Hearthstone

[Kugyince]

Was rewarded today by pulling this from a pack:

[psimaster]

Goblins vs. Gnomes on the 8th.
Get hyped.

[Kugyince]

Best card pack ever...

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[psimaster]

if you had three, I would have gone "OH BABY A TRIPLE, OH YEAAAAAAAH"

[Kugyince]

For Psi:

[Dudebro]

Anyone who plays this off and on should log on asap to get the three free card packs from the new expansion. Not sure how long it will last.

[bearhawk72]

I got 2 epic cards off those packs, I don't remember what they are

[Dudebro]

Either the matchmaking is bad or the community is very top heavy. It seems like every match I play now is full of people with multiple non unlockable legendaries, lots of other high end cards and ranked card backs. I almost never see anyone who seems to be comparable to my skill level. I try to git gud but it's hard against these types of players. Anyone else having this problem recently? Without exaggeration I think I lose like 80% of the matches I play, shouldn't matchmaking find me easier targets?

[bearhawk72]

Now I don't claim to be good, but for a while I could hang in with people at my crappy low rank. Now I just get slaughtered whenever I play as well.

I am wondering if it's been out long enough people with lots of experience either started over to get a better ranking faster, or they are using alt accounts to try decks and strategies on people who suck so they can win pretty much no matter what, and earn the money to buy more packs and learn more cards.

---------- Post added 12-14-2014 at 04:09 AM ---------- Previous post was 12-13-2014 at 04:29 PM ----------

Hehe I made someone rage quit. He was beating me and got 5 minions on the board and looked to be buffing them to finish me off...until it was my turn and I threw a "deal 4 damage to all enemy minions" card on the board and wiped out all the minions.

He promptly quit because he only had 1 card in his hand at that point.

[Kugyince]

Originally Posted by Dudebro

Either the matchmaking is bad or the community is very top heavy. It seems like every match I play now is full of people with multiple non unlockable legendaries, lots of other high end cards and ranked card backs. I almost never see anyone who seems to be comparable to my skill level. I try to git gud but it's hard against these types of players. Anyone else having this problem recently? Without exaggeration I think I lose like 80% of the matches I play, shouldn't matchmaking find me easier targets?

It's the new expansion. It's both drawn a lot of people back and thrown the entire meta out of whack. I normally hang out between rank 3 and 5. Now I'm at rank 10-13.

[psimaster]

My GvG only deck is a complete pubstomper, but it still can't beat tenser.



Damn it.

[Dudebro]

Of course after posting this and losing badly to Psi I went on a win streak. It was mostly default card back people with weaker cards so maybe match making finally felt bad for me.

Also that Piloted Mech dropped me a legendary during a fight with Psi, it didn't help but it was a lot cooler than what he usually drops.

[Kugyince]

If you're playing casual then its random matches. Matchmaking only works in ranked.

[Dudebro]

You sure about that? I'd like to see where that's stated by Blizzard. Not that I don't believe you I just like to be 100% sure.

[Kugyince]

I'm certain by that because I've played against players with legendary rank card backs and nubs with starter type decks back-to-back in casual.

You shouldn't be playing in casual anyways unless you're rough drafting a deck or playing a junk deck for a daily quest.

[psimaster]

I'm playing casual after getting matched up with over 100 goddamn hunters in ranked.

[Dudebro]

Originally Posted by Kugyince

You shouldn't be playing in casual anyways unless you're rough drafting a deck or playing a junk deck for a daily quest.

You think I should be playing ranked even if lose most of my matches?

[Kugyince]

Yes, rank is the best way to get matched up to other people of your level. The more you play in ranked mode the more accurate it will be, at least until the season ends.

You don't lose anything for losing (you can't go below rank 20) but you can gain something by winning in ranked mode (card backs and golden classes).

[Dudebro]

I guess I could give it a shot, can't do much worse than I am now.

[Dudebro]

I got this with an Enchanted Portal. I waited until the guy almost killed me to use it and I turned the match around and stomped him. He was kinda of trolling with his speech lines the whole time and he probably thought he was gonna win right up until I hit him with a Pyroblast. It felt good man. He sent me a friend invite but I didn't accept it, I figured it was just gonna be rage mail and I didn't have time to engage him.

[Kugyince]

Untsable Portal is pretty fun to play. A bit too random to be that useful though.

Also, get your ass back in Ranked Mode. Fucking casual.

[Dudebro]

Yeah the next match I drew one of those 1/1 windfury minions, meh.

[Dudebro]

I formed Voltron by using a Recombobulator on some lame minion I had. The guy healed himself but he still didn't have enough withstand this ridiculous card



That's a crazy card.

[bearhawk72]

I play ranked a lot and I have to be like 6-30 w/l. I don't really bother to try and build a deck I just let the computer do it so it's not surprising.

[Kugyince]

Got one on lunch at work today.



That makes my collection of 19:

Trade Prince Gallywix
Grommish Hellscream
Bloodmage Thalnos
King Mukla
Baron Rivendare
Old Murk-Eye
Fuegen
Stalagg
Leeroy Jenkins
Loatheb
Maexxna
Sylvanas Windrunner
Gruul
Kel'Thuzad
Ragnoras The Firelord
Alexstrasza
Malygos
Ysera
Deathwing