My frustration with this game has hit a boiling point. I'm not asking for the world. I just want to have fun with this game again.
I played somewhat competitively in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG for 4 years. ("Somewhat" meaning I played almost exclusively decks that would stall in local tournaments. I actually won quite a bit and had fun in the process.) I casually dabbled in the WoW TCG. I saw various Hearthstone streams and was impressed by the presentation. I'm not sure I could have had more hype going into this game when I received the invite in mid-December.
The results have been... mixed at best. The appeal for me getting into this game was the Arena, but when you only win three games per run on average, it's difficult to do runs on a daily basis. The poor Arena performances led to not having as many cards for Constructed as I could have by just buying packs instead, making Constructed matches harder to win. Having to win 30 matches on a daily basis to get the most Gold isn't a fun experience for me when I'm not winning. I can't even make a competent deck with what I have. I took a Shaman deck to Rank 14 in Test Season 1, but in Season 2 it's not winning near as much.
I don't have the Gold to play Arena because I can't win. I can't win because I don't have the cards. I don't have the cards because I haven't been able to get the Gold to buy enough cards because I can't win. IMO this is a vicious cycle that most beginners fall into.
This game may be free to play, but it is still a CCG so it's also pay to win. I am also one of those unfortunate souls who equates winning with having fun--or at least the capability of winning. Does that mean that this game is pay to have fun? If that's the case, I don't even have the budget to buy any packs so that's not an option. (Yes, I really am that poor.)
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, want to have fun with this game, but the game is making it very difficult to do that. What do?
Well you will get better in arena with practice. I know it's hard to practice because you don't have to gold, but eventually you will improve, there really is no other way.
Since you are running on a tight budget i recommend you focus on like 2 classes and DE other stuff, there's no other way if you want to have a competitive deck and have a tight budget at the same time.
Some classes are more expensive then other, like druid and pala. they require 4 epics and 2 legendaries as a bare minimum.
I recommend rogue and warlock. they don't require epics and stuff like that and can be good decks. also if you have some common and rares for mages i guess it can be cheap too, pyroblasts being the most expensive craft.
So you were a Yugioh player and you dont have the money to buy packs for hearthstone? Thats a bit weird.
I "was." The judge at my local tournament moved away, killing my motivation to continue. Now I'm down to pennies at the end of each month, preventing me from being able to budget for anything else. I'd go ahead and sink into a 50-pack, but I'd rather not default on my credit cards. :P My wages are garnished enough as it is.
You are kinda new here. Why do you expect to be able to create a full endgame deck and playing top ranks? If every new player could jump in and make every deck possible, there would be absolutely no way that this game has a chance later on. Gathering cards and opening new packs should be fun and take some time.
Real TCG´s require a lot of money to be able to reach a point where you can play what you want. In this case you can either pay to get everything or invest time to built a deck. And by any means: Everyone should have some spare 10 bucks to buy some packs, especially by playing a free to pay game.
I like this game and I love to open new packs, so I spent 8 Euro in the very beginning and played on from there. Ive concentrated on ONE deck and DE many cards to get some new stuff I wanted. You cant get to rank L with this, but as time goes by you will improve in ranks. Friday was the ladder reset and everybody started to climb ranks again, so it is perfectly normal to lose a lot in the beginning. This will go on until next week I guess, but after some time the ranks will represent the right skill- and decklevel again.
Dont give up, play on and improve. I got pretty unlucky in my last few arena runs, too. Today I drew a pretty bad Priest deck again (got 4 spells in total, 1 Holy Smite, 1 Holy Nova, 1 thought steal and 1 useless Inner Fire), but lucky opponents I guess, so Im at 10/2 atm. So dont give up, success will come :)
I played for quite a while without putting in any money. If you are a decent card player you should get familiar with the rules of drafting quite easily. I suggest you watch some arena streams and read some guides, drafting should not come that hard.
Once you start getting decent results in arena you should be fine. It just takes a while.
I was one of those "too cheap to pay for cards" players back when I started MTG and ended up learning to draft. Ended up playing it about 4 years during high school and ended up in the positive. HearthStone was an easy adaptation from MTG once figuring out how to work with the "no assigning defenders" stuff. If you played a draft equivalent in Yugioh, there should be core mechanics that you can make use of so you shouldn't really need to "re-learn" everything.
You are kinda new here. Why do you expect to be able to create a full endgame deck and playing top ranks?
