Meh, was not impressed. They tried to make it artificially difficult by giving the bosses completely over the top hero powers and cards, but the end result is that it's impossible till you find the right gimmick, then it's a piece of cake.

 

I pretty much brute forced my way through Faerlina and Anub'Rekhan on heroic using a ramp Druid and a couple of ritual sacrifices to get the stars just right for Faerlina (it involved an Innervated Yeti and a turn 3 topdeck Wild Growth to kick the curve up, basically). Maexxna is going to be a bitch and a half. Web Wrap for 0 mana and 2 minions? Ouch.

 

Yeah, I cleared the first two on heroic using the fast druid deck I used for ranked play. Neither of them were too hard - although I think it might be easier to use Zoo against Faerlina because of the nature of her hero power.

Maexxna on the other hand I had to change my approach, because the first try made it obvious the deck I already had wasn't going to do. I ended up using a freeze mage that I changed around a bit. If you put in 2 Voodoo Doctors, 2 Earthen ring farseers and a couple of charge creatures (wolfrider is pretty good here) it becomes pretty easy because she just bounces them back to your hand for reuse. Battlecry is king against her. Alexstrasza is also really powerful against her - you can do 30 damage to her in one hit with it, then keep restoring yourself if she bounces it back to your hand.

Overall it was fun, but not too hard. The non-heroic mode was just a joke, though. I'm looking forward to the rest of the wings though - I'm hoping they're more in the line of Maexxna than the others though, where you have to change up your play style a fair bit.

 

Did it without Alex and with tactical flooding of the board with Leeroy's whelps. Never knew that was going to be used like that. Needed one Ice Barrier and a lot of Voodoo.

I'm not sure about zoo against Faerlina. The disadvantage is thather minions are just outside of the typical zoo reach (4hp) and they could well get nuked by unlucky missiles.

 

So I also beat the heroic bosses.

I actually don't think it's all that easy. You really need to think hard how to counter the enemy, especially if you're still missing a lot of good cards.

I beat Anub'Rekhan with my warrior control deck, which wasn't too hard. Although I did get very low on health before I turned the game around.

Against Grand Widow Faerlina I used druid and got lucky with innervates.

Maexxna was harder.
I first tried standard warlock zoo, but that didn't really work. Next I tried hunter with a lot of battle cry, but I'm still missing Unleash and I didn't want to craft it, because I rarely play hunter. Without Unleash it's really hard.
I also got the impression that Freeze Mage would work, but I simply don't have the cards necessary to play that deck effectively.

I finally used a Paladin deck with a lot of healing and small minions.


The Guardians and Redemption were pretty useless in the end, replace them. Maybe Humility or one more Equality to deal with bigger minions. It's really important to get Archers and an Owl early. Double Archers and an Owl is probably the perfect start.
When you have some more mana, heal up (when necessary) and flood the board.

 

I beat Anub'Rekhan with Miracle Rogue and crushed Faerlina with zoolock. Maexxna was handled pretty easily with a handlock deck, though I didn't draw my Alexstrasza at all. Kind of helped that my Defenders of Argus and Sunfury Protectors were the only things to ever get webbed until it was too late to matter, though.

 

These are the decks I used to beat Heroic.

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1st Boss: Alex isn't really needed with this deck because she doesn't impact the match as much. I would reccommend subbing in a second Kodo and 1 or 2 Cabal Shadow Priests.

2nd Boss: Naxx-enhanced Zoo did the job.

3rd Boss: I was down to 1 hp and that second Consecration saved my ass. I would reccommend taking the 2 Blessing of Wisdoms out and put in either 2 Bluegills or Wolfriders for the early game charge.

 

Black Knighting Deathlord and dragging Ragnaros out of my deck. Sorry Anub'Rekhan, even in rematches you're shit out of luck.

 

Standard zoo for the first 2 heroic challenges and trap hunter for Maexxna, wasn't too difficult.

Been playing US server a bit with Zoo as it's the only thing I have there and ranked is like 90% mirror matches, though that's rank 8 so not too surprising. Let's see if the next wing will nerf it or it's still going to be strong.

 

I think a lot of people are playing Zoo right now because the cards that came with the first wing are really strong for zoo, and there are cards coming in future wings that will be really strong against it. This may be Zoo's last hurrah at the top (or near top depending on your opinion) of the meta before some of the new cards come out.

 

Is it just me, or has Arena become harder?

I don't think I've gotten worse over time, but I'm now winning less often than I used to (end of beta/early release).

My sample size isn't that big yet (~20 arenas back then, compared to ~20 now), but my average finish went down from 7-3 to 5/6-3.

It's not unlikely that the ratio of new/inexperienced players to veterans, went down over time.

 

I've noticed I get a lot less 12 wins, but win % wise I seem to be around the same. Though that's probably because I changed my main class for arena to druid.

I think people were drafting worse in the early stages of the game, now with all the tiers and so on you can just look it up and you'll get a decent deck. The skill also improved over time of course.

 

The Hunter class challenge is beyond hilarious. (Hell, Loatheb is beyond hilarious at times). Got Noth Heroic down first try, Heigan and Loatheb Heroic are going to need quite some tweaking.

 

I used a modified Miracle Rogue for Noth and a Mage for Heigan.

I'm now struggling with Loatheb. Some kind of Hunter wombo combo might work well, but I don't have a lot of their cards.
It's a lot harder if you're still missing many cards.
I think I have a Druid deck now that could work, but I need a perfect draw to even have a chance. That can't be the solution. I don't want to just brute force it.

 

I just got Loathe with a Priest deck with lots of heals (double Lightwell, Earthen Ring Farseer, Voodoo Doctor), trigger damage (Smite, Elven Archer, SW, Holy Nova) and a few choice minions that synced well.

 

Anyone else getting an "This product not available" error when trying to purchase the new quarter with gold?

 

There are a lot of purchasing issues with the Plague Quarter popping up. It's plastered all over the forums and on the Blizzard launcher.


I think the class challenges are the most fun I've had in Hearthstone. They're just.. fun. Stupid, fun decks that let you think about the game in strange ways. The Hunter deck is goddamn hilarious.

I got a Buzzard. I played the Buzzard, and then the spider. Then a spider. Then a spider. For all 10 mana. Next turn, hit one spore and get a board full of minions with 10 attack.

 

I just did it with lots of small (neutral) minions. Lots of 0/1 mana creatures and a little bit of card draw.
Then I retried until I could quickly take out the Fen Creeper with a spell.

...and hope he didn't have spore burst while I had 3 10/1 minions on the board.
Young Dragonhawk is such a great minion!

 

Webspinner is too op!

Loatheb stood no chance against a 28 attack The Beast!

 

Young Dragonhawk, Lightwell, Ironforge Rifleman... At least Blizz is giving us a few ways to play with cards that tend to not make it into constructed decks.

Even if 4 out of 6 of the Heroic kills I made were done with constructed decks. Gotta love Frost Nova/Doomsayer on a nearly empty Heigan hand (i.e. no sudden Doomguards from killing the Voidcallers).