Him and Reckful, yea. I'll take Day[9]'s unbridled enthusiasm over their callous insight any day .
I randomly stumbled upon Reckful's stream and wondered who that douchebag was.
Famous for WoW arena streams. It's actually kinda funny, he used to play a rogue and swapped to warrior recently. At the same time it happened, the rogue population plummeted and the warrior population went up.
This. Imagine Kripp, only nice and willing to admit he made a mistake or played poorly... instead of blaming every single loss on stream sniping or the opponent having a "crazy" deck.
I just won 8 games, got 255 gold and a booster. 8-3. Damn you arena! Good damn shaman deck I had though.
Also, I had the most epic game ever. Had the enemy down to 3 health and I have 10, I had 3-4 creatures out, he had 0. No cards left in my hand or his hand. I'm a warlock.
He draws a card.
DEATHWING. 12/12 creature, destroys all minions. Kills everything I have.
I draw...drain life. Does 3 damage. BARELY kill him, one turn before he murders my face.
Obviously a fake story, Drain Life only does 2 damage but at a cost of 3 mana.
I've only done my free entry for Arena and having my second loss due to facing Kripp kinda demoralized me from paying for the Arena any time soon. I'm glad it's there but I doubt I'll win enough games to get the higher rewards to actually make it worth while, be it against streamers or not. It didn't help my warlock deck has zero silences and legendaries--true, the latter doesn't really matter but I felt jipped.
and how much gold is a arena thingy? i could probably find this info anywhere but i just wanna see if you could pretty reasonably not spend money on this and still have a good time
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edited August 2013
arena is 150 gold, class dailies are 40 gold, the win 7 games one was 100 gold
1 win in play mode is 1 gold
you also get gold for just playing in the beginning and from some achievements and a free arena pass, you could play it without paying for sure, as long as you dont 0-3 constantly in the arena
Question on arena matching: are your opponents at random ranks, or are they filtering it to similar skill levels? I kind of want some mode that won't force me to be 100% on my game at all times so I can run goofball angry chicken decks and the like without worrying about rankings.
Arena has no match making it rewards high level play and if you aren't good you probably will get crushed with not much in terms of rewards. I don't plan on going into the arena until I have played the game a decent amount and am confident in my skills to do well.
Arena has no match making it rewards high level play and if you aren't good you probably will get crushed with not much in terms of rewards. I don't plan on going into the arena until I have played the game a decent amount and am confident in my skills to do well.
I was under the impression that Arena tries to match you against people with a similar amount of wins as you with your current deck. As in, you go 8-2 and you will be match up against someone who is 8-X [Edit: I guess that is an emote I was trying to say 8 wins X losses.... but it does fit]. In other words, you can have bad luck and get your first match against some really good, who just hasn't won with their current deck, or you could get match against someone who is 0-2 and brand new.
Three star diamond and I play a little bit of all the classes (for the quests and to try new stuff), I don't main anything.
I have a handful of rare cards from packs and another handful of the very useful basic cards from dust (some owls, among other things that I had to make.) It's funny because I ran into a druid running my same style of deck (hard nuke caster, similar to mage) that beat me because he had better cards/draws that game. Then we rematched and I trounced him with a better early hand.
Obviously some classes are going to be a bit weaker without a few critical cards but not having them is almost the same as not drawing them. You can still have a decent deck and make decent plays and win decent games
If you want to be super mega competitive do you need those cards? Sure. If you want to win games? No.
It's a little early to start saying you "need" some cards.
If every other CCG ever has never once had a "needed" card at the true competitive level (talking the top end of MTG draft's, blind draft tourney, etc.), why would Hearthstone?
It probably doesn't, and it's a little silly to say that.
It's how you play the cards in your hand. Not the specific card you have in your deck. Building a deck around "this one cool combo" is a path to madness. Being good, is reading your hand and finding the combo there. It's about reading the table and knowing when to give and when to take.
I'm also diamond 3 and have been running a mage deck with only a couple rares that I crafted with dust. Nothing special, no legendaries. So it can be done.
I'm also diamond 3 and have been running a mage deck with only a couple rares that I crafted with dust. Nothing special, no legendaries. So it can be done.
Diamond 3 seem relatively easy to obtain. It's like Hearthstone's version of Silver 5. :P
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Big Red Tiebeautiful clydesdale style feettoo hot to trotRegistered Userregular
like, almost all removal comes from class specific spells, which are often rare and class specific creatures also tend to be overtuned compared to vanilla creatures
so it's not really about combos, the crafted cards are just very good
I agree with jaef though, the base cards can take you very far
It's pretty simple. You either win easily very quickly or you get shit on.
To simulate it, find a quarter. Pick a side that you think the quarter will land on. Flip it.
