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DagothGares
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posted November 08, 2014 01:10 PM |
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I hope that priest stops wrecking, but it doesn't look it. What annoys me is that a lot of these cards are ridiculously RNG. Like, I've accepted that there's some RNG in HS (ragnaros is what I've accepted and some random deathrattles and the card draw and who gets the coin.) but mage seems to get the shaft a little with all that RNG. And what's worse priest just gets consistent cards again.
We'll see how things go, I guess.
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emilsn91
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posted December 01, 2014 12:45 PM |
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Goblins Vs. Gnomes
I am actually looking forward to this expansion. I really think some of the new cards look really interesting and usable, and some are just funny and worthless (like the Ogre ones).
Atm I am only playing priest and really trying to boost my deck with new and stronger cards, but I aint buying packs so it is tough to get a better deck. But you can also add me as emilsn
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DagothGares
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posted December 01, 2014 12:51 PM |
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Yo, feeble cursed one. You should add your battletag. 
Been playing tokin drood, handlock and secrets mage, recently.
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Minion
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posted December 01, 2014 04:18 PM |
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Playing Tempo-Warrior and reached my highest rank 9 yay ;D Last season that is. It is fun and has lots of decisions, at least more than my Aggro-mage it feel like. And I got Gromash so finally I have a proper finisher for this type of deck.
The Priest match-up is such a pain the butt! I must have like 30% winrate in that one.
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emilsn91
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posted December 01, 2014 04:21 PM |
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emilsn#2428
-I am using this deck - Low Budget Priest Control - I do not have all the cards, but only missing a few. 
I also like to play the rush warrior, but again I have only really invested in the priest decks. and I am not planning on throwing money after this game ( no offense blizzard)
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DagothGares
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posted December 01, 2014 04:30 PM |
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I got tempo rogue to rank 5 before naxx. Tempo rogue is very dead now, but maybe GvG can help that. This season I was just rank 9. I never seem to be able to get motivated enough to go higher than 9, except that one month I just kept spamming tempo rogue.
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Minion
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posted December 01, 2014 04:33 PM |
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Shauku#2280
I'd like to get Auchenai Soulpriests myself too so I could make a Priest deck, still missing those.
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War-overlord
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posted December 01, 2014 04:38 PM |
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Emilsn and Minion, would you care to state whether you're on a EU or US server?
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Minion
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posted December 01, 2014 04:41 PM |
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Oh yeah I'm on EU server.
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War-overlord
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posted December 01, 2014 04:42 PM |
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Thank you, Minion. You've been added to the masterpost.
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emilsn91
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posted December 01, 2014 04:52 PM |
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EU as well
I had to craft the two Auchenai ... only what 200 - but still I have disenchanted all non-usable cards.
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War-overlord
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posted December 01, 2014 04:55 PM |
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Thank you, Emilsn, you've also been added.
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Minion
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posted December 02, 2014 12:51 PM |
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My Temp-Warrior is great against Zoo and Hunter, but the problem is other match ups  Nearly unwinnable against Control Warrior and Control Priest. I think I don't know how to play against control anyways! Either too fast and overextend or too slow and have nothing to match their late game big guns ;/
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emilsn91
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posted December 02, 2014 01:04 PM |
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Playing a control priest most of the time, I find rush decks a little annoying, but mostly if I am drawing the wrong cards.
But else I cannot really tell you how to beat control decks. They are insanely annoying because they can last so long.
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emilsn91
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posted December 03, 2014 03:26 PM |
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The expansion will be out 9th december.
and they just released some cool new cards
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War-overlord
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posted December 03, 2014 03:28 PM |
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emilsn91 said:
and they just released some cool new cards
Yeah they did.
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DagothGares
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posted December 03, 2014 03:33 PM |
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Looking forward to playing pirate rogue. God, I would've been much more enthousiastic, if they'd released the one-eyed cheat instead of that stupid shield gnome a few days back.
EDIT: Be ready for the launch event, by the way. Everyone's getting a free arena run. Time to farm scrubs.
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Minion
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posted December 03, 2014 03:51 PM |
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First arena run will be chaotic, don't have a clue what to pick. Do you guys have a lot of gold saved up for the expansion?
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War-overlord
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posted December 03, 2014 03:52 PM |
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Minion said:
First arena run will be chaotic, don't have a clue what to pick. Do you guys have a lot of gold saved up for the expansion?
No, I haven't played in a while. I had some trouble with one of the Nax bosses and just didn't play for a while.
