Not planning to stop. It's not technically worth it to me from a time/finances standpoint, but I think the value to the viewer is really high, and I like having multiple/backup channels a lot. And it's a good way for me to get other games VODs to get a little extra value.
To your point, Book of specters was a greatly designed card : super powerful but anti synergistic with Mage's spell focused direction. Springwater is super powerful but synergistic with mage in general and with the spell mage package. I do feel that they used to designed more cards that presented us with deck building puzzle.
People complained about Incanters Flow, but really to me the Springwater is the mage quest card that gets me furious. Didn't get a good hand this turn? Oh lets just draw to new cards and try again (basically) for free! TERRIBLE design
Yeah I honestly just leave if I get put against a quest mage or warlock right now. Like it’s not even fun to win against them because you basically just played a game with yourself…
re: Casual. This is probably my biggest pet peeve in hearthstone. I often play janky gold quest decks or off the wall decks in casual. My current favorite is a queen carnessa deck, who's main point is to dire frenzy the queen for lots and lots of raptors. And this deck just isn't viable in f'n casual. I'm not a new player, and so I can actually pull together a competitive deck, but I can't imagine how it would feel to be new and have a small collection of cards. You play ranked, get roflstomped by these designed decks and then try casual to avoid the sweaty ones... and get roflstomped by the same decks, just played by sweaties who have such crippling ladder anxiety that they refuse to play on an equal playing field. There needs to be a rule where if a super majority of a deck has of the same cards of any deck played at legend, that deck just can't be played in casual.
Exactly! Everything that Reggis said at the end is pure GOLD! If you see this, plz make that video, devs need to do something. I just want to see any card in my collection and know that it can at least be usefull
Hi Regis! Love your vids and I just wanted to say that I agree fully with your thoughts/rant at the end. I’ve been interested in hearthstone for a while without actually playing but at the end of last expansion I finally picked it up. I didn’t play much and thought I would give it a more proper try this new expansion but I ended up just playing battlegrounds or the solo stuff. Since I don’t have like any cards I can’t even come close to a metadeck and I just get run over when I play standard with my homebrew-deck. The fact that it is close to impossible to win or let alone have fun as a new player is just a huge problem that ruins the game.
I'm late to the party but my god that rant on the end is exactly what it feels like. I'm a casual player and I play only 2 or so games when I can...but it's just as you said Regis. I feel like unless I get the specific deck I can't win, and just playing that specific deck to go into sweat mode is just not fun at all. I tend to now just spend my time when I do play 1 or 2 games just doing Battlegrounds. I have a blast there.
I think there's a part of this experience that is really interesting, this is quite possibly the single strongest, fastest, most combo-heavy, least casual-friendly meta ever, and that's pretty interesting as in the past we've had chances for wacky decks to reach legend, whereas now the meta is pretty close to "solved" for lack of a better term. We'll have to see the long term effects of UiS on the overall future of the game, but I think this expansion is the single most impactful on its meta ever, even more than Witchwood or Gadgetzan.
I agree with your last point, I felt like back in early hearthstone I saw A LOT more variety of decks and people being creative, like maybe 1 in 3 decks were like this home brew deck that was just for fun . Now it feels like 1 in 100 (if even that) are not top meta decks that I always see. It kinda sucks and makes the game more narrow in my opinion.
I completely agree with you in saying that it is not fun anymore to create my own deck, I feel forced to use the tier decks and I think I will quit playing hearthstone for that.
i've been playing wild casual and it's super fun I've got like 4 different homebrew control priests and they do pretty well Come to wild casual, Regis! Return to Brode!
the card itself is not busted. It's the qust that gives them 2 coppies as well as negates overload for them in the early game. Which just defeats the purpose of the downsides of overload. This entire expansion is "How can we make this questline not fun for the opponent"
Barrens scabbs is a great card in the list I've been running similar to this. Brewmasters haven't been great, but I was able to play multiple spymasters and gizmos in one turn by shadowstepping tenwu and doing crazy chains
Although I don't agree with all your points, I think the main take away I do agree with is that they try too hard to push specific archetypes. It's only ever going to end up like this when they force shit, and it's been like that for years. Spell Hunter, Cube Warlock, Jade Druid (KoTF era), and on and on. All these decks get forced so hard that they have nothing to do but become meta and insane.
