I think this is only interesting for people building an all-gold collection. People who like having their favorite cards in gold won't benefit from this, since the cards you get are all random. Dust value would be around 3500 for the $25 bundle, which isn't bad but not exceptional either.
This isn't for me, but I think it's fine that they do lots of bundles for different types of players. I would like to see less randomness though; the pre-built decks were a nice step but should be made more attractive to people who already have some of the legendaries/epics.
Is this as bad of a deal as people are making it out to be? The average pack gives 100 dust so I imagine the average golden pack gives around 200? It seems like it is a normal value, just scaled up and in the form of dust/golden cards.
Edit: I love how the battle.net launcher calls it a "varied selection of standard cards" LOL
Wailor: Flavor-wise, I like Hibernate the most, though it might be on the weak side. Same for Purging Flame, it could easily cost 2 and deal 4, since it's minion only (I would've said 1 and 3, but then it's just a better Holy Smite). Forest Fire seems fine, since it's in Druid.
linkblade91: Cool idea, but it might get out of hand with
Lothraxion the Redeemed
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Demonxz95: It works with the flavor, not so much the mechanic (there's nothing shadow-y about it). Balance-wise, the card seems fine, since it leaves your hero kinda vulnerable.
R: Felocity is absolutely busted, and doesn't really fit rogue at all. Magifincent (Magnifincent would work better) is alright, though I can't really think of a burn-loc deck in shaman (though an OTK deck with it would work).
anchorm4n: This is incredibly weak, you need to cast 3 spells AND pay 4 mana? This could cost 6 and loose the spell cast requirement, though that might loose some flavor. Alternatively, you could make the card cost 3, maybe 2, but that's a stretch.
Hordaki: Seems balanced, even if I initially thought it might be overcosted.
Bruh the price of the big bundle is the same price as a whole pre-order bundle for an expansion.
In the mentioned pre-order you would get at least 3 legendaries. 1 bundle legendary, 1 within the first 10 packs and 1 pity timer for the remaining 40 packs.
You get 40 packs less than a pre-order in this bundle so there's no pity timer legendary for you.
The legendaries are golden in this bundle though, meaning that you can disenchant them and basically craft two regular legendaries of your choice.
I would say that whether it is worth it or not, is decided by whether you are guaranteed a legendary within the first 10 packs of these standard packs, or not. That would essentially give you 3 legendaries of your choice which is better than 3 random ones (obviously).
Do we have any confirmation on the 10-pack rule when it comes to the packs included in this bundle?
as far im aware is no legendayr in firts10packs for golden packs and only for the guaranteed at 4
Mmmmmmmm not only it's expensive as f*ck, but also like... Wrong time to offer it? I know you could get a good amount of dust with the recent nerfs, but I mean... Mini Set around the corner, I prefer to not waste my money in this, and grab the guaranteed new cards.
Also also, only the dust is worth it for me, I normally keep every golden card and wait until nerf season, then dust away every golden that got hit. The legendary would just translate to another weird combo for my ever growing Wild collection. So... still not worth it.
Well, fair play to them for introducing more stuff to sell, but this is about as expensive as it is unnecessary.
The midset is likely releasing in 2-3 weeks time at 15 bucks (assuming its the same as darkmoon races), giving up 4 legendaries in the process. And in between that we were offered not packages of barren packs, but 'standard' packs, as if we were holding back from crafting stuff we need from any of the previous expansions as far back as AoO just for this deal to happen.
Sure, no one is forcing anyone to buy anything. But the price tag on these stuff is sure painful to the human eye.
Absolute rip-off... I can already craft like 5 legendaries with my arena winnings, $50 is just way too much for 2 legendaries that are not even guaranteed to be good. That is just an insane amount of money to spend for such low value, it boggles my mind
It's probably because Zed and Yasuo have been in the game since the beta and their animations felt outdated compared to Riven and Shyvana who are relatively new, but I do agree that I would like it if Riven and Shyvana also got new level-ups.