Hahaha! You thought that's what I was expecting? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, I just found that assumption quite silly. I suppose my problem with a free-to-play, pay-to-win game like this is that you don't really get a good opportunity to learn quickly. At least Yu-Gi-Oh! (and M:TG also, as far as I'm aware) had other means to practice the game and have fun with it without running into endgame decks no matter where you went. This game has no good place to practice your craft. The Basic and Expert AIs in the game are a joke. My Arena experience has been filled with being unable to get good cards and running into decks with good cards. My Ranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. My Unranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. All I'm doing is wondering when I'm going to be able to get the good cards. I'm not learning anything from my experiences and it's killing my enjoyment of the game. So far, "gathering cards and opening new packs" is not being fun.
Now don't get me wrong. I am a fan of a good grind. See my Disgaea avatar? I will grind in games that make it fun to grind. This game is not fun to grind and I'm not making any progress. I'm just trying to find a way to make it fun to grind. That's not asking for too much, is it?
You are kinda new here. Why do you expect to be able to create a full endgame deck and playing top ranks?
Hahaha! You thought that's what I was expecting? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, I just found that assumption quite silly. I suppose my problem with a free-to-play, pay-to-win game like this is that you don't really get a good opportunity to learn quickly. At least Yu-Gi-Oh! (and M:TG also, as far as I'm aware) had other means to practice the game and have fun with it without running into endgame decks no matter where you went. This game has no good place to practice your craft. The Basic and Expert AIs in the game are a joke. My Arena experience has been filled with being unable to get good cards and running into decks with good cards. My Ranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. My Unranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. All I'm doing is wondering when I'm going to be able to get the good cards. I'm not learning anything from my experiences and it's killing my enjoyment of the game. So far, "gathering cards and opening new packs" is not being fun.
Now don't get me wrong. I am a fan of a good grind. See my Disgaea avatar? I will grind in games that make it fun to grind. This game is not fun to grind and I'm not making any progress. I'm just trying to find a way to make it fun to grind. That's not asking for too much, is it?
But your ranked experience so far hasnt been facing off against top-tier decks because you already said you only got to rank 14 last season. The whole point of the ranking system is to "roughly" put you against players with similar skill/similar decks. So if you are losing more than 50% at rank 14 its not a matter of pay-to-win in your case. Getting to sub-10 rank without legendaries wasnt uncommon last season -- Hell i was rank 9 with no legendaries playing solely HUNTER! As soon as you use pay-to-win as an excuse for everything you will never learn from your mistakes.
I'm not getting any decent cards--not even the occasional Argus or something--and I'm not able to learn anything from my games. It feels like I'm losing more to better draws than just bad play. If it's me being bad, then I should be able to tell what I'm doing wrong and improve, but I can't tell if I'm being bad in this game or losing to better cards--and the only thing losing to better cards is telling me to do is to get better cards, but I can't because I keep losing!
I am also pretty bad at deck-building when it comes to aggro. The decks I played in Yu-Gi-Oh! were all of the "stall" variety that would never ever attack and inflict damage with spells/traps and monster effects. I don't really have the mindset to be able to focus on board control using minions. I can't develop the mindset, however, if I can't tell if I'm losing from bad play or bad cards. I also wonder if there's even a point to learning to play with bad cards if they won't help you when you get the top-tier cards.
tl;dr I can't learn the game because I don't know if I'm losing to bad play or bad cards,and that's not fun.
Wow your just one huge chunk of whine, no way to argue with you as it seems.
Quoting and answering to my first sentence and ignoring everything else, just shows, that you have no interest in improving or advise at all. You just seem to be able to whine and let your frustration of being a bad player go off here.
Please either stop playing and dont post here anymore or go on playing and try to get better. But please, spare us with even more ignorant whine
Wow your just one huge chunk of whine, no way to argue with you as it seems.
Quoting and answering to my first sentence and ignoring everything else, just shows, that you have no interest in improving or advise at all. You just seem to be able to whine and let your frustration of being a bad player go off here.
Please either stop playing and dont post here anymore or go on playing and try to get better. But please, spare us with even more ignorant whine
You said that real TCGs require a lot of money to reach a point where you can play what you want--absolutely 100% preaching to the choir. You also said that everyone should have some spare $10 to buy packs--that I don't have so I have no choice but to put in the time.
However, the time I'm putting in isn't getting me anywhere. And I'm not talking about wins and losses or card collection. I'm looking for ways to get fun out of this game while I improve, but the constant losing isn't giving me any fun. Seriously, how does anyone get through the initial grind in a game as all-over-the-place as this? I'm just looking for ways to get through the grind without losing my mind. That's all.
