Hearthstone Wild Packs Have Returned to the Shop
Wild sets have returned to the Hearthstone shop this afternoon, but only on the Battle.net website!
- Sets will be purchasable through the Battle.net website, not the in-game store.
- Only real life currency can be spent and not gold as the Battle.net website doesn't allow for gold purchases at this time.
These are the sets you can buy once again:
- Curse of Naxxramas [View our Guide]
- Goblins vs Gnomes [View our Guide]
- Blackrock Mountain [View our Guide]
- The Grand Tournament [View our Guide]
- The League of Explorers [View our Guide]
So if you want to pickup content any of these sets, and you can foot the bill, go go go!
Card Pack Changes Live!
More exciting news! The previously announced card pack changes are now live! If you want some more information, we have a complete rundown of the changes here.
- You will no longer receive duplicate Legendary cards.
- You will receive a guaranteed Legendary within the first 10 card packs opened of a new set.
- The Starter Pack Legendary follows the non-dupe rule too!
Excited? We are!
Blog Post
Quote from BlizzardIn our previous blog, we mentioned that we wanted to improve your card pack opening experience by removing the possibility of opening a duplicate Legendary until you own all Legendary cards of a given set. We also touched on the other card pack improvement of never being able to open more than two copies of a single card in a single pack. Both changes were slated to go live with the official launch of Knights of the Frozen Throne in August.
We have some good news! All card pack changes that were mentioned in this blog are NOW LIVE! We decided to have this feature go live as soon as possible so you could continue to flesh out your collection before Knights of the Frozen Throne goes live.
Return to the Wild!
Wild sets are once again available to purchase in the Blizzard shop! Click the link below to see the Expansions and Adventures that are now a part of Wild.
Unsure about the differences between Wild and Standard Hearthstone sets? Check out our A Year of Mammoth Proportions blog for what you need to know about the 2017 Hearthstone Year and the sets available for play.
Share your craziest Wild experiences and Legendary card openings in the comments below!
opened the 9 classic packs i had saved up. no legendaries, but did get 3 epics (all of which i already had 2 of, but hey, 3/9 is a good ratio, and can't complain about 300 dust), 1 golden common and 1 golden rare. interestingly, i had 2 packs that had double of a card (Cult Master and Rampage, IIRC), now that the "no more than you can have in a deck" rule has been applied, which was a comparatively rare occurrence for me (and I can't think of a time i've ever opened 3 of the same card in a pack, though with all the packs i've opened, i wouldn't be surprised if its happened and i just don't remember...or 2 of the same legendary, but that's because i've never opened 2 legendaries in a pack in all the packs i've opened FeelsBadMan still waiting FeelsPollyannaMan)
Is the no dupes update live for mobile too?? Can someone confirm that for me?
You wouldn't be allowed to log on if it weren't.
All HS versions get the updates at the same time
doesnt apply for EUSo yes, it's confirmed:)
2 sets, 3 legendaries (1 golden), no dupes, 6~ epics and lots of rares
Waited until today and finally pulled an Al'akir! Love the change.
Grats! Awesome card.
Likely just has to do with a change on the server side. The game just pings the servers for what cards were in each pack, so there was no patch needed.
Looks to have been a server-side thing. I just opened 12 packs from Classic and Un'Goro and the new rules were in effect. At least in NA.
It's probably done server side. No patch needed.
Did someone open some packs in EU? I am still sceptical about that news... Nothing "patchy" happened here on PC!
2nd Non dupe, this time from a classic pack... Hogger!
Also, I've opened a gold rare, 3 gold commons and a gold epic out of 12 packs. Either I'm lucky or they have increased the gold card drop rate.
EU or NA?
NA
ikr? i always dust my golden cards and it seemed like i got quite a few from the few packs of mean streets and ungoro that i had with the classic packs from tavern brawl. maybe blizzard is starting to realize putting this many legendary cards in a set is potentially setting a huge bar to overcome for ftp players?
from the original posts it seems like the free legendary will follow the same rules as the packs. no dupes unless you have all the legendary cards.
We've been told that it applies everywhere, so you should be safe to open packs then do the prologue or vice-versa.
Nope, it's not safe! Just bought a Starter Bundle an hour ago in NA region and got a duplicate Legendary. I was missing only Tirion and Velen but was given a 2nd Al'Akir. Opening a support ticket right now but it seems there's a bug. They did *say* that it would apply to the Starter Bundle.
[EDIT: they already reversed the purchase and removed the duplicate card and ten packs, so that's nice. otoh, the csr didn't know that they'd implemented the change yet]
Opened 50 packs, got 6 legendaries I didn't have. Confirmed to be working in NA.