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Update: at one point today i was rank 2 and 3 stars. Fell back to rank 3 4 stars. Idk guys, now it feels impossible. I burned out. Wont be playing much at the weekend, spending it with the future wifey. 

I know i could do it but it just feels i dont have enough time :(

Yeah, you can read the announcement at http://www.hearthpwn.com/news/2247-some-classic-cards-moving-to-wild-three-expansions

A new standard cycle comes with a new meta, even more so than a typical expansion :)

On the contrary, switching decks on your way up the ladder is key to countering the meta. If you've stayed around the same spot for ~10 games, you should tally up what you saw and decide if you can be playing something more fitting. The only caveat is that you need to be comfortable and practiced with your alternate decks. Don't randomly switch to Jade Shaman because someone said it's good. Do some practice with new decks off ladder and only use it when you're ready. Some people have decks that they can't "click" with. You can also try teching your existing deck but this is slightly less meaningful if you're using an aggro deck

Dragon priest, Pirate warrior and miracle rogue are the negative winrate matchups to my Jade druid in ranks 1-5, so you could try those if you're comfortable with the decks

If you're playing face shaman, you don't need to rush down a druid down unless you're in a position where an ancient of war will lose you the game. They key to beating druid is abusing the fact that they have no big AOE and that their minions are fat.

• Value your minions. If you can build a board they can't deal with using any reasonable combination of spells, you win. Because they have no early game minions, they can't use minion combat to value trade into totems or soften your minions for spell removal
• Value your flametongue totems.  Druids can rarely remove all the junk 0/2s and 1/1 from your board so Flametongue usually gets insane value.
• Totem golems are sticky. 3/4 bodies can't be removed by a single wrath or roots. If they use a feral rage or an inefficint swipe on it, you are happy. Prioritize playing these over other development unless it gives them a good swipe
• Try to make their turns as mana inefficient as possible. The cheapest real minions they have are 4 mana. A swipe on 6 or 7 mana means they can't develop any minions along side removal without innervate
• If you run 7/7s, beware of mulch unless you're in a pirate warrior heavy meta
• If they have ramped into big minions, into draw, they have highrolled and any deck has a potential to do that. Don't get discouraged

See you around on ladder ;)

I normally watch all the NA and EU championships but given how absolutely terrible the production and casting was last week, I'm going to wish the players good luck and give the stream a pass. They were randomly switching between the matchups so often in the swiss portion, we never even got to see a game from start to finish unless it was an aggro mirror

Will this player's risky play pay off? Did you want to see some macro decisions play out? Is this warlock playing around pyroblast or has it already been casted while we were watching some other game? Did you want to see the conclusion of that matchup you were just watching? Too bad! You can watch these other random people play instead. But don't get too immersed, we're moving on again in 5 minutes

My favorite part was when they entered a matchup mid-game and no one, including the casters knew there was a ice block up for one of the players until it was popped. Up until that point, the casters were telling us how insanely risky the guy with the ice block was playing ...

It was almost as if they think people watch the championships just for live score updates on favorite HS celebrities rather than actual gameplay. They also apparently think that we don't know what cards like SWD and Reno Jackson look like because the casters need to highlight them every 15 seconds

Thanks but no thanks. I'm not enough of a fanatic to need live score updates. I'm okay with waiting for someone to post scores after the game

This isn't ladder and that isn't how conquest works. What he's doing is called a "soft counter". The point is to concede the aggro matchups and sweep the slow decks.  ShtanUdachi had the same strategy with different decks and he made it to the Bahamas. Granted, I think ShtanUdachi executed it way better and there's less target decks in the NA championships

Stormforged axe is sometimes played in non-jade control shaman

In any case, I have nothing against shamans and their power level but I'm glad they took a dump on this horribly designed RNG card.  Nobody (the shaman included) likes games being determined by a person's ability to roll a spellpower totem when they need it

The (greedy?) face shaman I ran only had one copy of spirit claws because I couldn't fit the spellpower package in. Spirit claws is the main thing that holds the spellpower package together in shaman so I suspect the only change we'll see (in face shaman lists) is stuff like Thalnos and azure drake being replaced

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I mostly play on my phone also. There is an app for it on Android called "Arcane Tracker" which is the same as the different PC versions.

 Do you have to keep switching apps for it though? 
I don't know about Android, but switching Apps on the iPhone causes the game to need to reload.

 No switching. Once you load Arcane Tracker it will launch Hearthstone and start tracking. You can also make you deck on it so it will auto-load instead of it just tracking what you have played. It also tracks you opponents deck.

Tracking your opponent's deck, is an unfair advantage. You're not supposed to know what your opponent has in their hand. 

Whatever the devs try, it's never enough for the Hearthstone community FeelsBadMan

Those replacements are perfectly fine. No one plays 2 auctioneer on ladder anymore as they are too slow. The only see double auctioneer in tournament decks if the player is countering Reno decks or something

I just played 20 games of wild up to rank 9 this afternoon and 11 of those games were against warrior.  One control, 1 dragon and 9 pirate. Even so, I had an amazing time because I made up a new deck that crushes them, yet was fun to play and could outvalue other control decks. I haven't played wild seriously for awhile but I might consider starting again since I found a working deck

The wonderful thing about wild is that there's more combinations to toy with and it's mostly uncharted territory. Pro players don't play it so it's difficult to netdeck. I'ts up to plebs like us to fill up the meta. Even at mid ranks, there are many people net decking standard decks or old decks from before standard existed, therefore I consider it a place where good deck building skills are rewarded. The pirate warrior that popped up in MSG is the only deck widely netdecked but even so, I don't believe it's as good as everyone thinks. It's just that no one that actually knows what they're doing has posted an alternate deck for the meta to abuse

My winrate vs shaman through ranks 1-5 is 33-16 though. The no mulch variant I ran in aggro metas had a positive winrate vs warrior as well

Ancient of war or druid of the claw are better than ironbark if you have them. Mulch is in there for the face shamans, reno and rogue matchups. I swap them out sometimes when there's too much face warrior