Just went 0-3 with a great priest deck...just lost to perfect card draws, and I mean perfect card draws from opponents. Lays down that sea creature thing that costs less with more minions on the field, silences right when he needs it, hexes, lightning bolt...they really need to give more gold for the lower wins, sometimes you just can't get the card draws to actually win a game.

Hairy

United Kingdom1169 Posts

January 04 2014 23:28 GMT

#782

On January 04 2014 19:58 Hairy wrote:
I got a good feeling about this one....
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I got 10-3 in this arena. After going 0-1, and then 4-2, I was pretty worried about my prediction ability, but it worked out in the end. I feel that if I can't reasonably predict approximately how well a deck is going to perform, I therefore don't understand what makes a good deck; and if I can't understand what makes a good deck, my drafts are going to be unreliable! Thankfully it got more up to what I was expecting, hurrah!

Hairy

United Kingdom1169 Posts

January 04 2014 23:40 GMT

#783

Also, I learned a new thing.... Faceless Manipulator vs a Mage's Mirror Image does NOT work how I anticipated. I thought it would work like if I played a Silver Hand Knight; the mage would get just the 4/4, but I would get the 4/4 and the 2/2 due to its battlecry. I used my Faceless Manipulator on an ogre... and instead of getting a 3/3 pre-battlecry Faceless, he got the Ogre

Oh well, I learned a thing.

trinxified

Canada7774 Posts

January 04 2014 23:47 GMT

#784

Arena is pretty random, so even good decks don't get to what you expect them to. It's really who you're playing against and what deck with the draws they have.

Pooshlmer

United States1001 Posts

January 05 2014 00:59 GMT

#785

There is definitely a lot of variance in Arena, although you can still do well on average. But lots of starts will just wreck you:

Paladin with argent protector to kill your 2 drop
Blood Knight turn 3
The mage with every single control spell imaginable
etc.

AntiGrav1ty

Germany2310 Posts

January 05 2014 02:51 GMT

#786

Drafted and played it on stream. No legendaries. Unfortunately didnt save a screenshot of the draft.

RoyaSalute

Brazil33 Posts

January 05 2014 05:24 GMT

#787

which class?

AntiGrav1ty

Germany2310 Posts

January 05 2014 06:23 GMT

#788

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the class. It was Rogue.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

January 05 2014 10:43 GMT

#789

mage. no arcane missiles, no frost bolts, no fireballs, no flamestrikes, no pyroblasts. did get two cone of cold and two blizzard. no legends or epic cards. ended up 2-3.

sigh. kripp and trump make it look so easy/.

Hairy

United Kingdom1169 Posts

January 05 2014 12:37 GMT

#790

Latest couple of arenas have been:
2, 11, 10, 3, 4 :/
Struggling to get consistency. In my defense, one of those low-scoring arenas were due to truly awful, awful drafts. Eg:

Wisp, Shieldbearer, or Goldshire Footman?
Umm.... Footman, I guess?

Southsea Deckhand, Shieldbearer, or Bloodsail Corsair?
...

Got a couple of Tauren Warriors and the like thrown in there for good measure, lol. You can't win 'em all, I guess.

S_SienZ

1878 Posts

January 05 2014 13:53 GMT

#791

Good feeling about this one. 1-0 atm.

Parametric

Canada1261 Posts

January 05 2014 21:37 GMT

#792

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Mage 12-2
Had Sea Giant, Molten Giant, Sylvanas, Big Game Hunter

No pyro or blizzard, but I had 1 flamestrike. I feel extremely dirty right now... but the golddddddddddddddd

Shika

Sweden1711 Posts

January 06 2014 01:54 GMT

#793

Pretty excited to play with this one tomorrow (need sleep). One of the best drafts I've ever had!

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Pseudoku

Canada1279 Posts

January 06 2014 04:39 GMT

#794

Ran into HotBid at 10 wins?

Thanks for the 11th win, ended 12-2

Rewards:

Deck had no 5/6 cost creatures, and 1 Stormwind Champion.

trinxified

Canada7774 Posts

January 06 2014 05:19 GMT

#795

Just finished with 10 wins in my last Paladin run. Pretty much got wrecked in the 3 losses I got, especially from a Rogue who happened to have 3 Assassinates and a Big Game Hunter to kill every move I had in my last 4 turns.

Anyway, I got 4 prizes, 1 was a pack and the other 3 totaled to be 380 GOLD. Pretty happy with that since I know that's usually MUCH higher than average right?

Eliezar

United States481 Posts

January 06 2014 06:04 GMT

#796

Not sure what it means, but most of my arenas are 6 wins. Today I had an 8 win with a mage that only had 4 spells, yesterday two 6s with warlocks. Weird thing is that when I get a really exciting draw I end up struggling for 6 wins...when I get a really bad draw I tend to win my first 4-5 games...

I'd really be curious to see blizzard release class win rates (except I have a feeling the classes thought of as better will be higher because the better players will gravitate towards the classes they think are better).

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

January 06 2014 07:28 GMT

#797

I've been doing fairly well as of late, pretty much infinite in arena, with the occasional 4-6. But I don't win the really big pots, mostly because I only hit 7-9 wins usually. Kinda sucks that one "bad" 6-3 can lose you as much gold as you gain from 3 7-9 runs.

Hairy

United Kingdom1169 Posts

January 06 2014 09:12 GMT

#798

On January 06 2014 14:19 trinxified wrote:
Anyway, I got 4 prizes, 1 was a pack and the other 3 totaled to be 380 GOLD. Pretty happy with that since I know that's usually MUCH higher than average right?

I got less than that for my 12 wins.

Alaric

France45622 Posts

January 06 2014 09:55 GMT

#799

On January 06 2014 10:54 Shika wrote:
Pretty excited to play with this one tomorrow (need sleep). One of the best drafts I've ever had!

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Is it normal to be so low on 2-3 mana minions in a druid deck/draft?