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Card Pack Changes Coming - No More Duplicate Legendaries
There are a few changes coming in the future, that are not yet live, to how we obtain cards in packs.
These changes will go live with the next expansion.
- No more duplicate Legendary cards. Once you've crafted or obtained a certain card (gold or normal), it isn't possible to obtain again until you've earned all the legendaries from a set.
- You will get a guaranteed Legendary within the first 10 card packs of a new set.
- It will not longer be possible to open more than 2 of a Common, Rare, or Epic card out of a single card pack. You can still obtain dupes in other packs of course.
Ben Brode states in the video that the team is "super excited" about the changes in "the context of our next expansion". It sounds like we may be getting some pretty awesome Legendaries and we won't have a repeat of what happened with Un'Goro.
- If we get another 50 card pack pre-order, that means you'll be certain to get 2 Legendary cards.
- You can buy bundles during the sale, and if you delay opening the packs until the new expansion arrives, they'll benefit from the new system. (Source)
Additionally, a special promotion is going to be run starting soon which will increase the number of packs you will receive when purchasing Un'Goro Packs.
Original Pack Bundles | Special Pack Bundles |
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7 packs | +2 packs = 9 packs total |
15 packs | +5 packs = 20 packs total |
40 packs | +12 packs = 52 packs total |
60 packs* | +18 packs = 78 packs total |
Announcement Video
Announcement Blog
Quote from BlizzardWAAAH, Legendary!
Starting with the release of Hearthstone’s next expansion (but applying to ALL Hearthstone card packs), every time you open a Legendary in a card pack, it will be a Legendary card from the same set that you don’t already own. Once you own either the golden or non-golden version of a Legendary card, you won’t get a duplicate of it until you own all the Legendary cards from that set. Soon, you’ll be able to craft a Legendary without the worry of opening it in your next few packs!
In addition, you will never open more copies of any card in a pack than you can use in a single deck—no more opening three or more of the same common, rare, or epic card in one pack!
Even More Legendary!
Beginning with the release of the next expansion, you’re also guaranteed to get a Legendary within your first 10 packs of a new set. The release of a new Hearthstone expansion is a super exciting time, and with this change we hope your pack openings start off on a celebratory note!
Combined, these changes should make the pack opening experience more exciting than ever—especially when you see that flash of gold heralding a Legendary card!
The Greater Crater Promotion
Elise Starseeker and her junior explorers have stumbled upon a fascinating discovery: a crater full of card packs! Starting in the next few days, we’re having a special limited time promotion for Journey to Un’Goro card pack bundles: the price stays the same, but the number of packs gets dino-sized!
Original Pack Bundles
Special Pack Bundles
7 packs +2 packs = 9 packs total 15 packs +5 packs = 20 packs total 40 packs +12 packs = 52 packs total 60 packs* +18 packs = 78 packs total We can’t wait to see your Legendary pack openings starting with Hearthstone’s next expansion!
*60 card pack bundle size available only on PC.
Also, any packs you buy now, but open later will still fall under the new rules. They put out a sale, so many people who like to save a bit of money, will go ahead and buy the packs, and then just open them after the expansion comes out. At least, that's what I'm doing. Willpower, baby!
Also, I recommend you hold off on your tavern brawl packs too for that matter.
Even if Bliz announced "We will give all Hearthstone player 100$ for free!"
I'm sure there will be some sorry arses saying "100$? that's bullsh!t what a stingy jerk Bliz?! We need more than 100$! Give us more! We deserve more!!!"
Yep, always haters
Well, i like free stuff...but let me try to explain the system in a polite way why HS is a VERY expensive game. Try to also think about people from "poor" countrys that dont have the money to burn on the game and are forced F2P.
They took away the aventures (pay 20$ and have all cards with many legendarys) and gave us 3 full sets that even with 40$ you get like 2-3 legendarys and are still far away from having a complet set.
Sure, this here is a big step in the right away.... but if you need to pay 200-300$ to get the full set OR be really good at arena (and since there have to be people that lose, because this is the only way others can get high wins) then you should somehow question the system. We talk about 600-1000$ of cardpacks to stay up to date every year. So even with a 100$ gift that still isnt that much if you take a look on the numbers.
There are people like Cripp that buy 1000 packs and play arena every day... and even he cant get a full golden set. He banks big amounts and does play all the time and still cant unlock anything... that is how expensive the game is. Do you need golden cards? no.. but that is not my point here.
My point is... if you want to have the option to be creative and have all the cards to build decks you have to pay A LOT. That doesnt concern people who just netdeck and only craft some cards for the meta as much... but 600-1000$ to play this game in a creative way is way to expensive if you ask me and there still need to be something done about it.
I really have problems to understand why you think that the system how it is right now (200-300$ every 4 month to play CREATIVE) is no problem at all.
I dont understand. Why should blizzard care about whether it is too expensive for you? If they are making a profit, it means people are interested in buying their stuff and they have no issues with the current business practice. Blizzard is not a charity or a welfare organisation so as long as they are making money, why should they care if you cant afford to 'play creative'? They still have a massive player base purchasing their stuff. Why are you entitled to blizzard's concern?
That is relative.. its more about the question " should i pay if i cant get what i want?
I my case i started to say "no", because i feel that i dont want to keep up anymore. What you wrote isnt correct, because removing the adventure made it more expensive to play HS.
