As the title suggests, I've only ever played Standard and never given thought to playing Wild. It's just not for me. And since I'm very casual and almost never play HS on desktop I just logged into Innkeeper for the first time(Been playing since right after HS's launch) and the Innkeeper showed the amount of dust I could get for dusting cycled out cards. I'm wondering if anyone has ever done this and if this is a good idea or not.
If you do, you will make it harder to do some tavern brawls. While you have no intrest in wild now, that could change in the future. Think long and hard about it.
If your going to dust the cards to craft cards that will rotate out in April 2019, the return is horrible.
personally I do not think it is a god idea. but that comes more down to how I perceive value of cards. dusting cycled out set gives you a 1/4 return pr legendary, if we assume that you use this dust only to craft legendaries, you will after a few cycles have a very little value left from your time/money invested. I play mainly standart myself, but the meta gets stall or I need a change of thinking I play a little wild.
if you are primarily casual, you can also look at it from a perspective of how much utility (fun/win/motivation) you can get from dusting your wild collection. if there isn't a ton of new decks you can play or want to play, then don't. but if you find that you will play more or enjoy the game more by having the extra resources, go for it.
Personally I hope that we at some point can get to see a limited wild format where we are only allowed to use cards from classic + 2 expansion/adventures. a format like this will give tons of replay ability and allow for new cool deck types. At least we can create this kind of community events when we get tournament mode(soon™)
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
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How long have you been playing and have you taken breaks? I took off post Naxx and came back at the end of GvG, so in Wild from time to time, I'll still get the occasional nice surprise. As some other posters have said, it's a nice break from standard. You'll never get bored of flattening a standard only deck with your wild inventions.
it's also a good place to grind gold or golden hero portraits in the lower ranks too.
As the title suggests, I've only ever played Standard and never given thought to playing Wild. It's just not for me. And since I'm very casual and almost never play HS on desktop I just logged into Innkeeper for the first time(Been playing since right after HS's launch) and the Innkeeper showed the amount of dust I could get for dusting cycled out cards. I'm wondering if anyone has ever done this and if this is a good idea or not.
Generally, whenever I've heard of people who had dusted mass amounts of cards, whether of certain classes they 'will never play' or wild, they tend to talk about it in regretful terms. I've yet to see someone talk about how they had done such a thing long ago and came out great for it.
Meanwhile when Wild was announced I saw no purpose in bothering with that mode and so considered dusting wild cards as an Option when I really ReALLY needed the dust. But I always kept it as a last resort and focused on keeping my collection in tact. A year later I found myself not enjoying Un'Goro's meta and pondering if I should leave the game entirely. Then I realized while I wasn't happy in standard I never actually TRIED Wild at that point, so I deleted my decks and focused only on Wild play. It brought back my enjoyment of the game as i found new decks to get into as well as touching on some of my old favorites (I actually enjoyed Secret Paladin). When Frozen Throne came out I found myself enjoying Standard again so I eventually moved back. Now I'm back 100% into standard but always with the knowledge that if I have issues with the meta or if I just want to, I have Wild to fall back on.
Thing is, the cards aren't going away or devalue. So there's no real benefit to dusting a card if you aren't immediately going to use the dust. But it'll be near impossible to get back into Wild if you dust everything now. And for what? What exactly do you 100% NEED that requires that much dust in your standard collection?
You do what you wish, but I suggest being frugal and leave your options open.
I see the general consensus is to not do it and it makes sense. I did spend so much time a money to get some of these sets and dust them just to use them on cards that'll rotate out in a few months.
I will admit that that 51000 dust did seem pretty tempting, lol.
I thought the same. fast forward 2 years and i regret it.
DONT dust legendaries at least. Every player after 1 or 2 years will have a sizeable collection and wild will be fun to play too. eventually all of us will one day play Wild. that not an opinion its a mathematical probability that cannot be rebuked
I only dust rotated cards that never seen play in standard and I rarely play wild anyways. I keep all the good cards that have seen play in standard or have future potential.
Honestly I have way more fun playing wild than standard because you have so much more freedom when you build your own decks.
There are so many pros and high legend players in standard so best optimized decks are found within first 2 weeks after expansion launch and information is spread so fast that meta gets stagnant extremely fast. Vicious Syndicate pumps out meta report every week so you get no chance to make your own meta decisions and many players just copy top tier decks and grind the ladder.
Wild is different because although there is vicious syndicate report for wild, its only monthly because of the lack the data and they cannot possibly cover the entire metagame of wild. You are truly free to come up with your decks and climb to legend and many other wild players are experimenting as well. Netdecks are spread much slower than standard and it often takes 3 months for all the meta decks to get discovered and get optimized. I hit legend with different homebrew off-meta decks each month such as Jade Shaman, Egg raptor rogue, Mecha'thun warlock, odd quest warrior etc and I dont think that would be possible in standard.
Its the ultimate way to enjoy hearthstone to the core and I never get bored of the game. I'm surprised you never tried out wild when you started playing since launch. Playing wild will save you more money in the end because wild decks need less new expansion cards so you don't have to craft new cards as much.
