Hearthstone

[Sudy]

I don't track my win rate but I just hit legend for the first time ever.

Congratulations!

I'd really like to get there just once, but I don't think I have the patience to grind.


I only played to Diamond 10 this season. Secret Hunter for most of it, which is only considered a tier 3 deck. But it was a lot of fun! It must be super annoying to play against when multiple 0-cost duplicates of Product 9 drop copies of every secret that went off so far in the game. I had around a 58.5% win rate over 65 games.

In the last week since the expansion dropped, I began playing the tier 1 aggro deck Pain Warlock and had good success, around a 61.5% win rate across 44 games. Mind you, half of them were with a weakened variation as I hadn't committed to crafting all the epics yet.

[Sudy]

Well, it finally happened. After 10+ years I finally beat the game. I quit. (Maybe. Probably not. But time to find a new one-handed game to play while I'm eating dinner.) Unreal that I can go back 34 pages in this thread to see myself posting about waiting for a beta key in 2014.

It was in Wild. I'm not sure if that "counts". But I'm pleased!



I used the Pirate Demon Hunter deck to get there. Though I refused to spend the 1600 dust to craft OG Patches the Pirate until the final 21 games. But at that point I decided to go for Legend and figured I'd need to get Patches to get there. Overall, I played 141 games in ranked wild this month. (The joke is that half of them were in service of the first event, but I accidentally stopped just shy of achieving the final packs reward... I'm still sore about that and almost took an indefinite break.) The first 40 games were with an unoptimized pirate rogue deck for the event, but I still managed a 70% win rate. Then I played demon hunter for the next 101, winning 78.22% of games. I'm not too sure how I pulled that off... perhaps the deck is just that good. I didn't bother studying the meta or learning ideal mulligans. Playing quick aggro games sure helped with the grind. Blanked mages 16-0.


And that caps off a career of 2346 ranked wins, 2744 arena wins, and 718 top-4 battlegrounds finishes. I've got 500+ wins in every class except for warrior, death knight, and demon hunter. I doubt I'll ever get there with the latter two.

[Sudy]

The Great Dark Beyond expansion is out tomorrow, Tuesday November 5th.

I really love the pre-release tavern brawl they've had running (it ends tonight); it costs two arena tickets or 300 gold. Your run ends whenever you reach three losses or six wins. You get packs from the new, unreleased expansion as a reward. And you can use any cards you open or already have from the new set in your decks. So it's essentially a preview. It felt pretty sucky at first because I didn't pre-order the new set so I didn't have any new cards to play with. But I ran a couple brawls with older decks and eventually opened enough GDB cards to build a deck.

Eventually I started running the shaman asteroid deck which is just an obscene funnel control deck. There are multiple combos to put you over the top and it's extremely satisfying. One of the paths to victory has you pretty much drawing your entire deck's worth of spells and it isn't uncommon to hit the opponent for 20, 30, or even 40 damage via asteroid and eruption (from Incindius) cards, because it all gets compounded by Shudderblock, Zola, Sasquawk, etc. (I think the most I hit someone for left my opponent at -49 health?) And I don't even have any copies the epic shaman card that increases the damage of future asteroids. But I imagine the deck is pretty frustrating to play against, so I foresee it getting nerfed in some fashion, or perhaps other new decks will just wind up out-classing it. At the very least they need to speed up the animations when you're drawing your deck... if your opponent doesn't concede you'll be there forever. Really great to see Incindius work in a deck... I think there was a priest (?) deck with him last expansion but it just wasn't strong enough to be competitive.

[Hipolito]

Well, it finally happened. After 10+ years I finally beat the game. I quit. (Maybe. Probably not. But time to find a new one-handed game to play while I'm eating dinner.) Unreal that I can go back 34 pages in this thread to see myself posting about waiting for a beta key in 2014.

It was in Wild. I'm not sure if that "counts". But I'm pleased!

Congrats! I wasn't sure what Legend meant, but from looking it up, it sounds like you're the 3,756th best player in the Western Hemisphere.

[gilraen]

Eventually I started running the shaman asteroid deck which is just an obscene funnel control deck.

I've been playing this type of deck today. Yeah, it's the most broken deck since the warrior bomb deck