I see a lot of people saying that they save gold between expansions; how do you go about getting packs in the meantime if you aren't spending gold on them? Do you just spend money on them instead
We'll say I get an average of 60 gold per day, based on one quest and three wins, times 7 days a week, 4.3 weeks in a month, ~4 months of saving, that's only about 7,220 gold, or 72 packs. With a pity timer, that's potentially only 2 legendaries.
@OP: It depends how long you plan to play HS. If it's a few years more spend whatever amount you like. If it's more then spend for 40 packs. Craft other cards you need with dust. You will still miss cards, but that is ok since the power creep in the game is huge meaning those cards will be rendered useless in a few years.
I buy packs with the gold I get for the first 6 weeks of the expansion. Then I start saving. I usually have around 3000 gold give or take a few hundred when the new expansion comes along. So usually they give free packs at expansion launch time also. I always do the 50.00 pre-order. So I get normally between 105-125 packs depending on what I actually saved and the freebies with every new launch. Plus I'll get more obviously over that 6 weeks with the gold I earn.
Well, honestly I do spend a lot of money specifically when a new exp hits so I'm not sure how this strategy would work for a F2P but here's a couple of points:
You're looking at the bare minimum of Legendaries you can get within 72 packs (the number you have on there). They give out a free legendary as well a guaranteed legendary within your first 10 packs. From there, you can get just 2, but you might as well get 7. You never know.
I usually spend gold to buy a whole bunch of packs along with the preorder and then I might keep spending gold within the first month of release. I then stop spending and start putting it aside. Which would leave you with a window of 3 months to put aside as much as you can.
People also play a lot of arena (some people, not everyone), so if you can consistently get 6-7 wins or more, you're going to benefit.
You don't HAVE to save gold for 4 months, but spending your gold on release and the initial 1 month and then just saving up seems like a good idea.
"potentially only 2 legendaries" <> "on average 3.6 legendaries"
Apart from that your calculations hit my experience from the last 4 expansions quite well, I did buy ~70-90 packs from gold each time. The dust I get allow for one more legendary and several epics through crafting.
Also bear in mind WOTG, Karazhan and Gadgetzan are rotating out. Which means you end up getting a lot of dust should you decide to disenchant those. If you do intend on playing Wild however, then you probably won't be doing much DE.
I see a lot of people saying that they save gold between expansions; how do you go about getting packs in the meantime if you aren't spending gold on them? Do you just spend money on them instead
We'll say I get an average of 60 gold per day, based on one quest and three wins, times 7 days a week, 4.3 weeks in a month, ~4 months of saving, that's only about 7,220 gold, or 72 packs. With a pity timer, that's potentially only 2 legendaries.
How do you usually handle this?
befriend people, I usually keep close to 200 people on friends list.
This adds to gold savings, with the friends quest and, from that your able to save around 12kgold between expansions.
Well, honestly I do spend a lot of money specifically when a new exp hits so I'm not sure how this strategy would work for a F2P but here's a couple of points:
You're looking at the bare minimum of Legendaries you can get within 72 packs (the number you have on there). They give out a free legendary as well a guaranteed legendary within your first 10 packs. From there, you can get just 2, but you might as well get 7. You never know.
I usually spend gold to buy a whole bunch of packs along with the preorder and then I might keep spending gold within the first month of release. I then stop spending and start putting it aside. Which would leave you with a window of 3 months to put aside as much as you can.
People also play a lot of arena (some people, not everyone), so if you can consistently get 6-7 wins or more, you're going to benefit.
You don't HAVE to save gold for 4 months, but spending your gold on release and the initial 1 month and then just saving up seems like a good idea.
I always do exactly that, except playing arena 'cause I suck. I end up with around 7 legendaries but missing lots of epics. After the first month post expansion launch I then craft a few cards I'm missing to complete specific decks (I'm very conservative about spending dust - I'm sitting on 16k right now).
I buy packs with the gold I get for the first 6 weeks of the expansion. Then I start saving. I usually have around 3000 gold give or take a few hundred when the new expansion comes along. So usually they give free packs at expansion launch time also. I always do the 50.00 pre-order. So I get normally between 105-125 packs depending on what I actually saved and the freebies with every new launch. Plus I'll get more obviously over that 6 weeks with the gold I earn.
I'll have to try this.
