It's a strange moment in HS, the meta is vibrant and there are a lot of decks that are worth playing. Pretty much any class has a chance to do well and give fun. I started playing actively and daily few months ago, just before WW and I'm enjoying my time here, even if I suck. I invested in the $5 bundle and then bought 10x get in here bundles. Plus I'm diligently doing my dailies. I sadly missed the WW bundle cause I wasn't sure I wanted to invest real money in the game. But I've been always a lover of card games and being a person that has to move a lot across the states because of my job + working pretty hard every day a virtual collection suits my needs. And now HS is definitely fun to play. The get in here bundle has been a nice add to my collection and actually kicked me in a little bit and gave me some nice dust that, summed with this event's quests, is netting me around 6k dust, 3k gold and some legendaries from the latest and standard sets.
Now the dilemma is: should I craft just ONE nice deck to try and climb the ladder or just start crafting and filling my collection holes in the CLASSICS + WW sets?
I'm saying classic + WW because at this point, even if the next rotation will be in around 10 months, it seems a better investment working on the year of the raven. I'm planning on buying a couple of welcoming bundles for the next expansions so I'll enjoy this HS year in its fullest, BUT not now. I know that this is the wiser and most money-effective solution, but I have to say that I'm really attracted by this current meta. It's just fun and in my very modest opinion pretty well balanced.
What if I wait and work on the year of the raven sets only building slowly for a year and then the metas will suck?
What do you think??
Thanks for any tips and hopefully I expressed myself correctly. I'm not a native English speaker ;)
From my experience there are a few must have in the classic sets - but it is best to craft towards your interests. Meaning, if you really like ladder, craft a deck that you both like and feel can climb with in ladder. If you like experimenting, craft the cards that interest you most/ones you are dying to play, even if it isn't the best in the meta.
Have you only started playing recently? 10 get in here bundles u should have a lot of dust
I have a pretty middle of the road collection, not everything but a fair amount of things, but I genuinely dont think there is that much point in crafting things for myself at the moment.. I seem to be able to make a lot of viable and cool decks out of what I have for laddering, so i;m in no rush to craft
that said if you are newer and have dust, there are a lot of cards out there which are totally safe crafts, take a look at the legendary guide that kicks around here... also if you can avoid it just dont craft from sets u are still going to open a lot
problem is I still think there is going to be a fair bit of shifting in the meta.. odd rogue has been the most solid for me, but i play a lot of homebrew right now
if you are new and want to ladder, there is no harm in focusing on a single deck to take on that challenge though, but u will spend all that dust and lose a lot of games still, you have to learn the decks, just be ready for that
p.s. i spend all my gold on classic packs... im just missing a few epics and and a lot more legendaries, but they have been a super good investment I recon.. i should probably start saving the gold for new expansions, but i like working towards a classic legendary
Please read the post linked in my signature. Its sure to save you a lot of headaches. In the first year there are a ton of collection/crafting pitfalls.
One thing that isnt in that post is the meta we find ourselves in now. Its a rock/paper/scissors meta. There is no dominate deck, it all depends on what your matched against and card draw. Secondly, there will be a major shift after the next expansion which should come about 6 weeks from now. Crafting now may be a huge waste of time.
Have you only started playing recently? 10 get in here bundles u should have a lot of dust
I have a pretty middle of the road collection, not everything but a fair amount of things, but I genuinely dont think there is that much point in crafting things for myself at the moment.. I seem to be able to make a lot of viable and cool decks out of what I have for laddering, so i;m in no rush to craft
that said if you are newer and have dust, there are a lot of cards out there which are totally safe crafts, take a look at the legendary guide that kicks around here... also if you can avoid it just dont craft from sets u are still going to open a lot
problem is I still think there is going to be a fair bit of shifting in the meta.. odd rogue has been the most solid for me, but i play a lot of homebrew right now
if you are new and want to ladder, there is no harm in focusing on a single deck to take on that challenge though, but u will spend all that dust and lose a lot of games still, you have to learn the decks, just be ready for that
p.s. i spend all my gold on classic packs... im just missing a few epics and and a lot more legendaries, but they have been a super good investment I recon.. i should probably start saving the gold for new expansions, but i like working towards a classic legendary
o he could buy far cry gold for that money and get a complete game and it's dlc instead of a meager number of lootboxes that will probably not help him much in a heavily pay to win game that he may as well forget about while waiting for artifact.
