The ever-increasing dust costs are just compounded by how piss-poor the game's F2P options are. And the battle pass makes it worse in some ways instead of being a complete improvement. The fact that you can earn more Hearthstone packs by making gold in World of Warcraft for a few hours and converting that into Blizzard Balance instead of grinding XP in Hearthstone is a little ridiculous.
The fact that you get XP based on how many minutes of a match took place incentivizes people to rope to get more XP. Some of the quests are locked behinds modes you might not play / cards you might not have (like play 10 Old Gods) and are necessary for progression. Even with this new gold addition, you're still getting much less gold than you did with the previous system, despite needing to put in more time. Not to mention much of the gold that makes for this reduction is at the end of the pass, meaning if you don't clear your way to it, you're at a much greater loss. We still have no actual details on what these seasonal XP boosts will be like. This is all just from the top of my head too.
And all of this doesn't even take into account the greater discussion that Hearthstone, as a game is simply way too expensive. Set aside the battle pass, you still can spend 80 bucks every 3 months on a pre-purchase bundle and still feel like you're not even close to completing a set. That just feels wrong.
This essentially changes nothing. They didn't address any of the major issues that people had with the system, just that they now have a "wealth of feedback". Will this feedback be utilized in any meaningful way or will the community just get a golden star while Blizzard sweeps this under the rug hoping that this band-aid fix is enough.
Happy to report I got to Diamond 10 with this with an 88% winrate (7-1). Was stuck around mid-Plat for a long while on launch day and this helped me pass that bump. Will see how it fares higher into Diamond, thanks.
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Done
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Battletag: DONE
Region: EU
Trade only? : yes, you go first
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60-70 isn't so hard to reach, to be fair. I'm already nearing 120.
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accidentally posted twice
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Battletag: DONE
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, you go first
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Battletag:
Region: EU
Trade Only?: Yes, you go first
Done
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Battletag: Agithore#2723
Region: EU
Trade: Yes, you go first
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Battletag: DoneRegion: EUTrade only? : I'll show u my quest then u go firstDone, thanks.
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battletag: Doneregion: eutrade only: yes. i will show u quest then u go first0
The ever-increasing dust costs are just compounded by how piss-poor the game's F2P options are. And the battle pass makes it worse in some ways instead of being a complete improvement. The fact that you can earn more Hearthstone packs by making gold in World of Warcraft for a few hours and converting that into Blizzard Balance instead of grinding XP in Hearthstone is a little ridiculous.
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The fact that you get XP based on how many minutes of a match took place incentivizes people to rope to get more XP. Some of the quests are locked behinds modes you might not play / cards you might not have (like play 10 Old Gods) and are necessary for progression. Even with this new gold addition, you're still getting much less gold than you did with the previous system, despite needing to put in more time. Not to mention much of the gold that makes for this reduction is at the end of the pass, meaning if you don't clear your way to it, you're at a much greater loss. We still have no actual details on what these seasonal XP boosts will be like. This is all just from the top of my head too.
And all of this doesn't even take into account the greater discussion that Hearthstone, as a game is simply way too expensive. Set aside the battle pass, you still can spend 80 bucks every 3 months on a pre-purchase bundle and still feel like you're not even close to completing a set. That just feels wrong.
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This essentially changes nothing. They didn't address any of the major issues that people had with the system, just that they now have a "wealth of feedback". Will this feedback be utilized in any meaningful way or will the community just get a golden star while Blizzard sweeps this under the rug hoping that this band-aid fix is enough.
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What can I remove to add Metamorphosis?
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Happy to report I got to Diamond 10 with this with an 88% winrate (7-1). Was stuck around mid-Plat for a long while on launch day and this helped me pass that bump. Will see how it fares higher into Diamond, thanks.
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