I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
Actually you aren't as exaggerating as you may think. For F2P accounts you really do have to wait about 2 weeks before crafting cards and start saving about 1 month after the last expansion (it's less now but I haven't calced the difference).
What it gets you is the ability to craft all of the tier 1 and most/all of tier 2. As I focus more on off-meta decks it basically means to me that I can make interesting decks for all of the classes, though I have to be picky when it comes to the more expensive decks. Note that I don't dust anything but duplicates so if I was more willing to dust I would have more decks to use, but that typically bites me later on (how many of you dusted Hadronox last year?)
Note that I'm VERY casual. "Oh no I'm 3 days without completing a quest, will I be able to finish one before tomorrow?" casual and never get past rank 10 for rewards. So instead of spending playtime (which would get me more gold and dust) or money I'm 'buying' my packs via a ridged system of dust/gold spending. It also means I can't spend all of my gold in arena which nets you FAR more buying power than strait pack opening once you get good at it.
People who play more, go higher in rank, or do better in arena have a LOT more leeway than I do. I am the standard for the Minimum Required Effort for keeping F2P in this game.
Also note that I'm higher demand than a typical quasicompetitive player. If you're just interested in winning and ranking up, you have FAR fewer card needs than I do. Just a few Tier 1/2 decks and off you go.
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
I get what your saying. My idea is probably a little bit extreme. But let me elaborate.
Say you are a person who spends all your gold as soon as you get it and save very little. Your likely spending it on the newest/current expansion. All of a sudden a new expansion hits and you managed to save small amount but not that much because you only save for a short amount of time during the reveal.
Now to get all the new cards and competitive decks you want to get you spend everything you get but you will be short unless you craft the stuff you are missing and you spend dust. But over the next few months of buying packs you will unpack cards you spent dust on ultimately wasting dust. This is fine if you only spend dust on legendaries because of the no duplicates rule.
However if you save up as early as possible you will have several thousand gold to spend. You can spend all of it at once when the new expansion hits you then get all the cards you will get from packs for that expansion. At this point you can just spend dust on anything you want and missed, safe in the knowledge you aren’t going to be opening too many packs of that expansion going forward wasting dust on any duplicate cards you might get.
Both methods give you the same number of packs per expansion but the ‘hoard and bulk spend’ method is helps your save dust in the long run by giving you better upfront information.
I don't think that we'll be in the dark after the "announcement of the announcement" (12th)... they did that in K&C (maybe KFT too, I can't remember...) and it was really bad and people were frustrated... for WW, there were card reveals in the following week after the "announcement of the announcement"... chat with T5 (Whalen, Ayala...) and a few card reveals.... and it was really cool...
I guess (hope more likely :P ) that blizz learned their lesson and will continue good like with WW... ^^
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
Some people like the challenge of F2P
Some people want to be as efficent as possible.
some have a second account for F2P challenge.
Some like opening lots of packs on one big go
Some people are that broke.
I’m a Whale by most definitions and I still try to be efficient with my gold and dust.
Knights of the Frozen Throne was released on August 10th, 2017. I'd bet the next expansion is August 9th, 2018, the second Thursday in August just like last year.
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
I get what your saying. My idea is probably a little bit extreme. But let me elaborate.
Say you are a person who spends all your gold as soon as you get it and save very little. Your likely spending it on the newest/current expansion. All of a sudden a new expansion hits and you managed to save small amount but not that much because you only save for a short amount of time during the reveal.
Now to get all the new cards and competitive decks you want to get you spend everything you get but you will be short unless you craft the stuff you are missing and you spend dust. But over the next few months of buying packs you will unpack cards you spent dust on ultimately wasting dust. This is fine if you only spend dust on legendaries because of the no duplicates rule.
However if you save up as early as possible you will have several thousand gold to spend. You can spend all of it at once when the new expansion hits you then get all the cards you will get from packs for that expansion. At this point you can just spend dust on anything you want and missed, safe in the knowledge you aren’t going to be opening too many packs of that expansion going forward wasting dust on any duplicate cards you might get.
Both methods give you the same number of packs per expansion but the ‘hoard and bulk spend’ method is helps your save dust in the long run by giving you better upfront information.
Thanks for this post, Im going to add something on the logic behind it to my Mistakes post linked in my signature.
