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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What? Maiev is cool. Do you think she isn't roguely enough?
She is ok it was just that when you enjoy the lore and have all these well known characters to choose from Maiev wasn't that exciting so I just use Valeera anyhow. Druid players may feel same way although Elise is a good alternate imo but I think some were hoping for Hamuul. I'd be down with that as our first Tauren.
Spooky Tree is the only hero Druids need.
funfact: the newest Mage Hero(Khadgar, 2016) is older than the newest Rogue Hero (Maiev, 2017)
Also will be the 4th. Wasn't really complaining bout gettin a new mage hero just saying another rogue one down the road will be nice.
Btw, did we get the time of the Announcement today?
Will there be just an official Announcement with no reveals and no stream?
they usually only drop 2 videos and a Blog post, Ashes of outland was an exception because of the big year of the phoenix anouncements
So far the difference what you get between the premium and normal pack (80+ Hero VS 50) was not big enough. It would make sense if they spice it up a bit.
Looks cool to me. The big question is if they'll adjust the price with the addition of the 5 golden packs to the usual bundle.
Last bundle was 90 packs, so they likely adjusted to 80 plus 5 golden packs rather than change the price. But this would still be a little higher value. Or a lot higher if you’re like me and DE golden cards when you also have them in regular. My only goldens are Basic cards and some legendaries that I got in gold and weren’t terrible enough for me to DE and craft a useful card(s)
I really hope this is just another free addition to make Hearthstone's pre-orders that much more appealing.
My big question though is will we get to purchase golden packs now? It would be really cool if they let us buy a bundle of them or just leaving them open to buy completely. They would have to be more expensive, but having premium options would be amazing for those that love building decks with them.
Golden classic packs do not have a pity timer. Fix this.
There hasn't been enough of them in circulation for a pity timer to come into effect yet. If they add them to the store to purchase then it'll be necessary, but otherwise I don't see it happening.
You are correct, Celestalon had confirmed this a couple of months ago on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1263559776014745600
Here's hoping!
Really happy to see the addition of gold packs; I'm a collector and would love this option. Crafting a golden legendary just isn't as satisfying as seeing it burst free from its leathery casing.
Not only that, depending on the pricing, it could be a superior way to buy dust.
Doesn't that mean that we have a 50/50 chance to pull a golden legendary if we open the 5 golden packs before any other pack from this expansion? You could even gamble a bit and open 2 or 3 regular packs first to further increase your chances.
No pity timer on golden packs, and golden packs don't change the main pack's pity timer, so no.
I've corrected the article about the pity timer stuff.