I started playing Hearthstone as soon as the open beta came out. Since then I convinced many of my friends to join me. Some of them struggled very hard and lost their interest, because they lost most of their matches. When they asked me how I learned the game I always told them that I watched streamers on Twitch and played much Arena.
Since performing good in the arena has become much harder nowadays I wanted to know how you guys learned the game. Do you have any recommendations or tips?
Let me know and help me making my friends less frustrated :)
I started playing in open beta, and mostly played arena, learned a lot from there. Also mostly from watching Kripps stream, i watched it everyday for a year x)
It will get you a lot of hate but play a deck like zoo that is very easy and cheap but teaches you how to do the basics such as trading and card advantage. I then made a handlock and played that to understand how to follow a strategy.
And watching streams and videos helps.
thats it! My opinion is : when you learn 1 deck to play exeptional well then you understand a lot of depth in the game
Zoo is great for that --> i wrote a little comment what are the main things it teaches in my deck description in my signature ;-)
Youtube videos are nice and all, but watching them is boring and frustrating for new players. Its also not as much fun until you build a decent collection. Doing arena is much harder for new players since it involves deckbuilding from random cards and facing other decks built out of random cards.
Its hard to get started on hearthstone, I don't think there's any way around. Its harder now, since there's a lot more cards than before(after TGT it will be close to 500)
All being said, I think the Trump Teachings videos in youtube are great for new players.
Like others have said, watching Trump on Youtube (I didn't have the luxury of Trump Teachings when I started lol) and also StrifeCro is really analytical and good about explaining why he made a certain move, or what cards he's playing around.
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I just played a bunch of ladder and eventually you just kinda get the hang of it. You really just have to play a bunch and you'll end up understanding game concepts.
For me Hearthstone was just a natural fit, from Yugioh to Pokemon to Duel Masters to Chaotic to even more obscure anime based card games like Yu Yu Hakusho and Zatch Bell, I've always loved trading card games. Ironically I've never extensively played or explored MTG, too much investment required.
But when a friend of mine introduced me to hearthstone, I just knew I'd love it. Not being a Magic player hurt me at first but I got tips from my friend who was, and watched every HS youtuber I could find. Personally I didn't mind investing money pretty quickly into the game so I could have some cool cards to play with.
I understand that's not for everyone though so I'm glad we now have more means of obtaining packs and stuff, like tavern brawl. Arena I mainly found useful for showing me which of the cards I did and didn't have could be useful through real experience.
But overall I'd say it's best to just keep grinding the ladder and keeping up to date on the meta. Meta is so important to Hearthstone that more than just loving or liking the game itself you need to be able to get interested in the community surrounding it.
I saw hearthstone for the first time in a wickd stream (a lol pro player) in one of the first day of the beta, i started to search what game was and me and some friends discover this universe...The first couple of weeks was all about finding THE KEY, that was so intense: forums, small giveaways and facebook pages all over my life..Finally we all found our keys from different sources and start playing...
The game was really different at that time and personally i was a lot attracted by arena, so i started playing a lot of arenas watching trump and ekop streams that were pretty much the only good arena players at that time, kripp was a lot worse Kappa.
At that time arena ends at 9 wins and was a lot easier to achieve than now, also because a lot of players didn't know well the concept of value so i achieved a lot of success with a win rate of 77% (i love statistics so i wrote on a document all my wins and losses)...i started playing constructed competitevely a little bit later, when giant freeze mage was nerfed and zoo was all over the competitive (a lot more cancerous than now)...I played a lot of mid range shaman and miracle rogue.
I think i can stop the story of my hearthstone life now...
I learned a TON by reading posts on sites like this, reading articles on various strategy sites, and a lot of Twitch streams. You can tell pretty quickly if a stream is going to entertain you or educate you. Or both or neither.
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Feel free to add me if you play on NA! iMPose#1429
Hi!
I started playing Hearthstone as soon as the open beta came out. Since then I convinced many of my friends to join me.
Some of them struggled very hard and lost their interest, because they lost most of their matches. When they asked me how I learned the game I always told them that I watched streamers on Twitch and played much Arena.
Since performing good in the arena has become much harder nowadays I wanted to know how you guys learned the game.
Do you have any recommendations or tips?
Let me know and help me making my friends less frustrated :)
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I started playing in open beta, and mostly played arena, learned a lot from there. Also mostly from watching Kripps stream, i watched it everyday for a year x)
thats it! My opinion is : when you learn 1 deck to play exeptional well then you understand a lot of depth in the game
Zoo is great for that --> i wrote a little comment what are the main things it teaches in my deck description in my signature ;-)
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Current Standard Deck: Kolento's Big Shaman:
https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1267569-big-shaman
Youtube videos are nice and all, but watching them is boring and frustrating for new players. Its also not as much fun until you build a decent collection. Doing arena is much harder for new players since it involves deckbuilding from random cards and facing other decks built out of random cards.
Its hard to get started on hearthstone, I don't think there's any way around. Its harder now, since there's a lot more cards than before(after TGT it will be close to 500)
All being said, I think the Trump Teachings videos in youtube are great for new players.
I hate RNG
Like others have said, watching Trump on Youtube (I didn't have the luxury of Trump Teachings when I started lol) and also StrifeCro is really analytical and good about explaining why he made a certain move, or what cards he's playing around.
Less traveled is our path
Laid darkly to the left
Footprint of Mendes emblazoning our armored breast
Great bearded Capra who towers oe’er the land
A tribute to your magnificence the feared sign of the horns shows on our hands
Friends. Oh, how precious friends...
Playing with friends, spectating and talking about why certain plays are good or bad, reading a few articles.
This article was VERY helpful to me as someone who hadn't played MtG:
http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/2916-the-three-competing-resources-tempo-card-advantage
Have a great deck that's really, really cheap? Help the new players out
Started in closed beta.
I played Yu-gi-oh and Pokémon TCG, i love card games.
I just played a bunch of ladder and eventually you just kinda get the hang of it. You really just have to play a bunch and you'll end up understanding game concepts.
For me Hearthstone was just a natural fit, from Yugioh to Pokemon to Duel Masters to Chaotic to even more obscure anime based card games like Yu Yu Hakusho and Zatch Bell, I've always loved trading card games. Ironically I've never extensively played or explored MTG, too much investment required.
But when a friend of mine introduced me to hearthstone, I just knew I'd love it. Not being a Magic player hurt me at first but I got tips from my friend who was, and watched every HS youtuber I could find. Personally I didn't mind investing money pretty quickly into the game so I could have some cool cards to play with.
I understand that's not for everyone though so I'm glad we now have more means of obtaining packs and stuff, like tavern brawl. Arena I mainly found useful for showing me which of the cards I did and didn't have could be useful through real experience.
But overall I'd say it's best to just keep grinding the ladder and keeping up to date on the meta. Meta is so important to Hearthstone that more than just loving or liking the game itself you need to be able to get interested in the community surrounding it.
Really nice story bro! Enjoyed it :)
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I learned a TON by reading posts on sites like this, reading articles on various strategy sites, and a lot of Twitch streams. You can tell pretty quickly if a stream is going to entertain you or educate you. Or both or neither.
Feel free to add me if you play on NA! iMPose#1429
I've been learning through the ancient method of Trial & Error (lots of both)