There are some pretty budget decks you can ladder with if you want. Tempo mage usually uses no legendaries or just Aluneth, Odd pally uses Baku and that's it. You could spend half your dust and make one if you want, but to be honest laddering is the least fun part of hearthstone.
If you plan on just crafting classic legendaries, go for always good ones like bloodmage thalnos, alexstraza, ysera,etc.
Your best bet though is to save your dust to craft the cards you are missing from the best decks come next expansion. I'm betting the next set will be a bit more powerful.
Thanks for all the answers, now I know I'm doing good.
IDBY yeah that guide is amazing I read it back in the days.
I think I should just go budget/pve until I get enough dust to craft the best classics legendaries and 2 expansion into the year of the raven. It's gonna also be a good time to experiment and learn the game.
It's very infrequent now to find generically useful legendaries, they are almost all for very specific decks. The most generically useful right now are probably the odd/even ones, they should provide you with quite a large variety of decks over the next two years, and manage to support cheap decks.
Stick with trying to find good cheap decks, eventually, you'll find that the legendaries you naturally open will be open up the possibilities for crafting some more advanced decks. As new expansions come out, you can fill out a set pretty well just but buying the welcome bundle and doing your dailies. So, the real question is how do you backfill? The nice thing is in retrospect, you know which cards are worthwhile, so you can get a lot of the way there by crafting just the ones you need. and if there's any more promos, take as much advantage of those as you can.
Sounds like you've been playing a little longer than myself, and spent money in a pretty similar fashion. After the solo content, the game can kind of suck if you don't have a decent deck. I've also found that cracking booster after booster won't give you what you want.
I'd recommend looking at what you've got, what you enjoy, what's topping the charts, then craft one of the top netdecks your dust will afford you and you'll enjoy. Yeah, I felt dirty going for netdecks, but it's a good way to learn, enjoy the game, and have an efficient deck. The learning curve is more about understanding every other netdeck and how to play against them with what you have.
I've got a pretty nicely performing deck (Odd-Pally), and I'm holding off dusting/crafting until the next meta sets in. Then, I might build a netdeck for a different class. It can be hard, though, playing one main deck, and holding off trying other styles to save that dust. I really want to play dragons, but it would devour my dust! I'm also hoping for some decent warlock discards in the next set. I have 4 warlock legendary cards. 2 of which are Zavas (which feels more like an epic, maybe even rare) and Lana'thel. I really want to play with them, but they take too long to make viable, and by the time they're ready to face the mid-game, the opponent will have you dead or a massive board.
Sounds like you've been playing a little longer than myself, and spent money in a pretty similar fashion. After the solo content, the game can kind of suck if you don't have a decent deck. I've also found that cracking booster after booster won't give you what you want.
I'd recommend looking at what you've got, what you enjoy, what's topping the charts, then craft one of the top netdecks your dust will afford you and you'll enjoy. Yeah, I felt dirty going for netdecks, but it's a good way to learn, enjoy the game, and have an efficient deck. The learning curve is more about understanding every other netdeck and how to play against them with what you have.
I've got a pretty nicely performing deck (Odd-Pally), and I'm holding off dusting/crafting until the next meta sets in. Then, I might build a netdeck for a different class. It can be hard, though, playing one main deck, and holding off trying other styles to save that dust. I really want to play dragons, but it would devour my dust! I'm also hoping for some decent warlock discards in the next set. I have 4 warlock legendary cards. 2 of which are Zavas (which feels more like an epic, maybe even rare) and Lana'thel. I really want to play with them, but they take too long to make viable, and by the time they're ready to face the mid-game, the opponent will have you dead or a massive board.
Man I feel you so bad... I have a Lord Godfrey that screams to be played, I want to craft Hagatha the Witch soooooo bad (I just think it's the most aesthetically beautiful HS card EVER) and I'm 200 dust away to complete a midrange Hunter (got Deathstalker Rexxar from one of the Get In Here bundles), 2-3k from an odd pally..
