I'm definitely one of those 90% playtime is through Arena, constructed is where I get to rank 20 for the card back, and simply complete quests. 20 battlecries? You be my deck will be complete jank with 30 battlecries. Constructed is just really boring and blah, honestly. For me anyway. But in arena? I will see you at 9+ wins more often than not ;)
So I'm the only one who do that then? And to be fair, having an alt does not necessary means I'm an noob, no. It's just a personal preference (a weird one, I know). On my alt I use all my gold on arena and craft thief rogue for shits and giggles. Heck, I call it my alt and yet I probably have spent more time on it now. And I don't care about rewards, at least right now.
Then...as you can see, I've refer to myself a dozens times in the 3 lines above already...so that basically proves nothing I guess.
Well, havin an alt acc for playing arena is only rly a good decision, if you are trying to get better. Playing arena is quite a time investment and if you do well, you do generate nice rewards, so "wasting" it on alt acc doesnt seem like a smart thing to do. I guess if you play on alt long enough, it can become your main basically, like you said, but still, if you are good in arena, you should play arena on your main acc, it is smarter thing to do in a long run.
I play close to the same amount of wild as I do arena, I don't play standard much. I have a 7.3 win average in boomsday, and ranked 10. It's one of those things where if I focused on 1 I would probably score higher on the fake numbers, but it's a game. I want to have fun.
I'm interested to know whether those who spend most of their time in Arena actually spend their gold on packs?
I do, because I like golden cards. I buy packs from an older expansion until I have all legendaries from that set. There's no point in hoarding gold as an arena player anyway, so why not spend it?
I'm interested to know whether those who spend most of their time in Arena actually spend their gold on packs? Or do you have so little interest in constructed that you don't even bother?
I typically spend mine down to a 2,000 gold buffer every time a new expansion comes out.
I usually buy some packs when new expansion comes out to join in on the experience of opening new cards with my friends. I dont buy packs on regular basis, no, the arena rewards usually are enough. Im sitting at about 21k right now. If i want to play some deck in constructed, i craft what i need if i dont have it yet, or buy a few packs to try and get it or the dust for it.
For most of my Hearthstone life I didn't bother with constructed. I'm not enjoying arena like I used to, I probably play constructed about the same amount of time. I reach legend occasionally where for many many years I never bothered to try to reach legend.
Having said that, both arena and constructed have their problems. But hey, a new expansion is coming.
Also, this is the only game I play, I've gotten bored of everything else. I also have a life and work that is more important to me than playing the nth sequel to a game.
And because of said life and distractions, I don't take the time with my turns anymore, I will play quickly, and sometimes just turn a game off in the middle of a match because I get distracted or I shouldn't have started the game in the first place.
Why do people play constructed ? Its just you playing vs a deck you either beat or loose to. You know the outcome by just looking at the class more or less.
Congrats on the 12-0! I average about 7 wins for the past year and never gotten that result. Furthermore this is an interesting topic to read, really surprising to see that there are people for instance that preorder for their collection and don't play constructed. I could not be further away from that :)
I generally play the first two days to get to rank 5 for the rewards. The rest of the month is spent on Arena as it is generally more skill-dependant and thus more fun. Every 5 months or so i find a deck that interests me enough and I then take it to legend, could be in standard or in wild. Arena provides me with all the cards/dust i need to be able to play pretty much every deck I want to. I never buy packs with money, just spent like €30 once because I didn't feel right to not reward Blizzard for making this awesome game. Buying packs doesn't really improve my collection so I don't see the point there.
I have high average of arena wins mostly. Most of my arena runs dont usually go below 6 wins.And thats not counting any 12-11 or so win i make often.
The thing is i only play arena in the start of an expansion to get every possible card out of that set or the cards i need. I spend all my remaining time afterwards grinding constructed. Because arena feels boring to me even though im good at it after all these years. I just use it as a means to grind myself some tier 1 decks without paying any real money into the game. Except some pre orders.
