player so naturally if your aim is to act like a douche on the internet you can bet I have no worries about putting forth the extra time or effort for a counterattack ;)

Hey OP! I'm your complete opposite :D :D

• I always reply to greetings and pretty much always end a game with "well played".
• When I get recked, I try to understand why.
• When I get especially unlucky, I let it out loud, as comically as I can, and oftentimes laugh about it.
• When I get lucky too!
• I am always super friendly to people who add me as friends, but if they whine, I relish in their salty tears.

That makes the game super enjoyable. And getting at me is really hard. Try that sometimes!

Hearthpwn turned me into a like farmer when that kind of thing really doesn't interest me in my real life. I have always felt the whole instagram culture quite alien. Then comes along a niche where I can get likes for something I actually care about and suddenly I'm invested and this means way more than it actually should. A monster is born. ha ha. 

I definitely got way too invested for a while there. I guess it was like my first taste of that kind of internet and it maybe didn't mesh well with my addictive personality or something.  

I also get really tilted at BM'ers in game. This generally means people using what I deem to be the wrong emotes. It's crazy when you think about it really. But honestly it does feel incredibly disrespectful at times. There is definitely a real mind-game there behind the emoting. 

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Hey OP! I'm your complete opposite :D :D

• I always reply to greetings and pretty much always end a game with "well played".
• When I get recked, I try to understand why.
• When I get especially unlucky, I let it out loud, as comically as I can, and oftentimes laugh about it.
• When I get lucky too!
• I am always super friendly to people who add me as friends, but if they whine, I relish in their salty tears.

That makes the game super enjoyable. And getting at me is really hard. Try that sometimes!

I like polite players a lot. makes it such a nicer game this way. Like I was saying in my post though, I think some players realize this and use the emotes to psych their opponent out.