[PC Game] Hearthstone (Practically Beta)

Krisken · Feb 26, 2014

Honestly, I'll be happy if I get 3 wins out of it. I was severely unimpressed with the Warlock cards it was handing me for most of the draft. For now I'm 1 for 1, and that's a good start.

Rovewin · Feb 26, 2014

Krisken said:
Yikes, had a close Arena game! I'm sorta new to Arena and thought I'd follow some advice I heard which advocated only taking AOE spells and creatures which had effects which could be played like spells. This is what I drafted.

I don't believe that taking only aoe and effect creatures is the right way to go in arena. Aoe is good up to a point but having single target removal is good too for their strong minions or just to keep yours able to go for face. I would have taken the direct damage over the frostwolf grunt or voodoo doctor. I'd advocate strong minions over ones with just effects. Plus you have to think about what synergizes with your class. The gurabashi works well with classes that can either keep it around or activate it so it isn't useless its first turn around like mages warriors or priests but doesn't really fit in a warlock deck. A strong minion which already has a decent attack would be more beneficial. Anyway good luck on your run.

Krisken · Feb 26, 2014

Rovewin said:
I don't believe that taking only aoe and effect creatures is the right way to go in arena. Aoe is good up to a point but having single target removal is good too for their strong minions or just to keep yours able to go for face. I would have taken the direct damage over the frostwolf grunt or voodoo doctor. I'd advocate strong minions over ones with just effects. Plus you have to think about what synergizes with your class. The gurabashi works well with classes that can either keep it around or activate it so it isn't useless its first turn around like mages warriors or priests but doesn't really fit in a warlock deck. A strong minion which already has a decent attack would be more beneficial. Anyway good luck on your run.

Thanks! I'm now at 2 wins of 2 games. Adrenaline pumping way too strong to play more than one at a time. One more and I beat my record of... 2.

Gilgamesh · Feb 27, 2014

AoE is actually the strongest thing you can draft in Arena.
http://www.liquidhearth.com/guides/arena-tier-list
(I realize that's not a full list including spells but you can get an idea by seeing where Starfall and Swipe fall, but it's the same for all classes. IE: Lightning Storm, Flamestrike, Consecrate, Hellfire are all in BEST category)

figmentPez · Feb 28, 2014

I had a really nice start with my Rogue deck today. Started second, and decided to be greedy with my opener. Instead of Coin -> Defias as my opener, I held off because I had a knife juggler. Turn 1, Leper Gnome. Druid uses his hero power to kill it. Turn 2, Knife juggler. He uses his hero power to hit me. Then turn 3...

Shiv, 1 damage and draw a card. The card is shadowstep. Coin - > Defias (knife, knife), Shadowstep -> Defias (knife, knife). Then knife juggler hits for 3. He's down to 20 at the end of turn 3, and I have four minions on the board to his none. It really didn't go well for him after that.

Krisken · Mar 1, 2014

I LOVE my Shaman deck! Just so much fun!

figmentPez · Mar 2, 2014

Krisken said:
I LOVE my Shaman deck! Just so much fun!

Do you have any Earth Elementals? I love mine.

figmentPez · Mar 2, 2014

I'm watching TotalBiscuit's very first Lord of the Arena video, and this is hilarious. He just drafted a Goldshire Footman over a Chillwind Yeti because he wanted cheap taunt! I'm laughing so hard it hurts. Not at him, I know that he knows better now, but I'm laughing at how much his viewpoint has changed. I probably made a lot of the same mistakes in my early arena drafts.

Krisken · Mar 2, 2014

figmentPez said:
Do you have any Earth Elementals? I love mine.

I wish!

Krisken · Mar 2, 2014

Getting really tired of packs with 1 rare and 4 commons. :mad:

figmentPez · Mar 2, 2014

Krisken said:
Getting really tired of packs with 1 rare and 4 commons.

I just got a pack with an angry chicken for my rare.

Gilgamesh · Mar 2, 2014

So now I'm really upset

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Again, on my EU account.

Unreal.

figmentPez · Mar 2, 2014

Gilgamesh said:
Again, on my EU account.

That's one of the reasons that I didn't make an EU account, as frustrating as the downtime was. I'd be frustrated even if I got common cards there that I wanted on my main.

Krisken · Mar 2, 2014

Yup, that's how I feel about it too.

Gilgamesh · Mar 2, 2014

I'm really enjoying my Druid deck recently.