I'm surprise though that you find Arena boring more than constructed, I would have thought playing against different decks everytime would provide more fun that playing against certain decks a lot?
Or may be you like the synnergies part of constructed more than the single invidual minions play of Arena ?
- The ladder just seems so boring with so many decks you faced again and again and you know how the game played out. I feel like conceding the moment I see Baku opening with Paladin and Rogue.
How can you even say that.. you're rank 20. At ranks 20-8 the aggro decks are far less common and the players are bad
Man, may be so, but I still sees those when I play at rank 20, I mean all types of near tier 1 decks too, taunt druid, malygos druid... The players probally like you say, bad, but seeing the turn 2 Dagger, turn 2 dudes, turn 4 armor summonning a taunt golem.... again and again makes me feel boring.
Okay, that sounds like i have to much money but maybe there‘s someone like me:
Arena only player
5 games every season in ranked for the cardback
still purchasing every expansion preorder and play ranked for like a week until i get bored and head back to my beloved arena
I have to say HS is the only game i play and mostly on mobile. So thats like a new game every couple of months when i buy a expension.
Well, while I'm not like you in that I don't preorder but I can relate somewhat to your experience in that I still purchase packs with golds that I got and still have fun building some homebrew-near-net-decks up.
My goal for Arena is to earn packs, then I enjoy opening packs tremedously just to see if I get any legendaries, then try to see if I can make some near tier 1 deck with that legendary. I guess while I certainly don't like to play constructed for the reasons I mentioned, but if I can make a tier 1 deck from the cards I open, I might do it more, who wouldn't like to wins in style right?
I'm definitely one of those 90% playtime is through Arena, constructed is where I get to rank 20 for the card back, and simply complete quests. 20 battlecries? You be my deck will be complete jank with 30 battlecries. Constructed is just really boring and blah, honestly. For me anyway. But in arena? I will see you at 9+ wins more often than not ;)
You almost describe me here, except for the part 9+ wins :P, wonder how long more can I even get to 7 wins average.
I'm interested to know whether those who spend most of their time in Arena actually spend their gold on packs? Or do you have so little interest in constructed that you don't even bother?
I typically spend mine down to a 2,000 gold buffer every time a new expansion comes out.
Excellent question man, this would be my next question too, I have been thinking myself on this a lot,
For me, I play Arena to earn packs, and opening packs is tremedous fun for me, hoping to get that tier 1 legendary so I can building something around it, so I can beat that guy with that deck that keep showing it in my face at rank 20.
And I like to collect cards, hence I play Hearthstone, so even when I can't play constructed ranked, with the cards that I have, I still can enjoy the homebrew normal synnergy deck in friendly matches.
I typically have enough over the course of the expansion to open around 50 packs+.
I play close to the same amount of wild as I do arena, I don't play standard much. I have a 7.3 win average in boomsday, and ranked 10. It's one of those things where if I focused on 1 I would probably score higher on the fake numbers, but it's a game. I want to have fun.
My goal may be one day is to get 7 wins average and rank 5 every month. That would provide almost close to the highest rewards possible per time spending.
I know a lot of arena players that play nothing else, absolutely right (mabye 5 wins for the card back).
There are a lot of these I've seen.
I'm definitely one of those 90% playtime is through Arena, constructed is where I get to rank 20 for the card back, and simply complete quests. 20 battlecries? You be my deck will be complete jank with 30 battlecries. Constructed is just really boring and blah, honestly. For me anyway. But in arena? I will see you at 9+ wins more often than not ;)
Well, havin an alt acc for playing arena is only rly a good decision, if you are trying to get better. Playing arena is quite a time investment and if you do well, you do generate nice rewards, so "wasting" it on alt acc doesnt seem like a smart thing to do. I guess if you play on alt long enough, it can become your main basically, like you said, but still, if you are good in arena, you should play arena on your main acc, it is smarter thing to do in a long run.