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
Some people like the challenge of F2P
Some people want to be as efficent as possible.
some have a second account for F2P challenge.
Some like opening lots of packs on one big go
Some people are that broke.
I’m a Whale by most definitions and I still try to be efficient with my gold and dust.
The challenge of going to this site, finding an autopilot deck, playing it exclusively, and being efficient because they only play that deck. Sounds like a real badass challenge to me, lol!
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
Some people like the challenge of F2P
Some people want to be as efficent as possible.
some have a second account for F2P challenge.
Some like opening lots of packs on one big go
Some people are that broke.
I’m a Whale by most definitions and I still try to be efficient with my gold and dust.
The challenge of going to this site, finding an autopilot deck, playing it exclusively, and being efficient because they only play that deck. Sounds like a real badass challenge to me, lol!
I used to kind of have that same "f2p" mindset. Then I realized I play this game more than I play most games that I spend the full $60+ on. Because of that, I personally have zero problem at all spending this kind of money to, honestly, increase my enjoyment of a game I already enjoyed when f2p.
I'm with you, I try to tell people that if they want to have more fun playing this game, spending money really is a great way to do it. Yes, some people are broke, you don't have to spend a million dollars. I have only spent like $200-$250 over 4 years myself on this game.
I'm starting to hoard gold though. I always tell myself "This will be the expansion I don't need to pre-order". Then I keep buying packs and go into the expansion with only like 1000 gold on hand lol. I guess I'll see how it goes this time.
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Twitch name: Anatak15 NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
I got just over 5k and an arena run going. I should have 6k by expansion release. It's pretty much the same every expansion, for me: buy prerelease, spend 5k on packs, play arena for a couple weeks, play constructed after meta settles, grind gold back to 6k for next expansion.
I’m currently at around 5k gold. The best method is always to hoard as much as possible only spending on arena if your that way inclined especially if your able to get a decent win rate.
Since you get best bang for your buck on new packs than on ones you’ve already got lots of cards for.
You then can open all at once and start saving up all over again from day 1.
Its a very efficient method because you are more likely to avoid unnecessary crafting and every expansion gets the same amount of love in terms of brought packs.
Is it tho? I feel like ppl r hoarding gold/dust more than they should on average. Oh noes, new exp in a month or two, better start hoarding some gold. Oh noes, new exp released, better wait till meta settles so i dont waste the dust, oh noes new exp in two months again, i better save that dust! :D I know im exaggerating, but it honestly feels like this from a lot of threads around here on regular basis pre, during and post new expansions, so basically all the time :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
I was a whale now im that broke. does that explain things to you?
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
I am. Over half of a F2P population is in this state. The only reason why I own a 360 is because a job I had gave me a free one. Otherwise the last system I owned was a SNES. It takes planning to pay for a $20 game. I DON'T buy a $60 game, not because I don't consider it 'worth it' but because I simply cannot.
So yes, many MANY people are 'that broke'. F2P isn't some badge of honor or some way to get something for nothing. It's pretty much the only option for a large portion of the population. If you don't have to run the rat race and can just buy a pre-order then definitely do it.
But for those who have the choice of running that race or sitting around looking at our thumbs we're grateful that we CAN plan and actually HAVE a way to keeping up. I've played my share of games in the past where nothing under $1000 let you keep up competitively. And it's NOT 'oh no, gotta coddle my one deck.' 1-month accounts have to deal with that. The 'hoarding' policies we do make sure we DON'T live that life.
You don't have to live it. I wouldn't recommend it for those that don't have to. But let be those that do. Last thing they need is a batch of "Go get a Job you bum" styled posts.
I wish I could save gold... every time I get 100 coins though I buy a pack. I can't help it. I mean maybe if I already had a huge collection I could save up, but the chance at getting something I need is just too alluring.
Well, i just like to open packs in high numbers, dont like opening them 1 at a time, because this way its basically guaranteed that i get something good, but if u open one and u get 40 dust, it is really underwhelming (at least for me). Most of my decks are complete, i have 6 decks that are at least or at around 50% winrate:
>burn mage, >odd rogue, >control priest (greediest shit i have ever built), >control paladin, >even warrior, >even paladin
Dont need any extra classic cards in them, i would actually craft them if they are that important but i dont do it because there is none atm.