It used to be that you could see regular content creators get Legend with absolute gimmick decks like Casino Mage (GvG-Kara era, not the actual good Casino Mages) or Randuin Wrynn, in the old Rank format where it's tougher to reach Legend. That isn't really ever seen anymore these days, outside of maybe changing a couple of cards in an otherwise high-tier deck. There's a couple of gimmick survivors like MarkMcZ and Roffle, but they don't rank much at all, even in the new Rank system.
I do think part of the problem is that you're at high diamond. I've been playing a homebrew pirate warrior that did great up until I got to diamond, but now it's starting to hit its limits and I think I'll have to switch to a meta deck. But that said, I think the refined meta is somewhat unavoidable in card games, at least in constructed formats, but there is some fault with the design of the game that some synergies enable a deck to be too far and too reliable against the "baseline" deck with decent on-curve minions.
I know these stream vods don't get crazy views but please never stop posting them it's literally all I listen to while I play hs
Not planning to stop. It's not technically worth it to me from a time/finances standpoint, but I think the value to the viewer is really high, and I like having multiple/backup channels a lot. And it's a good way for me to get other games VODs to get a little extra value.
@@moreregis thank you sir
@@moreregis absolutely love them i try to watch them all thank you so much
To your point, Book of specters was a greatly designed card : super powerful but anti synergistic with Mage's spell focused direction. Springwater is super powerful but synergistic with mage in general and with the spell mage package.
I do feel that they used to designed more cards that presented us with deck building puzzle.
People complained about Incanters Flow, but really to me the Springwater is the mage quest card that gets me furious. Didn't get a good hand this turn? Oh lets just draw to new cards and try again (basically) for free! TERRIBLE design
It’s so frustrating to watch such a fun looking deck have almost no room to breath with the current meta the way it is
Yeah I honestly just leave if I get put against a quest mage or warlock right now. Like it’s not even fun to win against them because you basically just played a game with yourself…
re: Casual. This is probably my biggest pet peeve in hearthstone. I often play janky gold quest decks or off the wall decks in casual. My current favorite is a queen carnessa deck, who's main point is to dire frenzy the queen for lots and lots of raptors. And this deck just isn't viable in f'n casual.
I'm not a new player, and so I can actually pull together a competitive deck, but I can't imagine how it would feel to be new and have a small collection of cards. You play ranked, get roflstomped by these designed decks and then try casual to avoid the sweaty ones... and get roflstomped by the same decks, just played by sweaties who have such crippling ladder anxiety that they refuse to play on an equal playing field.
There needs to be a rule where if a super majority of a deck has of the same cards of any deck played at legend, that deck just can't be played in casual.
Exactly! Everything that Reggis said at the end is pure GOLD! If you see this, plz make that video, devs need to do something.
I just want to see any card in my collection and know that it can at least be usefull
Maybe ignite should have a limited number of shuffles
Perhaps a "shuffle 3 more copies into your deck that deal one extra damage" but those copies don't spawn more copies? I like that idea a lot.
I really love to just watch your VODs while playing HS really makes me happy, keep at it 🙏🏼
Hi Regis! Love your vids and I just wanted to say that I agree fully with your thoughts/rant at the end.
I’ve been interested in hearthstone for a while without actually playing but at the end of last expansion I finally picked it up. I didn’t play much and thought I would give it a more proper try this new expansion but I ended up just playing battlegrounds or the solo stuff. Since I don’t have like any cards I can’t even come close to a metadeck and I just get run over when I play standard with my homebrew-deck. The fact that it is close to impossible to win or let alone have fun as a new player is just a huge problem that ruins the game.
