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(Last Chance!) Scholar Jaina Bundle (5x Mage Pack + Cosmetic Mage Hero) Available Now For $9.99 / โฌ9.99 - Available Until September 21
It’s more than “not bad”. I would say that’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gistf2lDKww
Tian Ding Shares Data About Battlegrounds Parties - How Much Are You Gaining By Group Queueing?
Probably because BG is not pure luck based? Or are you suggesting that all the top ranked players got there (often on multiple accounts) just because they’re lucky?
(Last Chance) Mega Wild Bundle - 56 Packs from 7 Latest Wild Expansions for $34.99 / โฌ34.99 - Available Until September 14
You’re right, it’s $34.99 – US dollars. You can find the bundle in the official Battle.net shop here: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-mega-wild-bundle
Someone talks about Canadian pricing on reddit and they’ve mentioned that it’s a pricing bug. On mobile the price is roughly correct (48 Canadian dollars). You can find the thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/ioy9u2/mega_wild_bundle_is_unfairly_priced_for_canadians/
(Last Chance) Mega Wild Bundle - 56 Packs from 7 Latest Wild Expansions for $34.99 / โฌ34.99 - Available Until September 14
Average Dust in a pack is around 100, not 50. So that’s ~5.6k Dust in total. Of course, it can be 3k or 8k depending on your luck, that’s just average ๐
But that doesn’t count the fact that first 10 packs from the expansion you haven’t opened packs from have a guaranteed Legendary – 8 packs aren’t quite guaranteed, but the chance is pretty high! So newer players should get more Dust from it on average.
But I’m still not sure if that’s worth it. I prefer to spend money on packs from the latest expansions, but I guess that some might find the offer good.
Hearthstone Epic Crafting Guide (Standard) - Scholomance Academy - September 2020
To be precise, it’s around Top 10% of Legend. It depends on the month, server, format etc. but it’s usually easier than Top 100 or even Top 500.
E.g. last month on EU Server we had ~34k Legend players in Standard, so ~3.4k Legend would be enough to get 11 bonus stars. On NA we had ~22k Legend players so it was top ~2.2k Legend for 11 bonus stars.
This is of course not 100% precise, but you don’t need to climb THAT high. I’ve been finishing on around 1-1.5k Legend for the last couple of months and I had 11 bonus stars every time.
New Mage Cosmetic Hero (Scholar Jaina) Will Be Available for Purchase in a Bundle with 5 Mage Card Packs on September 15
Not yet, we’ll know when it’s released. Probably 2-3 weeks like other bundles.
Patch 18.2 (Constructed) Coming Next Tuesday - Nerfs to Secret Passage, Cabal Acolyte, Darkglare + Buffs to Totem Goliath & Archwitch Willow + Bug Fixes
Her stats aren’t really relevant – her effect is way more important. E.g. getting out a big Demon with Taunt a turn earlier against Aggro is big. 8 mana 5/5 with this effect is just better than 9 mana 7/7.
At the same time, with the current pool of cards in Standard, even an 8 mana 7/7 probably wouldn’t be good enough. But maybe they’re planning to release some more big Demons next expansion for example?
Patch 18.2 - Forbidden Library Event - "Book of Heroes" Solo Content, Heroic Brawliseum
No idea, they didn’t say anything, but I would hope so!
New Mage Cosmetic Hero (Scholar Jaina) Will Be Available for Purchase in a Bundle with 5 Mage Card Packs on September 15
I would assume that they will release a bundle with cosmetic Hero every time for a new Book of Heroes “chapter”. It just happens that they started with Jaina ๐
Patch 18.2 (Constructed) Coming Next Tuesday - Nerfs to Secret Passage, Cabal Acolyte, Darkglare + Buffs to Totem Goliath & Archwitch Willow + Bug Fixes
Picture is correct, I just made a mistake in a hurry (wrote 8 to 7 instead of 9 to 8). It will now cost 8 mana.
Last Chance to Disenchant Mindrender Illucia for Full Dust Amount (September 1)
That’s a good idea for an article, I’ll write that down, thanks! ๐
Best Hearthstone Decks - Standard Meta Tier List - Whizbang's Workshop (April 2024)
It hasn’t been updated for Scholomance Academy yet, we’re working on that.
Top Standard Legend Decks From Scholomance Academy - Week 4 - August 2020
There are. In fact, it’s already being written – should be released in a few days! ๐
And yeah, I agree, the deck is super fun to play.
Budget Pirate Warrior Deck List & Guide (Scholomance Academy)
I think that Kor’kron is better than Mortal Strike because it’s a minion – it might be able to attack twice and your opponent has to deal with it.
But if you’re running into a lot of Taunts then Mortal Strike can be a better option as a way to finish the game through them.
You should test both options yourself and see which one works better for you ๐
Hearthstone Budget Decks For Whizbang's Workshop, Cheap Decks for Laddering in Hearthstone!
Each deck has a full guide which includes upgrade path – basically cards that you want to add to make the deck better or full deck lists you should be aiming for once you find more Dust ๐
New Progression System (Battle Pass) Should Be More Rewarding Than The Current System
Yeah, we’ll definitely have one, Blizzard said that every expansion this year will have free single player content. But it wasn’t announced yet.
Ashes of Outland’s solo adventure was announced ~2 months after the expansion and released shortly after, so assuming a similar timeline, it should be announced early in October. But they’ve been experimenting with release times for the last few expansions so it might be different again ๐
New Progression System (Battle Pass) Should Be More Rewarding Than The Current System
You are probably right – it should be reset every expansion, and yeah, they will have to do some UI update to incorporate the new system.
I don’t think that Quests will be removed per se – Quests will still be a thing, but they will give you XP instead of Gold. And that XP will progress you on the Battle Pass, which then will give you rewards like Gold and extra packs. Which means that Legendary Quests should work just like they do right now.
As for your last question – most of the current Quests allow you to progress even when you lose games (e.g. you need to deal X damage, destroy X minions, play X games with a class) so I imagine that it won’t change. If anything, I think that since the goal is to make the system work for any game format (so you can for example play Battlegrounds and still progress), they will rework the Quests and make them more “player friendly”.
I think that since they’re already talking so much about the system, we should learn more about it in the coming weeks or months. I expect some kind of blog post or official video about it quite soon.
New Progression System (Battle Pass) Should Be More Rewarding Than The Current System
I’m 99% that it won’t be this expansion, but it should be quite soon if they’re already talking about it and not keeping it a secret (plus it sounds like they already have the numbers – otherwise Iksar wouldn’t be able to say with such certainty that the rewards will be higher).
So I would say next expansion. And since, from what it sounds, the battle pass would reset with every expansion, launching it alongside the expansion’s release would make most sense.
In other words, my educated guess would be December 2020 ๐
Well, those solo content strategy guides are mostly targeted at more casual / new players, which might struggle with some of the encounters.
And half of the article is about lore, Tharid explains a lot of the things that aren’t shown in the game, backstories, talks more about events shown in those encounters, so even if you don’t need help, but you’re interested in learning more about the character (in this case Jaina), I feel like it might be a solid read.