So far, the best advice I've found is:
1. Play decks that don't need as many epics/legendaries.
2. Read guides and watch Arena streams.
No one else has really answered the main question of how to have fun while you grind. So far this is not a fun game, but I know it will have plenty of rewards once I get to the endgame. I'm just not sure if I'm going to keep my sanity in the process.
Wow your just one huge chunk of whine, no way to argue with you as it seems.
Quoting and answering to my first sentence and ignoring everything else, just shows, that you have no interest in improving or advise at all. You just seem to be able to whine and let your frustration of being a bad player go off here.
Please either stop playing and dont post here anymore or go on playing and try to get better. But please, spare us with even more ignorant whine
You said that real TCGs require a lot of money to reach a point where you can play what you want--absolutely 100% preaching to the choir. You also said that everyone should have some spare $10 to buy packs--that I don't have so I have no choice but to put in the time.
However, the time I'm putting in isn't getting me anywhere. And I'm not talking about wins and losses or card collection. I'm looking for ways to get fun out of this game while I improve, but the constant losing isn't giving me any fun. Seriously, how does anyone get through the initial grind in a game as all-over-the-place as this? I'm just looking for ways to get through the grind without losing my mind. That's all.
So far, the best advice I've found is:
1. Play decks that don't need as many epics/legendaries.
2. Read guides and watch Arena streams.
No one else has really answered the main question of how to have fun while you grind. So far this is not a fun game, but I know it will have plenty of rewards once I get to the endgame. I'm just not sure if I'm going to keep my sanity in the process.
If you don't like the game then don't play it dude
If you keep playing in casual and losing, your MMR will decrease until you reach equilibrium, and you should be winning approximately 50% of your matches.
I think the main problem the OP has is the huge shift in the meta which has been happening so quickly. I was about the same rank last season, but I blamed that on a lack of time because the bulk of my free-time goes to being a GM and raid leader of a wow guild currently working through heroics this tier.
Those same decks I used pretty successfully last season are not working at all this season. In the 2 hours I played since the reset, I haven't been able to get past rank 18. Starting at Rank 20, 90% of the decks I see are recent tournament winning netdecks (Druid, Shaman, Warrior OTK). I played MTG and WoW TCG competitively (won/placed at a few big tournaments), and that was nothing like this as far as the level of competition at the "entry level" - Rank 20.
Could the game be too easy to master? Every game (even most casual games), it feels like I'm sitting at table #1 and the rest of Day 1 depends on how well I do each and every single turn. Opponents are playing their top-notch netdecks masterfully, taking minutes to complete each turn. Holding their play, putting it back, flipping through the cards in hand and on the table, before finally making their play,That is the scenario once you reach rank 20, not rank 10 or 5 or Legendary.
After seeing this, I'm not sure this ranking system has enough depth. There is a huge disparity in the level of play you see at Rank 21 from that in Rank 20.
The solution from an experienced player seems to be "add Instant cards" because the complexity and intricacies of timing add a component missing from today's competition, skill. But the difficulty from a technical standpoint seems to be a roadblock we won't soon pass.
It takes very little skill to master the current mechanics. Eventually what you're going to have are the only differences between Rank 20 and Legendary being killer draws and commanders of the topdeck. Not what I would consider a good future for a massively hyped e-sport.
So much whine from one person jeez... And really dude... if you're old enough that you have credit cards and you have enough time to grind a game, then you can go out and grind 10 f*king dollars
There are so many things I could say about how much the comments in this thread misrepresent the community as a whole. I just want to say that as a lover of card games, I thought I had found a card game that I could ease into, learn, and have fun with it. Apparently I've been playing the game the wrong way the entire time.
All I was looking for was a free card game that I could casually get into while still having fun with it. If wanting that is wrong, then I must be the lowest-level scum imaginable.
My frustration with this game has hit a boiling point. I'm not asking for the world. I just want to have fun with this game again.
I played somewhat competitively in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG for 4 years. ("Somewhat" meaning I played almost exclusively decks that would stall in local tournaments. I actually won quite a bit and had fun in the process.) I casually dabbled in the WoW TCG. I saw various Hearthstone streams and was impressed by the presentation. I'm not sure I could have had more hype going into this game when I received the invite in mid-December.
