Hearthstone Gold Guide 2018: Maximize Free Packs, Gold, and Dust

In Hearthstone, gold can be quite difficult to acquire. If you've just begun, or you're just looking to make sure you've left no stone unturned, I hope this gold guide can help!

Purchasing Packs

If you do decide to spend money on packs, the cheapest way to do so is with Amazon Coins. Read more about it here: How-to Buy Cheaper Hearthstone Packs!

Table of Contents

• Easy Unique Quests
• Long Term Unique Quests
• Promotional Bonus Packs
• Platform Rewards
• Daily Quests
• Play Mode
• Arena Mode
• Tavern Brawl

Unique Quests that Gain You Gold, Dust, or Pack(s)

These are quests you can only do once! Generally they will be stuff you can do when you first start, but there are quests that will take time to complete.

Easy Unique Quests

Completing some of these quests will trigger the next quest involved in the line.

Long Term Unique Quests

These will take a bit longer to accomplish.

Promotional Bonus Packs

These Expert Card Packs require a Battle.net account to be redeemed, and a maximum of five bonus Expert Card Packs can be redeemed on a single Battle.net account. - Source

Double check that this offer is still available because it could end at any time.

Platform Rewards

Logging into your Battle.net account on your phone or tablet will trigger one of these rewards.

Galaxy Gifts

If you don't have a Samsung Galaxy S6 phone you can use an emulator to gather the packs. Read more about it here. Do this at your own risk, because it surely isn't a method supported by Blizzard.

Daily Quests

You are awarded one quest per day, you can re-roll the new quest or any other quests you might have in your queue once per day. You are able to keep 3 quests in your queue, and will not gain any further quests once you've accumulated 3. This means you should try to keep your quest log with at least one open spot so you are gaining a new quest each day.

To maximize your gold you should always be aiming for the 50 - 100 gold quests.

Class Quests

Card Specific Quests

Play Mode

If you're really desperate for gold you can obtain 100 gold per day by playing in Play Mode. This means either Casual or Ranked Mode. Every 3 victories rewards 10 gold, so you would have to win 30 games in a single day to gain the max 100 gold per day.

If you're just starting then Casual Mode can be easier based on the fact that Matchmaking will pit you against opponents of an equal skill level:

When you jump into Casual mode, you will be matched up against other Casual mode players of equal skill. So if you are new to the game, you will be matched up against other new players. If you fare well in Casual mode, you will continue to be matched against other Casual players of equal skill. This mode uses a hidden MMR rating to ensure you and your opponent should prove to be "Worthy Opponents".
Ranked Play matches you with other Ranked Play players that are as close to your current Ranking as possible and does not follow an MMR system. So a Rank 5 Player will be matched with another Rank 5 player (or as close as possible to their current rank).
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If you're at rank 25 - 15 it can be easier to play in Ranked Mode, especially later in the season.

Arena Mode

Arena is easily the most profitable way to gain gold, dust, packs, and cards. The only problem is that being good at Arena can be difficult. It takes time to figure out how to approach every match up, what cards to pick, and how to maximize your win percentage.

Arena is 150 gold, to break even in arena in terms of value, you need to get 3 - 4 wins. This rewards you with one pack (worth 100 gold), an average of 40 - 60 gold, and about 5 dust. Stats are based on Arena Mastery averages.

Breaking even will not allow you to keep playing, because you'll eventually run out of gold. This means you need to reach the "infinite" level. To consistently keep playing you need to average around 7 wins. This allows for variance, because sometimes you'll win 12 and gain 300+ gold, but other times you could win as few as 3 games and only get an average of 40 gold.

Here's a list of resources to help your Arena game.

• Current Arena Rules - Banned Cards, Card Appearance Rates
• Hearthstone Arena Beginner's Guide - How-to Play, Drafting & Rewards
• Arena Class Tier List - The Best Hero Class Picks
• How-to Go Infinite in Hearthstone Arena Guide

Arena Streamers

Some of the well-known strong Arena players are great to watch and learn from!

• Trump
• Kripp
• Ratsmah
• Hafu
• ADWCTA & Merps

Tavern Brawl

Every Wednesday there's a new Tavern Brawl, and the great thing about Tavern Brawl is that it will sometimes be premade decks which will put you on an even playing field if you're low on cards. This also gives you a chance to complete quests with classes you wouldn't have otherwise. Ccompleting quests via Tavern Brawl is usually much faster than Casual or Ladder.

The other great thing about Tavern Brawl is that you currently get a free Classic Pack every week upon your first victory! This is great for anyone trying to expand their collection!