Did it land on that side?
Oh, and I'm running a much more consistent Divine Shield deck now. I really enjoy the Paladin class and I finally found a deck that actually works with it.
I'm also diamond 3 and have been running a mage deck with only a couple rares that I crafted with dust. Nothing special, no legendaries. So it can be done.
Diamond 3 seem relatively easy to obtain. It's like Hearthstone's version of Silver 5. :P
I swear you just follow me around these forums waiting for me to post and then you strike with your vicious barbs. So mean.
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Are they planning to add trading between players at all? I can't seem to find any details about that...
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Yeah kripp usually has some insights into the games he's playing.
But also epitomizes a lot of things I don't like about "gamer culture"
I randomly stumbled upon Reckful's stream and wondered who that douchebag was.
Trump is a good streamer that is worth watching.
Famous for WoW arena streams. It's actually kinda funny, he used to play a rogue and swapped to warrior recently. At the same time it happened, the rogue population plummeted and the warrior population went up.
This. Imagine Kripp, only nice and willing to admit he made a mistake or played poorly... instead of blaming every single loss on stream sniping or the opponent having a "crazy" deck.
You mean the coin? Yea, going second gets that.
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Also, I had the most epic game ever. Had the enemy down to 3 health and I have 10, I had 3-4 creatures out, he had 0. No cards left in my hand or his hand. I'm a warlock.
He draws a card.
DEATHWING. 12/12 creature, destroys all minions. Kills everything I have.
I draw...drain life. Does 3 damage. BARELY kill him, one turn before he murders my face.
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I've only done my free entry for Arena and having my second loss due to facing Kripp kinda demoralized me from paying for the Arena any time soon. I'm glad it's there but I doubt I'll win enough games to get the higher rewards to actually make it worth while, be it against streamers or not. It didn't help my warlock deck has zero silences and legendaries--true, the latter doesn't really matter but I felt jipped.
I have a hard time imagining spending gold on anything but arena.
how long does it take to earn enough funny money to actually buy/do things
anyway they give a lot of gold
1 win in play mode is 1 gold
you also get gold for just playing in the beginning and from some achievements and a free arena pass, you could play it without paying for sure, as long as you dont 0-3 constantly in the arena
anyway i got to 2 explosive shots, 2 multishots, and 2 explosive traps. not sure what to get next for hunter
cause most classes rely on certain rares
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I was under the impression that Arena tries to match you against people with a similar amount of wins as you with your current deck. As in, you go 8-2 and you will be match up against someone who is 8-X [Edit: I guess that is an emote I was trying to say 8 wins X losses.... but it does fit]. In other words, you can have bad luck and get your first match against some really good, who just hasn't won with their current deck, or you could get match against someone who is 0-2 and brand new.
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I have a handful of rare cards from packs and another handful of the very useful basic cards from dust (some owls, among other things that I had to make.) It's funny because I ran into a druid running my same style of deck (hard nuke caster, similar to mage) that beat me because he had better cards/draws that game. Then we rematched and I trounced him with a better early hand.
Obviously some classes are going to be a bit weaker without a few critical cards but not having them is almost the same as not drawing them. You can still have a decent deck and make decent plays and win decent games
If you want to be super mega competitive do you need those cards? Sure. If you want to win games? No.
It's a little early to start saying you "need" some cards.
If every other CCG ever has never once had a "needed" card at the true competitive level (talking the top end of MTG draft's, blind draft tourney, etc.), why would Hearthstone?
It probably doesn't, and it's a little silly to say that.
It's how you play the cards in your hand. Not the specific card you have in your deck. Building a deck around "this one cool combo" is a path to madness. Being good, is reading your hand and finding the combo there. It's about reading the table and knowing when to give and when to take.
Diamond 3 seem relatively easy to obtain. It's like Hearthstone's version of Silver 5. :P
so it's not really about combos, the crafted cards are just very good
I agree with jaef though, the base cards can take you very far
I'm not really sure how Alexstraza is gonna fit into any deck? Maybe a warlock deck where I burn health a lot to draw cards?
like sometimes you get a power overwhelming, sometimes you get a free flame strike
Though it is kind of funny that Hogger and Van Cleef have a higher body count in Hearthstone than the dragon aspects, it's very true to WoW.
I want to fight your rogue deck someday
To simulate it, find a quarter. Pick a side that you think the quarter will land on. Flip it.
Did it land on that side?
Oh, and I'm running a much more consistent Divine Shield deck now. I really enjoy the Paladin class and I finally found a deck that actually works with it.
I swear you just follow me around these forums waiting for me to post and then you strike with your vicious barbs. So mean.
they don't it be like it is but it do