Hearthstone

That will be fun, its such an underplayed class otherwise.

Fawe_sl said:

Yea the Antique Heal bot was doing well for me, but my luck in arena has quickly ended.
First run is the 1 you quoted, went 5-3 there, was Druid with 0 Swipes only 1 Wrath and 1 Explosive sheep for board clear.
Then had a 4-3 as Paladin without any Equality+Consecrate.
After those 2 I was trying Shaman, thought I had a decent draft both times but went 1-3 & 1-3. Sad.

Just started another Druid run with 3x Swipes, hopefully can do better lol.


The cards I've been getting fucked over with A LOT has been that minion that deals random 4 dmg to enemy minion, and also fucking Mind Control... 2 different Priests Mind Control my Force Tank MAX... fuck.

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Yeah Bomb Lobber has owned me twice. I saw a Force Tank Max for my picks, but I don't really like it. I did see a game I was spectating where it was really owning. Also, might have been a bug, but Shadowboxer was doing the 1 damage when my opponent was healing full life??

I think them allowing new cards into Arena 5 days early is a ploy to get everyone to use up their gold playing Arena because they are excited to see and play the new cards. Yet we are still getting old packs, so it will drain people's gold a bit so they are more willing to spend cash upon release lol.

Yeah, bomb lobber adds some competition to the 5 slot methinks, in just the handful of games I watched/played last night he wrecked someone/me 3x. Very good mid-range card for more agressive decks rather than sludge belcher.

Fuck me the Piloted Shredders are such massive value in Arena. The 4 mana one particularly. 4/3 and it often summons a 3/2? So 4 mana for a 7/5? Shit.

Ya they know wtf they are doing with Hearthstone and chiseling money out of people, that's for sure. Just started about 3 weeks ago with the intention to stay FTP and grind it up. I've already dropped ~$50 and will probably drop another $20 this weekend getting my ass handed to me in Arena runs.

If anyone that's good at Arena wants to let me watch em in spectator mode, add me, I'm HughJassole#1374.

Yeah, right now in constructed it's either Hunter or anti-Hunter. I've seen some decks that are designed to 100% counter Hunter at the expense of all other match ups. The sad thing is that with the current meta, that's actually a viable strategy.

Morrow_sl said:

I think them allowing new cards into Arena 5 days early is a ploy to get everyone to use up their gold playing Arena because they are excited to see and play the new cards. Yet we are still getting old packs, so it will drain people's gold a bit so they are more willing to spend cash upon release lol.

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I thought the same thing. I used my free pass and I'm just going to do dailies with it where possible and then let it sit at two or three losses to get GvG reward out of it next week. I've spent more time spectating arenas to see the new stuff. Guy on my friends list went right into buying a second arena, I'd rather save the gold for the new shit.

Planning to buy a forty pack at launch, spend most of my gold on packs and save some for arena entries, then hold on to dust until I see what classes I have a good base for and how the meta starts to shake out.

I normally don't play Arena so I started my free one and am sitting at 3/2 right now (shitty draft with a shitty choice of classes). Have they confirmed that I'll be able to finish my run on Tuesday for a GvG pack? And I've read somewhere that we may be getting another free run at Arena? Am I hallucinating or did I read that right? Just trying to maximize my GvG packs.

Fawe_sl said:

Tree of Life in Arena is just OP as fuck.
I could have taken 2 but passed the 1st then took the 2nd.
Wow, it's won me outright at least 2 of my 4 wins so far. (4-0 atm).
Just had a paladin rush me down to 5 health --> Tree of Life, gg.
I've been ending my games at 30+4 armor / 30 + 6armor, etc, because opponent runs out of steam and is in top-deck mode, while Im still throwing down bombs.
3x Swipe and also 2x druid of the fang with a nice dose of beasts.
Ill be disapointed if I can't get at least 10 with this, hoping for the dream of course.

Moral of story, get 1x Tree of Life in arena, ALWAYS!

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Yeah that's a damn good curve you have there. I'm doing my free arena atm with Druid and only have x1 Swipe, but am 7-2 atm. Just won a game where I Innervated out a Nourish for the extra 2 mana crystals on turn 3. Tore my opponent a new one with a Stormwind Champion the next turn (had a Pint Sized Summoner out). Turn 1 Zombie Chow, turn 2 Anodized Robo Cub, turn 3 Nourish + Pint Sized Summoner. Turn 4 Stormwind Champion, gg. Was over from there. Still not sure how I feel about Arcane Nullifier. It's been doing well for me because I have x2 Dire Wolf Alpha and a SSC/Brewmaster, Power of the Wild and Stormwind Champion but I think its attack might actually be too low. Still seems to 2 for 1, but always lower end minions. It really sucks late game tho. It does becomes exceptionally better with a buff or two though. I had 2 at 5/7 earlier and it was pretty much GG.

I passed the Druid of the Fang because I didn't have any beasts yet and 5 mana slot is bloated for Druid as is, but it would have been good with my 2 Alphas, Kodo and Power of the Wild. Too bad Robo Cub isn't Beast & Mech. Tree of Life still seems way too expensive though, you have to have the right deck for it I think. Gotta reiterate how OP the Shredders are in Arena though, wow.

Famm_sl said:

I mean, I just found it interesting that they have the new beast cards in the pool ahead of the patch. But yeah, I've gotten plenty of King Krushes and Mukla's. Mukla is one of the most annoying things to get from it actually IMO.

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Depends on when you get Mukla, if you get him off of a turn 1 spinner he's not bad at all especially if you have anything on board and/or a freezing trap.

Huntertaker, as you call it, hard counters Zoo. Want to hero power? Be my guest. Go right ahead and put yourself that much closer to lethal. Meanwhile I'll stop you cold with explosive traps to keep your board clear while using, extremely, complex tactics such as "going face" with anything I've got.

I'm not arguing that Zoo isn't a bullshit deck (it absolutely is). My point is that you can counter Zoo with an equally bullshit deck.

Explosive trap only counters Zoo if the zoo player is bad, and many hunters don't run it. I run it double in my turbo face hunter, but I only run 1 in my traditional huntertaker because I don't have a second snake trap to replace it with and don't want to spend the 400 dust on something that I've already disenchanted twice this close to GvG.