The Great Dalaran Heist Has Launched! Two Wings This Week, First Wing Free
Hearthstone's newest adventure, The Great Dalaran Heist, has launched!
Join the newly-formed League of E.V.I.L. in their attempt to subdue the magical, treasure-filled city of Dalaran.
What Launches This Week?
There are two chapters available this week.
- You can get started for completely free with the first chapter, The Dalaran Bank, today.
- The second chapter, The Violet Hold, is also open today and can be purchased for 700 gold or $6.99.
- You may purchase the entire adventure for $19.99, a discounted cost.
- Other wings may be individually purchased ahead of time, allowing you to unlock Zayle, Shadow Cloak early.
- The remaining three chapters unlock one at a time over the next three weeks.
This Week's Twists
Each chapter has a special passive mechanic called Twists. These effects are active during all your games in that wing and will change up how you play against each boss. Here are the twists you can expect for this week's chapters.
- Dalaran Bank (FREE Chapter) - Coin-filled Coffers
- A 0/3 Cache spawns on the opponent's side of the board. Breaking it gives 2 Coins to each player.
- The Violet Hold - Imprisoned Minions
- At the start of the game a random minion from each player's deck is locked on the board. It will unlock once enough turns have by that are equal to its mana cost.
Is The Adventure Worth It?
There has been a lot of discussion about whether the adventure was worth the cost, so let's break it down. First though, what do you get when you buy the entire adventure?
- 15 Rise of Shadows Packs
- 1 Golden Classic Pack
- Zayle, Shadow Cloak Golden Legendary Card
- Two Card Backs
- The Great Dalaran Heist Solo Content Adventure
Let's make some quick assumptions to make this real easy.
- Everything in this article has been priced in USD, you may value your local currency differently.
- We don't care about the gameplay - everyone will value it differently.
- You're buying the entire adventure at once. Don't buy wings individually with money, it is $28 =(
- Golden Zayle, Shadow Cloak is hard to price. The decks aren't perfect and it is pointless if you have a large collection.
- The card backs are cosmetic and have no gameplay changing value so we don't care about them.
That brings to the real meat, the card packs. Is the adventure worth buying for the card packs?
Sort of. Kinda. It Depends.
Forgetting the golden classic pack, which has a minimum dust value of 300, let's talk about store prices. You can purchase the 15 Rise of Shadows packs in the shop for $19.99, the exact same price as the adventure. That establishes a nice base of the adventure being completely worth purchasing if you were looking for some more Rise of Shadows packs. We aren't getting a deal on the Rise of Shadows packs, but we also forgot a ton of content above.
Now, if you're on team gold, I've got some bad news. This is not at all worth it for the packs. You're losing 1300 gold on the Rise of Shadows packs purchase which means all the stuff we were going to temporarily forget about, that needs to be worth 13 card packs to you. We can bring that loss down a bit though if we consider you get at least 300 dust from the golden classic pack (worth 300 gold) so you end up paying 1000 gold extra for a golden legendary, two card backs, and solo content.
TL;DR: Buy with real money if the packs are your main concern and you want the most pack value. If you don't need the packs and hate solo content, don't buy.
Ultimately, Buy The Damn Adventure
Just have some damn fun with the game for a change!
Adventures have always been worth purchasing in Hearthstone. Even though the format and the rewards have changed over time, Blizzard does a really good job at making sure the rewards are fantastic - they want us to buy it =).
Dalaran looks to be the best piece of solo content the Hearthstone team has ever put out for us, so if you enjoyed past content (paid or free) you should love this one. Hearthstone is supposed to be a fun game and solo content can add that value of joy to the table quite easily. Forget about ladder for a day a week over the next month and chill with the League of E.V.I.L.
Seems like yes
This just reminds me of something I experienced recently. I had a "play 30 Priest cards" quest, and I just wanted to complete it as fast as possible. I mostly put cheap and healing cards in my deck, so I could play as many cards as possible before losing inevitably. It was enough to beat a Secret Mage in Wild, because all the healing outlasted his spell damage, and then he was drawing himself to death with Aluneth. Kinda fun to win when your only win condition is your opponent killing himself.
Good question.
very interesting question
I find the question truly fascinating.
It's quite clear what it says on the online Blizzard shop and a few other places...
"add the awe-inspiring Golden Zayle to your collection when you own all five chapters"
So basically, if you own all 5, you get it. Purchasing it will give it to you instantly otherwise you would have to wait until the last chapter is out if you are using gold, so you'll get it June 6.
Completed first wing, so much fun, last boss was really funny (don t spoil today) have some lough with his refs. 2nd wing here i come. I really recommend you buy it, it's funny and a lot of different bosses, it's like 5 dungeon runs plus monster hunts heroes. Rakanishu was borring tho, i think other heroes will be more interesting.
You're right, they should just give you a ton of content for absolutely free! They should also stop paying their employees!
It looks pretty fun tbh.
I might spend some gold and enjoy some Dalaran nostalgia.
The Tavern intermediate corrections are awesome.
Can u buy it ingame or only on battlenet? I have some money on my Google Account so i would like to buy IT on phone
In-game works. That's how I paid.
both
Unclear from the game - do you still get the golden Zayle if you buy all the wings with gold? The in-game "shop" makes it seem like the golden Zayle is only given to you if you do the cash adventure bundle ($19.99).
Ya, I really want to know this too!
I can't get to the shop to see what you are reading. But it should say that you get Zayle when you own the last (or all) wings. When you pay with gold, can you purchase the entire adventure now? If you can only buy the second wing with gold, that would be why you can't have access to Zayle today. Once you buy the last wing with gold or cash, you will get Zayle. I'll try to find a source.
Edit: Couldn't find where Blizz is asked this directly. However, none of the official promotion says that golden Zayle is only available if you pay with $. They would have to make this very clear if they were going to do that.
i was searching for the same and came to this -> https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6719-how-zayle-shadow-cloak-works-all-five-decklists
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Yessir. Was doing the first wing right up to boss 8 no problems at all. Then I was pimp handed back to boss one. GTFO of here with that nonsense. And on top of that the final boss gets a copy of your first spell every turn for a crappy coin? I’ve officially had it with dungeon runs. I will give zero dollars to PVE content from this moment forward. Jesus, at least let us build our own decks. It’s a literal crap shoot.
I don't consider myself cheap and have no problem spending $$ on video games. But locking Single-Player content behind a paywall (you can get 5 star games on Steam for cheaper...) in a game that's already expensive as hell just seems so greedy to me. It's like they realized how great Dungeon Run was and thought "Huh... we could monetize this too!" I'll play the free wing and will buy it if it's fun, just don't like them making players pay for more content (compare this to Naxx or League of Explorers, which came with crucial new cards)
Any concrete evidence that golden legendary can be de'd or just a guess?