Mures
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Maybe its just you? I didn't notice anything with silence and I loved other new spell effects.
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Delly
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Take a step back and chillax a little. There is obviously a good amount of RNG in the game, but you cannot possibly blame everything on RNG. I gotta agree with Pyros, you had great Mage spells but you're dead in the water with almost no draw. Constructed has tons of draw, so while that is not a bad arena deck, no way is that a near a constructed deck. I hope that RNG works in your favor or you'd lose against decks that could survive before you draw your whole deck.
Makes me barf when people complain about top decking.. card games have been around for fucking ever and people complain about RNG as if card games haven't been somewhat luck since forever. Sure you do your best to eliminate that by making the most solidly constructed decks, but you never know if you are going to draw the game winning card or a card that was good for turn one.
Morrow
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Hmm. Good points. Yeah I realize more and more how important card draw is lately. That Warrior deck shouldn't have done so well, but I had such massive card draw that I spanked. Interestingly enough, that Mage deck beat 2 different people whom had gone down to 0 cards while I still had 10+ cards left and they lost because my board control was so efficient. I'd have easily made 9-10 wins though with better RNG. The 7 wins was with horrrrible RNG. And I don't mean me not drawing good cards, but random aspects like Ragnoros and Bomber doing insane things.
@Mures I dunno, does the gryphon sound different to everyone too (when you click it)? It sounds really lame to me now. The colors of the entire interface are all slightly off for me as well now. When I silence something, there's a short delay, a noise, and then a spell effect. When I cast a spell, there's a weird delay and then a spell effect/noise and then the spell goes off. Lots of weird stuff like that, or Shattered Sun Cleric having a delay.
Mures
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Apparently you're not the only one morrowgirl, there was a thread about it on the official forums, about spell effects that is. I don't necessarily mind the added 1 second delay to see a spell effect though, although I guess it would get rather old.
Other graphical enhancements I love, it looks a lot more 3-dimensional. You now can also adjust graphics setting in your options menu to a low/medium/high. I don't know if it auto-detects, but I was playing on a 5 year old laptop so it was on medium and I left it at that, didn't turn it to high to see how it would look and not sure if turning it to low would make it appear more like it did before the patch.
Other graphical enhancements I love, it looks a lot more 3-dimensional. You now can also adjust graphics setting in your options menu to a low/medium/high. I don't know if it auto-detects, but I was playing on a 5 year old laptop so it was on medium and I left it at that, didn't turn it to high to see how it would look and not sure if turning it to low would make it appear more like it did before the patch.
Haast
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As a counterpoint to everyone else cruising right through the ranks, I got raped unmercifully in ranked. Probably a combination of poor deck construction, players being under-ranked due to the reset and a little bit of bad RNG. But goddamn, I couldn't even polish off dailies.
Think I'm going to have to take a break to protect my fragile ego.
Also, I'm open to deck construction tips. I have all the basic cards unlocked, but I don't have a ton of expert cards or dust yet.
Think I'm going to have to take a break to protect my fragile ego.
Also, I'm open to deck construction tips. I have all the basic cards unlocked, but I don't have a ton of expert cards or dust yet.
Morrow
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Christ I'm 9-1 with a really random sub par Rogue deck. Or at least it feels that way to me. Only 1 Eviscerate and 1 Backstab, the only epic is 1 Sea Giant, and the curve is awkward. I went a little top heavy and it's working wonders. The minion swinging around bug is driving me up the fucking wall. Even if you're really careful it happens. Messing up Argus or Sunfury can be a game changer.
Yeah I'm kinda at a point where I want to experiment with decks but need more caaaards... And the acquisition rate is too slow. The obvious answer is "well just play arena", but arena isn't really fun to me so the only real option is drop $50 - 60 or play another game.
Mures
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How do you drop a quest and get another anyway? I have one from a few days ago that is for 2 classes I don't really play and its only 40g so I wanted to drop it for a chance at more gold or at least a different quest and I didn't see where I could. In the quest journal there weren't any x's on it or anything, was it just because it was an old quest maybe or am I doing something totally wrong?
