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On March 21 2015 18:04 Torte de Lini wrote:


As soon as I hit level 10 on all my characters, I will try Arena. I have about 700 gold now, so I'm feeling a bit confident about basic decks.

What I find the most difficult right now is having any cards towards the late-game. I always have only 2 cards left or something.

I don't know if I'll buy any cards, not really my style

On March 09 2015 08:20 Dromar wrote:


This is very interesting to hear, because I have been experiencing the opposite.

I always do my dailies, including maxing reroll opportunities by never completing 40 gold quests unless I have to. I also play some constructed, more or less depending on how much time/interest I have. I never play arena anymore. Have played about 25 arenas in my career, and have done pretty well, but it doesn't interest me. When GvG came out, I had been saving gold for it for months (since at that point opening classic packs was just giving me dust most of the time), and was able to buy 84 packs of GvG with gold as soon as it was released. This gave me all the commons and nearly all the rares, several epics, and a few legendaries (of which Dr. Boom was one). I have been saving gold for the next expansion since then (buying a pack on occasion), and now have 4200+ gold and 7200+ dust.

At this point, I was going to just pay the $25 for the next adventure, justifying it as a great value to essentially purchase gold for packs when the next expansion comes out (essentially $25 for 35 packs, a much better value than any pack purchase option). BUT, since I seem to have so much gold and dust already, I'm actually reconsidering.


So, let's do a bit of math here. Their release schedule is approximately every 4 months. It's very easy to get 1800 gold in a month just playing a bit of constructed and completing quests every day as I do. That's 60 gold / day, almost impossible NOT to get if you complete your quest by winning some games. If you play more, you can easily surpass this. Since a new expansion such as GvG will come out approximately every 8 months, you should acquire at least 14400 gold in that time. Assuming you want to buy the adventure with gold, that leaves 10900 gold leftover. That's 109 packs per expansion, realistically enough to get all the commons and rares, many epics, a few legendaries, and a bunch of dust to fill in the gaps. If you play a bit more than just completing quests, and make, say, 80 gold / day on average, you're looking at 157 packs per expansion, and the adventure, for free.

I think this is pretty reasonable for a f2p option. The only really tough thing is if you got into the game a bit late, you'll have a lot of catching up to do if you want to have a relatively compete collection.

On March 22 2015 04:01 Dromar wrote:


This is likely a product of poor play and poor cards, and will improve over time. You'll learn to play your cards in better situations to get more out of them. If you're doing okay in a game but worried about running out of cards, try using your hero power more to get value without using up your hand.



The issue of how players can keep up with new releases as f2p players came up when Blackrock Mountain was announced. I'll quote myself from that topic, as I think I covered it reasonably well there:



The later you get into the game, the more catching up you have to do, which does make things tougher, but the point is this: between each expansion (that is, new card set, not adventure like Blackrock Mountain), you can earn ~14000 gold if you do your daily quests every day. Getting the adventure between expansions with gold, you still have in excess of 100 packs worth of gold to spend on packs. If you are caught up with your card collection, IMO that's more than enough to get the cards you need when a new expansion comes out.

But again, if you come in later as you are now, you'll have some significant catching up to do. But I expect that in the future they'll offer some sort of deal on older packs. I could imagine them offering Classic packs at a discount possibly as soon as the next expansion release. They will likely address this issue at the same time they address the issue of rotating sets.

On March 24 2015 20:30 ahswtini wrote:
for the first wing of naxx, i used this awesome completely basic druid deck:
basically mulligan for wild growth and innervates to get ahead. i couldnt even beat the first mission in the first wing until i found this deck

On March 23 2015 00:37 Zorgaz wrote:
Just thought I'd add that if your aiming to earn gold in arena you should be aware of the fact that it's really hard to get a consistent 7+ wins everytime. It really depends on what cards you get, and also what class you got of course. Still it is possible in the long run if your a good enough player and have a little rng on your side.

The GvG packs aren't the best way to earn new good cards though as previously mentioned. I swear the last 5 packs for me have been nothing but duplicates.

On March 24 2015 17:46 PoulsenB wrote:


I strongly agree with this logic. I tried gringing gold for Naxx and the new adventure, but after a few days I realized it'd take me a few months to get the necessary amount. I bought Naxx and Blackrock preorder a few days ago and I haven't regretted it one bit - now I can buy packs and/or arena access without this nagging feeling that I should be saving gold for the adventures. Makes playing much less stressful, and saves you like 3 months of grinding.