Find the best Hearthstone livestreams and podcasts this week! Rob May helps us go through all of his favorites, and breaks them out into categories for what they offer. You can find a podcast to help you with everything from ranked to arena to learning the basics.
If you have more podcasts or livestreams that you think should be on this list, let us know in the comments and we’ll add them!
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Hello!
- Rob May is on the show this week
- Topic: Podcasts and Streams!
- Reasons to be happy this week
- News: Normal and Wild Modes (follow-up interview)! Red Bull Team Brawl!
Why We Love Streams
- Over-the-shoulder experience
- Free teaching/coaching
- Smaller streams read chat more often and provide insight into questions live as the game develops or as a deck may be built on stream.
- Deck Doctor: Zalae and Firebat serving community with small tips to help players.
Livestreams for Getting Better at Arena
- Hafu
- Kripparian
- Ratsmah
- GuardsmanBob
- ADWCTA
- Commentated Tournaments like Redbull Team Brawl
Livestreams for Getting Better at Ranked
Why We Love Podcasts
- Rob wrote an article about this!
- Join a community
- Learn in a more directed way
- Make your commutes fun!
- It’s good to listen to more than one
Podcasts for Getting Better at Arena
Podcasts for Getting Better at Ranked
- The Golden Wisp: For players interested in the very highest level of play, in both Ranked and tournaments.
- Velen’s Chosen: For players on a budget that really want to get to be competitive in Ranked.
- HearthCoach: For players who are eagerly trying to fight their way into Legend Ranked.
Podcasts for New Players
- Hearthaholics: For players interested in learning the fundamentals of the game and gaining confidence one step at a time. As a perk, these are timeless episodes that can be used like an audiobook. Their website walks you through the order to listen.
- Legend of the Innkeeper: For new and casual players who want to learn how to get better in a fun and enthusiastic environment. Everything from deckbuilding to beating the PVE Adventure content.
- Happy Hearthstone: This is us! For players who want to find new decks to try, learn the basics of strategy, and hear from new hosts from the community every episode to share different perspectives and expertise.
Podcasts for News and Esports
- The Angry Chicken: For players looking for an extremely polished and well-made show with entertaining hosts that covers all the news in the Hearthstone scene.
- Well Met!: For players who like strategy mixed in with their news. This show covers a lot of topics to make sure you’re keeping up with everything from casual play to pro tournaments.
- Value Town: For players who want to hear from pro players and high-profile streamers directly. They do Q&As regularly, and focus on the higher-level of play.
- Coin Concede: For players who like a broad range of topics, Coin Concede tries to cover everything from PVE to high-level pro play. Great coverage of the esports scene.
- Top Deck Kings: For players who like spontaneity and personality mixed in with their news discussion and meta analysis. They’ve played Hearthstone matches with commentary during the show, and even devoted an entire recent episode about the Super Bowl.
- 1600 Dust: For players who like a lot of strategy mixed in with their news. Their recent campaign for #KnowYourRole2016 is breaking down specific game elements in each episode. Hosts are entertaining and keep it fun.
- Hero Power: For players who like hands-on learning alongside their news. The entertaining hosts host two segments a week, one is audio and focuses on news and deckbuilding. The other is a live play segment, where they play an entire match with a different class, walking you through the thought process and helping you get better at it. Both the audio and video content can be found on their site.
Podcasts for Casual Discussion
All of these shoes have great discussions, focused on being entertaining and building a community instead of the academic analysis and walkthrough strategy guides that other shows sometimes offer. They’re all great, so we recommend you try all of these out and find the personalities and style that work best for you!
- The Unstable Portal
- A Worthy Opponent
- Raid Warning
- Whirlwind
- Walk to Work
- Drawing Dead
- Hearth of the Cards
- Hearthcore
- Death Rattle Crew
- Innervated
Podcasts to Find other Podcasts (Podcast-ception!)
- Realm Maintenance: Rho schedules guests on his show for WoW, Starcraft, Heroes, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and Diablo every week.
Ways to Support Your Favorite Podcasts and Streams
- Leave them 5-star iTunes reviews
- Support them financially (Patreon, Paypal, etc.)
- E-mail the shows for topics, ways to help, or questions
- Listen to the show all the way through
- Follow them on Twitter (#1 social media used by Hearthstone people)
- Talk about and share the show with friends!
Community
- Question: Best way to keep up with the meta on limited time?
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