Also if im not mistaken if u open packs back and forth between expansions, it fucks up the pity timers(?). Correct me if im wrong, i dont even know where i got this information :D
I wish I could save gold... every time I get 100 coins though I buy a pack. I can't help it. I mean maybe if I already had a huge collection I could save up, but the chance at getting something I need is just too alluring.
I play since ungoro, i only dust duplicates, i even keep golden cards if i have the option because they look nice, even tho i get 1/4 of the dust by dusting the non-golden extra ones. But i would say i have a pretty decent collection already, even tho i never spent a single penny. Also standard only, not interested in wild. Not going super tryhard in the game helps a lot :)
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
I am. Over half of a F2P population is in this state. The only reason why I own a 360 is because a job I had gave me a free one. Otherwise the last system I owned was a SNES. It takes planning to pay for a $20 game. I DON'T buy a $60 game, not because I don't consider it 'worth it' but because I simply cannot.
So yes, many MANY people are 'that broke'. F2P isn't some badge of honor or some way to get something for nothing. It's pretty much the only option for a large portion of the population. If you don't have to run the rat race and can just buy a pre-order then definitely do it.
But for those who have the choice of running that race or sitting around looking at our thumbs we're grateful that we CAN plan and actually HAVE a way to keeping up. I've played my share of games in the past where nothing under $1000 let you keep up competitively. And it's NOT 'oh no, gotta coddle my one deck.' 1-month accounts have to deal with that. The 'hoarding' policies we do make sure we DON'T live that life.
You don't have to live it. I wouldn't recommend it for those that don't have to. But let be those that do. Last thing they need is a batch of "Go get a Job you bum" styled posts.
I wish I could save gold... every time I get 100 coins though I buy a pack. I can't help it. I mean maybe if I already had a huge collection I could save up, but the chance at getting something I need is just too alluring.
Well note that many of us 'hoarders' are several years into the game. We're 'established F2Pers'. Once your past collection is settled, you're mostly aiming for the next expansion. Thus all of hte gold/dust goes for it. I honestly have legendaries I could craft right now but what stops me is 1. I have more than enough decks to play around with and 2. I REALLY don't want to craft a legendary that turns out to be worthless next month when the expansion hits/or I find a legendary I REALLY want instead.
If you're still trying to pick up your Classic cards then ignore us and go buy those packs. Same goes for past expansions though at this point I suggest at least wiating until the next expansion hits so you can decide which cards you want..
With ONE ***BIG*** EXCEPTION.
You open packs for commons and rares
You craft legendaries and epics.
I don't care if you are new, old, F2P, or a whale. Make this your most important rule.
F2Pers: the chance of you getting the rare/legendary you need with packs is FAR too rare to bother. You're honestly wasting your time trying to 'find' the card you want. If you want an epic/legendary, you SHOULD be crafting it. Hunt for dust so you can get the EXACT card you need.
Payers: You are gambling on a lottery. You are honestly, LITERALLY better off spending your money in the blackjack table. I'm dead serious: you have a better chance there than you are opening That One Card you need. Unless you are spending $400 to get the entire set in one go, you're better off focusing on the preorder of the next expansion. You'll get enough dust to craft That Legendary anyway afterwards, and a mass of new cards on top of it to play with.
After about 60 packs or so of a set, you'll have most of the commons and rares. Classic has more cards, of course, but still note when your packs give you pure dust rather than new cards. After that, you're better off opening packs from a set yu don't have much of.
So yes, if you don't have many cards, you go opening packs. Also learn about and focus on the pity timers to get legendaries and epics. But don't AIM for specific legendaries/epics. Focus on filling out that collection in general. Let your dust and crafting handle specific targets.
(and try to lay off dusting unless you absolutely need to. That includes bad cards. Go look at how people rated Hadronox during the Lich King set, then imagine you dusted that card then and fast forward to now. That sort of thing happens A LOT. Dust non-dupes for emergencies only)
Actually you aren't as exaggerating as you may think. For F2P accounts you really do have to wait about 2 weeks before crafting cards and start saving about 1 month after the last expansion (it's less now but I haven't calced the difference).
What it gets you is the ability to craft all of the tier 1 and most/all of tier 2. As I focus more on off-meta decks it basically means to me that I can make interesting decks for all of the classes, though I have to be picky when it comes to the more expensive decks. Note that I don't dust anything but duplicates so if I was more willing to dust I would have more decks to use, but that typically bites me later on (how many of you dusted Hadronox last year?)