The results have been... mixed at best. The appeal for me getting into this game was the Arena, but when you only win three games per run on average, it's difficult to do runs on a daily basis. The poor Arena performances led to not having as many cards for Constructed as I could have by just buying packs instead, making Constructed matches harder to win. Having to win 30 matches on a daily basis to get the most Gold isn't a fun experience for me when I'm not winning. I can't even make a competent deck with what I have. I took a Shaman deck to Rank 14 in Test Season 1, but in Season 2 it's not winning near as much.
I don't have the Gold to play Arena because I can't win. I can't win because I don't have the cards. I don't have the cards because I haven't been able to get the Gold to buy enough cards because I can't win. IMO this is a vicious cycle that most beginners fall into.
This game may be free to play, but it is still a CCG so it's also pay to win. I am also one of those unfortunate souls who equates winning with having fun--or at least the capability of winning. Does that mean that this game is pay to have fun? If that's the case, I don't even have the budget to buy any packs so that's not an option. (Yes, I really am that poor.)
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, want to have fun with this game, but the game is making it very difficult to do that. What do?
It seems like you want the benefits of either being excellent at arena or paying a lot of money, while neither being excellent at arena nor paying a lot of money.
In this case, the good news it that you actually can have your cake and eat it too, it's just going to take you awhile. Do all your dailies and buy packs with the gold; pick 1 class and stick to it, disenchant all other class cards you get. Slowly, you're going to amass enough dust to buy all the uncommon/rare class cards you need and a couple of Epics too. Once you have the epics you need, start saving up for a Legendary that you've carefully considered getting (there are no refunds).
Bear in mind, there is absolutely no rush. Hearthstone is only in closed beta right now, and it's going to be around for a long time. By the time the game is actually released, you should have a respectable collection without spending a penny; all it takes is a bit of patience and a long-term mentality.
PS: the reason why your Shaman deck is doing worse than it used to is because Season 2 just started and all the Hardcore/Legendary players are still in the process of grinding through the low rankings; just wait about a week and most of them should be back in their spots and out of your way.
I'm not looking for the cards. I'm looking for the entertainment until I get the cards, and right now that's lacking. But I did thoroughly enjoy the WoW TCG despite hardly having any cards so if that's any indication, then it can only go up from here.
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My frustration with this game has hit a boiling point. I'm not asking for the world. I just want to have fun with this game again.
I played somewhat competitively in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG for 4 years. ("Somewhat" meaning I played almost exclusively decks that would stall in local tournaments. I actually won quite a bit and had fun in the process.) I casually dabbled in the WoW TCG. I saw various Hearthstone streams and was impressed by the presentation. I'm not sure I could have had more hype going into this game when I received the invite in mid-December.
The results have been... mixed at best. The appeal for me getting into this game was the Arena, but when you only win three games per run on average, it's difficult to do runs on a daily basis. The poor Arena performances led to not having as many cards for Constructed as I could have by just buying packs instead, making Constructed matches harder to win. Having to win 30 matches on a daily basis to get the most Gold isn't a fun experience for me when I'm not winning. I can't even make a competent deck with what I have. I took a Shaman deck to Rank 14 in Test Season 1, but in Season 2 it's not winning near as much.
I don't have the Gold to play Arena because I can't win. I can't win because I don't have the cards. I don't have the cards because I haven't been able to get the Gold to buy enough cards because I can't win. IMO this is a vicious cycle that most beginners fall into.
This game may be free to play, but it is still a CCG so it's also pay to win. I am also one of those unfortunate souls who equates winning with having fun--or at least the capability of winning. Does that mean that this game is pay to have fun? If that's the case, I don't even have the budget to buy any packs so that's not an option. (Yes, I really am that poor.)
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, want to have fun with this game, but the game is making it very difficult to do that. What do?
Anything actually constructed and thoughtful to input?
StrifeCro Frozen Giants
Well you will get better in arena with practice. I know it's hard to practice because you don't have to gold, but eventually you will improve, there really is no other way.
Since you are running on a tight budget i recommend you focus on like 2 classes and DE other stuff, there's no other way if you want to have a competitive deck and have a tight budget at the same time.
Some classes are more expensive then other, like druid and pala. they require 4 epics and 2 legendaries as a bare minimum.
I recommend rogue and warlock. they don't require epics and stuff like that and can be good decks. also if you have some common and rares for mages i guess it can be cheap too, pyroblasts being the most expensive craft.
GL man and don't give up :)
I "was." The judge at my local tournament moved away, killing my motivation to continue. Now I'm down to pennies at the end of each month, preventing me from being able to budget for anything else. I'd go ahead and sink into a 50-pack, but I'd rather not default on my credit cards. :P My wages are garnished enough as it is.
