Nevin

So there’s no lab to experiment with the new expansion cards? I had been looking forward to that

Personally, those changes work fine for me. I mainly play ranked games anyway, and I’m excited to have a reason to open packs more often than every 4 months. (With duplicate protection, it will be easy to get the commons …

I wonder why they preemptively nerfed Highlander Hunter but not Evolve Shaman. Shaman already had one of the strongest decks, and it was held in check only by tough matchups against Demon Hunter and Face Hunter. What’s going to stop …

My take on these changes: With the 20% XP boost and the restored rewards during events, this system is now slightly more rewarding than the old one was. Also, with the hardest quests fixed and Brawls usable for quests, the …

Very fair. I think Blizzard’s biggest mistake was in giving people the chance to reevaluate what they’re spending on Hearthstone.

Personally, it’s been great for me. My spending averages out to about the cost of a Netflix subscription, but …

“We will still have in-game events, of course, but they will remain consistent with our existing approach to event rewards instead of rewarding bonus XP for the rewards track.”

So yes, there will be events. We’ll get cards or …

Ah, I see what you’re thinking. You’re right that if you only care about a couple specific legendaries, to the point where you would dust EVERYTHING that’s not them, then those legendaries are only worth 400 dust each.

Everyone …

I already was “that guy” below. But your math is off, too. Flux is calculating what it would take to craft new legendaries, so he’s figuring out how you can get to 3200 dust. That part is correct.

The …

The calculation that this site always uses for these deals bugs me: You get a legendary about every 20 packs, and the estimate that packs are worth 102 dust assumes that you’re disenchanting every card. But if you’re focused on …

When a new set completely dominates the meta: “The power creep is huge!” “How can I afford all these new cards so quickly?” “This will be unplayable until nerds arrive!”

When a new set doesn’t completely dominate the meta: …

I have a theory: Blizzard did the math, calculated that the extra Epic and Legendary on the track were worth at least 15 packs, and so by their calculations this new system is equivalent to the old one. Now everyone …

Not gonna downvote you. I agree that a lot of the reaction is overblown. I still think this is a legitimate problem, though. (As far as recent F2P blow-ups do, I’d say this is worse than Runeterra mixing a pop …

Yes, they’ve said that. And I kept defending Blizzard on this site because I believed them. But I realize now that I was wrong.

I’m not sure how I was arguing in bad faith. Most calculations to date haven’t …

Traditionally, events give us a lot of extra packs or gold. If they will now give us experience, that IS NOT BONUS EXPERIENCE. Instead, we’re losing the event’s traditional bonuses, and the progression track needs to provide even MORE to …

I’m a dad, and I probably play 20-60 minutes a day. Just calculating 7 daily quests and 3 weekly quests every week, times 16 weeks between expansions, plus extra XP for play time, wins, and achievements, I estimate that I’d …

I saw that too. Then my client crashed(?!). When I opened it back up, I didn’t have those quests or the rewards. 

$20 for a 4-month pass seems exactly right to me. That’s $5/month, which is my threshold for a no-brainer monthly pass in a game I play a lot. It seems tuned to be more than worth it if you want …

I would love to have a couple of the guardians in the premium pass, but I still feel like I have more guardians than I can use thanks to the Spirit Blossom event. LoR makes so many cosmetics that I …

They said it would be November 17th when they made the announcement last week, but that was largely overlooked because there was SO MUCH news.

I’m happy about this. 4 months is too long between sets now that the …

I really hope the smaller pre-order costs less than $50 US this time. It has 10 fewer packs than it did in the last couple pre-orders, so it’s a disappointing deal unless you put a lot of value on early …