Bucket , as it is used by Dean Ayala, designates the three cards choice presented to players when they're building their Arena deck.
The Arena underwent a lot of tweaks since the Year of the Dragon began, especially regarding the rotations of available sets. Hearthstone Lead Card Designer — Dean Ayala — explained that a lot of things will actually change with patch 15.4. No released date has been announced yet, but the patch should go live in the next weeks since a lot of Saviors of Uldum cards seems to require balance changes...
For 15.4, we're going to try doing an arena patch without buckets and have all cards be part of one giant pool. This is similar to how the early days of arena worked. Theoretically, buckets made individual arena decisions a little more interesting and put more weight behind how a card works in the deck you are drafting vs its power level in a vacuum. While I think there is some truth to this, I don't think it's been a well received change overall. For players new or inexperienced with Hearthstone, the idea of having 'obvious' choices is a win. For hardcore players, if the change to buckets is not a clear upside (which has been most of the feedback we've received here) then it's probably just not worth doing. One positive part of not doing buckets is that the micro-adjustment patches should happen faster in the future because there does not need to be a preliminary bucket adjustment patch to set the stage."
Do you think getting rid of buckets is the best solution? Don't you think one giant pool of cards will reduce the probabilities of getting good cards will? Your opinion matters, and you an drop it in the comment section just below!
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