No, because Wild is tons of fun, epic combo decks and a great way to rest after an hour of struggling to hit a higher rank on Standard. I highly recommend this mode, but if you have been a Standard player, you shouldn't craft any Wild decks that require more than half of your current dust (or one third, everyone should decide on his own). Wild is never boring because the amount of decks you can create (and win more than you lose with them) is limited only by you and your own deckbuilding skills. Standard meta was always 10-15 boring, brainless decks or one cancer deck with two OP but skill requiring decks (one was a counter and one was countered by the cancer deck). Two years ago I also thought that i will never play Wild and I disenchanted Reno Jackson, Brann Bronzebeard and Aviana. Now I regret this so much - remember, that after you dust all your Wild cards, there's no way back. I hope that I convinced you to not disenchant your Wild cards (or maybe even to start playing this mode)
Oh, and there's also one thing that I've forgotten about. You can dust all common and rare fillers. If they haven't found their place in any deck for 2 years, they will probably never be played in any Wild deck. I wouldn't do that with epic and legendary cards that were never played before, because they are usually more versatile and some of them are unplayable only because there are currently no cards that have great or even OP synergies with them. Also, if a rare or common finds its place in a deck and you've dusted it, spending 100 or 40 dust is not much
I dusted my cards [half of naxxramas and some cards from older expansions gathered between lich king and witchwood] about 5k dust. Made me able to craft even shaman deck with wich i climbed to rank5 each season granting me 3.5k dust just from that.
If dusting rotated cards will allow you to make yourself gold-maker deck [that you don't have] than go for it
I suggest you give it a try before considering this
Being a "casual" is no reason not to play wild. In fact, wild is much more casual than standard is. Playing on both modes will also help keep your rank and MMR down after playing the same amount of games so that you'll be facing other casuals as opponents more often
As the title suggests, I've only ever played Standard and never given thought to playing Wild. It's just not for me. And since I'm very casual and almost never play HS on desktop I just logged into Innkeeper for the first time(Been playing since right after HS's launch) and the Innkeeper showed the amount of dust I could get for dusting cycled out cards. I'm wondering if anyone has ever done this and if this is a good idea or not.
As Tyrande says, 'you will regret this.' Nah, it's up to you, people do it.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
If you do, you will make it harder to do some tavern brawls. While you have no intrest in wild now, that could change in the future. Think long and hard about it.
If your going to dust the cards to craft cards that will rotate out in April 2019, the return is horrible.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
Do you need the dust, or is it just the big juicy number tempting you?
Personally I will never dust any rotated cards, regardless of how playable they are/will be. I like the collection aspect too much.
Wild will always be a very different Meta. Standard bores me after 1 month of a new expansion, so I switch to Wild for the remainder.
Dibbity don't touch that!
personally I do not think it is a god idea. but that comes more down to how I perceive value of cards. dusting cycled out set gives you a 1/4 return pr legendary, if we assume that you use this dust only to craft legendaries, you will after a few cycles have a very little value left from your time/money invested. I play mainly standart myself, but the meta gets stall or I need a change of thinking I play a little wild.
if you are primarily casual, you can also look at it from a perspective of how much utility (fun/win/motivation) you can get from dusting your wild collection. if there isn't a ton of new decks you can play or want to play, then don't. but if you find that you will play more or enjoy the game more by having the extra resources, go for it.
Personally I hope that we at some point can get to see a limited wild format where we are only allowed to use cards from classic + 2 expansion/adventures. a format like this will give tons of replay ability and allow for new cool deck types.
At least we can create this kind of community events when we get tournament mode(soon™)
Do. Not. Do. It.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
EU Legend: S52 (ZooHeal Lock); S76 (Highlander Hunter);
no, don't do that a lot of people did that and ended up regretting it. card to dust value is too low for you to do that.
How long have you been playing and have you taken breaks? I took off post Naxx and came back at the end of GvG, so in Wild from time to time, I'll still get the occasional nice surprise. As some other posters have said, it's a nice break from standard. You'll never get bored of flattening a standard only deck with your wild inventions.
it's also a good place to grind gold or golden hero portraits in the lower ranks too.
Golden Hero Collections thus far; -
Europe: Druid, Hunter, Paladin, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior (9/9)
Americas: Druid, Mage, Paladin Shaman (4/9)
Everywhere else: Workin on it.. (0/9)
Generally, whenever I've heard of people who had dusted mass amounts of cards, whether of certain classes they 'will never play' or wild, they tend to talk about it in regretful terms. I've yet to see someone talk about how they had done such a thing long ago and came out great for it.
