Inside the Blizzard launcher it is giving my the option to the install the Hearthstone closed beta - hope it works!

1/14/2014 1:02:32 PM

They really fucked the whole card placement up in the patch. Things like defender of argus or flame tongue totem only work half the time and when they do only buffs one of two things. It used to be kinda screwy but if you were patient you could kinda work around it at least but now even if you try it fucks up and lost me a ton of games last night.

1/17/2014 8:13:52 AM

yeah, i'm not sure how that keeps getting worse

1/17/2014 8:57:05 AM

It took me soooooo long to beat the Priest in practice mode. He seems pretty OP with the healing powers. What do you guys think?

1/17/2014 10:23:00 AM

i want to say the warrior is the one i had the most trouble with

1/17/2014 11:10:04 AM

I had to build a custom deck to beat him, and even then I had to build like 3-4 decks! Either I am really terrible(not!) or I was just getting some shitty RnG(most likely since I am badass).

[Edited on January 17, 2014 at 12:13 PM. Reason : /]

1/17/2014 12:13:03 PM

Rank 15 slowly moving on up. This game has so much more flavor of the week than even WoW had. Some guy comes up with a good deck, everyone is using said deck winning games, someone makes a counter deck, that deck wins a bunch of games, rinse repeat. I may not have the best decks but at least I know all mine I have made myself and not just copied someones. More fun that way for me.

1/17/2014 12:35:22 PM

Yeah, this game would get old quick if I did not make my own decks. I like seeing my own work put to use and that makes me want to test it out as much as possible to find the flaws or make improvements. This is the first card game I have ever played and its fun as hell and I want to keep it that way.

1/17/2014 12:43:13 PM

I created a pretty sweet custom deck that I was winning with, but I kept tweaking it until it wasn't effective anymore. Now I can't figure out to get it to working. I broke my own deck and can't figure out how to fix it haha

Deck building is definitely the most fun part of the game.

1/18/2014 11:02:30 AM

I broke down and spent money...

1/18/2014 11:57:46 AM

Nothing worn with that. I may eventually spend some money in the game. Its a great game, and I love it because its not stressful to play and it has great depth.

1/18/2014 12:29:44 PM

I'm tempted to spend a dollar to get gelbin mechatorque

1/18/2014 12:38:52 PM

Made it to rank 9 yesterday

1/19/2014 3:45:05 PM

I bought the 15 packs for $19.99 and don't regret it.

I'll probably do it again too, heh.

1/19/2014 4:20:52 PM

FYI Open Beta started yesterday. Anyone and everyone can play!

1/22/2014 7:04:07 PM

i'm up to rank 20, this is the most i've played in probably over a month

i got a decent early ranked deck, but it's going to fall apart quickly as i move up

[Edited on January 22, 2014 at 8:54 PM. Reason : is mechatorque still a bonus for spending money, or is that extra gone?]

1/22/2014 8:53:46 PM

mage most op?

1/23/2014 8:23:21 AM

Made my second account to play with my fiance with plans to buy no cards so as to be fair to her haha

1/23/2014 9:10:47 AM

You can still get mechatorque until the end of open beta I believe

1/23/2014 9:41:22 AM

i might do that since the 2 times i've lost this season were to people with mechatorques

guess you gotta pay to win

1/23/2014 10:14:28 AM

You really don't

1/23/2014 10:17:23 AM

i don't think mekkatorque is that great

ragnaros, on the other hand...

1/23/2014 10:24:36 AM

Yeah I never use torque, i just bought some packs to get it as a 'collect them all' type deal.

Rag, Black Knight, Ysera, and Tink master appear to be the top legendaries right now.

I own 0 of them haha

1/23/2014 10:31:59 AM

i'm not saying he's great, but he's indicative of who's spent money on packs

[Edited on January 23, 2014 at 10:40 AM. Reason : my kingdom for a ysera ]

1/23/2014 10:39:48 AM

You can get him for spending 2 dollars its not like everyone who has him spent 100 bucks haha. They also could have just paid for an arena

1/23/2014 11:08:05 AM

Sylvanos is strong too supposedly, I don't have her.

1/23/2014 12:58:11 PM

yeah, they nerfed her a little bit but she's still strong

otk hunters are running leeroy

1/23/2014 1:00:48 PM

All legendary cards are situational but not necessary. If the situation comes about where they are useful they are indeed strong, but I have beaten plenty of people who played 5+ legendaries in a game.

1/23/2014 3:53:07 PM

almost got murloc'ed

I love you abomination

1/23/2014 10:52:28 PM

i need leroy

1/24/2014 5:01:18 PM

don't give in to the Darkside

1/24/2014 5:10:16 PM

The Arena is such bullshit ... muthafuckers playing OP cards like a mug!

1/25/2014 4:41:50 PM

had a fun game yesterday, was a Druid playing a Mage

Mage was ahead by like 8 cards, and his last two cards were to sheep my last minion on the field and put down a secret. so I slowly kept poking him with my sheep, hero powering, and watching him die by fatigue without putting out any other minions in case it was a mirror entity. he waited around 3 rounds hoping for me to give him something before conceding

1/25/2014 5:06:07 PM

Made it to rank 7 but running into the wall now with pretty much every person playing 5+ legendaries in every deck. Not unbeatable with my decks but as soon as I get a bad draw I may as well concede so just floating up and down the rank. Card packs need to be kind I have several legendaries but none of the more decent ones that are useful haha

1/27/2014 8:34:10 AM

I was 1 more play away from a win in arena. I had 5 health, opponent had a single paladin minion and no cards. He fucking top decked a blessing of kings and beat me

1/27/2014 10:20:15 AM

same... I've gotten all the shitty legendaries, and none of the good ones... Finally gave in... sharded harrison jones grull and nozdormu and all my foils to grab leeroy.

hunter zerg inc! it may seem cheesey but makes for some really good games...

