Yeah, as Boozor said, HA is a great tool to give you an idea how you should draft in Arena. But the more experience you get, the more you should stop following its suggestions, unless they align with your reasoning why pick that card. HA skews heavilly towards any kind of synergy, often very unrealistic one or one that is not rly worth it, over just solid standalone cards. You should get an idea what synergies are worth it over time, so you can then decide for yourself what you should be goin for and what you should skip.
I dont know if recent updates bugged it so that it doesnt deal the correct amount of damage, but i did pick 2 of them in the past and every boss got 4 copies of Curse of Rafaam and they were gettin dealt 8 damage per turn, even tho the animation only showed "-2", but the correct amount was subtracted from their health.
I find the treasure worth it, if you can manage to get two of them. Early bosses just straight up die to it before they can get rid of it, but you can beat early bosses with literally anything so thats not really a selling point, but with later bosses it deals decent amount of damage to them (so kinda comparable to [Hearthstone Card (Fly By) Not Found], but you dont have to wait to draw it and play it) and it also gives you few turns worth of tempo, since they need to spend 8 mana to get rid of the Curses. Depending on how your deck is built, that can be an amazing advantage.
Im not gonna say that this treasure is one of the best, but it certainly is not bad.
They should have put it in as an Anomaly, would give us an option to do such a run from time to time while keeping their original vision for the Heist :)
With so many Mechs around now you can try to stick a couple on board, but on Wild (since there are tons of powerfull removal) it's pretty hard to make them survive a whole turn. Anyway, for the memes, is always a good card that works pretty good with Quest Mage because you can get the extra turn to make it working without your opponent reacting.
Classic card buffs are a weird thing.. I mean many classic cards are garbage forever but buffing classic cards lower the impact of new expansions.. that being said I think only synergistic classic cards need to be buffed.. or those whose archtypes have been always weak.. I could see the -1 mana cost +1 attack or +1 hp being implemented in some classic cards.. I will theoricraft about it latter..
Here is everything I gathered from that stream. I think a few other things you didn´t mention are quite interesting. :-)
- New classic cards are going to be announced in few weeks.
- We will see more in-game shop skins for real money in the future.
- They are working on cosmetics and they are open to fresh ideas.
- Big Priest is "still" being watched closely but nothing new.
- In the future we wil see more cards which are working like reno and even maybe for other classes than Mage, Warlock, Priest.
- RoS was about the bad guys, new expansions should be about other things? (LoE quite possible)
- Mike Donais´s favorite sets are Ungoro and LoE.
- Angry Chicken and Chicken arts aren´t going to be updated ever because it would be distracting for the players.
- There are plans about changing animations for classic cards in the future. (Not every of course.)
- Giant Wasp doesn´t look like really stealth minion with her pink "tentacles", that´s because they had her art first and then they decided to give her a poisonous and stealth because she was the only meaningful card in the set that could have poisonous.
- We will see a better deck copying feature and maybe even better deck sharing with your in-game friends.
- Mike said that special legendary cardback with it´s expansion logo for every expansion would be a nice idea.
- Haro Setting Sun is going to be nerfed next week. (Dalaran Heist)
- Mike is responsible for nerfing cards like Rockbiter.
- We will see more buffs in the future, but they want to try something different than buffs and nerfs in the future too. (We don´t know what or when.)
- In the upcoming sets we will see a card that could make your Pogohopper a 45/45 easily.
- It would be cool to allow golden cards in the adventure and Mike agreed.
- With the next expansion we will see also a new adventure but It´s playstyle might be different.
- We will probably see the most popular Dalaran Heist playable characters as a class skins. (At least one would be great Mike said.)
- Splitting expansions into 2 smaller expansions has been discussed, it would be good as things would change quickly.
- They have 2 lines fixed between bosses from Dalaran Heist (powerlevel-vise) and if any is above or below the lines, they are establishing them accordingly.
- We might see one hero card this year, just maybe.
- Random hero option is a good idea as random cardback option already exists and it wouldn´t be hard to implement that into the game.
- Sometimes they release a 4 mana 7/7 just for the memes.
- They tried to do an "infinity" mode for adventures like if your deck is that good and you want to go more and more, but It ended up being boring. (12+ bosses will probably never happen.)
- A lot of HS devs are playing MtG and they are maybe getting some ideas from it.
- They already did a few cards like "Shadowform" and we might see some more of them in the next expansion. (Dynomancy, Jarraxus, Hero Cards, etc.)
- Mike thinks that the trailer and the theme for the next expansion is awesome and probably everyone will love it. (It´s going to be something from Loe indeed - https://clips.twitch.tv/DelightfulCrunchyCormorantGOWSkull)
- The story of Rafaam will continue with new expansions this year but It´s not being done just about him.