My gold jumped nicely when I went 12 wins in the tavern brawl. Made 550 gold
I buy the prepurchase offer for expansions, spent gold on on adventures. I save all gold during an expansion then spend that + prepurchase. That gets me most of the cards needed. Then dust the rest and all exess golden cards to craft the rest I need to playbthe decks I want.
Brawl packs and hall ha fame rotations gives a good amount of dust aswell.
As a fully f2p player this is how i usually work, buy packs in the first month of xpansion release, save gold for the next expansion (im around 3k gold now), use all the gold when the xpansion releases and repeat. You get packs from the tavern brawls and whatever blizzard event they make but i can't really see other ways to do it.
I've been mostly F2P (I splurged and got the mammoth pack) for a year and a half and I save gold for 1-3 months before the next expansion drops (I really like KotFT and kept buying packs for a few months but I was done with KaC by mid January). This lets me save enough for 35-75 packs on day one of the new expansion so I can experiment more in the new meta. Currently I got about 3500 gold and I calculate about 5500 gold for the next expansion + the roughly 10 packs Blizzard gives away for free + any legendaries Blizzard wants to give me (thanks for the Runespear... or should I say 400 dust). So I have been opening like a pack a week (Tavern Brawl) along with any other freebies (still waiting for my 3 free packs). To keep up, as much as I can, my pack opening experience is either feast or famine... and right now its famine :(
I see a lot of people saying that they save gold between expansions; how do you go about getting packs in the meantime if you aren't spending gold on them? Do you just spend money on them instead
We'll say I get an average of 60 gold per day, based on one quest and three wins, times 7 days a week, 4.3 weeks in a month, ~4 months of saving, that's only about 7,220 gold, or 72 packs. With a pity timer, that's potentially only 2 legendaries.
How do you usually handle this?
Personally I tend to rinse Arena for extra gold and packs after the initial expansion release (I’ll usually get the pre-order to support the game development and get a good starting base of cards)
After that, you can usually go fairly infinite in Arena if you can get about 5+ wins per round. More helps your gold supply rise higher. Breaking even provides solid packs over and over until you feel ready to save gold for the next exp.
This way I’ve got most of this expansion now barring 3-4 legendaries and about 5k gold in the bank from savings.
I see a lot of people saying that they save gold between expansions; how do you go about getting packs in the meantime if you aren't spending gold on them? Do you just spend money on them instead
We'll say I get an average of 60 gold per day, based on one quest and three wins, times 7 days a week, 4.3 weeks in a month, ~4 months of saving, that's only about 7,220 gold, or 72 packs. With a pity timer, that's potentially only 2 legendaries.
How do you usually handle this?
befriend people, I usually keep close to 200 people on friends list.
This adds to gold savings, with the friends quest and, from that your able to save around 12kgold between expansions.
you are totally right, i do the same in the 3 years i have in HS, i have 150 freinds, always find a friend that want to gift me his 80 quest (i ask them to give me their quets for free, i dont scam them) i usally save 10k of gold in two months before the new expantion came out, i got all the standard sets complete (with some golden legendaries) without spending real money.
I save every other 100 gold up until announcement time for the next expansion. If I have viable decks and cards when that announcement comes out, I save all my gold until the expansion drops, otherwise I keep working my every other 100 plan.
So if that was at all unclear, I save until I hit 200 gold, then spend 100, leaving me with 100. Then I save until I have 300 gold, spend 100, leaving me with 200, etc etc etc. Continue until you either get all the cards/dust you want, or keep saving up your gold. It adds up week to week if you can resist the temptation to spend extra gold here and there!
Last expansion I ended up buying the pre-order 50 packs, buying another 62 packs with saved gold, and getting the free packs they gave us for the expansion quests, leaving me with a minimum of 125 packs. The Frozen Throne expansion scored me well over 150+ packs thanks to the Fire Festival double gold event.
It all depends on your collection and patience. If you can save every other 100 gold for a few months, you can start a new expansion with loads of dust and gold to invest in packs and card crafting to get a big jump on that expansion. If you need cards or are just starting out, try to find a balance of saving and spending gold that works for you.
