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You can play this game on your ipad. My daughter in now hooked. Devices are, fortunately, out of power now. We get to go explore real world.

Kinda wish i had an Ipad. or if they made it avail to other tablets as well. Lucky Apple users

Android and iPhone releases are in the works. I think Android will take a bit longer since it has to be workable on phones, too, after seeing that they split the iPad and iPhone releases.

Bringing the conversation from the other thread over:

To me, Warlock hero power is stupid powerful. Look at HP as a resource to be used, and 2 Mana, 2 Health to draw a card can be ridiculous especially late game when you can be tapping every turn. It's why the low-cost-minion decks like Zoo and Wurlock are so effective. Once you hit like 5+ mana, you can be drawing and playing 2+ cards almost every turn. I'm actually kind of expecting some sort of nerf to it, probably increasing the damage done to the hero to 3.

Drafted a cool Mage deck in Arena. If I weren't garbage, I bet it could be good for 10+ wins. I'll be lucky to con 6 out of it:


I would have liked another Fireball, and another Water Elemental, but overall I think I can do well with it. It could use some more 2-mana minions, too.

Edited, Apr 19th 2014 11:14am by Spoonless

Learning to accept that is really the key to getting Warrior and Rogue decks workable.

Yesterday, I played a Rogue who equipped their Assassin's Blade (3 damage, 4 durability) and then used deadly poison (+2 attack to weapon) on a turn when I only had a Lord of the Arena out (6/6). He had a stupid 1/1 minion available, and he could have cleared my field and then whacked my health with some other small minions (would have been like 3 damage to me).

Instead, he decided to not attack at all.

Next turn, I threw out my Ooze and destroyed his 4 charge weapon, still had my taunt, and was able to field more minions to get control of the board.

Fool.

It's key to not being a bad player, really.

Well, I seem to have plateaued at 16-14 with Paladin this season. I'm trying to build my own decks and not netdeck, but it seems like every time I make a deck, I come up against one thing that wrecks me, and then catch that same thing 8 games in a row. Today it has been Priests just absolutely wrecking me in the lategame. Oh well, maybe I can hit 12. I guess I could netdeck that midrange Hunter that everyone is talking about, but I just don't care for Hunter play.

I think I'm going to save up some dust to craft a Black Knight.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2014 11:10am by Spoonless

Priests are particularly popular right now, from what I understand.

I avoid ranked play like the plague, because I'm too cheap to buy legendary cards, and I lack the stamina to even try ranking up without legendary cards. Losing five times in a row to a Hunter running an Unleashed combo deck (read: every Hunter ever) would result in property damages far exceeding the amount of entertainment I would have received from the game at that point.

Edited, Apr 24th 2014 12:56am by Mazra

You start at Rank 25, and cannot lose any stars until you are above Rank 20. You can never go back below Rank 20 once you hit it in the season (I think you can start he next season below 20 again, but I'm not sure). Each Rank you gain gives you bonus stars at the start of the next season, when the ladder resets (so you don't start all the way at the bottom again). I believe at Rank 5 and higher, you no longer get bonus stars for win streaks, but that's going off the top of my head so I'm probably wrong. You climb the ranks up to Rank 1, after which point the next rank is Legendary status. Once you hit Legendary, you cannot drop back down to Rank 1. You can try to climb the Legendary Rank to be #1 in your region. If you hit Rank 20 in a season, you get a special card back for it at the end of the season, and if you hit Legendary, you get a card back for that, too.

I like Casual because you end up playing against more varied decks, as people are trying to complete quests, etc. When you play Ranked, you tend to see a lot of the same decks, and if you're not running a counter to those decks, it can be extremely frustrating.

Have you played Arena at all? Sometimes you get some dust as a reward when you finish your run.

Here's how Arena seems to go for me:

Draft a deck. Either think the deck is pretty good with a nice curve and can get me to 5 wins, or think it's total sh*t and consider retiring it before even using it once. If I think the deck is pretty decent or maybe even good, I'll get ROFLstomped two games in a row, probably dying before Turn 6. Then I'll stomp some other poor 0-2 person, and fight my way up to a heavily contested 2-4 wins. If I think the deck is complete garbage, I'll breeze through 2 or 3 wins somehow, before getting wrecked for a game or two, and then eke out another couple of wins and finish with 4-6 wins.

Oh, and I slipped down to Rank 17 with my Paladin deck. Everything I play against is hyper aggro right now, and by the time I can stabilize with my control deck, the other person is only a turn or two away from their in-hand win condition (@#%^ you, Miracle Rogue). Control Warrior actually looks like it can work, but I really want to make Paladin work.

Edited, Apr 24th 2014 1:44pm by Spoonless

I had the best win last night. I was down to 2 hps, the other guy at 24 I think. He/she was taunting me the whole game til I won. Then I got an apology.

I must have let out a big celebatory 'hoot' as my husband responded that I had probably made some twelve year old kid cry. Heck at least I didn't take any cards away from him. The comment put a damper on my triumph however.

One of the best parts of Arena to me is the ability to bluff. Since everyone is playing these draft decks, it's hard to know what the other player has. For this reason, I like occasionally drafting an Ancient Watcher even if I have no way to activate it. Dropping it on Turn 1 or 2 can be a great move, since the other player will often try to deal with it before I would have a chance to activate it. Of course, I'll try to at least draft a Sunfury Protector, Defender of Argus, or some form of Silence, but I haven't found myself to be too held back if I don't pull an activate.

Edit: Man, I just beat a Priest in Arena with a Shaman deck, where the Priest got me down to 7 health while having 27 himself. My mid- and late-game minions just put up some impenetrable defenses. That was an awesome win.

Edited, Apr 26th 2014 2:36pm by Spoonless

I got to Rank 17 this weekend. Then things got hairy. I started running into way over-powered cards. This mage lew me up with like 20pts in direct damage in one turn - all by-passing taunt.

I hit a bunch of reward spots though and got a bunch of gold so bought two arena decks - those games actually seem more fun.

Warlock plays a bunch of murlocs (low cost cards) and then uses the synergy of the murloc cards and the mega buffs of Power Overwhelming (low cost buff card) to suddenly have super mega damage on the board. The gimmick is that you can hold back the cards, due to their low cost, enabling you to play them all at a later turn, preventing your opponent from setting up a counter.



Edited, Apr 28th 2014 10:34pm by Mazra