Hearthstone

Some of that stuff makes sense and others don't. Lol @ mage though, yeah they keep flamestrike, fireball and a bunch of other tools, but those are three good cards to yank. Honestly, remove fucking firelands portal too, that's some bullshit in arena as we all knew it would be.

I don't understand removing dunemaul and windspeaker from shaman at all, but otherwise this mostly looks fine? Mage and rogue lose a couple of their better cards, other classes all largely have chaff cut from them.

I guess I can get on board with the arena changes although some cards I'd rather have stay in like:

• Poison Seeds - One of the few ways druid has of killing a big creature, and also you could draft a token deck in arena and use this to get ahead.
• Inner Fire - You used to be able to draft the inner fire combo deck fairly consistently in classic, not so much anymore with the card diffusion but I kind of like the idea that you could still do it.

Man all those changes really make me want to...continue never playing arena ever.

They arent fixing anything. They really need a fundamental revamp or just create a sealed mode. Something like 20 classic, 20 most recent xpac, 20 most recent adventure and you build your 30 card deck. That is such a simple idea.

At the very least normalize the rarities so everyone is offered the same amount of legendaries and epics. Preferably put them first so you can somewhat build around for more interesting strategies. Oh, and remove flamestrike or make it more rare. How did they mess that up...

You don't even need to go full sealed. Just seed the draft rarities to like 1 leg 3 epics 8 rares or something would be fine.

Deathwing said:

Molten Giant, Echo of Medivh, Ice Block.

Rarety is not so important for how often it gets offered, but for how often specific cards get offered. Run a deck tracker and take note how often you get beat by someone with commons and rares. Epics and Legendaries do not guarantee you quality.

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It's not about power level, it's about having some manner of consistency to it so you can try and have a semblance of strategy while building your deck, rather than just lol curve and dump all my mana every turn.

Yea, I'm very surprised they haven't just copied MTG as close as they can. Just make arena a proxy of mtg 'draft', where the 3-4 most recent sets, plus core, are available. Balance the offering rates so you have like 1/3rd core, 1/3rd most recent xpac, 1/3rd other two xpacs. Or, if they want to promote the most recent set more, and it's big enough, 30% core, 50% recent xpac, 20% other.
Or, as others have said, do a sealed style. Where you know your entire pool and can build a deck around that.
I can't tell you how many times I got offered a really cool 'synergy' card early on, but couldn't take it cause I had no idea if I'd get the cards to support it in the rest of the draft so I passed on it then kicked myself when the support cards showed up later. If I knew everything that was going to be offered, and saw the support cards, that would have been great.

So many easy ways to fix arena and make it interesting. I really don't understand what is going on in that dev team that they have to wait till there is a huge public outcry about it before they even put a bandaid.

I'm guessing they consider a draft system too complicated. Keep in mind its Blizzard, they want everything streamlined and friendly for the casual, as well as mobile accessible.

Yogg can kiss my fucking ass, last 3 druids I just completely destroy, they have very few cards in hand, they have to throw out like a turn 8 desperation yogg with very few spells and its won them the game every fucking time.