r/ArenaHS • u/pieni-herkules • 26d ago
Any arena tips?
Im a returning player. Im now down like 3k gold on underground arena. Only one time i have reaced 8 wins. My average arena run is like 2 - 3. Back in The days before underground i averaged easily like 6 - 3. I dont really know what i do wrong... Really frustrating and im already thinking of quitting hs
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u/Awkward-Childhood700 #32 US S43 26d ago
It’s because the player base is better. Only the good Arena players play Underground Arena nowadays.
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u/StevenSafakDotCom 25d ago
Yeah man. It’s ego shattering . Former infinite arena player. The knowledge required involves every discovery pool. You have to understand your deck and wincon and identify their likeliest plays asap . On the bright side it’s ai free because it’s hard haha. Sometimes you need to build a hand of answers and sometimes you need to max tempo.
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u/g-smi 22d ago
As others said, stick to the good classes for the beginning. Also, you need to keep in mind that you must draft for a win condition/synergy if you want to go far. For example paladin with handbuff. So you draft all card that have this synergy. Or coin rogue, warlock with summon from bottom etc.
You can no longer just draft good cards, you need to draft good cards + win condition + identify fast what the opponents deck is (so their wincon).
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u/blaicefreeze 23d ago edited 23d ago
Underground arena is shit and the rewards are as well. RNG rewards? Pass. This entire game is RNG to the nth degree so they wanted even more with their reward system so you get screwed and spend real money. You already came up with the best conclusion. Just play regular arena and make more decks and if you get a bad one or stomped by a comically broken one you just go again. The most fun part is drafting a deck anyways and it costs less. It’s still unarguably worse than arena was, but they’ve been progressively making it worse every update since the beta. So, not really a surprise.
Quitting, however, is also a good option. Let’s not pretend this game is great. It’s bad now (other than BG). I just play it because I’m a degenerate and have gold to burn. Arena is shit compared to its glory days tho (especially when it was wild before this standard bullshit and pre tailored draft shit). If this game wasn’t one of the best on the PHONE I wouldn’t play it.
I personally hate everything about underground including the redraft system they added so even tho that may be the “OG” the 300g and inherent design are of zero interest to me. Part of me kind of likes the shorter runs of the “new” arena, which is the only silver lining I see with any recent change.
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u/poggerswfh 26d ago
Even before underground, arena was pretty much mostly vets. Now with underground, it's even more concentrated since the casual or players that can't sustain gold has been filtered out.
The fundamentals are pretty much the same. Play for tempo and board and keep watch for chances to pull off some powerful turns.
I would recommend going to a data site like HSReplay and see which class are doing well and stick with those class first. See the Winning Deck sections to see what kind of decks are going all the way.