*sigh*
@OP:
You are kinda new here. Why do you expect to be able to create a full endgame deck and playing top ranks? If every new player could jump in and make every deck possible, there would be absolutely no way that this game has a chance later on. Gathering cards and opening new packs should be fun and take some time.
Real TCG´s require a lot of money to be able to reach a point where you can play what you want. In this case you can either pay to get everything or invest time to built a deck. And by any means: Everyone should have some spare 10 bucks to buy some packs, especially by playing a free to pay game.
I like this game and I love to open new packs, so I spent 8 Euro in the very beginning and played on from there. Ive concentrated on ONE deck and DE many cards to get some new stuff I wanted. You cant get to rank L with this, but as time goes by you will improve in ranks.
Friday was the ladder reset and everybody started to climb ranks again, so it is perfectly normal to lose a lot in the beginning. This will go on until next week I guess, but after some time the ranks will represent the right skill- and decklevel again.
Dont give up, play on and improve. I got pretty unlucky in my last few arena runs, too. Today I drew a pretty bad Priest deck again (got 4 spells in total, 1 Holy Smite, 1 Holy Nova, 1 thought steal and 1 useless Inner Fire), but lucky opponents I guess, so Im at 10/2 atm. So dont give up, success will come :)
I played for quite a while without putting in any money. If you are a decent card player you should get familiar with the rules of drafting quite easily. I suggest you watch some arena streams and read some guides, drafting should not come that hard.
Once you start getting decent results in arena you should be fine. It just takes a while.
I was one of those "too cheap to pay for cards" players back when I started MTG and ended up learning to draft. Ended up playing it about 4 years during high school and ended up in the positive. HearthStone was an easy adaptation from MTG once figuring out how to work with the "no assigning defenders" stuff. If you played a draft equivalent in Yugioh, there should be core mechanics that you can make use of so you shouldn't really need to "re-learn" everything.
Hahaha! You thought that's what I was expecting? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, I just found that assumption quite silly. I suppose my problem with a free-to-play, pay-to-win game like this is that you don't really get a good opportunity to learn quickly. At least Yu-Gi-Oh! (and M:TG also, as far as I'm aware) had other means to practice the game and have fun with it without running into endgame decks no matter where you went. This game has no good place to practice your craft. The Basic and Expert AIs in the game are a joke. My Arena experience has been filled with being unable to get good cards and running into decks with good cards. My Ranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. My Unranked experience has been facing off against top-tier decks. All I'm doing is wondering when I'm going to be able to get the good cards. I'm not learning anything from my experiences and it's killing my enjoyment of the game. So far, "gathering cards and opening new packs" is not being fun.
Now don't get me wrong. I am a fan of a good grind. See my Disgaea avatar? I will grind in games that make it fun to grind. This game is not fun to grind and I'm not making any progress. I'm just trying to find a way to make it fun to grind. That's not asking for too much, is it?
But your ranked experience so far hasnt been facing off against top-tier decks because you already said you only got to rank 14 last season. The whole point of the ranking system is to "roughly" put you against players with similar skill/similar decks. So if you are losing more than 50% at rank 14 its not a matter of pay-to-win in your case. Getting to sub-10 rank without legendaries wasnt uncommon last season -- Hell i was rank 9 with no legendaries playing solely HUNTER! As soon as you use pay-to-win as an excuse for everything you will never learn from your mistakes.
I'm not getting any decent cards--not even the occasional Argus or something--and I'm not able to learn anything from my games. It feels like I'm losing more to better draws than just bad play. If it's me being bad, then I should be able to tell what I'm doing wrong and improve, but I can't tell if I'm being bad in this game or losing to better cards--and the only thing losing to better cards is telling me to do is to get better cards, but I can't because I keep losing!
I am also pretty bad at deck-building when it comes to aggro. The decks I played in Yu-Gi-Oh! were all of the "stall" variety that would never ever attack and inflict damage with spells/traps and monster effects. I don't really have the mindset to be able to focus on board control using minions. I can't develop the mindset, however, if I can't tell if I'm losing from bad play or bad cards. I also wonder if there's even a point to learning to play with bad cards if they won't help you when you get the top-tier cards.
tl;dr I can't learn the game because I don't know if I'm losing to bad play or bad cards,and that's not fun.
Wow your just one huge chunk of whine, no way to argue with you as it seems.
Quoting and answering to my first sentence and ignoring everything else, just shows, that you have no interest in improving or advise at all. You just seem to be able to whine and let your frustration of being a bad player go off here.
