Hearthstone babble and other random gamesFollow

It is really annoying when you jump onto a new level 0 hero and they pair you against someone who has a more advanced deck. I get that they're looking at rankings to pair people, but deck really needs to be taken into account. Some kind of formula to measure deviation from standard card options. weighted against the rest.

I know you can level up in practice mode to get more class cards, but it's just less fun, since you can't do quests there.

Also, Trump (http://www.twitch.tv/trumpsc) is currently working on a Free-to-Play Warlock. He's currently just going through the initial quests, but should be playing against other people soon enough. It's worthwhile to check out sometime. He's good about explaining his thought process, and even if he gets a legendary in a deck he won't be using it, so it's reassuring to see someone play well without them. He ran a F2P Mage and Shaman to Legendary in the test season.

Oh, and he doesn't play any music which I like because then I can put my own music on instead of being forced to listen to some sh*tty wubstep or whatever some other streamers play.

Also, also, it's worth checking out the unique quest list. I didn't realize that beating all the Expert AI would give 100 gold. I can probably get a couple decks from quests I haven't done on that list.

Edited, Apr 12th 2014 3:06pm by Spoonless

I got up to Rank 12 with my Paladin deck the other night, and was really excited about it. Then on Sunday, I think I only won a single game with it and lost a bunch, went on tilt, lost a bunch more, and fell back down to 16. I'm back up to 15 but now I need to figure out what to fix in my deck. Trying Rogue out for a little while in the meantime.

Still doing pretty mediocre at Arena. My best run was 7 wins, but a good run for me at the moment is 5, with typical runs coming in the 2-3 win range.

I've only done two arenas. I think I picked pretty bad cards the second time so my totals were three wins then two wins. Then I was out of gold. I'm still out of gold.

How do I get more gold?

Keeping sufficient cards in my hand to even be able to use up my mana seems to be my biggest challenge in Arena.

Your daily quests, and then you get 10 gold per every 3 wins in Casual or Ranked play (up to 100 gold per day). Usually in Arena I'll get at least 25 gold back at the end, plus the card pack. So it costs me a little more than just buying the pack with gold but I really like Arena so it's worth it.

A lot of the top-level Arena players just basically get infinite gold out of it because they can consistently hit 8+ wins. They can get more than enough gold for a new run, plus the daily quests and other gold income. I aim to earn enough gold for a single Arena run every day.

Magic in Hearthstone has a more direct effect. They're actually sort of like WoW's CDs. Sometimes you stack 'em (a la Bloodlust), and sometimes you save them for a pinpoint effect (think Antimagic Zone).

The effects with high synergy typically come directly from minions. Which isn't completely different from MTG, but there's less in-between with the two card types.

I think I kind of misrepresented his playstyle. It's not necessarily that you should be getting value out of your cards, but he prefers cards that you can get value for on the first turn they're able to be played. So, he tends to dislike cards where say it's a 2 mana cost card, but you have to wait until Turn 8 to pair it with a big minion to get value out of it.

I think I need to work more early game card draw into my Paladin deck. Right now, I'm pretty much not drawing extra cards until Turn 8+ when I can use Lay on Hands. I tried a Gadgetstan Auctioneer for mid-game draw potential, but it doesn't seem to really be working out. Maybe I can incorporate some Loot Hoarders into the deck.

Edited, Apr 14th 2014 1:42pm by Spoonless

Yeah, a lot of it has to do with heroes having only 30 health, I think.

Actually, Loot Hoarders are a good idea for my deck anyway, as they can work with Redemption too, though using Redemption with them is not ideal. Maybe take out some of my late-game heavy hitters for mid-game value.

Also, I swear every Druid I've faced over the past two days has gone second and thrown out a Chillwind Yeti on turn 1. God damn, I haven't pulled any answers out of my deck yet!

Edited, Apr 14th 2014 2:13pm by Spoonless

2 things.

1. I freaking hate shaman.
2. If the freaking fuse appears 3 times in one game because you're taking so long, you're an @#%^.

[EDIT]
Okay, 3 things.
3. There needs to be a visible turn timer.

Edited, Apr 17th 2014 9:38pm by idiggory

Animations need to be worked on, and something has to be done to limit their impact on the amount of time you have to make a turn. A Warrior with that card where when a friendly minion or whatever takes damage, gain 1 Armor can have animations lasting for 20-30 seconds if they had a full board and you cleared it. I had a Warrior have that one and another card that gave an on-damage proc. I had to use two Consecrates to clear his board, and the animations took forever. I get wanting to visually indicate each card effect proc, but there should be an option for simplified animations or something where it'll show the animation once and just apply the correct number of effects. So, show the little glowy ******** once and apply the 8 armor or so instead of showing me 8 animations for 1 armor each.

Shaman is ********* I play it, never get the totems I want. I play against it, miracle ******** perfect totem calls all the time. Confirmation bias, HO!

Renamed my awesome Paladin deck to "PalaWIN". Lost every game since renaming it. Made a new Paladin deck called "Probably Bad". I'm 4-0 in Ranked with it so far. Of course, that might also be due to dropping back down to 16.

I think this falls along the line of how you know a guy in a random dungeon group named "Leetrouge" is probably bad. People saw PalaWIN and assumed you suck so they were relaxed and at an advantage.