Castreal / Castreal#1386 / Asia - I think / Dragon Priest/ Patron Warrior

Started playing a few months ago, still climbing up the rankings, yet to reach Legendary.

Hi Kerry, when I just started up I used this master collection spreadsheet to help decide which decks to buy (of course back then it was Master Collection 4 or something, without TGT)

Hearthstone Master Collection 5.5

But generally, it really depends on what kind of deck you intend to play, is there a certain class or deck you would want to play? what are the missing cards? then you can decide from there to either buy those decks or craft those cards.

Although I don't have the complete Classic and GVG decks, I do find myself buying only TGT decks since the launch and for missing cards, I would usually just craft them. Hope this helps.

Rewards are standard, just like Naxx & BrM

Manage to win 2-3 matches against OP playing Reno with my Dragon priest between rank 15-10.
Problem would only be if he kept recycling it, that's just plain rude

LOE Wing 3 is OUT!!
Entomb just made my Dragon priest so much better now!!

Replaced Shadow Word: Death with one Entomb.
Currently only running one card, Dragon priest is harder to play with too many huge minions/spells, tend to get rushed off if your taunts and novas are not in play.

Shrink Cabal = 8 mana, 2 cards
entomb = 6 mana, and you have slot for another card, or use your cabal on something else.

The thing with the RNG draws is that Shrink + Cabal is a combo, and more often than not, you would hold on to one of the cards for a while, entomb is just one card, that's a removal + silence.

I think it works well anyways, haven't had a match with a CW yet today, will see how it works out (entomb Varian, hmm, might missed out some battle-crys though). Works well with Tirion so far

I thought any mistakes in any deck would usually cost you the game?
But once you've played the deck long enough, mistakes will lessen, and you'll learn through those mistakes (no double clerics vs priest, no chillmaw when you have board control, Voljin the Ysera and wipe her off (12 hp!), careful with heal when you have Auchenai, no more than 3 minions on board everytime… stuff like that)

Not going to argue on that, Dragon Priest has a vast variant of decks and play style, I’ve probably changed my DP deck more than 10 times to find the right one that fits my style (and it’s still on going). I guess it’s up to your play style, I have a copy of each Cabal, Shrink, and entomb in my current deck, so it’s flexible in that sense, depending on which card is drawn.

Usually I’d Cabal + Shrink more for removal than actually wanting a copy of that minion, just have to be wary of brawl, that’s 3 cards on board including the Legendary u stole, excluding the existing board minions. I usually stick with the rule of 3.

Well, now you would have to watch-out for entomb then... Double Ysera!!

This is gold! Precisely the reason ive been playing priest for a couple of months now. Thats the beauty of it. The ugly side, you'd be damned if you mulliganned and got SWD, Entombx2, and mind control as your first 4 cards though

I bought packs, lots of them
Yes, its possible for f2p player to get decent decks. Checkout trumps videos, there are some on mastering basic decks. Having that said, just because you have an awesome deck, doesnt mean you will win all the time. Experience and luck matters too.
I started off F2P to test the water, before putting money in. From experience, i believe use your gold for packs, build and play your decks, gain experience before heading to Arena. With that experience, you will know which card to play given any situation as Arena can be really random.

This post has been edited by Castreal: Jan 7 2016, 12:05 PM

The maximum card pack from Arena is 1 pack, even at 12 wins. You need to win 3-6 games to compensate for the difference between buying a pack directly and earning one through Arena. More wins in arena would just give you slightly more gold/dust/cards. Maximum gold per box at 12 wins is between 25- 185 gold. So having that in mind, unless you have been playing for a while, knows how each card synergizes with other cards, and know which card to play at each situation, I’d suggest buying packs, and save the 50 gold instead of going straight to Arena. At least until you learn enough to rank below 10 consistently.

HearthArena guides you on which cards to choose, and their synergies. That’s about it. We’ll it’s a gamble (you said most of the time). I think there are other ways to start off than to go straight to arena for F2P, although, the ultimate goal is to get good at Arena as that would be your main source of gold/dust/cards.

Important thing is first focus on a deck that can get you to at least rank 15. It can be just a basic deck (check Trump’s Teachings). From there, you shouldn’t have any problems getting your Dailies done.

When at rank 15, plan out a deck that's of a higher tier (that at least shows up in liquid hearth power rankings or Tier 3+ in Tempostorm) and low cost. Determine what adventure cards you need for it, and go for those cards (might involve DE and crafting). Once you have it, start on Arena and working towards making that deck. Note on DE: please ask around before DE anything if you are not certain (I wouldn’t DE EPICs or LEGENDARY for now).

