Hearthpwn

You guys read it, you guys are excited. You huys know now that there will be 3 expansions each year with a total of 390 packs included. Now here's the thing: You were able to save enough gold to actually buy a reasonable amount of packs to get the cards you need, but now with the release of the year of the mammoth, this will be a thing that noone can do anymore (I guess). I think that many people were buying maybe the preorder, the adventures but nothing more but this won't really be a thing anymore as you will most likely only save 3000 gold between each expansion. I just hope that these single player missions will reward you with enough packs or whatever to compensate the time a bit because I don't want to play a game that is p2w

if you want to save gold stop playing the arena, it's that easy.

If you already have a good amount of classic cards (common-full, mostly rare-full and the Epics and Legendaries that you need), you should be fine if you play everyday, you can get 2 packs every 3 days (more if you are an arena master). That is 20 packs a month, or 80 packs every 4 months ( the time each expansion should take, 1 year divided by 3), giving you a reasonable amount of cards in each expansion. You'll be fine.

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if you want to save gold stop playing the arena, it's that easy.

If you grind out your 100G a day, that alone is 12000G per expansion. And that's without the quests, free packs, dust etc. Sounds like if you want to play for free you can, you just have to grind it. Just don't expect to be easily able to get all the content without paying for it.

no, man u can easily save at least 60 gold per day, that allows you to have 60~70 packs every new expansion. You can craft 4~6 epics or 2 legendaries with the dust of duplicates.

Adventures have been around 3000 gold. That's 30 packs on a set. Just because we get 90 extra cards in a year doesn't make it p2p.

ALSO: "That’s not all for the Year of the Mammoth! Before the release of our next expansion, we’ve got a flurry of activity planned to support its launch: Daily login rewards will be available for a limited time— offering dust, gold, and expansion packs—as well as a few other surprises in the weeks before launch to blaze a trail for everything our next expansion has to offer.  " - Blizzard

They will most likely give you packs, gold and dust before every expansion now to start the hype train. So f2p is STILL viable. Don't worry :D

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you will most likely only save 3000 gold between each expansion.

I like all the changes they made except removing an adventure.

I loved Adventures.  I loved the security of being guaranteed all the cards.

However, as a F2P player I still think I can get enough gold to get all the cards I need via packs and crafting.  I'll just miss out on some cool cards that I would have gotten via adventure.  That all being said, we will have to see what kind of PvE content is coming.  It could be a boon for F2P for all we know.

Long story short, I don't think the sky is falling on F2P.  Grind your dailies and you'll still have enough cards/dust to play 95% of the top decks.

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Adventures have been around 3000 gold. That's 30 packs on a set. Just because we get 90 extra cards in a year doesn't make it p2p.

ALSO: "That’s not all for the Year of the Mammoth! Before the release of our next expansion, we’ve got a flurry of activity planned to support its launch: Daily login rewards will be available for a limited time— offering dust, gold, and expansion packs—as well as a few other surprises in the weeks before launch to blaze a trail for everything our next expansion has to offer.  " - Bliazzardy

They will most likely give you packs, gold and dust before every expansion now to start the hype train. So f2p is STILL viable. Don't worry :D

 

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if you want to save gold stop playing the arena, it's that easy.

Depends how good you are in arena, by playing more arena the better you get at it and the more rewards per gold you earn on average.

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Adventures have been around 3000 gold. That's 30 packs on a set. Just because we get 90 extra cards in a year doesn't make it p2p.

ALSO: "That’s not all for the Year of the Mammoth! Before the release of our next expansion, we’ve got a flurry of activity planned to support its launch: Daily login rewards will be available for a limited time— offering dust, gold, and expansion packs—as well as a few other surprises in the weeks before launch to blaze a trail for everything our next expansion has to offer.  " - Bliazzardy

They will most likely give you packs, gold and dust before every expansion now to start the hype train. So f2p is STILL viable. Don't worry :D

 

 Don't think so. Adventure have one benefit: you gain ALL the cards, no matter how bad your luck is. While Expansions doesn't. You can open packs and get multiple Hemet Nesingwary or the equivant of it. Adventure helped these people to get some consistency in their game. Also Adventures also had another benefit: they fit thematically together, even with the smaller cardpool you often had a good start for it.

Sorry, but this shows that standard was only a way to make quick cash and in this year, we don't even get an Adventure, so more $$$ for them (because expansions give them in regular more cash)

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Adventures have been around 3000 gold. That's 30 packs on a set. Just because we get 90 extra cards in a year doesn't make it p2p.

ALSO: "That’s not all for the Year of the Mammoth! Before the release of our next expansion, we’ve got a flurry of activity planned to support its launch: Daily login rewards will be available for a limited time— offering dust, gold, and expansion packs—as well as a few other surprises in the weeks before launch to blaze a trail for everything our next expansion has to offer.  " - Blizzard

They will most likely give you packs, gold and dust before every expansion now to start the hype train. So f2p is STILL viable. Don't worry :D

This. Also I would be shocked if Blizzard hadn't considered the F2P player experience while discussing this design change. And if the daily logins are any indication I expect Blizzard will do things in the future to keep them supported. Ignoring F2P is an objectively bad choice, so it's doubtful they'd do it intentionally.

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Adventures have been around 3000 gold. That's 30 packs on a set. Just because we get 90 extra cards in a year doesn't make it p2p.

ALSO: "That’s not all for the Year of the Mammoth! Before the release of our next expansion, we’ve got a flurry of activity planned to support its launch: Daily login rewards will be available for a limited time— offering dust, gold, and expansion packs—as well as a few other surprises in the weeks before launch to blaze a trail for everything our next expansion has to offer.  " - Blizzard

They will most likely give you packs, gold and dust before every expansion now to start the hype train. So f2p is STILL viable. Don't worry :D

 

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if you want to save gold stop playing the arena, it's that easy.

Depends how good you are in arena, by playing more arena the better you get at it and the more rewards per gold you earn on average.

 Arena is gambling, generally people lose a lot more than they earn in gambling. Vast majority of players aren't gonna be great in the arena.

Ending aggro is the only way to end F2P. 

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if you want to save gold stop playing the arena, it's that easy.

Depends how good you are in arena, by playing more arena the better you get at it and the more rewards per gold you earn on average.

 Arena is gambling, generally people lose a lot more than they earn in gambling. Vast majority of players aren't gonna be great in the arena.

That's why I said the more you play the better you will get and turn the odds in your favour like I did.

Smart people can make a living out of gambling once they know where the edges lie and beat the 'vast majority'.

This is assuming you WANT packs from the current expansions

If you already have all the cards you want, saving up for the next one is the best idea

Not sure what others are saying, but I doubt it. I'm sure you'll get packs from the single player modes and they are implementing daily rewards. I think they are well aware that they shouldn't make the economy too rich.

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Not sure what others are saying, but I doubt it. I'm sure you'll get packs from the single player modes and they are implementing daily rewards. I think they are well aware that they shouldn't make the economy too rich.