i love playing priest. the excellent tutorial and the familiar lore made it very easy to jump into the game despite my never having played trading card games before. after trying all the characters i am still drawn to priest as that’s my main in WoW. you don’t often feel nostalgia playing a new game!
in case anyone’s unaware, you can dust Unleash the Hounds for the full price atm.
I wish I’d known about being able to dust a card for full price after a nerf earlier. UTH doesn’t need dusting of course, but I have a Tinkmaster overspark that I should have dusted when it got nerfed.
Just hit my first 12 win arena with what seemed like a very average, somewhat aggressive warrior deck. Highlights were 3 weaponsmiths and a gorehowl. Funnily, for a long time now I only play once a week or so, but watch trump almost every day.
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I’ve only gotten up to 6, never 7. What is your secret sauce?
I wish I knew! Warrior is a class I’m not very good at, and I would never have predicted this deck in particular to hit 12. Lots of times decks which I think are strong get steamrolled.
Hitting 7 wins with some consistency is doable though. When I was starting out I’d use one of the arena pick lists that are on the internet (I used antigravity’s but those are old, you can find trump’s here, look at the bottom half of the page - http://www.liquidhearth.com/guides/arena-tier-list). I used to employ that and mana curve considerations while building decks. It may help you when picking cards, especially since what is a good card in arena may not be good in constructed. Like you’d typically never find cult master in a constructed deck, but in most arena decks it can be very good.
Whelp. Guess posting in this thread is good luck, because I just hit 8-3! =D With Hunter, one of my less used heroes, too!
Imagunna post because I hit the ugliest streak ever last night. Went from Rank 7 to Rank 13. Hope this works. 
This is probably how rumors get started:
After posting in this thread about quickly dropping from Rank 7 to 13 things turned around and I zigged and zagged upward – now at Rank 4. Get your luck here, guys.
I played against Trump at Rank 5 – he beat me – nothing memorable about the game other than that it was Trump. Guess he hasn’t made Legend yet this month. Or maybe he switched over to the NA server, dunno??
But I still stink at Arena. Best was five wins.
I’m a neophyte to card strategy games and have just picked this up because my daughter who plays was sad because she had no powerful cards. I’m not going to pay for cards, so I started helping her grind for gold.
I find myself frustrated also. We’re at level 20 and rarely get past 18, even when we have our favorite decks. It seems there are a lot more people with a lot more powerful decks than people like us who are newish to the game. I’ve even started to just concede if someone plays a blue dot card in the first few rounds, because there is simply no way for us to beat them. It gets frustrating after awhile. And anytime we do actually get up to level 18, with our crafted deck, we’re immediately smacked down by decks replete with purple and orange cards. I don’t think we’re idiots at playing, but so much depends on the deck, it seems we’re just treading water.
This game was great fun for beginners, and might be fun again with a powerful deck. But this middle part, and my refusal to pay for cards, is quickly sapping our enjoyment of the game.
you have a few choices:
if i’m not mistaken, the only reward for climbing Rank at the moment are cardbacks and golden portraits. so climb to rank 20 and stay away from it. play casual to complete your daily quests. feel free to tap the red cross to make sure they are the 60 gold reward ones.
instead of buying packs, spend it on the Arena. you cycle endlessly at 7 wins, break even at 3 wins and even at 0 wins you lose at most 10-25 gold. it’s a good way to spend gold and gain experience.
follow a recommended card deck. i believe the cheapest (and yet competitive) one atm are the Zoolock decks.
p.s. you seem to imply that you do not have any blue cards. if so, you should unlock all heroes to lvl 10 and complete all the ai challenges first. there is a hidden quest for defeating each and every AI.
I’m going the no real money purchases route as well. That’s why I am enjoying arena a lot more than constructed, since it is equal except for luck. I play my one or two arena runs a day and start to build up the cards needed for constructed. I’m actually enjoying not having all the needed cards, as the slow progression is more satisfying to me than having everything I need immediately. I average 5-6 wins at arena so it is much more efficient than buying decks outright. I really wish Blizzard would make a practice arena mode that didn’t require coins but didn’t give any rewards either.
