I just got Gorehowl, so I swapped it with a Fiery War Axe. I'm basically trading early game damage for a late-game coup-de-grace, I've been in too many situations where the opponent was at 6 or 7 health and I couldn't sustain any momentum and ended up losing. This at least gives me a some end-game punch that the deck really lacks.
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I'm interested in knowing how everyone's doing in this game and how much time and money they have spent.
Me personally, I can't seem to get higher than rank 17. I spent $20 so far on packs and I typically play perhaps a dozen matches in day. I record my matches in the hopes of finding ways to improve my play, but I typically just play more rather than watch myself lose again :-P
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Yeah it kinda gets frustrating playing against all these legendary cards when you don't have them, but apparently this guy got to rank 1 with this deck yesterday..
Spoiler!
..which only has Nat Pagle, and if you don't have him you can sub in another manatide totem. It gives me hope that this game isn't 100% pay to win
I'm guessing there was a little luck involved with him getting to Rank 1 with that deck. Good setup though.
I've been up to Rank 18 with $10 invested in the game so far. No legendaries sadly. My arena attempts are always awful. The best I've done is 3 lousy wins, and that was because the arena was nice enough to give me Ysera. My basic strategy must suck.
Fun match I had in draft: I'm shaman, playing against a paladin... I get the early good start, but a well timed consecration from my opponent nullifies my board advantage (including lots of totems and other weenies, who I was hoping to sacrifice to cult master had he played a threat), and by virtue of having beefier creatures, opponent nullifies my card advantage too. He drops an argent commander with blessing of wisdom (hey, I was using that combo on my previous run!) which uses its shield to attack one of my guys, then puts another blessing of wisdom on a damaged earthen ring farseer that's now a 3/2. I go cult master, bluegill warrior, ancenstral spirit on the bluegill to wipe his board and draw two cards!
After some frost elemental shenanigans (you want to hit my 4/4 with your frost elemental, well I'm gonna freeze him with mine!), I manage to stick an imp master for a bit, but then my opponent drops some big threats. I throw out two more cult masters (love that card!) and suicide three 1/1s to draw six cards. Shortly after, I suicide my cult masters into some weakling just to avoid fatigue damage. After he copies my fire elemetal with faceless manipulator, I'm stuck in a bad board position again. Fortunately, by big draw earlier had given me hexes and with their mana efficiency I'm able to make enough efficient trades to stick a board that deals lethal with bloodlust. Game ends with me at 2 life and opponent at -3, after I've taken 10 damage in fatigue from drawing four cards past the end of my deck. If his board hadn't killed me the next turn (say I wiped with bloodlust instead of going for the face), the 5 fatigue would have done it anyways.
Fun match I had in draft: I'm shaman, playing against a paladin... I get the early good start, but a well timed consecration from my opponent nullifies my board advantage (including lots of totems and other weenies, who I was hoping to sacrifice to cult master had he played a threat), and by virtue of having beefier creatures, opponent nullifies my card advantage too. He drops an argent commander with blessing of wisdom (hey, I was using that combo on my previous run!) which uses its shield to attack one of my guys, then puts another blessing of wisdom on a damaged earthen ring farseer that's now a 3/2. I go cult master, bluegill warrior, ancenstral spirit on the bluegill to wipe his board and draw two cards!
After some frost elemental shenanigans (you want to hit my 4/4 with your frost elemental, well I'm gonna freeze him with mine!), I manage to stick an imp master for a bit, but then my opponent drops some big threats. I throw out two more cult masters (love that card!) and suicide three 1/1s to draw six cards. Shortly after, I suicide my cult masters into some weakling just to avoid fatigue damage. After he copies my fire elemetal with faceless manipulator, I'm stuck in a bad board position again. Fortunately, by big draw earlier and given me hexes and with their mana efficiency I'm able to make even trades to stick a board that deals lethal with bloodlust. Game ends with me at 2 life and opponent at -3, after I've taken 10 damage in fatigue from drawing four cards past the end of my deck. If his board hadn't killed me the next turn (say I wiped with bloodlust instead of going for the face), the 5 fatigue would have done it anyways.
... and that's why I love this game.
This post is why I record every single match I play
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Ville Nieminen
Sticking blessing of wisdom on a gadgetzan auctioneer = bliss.
I'm loving the auctioneer in a druid deck I'm running, can't believe I overlooked this card for so long.
I saw a rather unothodox use for blessing of wisdom. My opponent actually used it on my Dread Infernal. Pretty clever as I'm unlikely to take out my own minion. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to convince me not to attack with it.
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Weirdness, my paladin runs are going way better than mage runs lately.
I'll have to make a pally deck sometime, I need more familiarity with it. Hunter too.
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"I would love to be a goal scorer, but this is how I have to play. You do whatever brings meatloaf to the table."
Ville Nieminen
I got to experience the joy of coming back to win after getting stomped to 1 health. Opponent was nearly at full making it all the sweeter
I'd post the video but I need some time to edit it, he got really mad and timer-griefed me for the last few turns. At least I was playing windowed so I could do some browsing while waiting. I hope he broke something
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"I would love to be a goal scorer, but this is how I have to play. You do whatever brings meatloaf to the table."
Ville Nieminen
I'm trying something different in my arena run this time, taking a Warrior and focusing on early game cards. I only have one card higher than 5: a Frost Elemental, but I did take 3 Arcanite reapers. So far I'm 2-0 but both games were pretty close.
I think too many times I would only select the best card available and not consider how "expensive" my deck is. Having a lot of 2 and 3 cost cards means I should at least have something to play each turn. We'll see what happens.
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"I would love to be a goal scorer, but this is how I have to play. You do whatever brings meatloaf to the table."
Ville Nieminen
I think too many times I would only select the best card available and not consider how "expensive" my deck is. Having a lot of 2 and 3 cost cards means I should at least have something to play each turn. We'll see what happens.
While I never disregard mana curve entirely, I haven't really been able to correlate it to my success rates. Card quality (tempo swings, AoEs, blowouts) and mini-combos seem to be more important.
I've soured on Warrior considerably since the nerf to warsong commander. Kind of want to try Hunter though... the pros rate(d) him terribly, but he seems to be responsible for most of my losses.
Downloaded the open Beta, really like that its free to play and you can play the arena with no disadvantage to the Play for money players. Right now I am just building up each hero to get all the basic cards. So far I like Shaman the best. My wife is unimpressed by this game. I can't wait until it has an Ipad version as playing on a laptop is kind of annoying.
