last month i had like 6.5~ avg and have 5 avg all time (was bad at the start)
but for some reason in the last week i can barely get to 7 and even like 5 wins i just went twice! 0-3 and that was the first time i have ever finished 0-3 so did arena did suddenly became so hard or its just bad luck?
Arena got harder. Prior to Un'Goro, you could make up for poor quality in your draft by just curving out. Now you cannot get far at all if you do not get high-quality offerings in your draft. Curving out won't help you against mages who never run out of spells, and it won't get you past mid-game against people who drafted Mega-Taunt-a-Thon decks..
Selection bias. The average arena run must be 3-3 by definition. Rewards are sub-par at that level, so the bottom half of players are incentived to quit...leaving an even tougher pool of players. Arena has been getting steadily harder as a result.
Blizzard needs to throw some chum in with the sharks in order to maintain a balanced player pool. They could do this by implementing a five win daily quest that awarded an "Arena ticket fragment". Two fragments for a regular arena run, twelve for a heroic. Or similar.
It became more harder with them increasing card rarities, thus more rng with strong op spells..I dont know why they didnt make an in-game list of all banned cards in arena and i dont know why they are not banning more cards that are not 'essential to the class' like they've said. They could really ban Meteor now..
I dont know how everyone in the fucking world has an amazing high-pressure, spell-packed, synergy deck with multiple legendaries and I am stuck choosing between street trickster, wisp and priestess of elune every single draft. I have not won a single arena matchup since un'goro. i used to average 5 - 7 wins with an infinite run every 6 drafts. Now i go 0-3, 0-3, 0-3, 0-3 and each draft I get is absolute trash with the most basic standard cards and each person i play has an elemental mage deck with a 5/40 Ozruk or an actual legit miracle rogue deck with all 100% of the standard card list. what the fuck is going on? Arena is such a waste of money and time and is seriously getting me close to deleting hearthstone as arena used to be the one bright spot in this game when the meta got stale and boring.
I dont know how everyone in the fucking world has an amazing high-pressure, spell-packed, synergy deck with multiple legendaries and I am stuck choosing between street trickster, wisp and priestess of elune every single draft. I have not won a single arena matchup since un'goro. i used to average 5 - 7 wins with an infinite run every 6 drafts. Now i go 0-3, 0-3, 0-3, 0-3 and each draft I get is absolute trash with the most basic standard cards and each person i play has an elemental mage deck with a 5/40 Ozruk or an actual legit miracle rogue deck with all 100% of the standard card list. what the fuck is going on? Arena is such a waste of money and time and is seriously getting me close to deleting hearthstone as arena used to be the one bright spot in this game when the meta got stale and boring.
If you start to find arena stressful, I'd switch to buying packs for a few days and come back to it fresh later. Sometimes getting frustrated with arena makes it harder to play arena because the RNG gods can sense your emotions.
I dont know how everyone in the fucking world has an amazing high-pressure, spell-packed, synergy deck with multiple legendaries and I am stuck choosing between street trickster, wisp and priestess of elune every single draft. I have not won a single arena matchup since un'goro. i used to average 5 - 7 wins with an infinite run every 6 drafts. Now i go 0-3, 0-3, 0-3, 0-3 and each draft I get is absolute trash with the most basic standard cards and each person i play has an elemental mage deck with a 5/40 Ozruk or an actual legit miracle rogue deck with all 100% of the standard card list. what the fuck is going on? Arena is such a waste of money and time and is seriously getting me close to deleting hearthstone as arena used to be the one bright spot in this game when the meta got stale and boring.
The deck quality has increased and the card power has increased making curvestone in arena a little weaker which wouldnt have been a bad thing last expansion however with the increase in power creeps and spells a poor deck with a decent curve atleast can no longer carry you as high as it used to due to the massive increase in taunts spells ect so if you're unlucky and hit a chain of bad drafts chances are you're going to be 0-3 wins more often than not, Does that mean arena got harder though i dont know i think it got a hell of alot harder with the poorer drafts thats for sure and chances are unless you're playing a lot of arena you're going to feel like you're getting poor drafts more often than strong ones.
There are certain cards that you look at as the power cards, Meteor in a class that can generate and insane number of spells is stupidly strong and with the changes to rarity you can see 2-3 drafted and another 1-2 discovered, Free from Amber is another insane card and when you can discover another copy of it from your deck thats some serious late game and again 2-3 are not that rare to see in 5+ win arenas, Then theres Spikeridged Steed in paladin another insane card that you will likely see 2-3 of in high win drafts thankfully Paladins lack removal and AoE and then ofcourse Vilespine Slayer and Envenom in rogue thats so much value right there, Ofcourse Fledgling is another one, No removal or taunt on turn 2 or 3 for it and that game goes down hill so quickly.
We saw a decrease in the chances to draft flamestrike and Abyssal Enforcer because they were cards that were just carrying classes on their own but we're in the same position now, Sure you have more classes with those power cards, Rogue and Mage are the top dogs and Paladin and Priest and maybe Shaman with Volcano come in behind them, Aslong as those spells/minions remain at the same chance as they are now those are the cards that will make or break a arena run for the most part, Personally i would like to see them given the same treatment as Flamestriker and Enforcer to close the gap between a poorer draft and a amazing draft but its unlikely to happen since arena isnt really Blizzards focus so i see us being stuck with this for a good while longer.
