I missed this post. I was actually asking if dust and card rewards were important to people, because I never even look at them. Seems you don’t like them either.
In other news, I just got my second 12 win run, with an archetype Rogue deck. I even took a screenshot of the deck! Link - Imgur: The magic of the Internet
It’s a great mix of early drops, AoE, removal and some card draw. I was finishing most games by turn 6 or 7. My last two games(after the screenshot) were against the same druid. I lost the first one. I had a slowish start and he put out a wild growth on turn 1. The next game I got a rematch, and finished with 12-2. I only got gold(and the usual pack) in the rewards, which was really cool also. More than 450 gold all told.
The arena 50-dust reward is basically an extra pack, when you’re dusting everything 90% of the time anyway. It’s easy to undervalue it.
I don’t have 2800 gold, but I saved enough that getting there in four weeks is trivial. I kind of want to drop the $20 anyway though, since thinking about it as $20 for 28 packs is a pretty good conversion. That was probably the purpose of their pricing though, so I ain’t gonna play ball.
I had built up a 2000-gold warchest, then went slightly positive in the next few arenas (mainly by not playing one every day) so I’m within spitting distance of 2800; a bit steeper than I was hoping but not bad.
I thought I was a couple of months ago, but then I came down to nearly zero with a losing streak. Now I’m back up to around 1800 gold. So I’m not sure. I think I am positive, but there’s no way to be certain. I play Arena almost exclusively.
Bounced up to 14 using my tempo rogue, getting over 80% wins with it right now. Huh. Guess the meta is tilted towards anti-miracle. Anyone noticing any meta shifts? Or are the teens still kinda weird now?
I’m kinda sorta looking forward to this, but kinda sorta not really, given that the Anubar Ambusher isn’t really that great for Rogue. I might make it fit into my Tempo Rogue, but we’ll see. I’m not too keen on having to put in silences and such given the deathrattle explosion, but that’s neither here nor there. Dancing Swords seem to kinda fit into my Mill Rogue, but given that it can be opponent triggered, I’m not sure if that’s super good either.
More interesting I guess is the ability to have a real “PvE” experience, but that wasn’t really top on my list anyway - I’m more of a PvP kind of guy. I’d be more excited if they implemented replays or some sort of Arena/tournament mix, or maybe a arena/constructed hybrid.
I’m currently hovering around rank 10 with a 50% winrate right now, so I’ve kinda hit a wall too. How’s everyone doing?
I had a total Hearthstone meltdown the other day trying to do double 60-gold Druid quests. I lost like four ranks going like 5 - 25 over the quest. Druid is one of the classes that I had the most experience with. I have no idea how things went so badly. I confess I was a little loaded and after the first few losses I was just an unthinking ball of frustration, so none of that helped any. The next day I win-streak-bonus’d most of it back using that “tempo warrior” deck, which is a pretty fun deck.
Lately I’ve only been playing enough to finish the daily quest. Hit Rank 6 today – not much looking forward to the grind after 5 – don’t know if I’ll try for Legend or not.
Watched some of Trump’s stream this week. He was playing Miracle Rogue. He hit one of those horrible losing streaks, going from better than Legend 100 down to 425 over the course of two days – which seemed to be the lowest Legend rank at the time because he also lost the next game and didn’t go down any further.
I haven’t thought very deeply about it but it appears to me that my losing streaks tend to happen when I just plain get a string of terrible starting hands. I think the game may have too much luck / not enough skill. Particularly with an aggro deck, it is all but impossible to come back when you can’t play on the first couple of turns.
It will be interesting to see how things get shaken up when the new cards start hitting the tables but I suspect that may increase the luck factor even more.
I still have no usable Legendary cards and play only a cheap Zoo deck.
Hit 10 wins on arena woot! On a shaman deck too, which surprised me - shaman is one of my least played, and the deck didn’t have anything special in it, not even a lightning storm.
I said I wouldn’t be excited, but I kinda am right now. Sadly, maintenance probably won’t be done until after I’m asleep, so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
Well, Naxx is here … and it looks like at least Spider Wing (in normal mode) is easy enough. I beat the first boss with a lvl 8 mage, pretty much no fancy cards. If boss hero power is summoning a 3/1 you can just trade hero power activations all day long.
Yeah, first level was easy – played my standard Zoo deck. Typical of such things, the game froze up during second battle. Time to reboot and try again.
Blizzard first day release, so it was super slow; I took down number one with a shaman control-ish deck (in retrospect, mage would have been a better choice, fortunately Lightning Storm came along at the perfect time) and then narrowly beat number two with a paladin rush deck that got my cards in hand to a minimum in a hurry. Don’t think I would have won either vs. a human (in particular, number two took herself down to 6 hit points with a weapon attack. Versus a rush deck. That hadn’t played Leroy yet. And was holding a card.)
But it was so painfully slow that I’m going to give them some time to work out whatever it is.