Forged in the Barrens launched just over a week ago, and a meta has already formed… however, it’s not a meta we (or most of the players for the matter) wanted to see. As of right now, it’s absolutely dominated by two classes – Paladin and Mage. Paladin is by far the more powerful one, but interestingly enough it has a lower play rate. Mage, Spell Mage in particular, is weaker than Paladin, but still Tier 1. And this time, its play rate is astonishingly high. At one point, it had nearly 40% of popularity in higher ranks. Right now it dropped down (29% average, peaks at 35% in some ranks), mostly because players target it heavily, but it’s still way more than it should be.
If we talk about third best class, that would probably be Rogue. Miracle Rogue looks really strong, but it’s currently outshined by Paladin and Mage. And Aggro Rogue is okay-ish mostly because of the popularity of Mage – it turns out that building a deck that ignores the board and hits face with weapons is a good idea against a class that doesn’t really put pressure and doesn’t have a good way of stopping weapons.
Good news is that there’s a balance update coming “early next week”, which will hopefully answer the current problems and make the meta more playable again. As much as Spell Mage is really fun to play (it honestly is, otherwise Paladin would be the one with higher play rate), it’s not fun to face. And Paladin… don’t even get me started. Libram version has basically no bad matchups. Even the worst ones are close to 50/50, the deck has no counters. Nerfing those two will allow other decks to thrive and finally get a more diverse meta.
The amount of decks posted today is actually pretty low for so early into the expansion… but the truth is that many players didn’t want to post their builds online if they hit high Legend with Spell Mage or Paladin, because, well, everyone plays them, everyone knows them and people don’t care. We also tried to post less of those and focus on other builds, but those were few and far between. Let’s hope things get better next week.
Below, you will find a full list of the Legend decks from last week, sorted by the highest placement.
If you want to see all of the current top meta decks, go to our Hearthstone Meta Tier List post!
If you’re looking for the best Wild Format decks, check out our Wild Meta Tier List!
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This is gotta be the saddest top meta decks report I’ve ever seen.
my control warlock is feasting on these pally decks that are being played too confidently. As long as I remember to save Vol’jin for end game, the only thing really stopping the deck against pallys is bad RNG (mages…that’s another story!)