Ground Zero

Like we have been talking about on the Eviscerated Gaming Podcast, all 3 hosts have slowly been drug away from World of Warcraft and hooked on Hearthstone one by one. We were given 3 beta keys on the first day because of the podcast and they were tied to our accounts from the jump so we had to use them. Cold was able to get a few to give away on the show and on his site, Cold’s Gold Factory, but we weren’t as “shinned upon” as the other podcasts streamers or bloggers that kiss Blizzard’s ass on a regular basis were.

You may have been emailed a key from Blizzard directly but most likely you won one from any number of streamers, podcasts, or bloggers that are out there building there fan base with them. I don’t fault them, if they would have come to us and said “Here you go, here is 500 to give out on your podcast!!” we would be doing the same thing.

For the last 3 weeks Hearthstone is all I have been playing. It works well on my shitty work computer and is very easy to pick up and put down if you need to multitask or you can get into it for hours on end. The latter is what I have noticed about my playing habits so far.

Cold put out an awesome post that has a lot of good information on if you are just starting out. Nonmail and I both followed his advice and have reaped the benefits from it. If you are just starting you need to go check it out, it will save you a lot of hair pulling out and time.

Once you have leveled all of your decks to 10, the next step is to learn the play styles of each class and get them all to level 20. Playing these decks, even the ones you hate, serves a dual purpose; I hate the warrior deck but I play it so I am familiar with how that deck plays so I am better against it rather than with it. Using play mode to level the decks is great because you get XP and can complete quests for gold which, in turn, will get you more cards and better options. It also doesn’t hurt to pay for some decks too. I regret spending the $49.99 for 40 because of the amount I ended up disenchanting after they were all opened but the lower stacks would have been a better investment. The advantage to getting better cards instantly through spending a little bit of real money with take the edge off the grind without a doubt.

In future posts, I'll be sharing the deck builds I used to level each class from level 10 – 20 with. Check out the first one, Shaman Deck Level 10-20.