Hearthpwn

They seem to only want to make concise changes to cards, rather than completely redesigning them.  See, they can change the cost, stats, or effect of Ancient of Lore, but they can only change ONE of those things.  Otherwise it would just be too much for the average player to grasp.  (Yes, that was sarcasm.) 

Of the recent nerfs, only Force of Nature and Blade Flurry had both cost and effect changed, and those were spells.  Force of Nature was the ONLY nerf that also saw a mitigating benefit. 

Blizzard wants to keep it simple and is extremely conservative about changing any previously released cards.  Blizzard doesn't care if a card becomes completely uncompetitive.  Blizzard wants to push the game in certain directions.  Therefore some cards get nerfed into the ground.

Personally I think that all the basic class cards should at least be marginally playable for new players, so I think that Warsong Commander and Buzzard were too harshly nerfed.  I also think it's bad that so many classic rares and epics are terrible since new players also have access to so few of those.

If you guessed 7, you were right! 

As I looked at my other recent games, the trend towards losing as second player is there, but I've never seen anything so blatant. 

So a tip for doing well at Arena: always go first! 

I would have thought that he would quit just because of how frustrating Ancient Shieldbearer is to play against. 

10 armor for 1.5 mana is preeeetty dumb. 

Khagdar - major silver fox, at least his hero skin picture. 

Warlock and Shaman are frustrating to deal with because of their agro minions are so hard to remove. 

Additionally they have access to incredibly efficient removal in the form of Lightning Bolt, Rockbiter Weapon, Power Overwhelming, Soulfire, and Mortal Coil, not to mention the cheap buffing minions.

The two agro decks represent a design flaw since they don't really have any weaknesses.  If a deck can deal a lot of damage quickly, then its minions should be more vulnerable to removal.  If a class relies on efficient minions for damage or trading, it shouldn't also have efficient removal spells.  If a class has several minions or spells that spew out tokens, then a spell that is only balanced because it sacrifices a minion isn't balanced at all. 

People have a right to complain about this design flaw.  

People say it isn't agro, but the lack of answers to agro that other classes have.  Yes and no.  A deck archetype should inherently be designed to have a hard counter with the existing card pool, the old rock/papers/scissors scenario.  I mean, why were Flamewreathed Faceless and Northshire Councilman given that one extra point of health to protect them from equivalently costed removal spells or minions?  I would argue it was a deliberate choice to protect their decks from existing hard counters.  (FF should have been a 7/6.)  However, no equivalent counters were introduced in the same set.  Yes, people can legitimately complain about that. 

Yesterday I started my season in Wild with a Mech Paladin deck that I can't play in Standard.  It's totally fun. 

There really is a diversity in the decks you play against in Wild. 

Also, I spent gold on GvG packs, and gosh darn it, I'm going to use those cards! 

Yeah, I got this on my f2p European account, where I don't have any friends. 

Gonna reroll whenever it lets me, because it's too much trouble to start sending friend requests to random strangers I've played against. 

Oh Blizzard, why are you trying to stop me from being antisocial? 

Brawl For some reason Warrior had to have the most efficient single minion removals in the game as well as the most efficient board clear as well.  Your only hope of getting through Warrior's Trueheart (TM) Armor while having one to two minions a turn summarily dispatched is by spamming the board with multiple minions.  Except that you can't, because a 5-mana spell can unconditionally destroy all of them.  Even though I hate Priest's "I remove and/or steal everything" deck, at least his board clears are based on damage, not on simply erasing everything. And at least Priest is limited to 30 health. 

Speaking of Priest, Cabal Shadow Priestis the too-often unsung heroine of tilt.  "Let me CHANGE your mind if you thought you had a chance of winning."  6 mana is such a "steal" for the decisive swing that card can provide. 

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Another tip that hasn't been mentioned by everyone else:
Slow. The fuck. Down.

I've seen so many opponents misplay and lose the game just because they didn't take the time to think over it.
Quick example: Opponent playing a Deathrattle minion, then an Unearthed Raptor, in that order within 3 seconds of the turn starting. "Mistakes were made," alright.

Check and recheck your move, consider other options, then execute it.
It seems so basic yet I've encountered many opponents who do this.

