Hearthpwn

So after like 10 arenas, what I notice:

1- Still Mages all the time, everywhere, playing the exact same old cards with one Flamestrike on average per deck. Seriously almost every Mage I've played still cast Flamestrike at least once. When will it end?

2- The tri-class discover cards and the dude who makes potions can be really game-breaking or total garbage. I don't know how I feel about that. I like the discover aspect better because at least you get a choice, the one who gives a random potion... eh. The variance is too large. You can get a useless freeze of a giant board clear and no one can predict which will happen. I find that pretty stupid and unfun, generally.

3- So many Daring Reporters 

4- Haven't seen a single person make any Jade cards work in any of my games nor any of the games I've watched. 

5- Bomb  Squad is really insane

6- Mistress of Mixtures add another annoying one drop that heavily favors all 1 damage hero power classes, or just Priest's stupid Talonpriest / power word. Could have done without that.

7- Abyssal Enforcer is ridiculous

8- Unliscensed Apothecary makes you die really fast but no one wants to kill it, it's kind of like a Fel Reaver

The hand buff mechanic hasn't been too strong against me.
Really wish they had done something about Mage and not helped Priest with a really unfair card, though I really don't see that many priests anyway. Mage is still just stupidly better, or maybe people just default to that class at the start of every expansion. I don't know. Certainly if they finally just removed Flamestrike, it might change that.

Just did a bad 9-3 with mage. Again half the games won with Flamestrike, every mage I played had flamestrike and I played a ton of them.

MSG changed nothing. They can release all the cards they want, until they remove Flamestrike or change the rarity, nothing will be different.

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I actually just attempted a Jade Golem Rogue arena - photo below. I took stuff like Coldlight, Gang Up, Shadowstep, etc. which are generally considered weak, and put together something OKish. But I couldn't get the golems above 5.

Yeah I'm really really hating the Kabal Chemist in arena.
There's too many potions and too big a range between them. You can get a polymorph, which does literally nothing as your opponent always knowns what it is, or you can get the felfire potion, which threatens to clear any board or to deal 5 burst.

It's way too random and swingy, I hate that card, and it's common. What a huge mistake to have that in arena at that rarity imo

I agree that if Jade cards were too common then it would be pretty annoying to play against over and over, but as it is now they're too rare to make any impact ( usually ) so it's kind of a waste.
Like you won't pick jade cards even early because the expected number you'll get is too low to make the risk worth it.

I really don't think the jade mechanic is that great in arena anyway, it could use a boost. The best part too is that even if it's a little too good, when the next expansion rolls around it'll kill the jade mechanic automatically anyway.

Talonpriest is so much worse than you'd think. I can't get a minion to ever live to be buffed and that's insane. 
You mostly only get the buff if you play it the same turn, or later in the game. 

Like. The game is so degenerate that just having a minion live a turn = you win anyway lol.

I just went 12 with a sick Priest deck and I think I managed to on-curve buff something like one time out of 14 games. Makes me sad. 
But I guess it's good that it's not as insane as it seemed because it'd get real stupid real fast to play against. I don't know if I have some kind of PTSD but in the pre-naxx arena it felt like every time someone argent protectored your 2 drop it was an auto-loss lol. That was THE WORST THING EVER so I was scared that Priest would degenerate like that but in over 10 arenas I haven't seen the buff much of anything on-curve, only later in the game.

Maybe people are avoiding Priest and just defaulting to Mage?

I don't think Talonpriest alone does that much to help Priest suck less though. Even potion of madness is sort of awkward and more a mid-game play than that dream run a loot hoarder into a 3/2 scenario on turn 2 :p

Btw I love Warlock now. 

The BlastCrystal potion is stupid as hell, Fellfire potion is sick as a finisher or a clear and same for Abyssal Enforcer which often can help trade your board of smaller guys into a bigger board. It makes it so awkward for your opponent to kill your small minions because they know on turn 7 it's Enforcer time, so they can't leave anything at 3.

Every single warlock I've faced at high wins had been sitting on an enforcer on turn 7. I played around it every time and eventually would see them just discard it to a soulfire lol. 

 God I'm sick of getting wrecked by one drops.

Lol.
Aggressive decks should just not be a thing in arena.

I'm beyond sick of these games where I don't even get to play or make a single decision.

edit: Seriously hearthstone is not a game where good one drops are viable. If I pay gold or money to play arena, I don't want to be kicked out of the game even before it starts just because my opponent goes like 1, 2, 1-2, 1-2-1 or some horeshit.
Then I don't get to play my deck, I don't get to make decisions and if I lose I just have wasted my money and I'm frustrated. It's one of the worst experiences you can have in this game and they don't care AT ALL.

Like look at this shitty game: Implosion hits for 2, leaving the priest with a 3 health minion instead of nothing. Instant loss. But later I get another chance! I make a kazakus potion. Only the order I get is wrong, I have to pick polymorph effect before being offered damage. Great! Now I roll the polymorph one in two. Hit a 1/1 instead of the big minion. 

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These are the most unfun games that can happen and why RNG and aggression has to be kept to an absolute strict minimum, because this is just downright stupid and practically a scam.

A card like Kabal Chemist shouldn't exist. They should stop making this kind of thing. Even Kazakus I thought at first was always a non-random pick, but they made it random for some absurdly dumb reason I can't fathom.
So now the order and the choices are random and sometimes awful, sometime amazing. What could have been an incredibly complex high-skill card now turns into a dumb lottery half the time.

So thousands of games of hearthstone will now happen where players win or lose on coin flips, again, and no one likes those outcomes. Drawing poorly is part of card games. Sometimes your most important card is at the bottom, sometimes your starting hand is bad even if your deck is curved correctly.
That's fine, that's part of the game, you can't change that.

But to constantly lose games because you didn't get a coin flip to go your way is stupid as hell. 

Like. Why is Implosion designed this way? It should just be 3 damage and summon imps equal to the damage. That's the same card exactly on average, but it generates zero totally idiotic games. People would still play it and absolutely no one anywhere ever would go "Man wish this card's damage and imps were random".