Meanwhile when Wild was announced I saw no purpose in bothering with that mode and so considered dusting wild cards as an Option when I really ReALLY needed the dust. But I always kept it as a last resort and focused on keeping my collection in tact. A year later I found myself not enjoying Un'Goro's meta and pondering if I should leave the game entirely. Then I realized while I wasn't happy in standard I never actually TRIED Wild at that point, so I deleted my decks and focused only on Wild play. It brought back my enjoyment of the game as i found new decks to get into as well as touching on some of my old favorites (I actually enjoyed Secret Paladin). When Frozen Throne came out I found myself enjoying Standard again so I eventually moved back. Now I'm back 100% into standard but always with the knowledge that if I have issues with the meta or if I just want to, I have Wild to fall back on.
Thing is, the cards aren't going away or devalue. So there's no real benefit to dusting a card if you aren't immediately going to use the dust. But it'll be near impossible to get back into Wild if you dust everything now. And for what? What exactly do you 100% NEED that requires that much dust in your standard collection?
You do what you wish, but I suggest being frugal and leave your options open.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
I've never regretted something I did not do.
Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else's mistake.
I see the general consensus is to not do it and it makes sense. I did spend so much time a money to get some of these sets and dust them just to use them on cards that'll rotate out in a few months.
I will admit that that 51000 dust did seem pretty tempting, lol.
I thought the same. fast forward 2 years and i regret it.
DONT dust legendaries at least. Every player after 1 or 2 years will have a sizeable collection and wild will be fun to play too. eventually all of us will one day play Wild. that not an opinion its a mathematical probability that cannot be rebuked
Don't
I only dust rotated cards that never seen play in standard and I rarely play wild anyways. I keep all the good cards that have seen play in standard or have future potential.
I don't understand this. You have a huge number of cards you wanna villingly restrict yourself from playing just because of "Standard"?
Honestly I have way more fun playing wild than standard because you have so much more freedom when you build your own decks.
There are so many pros and high legend players in standard so best optimized decks are found within first 2 weeks after expansion launch and information is spread so fast that meta gets stagnant extremely fast. Vicious Syndicate pumps out meta report every week so you get no chance to make your own meta decisions and many players just copy top tier decks and grind the ladder.
Wild is different because although there is vicious syndicate report for wild, its only monthly because of the lack the data and they cannot possibly cover the entire metagame of wild. You are truly free to come up with your decks and climb to legend and many other wild players are experimenting as well. Netdecks are spread much slower than standard and it often takes 3 months for all the meta decks to get discovered and get optimized. I hit legend with different homebrew off-meta decks each month such as Jade Shaman, Egg raptor rogue, Mecha'thun warlock, odd quest warrior etc and I dont think that would be possible in standard.
Its the ultimate way to enjoy hearthstone to the core and I never get bored of the game. I'm surprised you never tried out wild when you started playing since launch. Playing wild will save you more money in the end because wild decks need less new expansion cards so you don't have to craft new cards as much.
No, because Wild is tons of fun, epic combo decks and a great way to rest after an hour of struggling to hit a higher rank on Standard. I highly recommend this mode, but if you have been a Standard player, you shouldn't craft any Wild decks that require more than half of your current dust (or one third, everyone should decide on his own). Wild is never boring because the amount of decks you can create (and win more than you lose with them) is limited only by you and your own deckbuilding skills. Standard meta was always 10-15 boring, brainless decks or one cancer deck with two OP but skill requiring decks (one was a counter and one was countered by the cancer deck). Two years ago I also thought that i will never play Wild and I disenchanted Reno Jackson, Brann Bronzebeard and Aviana. Now I regret this so much - remember, that after you dust all your Wild cards, there's no way back. I hope that I convinced you to not disenchant your Wild cards (or maybe even to start playing this mode)
Oh, and there's also one thing that I've forgotten about. You can dust all common and rare fillers. If they haven't found their place in any deck for 2 years, they will probably never be played in any Wild deck. I wouldn't do that with epic and legendary cards that were never played before, because they are usually more versatile and some of them are unplayable only because there are currently no cards that have great or even OP synergies with them. Also, if a rare or common finds its place in a deck and you've dusted it, spending 100 or 40 dust is not much
I dusted my cards [half of naxxramas and some cards from older expansions gathered between lich king and witchwood] about 5k dust. Made me able to craft even shaman deck with wich i climbed to rank5 each season granting me 3.5k dust just from that.
If dusting rotated cards will allow you to make yourself gold-maker deck [that you don't have] than go for it
I suggest you give it a try before considering this
Being a "casual" is no reason not to play wild. In fact, wild is much more casual than standard is. Playing on both modes will also help keep your rank and MMR down after playing the same amount of games so that you'll be facing other casuals as opponents more often
Legend with : S65 Freeze Mage, S57 Maly Gonk Druid, S57 "Okay" Shaman, S53 Boom-zooka Hunter, S53 Maly Tog Druid, S52 Wild Tog Druid ft.Blingtron, S50 Quest Rogue, S49 Dead Man's Warrior, S41 Wild Clown Fiesta Druid, S41 Hadronox Jade Druid, S40 Wild OTK Dragon Druid, S35 SMOrc Shaman, S33 Jade Druid, S22 Control Priest, S19 Control Priest