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Arena real time rankings for people that are good at Arena and want to see how good they are compared to the field but don't have time for 30 runs in a month? 

Yeah, feels kinda weird. What percentage of the voters does play Hearthstone, and what percentage of them plays Arena at a 'serious' level. I haven't took the time to really analyse which card I would pick, which is another issue: looking at the pics from the room it looks pretty much like these people are asked to choose almost instantly.

However, I think it's really cool that Blizzard is putting effort in the Arena. Maybe next time let every Battle.net account vote? : )

Almost 7 months ago I started this thread. My game improved a lot since then and now I can proudly say I made the EU Leaderboard for the first time, 74th with a 7.90 average : )    

Huge thanks to Auto (Winni on Hearthpwn), Zuchi (same name on Hearthpwn), NoWayOut (Trickzy on Hearthpwn) and probably some others who I might have forgotten, for helping me improve my game and cooping a part of the Leaderboardrun games with me, learned a lot from all of you! Also, thanks to true topplayer Zashiki from this thread for the advice you gave me when I asked you annoying draft-related questions again : p

Unfortunately I got close to getting sick of the game because of the huge volume of games in a relatively short time so I might not try again for a while.

If I like the new expansion meta though a few months, who knows.. 

@hintM, the getting burned out on Hearthstone when playing it this much is really relatible. Averaging 1 run a day is really a lot, at least for me.

After being at exactly 7.00 after 18 runs I got on a heater, 'last' 3 runs (run 1 was started in last month so scary and 4 wins so was always gonna do at least 21 before Hallow's End) 12-0, 12-2, 12-0, all three with Warlock, making my best streak of 20 7.90 on average, really hope it's enough for EU leaderboard. 

My run 6  was 11 so was never going to try and better that but run 2, 3, 4, 5 were 7 , 7, 9, 7, tried to better that but went 6 and 5 and gave up.

Average over last 100 runs is now 6.06, next goal will be 6.50 : )

I don't know if it's luck, if I got better or average opponent skill dropped but my average amount of wins this month is far higher than it's ever been for me. Currently at 7.44 over 18 runs, unfortunately with a 2-3 Rogue run in there where I just faced 3 really strong opponents early on. Actually, I have a huge problem with finding the time to do one run/day on average, therefore I would be really pissed if Halloween event runs wouldn't count (cause I absolutely won't be able to get to 30 before the 24th). I like the fact Blizzard comes up with a special Arena event but as a player going for the Leaderboard I also find it kind of weird we only hear this now, would've prefered hearing it before I decided to go for it this month.

@Zashiki, interesting your strongest class is Hunter, I haven't tried it yet. My MVP is Warlock, 3 runs completed (12-2, 9-3, 12-0) and now on a 6-1 with it. What are your results with the class? (Cool thing is that I'm 11-0 against Warlocks this month, making it my best matchup)

Very well done Zashiki, must feel sweet to break your personal record as well : ) 

To motivate myself to get better at playing Arena I keep track of my rolling average over the last 100 runs. With 215 runs in total I now have 115 of these averages. After a pretty swingy period it started rising  again, it's at 5.78 now : ) 

(7 Runs in this season I have a 7,3 average. Definitely the highest I ever had even over such a small sample. Let's keep this up and dodge the  2- or 3-win runs)

After 6 games (1-5) at rank 19/20 I decided to make some changes to the deck, played 4 games with them, went 4-0 : ) 

Kunix, what do you think about:

- 2 x Innervate
- Prince Keleseth
- 1 x Cobalt Scalebane
- Prince Malchezaar
- 1 x Giant Anaconda
- 1 x Volcanosaur

+ 1 x Naturalize
+ 2 x Druid of the Swarm
+ 1 x Power of the Wild
+ 1 x Tortollan Forager
+ 2 x Wrath 

Currently 1-4 around rank 19/20 Standard but I love the idea, thanks for the list! : )

Very well done Tachii, cool to see someone from this thread in the list every month! : ) 

I have +/- 5k, apart from getting to rank 15 in Wild for rewards I only play arena with 5.5 wins average. I buy 40 packs with gold every expansion to fill up the collection and not end up with a useless 30k stack :p

@Slydie, I don't have the card, thinking about crafting it and putting it in though

@SDhn2a, it's http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/875699-kotft-star-combo-the-return-of-the-chansey-wild

with: 

- Shadow Visions
- Lightbomb
- Runic Egg
- Explosive Sheep
- Eater of Secrets
- Kazakus
- Harrison Jones
- Sludge Belcher
- N'zoth
+ Crystalline Oracle
+ Acidic Swamp Ooze
+ Spirit Lash (doubting if I keep this in)
+ Kabal Talonpriest
+ Priest of the Feast
+ Azure Drake
+ Holy Nova
+ Herald Volazj
+ Ragnaros the Firelord

Suggestions are welcome : )

Also, the following  happened with this deck on turn 8:

https://hsreplay.net/replay/ZZjNZJYDu5TinftKFSF6rQ


Forgot to use my free hero power first on turn 10..
Didn't get to kill the Statue on turn 14 because the DK animation made the rope burn up..

The part of the run with OP was really nice, I was 4-2 when he joined and we managed to take it to 8-3 through some sick games.

 Also added Telemachus and CroTeo, I'll see you in the Tavern : )

Very nice deck, I play it with:

- Shadow Visions
- Lightbomb
- Kazakus
- Harrison Jones
- N'Zoth
+ Crystalline Oracle
+ Acidic Swamp Ooze
+ Holy Nova
+ Herald Volazj
+ Ragnaros the Firelord

played 4 games around rank 19: 4-0, got 4 ragnarosses out on turn 8 : ) [don't know how to upload screenshot]

Haha, wtf Birdy, are you trolling or just stupid? @OP, sounds cool, I'll add you tomorrow on EU when I have time. Good you started this thread on hearthpwn, we need more arena talk :)