Note that I'm VERY casual. "Oh no I'm 3 days without completing a quest, will I be able to finish one before tomorrow?" casual and never get past rank 10 for rewards. So instead of spending playtime (which would get me more gold and dust) or money I'm 'buying' my packs via a ridged system of dust/gold spending. It also means I can't spend all of my gold in arena which nets you FAR more buying power than strait pack opening once you get good at it.
People who play more, go higher in rank, or do better in arena have a LOT more leeway than I do. I am the standard for the Minimum Required Effort for keeping F2P in this game.
Also note that I'm higher demand than a typical quasicompetitive player. If you're just interested in winning and ranking up, you have FAR fewer card needs than I do. Just a few Tier 1/2 decks and off you go.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
I get what your saying. My idea is probably a little bit extreme. But let me elaborate.
Say you are a person who spends all your gold as soon as you get it and save very little. Your likely spending it on the newest/current expansion. All of a sudden a new expansion hits and you managed to save small amount but not that much because you only save for a short amount of time during the reveal.
Now to get all the new cards and competitive decks you want to get you spend everything you get but you will be short unless you craft the stuff you are missing and you spend dust. But over the next few months of buying packs you will unpack cards you spent dust on ultimately wasting dust. This is fine if you only spend dust on legendaries because of the no duplicates rule.
However if you save up as early as possible you will have several thousand gold to spend. You can spend all of it at once when the new expansion hits you then get all the cards you will get from packs for that expansion. At this point you can just spend dust on anything you want and missed, safe in the knowledge you aren’t going to be opening too many packs of that expansion going forward wasting dust on any duplicate cards you might get.
Both methods give you the same number of packs per expansion but the ‘hoard and bulk spend’ method is helps your save dust in the long run by giving you better upfront information.
Why sit on the classic packs? Id open those
I don't think that we'll be in the dark after the "announcement of the announcement" (12th)... they did that in K&C (maybe KFT too, I can't remember...) and it was really bad and people were frustrated... for WW, there were card reveals in the following week after the "announcement of the announcement"... chat with T5 (Whalen, Ayala...) and a few card reveals.... and it was really cool...
I guess (hope more likely :P ) that blizz learned their lesson and will continue good like with WW... ^^
This. I never understood the hardcore F2P mindsets. “I don’t want to spend ANY money on a game I play a lot, so instead of getting the full experience, I’ll just hoard gold and dust in the fear of my one deck getting nerfed and I’ll have nothing to play!” Who’s that broke?
Some people like the challenge of F2P
Some people want to be as efficent as possible.
some have a second account for F2P challenge.
Some like opening lots of packs on one big go
Some people are that broke.
I’m a Whale by most definitions and I still try to be efficient with my gold and dust.
Knights of the Frozen Throne was released on August 10th, 2017. I'd bet the next expansion is August 9th, 2018, the second Thursday in August just like last year.
Thanks for this post, Im going to add something on the logic behind it to my Mistakes post linked in my signature.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
The challenge of going to this site, finding an autopilot deck, playing it exclusively, and being efficient because they only play that deck. Sounds like a real badass challenge to me, lol!
I used to kind of have that same "f2p" mindset. Then I realized I play this game more than I play most games that I spend the full $60+ on. Because of that, I personally have zero problem at all spending this kind of money to, honestly, increase my enjoyment of a game I already enjoyed when f2p.
I'm with you, I try to tell people that if they want to have more fun playing this game, spending money really is a great way to do it. Yes, some people are broke, you don't have to spend a million dollars. I have only spent like $200-$250 over 4 years myself on this game.
I'm starting to hoard gold though. I always tell myself "This will be the expansion I don't need to pre-order". Then I keep buying packs and go into the expansion with only like 1000 gold on hand lol. I guess I'll see how it goes this time.
Twitch name: Anatak15
NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
I got just over 5k and an arena run going. I should have 6k by expansion release. It's pretty much the same every expansion, for me: buy prerelease, spend 5k on packs, play arena for a couple weeks, play constructed after meta settles, grind gold back to 6k for next expansion.
No gold.. actually maybe 60 or something. as soon as I make 100 I buy a pack.
I was a whale now im that broke. does that explain things to you?
