F2P hunter will easily get you rank 10. Some have taken it rank 5.
It's especially good right now with all these greedy ass decks. If you can get them into trouble early and bait out hard removals while saving your finishers the deck can climb.
Watch lots of twitch streams. Not just the decks you run, but all of them. Get to know the common deck archetypes and the cards they run. Know which decks counter which and how to play around specific cards in every deck. I can't emphasize how important it is to watch all sorts of streams, because you will know what your opponent is running and what is difficult for them to beat.
Also, sometimes going against the grain can work to your advantage. Adding a surprise card like kooky chemist or evolved kobold can catch your opponent off guard and get a clutch board clear or surprise lethal.
I'm rank 6 right now but I've gotten legend the last 5 months. Hope this helps.
I feel like I have a decent understanding of the basics of playstyle ..I fight for board control early, trying to make good trades, and try to go aggressive once I have feel like I have the advantage. But I always seem to be struggling to either draw the cards I need, or I fall just short of getting a lethal setup, and then get overrun by my opponent.
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From what you've mentioned, it seems that you need a better understanding on some fundamentals. Go take a look at the guide written by Aleco on Icy-veins. It is a 3-part guide that should give you some ideas on what you are missing. It is not just about "fighting for board control" or "seizing the initiative when the opportunity arises". Have you heard about the question "who's the beatdown"? If not, I suggest you go read this article as well. It is related to Magic: the Gathering, another card game. But the theory is pretty much the same.
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The best advice I can give you in short is that you are obviously lacking experience so that's that, decision making comes with time. Second you are playing ass classes, Hunter is not really good in this meta, Warlock requires a good bit of skill to succeed especially in the control archetype but is an ok class right now, and Shaman is pretty damn good but really High roll dependent and somewhat draw dependent overall really strong and I recommend that of all your decks.
To be honest just play Druid, if you really just care about rank then just let a Cancer deck carry you for now. It sounds like you got the fundamentals of the game down and it isn't too expensive of a deck. If you don't have the resources to craft a Druid list an are really desperate I guess just Queue Pirate Warrior.
The best advice I can give you in short is that you are obviously lacking experience so that's that, decision making comes with time. Second you are playing ass classes, Hunter is not really good in this meta, Warlock requires a good bit of skill to succeed especially in the control archetype but is an ok class right now, and Shaman is pretty damn good but really High roll dependent and somewhat draw dependent overall really strong and I recommend that of all your decks.
To be honest just play Druid, if you really just care about rank then just let a Cancer deck carry you for now. It sounds like you got the fundamentals of the game down and it isn't too expensive of a deck. If you don't have the resources to craft a Druid list an are really desperate I guess just Queue Pirate Warrior.
Honestly, I could have crafted a Druid deck already ... I would rather not coast up the ladder just solely by making the best possible deck ... that's kinda like bringing a NASCAR cup car to a local race track ( I drive a race car, and I see wallet warriors do this all the time ... they either lap the field, or wad it up on the wall in turn 1)
As for the Patches discussion ... I do see now that it is more than "just a free 1/1" ... but, I'm still not sold on it ... at least not sold for 1600 dust. And here is my reasoning behind that. I see him a lot. More with Pirate Warrior, but I have come across 2 Shaman tonight with him. And at least 90% of the time, he comes out on turn 1. At that point, the only real advantage I see is, as some have said, its one less card in the deck. Just as was pointed out about the murloc's I had, a 1/1 played early is just cannon fodder. Again, I'm not saying its a BAD card, it's just the cost is not worth it for a player that doesn't have the dust to spare. (FWIW, I beat both Shaman I played that had Patches ... both played him on turn 1, and both got erased with Maelstrom Portal).
BUT .... Somewhere up there (sorry, I should have looked to see who to give credit too), it was explained that I should be looking to Evolve my Dopplegangster's, and not just trying to go as wide as possible. Taking that advice kinda changed my playstyle just enough, essentially making me play a little more aggressive, and looking for Dopple>Evolve combo. Needless to say, that ... along with a lot of other advice, worked. I actually was able to streak pretty quickly from 20 to 17. At 17, I had a little back and forth, but got to 16. AT 16 I hit a wall of mages, and I think I went 5-5, win-loss-win, and kinda tilted and fell back. But, took a little break, and finally ....