As far as constructed, I went with Zoolock at first since it is a cheap build to make and got to rank 6 fairly steadily without any legendary cards, I haven’t hit a wall yet so I guess I’d make it a few more ranks before that happens. I just don’t play constructed much. I built a shaman deck next mostly due to the fact that I had a lot of the needed cards and managed to get Al’akir in a pack. I find it sub-par compared to Zoolock or my third nearly completed build, token druid. (Only missing Ancients of lore).
For beginners, I’d recommend playing ranked when you are using your most familiar decks and normal when you are practicing new things and completing daily quests. That way you keep your normal MMR low so you don’t need to say learn priest against the same people you would be facing with your best decks.
Thanks for the help. We have one blue card, and have been focusing on leveling up, but now we can change our tack. Thanks.
Nice. What decks are you using?
I’m guessing you were playing against a fake Trump. Streamer Trump hit legend on the NA server over a week(maybe two weeks?) ago. It would be very, very unlikely for a legend rank to be matched up against someone at rank 5.
I second all these recommendations. Another reasonably cheap and successful deck is Aggro warrior, but I suspect a board control zoo warlock would be easier and more fun to play.
ETA: And I can further recommend that you use an arena pick list to aid your choices when starting out. Here’s one example - http://www.liquidhearth.com/guides/arena-tier-list
I started off playing Mage because I like to throw fireballs rather than poke people with sharp objects. Once I discovered the Trump Budget Mage I made it as high as Rank 7 last month.
This month I switched to Zoo Warlock, specifically the Raynad Zoo. That got me to Rank 5, then a couple days ago I crafted a Blood Knight and changed to a deck called Durp Zoo. Now at Rank 3. Just played my first game against a Rank 1 and lost.
As for playing vs Trump. The guy I played was a Rank 5 Warlock, same as me. I don’t understand it either, how it came to be. I doubt the game allows duplicate names and the guy I played was capitalized as Trump , same as the streamer guy. Maybe he had some sort of “invisible” ASCII character in his name or something … I dunno??
I finally have enough dust to craft an orange legendary card but don’t know which one to make. Not sure if I’ll stick with warlock or if I’ll try switching to rogue or druid next month when ranks reset. It is my understanding that Miracle Rogue is the quickest way to Legend but most of the games I’m playing the past few days at rank 4-5-6 have been against either warlock or druid – see an occasional mage or shaman, only one warrior, and haven’t played vs a priest or paladin for a long time.
Maybe you can’t become a top-ranked Legend with a free to play deck, but it certainly is possible to climb the ranks without orange cards. I have only gotten two of them, Millhouse Manastorm and Lord Jaraxxus, both unplayable.
Fun game. I like it.
Battle.net started allowing duplicate names a while ago. Around the release of Diablo 3 I think. You have a “public” name and a “private” name, so you can have multiple people named xxxElite360NoScopexxx but they’ll have different IDs and when you make friend requests you’ll see they’re really named xxxElite360NoScopexxx#1357 or xxxElite360NoScopexxx#1922 or whatever.
That solves that mystery. Thanks.
Jarraxus and Valen were my first pack legendaries, so disappointing. I got Ragnaros and Al’akir next which was appreciated. I got a second Ragnaros after which let me make my first crafted legendary. I chose Jenkins since he is fairly flexible and can be used in zoo, token druid and I could possibly make a miracle rogue later on. Thalnos will probably be my second pick since he is also flexible, but spending 1600 dust on a 1-1 makes me sad.
I beat a guy named Reynad, but it was obviously an imposter at rank 8 US.
How do you know he was an imposter? Did he lose gracefully or something?
Haha. I never watch his stream as he seemed miserable, whiny and depressed the few times that I tried. He is like the bizarro version of Amaz.
