- Opponents seem to have perfect answers and op cards. Just played vs Kiljaden
- Disconnects
- Botting
Is it going to be fixed?
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How do you know they’re botting or they’re cheating? They might just be good. It’s very likely since very few people play Arena.
Also very many people play arena very badly. E.g. they try to draft a netdeck from Constructed with deep synergies.
Well, Arena is supposed to get a makeover within the next six months:
“Blizzard has announced during today’s Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct that Hearthstone’s Arena is getting an overhaul.
- There will now be two modes for arena.
- Normal Arena lets you play the more typical arena run with a shorter format. “Awesome competitive experience.”
- A new mode, the Underground Arena, is available after your normal run and adds high stakes card play.
- Underground Arena has longer runs and allows you to edit your deck after a loss by redrafting cards to up your chances of winning.
- Arena Ratings will be available for normal and underground modes, with separate rankings.
The updated Arena will appear in the first half of next year.”
Well, the pools are curated to point where many strong cards will commonly be available to draft. A quick look at the best performing cards for each class will reveal some neutral cards are among some of the most impactful cards, such as Gorgonzormu, Kil’jaden, Marin the Manager, The Ceaseless Expanse, Snoozin’ Zookeeper, Prison of Yogg-Saron, Ethereal Oracle, Paparazzi, etc… If one does not get one of these cards as a first pick, then there are many cards that can discover some of them.
Then there are the uber class cards, like Nebula, Pack the House, Meteor Storm, Huddle Up, Exarch Hataaru, Infinitize the Maxitude, Horn of the Windlord, Drum Circle (when combo’d with cards like Discipline of Eonar), Cruise Captain Lora, Climatic Necrotic Explosion, Corpsicle, etc… Again, many of these cards are discoverable.
People have been super-drafting in Arena since year one, and the recent creation of a “barcode jail” has done little to prevent this behavior, since it’s easy to avoid such a trap. Barcode accounts are still common in Arena.
Despite Arena’s problems, I still find the mode more fun to play than the current Standard meta, but I do look forward to improvements to the format. I hope the devs manage to deliver on promises, rather than destroy the format with changes.
I totally agree, the arena is one of those modes that not only incites you to uninstall hearthstone but to make bad propaganda to anyone you know. For me it is a totally rigged mode, there are runs in which I encounter terrible decks, and others in which I do 0-3 encountering scary decks from the first turn. It is all set from the beginning, blizzard uses this mechanism to balance, your skill counts very little
not to mention that everything is manipulated in the arena, just today I noticed that if you have the death knight and you discover a weapon, you always have the same three weapons to choose from, do they take us for idiots? The knight doesn’t only have 3 weapons, where are the others? Obviously to balance them they don’t let you choose them, so what’s random about it??
Drafting a deck that appears to be constructed is not hard to do with the rules set they currently have in place.
True, I suppose. Maybe around 20 percent of drafts have so much synergy that they feel a bit like playing a constructed deck. I recently played against a guy who drafted Paladin deck, a class that is not performing well right now in Arena, who had so much Earthen synergy that it felt like I was playing against a constructed deck.
I wiped four of his boards, including a nasty one on turn 7 from him playing a Tyr’s Tears and resurrecting three or four Earhen generators—only to have him play another Tyr’s Tears on turn 8.
https://imgur.com/a/ntkjdRg
Yesterday, I drafted an Arena Shaman deck with a lot of Asteroid synergy:
4x Utraviolet Breaker
1x Bolide Behemoth
1x Incindius (for more passive damage)
1x Meteor Swarm
I was hoping for a couple of Moonstone Mauler, but got none. I even turned down a 2nd Nebula for another Breaker or a Behemoth, which may have been a mistake.
https://imgur.com/a/DGwL8Ff
Removing the Core cards from the arena and just making it expansions was a mistake IMO. Not enough base cards to pick from.
That “overhaul” is closer to a cop out. It doesn’t do much to the structure of the actual gameplay, it just lowers a little the randomness impact of the draft.
They don’t want to put the work on an actually better format that has small buckets of synergy,
as they proved with the killing of Duels.