Now: 3x big set = more to pay and no saving time
http://www.hearthpwn.com/members/WingR84/collection
You dont get 22 golden legendarys if you dont bank into this game. I did it because i wanted to support billzard.. but that new even more greedy system (that they now want to downplay as "for the players") made me open my eyes.
these rules are just giving a few more dust and a legendary 3 times a year to most people, it is almost nothing, its not like if opening a duplicate or more than two of the same card in one pack was so common, everyone should calm down and close their wallet because what they did is clearly making you all spend more money than you would have did, which is the only purpose of that tiny full time discount.
I somehow feel sorry for people downvoting you, because they seem to not understand your point.
But lets do the math... un'goro has like... 26 legendarys.
You open one in every 20-40 packs, while 40 is the max timer... my average was like 25 or 30.
If you say 25*26 legendarys you need 650 packs to get the whole set. Yes, you can craft some.. but even with just 50% and then crafting the missing meta cards with dust we talk about 300 packs (plus arena and gold/quests)
60 packs cost 69.99 € (best rate) means that you have to pay 350€ and still have holes in your set (even with this improved system) and cant be 100% creative, because you're still missing cards.
And we have this every 4 month... while people complain about their 50$ seasonpass on other games not giving them anything. But in HS its allright... 1000€ every year to have a semi complete set
these rules are just giving a few more dust and a legendary to most people, it is almost nothing, its not like if opening a duplicate or more than two of the same card in one pack was so common, everyone should calm down and close their wallet because what they did is clearly making you all spend more money than you would have did, which is the only purpose of that tiny full time discount.
You can't get duplicate legendaries if you don't get legendaries at all
When I don't even got half of the Un'Goro cards they're already talking about the new expansion. Gosh. Give this game some time.
Thanks
Soooooooooooooooo truee!! Yet ppl still believe that Gwent isnt a competitor for HS :D When was the last time Brode the Scumbag was such a nice guy to make HS more of a F2Pish game?) played HS even before Naxx and havent seen him make things like this
You know that numbers don't work that way? Even if Gwent somehow, by some divine miracle, reached 10 million players it still would be dwarfed by the Hearhtstone's player base of 70 million players. Gwent doesn't pose a threat to Hearthstone at all.
Yes, Brode is totally on the verge of losing his job to Gwent xD
I really don't understand the complains! This news is huge for us. It means we pay less for the game and enjoy pack opening more at the same time.
I'm pretty sure even if they announce that the next expansion is free some people would be like BLIZZ STOP RUBBING US! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
that is not the point...but let me try to explain it.
The set has like 26 legendarys. You need to open like 700 packs to get anything. If you open 300 packs and craft the rest you are still doing great.. but you still have holes in your set.
Yes, you can play without it.. but for someone who wants the full set and be creative you NEED 300 packs or more that are worth 350€. And you have to do this 3x every year... means you have to spent about 1000€ for a game and still dont have all the content (not even to speak about goldens that even progamers cant afford).
I would love to play wierd decks, but i dislike to pay 100€ extra just to test some cards that after that maybe never see play again.
Man everybody understands your post and the point your trying to make but the fact is some people are greedy as fuck you give them something and they want the whole god damn thing...i am a F2P and started playing since black rock mountain i have a slightly above average win rate and i manage rank5 rank 10 depending on the time/luck i have each season that said i only payed for the welcome bundle 5 dollars. With gold as much as i save up from doing my 3 quests/3 days i buy around 55-70+10 free ish packs depending on type of quests or arena wins of a new expension.While the 65-80 decks i get may not be much its enough to get about 170-180/247 of cards of an expension which is okey you also get to save enough dust during 4 months to craft almost 2 legendary from the brawls season wins and arenas if you add the dust from the duplicates you get in the 80 packs your sure to have enough for 2 so yes you get 3-4 leg from the 80 and u can craft 2 ,(that is meta defining or ones you like) that is enough for me . Except for the fact that since blackrock i got 3 malygoss 2 milhouse 2 ragnaross crafted a kazakus then got 1later from 1 arena pack same happened with fireplume hearth ... so while yes i got dust worth for 6 leg duplicates=2400 dust i would have appreciated getting 6 other legendaries since i have plenty that i still need . Also the fact that the limiter is set to 10 instead of 40 for the first leg in each expension helps a lot for both new and old players alike.So this PATCH in my eyes a huge improvement
The game is complex and ther is just no way for a new player to be able to be on pair with other competitive players right off the bat , if it was that simple the other half of the community would complain that i been playing for x years payed y money and this guy in z months has better collection then me ... If you like the game and have the smarts you can use your dust wisely to even get legend rank, although you will have to grind and spend a lot of time to play casual fun decks .While taking out adventures was a bad idee this improvement to the game certainly will not be. Also everybody can complain and criticise that the situation for new players is BAD ,but most of these people just stir up shit and don't bother looking for a solution
Nah its the community that plays the game and just saying i don't like this i don't like that without backing it up dosn't solve the issue blizzard does try to help the community and come up with solutions but again some fools just say i don't like it ignorantly without even giving it a thought if ther actually is a better solution...
And yes some people are greedy and unappreciative ,we get plenty of free stuff but this is still a card game to hell with its digital or not its a collectors game