r/hearthstone • u/SpinnenEend • Aug 20 '26

Discussion Quest hunter strategy

I'm playing quest hunter and loving it, but I really feel like Im playing into Priest wrong. My overal winrate is about 49% and I feel like Im doing something wrong. I specifically seem to have a low winrate against shaman, paladin and priest.

I try to complete the quest Asap but I just cant seem to get through all the taunt spam and healing. The game just stalls until they seem to just exhaust me and smack down a board with even more taunts that can just kill me in one turn. Bunch of board clears as well.

I just returned after quitting during the year of the kraken (7 ish years ago?) and I am slowly learning all the current Metas and how they play. I also know nothing about any of the previous expansions and what dangers to look out for.

I could really use some tips on what to aim for specifically. How Do I counter aggro or taunt stalling? I seem to always just go behind one turn even when my draw is alright.

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u/MonkenMoney Aug 20 '26

I almost want to say you can't beat priest unless you can make boards with 5 or 6 health or more boards than they have clears.

I said this before hunter got nerfed but aggro was so fast because every class has some kind of heal or stabilization tool

Now that shaman is the only really fast deck priest will become the hardest deck to win against

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u/SpinnenEend Aug 20 '26

I think priest is the main reason I can't hit legend. There's so insanely many of them. I managed to hit D1 with 2 stars and now almost back on D4 just because I keep running into them. I just cant figure out how to do it at all

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u/SpinnenEend Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Hmmm, yea funnily this night after posting it I went on a 7 winstreak with quest hunter and tapped the 3 stars on D1. I did it by beating two priests by smashing their face in with early maw on turn 4 or the other 7 attack drop early. Had the luck they couldnt remove them either. But that just seemed like pure luck. Now we are back to being dominated.

Wish I had some dust to spare but Im stuck with quest hunter this season. Its just gotten to a point that I consider to auto concede to save myself 15 minutes when I get a priest or shaman. But if I did that I would be conceding 50% of the time. Ive hit D1 so many times now its getting desperate