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Good news for you; they are allowing Arena tickets to be used on Duels!

Now we are constructing our initial 15 cards from our own collection of cards yea? Oof for those that went standard only and tossed all the wild cards we had at this point.

The 80-pack preorder has a super dope Warlock skin

yeah I dug the vocals in this song. Very 'Nightwish' 

With the no duplicate rule in place, it is probably best to spend most of the gold at the start, and keep a bit back for the mini expansion. That way you can easily get the commons and rares efficiently. The higher rarity cards might not be worth overthinking it for, since whales are the only people who really get all of them anyway.

How much more expensive it all ends up is difficult to say until we've tried out the battle pass.

Meme potential: Treachery outside of Warlock.

Doesn't seem great tbh. Best case scenario, he's "mind control a Rattlegore and give the opponent a Wisp," but in reality, you'll often have trouble giving the opponent something much worse than what you take from them, which isn't really worth it on a 7-mana 4/4. 

looks like I'll have to buy Naxxramas and get those cards if I wanna compete in the Duels 

Also did I miss any info on the pre-order? have they said if there's a new hero portrait or not?

I love the premise of this game mode! Been turned off by Hearthstone this year but really like forward to this. Been craving more dungeon run since Uldum! A

A lot of people loved dungeon runs, and although I was hoping for a constructed mode with shifting rules (sets, deck building constraints etc) this dungeon run PVP mode looks like it could be fun.

Hopefully they'll renable old adventures (needed for this new mode) for gold instead on real money - especially for newer players who won't have them.

edit: adventures not expansions

There is a mistake in this sentence:

"You can reroll weekly quests (1 per week)"

It think he said that you can reroll weekly quests 1 per day like regular quests

Minisets are concerning. What's the right thing to do? Spend your gold on packs at the start of the expansion, or wait until midway through when the full set is actually available?

I mean, it seems pretty clear what Blizzard's goal is: "you will give us lots of money up front, and lots more money later." Sure, they're a company, this sort of thing is what companies do... But I know that lots of players have been complaining about the price of playing this game. Feels like they decided to, uhh, not back down in that regard.

God damn does N'Zoth look amazing. Such a shame it costs $80 to get. I'm afraid I'm sticking to Nemsy.

Interesting.

Would love to see the whole progression path to see how much gold it amounts to.  And of course quite how much you need to play to get the XP to get to the end.

I was under the impression we could reroll weekly quests once per day also.  I might have misheard that in the Frodan interview.

A lot of people loved dungeon runs, and although I was hoping for a constructed mode with shifting rules (sets, deck building constraints etc) this dungeon run PVP mode looks like it could be fun.

Would be nice if they enabled old adventures (needed for this new mode) for gold instead on real money - especially for newer players who won't have them.

Achievements?  NICE!

I have a feeling that most people won't like this mode. Personally i'm very hyped for it

Whelp, I dusted most Naxx & Karazhan cards years back. I guess I'll see y'all come Season 1 of Duels lol.

Hopefully Hearthstone converts all Arena Tickets to Tavern Tickets as I still have 2 tickets. If so then I'll use 1 to try Heroic Duels 1 time.

So it is, effectively, an Arena format with single-player content added onto it, in the structure of the Saviors of Uldum interface and progression, and is strictly pay-to-win: while there is a great deal of RNG, the player with the better collection gets to create the better starting 16 cards for their deck.

I think criticisms of 'pay-to-win' are a little shallow; on the one hand, it puts a price barrier against playing; on the other, it incentivizes players to collect more cards and try new sets, which is probably a good thing for long-term game health.

(If Hearthstone and 'long-term game health' is even a thing at this point.)

I don't know... Between this and the mini-sets which they're implementing, it feels more and more like they're being pressured to monetize. It's frustrating for those who were complaining that Hearthstone was already too expensive. I don't think it's going to get any better in that sense.

Old gods? OMG, the theme that make me comeback to HS, maybe they keep me playing