Our website is generally populated by a community that tends to prefer and give upvotes to what is off-meta, or meme, and/or with funny description/story. That's ok ofc.
But the result in the Hot Decks boxes of the front page is often that a hot deck could be either a meme, or a candidate meta-breaker (more often the former), without the user being able to discern, before actually opening the deck page.
And imo, the fact we display memes or Casual decks as Hot Decks makes us look as weirdos to a generic new user trying to find a place to improve their Ranked performances with the game.
So my idea is, what about 4 Hot Decks boxes? One for Standard Ranked, one for Wild Ranked, one for Standard Just for Fun, one for Wild Just for Fun.
ALTERNATIVELY, the 'Just for Fun' could all be merged together in a unique box, Standard and Wild.
With 'Just for Fun' as the default option when an author publishes a new deck.
At that point, deck authors should be compelled (maybe with a warning that clarifies that, if they try to select it) to define their deck as 'Ranked' ONLY IF they can provide the description of some decent performances in Ladder. And it'd be pretty easy to spot scams anyway, since a weird deck with no detailed explanation is easily just a Casual deck.
The current Pro Decks (typically overlooked btw) could be merged in the new Standard Ranked, and/or accounted for with an additional variable in the visibility algorithm.
PS: if and when all this is implemented, an additional temporary Theorycraft box could be conceived, across expansions release times.
... then that 5 gold just sits there staring at me, laughing because I can't spend it.
Well technically the way this can be interpreted is: " there is no difference between 5 gold and 50 gold, because the 50 itself cannot be used to purchase anything."
Jokes aside, at the end of the day the only thing that matters is the cumulative amount of gold :)
@op: to trigger people like you that can't get over the fact that it's just a bunch of pixels on your monitor.
On a more serious note, if you give in to this fact and "buy more", it means they managed to trick you into spending money for something useless. Not unlike most marketing companies do nowadays.
Nevertheless, the reward system in HS is utter crap. Hopefully Blizzard will stop being a part of Activision at some point (and allow themselves to get bought by a more quality-oriented group). Until then... use your brains and stop paying for useless stuff.
Exactly, Pirates are not there because they end up being irrelevant as a package, and/or inconsistent due to the Singleton restrictions.
As for Vanish, i am fairly sure it was there in some previous iteration of this deck, probably in the place of Betrayal.
The latter is better against Aggro, but indeed it could be unreliable, as opposed to Vanish.
The Infested Goblin is just a deck filler, but a decent one. It's surprising how good a 1/1 taunt is at stalling the game. Given the current meta, Eater of Secrets is probably better in his place. Or Sludge Belcher.
Choosing a Champion has always been a Final Tournament thing, these are just group stage games. Choosing a Champion is likely returning for the BlizzCon Finals.
Man I gotta say this is the most fun in Hearthstone I've had for a while, thank you for this deck. Played this exact list with the only change I made being one less Sea Giant for one copy of Wrapped Golem. I just flew from rank 17 to 10 in one continuous winstreak only broken once by a taunt shuffle lock who got the dream "Dollmaster Dorian + Plot Twist followed by Fel Lord Betrug + Plot Twist the turn after" combo.
Just killed a taunt warrior who healed from half health back to 30 at least 3 times using triple Zilliax (the one in his deck, one from Omega Assembly and then copying the omega one with Faceless Manipulator) and like 4 buffed up taunts in a row with at least 9 health each, including a 6/10 Rusty Recycler. I didn't even draw Leeroy. After that I just had to come back here and comment on how awesome this deck is :D
The only decks I've had trouble with so far were Zoo, which is just too fast sometimes (I barely recovered with some very desperate plays) and the taunt shuffle lock. That last one seems like a bad matchup, but at the same time I don't know if anyone is really playing that deck at higher ranks, if it's just getting popular right now, or if I just got unlucky facing some of them today.
This deck is awesome, and unlike Quest Druid which got sort of boring pretty quickly, the skill ceiling of this deck is pretty high. I was watching some YouTube in the background and had to pause every few minutes because I had to concentrate to try to get the math perfect. Missed some lethals, made some bad plays, but still won all but one match because of the crushing pressure the opponent is under once the quest is complete. Definitely recommend a copy of Wrapped Golem, was MVP in quite a few games since most decks can't handle the contrast of first going super wide with the board and then super tall with a really sticky minion after a board clear. It also helps complete the quest quite a bit and just feels more useful in general than a second Sea Giant.
For someone who most of the time just logs in to complete the quests this was a rare treat. Thanks again, NudeWookie :D
No pirates? Maybe they are just too small and irrelevant?
