Hearthpwn

Well, Firebat hasn't exactly set the world on fire since he won Worlds in 2014. Pavel also took quite a break after winning Worlds, and his result after that was far from great. Tom was in a tough group, so his results reflected that.

People who are at the top of their divisions are there on merit. There are tons of games where close decisions matter. You could even argue that this league format is an even better test of skills than the tournament-style World Championship.

Second this. I had the same problem as well.

Most of my ridiculous Arena stories came when I play as Rogue, my favourite class and the reason I play this game at all.

I once drafted a Keleseth Rogue deck with 2 shadowsteps and one Pre-nerF Chain Gang. There was one game where I went coin Keleseth =+ 2 Shadowstep when I was at 6 wins or something. Needless to say, my opponent insta-conceded.

Pick Pocket also makes for fun stories. There was a game where I was way behind on board with almost no chance of coming back. But 3 of my 4 Pick Pockets gave me these: Hooked Reaver, Lord Godfrey, and Bloodreaver Guldan. Ended up winning that game but felt sooo bad for my opponent.

Happened to me here as well, won't complain though!

I've been playing Arena since the open beta, and although I am an okay arena player myself (have at least twenty 12-win runs to my name), I could not seem to find consistency. There are dry spells when I manage no more than 3-4 wins about 4-5 runs in a row, only to be followed by an insane 10-12 win run to keep me afloat. As a result, my gold fluctuates a ton although I still manage to keep it infinite if there is no adventure mode to be bought. Question is, how do you arena masters achieve consistent results? I would love any good advice so that I can cut down on those 3 wins or fewer runs.

Thank you. 

12-2 with mage 

1 Pack 245 gold 1 golden Stormforged Axe + 1 golden Misdirection

The draft was super vanilla 3 frostbolt, 2 polymorph, 3 Water Ele, 2 Flamestrike, 1 Fireball 

Most other minions are super small, the biggest one being Stormwind Champion. I won about 3 matches by fatigue and lost one by fatigue myself.

Was playing casual with Warlock aggro vs mage the other day.

I went T1 Leper Gnome. He went Coin and, you guessed it, Frostbolt my Gnome!

I loled so hard. Needless to say, the rest of the game was a breeze.

Other awful play was when someone Naturalised my Wolfrider on turn 3 when he had a random minion out. Always happens when you take your first loss fairly early in the arena.

12-2 with Priest. My first 12 wins in Arena too! The deck looked mediocre but it worked well because of the curve. I can't remember missing the 2, 3, or 4 drops in all the games I've won. MVP was Mind Control Tech and Auchenai Soulpriest. No Epic no legendary, just straight up solid guys.

The reward was kinda meh, but I don't mind getting two and a half free drafts!