I just have to wait and keep my 6-7k dust there. Time's gonna come
Man I feel you so bad... I have a Lord Godfrey that screams to be played, I want to craft Hagatha the Witch soooooo bad (I just think it's the most aesthetically beautiful HS card EVER) and I'm 200 dust away to complete a midrange Hunter (got Deathstalker Rexxar from one of the Get In Here bundles), 2-3k from an odd pally..
I just have to wait and keep my 6-7k dust there. Time's gonna come
Haha! I got Hagatha from my Get in Heres! Would gladly trade you for DK Rexxar.
2-3k off Odd pally? Ouch! It was the cheapest deck for me to put together after crafting Baku. I initially thought Baku would make each class immortal. I got my first legend pretty fast: scored a Spiteful after nerf, and purchased LoE (2x Naga Sea Witch) not long beforehand. Nerf handed me 1200 dust! That all said, I didn't add Leeroy until later. I crafted him from this month's quest dust, and boy, I do not regret it! Awesome finisher. I get a little excited hearing his chant right before a win. It's funnier (but crueler) when the opponent concedes before I can slide him to attack!
I reckon dump that dust into polishing off your mid-range hunter.
Sounds like you've been playing a little longer than myself, and spent money in a pretty similar fashion. After the solo content, the game can kind of suck if you don't have a decent deck. I've also found that cracking booster after booster won't give you what you want.
I'd recommend looking at what you've got, what you enjoy, what's topping the charts, then craft one of the top netdecks your dust will afford you and you'll enjoy. Yeah, I felt dirty going for netdecks, but it's a good way to learn, enjoy the game, and have an efficient deck. The learning curve is more about understanding every other netdeck and how to play against them with what you have.
I've got a pretty nicely performing deck (Odd-Pally), and I'm holding off dusting/crafting until the next meta sets in. Then, I might build a netdeck for a different class. It can be hard, though, playing one main deck, and holding off trying other styles to save that dust. I really want to play dragons, but it would devour my dust! I'm also hoping for some decent warlock discards in the next set. I have 4 warlock legendary cards. 2 of which are Zavas (which feels more like an epic, maybe even rare) and Lana'thel. I really want to play with them, but they take too long to make viable, and by the time they're ready to face the mid-game, the opponent will have you dead or a massive board.
Man I feel you so bad... I have a Lord Godfrey that screams to be played, I want to craft Hagatha the Witch soooooo bad (I just think it's the most aesthetically beautiful HS card EVER) and I'm 200 dust away to complete a midrange Hunter (got Deathstalker Rexxar from one of the Get In Here bundles), 2-3k from an odd pally..
I just have to wait and keep my 6-7k dust there. Time's gonna come
200 dust to craft a midrange Hunter deck sounds like a good investment. Low dust cost for a decent deck. I have had pretty good luck with this deck. But that all depends on what cards your missing, and what cards you have that could replace them to let you try the deck before spending the dust.
If you havent installed Innkeeper you might want to. If you have your collection on Hearthpawn is set to private. You might want to set it to public so others can make deck/card suggestions based on what you have.
Sounds like you've been playing a little longer than myself, and spent money in a pretty similar fashion. After the solo content, the game can kind of suck if you don't have a decent deck. I've also found that cracking booster after booster won't give you what you want.
I'd recommend looking at what you've got, what you enjoy, what's topping the charts, then craft one of the top netdecks your dust will afford you and you'll enjoy. Yeah, I felt dirty going for netdecks, but it's a good way to learn, enjoy the game, and have an efficient deck. The learning curve is more about understanding every other netdeck and how to play against them with what you have.
I've got a pretty nicely performing deck (Odd-Pally), and I'm holding off dusting/crafting until the next meta sets in. Then, I might build a netdeck for a different class. It can be hard, though, playing one main deck, and holding off trying other styles to save that dust. I really want to play dragons, but it would devour my dust! I'm also hoping for some decent warlock discards in the next set. I have 4 warlock legendary cards. 2 of which are Zavas (which feels more like an epic, maybe even rare) and Lana'thel. I really want to play with them, but they take too long to make viable, and by the time they're ready to face the mid-game, the opponent will have you dead or a massive board.
