Ulto

A pretty good article that describes most of the threat encountered in the current meta.
As a control warrior, I also had to adapt to this change in the meta.
I feel at least 1 Cleave, 1 Cruel Taskmasters and 2 Armorsmith are really needed under those conditions while some cards like Arathi Weaponsmith or Gorehowl become less interesting.

In regards to the length of the original point, several points are made about pyroblast.
No I am complaining about point A and you are telling me “No you don’t understand, he meant point B”.
What the hell ? Did you even read ?

Read the article again. He’s saying that the biggest issue with Pyroblast is the fear that it instigates on your opponent, forcing himself to keep his health above 10 whenever possible, especially by turn 7-8.

See, here’s the thing… you weight all cards as equal. A 2 mana card has a far broader range of opportunity than a 10 mana card. It means you can cast it at any time during those 8 turns before pyroblast. How do you weight the value of a single card? Unless you can come up with a formula for it, I’m going directly off casting.

Your considerations about mana ratio are all wrong.
Frostbolt does 3 damage costs 2 mana AND one card.
Fireball does 6 damage and costs 6 mana AND one card.
Pyroblast does 10 damage and costs 10 mana AND one card.

Thank you for this article, which is quite alike the one Gnimsh posted a few days ago, but it is better to have two opinions than one.
I am a little surprised about some of the points you made in the article.

It won’t be done because some people that have invested a lot of time would stop playing.
It is totally unfair to new players, and everyone who says otherwise is just being dishonnest.
Since december 16th everyone who asked for the beta got it so if you did not join back then, then you have no reason to complain.
However, this is still a lot of…[Read more]

I think futility summed it up very well.
And that your calculations are completely off.

I think the worst problem with arena right now is that there is not enough randomness.
I am not sure about the figures but it seems like you get one third cards from your class and two thirds neutral minions.
Therefore you cannot go for any kind of synergies and every draft becomes : take the best individual minions while keeping a balanced mana…[Read more]