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On 24 Oct 2013 15:04:59 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:43:07 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>>  On 24 Oct 2013 12:46:06 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>  Hehe Rexxar can be a pain, yeah - if you don't have AOE to counter the
>>  million minions he put up, it's tricky! Mage is a decent class for
>>  that though, I love planting a Kobold Geomancer (spelldmg +1) followed
>>  by Arcane Explosion (1 dmg aoe, increased to 2 by the Geomancer) for a
>>  cheap nuke, else Flamestrike (4 dmg, buffed to 5 by Geomancer) to
>>  really annoy someone who lined up several big minions :-)
>
>I'll certainly try again, but yesterday just didn't get the right cards (or
>didn't have the right deck :-)

I know that feeling well. Taunt cards and ways to deal with adds are
both pretty useful to have a few of, I've found, but in the end it
just taked playing around to find what suits you (and still losing a
lot :-P)

>>  The hardest thing is the card limit, as I'm always finding myself wanting
>>  to use more cards than I can fit into a deck!
>
>Yeah. Actually, I'm glad for the card limit, because this at least tempers
>my drive to put every card in it :-) Getting a ~1/30 (or for some cards 2/30)
>chance of seeing the card reasonably soon is beter than a 1/100 chance :-)

Hehe true on both counts :-) 

>>  Cap is 60 ;-) 10 just unlocks the basic cards, after that it's
>>  cosmetic really, you get upgraded versions of each card as you level;
>>  same abilities but fancier graphics, so no big deal.
>
>Thanks. I'll keep playing my mage for a while to try to get a better grasp
>but I'll certainly have a go at the other classes as well.

Mage is my main class as well, though I've done a bit with paladin and
warlock and begin at a basic level on hunter. 

>>  You can also try collecting all non-basic cards, you can buy decks for
>>  100g each
>
>Yes, I got one of those (bought it with my 100g reward for playing 3 games
>against human opponents).

That's a handy reward, once you run out of those you'll be down to
running dailies for gold lol. Luckily it's one per day so not too much
grind (and they'll carry over; don't log in for 3 days and you get
given 3 at one time, so not much pressure to play constantly). You get
40 gold per daily, and 10 per 3 games won in Play mode, so not super
fast, but fast enough for a new deck every 2-3 days.

>>  else enter the arena for 150g and have a decent chance at winning a few
>>  decks
>
>Is 150g the entry fee or the reward for arena? Haven't tried that yet as it
>is still greyed out (maybe because I've not had 150g yet?).

Your first time is free, so I guess you maybe have to unlock all
classes or something like that to unlock the arena. Not sure exactly,
since I didn't try it for the first week or so!

>>  plus disenchanting extra cards and crafting missing ones helps.
>
>I saw that briefly but haven't looked at it yet. Can you only craft "real"
>cards that you don't have yet or do you have free reign to put together
>cards as you like (with limits and appropriate cost I guess)?

Only pre-determined cards, it lets you browse the full catalogue and
you can pick out which you'd like. The rarer ones are crazy expensive
but you can craft some useful ones quite cheaply, which is pretty
handy for making a deck just a little more helpful.

>>  Arena is really fun, you get to select a deck from a random choice of
>>  cards it gives you (it puts up 3, you pick 1, and it does that for all 30
>>  cards), meaning you can try out some cards you may not have yet.
>
>That does sound like fun. I'll give it a go when I next have time.

Worth leaving yourself an hour or so for it I'd say - you don't
actually have to play all your arena games at once but I find once
I've played one, I want to keep going ;-)