Get a Free Frozen Throne Pack Today? You Were Bugged!
If you logged in to Hearthstone today and received a free card pack from outside the game, this was due to you not receiving a Legendary within your first ten packs of the set but instead received it on your eleventh. This offering should bring your pity timer back to the correct place it should be.
Did you receive a free pack? What'd you open up?
Here's the email they sent out to players found with the issue courtesy of /u/Gravyboat9505.
Quote from BlizzardGreetings,
We recently adjusted the way legendary cards are rewarded from packs. We identified an unintended issue with that change where you received a legendary on your 11th Knights of the Frozen Throne pack instead of within your first 10 packs. Because we did not intend for that to happen, we are giving you a free Knights of the Frozen Throne pack as an apology.
Thanks for your continued support, and we'll see you at the Inn!
Hearthstone Team.
I actually received it.. not the greatest of prizes, but free is still free :)
i too open more pack 25...nice pity timer
The normal pity timer is 40 packs, and separate for each type of pack with no expiration date on it. The pity timer referred to in this bug is the 10 pack timer you get when you start a new set.
Nice boosts of some regions, blizzard. I've got nothing for my losts(2k and that lul-pack) playing on EU.
I had earned 5000 gold, only 1legendary. Not fair at all. Killed in epic's.
Out of my 125 packs i only got 5 legendaries.
What's the average for legendaries?
FeelsBadMan
If you completely base the calculation on pity timer, then you should be getting 4 legendaries and 12 epics for the 125 packs you've opened. One compulsory legendary every 40 packs and one epic every 10 packs. However, adding the luck factor to it, i'm assuming that you could have at least gotten 7-8 legendaries.
Actually, on avarage you get a legendary every 20 packs, so he should have gotten 6 legendaries. 5 is completely fine, slightly bad variance
for my 99 packs I got 5 legends too.
I with 88 packs opened 3 legends... sadness
I opened 102 packs on stream and recieved 3 legendaries. A viewer then told me, he had gotten 8 legendaries out of his 50 packs. #neverlucky
The average is 1 in 20 packs, so you're a little on the unlucky side but it's perfectly normal.
For every ex, in the first 10packs you open you will get 1 legendary for sure. Normaly averege drop for pack is 20packs 1 legendary, but you will get a legendary in the 40packs for sure. If you open more packs the bigger change for a legendary, but every person has different luck, cuz normaly in 1 pack drops 1 legendary, the rarest pack that had been open is 4 legendary's in one, but we have only 1 pack that's was 4 legendary in it. Normaly with bit luck you can get up to 10 legendary's in 100 pack, but for sure you will get 3 minimum in those 100packs. In my case for un'goro i had 40-45 packs, 4 legendary's and 1 of them was golden. In Grand i had 200 packs 10 legendary's, GVG 30packs 0 legendary's, Classic packs 300 or more packs 15-20 legendary's, Old gods 100 packs 4-5 legendary and Gadgetsan 100-105 packs 3 legendary's. And at the new one 12 packs 2 legendary's, so it's more to luck then to packs counts.
i avergaed a legendary every 10 packs and i opened 480. Im not complaining.
who cares
so if ive spent $200 on ktf packs and every 1-11 packs has a chance to pop a legendary vs every 10th did I get screwed? I dont think 1 pack justifies that?
i did get a pack and i can tell you i didnt get 5 legs in it lul .
you were only guaranteed a legendary on your 10th pack the very first time (assuming you didn't get one on your 1-9 packs). after that the guaranteed legendary timer ticks up to 40 packs
Wow blizzard is giving us a single pack... Thank god and all heavens that is free.
i got two legendaries frist two packs
no free pack for me D: