tl;dr - Leave an unfinished run before ROS launches to get the rewards and a Free Arena Ticket.
(arena entries close ~8 hours before the expansion launch)
Expected Confirmed expansion launch:
- NA: April 9th, 10AM PDT
- EU: April 9th, 7PM CEST (5PM GMT)
- Asia: April 10th, 2AM KST / April 10th, 1AM CST
- CN: April 10th, 1AM CST
Whenever a set of cards is removed from arena, Blizzard seems to make an arena reset, retiring all decks, and we get a free arena ticket for our unfinished runs. In the past this has been the case when the new HS year started or during some arena related events (dual class arena, arena exclusive cards).
With Year of the Dragon introducing rotating sets to arena drafting pool, i would argue that we might get a free arena ticket for an unfinished run more frequently now. Unless they come up with an excuse to not give it, which i dont think they will. So more goodies for us :)
Anyway, when Rise of Shadows launches, we should get a free arena ticket for unfinished run regardless of what will happen down the line.
So as always, play out your runs to as many wins as you can get before 2 losses and reap the rewards.
Even if you dont like playing arena, by doing this you will get 2x ROS pack + some minor amount of gold/dust for 150g total, saving up at least 50g. Just leave your run at 0-0 and retire it after the launch and then do the same with the ticket (or save it for the next reset so you dont have to spend another 150g to repeat this).
~ Post launch info ~
They did give the free arena ticket for unfinished run! But the pop-ups are bugged, log out and back in 2nd time to make them appear!
Also, dont freak out when you go open your arena rewards and you wont get anything. Arena rewards are generally bugged and you get them right after you finish your X-3 (or 12win) run before you even open up reward boxes. So now you got them on log in already, you didnt lose anything there either! ;-)
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