I actually have a >50% win rate right now against prophecy BM with mono-red crusader, but I feel that is just due to a very small sample size. I try to control the board and try and get my opponent to 21 when it's safe to do so. Then I go for a OTK. If your hand/draws aren't supporting this kind of strategy early then you just gotta go face and hope for the best.

Is anyone getting consistent good drops? I've had 2 big drops in my last 22 now. Before the last week it was close to 50/50.

I've gotten some big ones lately after giving up for awhile.

Got 600 gold like twice int he last few days and got 1500 dust today, which I consider by far the best.

So they can still happen.

And not sure if it's just confirmation bias but the trick of loading up multiple streams instead of one appears to work for me. There have been times I haven't gotten a drop for awhile and then loaded up 4 streams and one pops quick.

So if I'm drop farming I just load up 4-5 streams at once (set the quality of them to 160p or the lowest you can get) so you don't kill your bandwidth.

1500 gold or 750 gems for logging in is still not too shabby, but yeah, not as great as it once was also I missed an entire week of drops because of Irma

It works 100%. I've been getting 3 or 4 per day.

UGHHHH. My duplicate unique legendaries are getting out of control. I'm missing SO MANY. Ughhh.

Won the Pauper Tourney (only commons and rares) last night with Crusader Aggro. The format was actually a lot of fun with a bunch of viable decks. It was a good change of pace rather than just mindlessly grinding ladder.

I'm 100% convinced at this point multiple streams helps and helps a ton. Today I had a single stream on for about 3 hours, no drops. Loaded up 4 streams and got one within 5 minutes. This has happened multiple times.

Be convinced all you want. Bethesda employees have confirmed it doesn't do anything.

I think they're wrong honestly. I get one every single time within 30 mindif i open 5+. If I leave 1 up it can be 5+ hours after the timer hits.

Went from r5 to r2 in a day then took 3 days to get to r1.

Stuck in the serpent atm but will try to make the push for legend.

I made it. Got up to 3 wins away and then all the way down to the serpent but made it. Legend in my second month of playing after never getting there in Hearthstone. I'm pretty sure I'm better at HS than ESL, so that probably says a lot about the competition.

Yah, this game actually rewards your skill though so you're not just coinflipping all the time

grats on the tourney win SJUD is it on youtube or anything?

great job! I still haven't made legend and I played during beta. I'm not much for grinding though

Impressive! I'm gonna try to make a run at it later this month, currently been helping get a few friends into the game. Did you do it all with archer? Was it your list?

Thanks guys.

It was 98% with my home-brewed midrange archer. I played some Prophecy BM and went 0-3 playing Rage Archer.

The biggest changes I made were putting in the bow that deals 1 damage, which is great with lethal minions; putting in Blacksap Protectors for Brotherhood Slayers; and putting back Stormcloak Vanguard (I badly needed threats/4-drops vs. control decks).

It kinda plays like Miracle Rogue in that each game is different, depending on opponent and your hand. But I end up smorcing a lot and forcing the other guy to trade because chip damage is so important.

I don't think it's on youtube but you can watch it on Schwiddys twitch page. The only match I had on stream was the finals, but there were some interesting matches throughout the stream.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/175853855

SJUD, congrats on win. Do you have a link to your decks?

Is it possible Schwiddy isn't at legend? I played someone with that name but he was rank 1 (he beat me with a rage warrior deck).

re: Twitch drops, I haven't been able to put up multiple streams because my hotel wifi is so bad it crashes if I have too many browsers open, and my drops have decreased for sure. I think Bethesda can't actually tell people that multiple streams is better because it violates Twitch TOS or something.

Currently hovering around 500 legend; most recent development is I got a Mournhold Traitor from a pack and crafted another one and it's performing well.

Thanks. Here is my maindeck
https://www.legends-decks.com/deck-b...33c581c583c660

The SB was
3x Bruma Profiteer
3x Priest of the Moons
3x Knight of the Hour
1x Golden Saint

I figured there'd be a lot of aggro decks because it's the most powerful so I went heavy lifegain and prophecy for those mirrors.

Schwiddy just hit legend last night so it's definitely possible you played against him at rank 1. I also saw you play vs Ianbits on stream and I think you won that one. He was playing a memey Dragon Archer.

Cool deck, so efficient. Most of those Firebrand/Outpost decks I see run Bannerman and supports but I like yours better.

I think I remember that Ianbits game, yeah I won I think.

I think Bannerman is way too slow in aggro decks as you want to be winning the game by the time you're getting enough value out of Bannerman. I play mono-red crusader on the ladder and the curve tops out at Underworld Vigilante.

Vigilante is the stone nuts.

I'm amazed on a daily basis at the greedy plays people try to get away with in arena.

Been a month since the last meta snapshot, and meta a lotttttt diff than the last one, which was pre-nerfs, and had token mage as the #1 deck. What are your guys thoughts on the current top decks? Seems like crusader might be the top 2 decks or at least two tier-1 decks with the various mono-red and various mono-yellows. Rage archer has only been back in the meta for a little while but also seems super strong and probably tier-1. Ramp scout and control mage probably tier 1 or high tier 2? Then after that no clue, I guess mid archer? Support mage? Orcs? Mid sorc w/ ice storms? Prophecy battlemage?

Of the previous tier 1/2 from last snapshot, in my last ~50 games I think I've seen 1 token mage(!!!), 1 mid assassin, 1 mid sorc, and 0 mid mage. Almost all I've been facing around ranks 5-1 are various aggro crusaders, prophecy battlemage, mid/rage archers, ramp scout, and control or support mage. A couple of ramp spellswords and control crusaders as well.

Crazy how the ~best deck from a month ago seems nonexistent. It almost feels like you could have multiple mono-red crusader lists on there since there are a few variations that look similar but play very differently. Like kseddens list is almost a midrange combo whereas the mighty ally ones that SJUD posted are much more pure aggro.

Tier 1:
Rage Archer
Mono-Red Crusader
Token Crusader
Token Mage

Tier 2:
Ramp Scout
Control Mage
Orcs