Arena decks decay

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Currently how high your deck gets rated is extremely dependent on getting as much plays in as little time as possible, more so than actually being the most evil arena deck. Hence after discussing in chat I'd like the decay of a deck to be more dependent on the amount of plays a deck gets and not the amount of days it's up. Otherwise a great deck you built never reaches higher than 100th ranking for example before it hits 1 hp, although it never lost.

An example would be to let each play subtract 1hp from your deck and maybe even let your deck be removed from arena when it reaches 0hp to prevent decks from being built that can win even with just 1 hp (they exist!). This way good decks no longer have to get their plays asap in order to be ranked high, and building new decks each day is still encouraged due to the slowly decreasing hp.

It's just a suggestion, but I'd personally be happy with such a case: a high ranking in arena shouldn't be dependent on the luck you have of getting plays in a set amount of time, nor by timezone, another point that comes to my mind, since people sleeping during the oracle reset have a natural disadvantage over people submitting their decks at the oracle reset currently.

[YoungSot]

A system like this seems highly preferable over our current RNG based method.

Upvote this if... oh wait we don't do that here.

Well regardless, everyone that is annoyed when your deck gets 6 plays in a 24 hour period while another deck has 20+, come show your support!

[Jappert]

I totally agree with you torb, apart from one thing.

I'd like an arena deck to lose it's HP after 100 matches, not gradually. Gradually decreasing HP would harm stall decks more then they would rush/denial decks (rush/denial decks kill/lockdown an opponent before they get rolling, while a stall needs it's HP to get set up).

Nothing wrong with every Arena deck getting 100 matches, it's as fair as it get's and we don't really need the HP of a deck to drop gradually do we?

[thekillergames]

very good idea, just make it lose Hp after 10. 20, 40 etc... games.
I really hate it that my 4 days old deck only had 35 wins (35-6), while other decks have like 70 wins on day 4.

BTW, I actaully managed to lose to a deck that had 1 HP.... 

[ffun]

I love this suggestion - it would prevent so much aggravation from seeing your deck get much fewer matches than others for a certain period.

+1 vote from me

[parasite99]

+1

[Sevs]

+2 from me

[Znork]

+1 from me on the 100 match suggestion. (I must admit I don't fully understand the mechanics of the Arena deck yet - I will have to read up on that.)

Being a newbie, it's quite expensive for me to build new Arena decks often - let alone every day. I just dont have the cards or the Electrum - and I'm also trying to upgrade cards at the same time - to move up to FG farming. You might tell me to do one thing at the time, but really... When grinding AI3 and Bronze takes sooo long, I would like to be able to use the game's other features as well.

My deck only gets around 10 plays a day - Still, if it lost 1 HP each time it was played it'd be hopelessly useless in about a day and a half, and I really wouldn't be able to use this feature of Elements.

[Astrocyte]

+1 This is an excellent idea, TORB.

[RagingAlien]

"It's Dangerous to go alone! Here, take this!"

+1 vote!