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.
I enjoy this game. I enjoy the solo adventures. I am willing to spend $60 on a game that will provide me a week or two of entertainment. i am totally willing to spend $20 a year on this game to support the developers and enhance my enjoyment of the game. I don't buy packs or spend money on cosmetic stuff but I have bought all the adventures and am happy to buy this one.
Well I have had fun with it so far. I have only given it 2 goes and on the second run I had the misfortune of having to play against the 8th boss, Miss Togwaggle or whatever her name is. I lost, I wasn't really even in the game at all but the run up to her was a blast. The tavern (deck fixer) is very helpful. I will definitely be giving it another go.
Edit: I just won vs Trade Prince Gallywix the 8th boss battle. I picked the hero power that reduces the costs of your cards and the burn deck.
Edit: Trade Prince Gallywix is an easy win, this is how you do it if you don't already know. He gives you all those coins, horde them, he will eventually play Fel Reaver, when he does dump all the coins play everything you can and his deck will be empty. He will have no more gas, except what he copies from you and what is in his hand before his deck is emptied. I just beat him again earlier today.
FYI got disconnected during new PvE and now when try to log back in, tries to reconnect to game then disconnects again. Tried 3 times.
Perhaps just me but thought I'd mention it just in case.
And now you are connected? This happens to me and its still disconnected me
Actually yes, not sure if it was number of tries or simply some kind of timeout (or even hotfix) but in now.
Good luck mate.
Where i can buy the second wing. I couldnt find it
I have to complete all 3 heropowers and decks with rakanishu?
Go to the shop on the battle.net launcher, u can get it there
Hit the arrow on the side of the screen :D
boring
I would say the Adventure is 100% worth it, if you enjoy this kind of content. It is so much fun and they clearly put A LOT of effort into this. It seems to have tons of replayabiliy too, more so when the Anomaly Mode is unlocked. Obviously it is for ppl who want to have fun, there is little to no rewards in playing it over and over otherwise.
Too easy.
IMO not worth it. Should be totally free as previous adventures were, dungeon runs etc. Or should have some better rewards than 15+1 packs, cardback (like we dont have enough already of them) and legendary which is definitely meme tier. It's Collectible Card Game after all.
Hunter so OP with random DK hero power passive and bunch of deathrattle minions.
Random DK hero power?
Im having a lot of fun, been playing for a few hours and i still have so much to try!
20€ well spent in my humble opinion.
Só bad xD 20€ 1 legendary that Will never be used and 16 packs that probably wont have a legendary? I Will pass, miss the old days 5/6 legendary guaranteed plus more cards per adventure
why did they make hardcore so easy? I'm missing naxx difficulty level. This shit is rly boring
not worth it for me personally, its just boring and basically the same as rumble run? i think... rather play arena or constructed.
Does anyone have Alchemist Wendy's phone number?
"Interested in trying something new?"
um, OK.
for me it worth, i like solo adventures like this :)