Saturday Hearthstone Content/Meta Round Up #1

As part of the initiative of having a consistent schedule of content here on Hearthstone Players, we have decided to start a series based on what’s been happening in Hearthstone and on the Hearthstone Players website.

We noticed there are quite a large amount of readers who frequent our site every days, but because we push pretty much daily content, a lot of stuff gets pushed down relatively quick. To help alleviate this issue, we decided to start this series that sums up what has happened on HSP in the past week, as well as the general Hearthstone scene.

If there are certain topics/categories of news you’d like to see covered/included in this series, please do leave a comment to let us know about it. Without further ado, let’s get started!

Note: We did something similar back in June and shared it on Reddit. It was useful for a lot of readers, hence one of the reasons we started this series.

General Hearthstone

Ben Brode stated on Twitter there is currently no new classes being planned. (Source)

Hearthstone Meta

• Liquidhearth just updated their Power Ranks.
• Team Celestial came out with their own Meta Matchup Table! We translated the best we could. (Source)
• HSP rank the Meta decks a bit different – instead of giving each deck a hard rank, we separate it into 3 categories – making it much easier to view the meta at a glance. Check it out!
• Tempostorm’s Meta Snapshot #20.
• HSP’s Meta Check – a new series on HSP where the entire Team HSP share what they’ve been playing, the meta they faced and their recommendations and thoughts so far of the season.

July Season

Big Mountain / Da Shan, reached #1 Legend on the China server with the follow decklists:

• Ramp Druid with Onxyia
• Midrange Paladin
• Lightbomb Priest
• Handlock

Waterlooooo reached #1 Legend on NA Server with a Midrange Druid – teching in a MCT, Harrison and Ooze.

We have reports of 2 different players claiming the First Legend title on the NA Server for the July season:

• Wire_F2K shares his decklists, stats and guide during his quest for Legend
• BOBGAOX with Midrange Druid with Onyxia – with Harrison and Ooze. (Decklist)

June Season

The Top 100 results for June is out! Lucky and Koroneko of Team HSP both made the Top 100 on North America.

• Hearthstone June 2015 Ranked Play Final Rankings: North America Server (NA)
• Hearthstone June 2015 Ranked Play Final Rankings: Europe Server (EU)
• Hearthstone June 2015 Ranked Play Final Rankings: Asia Server

Hearthstone Resources/Content

• ADWCTA’s very useful and popular Arena Tier List have been updated!
• If you’re looking for deck lists to try for Week’s 4 Brawl (Summoners), Liquidhearth has a couple of good lists to try.
• A new Hearthstone site launched! Hearthstonely covers all eSports news related to Hearthstone.
• A new Hearthstone Team formed – Fade2Karma. Managed by IHearthU/DKMR’s previous manager – Poach. Its roster feature players like Dethelor and Hawkeye.

/r/CompetitiveHS

/r/CompetitiveHS is a great resource for Hearthstone discussions. Here are a few unique ones for your enjoyment!

• Resurrection/Combo Control Priest Guide – a refreshing and sorely needed deck!
• Control Warlock #1 Legend EU – our own Team HSP‘s Sixis has taken this deck to #1 Legend on NA as well. This deck is going to blow up in the next meta reports!
• Almost all new players get directed to Sheng’s beginner guides hosted here on HSP. There is now another source for beginner decklists for new players to check out by WingsofWaxIII.
• Let’s Brew (new HSP series) discussion thread – for those that like trying out new decks.
• Tempo Mage without Secrets!

Hearthstone Players

A lot has happened on our site as well!

• A new series – Let’s Brew
• Mastering the Handlock Guide
• Mastering the Grim Patron Guide
• Mastering the Tempo Mage Guide (for all the decks of Mastering ‘X’ Series so far, check it out here)
• In-depth Turn Analysis: Hungry, Hungry Demons
• In-depth Turn Analysis: The Lion, the Witch and the Patron
• Arena with Stone: Neutral Cards, Class Cards
• Weekly Legends: Pirates Paladin (Video)

We also have started hosting open free to join tournaments with prize pools – check out the results for the first and second tournament!

We also made a post on the state of our site (Hearthstone Players) and what the future holds for us. Take a look if you want to know where we’re headed!

Closing

Phew…that’s a lot of stuff to read! Future articles won’t be as overwhelming as this one since this will be switched to a weekly schedule.

Hope you guys enjoy the content. Feel free to leave critiques/suggestions/comments below or ping me at jimmy@hearthstoneplayers.com. If you enjoyed this article, please do let us know in the comments below and we’ll turn this into a weekly series here on Hearthstone Players!

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