Hearthstone

[stargroup100]

this fucking happened

and he followed it up with avenging wrath

then ragnaros

all of which directly hit my face

fuck rng

[Reach]

Could be worse. I've seen double holy wrath double molten giant for 40 damage to the face :P

[Deidara837]

Last day of the season in which I've been too busy to ladder (RIP S3 Rank 3)

15 game win streak as Huntard straight from 18 to 11, outplaying a Legend Handlock along the way. To be fair I did have to work for a couple wins, notably an emote-spamming cocky BM Priest w/ Lightwell and a mirror who thought he had the upper hand

[stargroup100]

i managed to get to at least rank 7 this season

i feel like with a bit more time I probably could've gone higher


EDIT: AWWW YEEAH UNLEASH THE MOTHERFUCKING HOUNDSSS

[Reach]

Probably. After rank 7ish it's mostly a dumb grind anyway. The players don't get much better. If you can win at rank ~5 you can win at legend, it just takes a long time to get there because your WR is probably going to only be marginally above 50%.

Hunter is one of the best decks to grind with though because it's the most consistent with the highest win rate in the current meta.

Though I've been running into more and more counters to do this deck, have had some rough patches lately.

Even modified a secret mage to do pretty well again this deck. Haven't even lost to hunter I don't think. The hunter can't really do anything when you never play more than a single minion and just remove all of their threats and their weapon. And then once you get a huge minion up, counterspell is GG unless they held onto their flare. Biggest threat to this deck is double kill command but I think a lot of hunters are only running 1 right now.

[stargroup100]

Originally Posted by Reach

Though I've been running into more and more counters to do this deck, have had some rough patches lately.

Today I lost 4 games in a row in ranked because of hunter mirror matches where they somehow draw flares at the best possible times.

One of those games I had a guy double flare all 4 of my secrets. Needless to say I was pretty irritated.

Playing this deck without Leeroy is starting to feel annoying.

[stargroup100]

k I normally wouldn't share games excluding a few fun screenshots here and there but I thought this was absolutely hilarious


so in order to get my quests completed I decided to do a deathrattle/zoo druid deck


playing against a priest, and I open with undertaker and an egg. he responds with deathlord. I put down another egg and zombie chow and poke his deathlord to 4 hp. he then does the double hp attack conversion, making it 8/8 and hits my face

I then use poison seeds, dropping the 2 4/4 nerubians, and causes his deathlord to put a knife juggler on my field, followed by 4 2/2 treants which obviously sends 4 damage to his face. my next card? savage roar for lethal

[Reach]

Playing it without leeroy is difficult.

There's also a secretless version of this deck that I think is taking off in popularity, if anything because it does much better against many of the decks that people have come up with to counter that shit.

That and, yeah, currently in secret hunter vs secret hunter, whoever gets the flares wins the game. Also a plus to playing it without secrets. Flares are dead because most of the time they just hold them assuming you have secrets.

[stargroup100]

ok im really getting tired of this shit

I'm one turn away from winning with 3 minions on the board and he snipes me at 8 hp with a rag

if I had a quarter for every time I've been clutch rag sniped I'd be fucking rich. does blizzard code rag to prioritize lethals or something I've never seen a rag miss lethal snipe

[Reach]

Originally Posted by stargroup100

ok im really getting tired of this shit

I'm one turn away from winning with 3 minions on the board and he snipes me at 8 hp with a rag

if I had a quarter for every time I've been clutch rag sniped I'd be fucking rich. does blizzard code rag to prioritize lethals or something I've never seen a rag miss lethal snipe

Most people hate Rag and most people agree it's OP.

It's pretty stupid. It's an auto slot filler in any control deck. It's mostly the mechanic; on one hand the RNG can win and lose games but that's not what makes it special. It's basically the only card in the game that can do absurd amounts of damage without actually taking any damage in return. The card would still be overpowered if it only did 6 damage. It trades so efficiently it makes shit like Savanna look worthless and basically requires you have insta removal like hex, poly or execute.

I fucking hate ragnaros.


PS You can sub arcane golem for Leeroy in Hunter. It's not as good BUT, it's also 1 mana cheaper meaning it's slightly easier to combo. Not a perfect solution but it can help.

