Hearthpwn

Mainly play on PC and IOS, but use Amazon App store on android to buy packs.  Been locked out of my android version since Sunken City dropped as the app gives me the "Let's got to the store to start the download" message, but there's no new version in the amazon store.  I've tried reinstalling on android.

Anyone hit this recently and manage to get round it?

Defintely not going to buy it, but the fuss about pricing seems kinda off, given any golden card is 3200 dust.  To me, 3000 gold feels about the same as 6000 dust, which, given the exclusivity of diamond cards, seems in line with goldens.  

I think they're trading on OCD here - anyone with all of the diamond cards to date is going to be triggered badly by this generous offer

Although the games start off grindy (i.e. dumpster tier minions vs perfect removal tutored up from wishes), in the mid/late game the wishes frequently open up OTKs if you start the turn with a board and 7+ mana.  I like DH for this type of brawl to smooth mana and provide aggressive minions

Whizbang the Wonderful

You need 22 * 2500 exp = 55,000

Each week, daily quests (reroll the 900s) give 1000 * 7 = 7,000

Each week, weekly quests give 2500 + 1750  + 1750 = 6,000

So, if we guess that you have 4 full weeks between now and the expansion, you should be able to get 13,000 * 4 = 52,000 exp, meaning you only need to grind an extra 3000 exp provided you don't miss any quests.  If you can get any achievements, that'll reduce the grind slightly.

If the expansion drops early April (i.e. on or before April 4th), then you'll miss out on a Monday weekly quest reset - definitely won't be able to make it without crazy grinding.

EDIT - oops, realised daily quests are only min 1000 with the battle pass, updated.

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Im kinda new to HS .

 What does School Spell means? Is it a spell from Scholomance expansion? Correct me if I’m wrong. Thank you. 

 Frost/Fire/Holy/Shadow etc

From experience, this has only happened to me when I already had all of the other cards of that rarity.   I think the non-dupe algorithm prefers giving standard versions of cards that you only have gold/diamond versions of before giving you pure duplicates.

If there were other standard legendaries that you could have opened without duplicates, I expect that either Blizz will compensate everyone affected by this, or that if you raise a case with CS they'll do something for you.

I was quite enjoying the swinginess of Kazakusan at first, but it got old for me fast.  Mirror matches are somewhat unfun, usually decided by whoever gets there first, and sometimes decided by the power level of the discovers.

The duels treasure cards are stupidly powerful and can't usually be played around once they're doing their thing.  I did not enjoy duels because of how it feels to play against treasures with normal cards.

I wonder if Kazakusan could be reworked to give you a choice of a small number of treasures to shuffle into your deck, to make the treasures come online much later.  To be healthy, it needs to be a lategame reward for a midrange dragons deck, not the win condition of what is basically a combo deck whose sole purpose is to cast it as quickly as possible.

Hmm.  If I understand, we need to accumulate 7200 honor in a month or miss out on the golden legendary.

I really hope I got that wrong :(

No improved Cat Trick etc in wild? :(

I think both golden legendaries are given free, and you contribute to a faction by putting one of those legendaries in a deck and winning a game.

The wording is super unclear though.  If you have to choose between one of the golden legendaries for your collection, then yes, you'd have a bizarre incentive not to win any games with it as you'd hope to get the other as diamond.

It's somewhat ironic that the best workaround for the Merc packs issues is not to buy the product at all and stay FTP.  The tail off in value of packs opened is so steep to the point that any amount of currency spent will be rendered essentially valueless later if you continue to play and accumulate resources over time.

It just goes to show how powerful the pity timer, duplicate protection and dust mechanics are in a gacha game.  Opening vanilla HS packs is productive right up until you have completed a set, and even after that the dust you get has some reduced value.  Merc packs by contrast can end up literally worthless once you've maxed a few rare and epic mercs.

I really don’t understand why this isn’t a stand alone game.

Shoehorning it into the HS client just feels like an attempt to trigger FOMO in existing HS veterans, but in reality there is - quite sensibly - very little connection between core HS and this mode.  If it turns out that there are massively intertwined rewards (i.e. there are repeatable non-cosmetic rewards for core HS buried in the Mercs mode) then players will get cross about being ‘forced’ to play.

TBH I’m wondering whether theyve realised that too many regular spenders and whales have been building up huge piles of gold and dust and are trying to create a huge sink for all those accumulated rewards that will otherwise eat into profits

Playing the game since 2014.  Super casual player now, admittedly, but I'm really enjoying the game.  Why all the hate?

Aggressively mulligan for ramp, hope to discover early removal from natural studies and hope that there's not enough burn in his hand on the turn after you wall up.

Also, put in 2 Cenarion Ward if you're not playing them already.  If you get another turn after you've dropped a big board, Cenarion Ward seals the game.

The aggro hunter matchup is worse, I've literally been dead before playing a single relevant card