I was watching J Alexander's stream yesterday (top 100 legend at the moment) and he did play almost exclusively against Warriors and Spell Druids, so it seems finally Spell Druid is a thing. I guess it's popular because it's cheap, too.
It's not crazy, I'm also thinking about testing Blessed Champion in Libram Paladin, but I didn't have the time yet. It worked well in a Dragon Paladin deck I played when Dragon Speaker was made available. Big minions + Blessed Champion = Win (if they stay on board xD).
I didn't think about Toxic Reinforcements neither did I see other Dragon decks using it, but it's of course a good strategy to find lethal faster. Thanks for the deck!
Stats isn't everything. Some cards are deceptively important, like Beaming Sidekick in a tempo dhunter list, or Faerie Dragon against mages, rogues, etc. You can't play hearthstone solely based on stats.
Sure, but stats are valuable. If every day I play 6-8 matches and watch 6-8 more matches on stream, my perception of the meta is very limited; if I can find stats of thousands of games a day that improves my awareness of the meta. And, in case, I want to craft an expensive deck, I'd like to know how strong it is in the current meta. The more (reliable) stats I have, the better.
And to further add to my previous post, I'm kind of embarrassed that I forgot to mention Targus' reports from this very website. Every week they get you a good summary of all of hsreplay's data. Even if you don't have hsreplay premium the article provides you with a lot of insight in good builds and what decks are proving to be the strongest at the higher levels.
Don't worry, I'm not missing any of Targus' reports ;)
Wild is perfectly predictable. It had its own meta and being skilled means you know it and know most of the prevalent decks and what to expect from your opponent.
Just like in standard.
Of course it's predictable if you are used to play Wild. If you don't know the meta and you have no experience in the matchups, then you are at a disadvantage. It does not sound like the best plan to reach legend if you didn't in Standard.
I used Hsreplay.net, I like it that it counts average match duration, frequency of each deck, and so on, but I recently realized free accounts only see the data of Bronze to Gold, which is quite uninteresting. I recently discovered metastats.net, but it's not clear where they get the data from, and some decks have few tracked games, so they are statistically not that reliable. And in reports like the ones from Tempostorm and Vicious Syndicate sometimes you read very different opinions, for example according to Vicious Syndicate Dragon Hunter is a strong deck with room to improve but according to Tempostorm is a Tier 3 deck, being generous, while Galakrond Priest is a Tier 1 deck according to Tempostorm, but Tier 3 according to VS... At least both seem to agree that Aggro Demon Hunter, Tempo/Enrage Warrior and Highlander Hunter are good decks.
So, how to bring order to the chaos? How do you inform yourself? Or do you trust only on your own feeling of the meta?
Thanks again everybody! I don't really like Wild, I disenchant most legendaries when they rotate out (excepting the best ones), everything is so unpredictable... It's hard to play well if you can't figure out what cards your opponent is going to play!
I'm not yet sure I'm going to grind for legend this season, it will depend on how fast I reach Diamond. We will see!
Thanks everybody for your kind words! But I'm afraid I can't make it this season. I was at Diamond 2 yesterday (I went 9-3 yesterday with the new deck) but today I lost 4 games in a row (one of them because I'm stupid, I have to say), so I falled to Diamond 3. I had to climb today to Diamond 1 to have the possibility to reach Legend tomorrow. There is no way I can climb tomorrow from 3 to Legend, period. So maybe next season. Or maybe I will take a break and play just for fun. We will see.
Before the changes I got over my losing streak and climbed back to Diamond 4, and yesterday I reached Diamond 3 with the new deck. Today the grind continues! Wish me luck and good decisions!
Since there's lots of highlander hunters and other dragon hunters, I replace the boar tech with Scalerider. I might change this to 1x Burrowing Scorpid, as rng keeps screwing me.
Freezing Trap is definitely great, but I'm not sold on Snake Trap. Pack Tactics sounds like a better option to me, because most minions have special abilities (evasive, poisonous, hero power synergy...). Have you tested it?
I have one advice that I had not found in the comments yet - try to go to legend in one "sitting".
Thanks! That sounds good, but I'm afraid I can't afford long play sessions anymore, as I did when I was younger! I have too much to do! I can normally play only for 1-1.5 h, maybe 2 h if star align. I know, that sucks, but that's life...
I've been watching some of my replays, some games were probably unwinnable, but in others I could spot some misplays. I think I became a bit overconfident with the deck (as I was climbing so easily) and I got used to play too fast. So that is something I could improve. I also agree I should have stopped playing when I was on a losing streak, but I'm stubborn sometimes...
Maybe switching the secrets is a good idea, since Friday I encountered 17% DH, 17% Mage, 22% Rogue (mostly secrets, some stealth), 17% Priest, other classes in small percentages. Explosive clearly does nothing against Mage and Priest.
I agree that Highlander Hunter is more powerful, but man, that shit is expensive! Currently I don't have the dust to craft it.
Thanks for the link to Metastats.net, I didn't know that site and I like that you can segment by rank (gold and below, platinum and above); however, it's unclear where they get the stats from... By the way, according to Metastats winrate is not that different between Galakrond Rogue and Galakrond Secret Rogue.
I'd probably stick with Dragon Hunter, maybe switching some secrets; matches playing Rogue take too long for the time I can spend playing Hearthstone this week. Time has always been a problem for me to climb to Legend!