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DagothGares
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posted December 03, 2014 04:55 PM |
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Arena is pretty simple, once you've played it a couple of times. Well, I spend almost an hour every day waching other people do it, while doing it myself. I can share some tips for for arena here, if you'd like.
After buzzard got nerfed, I didn't play for a month, because I couldn't play beastmaster hunter anymore, so my money is low. Only about 300 gold, but I've got a 5 win arena run still going and 160 gold worth of quests as well, so I can play arena practically idefinitely for a while.
Dagoth's journey of understanding arena can be described in several phases:
1) Eating snow and dying:
While this is not strictly necessary, it may be inevitable that this happens to you. Whether you got a bad draft or you're bad at the game or your opponent snuck his constructed deck into arena, you will die, you may even have 0 win runs. I have had 4 12 win runs and it hasn't been two months since my last 0 win run, so trust me, it happens to the best of us. Take your time to see what cards you lost to, how you could have prevented that, what cards are hard to deal with and what cards are not.
2) Oh, so there's people who play this stuff professionally?
There are professional hearthstone players and streamers who always give advice on arena and the value of cards. there are also web sites who use statistical analysis to figure out what cards have great win ratios. this website and and this website will help you greatly in figuring out which cards are good and which are bad. I used sites like these to pick cards in the draft.
3) Oh, god I keep dying early:
Then, armed with the knowledge and knowing how to pick valuable cards in arena, I started drafting plenty of two drops and 1 drops. I usually got around 9-12 of them. I consistently got about 2-3 wins with this strategy. I stopped dying early, since I always had enough 2 drops. I started dying really late to all the clever people with removal and big taunts. In this step I started out getting all the early drops.
4) Your deck must be like a fine woman: Curves all the way out nice and slow.
I started appreciating the value of cards and getting big bodies and late game minions as well as early drops. Often I have a cruve that peaks nicely at three or four and then nicely flows down all the way to 6 or 7 mana.
5) Youmi
After about 800~~ games of arena you start predicting all the possibe countermoves your opponent has, because you've been destroyed by every possible countermoves at least twice. You can start smelling it in the air when they have flamestrike or mind control or polymorph or deathwing or some other stupid legendary and you start preparing for these contingency cases.
Some drafting tips and priorities listed by their importance:
1) Get cards that win: Get 5-7 big fat guys or big fat spells. I'm talking boulderfist ogres and venture co mercenaries here.
2) Don't die early: Get 7-9 cards at least that are between 1-3 mana and you can just play by your own (so dire wolf alpha or cruel taskmaster wouldn't count, becaus ethey're situational.)
3) Don't die somewhere in between: Get 4-6 cards that cost 4-5 mana to stay alive or catch up in the mid game.
4) Cards you must always pick no matter the circumstance:
Druid: swipe (After about 20 swipes, i guess you may want to get some other cards)
Rogue: evis and SI7 (literally never have enough of these)
Shammie: fire elemental (after about 6-7 of them, I guess you have enough)
Warrior: Fiery War axe (after about 6 you probably have enough)
Mage: 2 or 3 Flamestrikes are enough. Always get water elemental.
Priest: THE DAMNED STAND READY!
Warlock: Flame imps win games. But they are risky picks. Warlock is generally a very risky class in arena.
Hunter: Always Highmane, but I don't play hunter in arena, because I suck harder that a black hole at hunter in arena.
Paladin: Truesilver or bust.
5) Neutral cards that are insane:
Mad bomber, diron dwarf, yeti, SOMETHING FEELS FUNNY and boulderfist.
General playtips:
1) If you're ahead by far, play less than 4 minions. Mind control tech is a game changer and makes me super paranoid, they always have it, just like flemstrike.
2) When a mage clearly has flamestrike or looks like she's setting up for it, don't be afraid to sacrifice low health minions. Keeping a small board with high health minions is very hard to deal with as a mage.
3) Put your weakest minion in the middle against rogue and hunter to counteract betrayal and explosive shot.
General strategy:
- Mulligan so you can always play something early, anything higher that is 4 or higher should generally not be in your hand. Don't keep more than 1 removal spell in your hand at the start of the game, because YOU need to play something on the field, if you want to win.
- GET BOARD CONTROL, GET BOARD CONTROL, KILL HIS MINIONS AND MAKE YOUR MINIONS LIVE. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT DO THIS. THE ONLY EXCUSE IS WHEN YOU CAN GET LETHAL.
- ALWAYS CHECK LETHAL WHEN YOU ARE WINNING HARD.
Anyway, brief tutorial for arena. Hope it helps. Good luck and your soul hall suffer!
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