- It´s quite possible that we will see Classic Cards buffs in the future. (It isn´t that high on their list of necassity.)
Random hero means random hero portrait (from the ones you own, within the class you play, I'd assume), just like the random card back picks a random one for you each game.
I suggest to remove that tank from the deck and forget that it exists in your collection. Better play some goblin synergy card or some combat trick or another big red creature (even something simple like 5 5\5 charging trampling dino) or whatever.
Haro indeed is one of the more frustrating bosses to face, unless you can ruin his ress pool somehow (and they did indeed add a few cards he play to ruin his ress pool)
you were a gonner, it was a big priest list with no way to really react since your minions were much weaker due to a -2 attack aura.. now the other boss that is too insane is vasno.. depending on how many snowfury giants are in his hand.. sometimes even the best runs fall against him...
I would like it if they communicate that some encounteres were tweaked.. we don't need to get this information from a stream. communication is still lacking I see..
I think infinite would be boring.. I would rather start a new run.. infinite rogue likes are boring after a loop, and with the system in place instead of refining the deck you would get a garbage deck unless you can somehow put a lot of impactful cards in the opening hand. (since you can't skip card selections)
I hope next rogue like adventure have a "skip card selection" option sometimes.. the rewards just make your deck much worse...
What does a random hero means? queuing a random deck out of your 18? cause otherwise there's zayle and whizbang.
I hate no duplicate decks they are full of legendaries and are not fun to play or play against cause you relay on drawing certain cards on certain situations.. makes deck building annoying.
why not make all the lackeys as gif heroes? I mean they are already implemented have voice acting just need golden animations and unlocking methods..
About using HearthArena
Yeah, as Boozor said, HA is a great tool to give you an idea how you should draft in Arena. But the more experience you get, the more you should stop following its suggestions, unless they align with your reasoning why pick that card. HA skews heavilly towards any kind of synergy, often very unrealistic one or one that is not rly worth it, over just solid standalone cards. You should get an idea what synergies are worth it over time, so you can then decide for yourself what you should be goin for and what you should skip.
Rafaam's Hand treasure bugged or working correctly?
I dont know if recent updates bugged it so that it doesnt deal the correct amount of damage, but i did pick 2 of them in the past and every boss got 4 copies of Curse of Rafaam and they were gettin dealt 8 damage per turn, even tho the animation only showed "-2", but the correct amount was subtracted from their health.
I find the treasure worth it, if you can manage to get two of them. Early bosses just straight up die to it before they can get rid of it, but you can beat early bosses with literally anything so thats not really a selling point, but with later bosses it deals decent amount of damage to them (so kinda comparable to [Hearthstone Card (Fly By) Not Found], but you dont have to wait to draw it and play it) and it also gives you few turns worth of tempo, since they need to spend 8 mana to get rid of the Curses. Depending on how your deck is built, that can be an amazing advantage.
Im not gonna say that this treasure is one of the best, but it certainly is not bad.
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Some other stuff that we didn't clip (at least not yet):
[Game] Name another card that has the same...
Lotus Assassin
[a rogue minion]
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
They should have put it in as an Anomaly, would give us an option to do such a run from time to time while keeping their original vision for the Heist :)
Mimiron's Head?
With so many Mechs around now you can try to stick a couple on board, but on Wild (since there are tons of powerfull removal) it's pretty hard to make them survive a whole turn. Anyway, for the memes, is always a good card that works pretty good with Quest Mage because you can get the extra turn to make it working without your opponent reacting.
Legend 74% Win Rate Tess Rogue
if mirror matchup tess is not as good as pogo rogue
Interview with the Class Competition Winner - Pircival & the Archaeologist Class
Congratulations again Pircival idd!
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Classic card buffs are a weird thing.. I mean many classic cards are garbage forever but buffing classic cards lower the impact of new expansions.. that being said I think only synergistic classic cards need to be buffed.. or those whose archtypes have been always weak.. I could see the -1 mana cost +1 attack or +1 hp being implemented in some classic cards.. I will theoricraft about it latter..
will try and do one from each class for basic
and 2 from each class in classic + 2 neutrals.
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Would love an infinite mode. The "4 extra bosses" already felt epic, due to the enormous deck size/amount of treasure.
It would be awesome to get an infinite mode where the modifier swaps between the ones from the chapters 1-4 every x bosses.
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Here is everything I gathered from that stream. I think a few other things you didn´t mention are quite interesting. :-)
- New classic cards are going to be announced in few weeks.
- We will see more in-game shop skins for real money in the future.
- They are working on cosmetics and they are open to fresh ideas.
- Big Priest is "still" being watched closely but nothing new.
- In the future we wil see more cards which are working like reno and even maybe for other classes than Mage, Warlock, Priest.
- RoS was about the bad guys, new expansions should be about other things? (LoE quite possible)
- Mike Donais´s favorite sets are Ungoro and LoE.