Please either stop playing and dont post here anymore or go on playing and try to get better. But please, spare us with even more ignorant whine
You said that real TCGs require a lot of money to reach a point where you can play what you want--absolutely 100% preaching to the choir. You also said that everyone should have some spare $10 to buy packs--that I don't have so I have no choice but to put in the time.
However, the time I'm putting in isn't getting me anywhere. And I'm not talking about wins and losses or card collection. I'm looking for ways to get fun out of this game while I improve, but the constant losing isn't giving me any fun. Seriously, how does anyone get through the initial grind in a game as all-over-the-place as this? I'm just looking for ways to get through the grind without losing my mind. That's all.
So far, the best advice I've found is:
1. Play decks that don't need as many epics/legendaries.
2. Read guides and watch Arena streams.
No one else has really answered the main question of how to have fun while you grind. So far this is not a fun game, but I know it will have plenty of rewards once I get to the endgame. I'm just not sure if I'm going to keep my sanity in the process.
If you don't like the game then don't play it dude
StrifeCro Frozen Giants
If you keep playing in casual and losing, your MMR will decrease until you reach equilibrium, and you should be winning approximately 50% of your matches.
I think the main problem the OP has is the huge shift in the meta which has been happening so quickly. I was about the same rank last season, but I blamed that on a lack of time because the bulk of my free-time goes to being a GM and raid leader of a wow guild currently working through heroics this tier.
Those same decks I used pretty successfully last season are not working at all this season. In the 2 hours I played since the reset, I haven't been able to get past rank 18. Starting at Rank 20, 90% of the decks I see are recent tournament winning netdecks (Druid, Shaman, Warrior OTK). I played MTG and WoW TCG competitively (won/placed at a few big tournaments), and that was nothing like this as far as the level of competition at the "entry level" - Rank 20.
Could the game be too easy to master? Every game (even most casual games), it feels like I'm sitting at table #1 and the rest of Day 1 depends on how well I do each and every single turn. Opponents are playing their top-notch netdecks masterfully, taking minutes to complete each turn. Holding their play, putting it back, flipping through the cards in hand and on the table, before finally making their play,That is the scenario once you reach rank 20, not rank 10 or 5 or Legendary.
After seeing this, I'm not sure this ranking system has enough depth. There is a huge disparity in the level of play you see at Rank 21 from that in Rank 20.
The solution from an experienced player seems to be "add Instant cards" because the complexity and intricacies of timing add a component missing from today's competition, skill. But the difficulty from a technical standpoint seems to be a roadblock we won't soon pass.
It takes very little skill to master the current mechanics. Eventually what you're going to have are the only differences between Rank 20 and Legendary being killer draws and commanders of the topdeck. Not what I would consider a good future for a massively hyped e-sport.
So much whine from one person jeez...
And really dude... if you're old enough that you have credit cards and you have enough time to grind a game, then you can go out and grind 10 f*king dollars
60 % of the time I'm winning 100% of the time
There are so many things I could say about how much the comments in this thread misrepresent the community as a whole. I just want to say that as a lover of card games, I thought I had found a card game that I could ease into, learn, and have fun with it. Apparently I've been playing the game the wrong way the entire time.
All I was looking for was a free card game that I could casually get into while still having fun with it. If wanting that is wrong, then I must be the lowest-level scum imaginable.
It seems like you want the benefits of either being excellent at arena or paying a lot of money, while neither being excellent at arena nor paying a lot of money.
In this case, the good news it that you actually can have your cake and eat it too, it's just going to take you awhile. Do all your dailies and buy packs with the gold; pick 1 class and stick to it, disenchant all other class cards you get. Slowly, you're going to amass enough dust to buy all the uncommon/rare class cards you need and a couple of Epics too. Once you have the epics you need, start saving up for a Legendary that you've carefully considered getting (there are no refunds).
Bear in mind, there is absolutely no rush. Hearthstone is only in closed beta right now, and it's going to be around for a long time. By the time the game is actually released, you should have a respectable collection without spending a penny; all it takes is a bit of patience and a long-term mentality.
PS: the reason why your Shaman deck is doing worse than it used to is because Season 2 just started and all the Hardcore/Legendary players are still in the process of grinding through the low rankings; just wait about a week and most of them should be back in their spots and out of your way.
I'm not looking for the cards. I'm looking for the entertainment until I get the cards, and right now that's lacking. But I did thoroughly enjoy the WoW TCG despite hardly having any cards so if that's any indication, then it can only go up from here.