Mures
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Ranking up proved much more difficult than I thought it would be. At rank 18 people are already using legendaries and have decks full of rares, rank 14 you're facing tournament winning decks so to get to legendary you must have an insane win percentage.
As far as deck construction I just put in a bunch of solid cards and started play testing. Cards I found sitting in my hand or weren't particularly useful I replaced with something else, rinse and repeat.
Morrow
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Maybe an old quest? I noticed that it's hard to tell when you abandon a quest because you get a new one instantly without it telling you or making any effects, so you might not notice that it swapped to another one of the same gold amount? That's what I concluded cos I couldn't figure out how to abandon either, dunno.
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Well you get a pack every 20wins pretty much, if you play a fast deck it goes relatively fast, but not really that fast, and you're capped at 30wins a day too to generate new cards. Can bet on arena runs instead where you can get much better rewards but if you don't like it, yeah it kinda sucks. At the same time, it is a CCG and I think for a CCG it's very very F2P friendly, but it's harder to progress when you're not casual and play a lot as the rewards for sustained play are fairly shit compared to casually logging an hour every day to do the daily and 3wins which gets you half a pack.
Nice, got first 12 wins in arena. Had a weird druid deck that just worked really well. Didn't have any swipes or starfall. My two losses were to the horseshit class that is mages because they dont give a shit about board control. Just melt your face off while spamming Hello and Well Played.
Reward was 2xpack, 380 gold and non-gold eviscerate (wtf is this shit...)
Reward was 2xpack, 380 gold and non-gold eviscerate (wtf is this shit...)
Morrow
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LOL. Sometimes you just can't help it. My hand was full and I didn't want to waste a card
@dassem the non gold commons are infuriating. Thanks for posting a screenshot, tells a much better story. What were the missing cards? I'd be interested to know what got you to 12. Only 2 4 drops is interesting. I've also been considering that the best for Arena is very heavy 2s/3s with heavy 6's+ To make a curve that looks kind of like this: The best I've got so far is a golden Power Overwhelming. I was thinking it'd be cool if you were guaranteed a Golden Legendary if you go 12 wins, but only once a week. Also they desperately need to increase disenchant ratio, particularly if they've mostly removed dust as an arena reward, which seems to be the case from my runs so far. It should be:
1 Common = 1/2 Common (20) . 1 Golden Common = 1 Rare (100)
1 Rare = 1 Common (40) . 1 Golden Rare = 2 Rares (200)
1 Epic = 2 Rares (200) . 1 Golden Epic = 2 Epics (800)
1 Legendary = 2 epics (800) . 1 Golden Legendary = 2 Legendary (3200)
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Morrow
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*Some games? Yeah that's my point. I understand raging too hard when you get a string of bad luck is silly, but we all do it and then we calm down. It's just way worse with Hearthstone. When you can lose to a 1% chance of something happening like Ragnoros blasting you 5 turns in a row despite their being 4-5 minions or a Mad Bomber hitting everything perfectly and stuff like that it's infuriating. Or when my Mage was down to 8 cards and 6 of them were Flamestrike, Blizzard and Fireball. It's different in other games like MTG or SWCCG where you have the ability to search for things and cycle your deck and count cards.
In other news I'm starting to be convinced that Venture Co. Mercenary is a #1 or #2 Neutral pic for every class and every deck in Arena.
Morrow
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Of course it's not, but yeah it's worse in Hearthstone. The reason I mention Ragnoros or Mad Bomber is because those are pretty unique to card games, at least from my experience of SWCCG/MTG. I guess Pokemon had coin flips, but usually in serious card games, the random effects are very rare and more for casual/silly decks/plays. Whereas there's more of it in HS, particularly when you pick your draft picks because of the way you pick from a contained static system rather than a set compilation of cards in a box or whatever where the range is less.
These changes are dumb btw. Shattered Sun is still a #1 3 drop pick and Argent Commander a #1 pick as well. Silly changes, they need to upgrade other cards.