If you were one of the players that opened up a Classic Pack and received cards you weren't supposed to, your Arcane Dust compensation has arrived! What was the issue?
- 16 cards were in Classic Packs that should not have been.
- Players that opened Classic Packs between March 25 and shortly after Barrens launched could get these cards.
We first got wind of this a few hours ago when our own FrostyFeet reported that he had logged into the game and received Arcane Dust from an outside source. Blizzard has confirmed that they are done distributing the dust now so if you were a part of this issue, you can now make use of that dust anywhere you'd like; May we suggest Forged in the Barrens cards?
Were you affected by the issue? How much dust did you receive?
Quote From @PlayHearthstone Compensation for this has been completed. Arcane Dust has now been distributed to players impacted by this issue in all regions.
Here is the original statement on the bug.
Quote From Kerfluffle We’re aware of an issue where players could still receive the 16 cards that were added to the Classic set later in Hearthstone’s history from Classic and Golden Classic packs between when the 20.0 patch was released (3/25) up until shortly after expansion launch (3/30). We’ll be identifying players who received these cards during this five-day window, and issuing Arcane Dust equivalent to a full refund for each card from the following list in the coming days:
• Icicle
• Tome of Intellect
• Call of the Void
• Pilfer
• Siegebreaker
• Gift of the Wild
• Righteousness
• Brightwing
• High Inquisitor Whitemane
• Barrens Stablehand
• SI:7 Infiltrator
• Arcane Devourer
• Kul Tiran Chaplain
• Scarlet Subjugator
• Shadow Word: Ruin
• Natalie SelineWe’ll update here once these dust refunds have been distributed.
Comments
Whhaaa?? I'm getting another 700 dust for opening no Classic Packs at all!! Is there anyone getting 2nd round of dust compensations?
It was just yesterday I've got 500 dust. So weird...
I got a Golden Natalie Seline in my Golden pack, does that count??
Bullshit. I opened golden Pilfer and got only 40 dust. Wasn't I supposed to get 400 dust?
Alright, today I got another 360 dust so I guess they didn't compensate all dust when this post was made
Received 5650 dust. A sweet bonus that came from nowhere :)
I was also very lucky with my barrens pack openings. From 160 packs I've collected 16 legendaries. With the free legendaries and tavern pass I had 20 legendaries on day 1. This was my luckiest pack opening..
4400 dust, pretty sweet.
I opened my 6 golden classic packs:
Obviously no HOF cards, but
got 2 Pilfer, 2 Gift of the Wild, 1 Righteousness.
Compensation received 260 dust. Can't even craft a golden common with that.
Looking at the figures people are seeing I think they have swithced the golden versus regular costs. (sic!) Hope they fix this soon.
Two other interesting notes:
- When looking for what were the new golden Legacy cards in my collection I found that there were only 28 out of 6 packs (22 common, 5 rare, 1 epic). Two are somehow missing -- might be a hsreplay bug, so not putting this on Blizzard just yet.
- I am pretty sure I have now opened 10 golden classic packs which I think should have resulted in a golden legendary. At least I was previously led to believe that golden packs had their own pity timer based on something I read either here or on reddit. Can't be bothered to chase the source for this either. Anyone else never received the golden legendary from the golden packs?
PS. Turned out to be a moaning post, so I would just like to state that all the recent bugs aside I think the game is in a pretty good state at the moment. (Let's see how Quest Rouge manages in the Wild to see if it stays like that).
The other question is, will the HoF cards be in?
Legacy set.
I got 0 dust. After looking into my collection i confirmed that i wasn't half-asleep or anything like that while opening my classic packs. I didn't receive any of the Hall of Fame cards despite the fact that i never opened them before. I got copies of cards like Southsea Captain and Force of Nature (and a terrible golden Hogger) but no sign of the HoF cards. Are these supposed to be in the packs or not?
I receive 500 dust today, even tho I'm pretty sure I never open any classic pack. between 25th and today. Mistaken somehow?
Maybe you've opened the one from Tavern Brawl?
Weird too.
I got my Classic pack from Tavern Brawl on Mar 21st. Surely it's not that one.
And the pack from Mar 28th is not Classic pack, because I used the trick to wait until Barren released and got Phoenix Pack.
This is why I'm pretty sure I never open any Classic pack between 25th and today.
Well, I guess I'm thanking Hearthstone for that honest fault.
I got 800. I purchased the golden bundle.
Holy smokes! They just dropped 12,000 dust on me! I bought both Classic bundles, but this seems... excessive.
Haha I got 1800. And I didn't know why until now reading this article. From cards from the golden classic bundle surely. I didn't even notice I opened something that was an error..and gold cards are mostly dust to me, so this is a lot of icing on a dust cake.
Same! I came for the dust and stayed for... a LOT more dust.
12k?!!! OMG. I got 40.
Today I got another 360 dust. Still a weird amount, because I opened a dozen of classic packs (mostly from brawls) right after 20.0, and there were some golden cards from the list in them.