Hearthstone

I got an extra 27 packs. Not bad. I think I got 4 legendaries out of 80 packs. I "feel" like the Old Gods packs were much more generous on legendaries.

Everyone is getting dupe legendaries in the compensation packs, I think Blizzard duped us.

Guess i didn't do so bad. 50 packs, 5 legendaries (Golden Wrathion, Inkmaster, Kun, White Eyes, and Goya). Got like 600 dust from dupes, so i guess my variance was pretty good.

Not sure what the fuck to invest into now though. I wanted to keep playing Reno mage, but i don't think that shit is going to be viable in the meta.

I am so aggravated right now at arena since the new set came out.. I listened to all of adwcta/merps podcasts about the set beforehand, watched adwcta's meta preview, thought I was somewhat prepared, but it just seems like everything is totally 100% fucking random now.

I was averaging about 5.3 wins in the last few weeks before the set, most of my runs were over 6 but I'd have the occasional shit draft and go 1-3 or 2-3. However, today I haven't had a run over 4 wins yet in 7 attempts. Every single one has gone exactly 3-3 or 4-3.

Adwcta said there'd be 'some' Rock/paper/scissors, but so far that's all it feels like. I'll absolutely crush a couple people in a row, then just get crushed back a few times.

You play around a board clear by playing a big minion, they have the spot removal + minion to punish. Whatever situation seems the least likely to happen, always seems to happen.

Had a sick shaman deck, with jade claws, 3x jade lightning, 6 two drops, 4 threes, 5 fours (i.e. good curve), kel'thuzad, nefarian, hex, etc.. had everything but a board clear, but plenty of early plays to make up for it, absolutely sick, or so I thought. started out dominating everyone to 3-0, then got crushed 3 games in a row. One game, mulligan my whole hand, get all 3+ drops, opponent priest leads with arcane anomaly and I could never get it off the board. Another game, this mage seemed to have every RNG go perfectly for him based on what I had. I got a spawn of n'zoth buff onto 4 minions, his spellslinger gives him mass dispel. etc etc.. While those kinds of things happened before this set, it seems they've added a layer of randomness on top of that by making a lot of narrow cards.

Cards that are very powerful in certain circumstances, and then the tools to answer those things are rare. So, you have to just play whatever you got and hope the opponent doesn't have something to answer it.

Any other arena players feeling the same way?

Opened 25 packs and only had 2 duplicate rares, 22 duplicate commons. I had a number of 3 rare packs which was nice. I got Inkmaster Solia (mage legendary) and then in a single pack I got a Golden Hobart Grapplehammer (legendary), Fight Promoter (epic), and Grimestreet Pawnbroker (rare) pack, so that was fun.

Enzee said:

ok cool, so it's fixed now? I bought 90 total packs between amazon coins and pre-purchase, opened like 20 of them earlier, was just starting to do the rest now till I caught up on this thread.

also, famm, I saw you open like 3 legendaries in a 5 min span earlier.. were you just cracking packs super quick or did you hit a nice streak?

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Both, kinda annoyed I got multiple Aya's not knowing about the bug but the extra packs back is nice I guess.

I opened a fucking golden White Eyes though so....holy shit! Still have a couple thousand gold to spend too and I'm sitting on a fuck ton of dust.

I did the 50 pack investment. Getting the bonus 33% made that investment worthwhile. Out of my free 25( I bought 19 packs with Gold), I got Kun. I like him and so was pleased.

Priest Dragon is a real deck. The new Murloc Shaman is actually nice enough to be competitive but Priest Dragon can still beat it. When I played against it, I kept waiting for the "Bring the murlocs back" spell only to remember that that was Paladin. I have not seen the new aggressive warrior deck but I found that my Warrior Control deck still holds its own. Only card I added to it was the new search for taunt spell.

Priest Dragon has a lot of advantage. I had one game where I searched for a card in their deck and cast Rag against them the following turn. The new board wipe which leaves dragons alive is nuts. Add to that the ability to slowly recover as you stabilize the board and Priest is going to be difficult to beat. I do not even have Chillmaw in my deck but can imagine that just adds to it. I am running Ysera which can also spawn a board wipe.

All hail the new age of the Priest.

Haha just opened another white eyes with bonus/quest packs. That golden one will be fucking money if it gets nerfed.

Do tri class cards count as class cards for quests?

Mures said:

Ha, I opened patches so I made a pirate rogue for shits and giggles and won my first three games handily. 3rd game against a jade druid actually winded up being close, but only because he got a miracle 4-5 spell yogg. Pirate rogue clearly op.

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90% win rate in 10 games. Took me 6 games before remembering to attack with patches turn 1. Small time buccaneer has been the mvp.

Game I lost was to a priest who played 3 of the 5 mana 5/6 dragons that discovers a card in your opponents deck and discovered useful shit, that card is stupid op!, other 5 mana discover cards have 3 health, this thing has double!