Krisken · Mar 2, 2014

All those cards I wish I had!

Gilgamesh · Mar 2, 2014

Krisken said:
All those cards I wish I had!

Let's just say I'm glad there isn't a /played in Hearthstone.

Necronic · Mar 3, 2014

So I've started playing this and its an interesting game. Also got my first legendary on my second deck, Prophet Velen. Guess I should start working on my Priest deck

Necronic · Mar 3, 2014

And a sylvannas windrunner on my third deck. I think I have used up all my RNG juice

Gilgamesh · Mar 3, 2014

Ugh I just packed another Legendary I already had dusted before.

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At least it was good DUST.

Krisken · Mar 3, 2014

hah, I got that one Gil. I tell ya, there are tons of purples I'd rather have than a lot of the legendary cards.

Gilgamesh · Mar 3, 2014

Krisken said:
hah, I got that one Gil. I tell ya, there are tons of purples I'd rather have than a lot of the legendary cards.

I still think dust for Legendaries is too low. Dusting a Legendary can only craft you 1 Epic? That's pretty nonsensical.

Ravenpoe · Mar 3, 2014

Krisken said:
hah, I got that one Gil. I tell ya, there are tons of purples I'd rather have than a lot of the legendary cards.

Well, the good news is a legendary disenchants for the amount of dust needed to craft a purple.

Krisken · Mar 3, 2014

Gilgamesh said:
I still think dust for Legendaries is too low. Dusting a Legendary can only craft you 1 Epic? That's pretty nonsensical.

Yeah, I agree it should be higher. Pretty crazy if you ask me.[DOUBLEPOST=1393885898,1393885860][/DOUBLEPOST]

Ravenpoe said:
Well, the good news is a legendary disenchants for the amount of dust needed to craft a purple.

There is that, yeah. I don't have a whole lot of legendary cards as it is, though. Not looking to dust anything atm.

Gilgamesh · Mar 3, 2014

Ravenpoe said:
Well, the good news is a legendary disenchants for the amount of dust needed to craft a purple.

I don't understand why it's not half value like anythingelse you dust. It should be 800 so that at least you can craft two epics.

Ravenpoe · Mar 3, 2014

Gilgamesh said:
I don't understand why it's not half value like anythingelse you dust. It should be 800 so that at least you can craft two epics.

Nothing is half value.

White disenchants for 1/8 value

Blue disenchants for 1/5 value

purple disenchants for 1/4 value

gold disenchants for 1/4 value.

You probably only notice things as half value because you disenchant gold cards, which are worth double.

Gilgamesh · Mar 3, 2014

Ravenpoe said:
Nothing is half value.

White disenchants for 1/8 value

Blue disenchants for 1/5 value

purple disenchants for 1/4 value

gold disenchants for 1/4 value.

You probably only notice things as half value because you disenchant gold cards, which are worth double.

Yep, you're right. I was remembering gold dusting.

figmentPez · Mar 3, 2014

Oh, yay. Alarm-o-bot. I'm sure that will come in so useful.

PatrThom · Mar 3, 2014

I suppose that depends on what other minions are in your hand.

--Patrick

Necronic · Mar 4, 2014

Alarmobots seem like a soft taunt. People always go after them. But for 3 points I could buy a much better hard taunt.

PatrThom · Mar 4, 2014

They're not so much a taunt as a threat. The intimation is that if the opponent doesn't spend some creature removal RIGHT NOW, they could potentially be facing down anything up to and including a "free" Deathwing on the next turn.

--Patrick

Necronic · Mar 4, 2014

That's what I mean by a "soft" taunt. Sure you don't have to attack it, but it would be a mistake not to. I just don't see it being worth the cost though since it's so easy to kill. Make it a 4 health and then I may put it back in my deck.

Krisken · Mar 4, 2014

There's a lot of cards like that. Auchenal Soulpriest, Nat Pagle, Knife Juggler, etc. All super irritating just for being alive.

figmentPez · Mar 4, 2014

Necronic said:
That's what I mean by a "soft" taunt. Sure you don't have to attack it, but it would be a mistake not to.

Compare that to the soft taunt of the Emperor Cobra. Same amount of health, plus it has two attack, and the threat of destroying any minion it chooses to. Alarm-o-bot could just end up summoning an Elven Archer.

Ravenpoe · Mar 4, 2014

One of the top Hearthstone players facing the terror of alarmobot in arena: