Is Hearthstone trying to tell me what deck should I play?
In other news i tried playing arena after more than a year break from it. I still had a deck with Naxxramas cards in it
I did one run per day for the past month. Here are my thoughts:
- overall deck quality has increased, maybe people are more likely to use some tools that help you draft decks, or maybe they just have more experience in general
- i like how they changed rarity of basic cards like Flamestrike - it's actually rare card in arena now. I remember playing against double or triple flamestrike mages all the time at 7+ wins, now it's very rare to see more than one
- people still suck, they donate you free wins, make basic mistakes, they don't trade when they should, they trade when they shouldn't. When I'm 1-2 i have a feeling that I play players that started yesterday.
- rewards suck. There used to be one golden card in almost every 10+ win arena run, now you get some dust or even worse non-golden cards... And you get less gold.. disappointing
- i switched back to arena to catch up with my collection. I play as a free to play and Un'Goro is expensive. And it looks like arena is still the best time investment. After 30 runs (4500 gold) i got: 36 packs, 5270 gold, 85 dust and a few (8) golden and (6) non-golden cards. Now that they are releasing three expansions a year, I think you have to play some arenas if you want to still play as free to play and have access to all decks.