Hearthstone Arena

[uberfish]

I think what happened is the threat level of early drops in arena increased a lot. It's not uncommon to see a 4/4 on turn 3 now as opposed to 3/3, and if you don't have an answer to a t2 micro machine you're in trouble too. plus whoever's ahead gets more out of Spare Parts. That's why playing more control/card advantage oriented decks now carries a higher risk of being blown out early. I also feel it's important to have enough 4 damage effects in order to grab tempo in the current arena, there are a huge amount of x/4 cards around now (which also makes yetis even more godlike.)

[pindicator]

Or the shaman that opens coin + Whirling Zap o matic on T1 and a second Whirling on T2. That's a lot of damage...

[pindicator]

If you ever get the chance to draft Malganis, the card is crazy in arena.



Every game he hit the board I won. One of my losses came against another warlock that managed to get him down first (via voidcaller, no less). He's just nuts

[Sian]

Just had a surprisingly good Priest Arena Run ending at 9-3, after getting a total of 3-9 over the last three previous arenas my feelings was, that those decks was at least equally as good.

Argent Squire
Cogmaster
Leper Gnome
Northshire Cleric
Shadow Word: Paing
Dire Wolf Alpha
Explosive Sheep
Gilblin Stalker
Shrinkmeister
Thoughtsteal
Dark Cultist (x3)
Harvest Golem
Raging Worgen
Arcane Nullifier X-21
Burly Rockjaw Trogg
Lightspawn
Mechanical Yeti
Sen'jin Shieldmasta
Stormwind Knight
Holy Nova
Azure Drake
Hemet Nesingwary
Silver Hand Knight
Sludge Belcher
Upgraded Repair Bot
Holy Fire
Force-Tank MAX
Mind Control

Certainly got a lot of respect for Arcane Nullifier since my opponents for the most part had a hell of a time getting through it without depending on spells, and it became even stronger when i was able to follow up with my upgrade repair bot

ended up with 255g, 50 dust, Antique Healbot, Anodized Robo Cub, Tinkertown Technician, Cobalt Guardian and Blingtron 3000 ... my first G&G Legendary

[Ichabod]

What were the other legendary options for you to draft Hemet Nesingwary?

[Sian]

can't remember, as the draft was three days ago ... remember that none of them seemed interesting through

[pindicator]

Careful with your arena runs - there's currently a bug where you don't actually get the gold the arena reward says you get. I didn't notice until I was out of gold that stuff wasn't adding up right, and from the battle.net forums I can see I'm not the only one.

[uberfish]

Also I managed to go 12 wins with a tempo mage, this was my first 12 win run since the release is only notable because I didn't have Flamestrikes or Blizzards (2 frostbolt, 2 fireball, 1 poly), with two losses to perfect answers on curve. cards that stood out were

Zombie chow - Bad in the late game but worth drafting over any 2 drop because it gains so much tempo if played on turn 1. Also, if you have these or other playable 1-drops, it is worth mulliganing all 3+ mana cards in the opening hand imo, unless you have the 2-3-4 curve going first.

Spider tank - really strong coined on turn 2, especially against 2/3s like the aforementioned zombie. The exorcist is also very often a 3/4 taunt.

Piloted shredder - Very annoying to play both with and against. When it spawns Doomsayer it can randomly spoil the game. If you're about to die to an overwhelming board, kill this and pray...

Twilight drake - both an overrated and underrated card. Slightly worse than a yeti overall because it sucks in top deck wars, it doesn't often come down as a 4/7 and it sometimes runs into owl/earth shock losing massive tempo. However yetis are godlike in the new environment of 4 health 3-drops, and it's a yeti+ often enough to be worth drafting.

Force tank - this is very difficult to remove and works as a finisher even in a deck full of cheap stuff

[Dantski]

Warrior rushes me hard but then he tried to attack the final bastion of the Priests, the temple of doom!

[uberfish]

Ouch