I will say one last thing: DON'T INVEST GOLD IN CLASSIC PACKS IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Unless you have cash you feel free to drop, classic cards are an inevitability in Hearthstone because we get a free pack a week from brawl. Be very picky about spending gold on classic packs, because you could very well just get those cards for free weekly. They're a guarantee. Save the bulk of your gold for new expansions or arena runs, and craft the cards you desperately need.
Best of luck, super savers!
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The whole point of saving gold between expansions is to be able to buy as many packs as possible at the release and therefore being able to get right into the new meta.
I personally do also save my gold between releases (sitting at 5k right now). I then get the preorder, open those packs and then use my saved gold to buy additional packs until I hit the legendary pity timer for this set. Sometimes I go for a second reset, depending on how much gold I had to spend. Then I start saving again. Sometimes during the saving period I buy an additional pack here and there just to have something to open, but that happens very rarely.
Between releases there is also another way to obtain cards that you don't mention in your starting post: dust. From those 72 packs you mentioned, you are going to get a lot of extras and probably a bunch of golden copies as well. As a F2P player you have to decide whether you want a shiny collection or a large collection. I'd go for a large collection, therefore every golden card that comes from pack opening and monthly ladder rewards should go into the dust bin. Regular extras, I tend to keep those that I presume to be likely to get nerfed. Others go into the dust bin as well. That enables me to craft some missing cards along the way.
I should have elaborated; I'm not a free-to-play player. I just want to find a more efficient way to utilize gold so I can minimize spending. I appreciate your advice, I'll continue to dust all golden cards.
7200 gold + the 50-pack pre-order + the freebies they always give us = about 140 packs. On average, that's 7 legendaries, plus enough dust to make one or two more. That's honestly all you need from most expansions. I like to have access to most useful cards as quickly as possible, so here's my system:
On day one of the expac, go on a pack opening spree. Once that's done, keep buying packs until you get your pity legendary. Then, you're done opening packs until the next expansion, and you go 3+ months without opening any packs aside from the tavern brawl packs.
So, to answer your question, I don't keep opening packs. I like it this way
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I see a lot of people saying that they save gold between expansions; how do you go about getting packs in the meantime if you aren't spending gold on them? Do you just spend money on them instead
We'll say I get an average of 60 gold per day, based on one quest and three wins, times 7 days a week, 4.3 weeks in a month, ~4 months of saving, that's only about 7,220 gold, or 72 packs. With a pity timer, that's potentially only 2 legendaries.
How do you usually handle this?
@OP: It depends how long you plan to play HS. If it's a few years more spend whatever amount you like. If it's more then spend for 40 packs. Craft other cards you need with dust. You will still miss cards, but that is ok since the power creep in the game is huge meaning those cards will be rendered useless in a few years.
I buy packs with the gold I get for the first 6 weeks of the expansion. Then I start saving. I usually have around 3000 gold give or take a few hundred when the new expansion comes along. So usually they give free packs at expansion launch time also. I always do the 50.00 pre-order. So I get normally between 105-125 packs depending on what I actually saved and the freebies with every new launch. Plus I'll get more obviously over that 6 weeks with the gold I earn.
Well, honestly I do spend a lot of money specifically when a new exp hits so I'm not sure how this strategy would work for a F2P but here's a couple of points:
"potentially only 2 legendaries" <> "on average 3.6 legendaries"
Apart from that your calculations hit my experience from the last 4 expansions quite well, I did buy ~70-90 packs from gold each time. The dust I get allow for one more legendary and several epics through crafting.
Also bear in mind WOTG, Karazhan and Gadgetzan are rotating out. Which means you end up getting a lot of dust should you decide to disenchant those. If you do intend on playing Wild however, then you probably won't be doing much DE.
Me:
Gold ~60 packs
Preorder 50 packs
For money: 140-210 packs.
Gets me the full collection. Yes, it is expensive, but I have an income and spend a lot of time with Hearthstone
--Alfi--
I always do exactly that, except playing arena 'cause I suck. I end up with around 7 legendaries but missing lots of epics. After the first month post expansion launch I then craft a few cards I'm missing to complete specific decks (I'm very conservative about spending dust - I'm sitting on 16k right now).
I buy the prepurchase offer for expansions, spent gold on on adventures. I save all gold during an expansion then spend that + prepurchase. That gets me most of the cards needed. Then dust the rest and all exess golden cards to craft the rest I need to playbthe decks I want.
Brawl packs and hall ha fame rotations gives a good amount of dust aswell.
