Hearthpwn

I'm glad that they are paying attention to the Arena, and announced changes are welcomed, but this is very worrying:

Long term, we want build-around cards and synergy decks to be viable strategies, but we need an Arena environment designed to support that goal.

I will never get tired of repeating: the more synergies in the Arena, the worse it is for the Arena. This is the only mode where there are not so many synergies, it's one of its biggest benefits, and yet they try to feed us with synergies again. Can't we leave at least one mode where there are few synergies? Some players (crazy ones, I know) like to see yetis on board eating spider tanks, not a worsened version of constructed, like Duels.

I'm pretty damn sure that Aya Blackpaw is going to be the best card of the expansion, by a very long shot. 

If you play just 4 Jade Golems before her you're looking at a total of 30 stats packed in 1 card for just 6 mana. Which Druids can probably pull off pretty reliably as early as turn 6. That's even better than Dr. Boom...

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I think blizzard is working for some Kind of government intelligence. They make psychological experiments with us. They add more and more buyable content und stop working on free content everyone wants for decades! Brillant! 

 I think Blizzard is a business.  Businesses that sell stuff seem to do better than businesses that give away stuff for free.  I realize this is a deep concept for you.  Let it sink in.

Nobody is objecting to Blizzard making a profit, as far as I can see. People are objecting to the escalation in price gouging, the failure to deliver on promised features, and their apathy when it comes to balancing (particularly in Wild).  

Thank god i won the first one. 

These RNG clownfests are the worst 

Each week I wonder: can they do worse?

Probably they can't but the ones they got in store are "worse" enough...

This set of articles is giving me cringe. It's been like:

1. Hi, I am a forum-article-guy, which means I might read some forums right ?
2. So I've started playing F2P-unfriendly game like HS.
3. But instead of reading forums and watching streams, like you would expect me to, and crafting cheap, new-player-skill-friendly and fast aggro deck. I started to mess up with some non-complete and expensive versions of control decks.
4. So I was stuck at R15. Then I rethinked my approach and crafted even more expensive deck, alright ? Got rank 10.
5. In the end, instead of training with some particular skill-based archetype. I went for considerably expensive, draw dependent, near-auto-pilot ( mistakenly considered a control ) Hadronox deck. And got Rank5.
6.  Look, neither my own gaming experience nor forum and stream study did that for me, but DUST that allowed me to assemble one of auto-pilot decks like Hadronox or Shudderwock.

What ?

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why dont you just stay out of the salt thread man.  no one posts here to get their shit disected and told they're bad at the game. we post here to rant illogically because this game is frustrating as fuck sometimes. 

For the very fact that this is a forum that implies that threads aren't really meant for one-way posting. If you post then expect for people to respond to your comments sometimes, even in a salt thread. I welcome anybody to respond to my comments the same if they ever feel inclined. 

Also, if people use the thread not just for venting, but for trying to say that Blizzard is intentionally rigging their games, they played "perfectly" and do it all of the time, that casual should be limited to anything other than playing how you want, etc then I wouldn't consider it fair in a public forum for everyone else to mindlessly accept such subjective opinions as fact and never respond to such posts. If somebody is going to make such bold statements then expect to sometimes be called out on it if it is either A) BS or B) flooded ad nauseam.

I acutely recall you responding to dozens of posters here that if they didn't like what you were posting then they could block you if they didn't like it. The same applies for me or anyone here. I can't make you read or do anything. If you are offended you can make the choice to opt out of my contribution of 'content' here.

If more posters actually just posted about their bad games and bad luck instead of using the thread to spotlight unproven conspiracy theories or subject 'reader-only' members of the site to bandwagon arguments then perhaps I wouldn't make as many re: posts back to their comments. However, we both know people won't stop doing that (as is their allowance in a public forum).

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Anyway, I digress.

For my contribution of salt.

I played a jade druid. I was winning and out valuing and clearing their board with multiple Kazakus Potions with my Reno Mage deck. They played Yogg, wiping out my board, healing their hero, and repopulating their board. I lost. I was salty.

Though later I am slightly happy that somebody got another good Yogg game in this old era of post nerf yogg.

I wish we had an Arena mode that was F2P where you can accumulate 10g per 3 wins similar to constructed. I just love playing the different decks in Arena mode but hate having to save then drop 150g for the privilege of avoiding the Meta. 

I've wanted this forever but at this point, I don't even care anymore.

It will be a year before this even sees live and it should have been implemented at launch. And please, stop with the BS. They have near infinite resources and adding tournament mode is not a hard thing. They implement it as a brawl whenever they feel like it. It might not be conquest format, but its still tournament mode.

And with how slow they react to broken cards and a stale meta, I have lost all faith in the devs.

Just drafted an Arena deck with 3 Ultimate Infestations. Yeah... great change.