Oh ffs always this "sorry for confusing your small brain" bullshit...
Nobody is confused. We just did the math and figured out that you lied to us.
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Oh ffs always this "sorry for confusing your small brain" bullshit...
Nobody is confused. We just did the math and figured out that you lied to us.
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Hahahaha, what an absolute joke.
Those special events always existed. The calculations that people were making were taking about the base gold you get from quests only. So this is just a blatant lie to ignore the problem that the exp quests will never give as much gold as the old system.
Actually insane. Welp, I guess I will have to survive based on my current collection and I'm starting to like to BG more anyway, so I will just play it until they get greedy with that mode as well.
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Everything you need to know: BLIZZARD LIED TO US
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Two points off of this: i) I think you lowballed the average for the Questing Adventurer since they will minmax and reroll 50g quests as much as possible and they will occasionally get friend quests or 100g quests. I think using 60g is a better figure for this purpose. ii) 3 packs at the beginning and a legendary that are frontloaded into the new system used to be given as part of a new expansion launching anyways, now they're baked into the system. So you could subtract their value or add it to the old system total whichever you prefer.
Thanks for the breakdown, but I personally can only see this system as worse. The devs said you wouldn't receive less gold and packs but they've finagled it so you receive a similar value but with less choice and receiving it solely as gold is defintiely better, bar maybe the legendary and epic. I think time will tell how good the system is but I see a lot of people faring worse since some of the weekly quests require you to get 4 wins in an Arena run which players either won't bother with or won't succeed in doing on their first try, thus reducing their net gold. This system isn't an improvement, it's a sidegrade that only improves Bli$$ard's bottom line with the Tavern Pass. They might tweak things a lil due to the outrage but I can't see anything positive coming out of this.
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I am not sure about the giveaways on 14-15. Does anyone know which content creators will be giving those rewards?
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How far down the drain this site has fallen? Any click-bait title producing looser who has a need to boost his ego by explaining how people should feel about this game can now become a moderator?
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Ok after playing a bunch today and scouting the new system I can see how the scam works.
1. The system is designed, like most F2P scams, to bombard you with rewards right off the bat to make it seem like rewards have increased. You quickly gain levels from 1-20 and get a bunch of gold and packs. Looking ahead, you can see that the rewards actually increase for higher levels. But insidiously, the amount of exp per level is not displayed, only the amount to your next level. And that number is increasing over time. This prevents you from calculating how the amount of rewards you're getting for the time invested, and the amount of rewards the experience from quests is giving you compared to the very obvious flat gold rates from before.
2. The achievements rolling out simultaneously is not a coincidence - as many achievements give exp rewards as well. This is designed to increase the short term reward shower with the rollout of their battle pass system. You very quickly rack up the easy to earn achievements that you'll get just by playing the game normally. I got 3-4 levels worth of exp just by playing one run of duels as Rogue and redeeming the achievements I earned. But these achievement boosts are a one time thing. When the next expansion rolls out, you won't be getting this artificial infusion of exp from a barrage of easily earned achievements, and reward acquisition will plummet.
3. Gold is not rewarded with every level tier. Often you will get a pack instead, which is functionally worse than gold because it's from a specific set, when with 100 gold you could instead choose which set to buy. Particularly, any set other than Darkmoon Faire is objectively lower in value, because people already own those sets. Even rewarding Darkmoon Faire sets will be inferior to gold because they will be rewarded for the next few months long after expansion release. The normal player behavior is that people save their gold and then splurge on 50-100 packs at the start of an expansion. This makes logical sense - you want the cards immediately as they become available or your deck strength plummets in comparison to other players who get the most new cards they can right away. So these "backdated" pack rewards are not very rewarding at all - they're not going to help you next expansion like gold would and F2P players fall further behind the curve.
All in all, it seems exactly like I thought it would be - rewards are obfuscated by inserting another "currency" (experience) in between, intentionally making it harder to gauge how much your time is really worth. Rewards are decreased compared to the pure gold from quest system they had, and rewards are less valuable in attaining the cards you need each expansion to stay competitive.
The saddest thing of all is that the "paid" pass only grants an exp bonus of either 15 or 25% (I'm not quite sure how it works, you get a 10% boost right away then a 15% boost at level 10, which could either be replacing your 10 with 15 or adding 15 to make 25). Even a 25% boost in experience would not even be remotely worth $20, with how many packs that could buy you previously with Amazon coins and such. Activision's greed has consumed the development of this game.
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battle pass 19.99€ cant buy with gold nice blizz great decision...
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Another bug I found; it costs £69.99 to play Duels..
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So the people that skipped buying it because it was not worth the original offering are going to get screwed now that they are saying they will retroactively make it better? So are they going to offer it for sale again when the improvements are made or is their message to the CUSTOMERS "Just buy what we offer you wether it is good or not and maybe if you complain enough we will fix it. Oh an all you people that don't just fork out like simps are out of luck"
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After a really bad run yesterday where I had all the bad luck you can imagine and fell to 80xx I really had a good run today. I was able to climb to my new personal record high of 8449 :)
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Removing Amalgam from Battlegrounds? Wow, that's by far the biggest change in Battlegrounds yet, Amalgam was by far the single best minion. I would've suggested to bump it all the way up to tier 4, didn't really expect them to remove it. I like it though.
Too bad Kobalt still got no nerf, maybe next time.
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King Bagurgle looks like it'll push murlocs right into tier S. That card is bananas.
Watcher is a nice addition for demons but they're still way weaker than the other tribes.
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tldr: we're not sorry and we'll do it again.
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Jaina's evolution from porn star to ugly duckling is finally complete. Thanks Blizzard.
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So that Blizzard rule basically says you can't say anything and if you do, you're disqualified and get no prize money. Taking oppression to a whole new level, huh? Disgusting!
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You must've missed the fact that Discord is spyware that logs pretty much everything you're doing. You even agreed to it when you accepted the TOS.
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I'm glad that beating it in under 40 minutes wasn't nearly as hard as I expected. Took Dr. Boom and used the hero power every turn and eventually the bombs killed every boss. I needed 24:36 to complete my run. First try too :)
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So they changed cards were you could see too much boobs, ass, violence and blood? We're officially a children's card game now :P
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I rarely complain about brawls but wow, this one is really bad because some of the decks are straight up useless.