Man I feel you so bad... I have a Lord Godfrey that screams to be played, I want to craft Hagatha the Witch soooooo bad (I just think it's the most aesthetically beautiful HS card EVER) and I'm 200 dust away to complete a midrange Hunter (got Deathstalker Rexxar from one of the Get In Here bundles), 2-3k from an odd pally..
I just have to wait and keep my 6-7k dust there. Time's gonna come
200 dust to craft a midrange Hunter deck sounds like a good investment. Low dust cost for a decent deck. I have had pretty good luck with this deck. But that all depends on what cards your missing, and what cards you have that could replace them to let you try the deck before spending the dust.
If you havent installed Innkeeper you might want to. If you have your collection on Hearthpawn is set to private. You might want to set it to public so others can make deck/card suggestions based on what you have.
I do have innkeeper and deck tracker. Now it's public.
on the midrange I'm missing a spellstone and a freezing plus a couple of cards from ungoro. affordable, but I really hate hunter ;(
I do have innkeeper and deck tracker. Now it's public.
on the midrange I'm missing a spellstone and a freezing plus a couple of cards from ungoro. affordable, but I really hate hunter ;(
It has its good points and its bad. I felt the same about Rouge, but it grew on me. Hunter is a fast laddering class with very affordable to craft cards. The second spellstone is really essential to most of the decks. You could use a Snipe or two as the missing secrets. Freezing Trap is a very situational secret, you dont want to use it when your opponent has something that they want to reuse like an Archaeologist, Kirin Tor mage, Prince Keleseth, Saronite Chain Gang, etc. Candleshot as the second weapon, it may not have a lot of damage bit its great to get that extra 1 damage on big things as you dont take damage. The Flanking strike is cheap, and Dire frenzy can help fill in some gaps.
I started as you did. Was f2p at the beginning. Invested smaller amounts of money later. Then realized that this is a waste of money, if you like the game. You waste dust, then buy packs anyway just to get the cards you recently crafted. My new strategy was: Invest the maximum per set as you feel comfortable. ~250 packs is the sweet spot between wasting money / gold and a full set. Here, dust shines to fill the relevant gaps. After ~8 months I had a full set in terms of I can play any meta relevant deck and have spare dust if I need to craft specific anti-meta cards.
Crafted the second spellstone for 100 dust and subbed the other 3 missing cards. Rank 18 and a lot of fun and satisfaction. I'm learning the game!! (see screenshot below)
Crafted the second spellstone for 100 dust and subbed the other 3 missing cards. Rank 18 and a lot of fun and satisfaction. I'm learning the game!! (see screenshot below)
Glad to see your having fun. Learning to swap out cards your missing is a nice skill to have, its one of the first steps in deck building and seeing what works for you as a player. Decks someone else creates my not fit your play style. Hunter is one of the most new player friendly classes there is. So many good cards.
It's a strange moment in HS, the meta is vibrant and there are a lot of decks that are worth playing. Pretty much any class has a chance to do well and give fun. I started playing actively and daily few months ago, just before WW and I'm enjoying my time here, even if I suck. I invested in the $5 bundle and then bought 10x get in here bundles. Plus I'm diligently doing my dailies. I sadly missed the WW bundle cause I wasn't sure I wanted to invest real money in the game. But I've been always a lover of card games and being a person that has to move a lot across the states because of my job + working pretty hard every day a virtual collection suits my needs. And now HS is definitely fun to play.
The get in here bundle has been a nice add to my collection and actually kicked me in a little bit and gave me some nice dust that, summed with this event's quests, is netting me around 6k dust, 3k gold and some legendaries from the latest and standard sets.
Now the dilemma is: should I craft just ONE nice deck to try and climb the ladder or just start crafting and filling my collection holes in the CLASSICS + WW sets?
I'm saying classic + WW because at this point, even if the next rotation will be in around 10 months, it seems a better investment working on the year of the raven. I'm planning on buying a couple of welcoming bundles for the next expansions so I'll enjoy this HS year in its fullest, BUT not now. I know that this is the wiser and most money-effective solution, but I have to say that I'm really attracted by this current meta. It's just fun and in my very modest opinion pretty well balanced.
