Why am I overdoing it with the emoticons I HATE THAT THERE IS NO EDIT BUTTON

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Ah, thanks, was wondering where the button went lol, silly YaBB

Yeah, it's basically a CCG (since there's no trading involved, cards are bound to account) with both constructed play (boring, especially since you need to spend $$ to construct worthwhile decks) and a draft mode called the Arena (main competitive part of the game, and it's pretty fun).

Dunno, playing a card game on your computer sounds kinda silly in theory, but it's pretty well done and you don't have to lug around actual cards and you can instantly hook up with people and get your fix

If you've ever enjoyed a CCG/TCG you should definitely give it a go

Doesn't that only work for WoW starter editions and such?

Yes, don't buy booster packs (unless you plan to spend cash on them), spend all your gold on arena runs since you get a pack for every arena run anyway. Unlock all the classes and beat all the expert AIs to get some easy gold, and check out some cheap deck builds since your first attempts will most likely be horrible, I know mine were

Oh and read arena guides if you want to have a chance at getting good runs, but expect to suck at your first few runs even if you read tham all

There are some discussions/builds on the official forums, there's hearthpwn.com with a bunch of deck builds (a lot of them outdated but you can sort by submission date), there's ihearthu.com ran by Trump and Artosis with a bunch of features and guides, there's a hearthstone hub here http://bit.ly/16ivOnO, and Team Liquid also has a section: http://bit.ly/16ivSE0.

That's pretty much it for written materials that I know of, I'm sure there's a bunch of YouTube vids by famous people (I know Husky, Day9 and ZiggyD have made some), plus a shitload of Twitch streams.


Edit: I know the names of more youtube personalities than people who live in my building, should I be worried or proud?

sweez wrote on Sep 15^th, 2013 at 3:14pm:


So, tonight was second night where I gave it a good time block of playtime.

Accomplishments:
Got the Mage deck to level 10 and unlocked all the basic Mage cards 20/20.
Earned a new quest (complete one Play match); haven't done.
Unlocked a few more classes, have 3 more to go.

I did a quick search and found that in practice mode, once you get to 10 with a hero deck, might as well switch over to a new hero deck and level that to 10. Not much benefit leveling a deck past 10.

So I switched over to the warlock and now I'm level 2.

The plan would be to stay in practice mode, unlock all classes, and get each one to 10 so I will have the basic cards for each class. Then go try Play mode. Then I think by then Arena should be unlocked, and Sweez mentioned that's the place to be.

Only problem for me, practice mode and leveling each deck to 10 is getting repetitive, and I've only done one so far!
Not sure if it's boring because it's practice, and I'm playing the AI.
Also, I haven't felt or caught the feeling of "Hooked", as in, drawn in and getting addicted. Again, maybe this will change once I play people online.

I'll try to stick to the plan and get all classes unlocked. We'll see about getting each one to 10!?

FakeStrake wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 3:19am:


Each class has a set of 20 basic cards that you unlock by getting them to level 10. After that you get golden basic cards for leveling, the rest you have to get in boosters/arena.
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It's your choice whether to level each class to 10 in practice mode or live games, but it's probably better to stick to practice games until you collect all the basic cards, since otherwise your decks will be pretty bad.

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Doesn't really make any difference, it's probably faster to level one class to 10 since you don't have to change decks etc.

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Play vs. AI until you unlock basics. Then play some matches vs. actual people until you get the hang of how most people use the basic cards, you need to have some basic metagame knowledge to have any chance in the arena (alternatively you could just watch streams and learn that way if that's your preference). You *do* get a free arena entry once you unlock all the heroes (I think), but it's still better to have some idea of what you're doing before entering, since the only way to get in the arena again is to spend gold, and having enough gold to sustain arena entry fees requires going for at least 7 wins somewhat consistently. Unless you want to spend 2 bucks per arena in which case it doesn't really matter.

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Me? In constructed I'm much more comfortable with aggro decks for some reason so I mostly play rogue and warlock rush decks, pally is also very good for that but I'm missing some cards. In the arena, druid is my favorite by far - it's really hard to build a decent aggro deck in the arena, so some control is always good, and druid cards are just crazy versatile.

FakeStrake wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 2:33am:


Well, for me it was that - once I started playing other people, especially in the arena, I got hooked. Even with the very limited chat system (you can basically just use emotes unless you're talking to someone on your friends list), it's still completely different to playing vs. AI.

Luck of the draw is a pretty big factor, mitigated by building decks on a sensible mana curve and by mulliganing aggresively.

Even at the high end people can lose a game due to a crappy draw, but that's card games for you

Zonixx plays this now. www.twitch.tv/goodideagaming

sweez wrote on Dec 10^th, 2013 at 5:54pm:


Consider yourself lucky my class just got raped hardcore. Poor Hunter...i didnt even play it cheesy OTK style