***EDIT: Kinda feel like I should mention ... My match to go to 15 was a Druid .... made it that much sweeter :-)
Yeah, Ill post it when I get home ... computer here at work just bogs down like crazy when I try to run HS on it. But what I changed from the list posted above was to remove the murloc's, added 2x FireFly, 2x Thing From Below, and added a Hex in there (mainly just so I didn't have to waste a Devolve to deal with Lich King).
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Hey mate, you said in the post that you used deck tracker. With deck tracker you can share replay. You can view your own replays with the replay function in the deck tracker and then you can share the link with others so we can view your games. If you can share one of those links with me I am willing to give constructive feedback in a positive manner. You can either send me a solo message or just post your link in this thread then we can all view one of your games. In this way we can help you improve.
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F2P hunter will easily get you rank 10. Some have taken it rank 5.
It's especially good right now with all these greedy ass decks. If you can get them into trouble early and bait out hard removals while saving your finishers the deck can climb.
Watch lots of twitch streams. Not just the decks you run, but all of them. Get to know the common deck archetypes and the cards they run. Know which decks counter which and how to play around specific cards in every deck. I can't emphasize how important it is to watch all sorts of streams, because you will know what your opponent is running and what is difficult for them to beat.
Also, sometimes going against the grain can work to your advantage. Adding a surprise card like kooky chemist or evolved kobold can catch your opponent off guard and get a clutch board clear or surprise lethal.
I'm rank 6 right now but I've gotten legend the last 5 months. Hope this helps.
"Are you not entertained?! ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity." - Maximus Decimus Meridius
The best advice I can give you in short is that you are obviously lacking experience so that's that, decision making comes with time. Second you are playing ass classes, Hunter is not really good in this meta, Warlock requires a good bit of skill to succeed especially in the control archetype but is an ok class right now, and Shaman is pretty damn good but really High roll dependent and somewhat draw dependent overall really strong and I recommend that of all your decks.
To be honest just play Druid, if you really just care about rank then just let a Cancer deck carry you for now. It sounds like you got the fundamentals of the game down and it isn't too expensive of a deck. If you don't have the resources to craft a Druid list an are really desperate I guess just Queue Pirate Warrior.
You can also try any variaton of Hunter. It is not T1 deck but it can easy lead you to rank 15-12 in few hours
BUT .... Somewhere up there (sorry, I should have looked to see who to give credit too), it was explained that I should be looking to Evolve my Dopplegangster's, and not just trying to go as wide as possible. Taking that advice kinda changed my playstyle just enough, essentially making me play a little more aggressive, and looking for Dopple>Evolve combo. Needless to say, that ... along with a lot of other advice, worked. I actually was able to streak pretty quickly from 20 to 17. At 17, I had a little back and forth, but got to 16. AT 16 I hit a wall of mages, and I think I went 5-5, win-loss-win, and kinda tilted and fell back. But, took a little break, and finally ....
***EDIT: Kinda feel like I should mention ... My match to go to 15 was a Druid .... made it that much sweeter :-)
I wanna glide down, over Mulholland
I wanna write her, name in the sky
I wanna free fall, out into nothin'
Gonna leave this, world for awhile
Congrats! Do you want to post your current decklist?
Yeah, Ill post it when I get home ... computer here at work just bogs down like crazy when I try to run HS on it. But what I changed from the list posted above was to remove the murloc's, added 2x FireFly, 2x Thing From Below, and added a Hex in there (mainly just so I didn't have to waste a Devolve to deal with Lich King).
I wanna glide down, over Mulholland
I wanna write her, name in the sky
I wanna free fall, out into nothin'
Gonna leave this, world for awhile
Hey mate, you said in the post that you used deck tracker. With deck tracker you can share replay. You can view your own replays with the replay function in the deck tracker and then you can share the link with others so we can view your games. If you can share one of those links with me I am willing to give constructive feedback in a positive manner. You can either send me a solo message or just post your link in this thread then we can all view one of your games. In this way we can help you improve.