What if I wait and work on the year of the raven sets only building slowly for a year and then the metas will suck?
What do you think??
Thanks for any tips and hopefully I expressed myself correctly. I'm not a native English speaker ;)
From my experience there are a few must have in the classic sets - but it is best to craft towards your interests. Meaning, if you really like ladder, craft a deck that you both like and feel can climb with in ladder. If you like experimenting, craft the cards that interest you most/ones you are dying to play, even if it isn't the best in the meta.
Have you only started playing recently? 10 get in here bundles u should have a lot of dust
I have a pretty middle of the road collection, not everything but a fair amount of things, but I genuinely dont think there is that much point in crafting things for myself at the moment.. I seem to be able to make a lot of viable and cool decks out of what I have for laddering, so i;m in no rush to craft
that said if you are newer and have dust, there are a lot of cards out there which are totally safe crafts, take a look at the legendary guide that kicks around here... also if you can avoid it just dont craft from sets u are still going to open a lot
problem is I still think there is going to be a fair bit of shifting in the meta.. odd rogue has been the most solid for me, but i play a lot of homebrew right now
if you are new and want to ladder, there is no harm in focusing on a single deck to take on that challenge though, but u will spend all that dust and lose a lot of games still, you have to learn the decks, just be ready for that
p.s. i spend all my gold on classic packs... im just missing a few epics and and a lot more legendaries, but they have been a super good investment I recon.. i should probably start saving the gold for new expansions, but i like working towards a classic legendary
Please read the post linked in my signature. Its sure to save you a lot of headaches. In the first year there are a ton of collection/crafting pitfalls.
One thing that isnt in that post is the meta we find ourselves in now. Its a rock/paper/scissors meta. There is no dominate deck, it all depends on what your matched against and card draw. Secondly, there will be a major shift after the next expansion which should come about 6 weeks from now. Crafting now may be a huge waste of time.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
o he could buy far cry gold for that money and get a complete game and it's dlc instead of a meager number of lootboxes that will probably not help him much in a heavily pay to win game that he may as well forget about while waiting for artifact.
Sounds like you are investing smartly.
There are some pretty budget decks you can ladder with if you want. Tempo mage usually uses no legendaries or just Aluneth, Odd pally uses Baku and that's it. You could spend half your dust and make one if you want, but to be honest laddering is the least fun part of hearthstone.
If you plan on just crafting classic legendaries, go for always good ones like bloodmage thalnos, alexstraza, ysera,etc.
Your best bet though is to save your dust to craft the cards you are missing from the best decks come next expansion. I'm betting the next set will be a bit more powerful.
Thanks for all the answers, now I know I'm doing good.
IDBY yeah that guide is amazing I read it back in the days.
I think I should just go budget/pve until I get enough dust to craft the best classics legendaries and 2 expansion into the year of the raven. It's gonna also be a good time to experiment and learn the game.
It's very infrequent now to find generically useful legendaries, they are almost all for very specific decks. The most generically useful right now are probably the odd/even ones, they should provide you with quite a large variety of decks over the next two years, and manage to support cheap decks.
Stick with trying to find good cheap decks, eventually, you'll find that the legendaries you naturally open will be open up the possibilities for crafting some more advanced decks. As new expansions come out, you can fill out a set pretty well just but buying the welcome bundle and doing your dailies. So, the real question is how do you backfill? The nice thing is in retrospect, you know which cards are worthwhile, so you can get a lot of the way there by crafting just the ones you need. and if there's any more promos, take as much advantage of those as you can.
Sounds like you've been playing a little longer than myself, and spent money in a pretty similar fashion. After the solo content, the game can kind of suck if you don't have a decent deck. I've also found that cracking booster after booster won't give you what you want.
I'd recommend looking at what you've got, what you enjoy, what's topping the charts, then craft one of the top netdecks your dust will afford you and you'll enjoy. Yeah, I felt dirty going for netdecks, but it's a good way to learn, enjoy the game, and have an efficient deck. The learning curve is more about understanding every other netdeck and how to play against them with what you have.
