Exactly How the Upcoming Legendary Drop Changes Will Work
We're getting closer to the next Hearthstone expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and with the launch of the expansion we're going to have some very welcome changes to how Legendary cards will be dropping from card packs. Due to some confusion out there about exactly how this will work, and a recent update on it from Daxxarri, it seems like a good time to go over it.
How Legendary Drops Will Work
The following will only be true AFTER the Knights of the Frozen Throne patch goes live. This will happen sometime in August.
You will no longer receive duplicate Legendary cards.
- If a specific Legendary is in your collection, it will not drop again from packs until you've acquired all the legendaries from that same set.
- Golden cards and Normal cards are considered the same for the purposes of this feature.
- Disenchanting a Legendary removes it from your collection which allows it to once again be found in packs. Ew.
- No longer do we need to feel bad about crafting a Legendary and then immediately after opening it up from a pack. Woot!
You will receive a guaranteed Legendary within the first 10 card packs opened of a new set.
- This will remain the case long after an expansion has come out. Great for new players or players who have been absent from the game.
- Players who have opened 1 or more packs from a specific set prior to the change going live will not receive this bonus for that set.
Completing the Frozen Throne Prologue gets you a Death Knight Legendary.
- Upon completion of the Prologue, you will receive a random Death Knight Legendary card.
- This Legendary uses the same no dupes rule that is described above.
- We don't know if future expansions will do something similar through their mission content, but it would be cool.
The Starter Pack Legendary follows the non-dupe rule too!
- The Classic Legendary card you get from the starter pack won't be a duplicate.
- If you own all the Classic class legendaries though, you will get a dupe.
- This is sourced from Yong Woo on twitter.
Our Recommendations
- Don't open any card packs you obtain from now until the expansion. This is because before the expansion goes live, you're still able to obtain duplicate legendaries and that would be sad.
- Hit up the weekly brawl to get that classic pack. It will help put a dent into that pity timer!
- Save your gold. If you aren't already saving your gold, it's not too late to start. A few Icecrown packs will be good to go.
- When the Frost Festival begins, play arena! You're going to get a free run each week during the Frost Festival. This will give you Un'Goro packs and an Icecrown pack.
- Use Amazon Coins to Save on Card Packs! You can buy packs at a discount with the currency provided you have an Android device that can launch Hearthstone.
Recent Updates
Quote from DaxxarriUnfortunately, no. If you've opened any packs of a set before the change goes live, you won't receive a Legendary in your first 10 packs.
However, you will get that legendary for any new sets that come out, and for any sets that you never acquired any packs for.
But what about players like me that started playing after WotOG and never opened a GvG pack? It sounds like I'll be eligible for a guaranteed legendary for that set in 10 packs.....
I think it's great that they're catering to the new players who have never opened cards from a certain set. Starting from scratch in this day and age is intimidating, with all the Legendaries and Epics to collect and all. Trying to complete quests on my son's account is difficult with a limited collection. His only Legendaries are Jaraxxus and just opened Thalnos yesterday. Being guaranteed a Legendary in the first 10 packs is amazing, since 10 packs is probably all the gold he will have. This is such a great way to help new guys get up to speed.
All of you long time players bitching that the new players get the 10-pack-timer on old sets, grow up. You have X number of years jump on all those players, and you likely already have most of the Legendaries you want from those sets. Why are people so hostile to more people joining?
So to be fair then, everyone's collection should be identical?
wow, You have already guaranteed 3 leng from packs. Ur dust prob will be used on epics.
Nince, now u just need more 300 packs for get all legnds from this exp.
i saved up 2650 gold so far
ORRRR maybe by providing incentive to new players who have to go up against players who have been playing for 3 years with massive collections will continue to grow the player base and HS revenue allowing Blizzard to pump more content into the game which is a big part of why we have been playing for 3 years?
What the HELL are you bitching about here? Seriously, fuck people who complain just for the sake of it
Quit crying
So you haven't been grateful with all the dust you received with the "hall of fame" and nerfs, i see... 'Cause new players hadn't been gifted with it
U cant ask for nice stuff, no one will alow you to trash talk blizzard god.
Ur right, new players really need help. FFS at this point new players need alot of cash to star play this.
But old players need to. How many packs do you need to open to get 50% of legends? 20% of epics? jeez i need to eat brow.
Wait, WHAT? So if i open Un'Goro pack today, i won't receive a Legendary in my first 10 Frozen Throne packs? when expansion hits??
Edit: Thanks for downvotes guys! So welcoming and careful! Love you! <3
its for that set, if you would lean to read you would know that........
No it means that if you opened a pack from a set, you won't get the 10 first packs pity timer (I guess you opened packs from Un'Goro and Gadgetzan at least, pity timer is set at 40 as usual).
However, if you're new and you buy packs from WOG, MSG, JTU or any former expansion, you WILL get a legendary in the first 10 packs.
For every forthcoming expansion, including KFT you and every other players will get the legendary in the first 10.
You won't receive the "Legendary in 10" for those sets you have opened previously.
I thought this was pretty clear:
ok, now i get it. Thanks!