Important Conversation About Hearthstone

[Babittle]

I am a consistent Standard Meta and Battlegrounds player. There is a new mode in hearthstone. What is it, how do you play? Worth checking out or just keep “Life ripping” on the Meta and battlegrounds.

Very important. Your input is required

[DMN]

Heartstone is fucking trash.

Hope this helps.

[Babittle]

Agree, but I’m talking about heartHstone

[DMN]

oh, i've never heard of that , cumspittle.

[unsunghero]

Sorry I am former semi-hardcore HS player but I been out of the game since they came out with the leveled advancement track, whenever that was (I did finish the leveling track, got my custom warlock hero profile reward, then quit)

I was spending too much money on it, even though I didn’t have to. I wanted to have 3-4+ meta decks I could play ranked at Diamond each month, and that just became too expensive to keep crafting with dust. Never did try out battlegrounds, back then they were considered pretty imbalanced, but they probably improved them

[unsunghero]

One thing that pissed me off about hearthstone (other than the price to be competitive with multiple decks), was how many god damn conspiracy theorists it had on its forums

I would say like 70% of all the scrubs on its forum believed they game had algorithms to feed you inconvenient cards after you won too many matches in a row in order to force losses. Meaning that the game understood all the meta decks and what a good opening hand and next draw for them was, then purposefully gave you cards from your deck that were not that

Suck a stupid conspiracy theory but one that continued to gain momentum, usually perpetuated by scrubs who couldn’t hit Diamond rank if their life depended on it, and blamed their bad play on Blizzard’s evil secret algorithms making them lose

[Horza]

One thing that pissed me off about hearthstone (other than the price to be competitive with multiple decks), was how many god damn conspiracy theorists it had on its forums

This forum has similar issues.

[Jibartik]

This forum has similar issues.

January 6th was an insurrection

[Mblake1981]

January 6th was an insurrection

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[Whale biologist]

Austin is a conservative town.

Everything's bigger in Texas

[Jibartik]

Cats can actually ignore gravity.

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[Horza]

January 6th was an insurrection

Take it to Off Topic, Trumptard.

[Kohedron]

You play the new mode by stfu-ing uninstalling hearthstone, p99, and chrome

[Jibartik]

Take it to Off Topic, Trumptard.

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[BlackBellamy]

In the spirit of that other thread, what drugs do you need to become a top-shelf Harkstein player?

[BlackBellamy]

Hortstane?

[unsunghero]

In the spirit of that other thread, what drugs do you need to become a top-shelf Harkstein player?

Definitely not pot or alcohol. Hearthstone is a decent amount of math as you analyze the board state to decide who you are going to attack with minions and cast spells on. Basically constant math, just simple addition/subtraction, but it never stops

Then usually you want to be thinking of your next move or two ahead, but that requires understanding everything about the deck you are against to anticipate what their next move is likely to be but having a contingency plan for alternatives. Some things like board clears you want to try to force/bait early, obviously anticipate and not “go wide” (summoning lots of minions) right into. But that means knowing how many of what board clears the opponents deck runs. Once you get into the higher ranks, deck variety shrinks to usually just all top meta decks, so it’s fairly easy to memorize them all. Legend (top 1-2%) actually has a better variety of decks than, say, Diamond partly because it has players that are so fucking good they can do well with even weird homebrew decks. Usually these are like streamers who play ranked hearthstone at Legend every day in like 8 hour shifts

But a player running a T1 aggro deck who a decent understanding of the game can grind our legend through sheer effort. Can only do this with an aggro deck, what you are doing is continuing to play until get multiple starting “god hands” in a row vs multiple opponents. You just keep grinding and grinding (due to rank floors you can’t de-rank past Diamond once you hit it) until you get that crazy god hand win streak and boom Legend. That’s the most common way