I've got a pretty nicely performing deck (Odd-Pally), and I'm holding off dusting/crafting until the next meta sets in. Then, I might build a netdeck for a different class. It can be hard, though, playing one main deck, and holding off trying other styles to save that dust. I really want to play dragons, but it would devour my dust! I'm also hoping for some decent warlock discards in the next set. I have 4 warlock legendary cards. 2 of which are Zavas (which feels more like an epic, maybe even rare) and Lana'thel. I really want to play with them, but they take too long to make viable, and by the time they're ready to face the mid-game, the opponent will have you dead or a massive board.
Man I feel you so bad... I have a Lord Godfrey that screams to be played, I want to craft Hagatha the Witch soooooo bad (I just think it's the most aesthetically beautiful HS card EVER) and I'm 200 dust away to complete a midrange Hunter (got Deathstalker Rexxar from one of the Get In Here bundles), 2-3k from an odd pally..
I just have to wait and keep my 6-7k dust there. Time's gonna come
Haha! I got Hagatha from my Get in Heres! Would gladly trade you for DK Rexxar.
2-3k off Odd pally? Ouch! It was the cheapest deck for me to put together after crafting Baku. I initially thought Baku would make each class immortal. I got my first legend pretty fast: scored a Spiteful after nerf, and purchased LoE (2x Naga Sea Witch) not long beforehand. Nerf handed me 1200 dust! That all said, I didn't add Leeroy until later. I crafted him from this month's quest dust, and boy, I do not regret it! Awesome finisher. I get a little excited hearing his chant right before a win. It's funnier (but crueler) when the opponent concedes before I can slide him to attack!
I reckon dump that dust into polishing off your mid-range hunter.
I didn't even get a daily quest yesterday.
Rob Dawg
200 dust to craft a midrange Hunter deck sounds like a good investment. Low dust cost for a decent deck. I have had pretty good luck with this deck. But that all depends on what cards your missing, and what cards you have that could replace them to let you try the deck before spending the dust.
If you havent installed Innkeeper you might want to. If you have your collection on Hearthpawn is set to private. You might want to set it to public so others can make deck/card suggestions based on what you have.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
I do have innkeeper and deck tracker. Now it's public.
on the midrange I'm missing a spellstone and a freezing plus a couple of cards from ungoro. affordable, but I really hate hunter ;(
It has its good points and its bad. I felt the same about Rouge, but it grew on me. Hunter is a fast laddering class with very affordable to craft cards. The second spellstone is really essential to most of the decks. You could use a Snipe or two as the missing secrets. Freezing Trap is a very situational secret, you dont want to use it when your opponent has something that they want to reuse like an Archaeologist, Kirin Tor mage, Prince Keleseth, Saronite Chain Gang, etc. Candleshot as the second weapon, it may not have a lot of damage bit its great to get that extra 1 damage on big things as you dont take damage. The Flanking strike is cheap, and Dire frenzy can help fill in some gaps.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
I started as you did. Was f2p at the beginning. Invested smaller amounts of money later. Then realized that this is a waste of money, if you like the game. You waste dust, then buy packs anyway just to get the cards you recently crafted. My new strategy was: Invest the maximum per set as you feel comfortable. ~250 packs is the sweet spot between wasting money / gold and a full set. Here, dust shines to fill the relevant gaps. After ~8 months I had a full set in terms of I can play any meta relevant deck and have spare dust if I need to craft specific anti-meta cards.
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Crafted the second spellstone for 100 dust and subbed the other 3 missing cards. Rank 18 and a lot of fun and satisfaction. I'm learning the game!! (see screenshot below)
Glad to see your having fun. Learning to swap out cards your missing is a nice skill to have, its one of the first steps in deck building and seeing what works for you as a player. Decks someone else creates my not fit your play style. Hunter is one of the most new player friendly classes there is. So many good cards.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
For new players, this event is perfect to optimise solid decks that are already nearly complete.
With limited resources, it is not wise to go all-in and experiment with whole brand new decks now: new expansion will release in about 2 months.