Hearthstone

littles_sl said:

Just had my first 12 win in quite awhile and it indeed was a middle finger curve.

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I've had more success in the arena with shaman than any other class. I've gotten at least 4, 12 wins with it. I've gotten less than that with all the other classes combined.

I just realized this runs great on my Windows 8 tablet, so I'm starting to play it again at night before I go to bed. Looking over lots of the accepted decent decks made me realize that I'm missing tons of important basic cards. Is the most efficient way to grind them to get gold, do the arena, repeat? Would I be better of just dropping 20 bucks on a bunch of packs?

If you just do the daily quests, it's not so bad, but if you want to play a lot, arena is the way to go. If you want to jump straight to top constructed decks, you have to drop some money.

I have 7 Card backs now

Also Sparkys mid range hunter is pretty good

Column_sl said:

I have 7 Card backs now

Also Sparkys mid range hunter is pretty good

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Link? I only see the old pyromaniac one.

[Spark] Beasty Tactics (Naxx) - Hearthstone Decks

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Just discovered a really annoying bug. I dropped a Nerubian Egg and then quickly dropped a Shattered Sun and hit escape before I buffed the egg, because I thought I might want to life tap draw a card. Somehow in hitting the escape button so quickly it pulled both the Egg and Shattered Sun Cleric back into my hand at once, but my 2 mana from the Egg was still missing so I essentially lost 2 mana for nothing. Anyone ever had that?

Facing a shit ton of agro mages in ranked today. Man I really hate when you beat a cocky scrub and they don't accept your friend invite so you can taunt them and laugh in their face. Had a full board on my Warlock and this mage casts Frost Nova and Doomsayer and spams "sorry" until the end of the turn. So I Argent + Soulfire and lul'd. He did dumb shit like this all game, always sure he was going to win. Owned the little shit and now he won't let me taunt him... oh the humanity.

Needless_sl said:

How long does it take to get rank 20? I'm just curious regarding those lich king card backs.. i haven't played any ranked games before

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It's really quick because you can't lose stars for losing games, so it's only a matter of winning like 10 games.

Go make a budget version of warlock zoo, every game takes like 5 minutes top then.

Zaphid_sl said:

Go make a budget version of warlock zoo, every game takes like 5 minutes top then.

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Zoo is already a budget deck.

Needless_sl said:

I'll go look up this zoo deck, i'd imagine its just a bunch of low cost minions/beasts that can buff each other? lol

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Usually not very many Beasts (Dire Wolf Alpha and now Haunted Creeper being the only two that make it in). The deck is basically just fueled by the Warlock's hero ability.

Here is a 0 rare starter framework for a Zoo deck.

2x Soulfire
2x Abusive Sergeant
2x Argent Squire
2x Flame Imp
2x Voidwalker
2x Dire Wolf Alpha
2x Haunted Creeper
2x Nerubian Egg
2x Harvest Golem
2x Shattered Sun Cleric
2x Dark Iron Dwarf

Those are all commons except Nerubian Egg, which is a free 'rare' you get with the first wing of Naxxramas.

The following rares would be your highest priority to finish the deck

2x Knife Juggler - These are ubiquitous and can go in many decks
2x Doomguard - These will only ever be played in Zoo, but they are incredibly powerful and a big part of the deck's ability to put games away.
2x Defender of Argus - These are ubiquitous and can go in many decks

As an alternative to Doomguard
2x Argent Commander - These can be played a bit more widely than Doomguard, so if you're new and leery about spending 200 dust on something that will only be played in a single deck, you can craft these instead.

So your finished list would look something like this

2x Soulfire
2x Abusive Sergeant
2x Argent Squire
2x Flame Imp
2x Voidwalker
2x Dire Wolf Alpha
2x Haunted Creeper
2x Knife Juggler
2x Nerubian Egg
2x Harvest Golem
2x Shattered Sun Cleric
2x Dark Iron Dwarf
2x Defender of Argus
2x Doomguard
1x Loatheb

With one open utility spot. You could stick in Power Overwhelming for more burst and another way to pop Nerubian Eggs, Mortal Coil or Elven Archer for removal, or Amani Berserker/Faerie Dragon for extra muscle. If you don't have Loatheb (From second quarter of Naxx) treat it as two open utility spots.

I want Mad Scientist to come out. Have some fun deck ideas.

What would offline get you? You wouldn't be able to gain any XP, you wouldn't be able to play against non-AI opponents, you wouldn't be able to gain gold.