Greetings travelers,
First of all I’m not here to get feedback or mock Hearthstone in anyway I just wanted to put some insight into how battlegrounds have been for me during the last month or so…
I haven’t played Hearthstone BG’s in sometime now and I think the last time I properly played was when gentle megasaur was still in the game, I know that was some time ago but I do come back from time to time to play a few games every now and then. I started playing Hearthstone during beta so I do have some knowledge of the standard game but I started playing again because I thought of myself as a “decent” player hitting legendary every month and hitting 13-14k rating in BG’s, back when I had the time to actually play and I did really enjoy playing, nowadays it seems very lackluster…I wanted to give some examples of what I’ve experienced during the last few months of playing again.
So I paid for the pass allowing me to have 4 selections from the get go and the added token to roll a hero per game, after my first few games I was noticing that nearly every lobby had the same heroes or close to 90% of them were the same…I know that some heroes are significantly better then others but there is a huge chunk of heroes that really need work, this was my first gripe…secondly sitting on lower tiers whilst everyone is throwing up emotes to tier up doesn’t sit right, it’s a race to tier 6 and if you don’t hit the nuts with a semi decent hero it’s gameover early. After hitting around 8-9k rating I started to document my matches because I was getting more and more frustrated with the game and this is what I found…
Game 1…Undead, Beasts, Pirates, Murlocs, Naga…I chose Greybough for the deathrattle tokens after seeing Beast, Pirates and Undead…(the other heroes were not even pickable) No deathrattle token minions appeared for me until I was sitting on 5hp and the game was about to be over…turn 10 and not a single deathrattle token card. Let me break it down, turn 10 which works out at 72 coins which could potentially be 72 refreshes minus moving up tiers with not a single deathrattle. Unlucky huh? Extremely unlucky I’d say…
Game 2 Murlocs, Pirates, Beasts, Demons, Mechs…I chose Brann for the battlecrys as this season seems to all be about who gets Brann first…
Turn 6 and zero battlecrys seen…unlucky again? Bear in mind I’ve hit Brann early on in plenty of games by turn 4 yet I’m on turn 5 with not a single battlecry minion seen…ended up in 2nd place and lost 70 rating? I’m sorry what? I lost rating for putting in alot of effort to hit 2nd place? What in the rating thievery is this? Anyway back to game 3…
Game 3 Undead, Elementals, Quillboar, Demons, Naga…I picked Snakeeyes…what a mistake…
So I rolled and hit 1 on the dice…turn 2 rolled hit one on the dice…turn 3 rolled hit 2 on the dice…I didn’t hit above a 2 until turn 8! Turn 8! I ended up finishing in 7th place and lost 99 rating? Yet my previous game coming in 2nd lost me 70 rating? Am I missing something?
I have the other 6 games I played after this documented and recorded but my point is I could easily point out the games where I’ve completely run a muck on everyone from high rolling but that’s few and far between…the games I’ve mentioned didn’t stop, it carried on until I’d lost nearly 1k rating and it wasn’t fun anymore…I felt like the game was against me at every turn, no matter what I did? No matter what hero I picked…moving up to tier 3 on turn 3 only to be faced with 1 star minions is a slap in the face, so you roll to hopefully hit something good only for it to be exactly the same! You know you’ve lost when your struggling to get anything going and your just trying to survive and hit top 4 only to lose rating anyway? Please someone explain the logic behind this? It was fun until it wasn’t and I feel really deflated after putting in so many hours pushing my rating up to where I feel my potential is. The latest patch have made things worse in my opinion. Beasts are a no go now, Quillboar still need some help in the early game, Undead boards can take you into next year before they’ve finished reborning, demons aren’t great either, the game needs some much needed attention and I feel as if it’s been on a downward spiral losing alot of its player base for sometime now…the heroes are one thing in particular that after speaking to numerous other players/friends need major work, there are more then 40+ heroes that I could name that players wouldn’t even look twice at picking which sums them up completely, yes they come with extra armor but the armor won’t suffice when your dead at turn 10…
To summarise, I did enjoy playing battlegrounds but the game is stale…
If anyone has had a similar experience playing, I’d love to know! Apologies for the essay