As a fully f2p player this is how i usually work, buy packs in the first month of xpansion release, save gold for the next expansion (im around 3k gold now), use all the gold when the xpansion releases and repeat. You get packs from the tavern brawls and whatever blizzard event they make but i can't really see other ways to do it.
Garrosh did nothing wrong.
I've been mostly F2P (I splurged and got the mammoth pack) for a year and a half and I save gold for 1-3 months before the next expansion drops (I really like KotFT and kept buying packs for a few months but I was done with KaC by mid January). This lets me save enough for 35-75 packs on day one of the new expansion so I can experiment more in the new meta. Currently I got about 3500 gold and I calculate about 5500 gold for the next expansion + the roughly 10 packs Blizzard gives away for free + any legendaries Blizzard wants to give me (thanks for the Runespear... or should I say 400 dust). So I have been opening like a pack a week (Tavern Brawl) along with any other freebies (still waiting for my 3 free packs). To keep up, as much as I can, my pack opening experience is either feast or famine... and right now its famine :(
I save every other 100 gold up until announcement time for the next expansion. If I have viable decks and cards when that announcement comes out, I save all my gold until the expansion drops, otherwise I keep working my every other 100 plan.
So if that was at all unclear, I save until I hit 200 gold, then spend 100, leaving me with 100. Then I save until I have 300 gold, spend 100, leaving me with 200, etc etc etc. Continue until you either get all the cards/dust you want, or keep saving up your gold. It adds up week to week if you can resist the temptation to spend extra gold here and there!
Last expansion I ended up buying the pre-order 50 packs, buying another 62 packs with saved gold, and getting the free packs they gave us for the expansion quests, leaving me with a minimum of 125 packs. The Frozen Throne expansion scored me well over 150+ packs thanks to the Fire Festival double gold event.
It all depends on your collection and patience. If you can save every other 100 gold for a few months, you can start a new expansion with loads of dust and gold to invest in packs and card crafting to get a big jump on that expansion. If you need cards or are just starting out, try to find a balance of saving and spending gold that works for you.
I will say one last thing: DON'T INVEST GOLD IN CLASSIC PACKS IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Unless you have cash you feel free to drop, classic cards are an inevitability in Hearthstone because we get a free pack a week from brawl. Be very picky about spending gold on classic packs, because you could very well just get those cards for free weekly. They're a guarantee. Save the bulk of your gold for new expansions or arena runs, and craft the cards you desperately need.
Best of luck, super savers!
Rage quitting: the best way to ensure your opponent knows they beat a giant baby.
The whole point of saving gold between expansions is to be able to buy as many packs as possible at the release and therefore being able to get right into the new meta.
I personally do also save my gold between releases (sitting at 5k right now). I then get the preorder, open those packs and then use my saved gold to buy additional packs until I hit the legendary pity timer for this set. Sometimes I go for a second reset, depending on how much gold I had to spend. Then I start saving again. Sometimes during the saving period I buy an additional pack here and there just to have something to open, but that happens very rarely.
Between releases there is also another way to obtain cards that you don't mention in your starting post: dust. From those 72 packs you mentioned, you are going to get a lot of extras and probably a bunch of golden copies as well. As a F2P player you have to decide whether you want a shiny collection or a large collection. I'd go for a large collection, therefore every golden card that comes from pack opening and monthly ladder rewards should go into the dust bin. Regular extras, I tend to keep those that I presume to be likely to get nerfed. Others go into the dust bin as well. That enables me to craft some missing cards along the way.
Just use your head and play arena, instead of braindead stockpiling. See you there.
My arena stats!
I should have elaborated; I'm not a free-to-play player. I just want to find a more efficient way to utilize gold so I can minimize spending. I appreciate your advice, I'll continue to dust all golden cards.
7200 gold + the 50-pack pre-order + the freebies they always give us = about 140 packs. On average, that's 7 legendaries, plus enough dust to make one or two more. That's honestly all you need from most expansions. I like to have access to most useful cards as quickly as possible, so here's my system:
On day one of the expac, go on a pack opening spree. Once that's done, keep buying packs until you get your pity legendary. Then, you're done opening packs until the next expansion, and you go 3+ months without opening any packs aside from the tavern brawl packs.
So, to answer your question, I don't keep opening packs. I like it this way