- Angry Chicken and Chicken arts aren´t going to be updated ever because it would be distracting for the players.
- There are plans about changing animations for classic cards in the future. (Not every of course.)
- Giant Wasp doesn´t look like really stealth minion with her pink "tentacles", that´s because they had her art first and then they decided to give her a poisonous and stealth because she was the only meaningful card in the set that could have poisonous.
- We will see a better deck copying feature and maybe even better deck sharing with your in-game friends.
- Mike said that special legendary cardback with it´s expansion logo for every expansion would be a nice idea.
- Haro Setting Sun is going to be nerfed next week. (Dalaran Heist)
- Mike is responsible for nerfing cards like Rockbiter.
- We will see more buffs in the future, but they want to try something different than buffs and nerfs in the future too. (We don´t know what or when.)
- In the upcoming sets we will see a card that could make your Pogohopper a 45/45 easily.
- It would be cool to allow golden cards in the adventure and Mike agreed.
- With the next expansion we will see also a new adventure but It´s playstyle might be different.
- We will probably see the most popular Dalaran Heist playable characters as a class skins. (At least one would be great Mike said.)
- Splitting expansions into 2 smaller expansions has been discussed, it would be good as things would change quickly.
- They have 2 lines fixed between bosses from Dalaran Heist (powerlevel-vise) and if any is above or below the lines, they are establishing them accordingly.
- We might see one hero card this year, just maybe.
- Random hero option is a good idea as random cardback option already exists and it wouldn´t be hard to implement that into the game.
- Sometimes they release a 4 mana 7/7 just for the memes.
- They tried to do an "infinity" mode for adventures like if your deck is that good and you want to go more and more, but It ended up being boring. (12+ bosses will probably never happen.)
- A lot of HS devs are playing MtG and they are maybe getting some ideas from it.
- They already did a few cards like "Shadowform" and we might see some more of them in the next expansion. (Dynomancy, Jarraxus, Hero Cards, etc.)
- Mike thinks that the trailer and the theme for the next expansion is awesome and probably everyone will love it. (It´s going to be something from Loe indeed - https://clips.twitch.tv/DelightfulCrunchyCormorantGOWSkull)
- The story of Rafaam will continue with new expansions this year but It´s not being done just about him.
- It´s quite possible that we will see Classic Cards buffs in the future. (It isn´t that high on their list of necassity.)
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
"Keeping an eye on Big Priest" is officially a meme. A bad one.
Please make Haro Setting-Sun the new Priest Hero!
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
No, Squeamlish!
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Random hero means random hero portrait (from the ones you own, within the class you play, I'd assume), just like the random card back picks a random one for you each game.
Current Red Deck
I suggest to remove that tank from the deck and forget that it exists in your collection. Better play some goblin synergy card or some combat trick or another big red creature (even something simple like 5 5\5 charging trampling dino) or whatever.
[Game] Name another card that has the same...
Lorewalker Cho
Find a Pandaren card.
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Haro indeed is one of the more frustrating bosses to face, unless you can ruin his ress pool somehow (and they did indeed add a few cards he play to ruin his ress pool)
you were a gonner, it was a big priest list with no way to really react since your minions were much weaker due to a -2 attack aura.. now the other boss that is too insane is vasno.. depending on how many snowfury giants are in his hand.. sometimes even the best runs fall against him...
I would like it if they communicate that some encounteres were tweaked.. we don't need to get this information from a stream. communication is still lacking I see..
I think infinite would be boring.. I would rather start a new run.. infinite rogue likes are boring after a loop, and with the system in place instead of refining the deck you would get a garbage deck unless you can somehow put a lot of impactful cards in the opening hand. (since you can't skip card selections)
I hope next rogue like adventure have a "skip card selection" option sometimes.. the rewards just make your deck much worse...
What does a random hero means? queuing a random deck out of your 18? cause otherwise there's zayle and whizbang.
I hate no duplicate decks they are full of legendaries and are not fun to play or play against cause you relay on drawing certain cards on certain situations.. makes deck building annoying.
why not make all the lackeys as gif heroes? I mean they are already implemented have voice acting just need golden animations and unlocking methods..
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Mr. Chu for playable hero 2019!
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
I hope they'll shift Whizbang to the evergreen set
Hall of Fame Replacements Coming 'Very Soon' To Classic Set
Keeping eye on big priest.. what a joke..
Great job, Flux
Yep going really well so far and look forward to more updates soon and some extra qol stuff like notifications ect
Mimiron's Head?
You can get it in Dalaran Heist pretty regularly so don't craft it
Mill me daddy
How did it go?
Interview with the Class Competition Winner - Pircival & the Archaeologist Class
Gz!
Rafaam's Hand treasure bugged or working correctly?
And somehow it's still the best option sometimes lol