No Vanish, isn't that pretty great post Valeera? It just seems pretty hard to play 9 mana do nothing, and then what do you do when they have a full board?
I had a build with envenom weapon. But my build was too much bad infinte combo cards...hehe. But envenom was solid.
this looks much more fun than the Dalaran Heist, purely because cross-class deckbuilding is always fun....also the overall powerlevel seems higher, which is great since the main problem in Dalaran was that at some point (especially the last chapter) you were basically forced to have a specific broken combo to actually beat the bosses.
Also, having only 4 heroes makes beating eevery chapter with each of them much less tedious than in Dalaran.
My favourite SoU moment was when I finally convinced myself to craft Whizbang, and the first 4 matches I played I got secret paladin. It didn't end up well for me...
(...) On the bright side he won't offer you Lay on Hands if you don't have any cards in deck
That's all I wish for ^^
Just like OP, I played Zephrys with an empty deck, thinking that the archivist would be in my discover options ... Realized too late it wasn't even possible - basic and classic set only
Some of them are ladder decks too, mostly taken from Twitter. The "Deck Type" box should indicate whether the deck is from a Tournament or Ranked mode.
Keep up the good work! Your decks have been really fun to watch and blizzard really better give you a card reveal next expansion! You’ve totally earned it at this point with what you’ve been doing!
This looks very complete and thorough. Great job on the article!
But am I the only one who is worried that there will almost never be a coherent strategy for deck-building, when there are THIS many different buckets available for each hero?
Hot Decks in OOC
how do you decide what's a meme deck and what isn't`?
Hot Decks in OOC
Our website is generally populated by a community that tends to prefer and give upvotes to what is off-meta, or meme, and/or with funny description/story. That's ok ofc.
But the result in the Hot Decks boxes of the front page is often that a hot deck could be either a meme, or a candidate meta-breaker (more often the former), without the user being able to discern, before actually opening the deck page.
And imo, the fact we display memes or Casual decks as Hot Decks makes us look as weirdos to a generic new user trying to find a place to improve their Ranked performances with the game.
So my idea is, what about 4 Hot Decks boxes? One for Standard Ranked, one for Wild Ranked, one for Standard Just for Fun, one for Wild Just for Fun.
ALTERNATIVELY, the 'Just for Fun' could all be merged together in a unique box, Standard and Wild.
With 'Just for Fun' as the default option when an author publishes a new deck.
At that point, deck authors should be compelled (maybe with a warning that clarifies that, if they try to select it) to define their deck as 'Ranked' ONLY IF they can provide the description of some decent performances in Ladder. And it'd be pretty easy to spot scams anyway, since a weird deck with no detailed explanation is easily just a Casual deck.
The current Pro Decks (typically overlooked btw) could be merged in the new Standard Ranked, and/or accounted for with an additional variable in the visibility algorithm.
PS: if and when all this is implemented, an additional temporary Theorycraft box could be conceived, across expansions release times.
Why the 5 gold rewards?
Well technically the way this can be interpreted is: " there is no difference between 5 gold and 50 gold, because the 50 itself cannot be used to purchase anything."
Jokes aside, at the end of the day the only thing that matters is the cumulative amount of gold :)
Why the 5 gold rewards?
@op: to trigger people like you that can't get over the fact that it's just a bunch of pixels on your monitor.
On a more serious note, if you give in to this fact and "buy more", it means they managed to trick you into spending money for something useless. Not unlike most marketing companies do nowadays.
Nevertheless, the reward system in HS is utter crap. Hopefully Blizzard will stop being a part of Activision at some point (and allow themselves to get bought by a more quality-oriented group). Until then... use your brains and stop paying for useless stuff.
Highlander Secrer Quest Rogue
Exactly, Pirates are not there because they end up being irrelevant as a package, and/or inconsistent due to the Singleton restrictions.
As for Vanish, i am fairly sure it was there in some previous iteration of this deck, probably in the place of Betrayal.
The latter is better against Aggro, but indeed it could be unreliable, as opposed to Vanish.
The Infested Goblin is just a deck filler, but a decent one. It's surprising how good a 1/1 taunt is at stalling the game. Given the current meta, Eater of Secrets is probably better in his place. Or Sludge Belcher.
Grandmasters Season 2 Continues With Week 4!
Choosing a Champion has always been a Final Tournament thing, these are just group stage games. Choosing a Champion is likely returning for the BlizzCon Finals.
