Hearthstone

Yea.. most of the time when I watch a good arena streamer, I would have made a similar play as them. BUT, when they do something I wouldn't have, I often don't understand why that play was better. Or, I'll hear them respond to chat (who are suggesting a similar play that I thought was best) about how this was obviously better' or the 'only good play'. I'm guessing they just have a 6th sense about what their opponent is going to do on the next turn that they've developed from playing for a long time. In MTG, I got to the point I could do that all the time.

Stormforged axe seems to be doing work in this meta.

Best idea for nerfing power overwhelming. Make it do 1 dmg to the creature its played on.

I'm guessing the logic is it would work like Earthshock, where the effects are staggered.

Yeah that was my drunken logic at the time after I was triple PO killed by a 1-1.

It doesn't help that Dark Peddler is the only discover creature that basically the vanilla test. 1/1 and 1/2 for 2, 3/3 and 3/4 for 4, 6/3 for 5? Pretty much all shit bodies for the cost. 2/2 for 2 with a useful ability? Dire Wolf Alpha says hello.

At least half my matches this morning have been aggro/dragon warrior.

I'm still not great by any means, but I got up to rank 16 within a week or two of starting to play last month. This month, now that I've got a couple 'legit' decks instead of my completely f2p based decks, I can't even get past rank 20 so far. I'm at a 49% win rate according to HDT. Been swapping between C'thun druid, zoolock (still need peddlers though), and tempo mage. From my poker and mtg background I KNOW I'm reading too much into small sample sizes, but I swear it's like the game is actively trying to screw me over. If I play zoolock for 10 games, I will play against all people with 4+ AOE spells in their deck, and they draw all of them by turn 5. Had a priest get 2x holy nova, 2x excavated evil, 2x darkshire alchemist, 2x northshire cleric, and 2x museum curator as his first 10 cards played against my zoolock, which currently has a few too many 1 health minions as it's a 'budget' version so 1/2s and 1/3s are very good against me. Had him down to 5 life with about 8 outs to draw before he just healed back up.
If I swap to c'thun druid, I play against murlock pallys, aggro shaman and zoolocks, and never draw swipe or starfall.

I'm hoping the good players with real decks get the fuck out of the high ranks soon, been very frustrating. Was able to just coast into the mid teens last month with worse decks. Thought it'd be easier now that I have some real cards, but nope!

At least my arena average has gone up by about 1.5 wins.

I tried control priest. I have found not having Harrison Jones has a way of biting me in the ass. He is not ALL that but when you get him against a warrior, it helps. That said, I have really enjoyed the complexity of Control Priest. So many choices and ways of making those choices have made for some pleasant games. The downside is the game time. I have had multiple matches go to out of cards. I will admit though, that those might not have happened with better experience with this deck.

Trying Arena, again. I am 3-0 and due for a loss. Go Go Mage power. Having 3 of the 6-3 Pick a spell and 2 board wipes has helped immensely. I even have 3 of the Inspire spell damage guys. Arena is the only place that they are good in.

Mahes_sl said:

I tried control priest. I have found not having Harrison Jones has a way of biting me in the ass. He is not ALL that but when you get him against a warrior, it helps. That said, I have really enjoyed the complexity of Control Priest. So many choices and ways of making those choices have made for some pleasant games. The downside is the game time. I have had multiple matches go to out of cards. I will admit though, that those might not have happened with better experience with this deck

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Better experience with the deck would probably lead you to stop playing it. There's a reason Tempostorm calls Tier 4 'priest tier' in the meta snapshot articles.

Sometimes this game is still worth playing. Znoth Renolock vs Znoth Renorogue(??) was pretty fucking entertaining. Finally he picks majordomo from journey below and I siphon soul and my rag hits the 1 in 3.

Oh, so I got the 'spectate friend' quest yesterday and realized I have no one to spectate
If anyone here wants to add me, that'd be appreciated. I already rerolled that quest, but in case I get it again, a free pack is certainly nice. Not sure how to add someone other then playing against them, if someone wants to let me know what I need to do.

Mahes_sl said:

I tried control priest. I have found not having Harrison Jones has a way of biting me in the ass. He is not ALL that but when you get him against a warrior, it helps. That said, I have really enjoyed the complexity of Control Priest. So many choices and ways of making those choices have made for some pleasant games. The downside is the game time. I have had multiple matches go to out of cards. I will admit though, that those might not have happened with better experience with this deck.

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Priest is the class I toil away with the most and I think it's totally unplayable atm.