I think this is happening to me as well. playing ranked is a fucking chore with all the mindless agrro decks that litter the ladder around rank 10. I can't see myself playing much more of it.

Same reason I stopped last time don't understand why blizz hasn't nerfed that shit into the ground.

 

Miracle is probably the strongest in a tournament setting - after banning Shaman. Tempo warrior too (Varian!) Aggro rules in ladder though, and while they added a lot of cool control cards end game, there's very little one can do to survive until then. Mid-range shaman is pretty ridiculous too.

Especially with Belcher gone. And lightbomb, deathlord, flurry nerf etc.

If you're not aggro, you should be running 2xDoomsayers and pray they're not running crazed alchemist.

Off the top of my head, control warrior, freeze mage and control (n'zoth) pally do okay. Same with midrange hunter.

 

Iv'e had a lot of success with control warrior in standard, it's just so boring to play. The same with N'zoth pally. The entire game is slowing down a bit.

 

I hear that.

N'Zoth Paladin running Humility and Aldor Peacekeeper is frustrating to play against. I actually feel like those two cards might end up nerfed down the road. They both cater to a non-interactive play style that Blizzard seems to be moving away from.

Control Warrior's insane ability to armour up is similarly frustrating. It immediately makes any decklist with a finite amount of damage unfavoured.

 

I run 2x equality, 2x pyro, 2x consectration, 2x aldor, 2x stampeding kodo and 2x humility on N'zoth. It's needed against the huge number of aggro decks on the ladder.

 

Crappy arena runs give the best packs.

 

Getting mighty sick of every single deck I play in Arena being a mage... And each and every one having at least 2 Faceless Summoners and 2 of that spellfinder dude. They really gotta consider the balance in the case of Mage and Paladin, in my opinion.

 

The best thing they can do is tweak the rarity of cards no longer in circulation imo. Make Muster and Weapons epic, same with flamestrike.

Though I'm pretty sure Rogue is super dominant in Arena right now, no?

 

Dunno. They're pretty annoying, too. Not as common to see.

 

Blizzard gives not a fuck about Arena. I hate 'em a little bit for it, since it's my favorite way to play.

They don't even let me get golden heroes off my arena wins. Like.. what's the harm? Why can't I have nice things too? ;_;

 

^Because there is money to be made out of your tears of frustration when you finally join us in standard.

Anyone know of a fun deck to dick around with for a bit? Just about to hit rank 5 and can't be assed to try for more this season.

 

I've been messing around with N'zoth Fatigue Mage in Wild for shits and giggles.

N'zoth, Sludge Belcher, Deathlord, 2 copies of duplicate, and 1 copy of Echo of Medivh.

Rest of deck is your usual staples of removal, stall, and healing.

Works pretty well, and is a blast to play, people just instantly concede when you resummon 6 taunts heh.

 

Man, the meta is already boring as fuck right now. Went to wild about a month ago, which is riddled with secret pallies (though my tempo rogue deck handles them pretty easily).

I dunno what Blizzard can do. I want 4 expansions a year to keep things fresh (2/3 adv and 2/1 Expansions), but I don't see that happening.

Actually, an expansion in the beginning of the year (to herald in a new 'year of...') and an adventure with 30 or so cards every 3 months after that sounds reasonable, I think. Maybe it's too much, I dunno, but I can't help feeling the game becomes stale really quick after each drop.

 

Joke's on them, I don't spend any money on this game and arena funds my stockpile of 15k dust. ;D

 

In case anybody doesn't already know, America's Spring Championships are streaming right now:
https://www.twitch.tv/playhearthstone

My good friend Rosty is in the semi-finals right now.

Edit: In the finals now, up 1-0. If he wins this he's going to worlds.

Edit2: Nope, gets wrecked by persistent RNG. Still, good run.

 

Aww I disenchanted all my wild stuff to make way for standard, kinda regret it tbh slamming down a sludge belcher was so damn satisfying.

I've found reno anythings good for a chuckle or two if you manage to ride the good rng but wildly inconsistent.

 

Decided to grind out Legend this season. Took up a zoo deck and went 13 -> 5 quite easily.

Found myself yelling "Play Fucktard" at the screen a lot though. At this point I would give my left bollock for a speedstone, with 10-15 sec turn times.

 

That's on my list of the numerous, numerous quality of life improvements they could make to the game. Just having the option to toggle something like "Speed game" and have it activate when both players have it selected or something.

(I'd prefer a whole separate "speedstone," but I know they'd never do that.)

 

Speedstone, remove animations completely. 30 sec turn timer.

 

Well I think hearthstone is at least TRYING to masquerade as a tactical card game. Would be hard to accomplish if nobody actually thought about their decisions at all. Like lightning chess vs regular chess.