[Rank 1] Autocomplete Quest Hunter
Man I gotta say this is the most fun in Hearthstone I've had for a while, thank you for this deck. Played this exact list with the only change I made being one less Sea Giant for one copy of Wrapped Golem. I just flew from rank 17 to 10 in one continuous winstreak only broken once by a taunt shuffle lock who got the dream "Dollmaster Dorian + Plot Twist followed by Fel Lord Betrug + Plot Twist the turn after" combo.
Just killed a taunt warrior who healed from half health back to 30 at least 3 times using triple Zilliax (the one in his deck, one from Omega Assembly and then copying the omega one with Faceless Manipulator) and like 4 buffed up taunts in a row with at least 9 health each, including a 6/10 Rusty Recycler. I didn't even draw Leeroy. After that I just had to come back here and comment on how awesome this deck is :D
The only decks I've had trouble with so far were Zoo, which is just too fast sometimes (I barely recovered with some very desperate plays) and the taunt shuffle lock. That last one seems like a bad matchup, but at the same time I don't know if anyone is really playing that deck at higher ranks, if it's just getting popular right now, or if I just got unlucky facing some of them today.
This deck is awesome, and unlike Quest Druid which got sort of boring pretty quickly, the skill ceiling of this deck is pretty high. I was watching some YouTube in the background and had to pause every few minutes because I had to concentrate to try to get the math perfect. Missed some lethals, made some bad plays, but still won all but one match because of the crushing pressure the opponent is under once the quest is complete. Definitely recommend a copy of Wrapped Golem, was MVP in quite a few games since most decks can't handle the contrast of first going super wide with the board and then super tall with a really sticky minion after a board clear. It also helps complete the quest quite a bit and just feels more useful in general than a second Sea Giant.
For someone who most of the time just logs in to complete the quests this was a rare treat. Thanks again, NudeWookie :D
Grandmasters Season 2 Continues With Week 4!
Changed with drops cause people didn't even watch it anyway.
Highlander Secrer Quest Rogue
Very interesting. Some thoughts:
No pirates? Maybe they are just too small and irrelevant?
No Vanish, isn't that pretty great post Valeera? It just seems pretty hard to play 9 mana do nothing, and then what do you do when they have a full board?
I had a build with envenom weapon. But my build was too much bad infinte combo cards...hehe. But envenom was solid.
Infested goblin is surprising.
Cheers!
Grandmasters Season 2 Continues With Week 4!
Yeah, what happened with that?
Tombs of Terror Spoilers - All Playable Hero Powers & Signature Treasures
this looks much more fun than the Dalaran Heist, purely because cross-class deckbuilding is always fun....also the overall powerlevel seems higher, which is great since the main problem in Dalaran was that at some point (especially the last chapter) you were basically forced to have a specific broken combo to actually beat the bosses.
Also, having only 4 heroes makes beating eevery chapter with each of them much less tedious than in Dalaran.
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: nono#11378
Region: NA
Trade Only?: no
Tombs of Terror Solo Content Giveaway
My favourite SoU moment was when I finally convinced myself to craft Whizbang, and the first 4 matches I played I got secret paladin. It didn't end up well for me...
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: Volkan#22747
Region: EU
Trade only? : yes, you go first
Grandmasters Season 2 Continues With Week 4!
Feno, duuuuh! ;).
0w0 *notices your thread*
As "don't ask" is the best way to provoke a question... Please, do tell.
Honest Hearthstone Cards (Game)
Cmon, rexxar again?
Next:
Quest Trading - Play A Friend!
Battletag: Zeedrome#1317
Region: NA
Trade only?: Yes, you go first, I can show proof of quest
Command & Conquer Zero Hour
Played it in the past with my nephew. Liked it and still remember. But it´s long ago ... Don´t know what works on win 10.
Grandmasters Season 2 Continues With Week 4!
If you could pick a champion, who would you pick?
Can Zephrys the Great tell if you're in fatigue?
That's all I wish for ^^
Just like OP, I played Zephrys with an empty deck, thinking that the archivist would be in my discover options ...
Realized too late it wasn't even possible - basic and classic set only
Question About 'Pro Decks'
Some of them are ladder decks too, mostly taken from Twitter. The "Deck Type" box should indicate whether the deck is from a Tournament or Ranked mode.
Doomhammer OTK!
Keep up the good work! Your decks have been really fun to watch and blizzard really better give you a card reveal next expansion! You’ve totally earned it at this point with what you’ve been doing!
Tombs of Terror Spoilers - All Card Bundles By Explorer
This looks very complete and thorough. Great job on the article!
But am I the only one who is worried that there will almost never be a coherent strategy for deck-building, when there are THIS many different buckets available for each hero?
Octosari Shadow Madness OTK!
Almost impossible to pull off combo?! Yes please!