I started playing in December and have only spent money on the adventures and few Arena runs.  I started with the online newbie decks featuring the Naxxramas cards and gradually increased my collection.  January I ended at Level 19.  February  I ended at Level 15.  I started buying GvG with my in-game gold and crafted Dr. Boom once I got 1600 dust.  March '16 I ended at Level 14.  I switched to buying Classic packs along with Arena runs.  My collection has just drastically expanded.  I'm still missing many staples, but with a bunch more cards under my belt, it's like an entirely different game.  So many more options, and so much more power. 

I decided to ladder with Rogue this month.  After failing with Oil Rogue, I netdecked a Raptor Rogue deck and have easily just hit Level 11.  After consistently hitting a ceiling of Level 14/15, Level 11 seemed impossible.  It's only possible because I collected the dust to craft two Piloted Sky Golems and because I got two Defenders of Argus in packs (also thanks to the deck author, although I tweaked the deck a bit because I wasn't willing to spend dust on Classic cards I was missing now since I'm still getting packs).   

I'm having so much fun with all the card combos, I will definitely be playing Wild because I don't want to lose the cards I've only  just started playing with. 

The frustration that newbies and F2P players feel is real.  I remember resenting players that always had Dr. Boom and Emperor Thaurissen.  (I still resent players who have multiple crafted Legendaries in their deck.)  There may be some decks like Face Hunter and Zoolock that only require crafting a few rares to be competitive, but in the long run, you've got to get a collection.  Choke up the money for the adventures, and start splitting your gold on Classic packs and Arena runs. 

That's pretty much every card game ever. The card draw variance (+RNG in hearthstone's case) is why it's really hard to have more than 60-65% winrate in almost all card games played at high level. A huge part of card game skill is in building a deck (if you don't netdeck), deciding on tech choices based on the meta and developing a strategy depending on the matchup and the cards that you were dealt. Those are the parts that people commonly forget about that can push out extra 5-10-15% winrate. Also, the RNG evens out for the players over a large amount of games.

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The meta is good. People always complain.

Yes, 'is good' means there are a lot of working decks, not only Midrange Shaman, which is the best obviously.

Only a Shaman player would say this. Current meta is "one deck trumps all", which is Undertaker level, which was the worst meta HS had ever seen.

Karazhan fucked everything over and there's no arguing about it. This meta is shit. It's not even a real meta given how there's only one deck floating around.

• Spell Druid (fantastic deck able to beat anything with good ramp)
• Secret Hunter (you can win so much tempo with Huntress)
• Discard Warlock (Malchezaar's Imp and Silverware Golem are absolute nuts)
• Tempo Mage (still strong with good draw into Flamewakers, and now there is super portal for 7 mana)
• Malygos Rogue (I did Rank 6 with this deck current season, pretty fun deck)
• Dragon Warrior (it still works)

2 mana Epic Spell: Shadow Word: Four Destroy a minion with 4 attack or 4 health.

To nerf Secret Paladin in wild mode, the true card to nerf imho is not MC, but Avenge. 1 mana 3/2 of stats granted. Flame Imp Needs your face to get hit by 3 to have that.

Rankings are relative to other players.  So if 97.5 percent of people do not reach rank 5... then rank 5 and below can never be mid-ranks as this is not relative to other players.  Rankings in ladder are not directly correlated to skill (they do to some degree, but there is the win streak bonus system)  Also some players do not grind games hours upon hours to rank up, some just play for fun an hour or so every other day (as they have lives, wives, kids, jobs, other hobbies, etc).  The mid ranks would be whatever rank that at the end of the season said you were in the top 50 percent of the player base... which is probably 18 or so I would guess.  I want to clarify what I am saying as well.  Ranks here is not correlated to skill, but your position on a ladder compares to other players.. so ranks 1-5 may contain people of moderate skill, but they are still in the top of the player base on the ranked ladder.  Those at rank 10-20 are in the average ranks of the player base (mid ranks), but may be composed of people with little skill, moderate skill, or alot of skill (depends where they spend there time and how much they spend in the game).

A reminder to everyone on here too, do not start spouting the fact that it was easy for "YOU" to make it to rank 2 in just 14 hours of gameplay in a month playing a fast netdeck.  Let's be friendly to each other, and other's.  We must remember that ranks do not equal skill, they are best described as a product of skill, deck quality, time, and luck.  Time spent playing ranked * power level of deck * skill level of player * luck with win streaks = rank.   This means you can have a high skill level and be at rank 17, or a low skill level and be at rank 5.

I want Shield Slam to spend Armor when you use it.  The 1 mana cost in addition to clearing any minion in the game is insane.  It's the only card I really have a problem with  - outside of Blade Flurrys current state.