Current Events > I haven't played Hearthstone in over a year. What's new?

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Is Doctorm Boom still good?
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it's now more expensive than ever to play
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AlephZero posted...

it's now more expensive than ever to play

I had a solid expansion up until the Goblins expansions.

Am i good?
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Here's a Kotaku article that explains why the game is more expensive to play than ever: http://kotaku.com/ungoro-expansion-makes-hearthstone-more-random-probabl-1794231571
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if you tried to get back into the game now it would literally cost you hundreds of dollars to put together a decent deck
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I had a bunch of dust from refunds of banned cards and managed to make the pirate aggro warrior deck lol.
Yee
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Run. Just run.
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So I made it to rank 15 with the aggro pirate warrior deckz.
It cost about 3000 dust to make with the refunded dust.
Not too shabby I'd say
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Play Elder Scrolls Legends instead. More fun, less RNG, and you get free packs like crazy.

I've only ever spent $20 and that was on the new expansion. Currently sitting at 85% of cards owned .
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Fax_Machine posted...

Play Elder Scrolls Legends instead. More fun, less RNG, and you get free packs like crazy.

I've only ever spent $20 and that was on the new expansion. Currently sitting at 85% of cards owned .

But ios..
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DemonBuffet posted...

Fax_Machine posted...

Play Elder Scrolls Legends instead. More fun, less RNG, and you get free packs like crazy.

I've only ever spent $20 and that was on the new expansion. Currently sitting at 85% of cards owned .

But ios..

It will be available for mobile shortly
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Wow that article is terrible. It's kind of amazing how little people understand how collectible card games work.

"You mean I have to spend hundreds of dollars to build every competitive deck 5 minutes after I download the game? What a ripoff!"
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Fax_Machine posted...

Play Elder Scrolls Legends instead. More fun, less RNG, and you get free packs like crazy.

I've only ever spent $20 and that was on the new expansion. Currently sitting at 85% of cards owned .

interesting

Hearthstone is nothing more than pay 2 win. You need certain cards to win and the only way to quickly do that is to spend several hundred dollars on packs otherwise you'd be grinding for a long ass time if you wanted to do the free route.

eggcorn posted...

interesting

The gamer is really god imo. It blows my mind that Bethesda isn't pushing it like crazy with all the ES series fans and the grumbling in the HS community.
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destrian522 posted...

Wow that article is terrible. It's kind of amazing how little people understand how collectible card games work.

"You mean I have to spend hundreds of dollars to build every competitive deck 5 minutes after I download the game? What a ripoff!"

It is hyperbole, but it's also true to an extent. Any new person just starting Hearthstone is going to have a very, VERY long road ahead of them because there's no way to guarantee you're going to pull anything useful. Yeah, you can dust, but at a pack a day at best and the pity timer being at 40 packs, pulling a Legendary a month (that will in all likelihood not be useful to whatever class you chose to start specializing in) means that for even some of the less dust-intensive decks you're still going to have to put a hell of a time investment in to end up with something that may just get meta'd out the next day. It's the reason I quit: I sat out an adventure and an expansion and the best I could do after dusting every card from wild was a deck that was a piece of shit after 2 weeks because it wasn't aggro, which I don't want to play.
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DemonBuffet posted...

Fax_Machine posted...

Play Elder Scrolls Legends instead. More fun, less RNG, and you get free packs like crazy.

I've only ever spent $20 and that was on the new expansion. Currently sitting at 85% of cards owned .

But ios..

http://help.bethesda.net/app/answers/detail/a_id/35863/session/L3RpbWUvMTQ5MjQxMDYxNy9zaWQva3ZoX3hpZ24%3D

UrCa1988 posted...

destrian522 posted...

Wow that article is terrible. It's kind of amazing how little people understand how collectible card games work.

"You mean I have to spend hundreds of dollars to build every competitive deck 5 minutes after I download the game? What a ripoff!"

It is hyperbole, but it's also true to an extent. Any new person just starting Hearthstone is going to have a very, VERY long road ahead of them because there's no way to guarantee you're going to pull anything useful. Yeah, you can dust, but at a pack a day at best and the pity timer being at 40 packs, pulling a Legendary a month (that will in all likelihood not be useful to whatever class you chose to start specializing in) means that for even some of the less dust-intensive decks you're still going to have to put a hell of a time investment in to end up with something that may just get meta'd out the next day. It's the reason I quit: I sat out an adventure and an expansion and the best I could do after dusting every card from wild was a deck that was a piece of shit after 2 weeks because it wasn't aggro, which I don't want to play.

I'm f2p (playing since November 2015) and I have 25k dust and 3000 gold (just spent a bunch on new packs. Was 7.5k after spending 4000 gold on MSG). I also bought every adventure with gold.

All I do is daily quests, a bit of arena, and then push rank 5 at the end of the month. I've built about one deck per month.

I had to play aggro my first month because it was all I could afford, but I haven't had to do so since then.

It sounds like you tried to play standard during MSG. They ruined the meta because of how cancerous Pirate decks were. It is a bit better now, but pirates are still good. Non-aggro decks are viable.

You shouldn't dust wild cards if you are f2p. it's the better format anyway, since standard will always have balance issues while wild balances itself. Then you don't have to worry about your good cards being obsolete, even if the meta shifts.
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