Other than that, just play more often & watch more tutorials/games. With more practice (it could be just Casual game), you will eventually get better, and get good at Arena - average of 3 wins at least to break even. Like I mentioned earlier, you need to win 3-6 games to compensate for the difference between buying a pack directly and earning one through Arena.

Today was one of those days...
bad opening hand
Hearthstone just hates me today, 8/9 games i go first, half of the time i had to start out with 6-9s or spells!
Guess its time for a break!

Initially started with Kiblers, then switch to Kolentos. Off and on modified according to the meta and my play style. Removed Cabal/Shrink to make room for more 3 mana cards
Currently this is the Dragon Priest Deck I'm using.
- Shrinkmeister, + Brann

You can see I only have 6* cards having 6 mana and above. That's why I'm very pissed when I get those 6-9 mana cards in my ending mulligan. *I consider Vol'jin a 6+mana card, as he hardly sees any play before turn 6

This post has been edited by Castreal: Jan 14 2016, 01:08 PM

Nice! Haven’t really had the time to play as much, so haven’t reach beyond rank 9.
Your deck and mine are more or less 73% similar, yours seem to be more of a control deck.

One thing I noticed about your deck is that is has 11 Spells!! I’ve been through that, and felt I could use lesser spells and more minions. There were literally a few games in a row where I’ll just be getting spells after mulligans, and the minions drawed later weren’t helpful if they are high on mana. I felt it would lose a lot to tempo/agro decks (haha, what to do with 2 SWD on hand without coin when faced with Face Hunter? That game ended quite badly). 2 Valens is a bit too much as well I felt, remember drawing a technician and 2 Valens without coin, couldn’t really start playing until turn 3 (some more without dragon on hand), and by the time you buff the minion, he had board control/ or you are on low health. That’s why I stick with minimum 8 spells. Notice you don’t have entomb? It’s a rather useful spell I must say! In fact if it wasn’t for the 6 mana, I would have swapped my other SWD for another entomb. It feels good to finally be able to win a Control Warrior

About Chillmaw, yes it has helped me win quite a lot of games, especially when I have a bad starting hand, or bad draws. He is there to avoid face damage/board control from opponent. He is helpful too if you can’t seem to draw any Holy Nova/ Light Bomb even when you have 10 cards left!! Nefarian is alright, I tried him before I had Chillmaw, but I feel he can’t really save you especially when you are on the losing end or being rushed/aggro’ed. And I seem to have received more useless opponent class cards compared to those I can really use.

As for Vol’jin, he’s also useful to remove taunts particularly, or some legendary you do not want on board. Although I do not have smite, Nova works as well, or any other minion could easily to 2 damage. Usually by the time Vol’jin comes out, you would more or less have board Control, he’s more or a late game minion, usually used on Ysera or those that can’t be SWD’ed.

As for Shrink/Cabal combos, I’m more or less done with that, this couple does not like each other they would very seldom appear in my hands together, especially when I need them the most. So I’ve dropped them for other 3 drops like Dark Cultist and Eydis (which combos nicely with PWS and Valens). Eydis is also a good taunt, as opponent assumes you either have PWS or Valens on hand (which I sometimes don’t), and tries to kill off Eydis.

Brann – I like this guy, but have to be real careful with him being stolen. What can I say, I have 13 minions with battlecries Initially put him in for fun, but fun seems to be working well.

Justicar – 4 heals! This is especially good recovering from agro/tempo decks. There were many times where opponent brings me down to very low health, but just can’t finish it off. The 4 heals provides a good chance for recovery and turn the table around. This is also very good against Control Warriors. Fatigue is real bad, 4 heal helps you to sustain well throughout. Won a few control warrior matches with this. I also used to have Auchenai in the deck, that’s 4 damages! But the synergy is just not there.

Castreal#1386, not sure on the server though, currently just on mobile. Battlenet on my laptop did not identify my account, although they use the same Battlenet ID and Authenticator.

Casual or Ranked?
In Ranked, i have a good deck with a few legendaries, but hardly time to play, hence im still quite low in ranks. Perhaps there are other ppl like that.

Where do you guys check? Battlenet?
It seems the Battlenet account didnt sync with my Mobile account, as in when I log in Battlenet, there is no game account under Hearthstone.

Posted my Battletag in the previous page (when you asked about the Dragon priest) Yes I'm not sure which server im on

Check out the Meta Snapshot at Tempostorm.
Meta has changed a lot since 9 months ago, just found out last week my Dragon Priest had dropped to Tier 3
Its no wonder I dropped from rank 14-18 in just a few games. Been using Zoolock quite successfully recovering from Rank 18-12.