I'm always trying to improve in the arena, so I decided to create this topic as a way to receive tips and advice from more experienced players. I hope others who are still trying to improve also use this topic.
The proposal is simple: post the replay of a game that you lost so that more experienced players analyze your plays and tell you when the game was decided, your mistakes, or what you could have done differently. For those who do not know, in order to save the replays, it is necessary to have the deck tracker installed on your computer.
Once installed, just open it and as you play, your matches will be saved. Click on any of them and you will be redirected to the replay page. You will then have the game link and you can post it on this topic.
If possible, also post your draft for review. We often make mistakes in the draft and that is crucial. I still do not know if I make good drafts most of the time, even making use of Heartharena. I recommend less experienced players install Heartharena, because in addition to saving their drafts, it helps you choose higher-value cards and points out some synergies.
For this first post, here are the three defeats I had in a recent druid run (9-3).
Defeat 1 (against rogue)
Defeat 2 (against hunter)
Defeat 3 (against warrior)
My draft you can check here.
So where did I go wrong? Which card should I get in the draft but did not? What mistakes I made that were crucial to my losses? I would love to see the opinion of people more experienced and better than me. How can I improve?
Thanks in advance for your help! And I ask other players to share their losses and drafts, sometimes our mistakes are the same as others do. I think this topic can help a lot of players!
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No, keep her. She may not be used in the meta right now, but she's not bad by any means. I've played her in a dragon control pala to get to rank 5 in September.
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It's going pretty well actually, I've played 15 runs during this event with an average of 8 wins. Lots of weak players on the lower end of wins that you can farm easily.
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Eh no that's not true. The contents of each pack are decided when you open it.
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There are tons of extremely good manga/manhwa/manhua, hard to pick a clear favourite tbh. Ran to Haiiro no Sekai and Otoyomegatari are amazing if you like Slice of Life and appreciate an appealing artstyle. For romance Something About Us and Fluttering Feelings (both are manhwa) certainly rank among the very best imo with a more mature and thought-out plot/character development than most other romance manga. For drama I'd choose Takahiro Arai's manga adaptation of the famous Les Misérables, Osamu Tezuka's classic Hi no Tori and Kenji Tsuruta's fairly short novel adaptation of Omoide Emanon. For Action/adventure my picks probably would be Kingdom, Berserk and Historie (same author as Parasyte).
A lot of other great works have been mentioned already like Akira, Death Note, Vagabond and One Punch Man, they're also definitely worth reading.
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Nice write-up, I always appreciate these posts that get arena more attention.
Warrior and Shaman look fine actually if you take a look at the card occurrence sheet provided by Blizzard, I doubt they will be bottom tier. I'm also not sure about how E.M.P. operative will impact arena, its stats are too poor to make it a really viable pick. A post on reddit by Tarrot said we would see about 9 mechs per draft on average though, so about 2-5 mechs probably per deck? That seems okay-ish but I likely wouldn't pick it over a much more consistent drop like Sunwalker. The Lightforge by the way rates the card at a 58 which is Angry Chicken powerlevel.
On the other hand you seem to underestimate Arcane Dynamo by a lot, this card basically guarantees getting a board clear in Mage, provides access to powerful tools that swing the board like Plague, UI in Druid etc. which is really powerful in a more curve-centric meta.
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I'm ~9k dust short of a complete collection and could craft the missing cards if I wanted. Rather than a full collection my goal is a completely golden classic set at some point. I play a minimum amount of ranked at the very end of a season to get to R5 (3-5h), other than that only arena (30-50 runs a month). Usually I still spend ~40€ for the preorder every expansion though.