Post History for ilikeeggs#1243

02/14/2019 01:39 PMPosted by WhoopyaSo, we're pretty much agreeing on this. As you say, playing odd paladin you can still make misplays. But do those misplays really dictate how a match will end ? Not so sure about that.I know I won because of some of those misplays, so yes.We agree that sometimes a few misplays won't change the outcome of a game. And that RNG matters. It's a card game, after all. But choices do matter, quite a bit, and sometimes the not-obvious choice is the right one. I've beaten Odd Paladins past rank 5, with unfavored decks, because they didn't prioritize board control…

02/14/2019 10:46 AMPosted by Whoopyabased on my experience, my winrate fluctuates not because of my bad plays, but because of the matchup strings I'de get during any period or time I'm playing, and people define it here as, 'pocket meta'. I will do what I perceive as 0 mistakes and still lose because I get to play counter decks, or I may make plenty of mistakes, but those don't matter, 'cause I'm playing a deck that counters my oponent. Hence why that my opinion is that skill has little to do with results in HS.If you're playing a tier-1/2 deck and making zero mistakes, you should be able to…

02/14/2019 09:23 AMPosted by WhoopyaTake it whatever way you want. You ain't playing a game where skill is required to win. You just need a meta deck, or a deck built around beating meta decks.I'll believe that when I stop losing games at reasonably high ranks because of plays I made. And when other people stop doing the same.Seriously, how can you support that idea, when at least 70% of the 5-1 metagame consists of heavily refined meta-decks, and yet some people manage a consistent 65% (or better) win rate, while others cap at 50% or less? How do you explain the people who don't get beyond …

02/13/2019 05:47 PMPosted by DShWouldnt you say tracking improves draw odds because the discarded cards are generally worse than average?Edit: In secret hunter tracking is a hard mulligan. You are searching for spell stone and if you have spell stone then secrets. Having tracking gives you three more cards to look at. Also you want both Secret Plans and Trackings in your deck.I agree with both of those points. But I was trying to talk about the impact of "milling" 2 cards that Tracking inherently has, and including the card selection in the thought process seems to cloud the issue sometimes.Wh…

02/13/2019 04:33 PMPosted by GwynethCube Hunter was hit and miss because I'd sacrifice my combo pieces. (Cubes or Kathrena or Krush?) I do understand what you're saying but I don't understand how losing two cards is good when you might need them later. If card draw is the biggest advantage, wouldn't burning cards on purpose be a major disadvantage? I don't know. Next time I play, I'll try to use it (when exactly are you supposed to use it...?) and post some replays so maybe you can see if I'm doing something wrong?One of the more helpful ways to think about it is to pretend that Tracking grabs…

02/13/2019 01:18 PMPosted by GwynethTracking has been geisted so many times. Also, I've had to sacrifice Rexxar to deal with the current board state just to not have any late game. Or the opposite has happened. I haven't had much good luck with Tracking. It's powerful by Hunter standards but I'd gladly pay more mana just to draw ONE or TWO cards. I've found Flare to be a little more handy than Tracking. However, I do not have any statistics to back this: this is just my personal experience. I wonder if I was using it wrong?1. Tracking should never be Geisted while in your hand (since there is …

Nothing sours a chess game more than when they do that stupid "checkmate" thing. I have NO CHANCE to respond to their braindead easy move!And don't give me any of that "anticipate their play" or "try to win" crap. Everyone knows that the true epitome of skillful play is to wait until your opponent gets all their pieces arranged exactly how they want them, and THEN do something about it!

02/08/2019 09:22 PMPosted by BeakyI kind of like the idea of APM Priest in this meta. It loses quest, but should still be pretty viable and odds are that your opponent hasn't been practicing with it.I will NEVER take APM Priest because the majority of my play is by phone.It's bad enough that the Thunderhead animation takes way too long. That and the animation for Myra's Unstable Element. (Plus something like 2 seconds per Spider?? Ridiculous.)On that note, I know they stuck in some way on desktop to skip animations by clicking. Has anyone been able to do anything like that on an Android?

Over-applying generalizations will give terrible results every single time.(...Yes, that was intended to be somewhat sarcastic.)The OP is right: not every deck in an archetype will be automatically favored against every other deck within an archetype. This is especially true if we try to force every deck into one of four broad categories.The correct "rule" is: certain cards/strategies beat other cards/strategies. But of course, that "rule" isn't helpful. Which is why people go back to generalizations.All the general rule does is describe what kinds of strategies tend to do well against other s…

02/11/2019 10:44 PMPosted by PumasterAnd OH MY GAWD I rushed up to rank 11 (couldn't beat 19 since I've come back, until I went net deck). Crafting a single card allowed me to go combo. I made plenty of perfectly fine decks that got annihilated by all sorts of combo trash. And even STILL, at rank 11, I'm finding positively HORRIBLE players, making all sorts of mistakes, and still their deck synergy is so strong I cannot beat them.It would be one thing if the game had some fun with crafting decks, because playing them is stagnant and non-interactive. But you can't even experiment, save maki…