so if you dust your normal rag and sylvana, get golden versions, and then recraft them after you'll end up with more dust than you started with once these changes go live?
Yah, just did the math. Basically get about 400 dust per for doing that.
-1600 initial normal cost
+400 for dusting normal
-3200 for crafting gold
+3200 for dust refund
+1600 for dusting gold
-1600 for crafting normal again
Which means you are only -1200 in the hole for crafting a normal rag or sylvana instead of -1600 for each. Which means you "make" 400 dust in the end for each.
This only works on rag and sylvana because gold legendaries are disenchanted for half their value instead of 1/4 their value unlike anything else in the game. Besides commons which are 1/8th their value.
Your math is off. It's really simple:
If you have the non-golden legendary card and do nothing, you'll get +1600 dust
If you craft golden, then -3200 to craft, +3200 refund since the refund will apply to the golden and not the non-golden (at this point you're at net zero). Then you dust the golden and end up at +1600... This is exactly the same place you'd be if you didn't craft the golden.
If you don't have Sylv or Rag, then you can get a bonus by crafting them, since you would have received zero otherwise, and this way you end up at +1600. But this only benefits all three of the people with 6400 spare dust and no Sylv or Rag.
Commons however, end up at +10 dust per, so you can technically end up at +60 dust by crafting the golden commons, then DEing them after the free dust is handed out.
You will only get the refund for ONE of them and right now the assumption is the first one obtained. So if you already have a normal Rag and craft a golden Rag you'll ONLY get +1600 dust for the normal rag. You'll be in the whole for the crafted golden.
My scenario is dusting your current normal rag, crafting a golden version, getting the refund on the golden one which is now your only one when the refund happens, dusting that gold one, and recrafting the normal one again. This way you end up "gaining' 400 dust in the end as my math above showed.
You won't get more dust through the refund than for cards you max put in your deck. so for legendaries you can get refund for only ONE.
You get full crafting dust value for your "best" card. If you have a regular and golden, they'll give you dust for the golden. https://twitter.com/bdbrode/status/832304105624178688
So if you have a regular Rag, you'll get 1600
If you have a regular and golden Rag, you'll get 3200
It costs 3200 to craft golden rag and you get 1600 to disenchant. They give you 3200. The net is +1600, same as you'd get if you never crafted the golden.
In your example, you are at a net loss compared to just keeping the non-golden and never crafting the golden. You would have gotten +1600 dust if you did nothing, but after all of your crafting and disenchanting, you're only at +400. This is 1200 less dust than the 1600 you'd get by just sitting on the regular one and never doing anything.
Don't know if they are giving it for "best" or "first"... If it is best then there is no need to dust the normal if you have it. If they do the first/only one that you have then you can still make 400 dust my way.
1) the twitter post from Brode says the golden will take priority. It's not the only confirmation.
2) even if it didn't your way makes 1200 LESS DUST than just keeping your normal. You don't need to DE what you have, you just get 1600 dust by not ever DEing or crafting anything, your math ends up 1200 dust WORSE than doing nothing at all.
No. you aren't understanding the math properly.
If you have a normal legendary that you crafted..it means you are in the hole -1600 dust. That is the cost to craft it. If the golden doesn't take priority, and the initial news release didn't state that it does, then dusting the normal, making gold, getting refund, dusting gold, and remaking normal nets a positive +400. Meaning that you made 400 dust.
But since official channels have stated that the gold takes priority, then there isn't a need to do that method.
Was that really the best use of the gold? I guess you do get the golden cards for wild use but wouldn't you have rather had 75 packs of the new expansion?have gone through about 7500 gold so far, getting more legendaries this way than I ever did by spending actual money. Just picked up 3 dupes so that is pure dust, also got a gold Nozdormu so that will likely be dusted. Without dusting non dupes, have 8000 dust so enough for gold rag & sylv easy. Have 2 golds for the other 4 (8 hand limit) cards going out, so need 2400 there. So probably nuke gold norz to get me enough to gold the rest and save remaining gold for next expansion cards. Then just have to remember to dust all these gold cards after the changeover.