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dowolf posted...

"down 3k" is literally not possible. It's not! At all! Even if you zero out all non-gold rewards and ignore the bonus 13 gold/week and the extra gold you're getting from playtime and achievements (which you of course shouldn't!), you'd still be down only 800! If there's an error in my math, you're welcome to point it out, but~

And if you consider a legendary worth less than 400 gold, I really don't know what to tell you.

I'd get about 6-6.5k or so in gold right now compared to about 7-7.5k before.

1) Casual only seems to get about 250xp an hour, so I'm already getting less for playing as someone that plays ranked, or any other mode for that matter. And that's for winning, so if I want to play some terrible deck just for fun that I know is going to lose most of the games I play before I even play them, I get even less. I seem to get just south of 200xp an hour on average from casual. I understand they do this so people can't just afk in casual all day, but as someone who likes playing casual it sucks.

2) The quest to win seven ranked games is the only quest on that xp tier, so if you reroll it you're guaranteed something worth less. So if I don't want to play ranked I'm down 750xp that week. I used to get to gold each month and then just play in casual for fun, as that's the point where it feels like the rewards for climbing ladder are eclipsed by having to play against the same four or so decks constantly.

3) I really don't like Duels the way it currently is and probably won't be playing it, so I'm not getting any of that xp. I really liked dungeon runs but deck variety is worse in this mode than it's even been in ranked.

4) The expansion achievements that reward xp are locked from casual, so I have to play ranked games with terrible meme decks to try and complete these. Even if I waited until I was on a rank floor and tried to play them there, it's still going to be against mostly meta decks that just want to win and move on and don't care that I need to deal 50 damage with Il'gynoth or whatever, so it would take substantially longer to achieve these than casual and I'd likely not be having that much fun in the process. I'll probably finish very few of these, especially since something like 75% of them require specific epics or legendaries that I don't have and/or aren't interested in anyway.

5) We get a handful of packs, but we lost a handful of packs from the missing legendary quest chain they normally do at the start of the expansion, so I look at them as a wash like the level one legendary that replaced the day one legendary we used to get.

6) After opening packs, if I want a specific epic or legendary I'd craft it with dust. I do not want a random card as a reward unless it's pretty much day one, so I absolutely treat that legendary as worth less than 400 gold. Right now, today, I'd rather have 100 gold, forget about 400 gold, to save for a future pack than any legendary, even one of my choosing. The only use for the legendaries I don't have right now would be to complete the achievements that require them, as the ones I'm actually interested in playing with I already have. When I land on a level that gives me a card or a tavern pass, I just feel like rather than gaining a reward I just lost out on potential gold.

This is why I said 1k-3k depending on if you want to take as an extreme view of it as I do. Even with this I still only expect to lose 1k gold by playing the game the way I want to play it. I sometimes open 50 packs, sometimes 75, so for the most part I could probably be gold neutral and continue to play the same way as I do now, just not with the ability to have a pile of gold ready in case I want to blow it on an expansion i really like. Which in turn leads to...

7) With the mini-expansion, I'll probably want to open another 15 packs or so. I have no idea how the card rarity is going to shake out so it might be more or less, but I look at this as another 1,500 gold or so that I'm going to need to spend to keep up my collection in the same way I used to. I realize this is less 'getting less gold' and more 'have to spend more gold' but they're kind of the same thing in the end.

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