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Taho

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So this is my first month playing, and I have a question. Does ranked play change drastically towards the end of the month at the lower ranks (like 14-16)?

The past few days I had been playing comfortably around rank 14 with various heroes and decks probably winning a little over 50%. I would see some decks stocked with legendaries, BGH's, etc. but they were the minority.

Today I was playing a warlock deck with which I had been 12-10. It's no great deck, but typically gave me a decent chance around ranks 14 and 15. Using the same deck this morning, I just went 3-8. Pretty much every deck was stacked. I ran into multiple sylvanas, dark knights, and tirion fordrings and also boom, rag, cairne, gruul, and probably a couple more that I'm forgetting. It's not just that they had multiple legendaries, they also had all the accompaniments like BGH. In general they were just well put together decks that you see legendary streamers play, but this was at rank 14-16.

My question is was this an unlucky streak or does something change towards the end of the month? My theory is that maybe experienced players, who were farming wins at high ranks (like 20-17), are now trying to progress up the ladder. Is this the case or why else would I be running into all these pro decks at ranks 14-16? Thoughts anyone?
 

bixxby

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just the luck of the draw. usually easier to climb rank late month so youre probably running into scrubs like me with good collections but bad ranks.
 

Angelwatch

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The meta changes on a day by day and even an hour by hour basis.

At the beginning of the season you see a ton of aggro early on as people try to get fast wins to get back to the rank they belong. At the end of the season you see a lot of aggro as the scrubs who couldn't get to Legend during the month think that a super fast aggro deck will, suddenly, get them there.

Also at the end of the month a bunch of people just give up trying to rank up so you'll see a greater diversity across all ranks.
 

TheBeagle

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If you are new then go ahead and disenchant these epics as you see them:

Bestial Wrath
Wee Spellstopper
Shadowbomber
Shadowform
Patient Assassin
Kidnapper
Far Sight
Ancestor's Call
Siltfin Spiritwalker
Bane of Doom
Pit Lord
Anima Goelm
Twisting Nether
Hungry Crab
Southsea Captain
I've seen a couple sweet OTK shaman decks using Ancestors Call and Malygos. But ya as a new player, doubtful he has a Malygos.
 

slippery

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I don't understand why people play Piloted Sky Golem. I feel like most of the 4 drops you can get are bad because they are only normally even kind of good with their battlecry.
 

Ravishing

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Basically everyone is running Strifecro's Druid & Paladin decks and his Paladin uses Sky Golem. I like Sky Golem because he's another sticky minion. If you get a yeti it's OP. There's a bunch of great 4 drops you can get. The best is if you get a Shredder from it
 

Adam12

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Any guides on getting better at Arena?
You can use heartharena to help you build decks. There are guides on Reddit but they're outdated. I think your best bet is to use Heartharena to build decks and watch arena streamers (Kripp, Hafu) to learn shit.
 

Vaclav

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On rope burning - I've been forced a few times today to rope burn every turn because my End Turn button bugged and appeared half flipped permanently. Not happening often but definitely a few times since the last patch or two.
 

Adebisi

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My kids Zimmerman'd my tablet
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...and I rage uninstalled almost two weeks ago. Stay strong, bisi. Stay strong.
 

drtyrm

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On rope burning - I've been forced a few times today to rope burn every turn because my End Turn button bugged and appeared half flipped permanently. Not happening often but definitely a few times since the last patch or two.
I've had that bug before. Mouse over a bit to the left of where the graphic is and you can still click it.
 

Vaclav

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I've had that bug before. Mouse over a bit to the left of where the graphic is and you can still click it.
Was able to do that once, others I couldn't. (Might have been in an unintuitive spot unlike when it was in a similar "slightly off" spot like you're talking about.
 

The Master

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I don't understand why people play Piloted Sky Golem. I feel like most of the 4 drops you can get are bad because they are only normally even kind of good with their battlecry.
Because it can 2-for-1 and most of the decks that run it also run KT. One of the problems with KT is sometimes you can play it, but not kill any of your minions, so you don't get the immediate value. A Sky Golem is fragile enough to die when you need it to, guaranteeing KT value.