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There is one important factor most people don't realize, grinding levels feels better than grinding 10g per 3 wins, so a lot of players feel like they are getting more gold, but in fact they are just spending more time playing the game.

If you played the same amount you will realize the new system yield approximately the same amount of gold.

 

I definitely 100% did not play the game more to the degree that explains the increase in gold. I would have had to play the game some 20% more. (not counting pass xp)

Blizzard just deliberately shifted to a new way of monetizing the game. They;d rather get $20 dollars on the reward track pass from a very great amount of people than $50 dollars from a far smaller group on preorders. And the Reward track pass is a great deal. It pays for itself in extra gold and then you get all the cosmetics and other stuff on top of it.

And then there's the engagement. If people are more engaged with your game, day to day and week to week, they are far more likely to spend actual money on it.

Blizzard just switched to a better way of getting money out of their game, and in return are more than happy to give away more free stuff, since it only helps to create a system where people are mroe engaged with the game and more likely to spend on it.

I had the same problem. Turns out that you have to follow some very specific steps to create Classic decks in game, if you don;t import a deck list. You can't just easily swap to creating Classic decks from the normal Deck creation, there's only the button to switch from Standard to Wild and there's no way to narrow down the Card list to Classic, cause it will just use the currently still active Classic set from Standard and Wild.

Here's what you do:

Go to Classic mode under "Play", you should see the screen above. Then use the "My Collection" button to go to your collection manager. THINGS WILL LOOK LIKE STANDARD. Ignore what you see and click the button to start creating a new deck. You will then be taken to a Classic section with only 9 classes to choose from (No DH) and if you pick a class you will get a choice of Deck recipes OR a Custom deck. Choose  Custom, and then re-build the decks you made.

You can immediately tell if you did it right by the border along the class name top right or the button on the collection manager which will now show the Classic mode icon.

Rogue was especially hard to narrow down to a selection. I think there's going to be a TON of different Rogue decks that will be really good. I left out Secret Rogue too, which looked interesting still with a weapons package added.

Basically tomorrow once the expansion is live, I will be watching our decks function on the site like a hawk and see which decks people are looking at and upvoting, and then select decks from among those to feature in this post.

Most classes will have at LEAST 1 deck that is not currently in the post that will be there tomorrow around this time and there's a good chance those decks are not even on the site right now but will be created tomorrow.

So if your poison of choice (hehe) isn't among the choices right now then check back tomorrow and it might pop up.

Just going to confirm this too. I have more gold than I used to get and feel much more engaged with the game than before, due to the weekly quests giving you more motivation to log in every day/week.

In the old days there were many days where I;d log in, re-roll my daily cause it was shit, end up with a different shit daily and just log out again. Now, even if my daily is not great, there's always weeklies to work on (at least early in the week). So then you still play just to get some progress on those.

And sometimes, you get a daily that is good XP, but might not be what you prefer, but you end up doing it anyway, cause you wanted to get progress on your weeklies.

So, more gold, more engagement with the game due to weeklies and I actually get more out of the game cause it persuades me to do things outside of my comfort zone (ie play classes and decks I wouldn't usually).

All in all it's been great, and they have made the reward track have even more side benefits this time, even on the free track. So this expansion should be even better.

Oops, corrected. Yes, 10 am. Thanks!

(Good thing you caught it, cause I had copied that straight from the Launch day post going live tomorrow xD )

Tuesday the 30th, at 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT/ 19:00 CEST/ 18:00 BST.

Well, there's been a shortage of fun cards for the past year or more. Saviors of Uldum is the last time we got an actual handful of "fun" cards, that you knew were probably going to require specific decks and have a low winrate but be really funny to pull off.

Cards like Desert Obelisk and Mogu Cultist but the only card we got this expansion that comes close to that is Celestial Alignment which is actually a card that might be good and not just a meme.

It's one of the most talked about cards in the set, so I'm not sure why Blizz turned away from producing fun meme cards like that. If they were worried about sticking a class with a card that is kinda bad, then just make these meme cards neutrals, all the more chance for more people to experiment with them.

But alas.

Someone had a little moment. It's okay, I cleaned up.

The expansion will go live on TUESDAY MARCH 30TH, and the likely time is 10am Pacific US/ 1pm Eastern US/ 19:00 Central EU/ 18:00 British.

You have to keep in mind though that something can always come up and shift the start time, but that's been the time Blizzard aims for for the last bunch of expansions and they have yet to fail to get it out on time.

Blizzard made some significant changes to the way the game tracks things behind the scenes and that caused a lot of problems for deck trackers, including Innkeeper.

It's been out of order since then and there's no ETA on when it might work again, since there's a lot of stuff that needs to be rewritten in its code to make it work again.

So unfortunately Innkeeper won't work.

Closing this here.