Yeah, mages have a lot of BS cards. You can pretty much load up > 50% of your deck with spells and win, but I guess that’s the point.
Secret cards are braindead IMO; I think either their cost needs to be increased, or allow the player to guess a “counter action” to disable the spell.
Aren’t there other prime classes to whine about, like Rogue, Druid or Hunter?
Are you saying that Warlock, Paladin, and Shaman are low tier then?
I asked for a tier list in this thread, and I have yet to see one. I am disappointed.
I don’t think that I’m at the level to tier classes or decks in Hearthstone, so I’m not making a tier list.
All I know is is that Mage is Tier 1. Everything else is Tier 2 and below.
Here are some win rates for January (Global, sample size: 10598), this is opt in data.
Constructed:
Top 3:
Hunter got some grotesque win rates against Mage, Rogue, Shaman and Warlock ~55%-58%, slight advantage over Priest and Paladin ~51.5% but falls short against Warriors and Druids ~40-41%.
Druid got good win rates across the board only falling short to Priest, Warlock ~49% and Shaman ~46.8%. Shits on Mage, Hunter, Rogue and Warrior ~55-58%
Shaman wins against Druid so they are automatically good ~53%, bad match up against hunters at ~41.3%, Rogue ~48%, Warrior and Mage ~55.8%.
Take note of the top 3 triangle.
Arena:
Hard to get a bad draft as the top 3, surprised about the Druid and Warlock numbers though.
Opinions on classes
[details=Spoiler]Mage is pretty fair imo. All I watch out for is turn 7 flamestrikes, try to bait 2 polymorphs, watch out for legendaries and i’ll be all good. druid/paladin perspective, Rogue vs Mage still feels like a bad matchup
Priests are almost hilarious to fight when your field is filled with 4 attack minions they can’t use ANY shadow words unless their attack is higher or lower and holding on to your silences for key threats *you do that in general against all classes but the average priests are ESPECIALLY fucked. Summoned lightspawn? get rid of it with a removal and a minion attack. They’re ballsy enough to buff up lightspawn to 10+ on the turn they summoned him? Silence them and now it’s a 0/5. Innerfire combo? Silence. Not counting your class tools.
Now if you thought flamestrikes were bullshit, wait til you fight a paladin with equality combos instant death in everything on your field and very easy to play
Hunters with unleash the hounds combos which are so insane that the current meta is built with dealing them among other things
Druids controlling the field better than mages imo and much more well rounded. Plenty of deck variety though usually have the most expensive deck to craft
Rogues are very strong as well.
My top 3 is probably Druid being absurdly well balanced yet strong, very few bad matchups. Definitive top tier material, Hunter for being absolutely broken when they pull off their shit can’t have more than 3 minions or gg and they have great rush down, then it’s a tossup between Rogue/Pally/Shaman.
Apparently Mage is kinda mediocre at higher ranks, not sure about the condition of Locks but last i’ve seen they switched to control. Warriors and priests are at the bottom without a doubt until some changes are made notably warrior/new cards come in. However there was a priest/warrior that placed in a recent tournament 1 of each. So they’re not absolutely unplayable, but they’re in a pretty bad state.
Priests can occasionally get lucky and be able to pull the turn 5 one shot, but it’s pretty unlikely. Very easy to counter, especially if you have board control.
Plenty of players are running Black knight to destroy key taunts, big game hunter for ragnaros/big targets, Faceless manip… etc…
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and my favorite arena game of last week
This was my opponents turn
How he ended his turn
That nerf.
Derp.
Took me a very long time to figure out how the Shaman works in this game. Eventually I figured out it’s just “throw down minions and totems, then board clear and Bloodlust”.
Started using Hunter. Appears to be working out so far, and he lets me play with a style I like (rapid minions out on the field).
Hunter is the undisputed king shit of rushdown now. I made a Hunter control deck, and it slowly morphed into rushdown, since all of the problems that I was facing solved themselves just by killing my opponent faster.
Fuck using your brain
Reading official hearthstone forums reduces my IQ rather than me learning something new. I keep thinking “maybe i’ll find something worthwhile while skimming the topics”
Then I just read the 8th or so topic about “nerf stealthed taunt, can’t attack taunt or hero” It was funny the first time but aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why. Official Blizzard forums never cease to amaze me.
Haha…can’t get past rank 20. Basically, I win a match then I lose one, then repeat.
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/11582208389
Official forums have been redeemed.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/barack-obama-laughing.jpg
Oh wow, people are really complaining about Ragnaros? Blizz forums have no hope. I went to the Warlock forum a couple days ago and half of the thread is all about nerfing Jaraxxus
I keep DEing kidnapper but then HE PULLS HIMSELF BACK IN. 3rd kidnapper. STOP KIDNAPPING THOSE MOLTEN GIANTS NO ONE WANTS YOU
ARENA GAME OF THE MONTH. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. WORTH THE DOUBLE POST.
So had board control with 6 mana. So I coined into sprint…
ANND THEN THIS WAS MY HAND AFTER SPRINTING
http://i.imgur.com/lqXbgLI.jpg
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED
Been working on an all gnomes (and one frost elemental) mage deck for the past few days and it’s been a blast. When the RNG gods smile on you it feels like it’s the best deck ever made lol.
2 x jugglers and 2 x mirror image is insane.
If only I had that Millhouse Manastorm :sad:
Gnomeo.dec is something I can get behind.
I friggin’ hate playing paladin, everytime I quest as a paladin I’m wishing I was priest.
Someday, I’ll have 2x jugglers out + Unleash the Hounds and summon 5 of them at once.
Still stuck in the rank 20 vortex.
