Leak number 3 out of China for the upcoming Scholomance Academy expansion! This time, we've got a preview of what we're getting from the deluxe pre-order. Thanks to hythl0day for sharing on reddit.
The deluxe bundle will contain the following:
- 1 Random Golden Legendary (assumed)
- 1 Kel'Thuzad Card Back
- 1 Kel'Thuzad Mage Hero
- Battlegrounds Perks
- 4 Arena Tickets
- 80 Scholomance Academy Card Packs
- 5 Golden Scholomance Academy Card Packs
The introduction of expansion-specific golden card packs is brand new outside of the Golden Classic Pack that has been obtainable through special promotions for the past few years. Does this incentivize you more to get the bundle? Would you want to be able to purchase golden packs in the store?
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I won't be preordering because I'm too broke. They could add a stack of gold to the bundle and I still couldn't.
God damnit... Just Kel'Thuzad is enough reason to get the bundle. As a Horde main, I hate playing as Jaina, and all the other Mage heroes I don't have. It will be nice to have a portrait that doesn't anger my inner Horde.
I judge the value of a bundle by comparing the price of the packs in the bundle with the value of packs at the highest regular size pack grouping in the store (example: I think the 60 packs in the shop are USD $69.99). Usually when they do a pre-release or a special bundle the price per pack is (USD) $1 per pack or better, and that's when I am interested. Hopefully they can maintain that sort of ratio/"value" here.
I'm assuming this will be priced the same as previous mega bundles. I want to believe the reason why there is more stuff inside the bundle is due to fewer purchases of them in recent times and more competition in the card game space meaning they need to reall get things in gear.
Yup, this is Hearthstone needs. Good, strong competition from the likes of LoR and Magic. This is the reason we have more duplicate protection and more value from the bundles recently.
If there is any hero card in this expansion it should be professor slate. i don't know what class it would be for, but that is a scholomance classic turning into him.
I"ve been waiting for an awesome Mage Hero Skin! And now we get Kel'Thuzad! Suck it mortals!@!!
Hey now Kibler will have more chances to accidentally open Golden packs... LUL
Man, they really ramped up those stuff you get from preordering a deluxe.
And with something as iconic as kel'thuzad, that's really hard to pass up. Shame that's its effectively paywalled until further notice. But hey, that means there's just a chance for a Mr. Bigglesworth skin to appear on a 20USD price tag right?
But its likely just too expensive to be honest. I know it wasn't popular, but couldn't they have one of those kiddie preorders like they had in Rastakhan, $20 packs 20USD? maybe throw in a random legendary, and I'm in.
oooh golden packs
And playable Kel'Thuzad seems NICE
any idea about the price?
Chinese prices don't translate well to western ones... But I mean we only have a few hours to wait until actual announcement...
I think it's comparable to what we got last time.
I was thinking the same thing. This seems like a lot more than the usual $80USD bundle. Damn...I hope they don't increase that price even more.
Inb4 $100 bundle O_o
the only new thing are the 5 golden packs, AoO also came with the Battelgrounds perks and Arena Tickets
This looks like as good a place as any: like what you've done with the site!
If you like the few upgrades that went out this morning, you'll be more excited when we drop the HS Deck Tracker plugin for automatic collection syncing that's being alpha tested by some members.
Hoping we can get that out to everyone in a few days!
Can't wait!
Small sugestion: think you can make the search bar floating so that it stays visible when scrolling down? Nit sure how useful it would be, but it wouldn't really hurt.
No plans on it. If anything was going to stay static at the top, it would be the navigation! We actually tried that for a week or so when we launched the new nav and never really liked it. Thanks for the feedback though.
Heyyyyyy new KT hero very nice. Just waiting for the day we get a real alternate rogue hero with so many good lore characters out there because Maiev was pretty lackluster.
Shaw, Vanessa Vancleef, Garona, etc.