I need to do my Legend grind (9 days!) but I keep putting it off. Meh, maybe I'll just skip this season. :| Dunno.
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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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I need to do my Legend grind (9 days!) but I keep putting it off. Meh, maybe I'll just skip this season. :| Dunno.
I think the staleness of the current meta is only rectifiable with time and new cards. The combinations are finite enough that the "best" strategy for each of the last few metas is homogenized and quickly adopted.
Tldr; we don't have a lot of viable cards, so the decks we all make end up being very similar and the meta is boring because of it.
Tldr; we don't have a lot of viable cards, so the decks we all make end up being very similar and the meta is boring because of it.
depths20XX
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They should make a minion that when on the board, it disables all battlecries. I think that would be neat.
SuperSonic1305
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Everyone says Mage is the best arena class and yet I can't get past 3 wins with it. I spend the entire game countering their minion plays with spells and eventually don't have any board control to win.
Just add that to nozdormu's card text and he might be more useful.
Professor Lich
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While that would be an interesting card, I feel like it would be 'too good,' and everyone would use it. That is actually one thing I'm afraid of with the Double Death Rattle card from Nax.
Mage is the most consistent because their quality cards are common so you can usually get a good deal of fireballs, elementals, flamestrikes, frostbolts, etc. On top of a very good hero ability. It is also the one you'll probably face more often, but I don't personally think is the best. Obviously you will get some bad drafts here and there, but over several drafts it is likely you will get better rssults than with most other classes.
I'm more worried about Shade of Naxxramas. I've never tried, can you faceless manipulator a stealthed card?
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I'm also more curious about the class specific cards that are coming. Figure 9, one for each class?
Zabant
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It's dependant on the draw.
There is some real horse-shit from arena mage though. watching a drake go out then the next three turns getting frostbolted, ice lanced fireballed and pyroed because he sat there taking hits from my shitty 2-3-4 mana minions.
watch them plop loot hoarder and novice engineer (which you have to deal with) and use arcane intellect to go fishing for spells to just bomb you later on.
Everyone picks arena mage because their base cards are just so good, meaning you can do better than the average class because the random draft is just so much better for them.
Shai-Tan
Banned
make sure your mana curve is good and you have minions to play. if youre casting aoe or removal (poly, fireball, frostbolt etc) every turn and dont have mana for minions your deck is probably misconstructed. or youre over proritizing removal when the minions you could drop would trade favorably. sometimes youve got to ping or cast spells but youre going to run out if there is no board presence.
TheChewyWaffles
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I agree with this. I hate playing as a mage in constructed. People wipe the floor with me all the time.
MrCompletely
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Build a deck, just throw in cards you like and cards that sound useful, don't worry about it too much. Shoot for maybe 2/3 minions, 1/3 spells. Play with it a bunch of times, try to identify where your shortcomings are. Are you running out of cards? Dying too early? Dealing enough damage? Start swapping out cards you find that you aren't using with card that will address your pain points. Simple.
Make sure you play to your hero's strengths, so plenty of beasts for hunters, demons for Warlocks, etc.
suikoden352
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i feel ya, duder. i have terrible luck in the arena. some days i will do regular plays and just have nothing to show for it ever. i've found that trying out the other classes in regular play and just messing around with them against classes that i have real trouble with ends up helping me understand things better and also figure out what i do and don't like about classes and also strategies to employ against them with certain cards. i'm right there with ya though. it's a tough grind to edge out.
$50 American on packs, $20 on Arenas. Started playing at the beginning of the open beta.
Double deathrattle + two Leper Gnomes = 12 very fast damage.
Just $2 for the golden Gelbin so far! Been playing since open beta.
You can use warlocks kill a demon card to kill jax. Was on the other end of that one.
Ive spent maybe 6 on arenas and 20 on packs since launch but I have played it a lot and going through a tough time IRL so its been worth it as far as entertaining me and keeping my mind occupied
Nothing, been playing a couple matches a day for a couple months now. Pretty much just enough to keep my quests cleared everyday. Only have two legendaries for classes I don't play though (Priest & Paladin).
Mobius and pet octopus
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I've been playing since november.
I spent 20 bucks about a month in (half on packs, half on arenas).
I have almost every common + rare, missing many class epics (disenchanted a lot)
In terms of legendary cards I now have (* = crafted):
Van cleef (+ 1 duplicate)
cairne
black knight*
leeroy*
thalnos*
hogger (+1 gold version that I DE'd)
illidan
the beast (disenchanted)
grommash (disenchanted, good card but it was an early pull and I wanted other cards)
sylvanas
ragnaros*
mukla*
I spent 20 bucks about a month in (half on packs, half on arenas).
I have almost every common + rare, missing many class epics (disenchanted a lot)
In terms of legendary cards I now have (* = crafted):
Van cleef (+ 1 duplicate)
cairne
black knight*
leeroy*
thalnos*
hogger (+1 gold version that I DE'd)
illidan
the beast (disenchanted)
grommash (disenchanted, good card but it was an early pull and I wanted other cards)
sylvanas
ragnaros*
mukla*
I've had two priests do it to me in the week since I crafted him. It lost me the game once. I took screenshots, I think. I'll upload them.
Been running with my hunter deck and made it to rank 11 now.
Facing mostly hunters.
Seems they all are doing the waiting game and trying to play smart and anti hunter and they dont know what to do when i just start dropping minions from the get go.
Ive put hogger in my deck too.
Facing mostly hunters.
Seems they all are doing the waiting game and trying to play smart and anti hunter and they dont know what to do when i just start dropping minions from the get go.
Ive put hogger in my deck too.
shadowstar
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Happened to me and I lost. There is no way to prepare for that surprise, but you can't help but laugh.
shadowstar
Member
Warlock is fun. Lots of viable decks, the constant risk of balancing HP in a meta full of aggro, fun cards like Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion. What's not to like?
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
I probably wasn't paying very close attention when reading, but I could have sworn I saw at least a couple of people saying you get a free pack when you get the iPad version. Is that true and I got cheaped out on some cards, or am I crazy and reading phantom posts?
When you play a game on the iPad-version.
DyslexicAlucard
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Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Ranked ladder is pretty boring to play atm. You'll face maybe 5 different decks. zoo lock, handlock, control warrior, and hunter (cycle or lifecoach) so I guess about 6 decks total. I'm not even trying to get to legend this season. Just no incentive to punish myself by playing vs this meta. In casual I play against people with legendary card backs often anyway.
DyslexicAlucard
Member
If my math is correct, the odds of getting a pack like that are 1 in 16,000,000.
He really should've bought a lottery ticket instead!
shit like that inspires me to waste my Curse Of Naxxramas gold only to get like 1 rare and 4 commons.
Amazing.
Minsc
Gold Member
You get a special card back immediately that you can use and everyone you play will know you made it to legendary, even in casual mode (assuming you toggle it on).
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
I saw that in arena once. Got my ass kicked.
Surprised he wanted to declare it (or maybe that was the mind-game point of it), but he had a better draw and played flawlessly
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