Bruh the price of the big bundle is the same price as a whole pre-order bundle for an expansion.
In the mentioned pre-order you would get at least 3 legendaries. 1 bundle legendary, 1 within the first 10 packs and 1 pity timer for the remaining 40 packs.
You get 40 packs less than a pre-order in this bundle so there's no pity timer legendary for you.
The legendaries are golden in this bundle though, meaning that you can disenchant them and basically craft two regular legendaries of your choice.
I would say that whether it is worth it or not, is decided by whether you are guaranteed a legendary within the first 10 packs of these standard packs, or not. That would essentially give you 3 legendaries of your choice which is better than 3 random ones (obviously).
Do we have any confirmation on the 10-pack rule when it comes to the packs included in this bundle?
Golden packs don't follow pity timer rules so there won't be any real gaming the system with them.
Celestalon confirmed this last year and I can't see a reason why this would have changed.
Update: I was wrong, apologies. Golden packs are so rare, with no expectation to get enough of them to hit any pity timers, that we made them completely independent rolls, every time.
If I remember properly, no golden pack (of any kind) has any sort of pity timer (neither the legendary guaranteed from the first 10 packs nor the pity timers that assure you a legendary every 40 packs or an epic every 10).
In fact, I will be more explicit: I think the only packs that have the mentioned pity timers are those you can buy directly from the shop in bulk
Well this semester has been brutal but now I should have the time to compete again. Yay!
This would have released back in Kobolds to support Silver Hand Recruit decks. It's nice that spell schools are retroactive so I can actually use former expansions as a base in this comp.
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Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
I think this is only interesting for people building an all-gold collection. People who like having their favorite cards in gold won't benefit from this, since the cards you get are all random. Dust value would be around 3500 for the $25 bundle, which isn't bad but not exceptional either.
This isn't for me, but I think it's fine that they do lots of bundles for different types of players. I would like to see less randomness though; the pre-built decks were a nice step but should be made more attractive to people who already have some of the legendaries/epics.
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Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Is this as bad of a deal as people are making it out to be? The average pack gives 100 dust so I imagine the average golden pack gives around 200? It seems like it is a normal value, just scaled up and in the form of dust/golden cards.
Edit: I love how the battle.net launcher calls it a "varied selection of standard cards" LOL
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Wailor: Flavor-wise, I like Hibernate the most, though it might be on the weak side. Same for Purging Flame, it could easily cost 2 and deal 4, since it's minion only (I would've said 1 and 3, but then it's just a better Holy Smite). Forest Fire seems fine, since it's in Druid.
linkblade91: Cool idea, but it might get out of hand with
.Demonxz95: It works with the flavor, not so much the mechanic (there's nothing shadow-y about it). Balance-wise, the card seems fine, since it leaves your hero kinda vulnerable.
R: Felocity is absolutely busted, and doesn't really fit rogue at all. Magifincent (Magnifincent would work better) is alright, though I can't really think of a burn-loc deck in shaman (though an OTK deck with it would work).
anchorm4n: This is incredibly weak, you need to cast 3 spells AND pay 4 mana? This could cost 6 and loose the spell cast requirement, though that might loose some flavor. Alternatively, you could make the card cost 3, maybe 2, but that's a stretch.
Hordaki: Seems balanced, even if I initially thought it might be overcosted.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
I don't think you know what the word exclusive means buddy
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
as far im aware is no legendayr in firts10packs for golden packs and only for the guaranteed at 4
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Mmmmmmmm not only it's expensive as f*ck, but also like... Wrong time to offer it? I know you could get a good amount of dust with the recent nerfs, but I mean... Mini Set around the corner, I prefer to not waste my money in this, and grab the guaranteed new cards.
Also also, only the dust is worth it for me, I normally keep every golden card and wait until nerf season, then dust away every golden that got hit. The legendary would just translate to another weird combo for my ever growing Wild collection. So... still not worth it.