For me it was easier after Un'goro, but probably i'm just lucky in arena.
Btw Mage is insanely broken, so playing against them is really hard and playing with Mage is sometimes feel unfair it is so good now. I got 12-1 today, my deck didn't have any legendary but 3 god tier epic cards (Primordial Drake, Cab. Tome and Meteor) and some secret sinergy (Kabal lackey, Mediv's v., Arcanologist, 2 secrets) and it was more than enough.
the thing is that in the last month and half i had the best avg i have ever had and suddenly this week im doing my wort ever inculding 2 0-3 runs after never going 0-3 in my whole life
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last month i had like 6.5~ avg and have 5 avg all time (was bad at the start)
but for some reason in the last week i can barely get to 7 and even like 5 wins i just went twice! 0-3 and that was the first time i have ever finished 0-3 so did arena did suddenly became so hard or its just bad luck?
Arena got harder. Prior to Un'Goro, you could make up for poor quality in your draft by just curving out. Now you cannot get far at all if you do not get high-quality offerings in your draft. Curving out won't help you against mages who never run out of spells, and it won't get you past mid-game against people who drafted Mega-Taunt-a-Thon decks..
Selection bias. The average arena run must be 3-3 by definition. Rewards are sub-par at that level, so the bottom half of players are incentived to quit...leaving an even tougher pool of players. Arena has been getting steadily harder as a result.
Blizzard needs to throw some chum in with the sharks in order to maintain a balanced player pool. They could do this by implementing a five win daily quest that awarded an "Arena ticket fragment". Two fragments for a regular arena run, twelve for a heroic. Or similar.
It became more harder with them increasing card rarities, thus more rng with strong op spells..I dont know why they didnt make an in-game list of all banned cards in arena and i dont know why they are not banning more cards that are not 'essential to the class' like they've said. They could really ban Meteor now..
I dont know how everyone in the fucking world has an amazing high-pressure, spell-packed, synergy deck with multiple legendaries and I am stuck choosing between street trickster, wisp and priestess of elune every single draft. I have not won a single arena matchup since un'goro. i used to average 5 - 7 wins with an infinite run every 6 drafts. Now i go 0-3, 0-3, 0-3, 0-3 and each draft I get is absolute trash with the most basic standard cards and each person i play has an elemental mage deck with a 5/40 Ozruk or an actual legit miracle rogue deck with all 100% of the standard card list. what the fuck is going on? Arena is such a waste of money and time and is seriously getting me close to deleting hearthstone as arena used to be the one bright spot in this game when the meta got stale and boring.
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Old school WoW Mage motto: if you don't end the run with the most damage dealt AND the most deaths, you're not trying hard enough.
If you start to find arena stressful, I'd switch to buying packs for a few days and come back to it fresh later. Sometimes getting frustrated with arena makes it harder to play arena because the RNG gods can sense your emotions.
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The deck quality has increased and the card power has increased making curvestone in arena a little weaker which wouldnt have been a bad thing last expansion however with the increase in power creeps and spells a poor deck with a decent curve atleast can no longer carry you as high as it used to due to the massive increase in taunts spells ect so if you're unlucky and hit a chain of bad drafts chances are you're going to be 0-3 wins more often than not, Does that mean arena got harder though i dont know i think it got a hell of alot harder with the poorer drafts thats for sure and chances are unless you're playing a lot of arena you're going to feel like you're getting poor drafts more often than strong ones.
There are certain cards that you look at as the power cards, Meteor in a class that can generate and insane number of spells is stupidly strong and with the changes to rarity you can see 2-3 drafted and another 1-2 discovered, Free from Amber is another insane card and when you can discover another copy of it from your deck thats some serious late game and again 2-3 are not that rare to see in 5+ win arenas, Then theres Spikeridged Steed in paladin another insane card that you will likely see 2-3 of in high win drafts thankfully Paladins lack removal and AoE and then ofcourse Vilespine Slayer and Envenom in rogue thats so much value right there, Ofcourse Fledgling is another one, No removal or taunt on turn 2 or 3 for it and that game goes down hill so quickly.
We saw a decrease in the chances to draft flamestrike and Abyssal Enforcer because they were cards that were just carrying classes on their own but we're in the same position now, Sure you have more classes with those power cards, Rogue and Mage are the top dogs and Paladin and Priest and maybe Shaman with Volcano come in behind them, Aslong as those spells/minions remain at the same chance as they are now those are the cards that will make or break a arena run for the most part, Personally i would like to see them given the same treatment as Flamestriker and Enforcer to close the gap between a poorer draft and a amazing draft but its unlikely to happen since arena isnt really Blizzards focus so i see us being stuck with this for a good while longer.
yea arena got so shit wow
thats so annoying that there are games the you cant do shit and you just lose...
For me it was easier after Un'goro, but probably i'm just lucky in arena.
Btw Mage is insanely broken, so playing against them is really hard and playing with Mage is sometimes feel unfair it is so good now. I got 12-1 today, my deck didn't have any legendary but 3 god tier epic cards (Primordial Drake, Cab. Tome and Meteor) and some secret sinergy (Kabal lackey, Mediv's v., Arcanologist, 2 secrets) and it was more than enough.
the thing is that in the last month and half i had the best avg i have ever had and suddenly this week im doing my wort ever inculding 2 0-3 runs after never going 0-3 in my whole life