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I play close to the same amount of wild as I do arena, I don't play standard much. I have a 7.3 win average in boomsday, and ranked 10. It's one of those things where if I focused on 1 I would probably score higher on the fake numbers, but it's a game. I want to have fun.
I do, because I like golden cards. I buy packs from an older expansion until I have all legendaries from that set. There's no point in hoarding gold as an arena player anyway, so why not spend it?
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I usually buy some packs when new expansion comes out to join in on the experience of opening new cards with my friends. I dont buy packs on regular basis, no, the arena rewards usually are enough. Im sitting at about 21k right now. If i want to play some deck in constructed, i craft what i need if i dont have it yet, or buy a few packs to try and get it or the dust for it.
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For most of my Hearthstone life I didn't bother with constructed. I'm not enjoying arena like I used to, I probably play constructed about the same amount of time. I reach legend occasionally where for many many years I never bothered to try to reach legend.
Having said that, both arena and constructed have their problems. But hey, a new expansion is coming.
Also, this is the only game I play, I've gotten bored of everything else. I also have a life and work that is more important to me than playing the nth sequel to a game.
And because of said life and distractions, I don't take the time with my turns anymore, I will play quickly, and sometimes just turn a game off in the middle of a match because I get distracted or I shouldn't have started the game in the first place.
Why do people play constructed ? Its just you playing vs a deck you either beat or loose to. You know the outcome by just looking at the class more or less.
Congrats on the 12-0! I average about 7 wins for the past year and never gotten that result. Furthermore this is an interesting topic to read, really surprising to see that there are people for instance that preorder for their collection and don't play constructed. I could not be further away from that :)
I generally play the first two days to get to rank 5 for the rewards. The rest of the month is spent on Arena as it is generally more skill-dependant and thus more fun. Every 5 months or so i find a deck that interests me enough and I then take it to legend, could be in standard or in wild. Arena provides me with all the cards/dust i need to be able to play pretty much every deck I want to. I never buy packs with money, just spent like €30 once because I didn't feel right to not reward Blizzard for making this awesome game. Buying packs doesn't really improve my collection so I don't see the point there.
I'm surprise though that you find Arena boring more than constructed, I would have thought playing against different decks everytime would provide more fun that playing against certain decks a lot?
Or may be you like the synnergies part of constructed more than the single invidual minions play of Arena ?
Man, may be so, but I still sees those when I play at rank 20, I mean all types of near tier 1 decks too, taunt druid, malygos druid... The players probally like you say, bad, but seeing the turn 2 Dagger, turn 2 dudes, turn 4 armor summonning a taunt golem.... again and again makes me feel boring.
Well, while I'm not like you in that I don't preorder but I can relate somewhat to your experience in that I still purchase packs with golds that I got and still have fun building some homebrew-near-net-decks up.
My goal for Arena is to earn packs, then I enjoy opening packs tremedously just to see if I get any legendaries, then try to see if I can make some near tier 1 deck with that legendary. I guess while I certainly don't like to play constructed for the reasons I mentioned, but if I can make a tier 1 deck from the cards I open, I might do it more, who wouldn't like to wins in style right?
You almost describe me here, except for the part 9+ wins :P, wonder how long more can I even get to 7 wins average.
Excellent question man, this would be my next question too, I have been thinking myself on this a lot,
For me, I play Arena to earn packs, and opening packs is tremedous fun for me, hoping to get that tier 1 legendary so I can building something around it, so I can beat that guy with that deck that keep showing it in my face at rank 20.
And I like to collect cards, hence I play Hearthstone, so even when I can't play constructed ranked, with the cards that I have, I still can enjoy the homebrew normal synnergy deck in friendly matches.
I typically have enough over the course of the expansion to open around 50 packs+.
My goal may be one day is to get 7 wins average and rank 5 every month. That would provide almost close to the highest rewards possible per time spending.
You, sir, need to learn how to use Multi-quote lol :)
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