Beta Season 2 Launched
Beta Season 2 has officially launched!
Quote from BlizzardWelcome to Test Season 2 of Hearthstone’s Ranked Play mode! At the beginning of each Ranked Play season, all players will have their ranks reset to Rank 25. Test Season 2 will last until the end of the month, which should allow you ample time to work your way up the ladder to become a Hearthstone Legend! Your continued testing efforts help us make all of our games modes a better experience for all Hearthstone players, and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
During our Test Seasons, Ranked Play rewards will not be available.
Please continue to offer your feedback on our Ranked Play mode on our forums here. If you discover any bugs during your duels, our Bug Report forums can be found here.
Battle against other players of similar rank to ascend the Ranked Play ladder and become a Hearthstone Legend!
Ranked Ladder Ready Decks
With the launch of Beta Season 2 today, we've decided it would be a good idea to showcase some of the best decks from the community here on HearthPwn so that you can try them out while climbing up the ladder. Feel free to use these decks the way they are, or if you're feeling adventurous, as a base to create your own deck of mass destruction.
If you've got a deck that has been winning you games on the ladder, come give it a share over on our forums. To get started, login, add your deck to our deckbuilder, and then share your deck on the class discussion forums! Don't forget to write a description on how you use your deck. The class discussion forums are also a great place to go if you have any class specific questions you'd like to ask.
Stars on the deck banners below indicate how many legendary cards are required for building the full deck.
Basic Starting Decks
These decks were created by Trump and can be created by anyone who has unlocked the class they'd like to play. They are improved versions of the default basic decks which can be found in-game.
Template Decks
Aishi, one of our moderators, has created a few template decks which are slightly more advanced than one of Trump's basic decks. They require some cards from the expert collection, so you're going to need to obtain some card packs, or craft them with dust if you are missing any.
Community Built Decks
Right out of the HearthPwn Class Forums, these decks are some of the best that have been crafted by our awesome members. For these decks, some will be linked to forum topic instead of directly to the deckbuilder. This gives you a chance to learn more about the decks before trying them.
Tournament Winning Decks
Here are some decks which have been used recently in high-level tournament play. We don't have guides on how to play them, but they may be a great place to get inspired!
Weekend Tournaments
This weekend is home to the twelfth MLG/ManaGrind North American and European Opens which will be happening on Saturday, January 11th at 2 PM EST, and Sunday, January 12th at 6 PM CET respectively. Signup for both tournaments is open to everyone with a Hearthstone beta account on the appropriate server, and more importantly, is free. Check out this thread on our forums for more information about the tournaments, or click the pretty banners below for links to signups!
Seasons should really last more than 1 month. Two to three months is a better time frame.
The starring system you're using for these decks is quite confusing. The obvious interpretation is that more stars = higher quality deck (or more successful deck). However, the stars in this case apparently show the number of legendary cards each deck contains, which is quite counter-intuitive.
Other than that, great work with the article!
It lets people quickly see at what the odds of them being able to craft a deck is. Nothing sucks more than visiting a deck and finding out it's super high budget with 7 legendaries. Perhaps there is a better way of displaying this without using stars, but I assumed that writing some text to explain this and highlighting it would have been enough.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll take it into consideration if I do something like this in the future.