Synergy Picks in the Arena are Being Removed
Mike Donais briefly mentioned the removal of synergy picks over on reddit. This will occur in an upcoming Hearthstone patch, but not alongside the incoming balance update.
Quote from Mike DonaisThis won't be removed in the Balance patch as that was added as a quick bonus patch.
It will be removed in a patch after that though. (Source)Hey Mike thanks for the quick response! Could you please clarify, what exactly is being changed? Are you removing all the synergy picks? Changing the list of synergy cards offered? Trying a new system?
The first 2 picks will be the same as all the other picks. It is being removed. (Source)
How do Nerfs add synergy to your arena draft I'm confused?
Well imagine this your first two picks are cards that are suposed to give you synergy cards the ones that are better with combination of others like elementals, now this you get some suposed cards that can trigger synergy like draw or something similar but after you are done with first two you literaly dont see a single card in draft that could synergy with your first set picks, that is what they want to change (remove whatever they do hopefully will improve the state of arena) and make runs more consistent give better players some edge not just luck factor to dictate how will your run end.
Did I miss something? What are synergy picks?
The first two picks in Arena consist of specific cards that are supposedly good to build your deck around.
A misleading and poorly implicated idea by blizzard.
Why aren't they just relocating the synergy picks to the end. So you built your deck and can then choose which synergy card fits your deck best. I do agree though that it is horrible to pick a synergy card at the start and afterwards you have no chance of activating it.
I never understood these synergy picks. Often it's not the synergy cards you want early on, it's their katalysts. You don't want turn 1 Netherspite Historian or Nightbane Templar, you want a dragon. You don't want a turn 1 Ethereal Arcanist, you want a secret. You don't want Meanstreet Marshal or Primalfin Champion, you want a good buff.
People don't draft the synergy cards unless they're good cards on their own, like Drakonid Operative or really easy to pull off like Unbound Elemental.
WHAT?! NO!!! WE JUST GOT THESE!!! I CAN'T GO BACK TO WINNING LESS THAN 4 GAMES A RUN AGAIN!!!!!!!!
I mostly play constructed,but I like playing Arena when I get bored of seeing the same decks over and over again,so I like this change.Arena is supposed to be something different than constructed,but all these synergy picks and newest cards being more common stuff made it boring for me..it was like playing constructed with bad decks!In my opinion removing synergy picks is a step to the right direction.
SoonTM
most of my arena run, i havent any good synergy picks, but i met enemy with full dragon or elemental or deathratle decks and once i met priest full elemental + dragon dec, really nice synergy picking arena style
synergy picks is only first two picks (you can find a list of cards that can be in 1-2 pick,and most of the time there is 0 synergy between them), and thats it - a lot of people like you have no idea how it works and complaining - atleast synergy pick is truly terrible thing.
"full dragon or elemental" just means they draft good deck its not about synergy picks mechanic.
Make a card pool each week/month. 1 class legendary, 1 class epic, 1 class rare and 1 class common. Fill the rest with draft. Or any other idea around that. Make arena skill based not pure rng.
Heck even make a full card list and make peeps make a deck from it. Anything that removes rng screw ups
As a mage, it is very likely that your first pick be Frost Lich Jaina WITH the synergy picks. Now that they're removed, you'll see shittier stuff...
Frost Lich Jaina isn't a real synergy pick imho due to the fact that you can generate Elementals yourself through the hero power.
I like the idea of synergy picks; I just disagree with what cards they thought were synergistic (they put all the activated cards despite the activators being the important ones).
I'd like to see them bring it back with one list of activators and another of activated ... and then offer once from each list but also at random times.
Now I won't be able to consistently get a Devilsaur Egg, damn you Blizz
Good. Can you remove Standard from Arena now?
nah they just need to put in Wild arena, standard arena definitely has its advantages and it's a lot easier to control/read ur opponent whereas wild would be way more RNG dependent but more fun since there's like a ton more combinations due to the bigger card pool