I'm late to the party but my god that rant on the end is exactly what it feels like. I'm a casual player and I play only 2 or so games when I can...but it's just as you said Regis. I feel like unless I get the specific deck I can't win, and just playing that specific deck to go into sweat mode is just not fun at all. I tend to now just spend my time when I do play 1 or 2 games just doing Battlegrounds. I have a blast there.
I think there's a part of this experience that is really interesting, this is quite possibly the single strongest, fastest, most combo-heavy, least casual-friendly meta ever, and that's pretty interesting as in the past we've had chances for wacky decks to reach legend, whereas now the meta is pretty close to "solved" for lack of a better term.
We'll have to see the long term effects of UiS on the overall future of the game, but I think this expansion is the single most impactful on its meta ever, even more than Witchwood or Gadgetzan.
Nice insights. I’ve always loved playing off-meta decks. But, it’s way harder to be able to do that these days…
Loved the Regis history lesson, didn't know you'd done all that! Very cool.
I agree with your last point, I felt like back in early hearthstone I saw A LOT more variety of decks and people being creative, like maybe 1 in 3 decks were like this home brew deck that was just for fun . Now it feels like 1 in 100 (if even that) are not top meta decks that I always see. It kinda sucks and makes the game more narrow in my opinion.
I blame the fact they got rid of casual and now every game is ranked
What time does his rant happen?
@@JBrambleBerry really the last 17 mins or so of the video. Just start at the end of his last match. Lol
I completely agree with you in saying that it is not fun anymore to create my own deck, I feel forced to use the tier decks and I think I will quit playing hearthstone for that.
i've been playing wild casual and it's super fun
I've got like 4 different homebrew control priests and they do pretty well
Come to wild casual, Regis! Return to Brode!
Charged Call is so busted. Discovering a 10 cost is insanely better than getting a random one off PP. The powercreep over one expansion makes me sad.
the card itself is not busted.
It's the qust that gives them 2 coppies as well as negates overload for them in the early game. Which just defeats the purpose of the downsides of overload.
This entire expansion is "How can we make this questline not fun for the opponent"
@@Hephaestus_God the exception is druid, where the quest was based a around no one having fun because of a very boring desighn
Barrens scabbs is a great card in the list I've been running similar to this. Brewmasters haven't been great, but I was able to play multiple spymasters and gizmos in one turn by shadowstepping tenwu and doing crazy chains
Hi Regis but streamed
Hi.
I've been doing the Gul'Dan book, I haven't done many of the others but this one is interesting so far, hasn't made me annoyed once yet.. lol
Timestamp for the Regis Rant plz
Although I don't agree with all your points, I think the main take away I do agree with is that they try too hard to push specific archetypes. It's only ever going to end up like this when they force shit, and it's been like that for years. Spell Hunter, Cube Warlock, Jade Druid (KoTF era), and on and on. All these decks get forced so hard that they have nothing to do but become meta and insane.
Hopefully the game will be better after the nerfs!
It used to be that you could see regular content creators get Legend with absolute gimmick decks like Casino Mage (GvG-Kara era, not the actual good Casino Mages) or Randuin Wrynn, in the old Rank format where it's tougher to reach Legend. That isn't really ever seen anymore these days, outside of maybe changing a couple of cards in an otherwise high-tier deck. There's a couple of gimmick survivors like MarkMcZ and Roffle, but they don't rank much at all, even in the new Rank system.
I agree 100% with your last point Regis. I made a post about this recently on Reddit and got downvoted into oblivion.
Isn't deadmines in westfall? The dungeon in Stormwind is Stockades,
:P Deadmines has better lore though.
I do think part of the problem is that you're at high diamond. I've been playing a homebrew pirate warrior that did great up until I got to diamond, but now it's starting to hit its limits and I think I'll have to switch to a meta deck. But that said, I think the refined meta is somewhat unavoidable in card games, at least in constructed formats, but there is some fault with the design of the game that some synergies enable a deck to be too far and too reliable against the "baseline" deck with decent on-curve minions.
I feel like Hearthstone would be a MUCH better game if the devs listened to you more Reej.
Never said this but this time they really ruined Hearthstone for me.