[stargroup100]

wtf

I'm on a hard losing streak. just lost 6 matches in a row and dropped 2 ranks. what's going on?

EDIT: make that 8 losses in a row

EDIT: 12 losses in a row this is absolutely ridiculous I went from 14 to 18 I'm playing zoo from now on

EDIT: and playing zoo dropped me down to the bottom of 19. like I actually don't understand how this is possible. there was some guy rank 19 who was running sylvannas hogger ysera and rag and I dealt with everything until the final hogger like are you kidding me

I think I'm done with this stupid game. I don't have the cards to play this at that level and I don't think I'll be getting them anytime soon

[Reach]

I think your luck rubbed off on me dude. wtf

This is freakishly coincidental but I also lost 14 ranked games in a row yesterday (Unprecidented, I've never lost more than 6-7 in a row before having been playing this game for like a year now?) with my best Zoo deck.

A deck I've historically taken past rank 5 that has a > 50% WR at that level (absolutely nothing wrong with the deck).

Some of the shit I saw yesterday brought me to the point of this: http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/c6/c6e18...393f7b3122.jpg

I was just stunned, over and over again each match. It was unreal to the point I had wished it was recorded because it would have been a lot of reddit karma. After awhile I just started calling out the worst possible play for me each turn and my opponent almost always delivered.

This one pally has two minions of the board to my 3. He true silvers on turn 6 and equalities. He decides to run his face into my 9/1 voidterrorto take 7 damage instead of my 1/1 voidcaller (...keep in mind that both of his minions were hero powers and die anyway). At this point I figure the reign of terror must be over because that was one of the most Dennis plays I've ever seen, only to have him pyro equality me the following turn after I dump most of my hand, followed by a double consecrate on turn 8 to clear me again after I dump the rest of my hand the following turn.


To be fair, at the start of the season the games are always harder but I saw some weird shit yesterday. Gonna take a break for a week I think.

[Deidara837]

I for one never play ranked until about 1.5-2 weeks into the season, and I start with a Druid deck that's slightly faster than standard ramp, due to it being more consistent than Zoo. It also has an option to taunt up Spectral Knights to avoid most cheap tempo removal. My winrate in the lower ranks when most of the decent players have climbed to <5 is near 100% for that reason.

[ReikonKeiri]

Today I played Druid Arena.

Today I turn 1 Undertakerd, Turn 2 Innervate Chow, Deathlord'd.

Good times.

[danceflashrevo]

I just made one :3!

R3cebarnett

[_Zenith_]

I don't know if there is a way of showing the elapsed time of a match, but I just had a 45 second match.

(Me) Warrior v Mage

Threw down a Nerubian Egg, cast Inner Rage on it to destroy it while taking their minion out with a Festering Ghoul on the board soaking up the attack. They tried to use Fireball and Arcane Missles to take it out but I ended up using Rampage to give it +3/+3 with a 4/4 and a 7/4 on the board. Instant Concede.

[stargroup100]

I just got

a second

fucking

ragnaros

sigh

[_Zenith_]

Originally Posted by stargroup100

I just got

a second

fucking

ragnaros

sigh

Wow GG

I only play the Warrior Deck, playing casual (literally scared like a little bitch to play ranked) but I'm winning 6/1 every time.

Any card that has +1 Attack for Damage to Minions + Rampage +3/+3 = game over.

Had 2 17/10's on the board yesterday

[andy-o24]

This happened a while ago, and I forgot to post it because I just couldn't believe what I saw.

Playing an arena and I'm up against a Warlock. He does some shit on the first two turns and that's not an issue. But this is where it gets fucked.
Turn three Scarlet Crusader
Turn four Coin, power overwhelming, power overwhelming (11/9 crusader) face swing. Then Void Terror on the Scarlet. 14/12 void terror on turn 4.
Needless to say I lost. And just for good measure he used another Power Overwhelming on the void terror when he swung for lethal.

Great game.

-o24

[_Zenith_]

I know that I'm a noob at this game, but isn't Power Overwhelming supposed to kill that target at the end of their turn? It only gives +4/+4 until it "dies a horrible death" so how was it still alive on turn 4?