Another shop update dropped today! And I’ll be honest, I didn’t even want to post about it, but I’m trying to keep up with all the new shop items so here we go… We only have two new offers and both are atrocious in my opinion. The first one is another “$50 for a single Signature Legendary and 5 packs” bundle, and even though Signature Ra-Den looks great, it’s just so overpriced. The second one is a Harth Stonebrew bundle. Just wait until you see it – they sell both Golden and Diamond versions with a few packs for… $40. Let’s first address the fact that the Golden version should be a reward in the current event (alongside Golden Gift cards), it’s freaking 10th anniversary after all. But if they want to be greedy and sell it, why not just do it in two separate bundles? Most players don’t want both cosmetics at the same time, they will just use the one they like better. So why not just make it two separate bundles for cheaper? Oh yeah, I think I know why… Anyway. Here are all of the new items that are available this week:
- Harth to Harth Bundle (4000 Runestones or $40) – Golden and Diamond copies of Harth Stonebrew + 5 Badlands Card Packs.
- Signature Ra-Den Bundle (5000 Runestones or $50) – Signature copy of Ra-den + 5 Badlands Card Packs.
Tier 1 skins are “premium” ones while Tier 2 are more basic. In general, Tier 1 skins tend to include more extra features like completely new emotes, Hero Power animations, and some extra visual effects. Some of those might be also included in Tier 2 skins, but usually only 1 of those special features is present (if any). It’s not an official classification – it’s just something we use to differentiate between more basic and premium skins! Blizzard has added their own “rarities” for Battlegrounds skins, but they haven’t done it so far for Constructed (the only one is Legendary with 3D animated portraits).
New items usually stay in the shop for around 2-3 weeks – sometimes it’s longer (4 or more weeks) and very rarely it’s shorter (a week).
Happy 10th anniversary, cashcows.
Erm we mean… players.
My question is: I was assuming that Harth, alongside the other cards labeled as Event set, were temporary to standard until maybe around when the expansion drops/when the in-game event is scheduled to end. So they’re selling this diamond Harth card that many people will probably assume can be used in standard (at least for longer than a couple weeks)? O_o The only info that I’ve been able to find is something on reddit from someone named RidiculousHat, whom google told me is a community manager for the game, that says “these cards are yours to keep but the standard legality is not locked in – we’ll update you on when they rotate” – Really shady if this is the only info anwhere stating that event cards are leaving standard soon, and meanwhile they try to sell this diamond and golden Harth card before people realize. In standard Harth and the gift cards might be pretty good, but wild is a different story. I would even go so far as to say that I’m pretty sure that they obviously schemed to intentionally mislead people about the longevity of this event set. If only Blizzard used their power for good and not evil hehe
Good point about the golden version too, why not give that one out from the event and just sell the diamond one? No way they should just be clunked together in the same bundle. Golden non-pack-drop (uncraftable) cards are supposed to have a thought-out way to acquire them beside just in the shop with the diamond one. It’s really just a shame; the easily predictable effect of their ill choice means simply that we’ll never really see the golden Harth played since anyone owning that will also own the diamond one. Here’s a crazy idea that only took me a minute to think up: Just sell the golden Harth on the side for in-game gold or cash. This just reminds me of how dumb it is that you don’t get golden cards from the end of month rewards anymore. As for one last tangent I’ll take, I’ve opened a bunch of golden packs and never got a signature card from any. Do they think if they doubled the rate of signature/legendary/golden/etcetera drops, that they’d make any less money? They would probably make more, but they’re so greedy and stubborn that they’d rather just slowly dry out the interest in their game and sponge it for all it’s worth.
But I won’t have any faith in team5 until they miraculously bring back the much beloved esport qualifier tournaments. Ladder is no way to qualify for a major master’s tour tournament – only qualifying through other tournaments is the real deal, the way the game is meant to be played. But I know that they barely care about esports at all, which is a shame because they could make bank and hype from it like they always did before. In my opinion, Hearthstone was the game that made esports cool, and the dev team may have underestimated the effect the esports had on the game’s early growth and spike of interest. Team5 are the only ones who hampered themselves. The player interest was always massive as a direct result of the qualifiers – it’s not like it had slowed down before the rug was pulled out.