I was watching J Alexander's stream yesterday (top 100 legend at the moment) and he did play almost exclusively against Warriors and Spell Druids, so it seems finally Spell Druid is a thing. I guess it's popular because it's cheap, too.
Hey, we should prepare a set of answers for this kind of people!
"Get a life" or "Learn to play" are a bit too obvious. Maybe "Praise Galakrond" or "Die Insect" would be funnier xD
It's not crazy, I'm also thinking about testing Blessed Champion in Libram Paladin, but I didn't have the time yet. It worked well in a Dragon Paladin deck I played when Dragon Speaker was made available. Big minions + Blessed Champion = Win (if they stay on board xD).
I didn't think about Toxic Reinforcements neither did I see other Dragon decks using it, but it's of course a good strategy to find lethal faster. Thanks for the deck!
Sure, but stats are valuable. If every day I play 6-8 matches and watch 6-8 more matches on stream, my perception of the meta is very limited; if I can find stats of thousands of games a day that improves my awareness of the meta. And, in case, I want to craft an expensive deck, I'd like to know how strong it is in the current meta. The more (reliable) stats I have, the better.
Don't worry, I'm not missing any of Targus' reports ;)
Thanks Flux!
Of course it's predictable if you are used to play Wild. If you don't know the meta and you have no experience in the matchups, then you are at a disadvantage. It does not sound like the best plan to reach legend if you didn't in Standard.
Nice! I didn't realize how cheap bronze support was!
How do you activate your premium if you purchase it using Paypal? There is no clear link bewteen Paypal and Twitch or Battle.net...
I used Hsreplay.net, I like it that it counts average match duration, frequency of each deck, and so on, but I recently realized free accounts only see the data of Bronze to Gold, which is quite uninteresting. I recently discovered metastats.net, but it's not clear where they get the data from, and some decks have few tracked games, so they are statistically not that reliable. And in reports like the ones from Tempostorm and Vicious Syndicate sometimes you read very different opinions, for example according to Vicious Syndicate Dragon Hunter is a strong deck with room to improve but according to Tempostorm is a Tier 3 deck, being generous, while Galakrond Priest is a Tier 1 deck according to Tempostorm, but Tier 3 according to VS... At least both seem to agree that Aggro Demon Hunter, Tempo/Enrage Warrior and Highlander Hunter are good decks.
So, how to bring order to the chaos? How do you inform yourself? Or do you trust only on your own feeling of the meta?
Thanks again everybody! I don't really like Wild, I disenchant most legendaries when they rotate out (excepting the best ones), everything is so unpredictable... It's hard to play well if you can't figure out what cards your opponent is going to play!
I'm not yet sure I'm going to grind for legend this season, it will depend on how fast I reach Diamond. We will see!
Yes, time is a problem, Sundays are busy days at home. Thanks anyway!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! As you say, legend is legend. Well done!
Thanks everybody for your kind words! But I'm afraid I can't make it this season. I was at Diamond 2 yesterday (I went 9-3 yesterday with the new deck) but today I lost 4 games in a row (one of them because I'm stupid, I have to say), so I falled to Diamond 3. I had to climb today to Diamond 1 to have the possibility to reach Legend tomorrow. There is no way I can climb tomorrow from 3 to Legend, period. So maybe next season. Or maybe I will take a break and play just for fun. We will see.
Thanks again!
Happy birthday! Looking forward to the special content and site improvements!
Well, I saw the last Meta Report in Vicious Syndicate and decided to try the featured Dragon Hunter deck, which uses Zyxor: https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/deck-library/hunter-decks/dragon-hunter/
I decided to keep the traps I had used recently (1x Freezing Trap + 1x Explosive Trap). I also feel naked without Kill Command, so I removed 1 copy of Scalerider to accomodate 1 copy of KC.
Before the changes I got over my losing streak and climbed back to Diamond 4, and yesterday I reached Diamond 3 with the new deck. Today the grind continues! Wish me luck and good decisions!
Freezing Trap is definitely great, but I'm not sold on Snake Trap. Pack Tactics sounds like a better option to me, because most minions have special abilities (evasive, poisonous, hero power synergy...). Have you tested it?
Thanks! That sounds good, but I'm afraid I can't afford long play sessions anymore, as I did when I was younger! I have too much to do! I can normally play only for 1-1.5 h, maybe 2 h if star align. I know, that sucks, but that's life...
Thanks a lot for your comments!
I've been watching some of my replays, some games were probably unwinnable, but in others I could spot some misplays. I think I became a bit overconfident with the deck (as I was climbing so easily) and I got used to play too fast. So that is something I could improve. I also agree I should have stopped playing when I was on a losing streak, but I'm stubborn sometimes...
Maybe switching the secrets is a good idea, since Friday I encountered 17% DH, 17% Mage, 22% Rogue (mostly secrets, some stealth), 17% Priest, other classes in small percentages. Explosive clearly does nothing against Mage and Priest.
I agree that Highlander Hunter is more powerful, but man, that shit is expensive! Currently I don't have the dust to craft it.
Thanks for the link to Metastats.net, I didn't know that site and I like that you can segment by rank (gold and below, platinum and above); however, it's unclear where they get the stats from... By the way, according to Metastats winrate is not that different between Galakrond Rogue and Galakrond Secret Rogue.
I'd probably stick with Dragon Hunter, maybe switching some secrets; matches playing Rogue take too long for the time I can spend playing Hearthstone this week. Time has always been a problem for me to climb to Legend!
I'll keep you updated!