Legends of Runeterra Patch Notes for 2.8.0 - Dark Horizon Event, Champion Skins, 2v2 Lab
Would've liked to see an Azir + Irelia nerf, I think I'll pass on ranked play for the next couple weeks until the balance patch hits
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Well, fair play to them for introducing more stuff to sell, but this is about as expensive as it is unnecessary.
The midset is likely releasing in 2-3 weeks time at 15 bucks (assuming its the same as darkmoon races), giving up 4 legendaries in the process. And in between that we were offered not packages of barren packs, but 'standard' packs, as if we were holding back from crafting stuff we need from any of the previous expansions as far back as AoO just for this deal to happen.
Sure, no one is forcing anyone to buy anything. But the price tag on these stuff is sure painful to the human eye.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Marketing. I call that marketing.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Yes they are just golden standard card packs, nothing exclusive at all...
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Absolute rip-off... I can already craft like 5 legendaries with my arena winnings, $50 is just way too much for 2 legendaries that are not even guaranteed to be good. That is just an insane amount of money to spend for such low value, it boggles my mind
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
These aren't exclusive though, they're just card packs...
Legends of Runeterra Patch Notes for 2.8.0 - Dark Horizon Event, Champion Skins, 2v2 Lab
It's probably because Zed and Yasuo have been in the game since the beta and their animations felt outdated compared to Riven and Shyvana who are relatively new, but I do agree that I would like it if Riven and Shyvana also got new level-ups.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Bruh the price of the big bundle is the same price as a whole pre-order bundle for an expansion.
In the mentioned pre-order you would get at least 3 legendaries. 1 bundle legendary, 1 within the first 10 packs and 1 pity timer for the remaining 40 packs.
You get 40 packs less than a pre-order in this bundle so there's no pity timer legendary for you.
The legendaries are golden in this bundle though, meaning that you can disenchant them and basically craft two regular legendaries of your choice.
I would say that whether it is worth it or not, is decided by whether you are guaranteed a legendary within the first 10 packs of these standard packs, or not. That would essentially give you 3 legendaries of your choice which is better than 3 random ones (obviously).
Do we have any confirmation on the 10-pack rule when it comes to the packs included in this bundle?
Solving the "???" Mysteries of the Phoenix Card Back Achievement in Hearthstone - Solve the Barrens Mysteries
The card back is nice and all, but this is probably the least fun I've had with puzzles...ever.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
If it's not greed, then what do you call the fact that every week Blizzard offers us one or two "exclusive" bundles?
That these bundles are more frequent and more expensive is a sign that Blizzard's economical interests are increasing exponentially ...
Legends of Runeterra Patch Notes for 2.8.0 - Dark Horizon Event, Champion Skins, 2v2 Lab
Looks like we guessed wrong on the skin theme, not that I am disappointing horizon event have always been one my favorite skin themes.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Golden packs don't follow pity timer rules so there won't be any real gaming the system with them.
Celestalon confirmed this last year and I can't see a reason why this would have changed.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
I don't really see the greed TBH. Every game has cosmetics and since they aren't essential they are going to command a high price tag.
If Blizzard made it very easy/cheap to acquire golden cards, or even the Diamond cards that we have now, it would make them feel less special overall.
Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
If I remember properly, no golden pack (of any kind) has any sort of pity timer (neither the legendary guaranteed from the first 10 packs nor the pity timers that assure you a legendary every 40 packs or an epic every 10).
In fact, I will be more explicit: I think the only packs that have the mentioned pity timers are those you can buy directly from the shop in bulk
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Well this semester has been brutal but now I should have the time to compete again. Yay!
This would have released back in Kobolds to support Silver Hand Recruit decks. It's nice that spell schools are retroactive so I can actually use former expansions as a base in this comp.
I'll try to come back and give feedback soon.
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Open Up Your Wallets - Two Golden Standard Pack Bundles Hit the Hearthstone Shop Today
Hmm.. do we have a pity timer on those golden standard pack? I mean we should've get at least 3 golden legendary, no?