You can play arena every day as a f2p player. Enormous card pool, equal opportunities with the other players so what is the problem? If you re good you make a ton of profit to establish a reasonable collection that will make you competitive in terms of ladder.
If you mean by f2p that you go in the game, somebody gives you the best deck and you win all the way, then no, hearthstone is not a f2p game.
As a f2p player myself, I still remember the first months of playing as the most fun. Later on, because i was doing the whole thing wrong my real progress in the game did not correspond with the total level of the heroes. So then the grinding begun, because I would find difficult opponents all the way, while my decks consisted only by basic cards. But as I said, I started to play Arena instead and do the dailies. Sure the first 6 months i was not able to get past rank 16-15 so what? Now with 4 months pause from the game (TGT era- i started playing when Naxx came out) i caught up with WofTG and Karazhan, collected nearly every playable legendary and i m still finishing high on ladder with minimum play. So for me, yes, hearthstone is a f2p game, but it depends on your initial goals. I play hearthstone just for fun in my free time thats why i started to play, and for that goal hearthstone is f2p. If you want to rush then yes you must throw money in the game.
Im 100% free to play. You can check my collection. I have almost all viable decks. I could easily craft a top tier shaman, but i like playing control, which are expensive decks, so im saving dust for justicar and 2 brawls and dont bother to sub a thing from below and a thalnos to 2 6-5 battlecry 3 damage elementals.
my main legendaries:
Cenarius (packs), antonidas (packs) cairne (packs), sylvanas (crafted), ragnaros (packs), nzoth (crafted). Plus all adventures ones, includind naxx, all of them grinded with dailies.
Ded maexna, remd and majordomo though. Got from reward a old murk eye.
Crafted some wild card after rotation, like dr boom and lightbomb. So yes it is ftp, as I can compete with friends that spent hundreds of dollars in it, both in wild and standard. Just go for decks you like to play crafting and than playing them as it goes.
You can play arena every day as a f2p player. Enormous card pool, equal opportunities with the other players so what is the problem? If you re good you make a ton of profit to establish a reasonable collection that will make you competitive in terms of ladder.
Solid plan, except for a minor detail. You forgot that the average new player in hearthstone go 0-3 in arena. This means they will lose gold by playing arena instead of buying packs. Eventually the get better? Believe me they won't play arena anytime soon after the initial onslaught they face.
If you like arena just for fun you can make separate accounts and level them to unlock arena. The quests roll in on all of them and you can rotate through them. You don't have to be very good at all, just make sure to pick a class that matches one of the quests.
It's easy to focus on a short-term strategy that will mid-term hurt you *a lot*, such as limiting yourself to one or a few classes, disenchanting non-standard cards, disenchanting cards that you don't consider well enough at the time (your perceptions may change over time, and the quality of a tech or combo card can easily change as more expansions get added), disenchanting half of your collection to craft a couple cards you need for a specific deck (which you'll likely grow tired on after a few days or weeks) and so on.
For me, it's a F2P game. I try to do my quests in a strategic way, which means, for instance, re-rolling 40's and making use of multiple quests that I can work into at the same time (like "win 5 games as mage or priest", "win 7 games" and "win 3 games as mage"). That amounts to about 50-60 gold a day plus maybe 10 more for winning 3 games (OK, I don't play a lot).
I rarely play arena (average about 3 victories, OK, maybe I should be playing more) and save almost all of the gold I hoard through the dailies for the next expansion/adventure.
I have a blast with the game and routinely try new, fun decks. Sometimes I'll just find a deck on this site, adapt it to my own collection (which usually means replacing around 2-4 legendaries/epics with something else which will likely lower the winrate a bit, but not take away the fun) and play it along and see what its strengths and weaknesses are. I don't just try to get all the cards at once. My style depends on patience. A lot of patience. But yes, I assure you I have fun while playing F2P.
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You can play arena every day as a f2p player. Enormous card pool, equal opportunities with the other players so what is the problem? If you re good you make a ton of profit to establish a reasonable collection that will make you competitive in terms of ladder.
If you mean by f2p that you go in the game, somebody gives you the best deck and you win all the way, then no, hearthstone is not a f2p game.
As a f2p player myself, I still remember the first months of playing as the most fun. Later on, because i was doing the whole thing wrong my real progress in the game did not correspond with the total level of the heroes. So then the grinding begun, because I would find difficult opponents all the way, while my decks consisted only by basic cards. But as I said, I started to play Arena instead and do the dailies. Sure the first 6 months i was not able to get past rank 16-15 so what? Now with 4 months pause from the game (TGT era- i started playing when Naxx came out) i caught up with WofTG and Karazhan, collected nearly every playable legendary and i m still finishing high on ladder with minimum play. So for me, yes, hearthstone is a f2p game, but it depends on your initial goals. I play hearthstone just for fun in my free time thats why i started to play, and for that goal hearthstone is f2p. If you want to rush then yes you must throw money in the game.
Im 100% free to play. You can check my collection. I have almost all viable decks. I could easily craft a top tier shaman, but i like playing control, which are expensive decks, so im saving dust for justicar and 2 brawls and dont bother to sub a thing from below and a thalnos to 2 6-5 battlecry 3 damage elementals.
my main legendaries:
Cenarius (packs), antonidas (packs) cairne (packs), sylvanas (crafted), ragnaros (packs), nzoth (crafted). Plus all adventures ones, includind naxx, all of them grinded with dailies.
Ded maexna, remd and majordomo though. Got from reward a old murk eye.
Crafted some wild card after rotation, like dr boom and lightbomb. So yes it is ftp, as I can compete with friends that spent hundreds of dollars in it, both in wild and standard. Just go for decks you like to play crafting and than playing them as it goes.
It's easy to focus on a short-term strategy that will mid-term hurt you *a lot*, such as limiting yourself to one or a few classes, disenchanting non-standard cards, disenchanting cards that you don't consider well enough at the time (your perceptions may change over time, and the quality of a tech or combo card can easily change as more expansions get added), disenchanting half of your collection to craft a couple cards you need for a specific deck (which you'll likely grow tired on after a few days or weeks) and so on.
For me, it's a F2P game. I try to do my quests in a strategic way, which means, for instance, re-rolling 40's and making use of multiple quests that I can work into at the same time (like "win 5 games as mage or priest", "win 7 games" and "win 3 games as mage"). That amounts to about 50-60 gold a day plus maybe 10 more for winning 3 games (OK, I don't play a lot).
I rarely play arena (average about 3 victories, OK, maybe I should be playing more) and save almost all of the gold I hoard through the dailies for the next expansion/adventure.
I have a blast with the game and routinely try new, fun decks. Sometimes I'll just find a deck on this site, adapt it to my own collection (which usually means replacing around 2-4 legendaries/epics with something else which will likely lower the winrate a bit, but not take away the fun) and play it along and see what its strengths and weaknesses are. I don't just try to get all the cards at once. My style depends on patience. A lot of patience. But yes, I assure you I have fun while playing F2P.