Same here
I am. Over half of a F2P population is in this state. The only reason why I own a 360 is because a job I had gave me a free one. Otherwise the last system I owned was a SNES. It takes planning to pay for a $20 game. I DON'T buy a $60 game, not because I don't consider it 'worth it' but because I simply cannot.
So yes, many MANY people are 'that broke'. F2P isn't some badge of honor or some way to get something for nothing. It's pretty much the only option for a large portion of the population. If you don't have to run the rat race and can just buy a pre-order then definitely do it.
But for those who have the choice of running that race or sitting around looking at our thumbs we're grateful that we CAN plan and actually HAVE a way to keeping up. I've played my share of games in the past where nothing under $1000 let you keep up competitively. And it's NOT 'oh no, gotta coddle my one deck.' 1-month accounts have to deal with that. The 'hoarding' policies we do make sure we DON'T live that life.
You don't have to live it. I wouldn't recommend it for those that don't have to. But let be those that do. Last thing they need is a batch of "Go get a Job you bum" styled posts.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
I wish I could save gold... every time I get 100 coins though I buy a pack. I can't help it. I mean maybe if I already had a huge collection I could save up, but the chance at getting something I need is just too alluring.
Well, i just like to open packs in high numbers, dont like opening them 1 at a time, because this way its basically guaranteed that i get something good, but if u open one and u get 40 dust, it is really underwhelming (at least for me).
Most of my decks are complete, i have 6 decks that are at least or at around 50% winrate:
>burn mage,
>odd rogue,
>control priest (greediest shit i have ever built),
>control paladin,
>even warrior,
>even paladin
Dont need any extra classic cards in them, i would actually craft them if they are that important but i dont do it because there is none atm.
Also if im not mistaken if u open packs back and forth between expansions, it fucks up the pity timers(?). Correct me if im wrong, i dont even know where i got this information :D
I play since ungoro, i only dust duplicates, i even keep golden cards if i have the option because they look nice, even tho i get 1/4 of the dust by dusting the non-golden extra ones.
But i would say i have a pretty decent collection already, even tho i never spent a single penny. Also standard only, not interested in wild.
Not going super tryhard in the game helps a lot :)
Big up bro, i know what you are talking about :|
Well note that many of us 'hoarders' are several years into the game. We're 'established F2Pers'. Once your past collection is settled, you're mostly aiming for the next expansion. Thus all of hte gold/dust goes for it. I honestly have legendaries I could craft right now but what stops me is 1. I have more than enough decks to play around with and 2. I REALLY don't want to craft a legendary that turns out to be worthless next month when the expansion hits/or I find a legendary I REALLY want instead.
If you're still trying to pick up your Classic cards then ignore us and go buy those packs. Same goes for past expansions though at this point I suggest at least wiating until the next expansion hits so you can decide which cards you want..
With ONE ***BIG*** EXCEPTION.
You open packs for commons and rares
You craft legendaries and epics.
I don't care if you are new, old, F2P, or a whale. Make this your most important rule.
F2Pers: the chance of you getting the rare/legendary you need with packs is FAR too rare to bother. You're honestly wasting your time trying to 'find' the card you want. If you want an epic/legendary, you SHOULD be crafting it. Hunt for dust so you can get the EXACT card you need.
Payers: You are gambling on a lottery. You are honestly, LITERALLY better off spending your money in the blackjack table. I'm dead serious: you have a better chance there than you are opening That One Card you need. Unless you are spending $400 to get the entire set in one go, you're better off focusing on the preorder of the next expansion. You'll get enough dust to craft That Legendary anyway afterwards, and a mass of new cards on top of it to play with.
After about 60 packs or so of a set, you'll have most of the commons and rares. Classic has more cards, of course, but still note when your packs give you pure dust rather than new cards. After that, you're better off opening packs from a set yu don't have much of.
So yes, if you don't have many cards, you go opening packs. Also learn about and focus on the pity timers to get legendaries and epics. But don't AIM for specific legendaries/epics. Focus on filling out that collection in general. Let your dust and crafting handle specific targets.
(and try to lay off dusting unless you absolutely need to. That includes bad cards. Go look at how people rated Hadronox during the Lich King set, then imagine you dusted that card then and fast forward to now. That sort of thing happens A LOT. Dust non-dupes for emergencies only)
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.