It also depends slightly on the size of your card collection, since packs lose value as you get more cards (you are increasingly likely to get duplicate cards) while the possible dust reward from Arena does not lose value. When you are opening mostly packs with duplicates, 1 rare + 4 common pack is simply worth 40 dust. At that point the chance for a 20-95 dust reward from Arena is very attractive, and can be worth more than a pack.
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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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It also depends slightly on the size of your card collection, since packs lose value as you get more cards (you are increasingly likely to get duplicate cards) while the possible dust reward from Arena does not lose value. When you are opening mostly packs with duplicates, 1 rare + 4 common pack is simply worth 40 dust. At that point the chance for a 20-95 dust reward from Arena is very attractive, and can be worth more than a pack.
Wafflecakes
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I didn't think about that. My brother was trying to get me into the game, so when I started he purchased the 99.99 set of packs for me. So I do have some variety/
Letterbomb
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Seriously fuck the arena sometimes. I got the most amazing Shaman draft but got schooled on my first three games. 0 wins. For FUCKS SAKE THIS GAME
Whenever I get what I think is an amazing deck it's pretty much 3 wins tops. When I get decks that I think suck that's when I get 5-6. makes no sense.
"I got 4 flamestrikes, that means I should get 12 wins, right? "
Professor Lich
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Believe in the heart of the cards?
Superstitions and nonsense. Which is why I just drew another arena deck but don't plan to play it tonight because playing at night is bad luck.
Give me 3 Rares and 27 commons that at least curve nicely and it'll probably go 5-7 wins. All the "I get zero epics and legs, gg 0 wins" just seem like trying to blame the wrong parts of the game for losses.
to be fair sometimes it's just bad luck.
I went 0-3 earlier today in the arena... I had 8 or so cards I considered really good... took the first two games to the point where I had less than 10 cards left in my deck and between the two games only saw 1 of those 8 cards.
the third game I just got destroyed lol, the guy just kept playing great card after great card @_@
You can't just judge arena from a few bad runs. I've seen streamers with 70% win rate in arena go 0-3. Sometimes it happens, but over time you see the real trend. If you can draft a nice curve, you're pretty solid. You may get unlucky and go 0-3 once, but do 10 more runs and see what your win count is, it won't be 0. I'm saving all my gold for naxx though, so can't do any arena or buy packs even, trying to hold out from spending real money. Up to 1650g.
daemissary
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Feels good to finally get to legend. Zoo with Creepers and Eggs are the business.
I've been playing token shaman on ladder the last few days, and it's a really counter-intuitive match-up against hunter. If I try to keep my minion total low, they just get trapped and bow/hero power kills me before I can do much of anything. On the other hand, if I just flood the board it ends up being an easy win. Just got turn 4 coin/buzzard/unleashed for 4 and then buzzard/unleashed for 4 several turns later as well and it was a fairly comfortable win for me even without bloodlust.
In all other CCG's a wording that tells you to do something always points to the person who is using the card unless stated otherwise and why many games separate "controller" from "owner".
Aquavelvaman
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Apparently the priest anti-zoo meta is in full effect today. I've fought 8 priests in one day! A new world record.
I stole one earlier (hatchling ate Soulfire), but those two were mine. Trying out this anti-Zoo deck, 2-0 so far.
You know, that was my plan too, but I can't seem to have much fun with constructed. It's way more fun to blast dailies in arena, but of course there is that pesky entry fee...
CarbonatedFalcon
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Cracked open a Molten Giant. Only missing a second one of those and a pair of Mountain Giants before I can make a Handlock deck. Would still be missing Alexstraza, which while very good, is not absolutely critical to the deck.
Nobody plays Alex or Jaraxxus anymore. Dead cards in the current meta.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
So apparently, water elementals are really good in arena. Drafted 4 of them and I'm currently 8/2 right now. Compared to the regular 2/3, 3/3 and 4/3 that I usually get to, I'm happy with whatever the result will be from this mage session.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Reckful does actually, no Leeroy too. He's way more control handlock and it's fun to watch.
call_kotaku
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One of the best 4-drop minions in the game, and common to boot.
Like a yeti but more annoying.
Water Elemental is one of the best minions in arena.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
But I am absolutely horrible at arena. HORRIBLE.Mage time. Just finished my last area 9-3 with mageYou can do better.
Just focus on the match and report later ok.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Doomshroom
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I hope you have a spare keyboard.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I choked SO many fucking times that game. Accidentally frost bolted the wrong target. Put the Frostwolf Commander BEFORE putting two minions on the board.
BUT I DID IT :_:
10/2, I'm so afraid... I need a break.
edit 2: actually that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Gonna pause right here and go out for a while.
YOSHICASUAL REPORTING IN!
BUT I DID IT :_:
10/2, I'm so afraid... I need a break.
edit 2: actually that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Gonna pause right here and go out for a while.
YOSHICASUAL REPORTING IN!
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
FU! How many packs?
Skyfireblaze
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Quick question, how big is the Hearthstone iPad app installed? My weekly meeting with friends turned into a Hearthstone "party" as they suddenly decided to play it and I thought it would be very much easier to just install it on my Jailbroken iPhone 5 instead of dragging my old laptop around.
I don't think you can even play it on a phone because the UI needs more screen space.
Skyfireblaze
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Oh I was concerned about that too at first but after looking at a few YouTube videos it seemed perfectly playable to me. Whoever rewrote the two files to make it run on a iPhone did a good job, it scales to the screen with letterbox bars though, while small, the UI was still perfectly readable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqVo3TBEpP0
Has anyone been getting the disconnect bug more often recently? Had like two matches yesterday where my opponent had that floating/disconnect bug and I sat there for 5 minutes hoping something would happen... Both times it happened when I was about to win the next turn too :[
Got it once yesterday vs a Handlock, with the floating card. The weird thing was that after a minute or two he hovered over the board for a moment but nothing more happened. I eventually restarted HS and of course it was registered as a loss.
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