Hearthpwn

I get almost all cards from each expansion now with less than 100€:

- the small bundle that garanties two legendaries (50€ more or less)

- the tavern pass that increases my gold for next expansion and gives some rewards (basically one diamond legendary that I don't need to craft + stuff).

-and the first bundle after a new expansion with two more legendaries and 20 packs (10 from the new one and 10 standard ones).

I buy the mini-set with the 2000 gold.

Usually, with the tavern pass I manage to get around 10000 gold that I use for the next expansion (12000 minus 2000 for the mini set). So I have ~160-170 packs at the beginning of a new expansion and gets what is necessary with dust.

Mmmh

So you have reached lvl 25 in a bit more than two weeks (I am lvl 27, a bit helped with XP from duels and gameplay achievements from the new expansion)

so given the numbers you showed, it should be possible, without the shitty tavern pass, to reach lvl50 in between 2 and 3 months and then to continue farming gold with the exp needed to lvl up droping to 4000+ XP and increasing again.

So they also announced some more event with quests and all (no sign of any legendary quest for now but it should appear sometime).

All in all, I will side with devil here and say that this is not as bad as I thought. I can still do on par with before by playing enough with what they changed. Of course monetization sucks and all, espacially with the mini-set + duels that force you to have cards from olders sets (that I fully desenchanted), but maybe we should wait the end of this season before drawing conclusions. Maybe it actually is worse,  maybe not.