ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
I thought they'd taken the watch quest out of rotation as I haven't had it in ages. It's by far the best one if you ask me - worth 100 gold equivalent for watching as little as one game. In terms of time/reward, assuming you still need classic cards, it's the best.
Oh yes if you're after classic cards then that quest is great, and I do still have some gaps in classic, but nothing I really want - I'm all about the gold in the run-up to the next expansion. I'll just mulligan it today but the risk there is that today's quest is a 40 as well so I'll just have two 40s.
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I decided I was bored of grinding gold after a couple of awful-draft Arena runs where I didn't stand a hope against ridiculously overpowered opponents, so I bought 10 GVG packs with my gold, and then pre-brought 50 packs for the expansion. Fuck it.
Total spend of £34.99 then, bit of an increase from free but still not bad considering we're some 18 months into our Hearthstone careers now
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I've got a complete common/rare set now, and just need to complete epics and legendaries, which are of course the hardest and at the current rate of expansions I'm increasingly unlikely to complete any set without an artificial bump. You win Blizzard.
Are you actually fussed about getting a complete set though? Sure it'd be nice to have everything but we can all live without a Lorewalker Cho or shit like that in our collection I'm sure
(I've had Lorewalker Cho pop out of my own Piloted Shredder a couple of times recently, can be an absolute game-breaker. I even had to silence the fucker in a game the other day otherwise he was going to straight-up lose me the game. (And I still lost.))
I suspect my collection will never be complete but as long as it's got all the cards you'd ever want to actually play, I'm happy.
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New players - fuck knows how they'll compete. With so many cards and decks being stronger than ever new players face horrifying match-ups trying to compete with a basic set. Apparently they were supposed to be implementing something where you'd matchmake with people of a similar sized collection, so noobs would only face noobs, but I don't know if they pulled it off.
Yeah the barrier to entry is absurb now IMO. The days of Chillwind Yetis and Boulderfist Ogres being solid playable cards are long gone. We're yet to see how the new expansion will pan out but it's impossible to deny there's been something of a power creep going on with the expansions, a lot of Classic cards look really hopeless now.