I’m replying your statement out of pure assumption that you don’t know how many that “few epics and legendaries” gonna be.

If we’re having the same rarity distribution like Galakrond’s Awakening, which is 4 epics and 4 Legends. That means we need to create 8 epic cards (two copies each) and 4 legends and it would cost to 9600 dust (assuming again that you wanna have every cards).
Opening 10-15 packs will net you about ~400-600 dust (only counting the extra rares and commons). Is it close to the 9600 dust we need?

Even if you already have dusts from the extra cards you have from previous Darkmoon, you may need about 200 packs to come close to have as many as 9600 dusts. So yes, as OP suggested, we might need another 40 packs to open up to 4 legends and epics, maybe even more.

Sorry to create so many replies.
but I think the free handout of 500 golds and 5 packs is to replace the rewards of level 1 to 5. Since we got those rewards for free in the past.
(We should’ve gotten packs as L.Quest, and 500 golds is equal 5 levels).

I kinda think they’re gonna switch to gold rewards in the future expansions and bringing back L.quest.

Then again, all they did is to fix what should’ve been given at day 1 system.

Possibly will keep complaining until they really committed to change about how expensive their games are.

Adding 50 golds to 2 levels is nothing but a fix to me. Since other reward gave you 150 golds instead of a pack. But they wanna make it sound like a big thing.

Thanks for explaining.

It is decreasing as well as the XP, but the point is it a cosmetic change. You even explained it yourself. So you don’t really get anything on top of it.
Faster maybe, but if you get x amount of XP at the end of the expansion, you get the same golds nonetheless.

Is HS even capable of real change?
The text is not mine, I read it on HS forums, but it reflects what I think about the new changes and I think it is a good place to start a conversation about them.

From Madcookie on HS forums:
“XP from level to level is reduced but this is in the place of Event bonus XP = Cosmetic change
XP per level past lvl 50 decreased, but gold decreased as well. If it is 4500xp for 150 down to 1500 xp for 50g then this too = Cosmetic change
100xp more on a quest that you probably will re-roll anyway = Cosmetic change
Again(emphasis on again) be able to complete quests in tavern brawl = Cosmetic change

So apart from cosmetic changes all we are given is one time 5 packs and 500 gold. Which basically means here’s some handout to muffle the criticism and we are not changing anything
Thanks…”

LOL
Like I was said a week ago. This is what I called Fast Marketing Tips.
Bring hypes up by announcing better system, release a broken system, tweak it, profit.

Now, it’s not that I’m not happy they did this, I won’t complain, they starting to go to the right way,
but they could’ve just release the better version on day 1, and it’s a bit too late.

No one wanna discuss what’ll happen to the tournament itself?
(Me having a flashback of Duels Tournament filled with Anti-Blizzard spams.)

“no matter what they do right now will be hated”
LOL, you got that one.

No matter what Blizzard said.
No changes to BP:
Blizzard: “We feel that current BP has already giving better gold reward than previous system.
Players: “It’s still f**ing expensive, and why don’t you include TavernPass into $80 bundle?” Where’s our 10 gold per 3 wins?”

Changes to BP:
Blizzard: “Regarding the Battlepass, we decided to change the whole Reward Track system to accomodate F2P more”
Players: “So it’s true that you LIED about the first BP giving more gold”

I guess they will be silent until the next mini set. And then people will realize they just lost another 2000-3000 precious golds to buy the packs.

In the end, the lack of communication felt as though Blizzard were shrugging and saying, “Here, we fixed it, kind of, now leave us alone.”, ~TheGamer
Feels bad, when they still didn’t fix the real problem such as
Roping/AFK players, Need restart to update XP. Cards bug and nerfs. Disconnect. etc

The players became their beta testers now. No need to test the game before release.

Thanks for the insights. I guess we’ll have to wait.

But what about the other bugs? Breaking game cards? Broken Duels mechanic? Misspelled text and quest? Disconnects? People Roping & AFK?
Am I wrong to assume that they really doesn’t have enough Unity Programmer to fix problem ASAP?
or their coding language structure is so messy that they need to check the whole coding to find it.

I still remember the time they cut-off hundreds of people. Is this the consequences?

More reason for me to worship Cyberpunk 2077. (Psst. This is not an advertisement)
I’m done giving them money.

10th December c’mon. (Fingers crossed it won’t be delayed again)

For you, maybe not. But have you give a moment to think how hard for new or returning F2P player gonna compete? They obviously have limited cards. Crafting? Buy Packs with gold? Not possible.
What worse is, some quest need them to have certain card to be completed. Eg. Corrupted cards or Old Gods. What choice to they have but to spend cash into this already expensive game?

Pay or Leave. Simple as that.

Do we have any info regarding the 35 cards from the mini set?
Whether they are using same pack as Darkmoon Packs or not?
Because if they are, then it might be a good idea to save packs from monthly rewards.

Agree with point 1 and 2.
Doesn’t agree with 10 golds for every 3 win.
It promotes player to play fast and aggro, which can have negative effect on other deck types.
I would say, just add some gold to every quest beside just giving them pure XP.

Although, just tweak Point 2 into flat XP requirements, so players doesn’t have to grind XP for several days before getting rewards. Maybe 2000XP for each level would be good.

and some hero power need you to have like “X” Cards to be unlocked, which cut F2P out automatically. Why? I honestly Don’t know.

Appreciate your voice in this. I would’ve asked about it sometime ago, but it’s everyone’s choice whether to show it or not.

Since you have covered about the Reward Track, maybe you can also do it for the new game mode. Duels. IMO. In some way, it’s similar to some quests, and achievements, Duels is not F2P friendly, and people need to spend cash to get a competitive deck, because they include old cards in the rotation.
It blows my mind how Devs can create a new game mode not for everyone.

Fast marketing tips
Promise a better reward system for players to bring the hype up, get more money and more players, then release a broken and buggy system, get critics, then tweaked it. Profit.

The only solution to this “corrupted” business plan is to give them 1 star in store. It’s the only way that our voices can be heard.
oh wait. It’s happening. the score is now 3.9 on Playstore when I reply this.
Internet magic. Do your things.