I think mad bomber is a really good 2 drop. ADWCTA has it tied with swamp ooze as the number one neutral two drop and I'm curious why you feel differently.

Bc it consistently ****s me

My deck was crazy today

3x Flamestrike
4x Frostbolt
2x Shredder
and no bad cards
xD

first 12 wins in a while



missing card Sea Giant

Insane deck. Some reason I cut off war golem at the end. 4 truesilvers!

I probably should have gone 12-0, but 1 game just RNGed terribly, other game was against an insane deck. That kind of thing.

+ Bomb Lobber, Cabal, KT, Mind Control

Deck was obviously insane, but I love playing insane priest decks because there's still a lot of inflection points where if you buff or heal the wrong thing it's really easy to spiral the game out of control. I unfortunately did that in one of my losses

2nd guy today who dropped dr boom on turn 7 vs me

i thoughtstole baron rivendare too from this guy. who the **** are these people getting multiple legendaries?

i at least have gazlowe.
(choice was between him, thalnos, and greenskin as a priest with no damage spells)

tehtoes goat

binked my first 12 wins with Warrior today! 3 x deathbite = teh nuts

Damn, I need to get to 12 wins, 11 is my highest .

Fireguard destroyer is an amazing card in arena. It's prob as good as fire ele. The tempo you gain from dropping a 5/6 ish on 4 without the downside of hungry dragon is insane.

6 health for 4 mana is ridic

Just went 6-3. I got 75 gold 45 dust and a pack.

yeah arena rewards have been terrible. ive been crushing this week and im no closer to unlocking the next wing of brm than i was at the start of the week (on eu)

Brag: Get a Legendary draw in Arena Run

Beat: My 3 options were Hemet, Blingtron, and Milhouse

what did you go with?

Went with Hemet based on Arena Tier List but didn't love it.

I feel like I'm pretty terrible at Arena. A couple weeks ago I had a few 6-8 win runs, but recently I've had like 4 runs of under 4 wins. I don't know if I'm just getting bad cards or if I'm misplaying my hands, but I just can't seem to put a run together lately. Haven't gotten Mage on any of my last 4 runs, and I feel like that's the class I know best in Arena.

mage is the strongest and easiest to play class in the arena so that does make sence.
on the pick it really depends on your deck.

Any general advice on how to tackle Shaman in Arena. It's my worst hero both playing as and facing. Do you always try to kill all Totems or are you willing to leave some there and do you try to get something down on turn 1 even if you have to coin it out to keep the Totems under control?

General advice can often be misleading, but I'll try anyway:
-A lot of shaman cards (specifically, cards that are popular picks + are much better WITH shaman class cards) require board presence. So, number 1 goal is eliminating that presence. Flametongue is the most obvious card to play around, but also Dire Wolf Alpha, Cult Master, Defender of Argus, and so on are all much better with Shaman, therefore are found in more Shaman decks.
-Shamans don't have hero power removal, and actually struggle to deal 1 damage. In general, 1=2=3 for health (lightning bolt and rockbiter, the two most common cheap removals, both deal 3 damage)
-In the case you can't clear board, and you have to choose what totems you must leave alive, typically I'd say... If they have no other minions on board, the healing totem is least useful. The 2nd least useful tends to be spell damage, as minions are picked far more often than spells. And some of their spells don't involve damage, anyway! Taunt obviously has to be cleared to kill other things anyway.
-Although Vitality Totem is a new thing, I still look at Shaman as 1 of the classes that never heals. (Even though Healbot is neutral, so all classes "can" heal now) This actually means consistent chipping away at them has merit. This is opposed to most other classes that either can hero power their way back or pick class cards to juice up.

As far as your original question is concerned, it really depends on your hand. If you have a 2-5-6-7 or something, there is no way I'd coin out a 2, even if it means you get ahead of them on totem patrol. You'll just far too far back if you don't draw lucky to fill in the gaps.

Planning to do an arena run tonight around about 20:00 (8:00pm) PST, if someone wants to help coach me via Skype, please PM me.

I just got 150 gold, 25 dust, golden Slam and a pack for 9 wins. Don't get that high often but that seems pretty bad to me.

RNG god hates me. Also bad rewards today, 3 wins 25 gold and 25 dust. Blizzard getting stingy with rewards?

Blingatron is a beast.

another one with hunter

of the cards that are not shown I only remember 2 tundra rhinos and a stormwind champion

hunter seems quite strong to me in arena because you have a good matchup vs mage

What makes hunter good vs mage?