I've been down to 2-3 hp vs 18+ hp multiple times and won because someone saw red and left up a heyena or buzzard and just went for face

1/27/2014 6:02:14 PM

I got a barely function troll deck in arena

5 firestrikes, 3 polys

I did get destroyed on round 6 with 3 firestrikes in my hand though

1/29/2014 5:39:00 PM

I made it to rank 5 last beta season, gonna start grinding again soon.

1/30/2014 8:03:21 AM

i'm never letting a priest keep a minion on the board again. especially not Imp Masters or Mogu'shan Wardens

1/30/2014 9:58:49 AM

Thats what all the lesser priests try to do, get a minion double its health, make attack equal to health, smash your face. If it doesnt work they lose. Just make sure you save a silence or some other removal for when it comes. Sometimes its actually better to let them do it just so they blow all their cards and then it gets silenced or killed. Better priests will play control and use their heal to make it difficult to get good trades. So yeah if they are dropping a bunch of high health minions they are just trying to get it set up so plan on it coming. Granted sometimes the cards just dont fall right and there is nothing you can really do anyways.

1/31/2014 9:22:35 AM

yeah, neither of the two silences in my deck were in my hand at that time

1/31/2014 10:28:08 AM

So I started ranked and have been running either a temp rogue deck or druid deck full of taunts (ancient watchers OP). So far the druid deck has done the best, and I've lost about 4 games from 25->14 4 starts at this point. 2 of the losses were heal heavy paladins and others were a nice shaman OTK deck and a warrior when I had really bad mulligans. Definitely faced druids the most but have been pretty lucky against them so far.

How are everyone else's rankeds going?

1/31/2014 7:13:50 PM

I think I'm rank 16? I had one bad loss to a inner fire/divine whateve combo, and the rest are to carbon copy top teir decks (the control Druid + Rag + etc)

I'm using a Druid deck that was primarily taunts, but I've been slowly fazing out a few of them as I get dust for more cards

1/31/2014 7:23:10 PM

Anyone want to add me to their freinds list and play a few rounds later?

bumptown#1985

1/31/2014 11:01:12 PM

Love this game. I dropped $19.99 on the card packs as a "this is worth money" gesture.

I play maybe 7-10 matches a day to get the daily bonuses and continue leveling up all my characters to get basic cards. Then every 2-3 days cash in for an Arena run.

Arena is by far the most fun aspect for me, as sealed/booster draft was equally why I played MTG for so long. But I am still soo fucking nooby. I still really don't understand the meta game, and its incredibly easy to lose focus and draft a horribly unbalanced deck (either get temped to just grab rares, or to become too one sided).

In constructed, I'm really starting to understand more of the base meta game and how the various champions really work for and against others. My first day with the game I won 34 matches in a row, but spend the next week getting slaughtered (one day I lost at least 10 straight) while tinkering with deck designs that just didn't work.

The more I play, the more I can tell the game designers really thought it through well. The basics may bear resemblance to MTG, but this game is fundamentally different in every way shape and form. That's probably been the hardest part for me is unlearning the MTG meta game. Having creatures with stateful health and having no interrupt model both still give me mental fits

1/31/2014 11:13:18 PM

Played some this weekend need a few more days for the really great decks to filter up to the top ranks. Seems like the majority of decks are rush decks just due to being able to burn through games fast. Built a druid deck to counter the rush decks but every other one it just gets destroyed. Taking the time to rebuild some of my other class decks and try new things before I get ranked higher where I dont wanna blow games trying out new decks.

2/3/2014 9:18:31 AM

Yeah starting after ranked reset is really chaotic. Get one game someone coin life taps, then the next they drop 5 legendaries. Luckily I've played for a while and can build most parts of the decks posted online.

When I made it to rank 5, everyone had really good decks and a lot more of the results were based on skill. Definitely hard to climb past rank 10 or so without a good deck.

2/3/2014 12:56:04 PM

Once you start getting past rank 5 in all honesty it comes down to mostly luck because everyone has good decks. Whoever draws their cards in a better order and/or wins the RNG game generally wins. This is why getting from rank 5 to legendary takes forever and only people who can play a shit ton of games typically make it.

What I have noticed is whenver I watch the guys who stream, the next day you will see 50% of the people you play using the exact same deck. It is pretty sad that so many people just copy others decks, also if you paid attention and know the deck well you can quickly build a counter to it and snag a few extra wins before people switch to the next flavor of the day deck.

2/3/2014 1:20:22 PM

When the decks are evenly matched, luck is probably the determining factor. I would definitely say building to beat the meta is a skill, however. If you're seeing tons of control druid and can build decks that work against that and don't suck against the other 60% of opponents you're much better off than someone just copying and pasting decks from a website.

2/3/2014 9:43:26 PM

Just got Leeroy from an arena pack. I'll take it.

2/8/2014 5:32:02 PM