That deal was absurd while it was up, easily the cheapest packs have been while I was playing.
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Ah, nevermind... appears I'm a bit too late in posting this as it appears to be dead. You only get 10% bonus coins now instead of 50%.
That deal was absurd while it was up, easily the cheapest packs have been while I was playing.
While yes, I'm learning the game, I can tell the difference between someone with a few nice cards and someone with a stacked deck. It is pretty obvious, even in playstyle. Reading through their forums the dust/gold mining at the low levels by established players is well known and is an issue and is indeed causing a bit of chaos for new players and turning them off rather quickly.
You can only earn 100 gold per day from wins in ranked mode. Nobody is sitting around at rank 20 just to farm 100 gold every 24 hours. Nobody smart anyways.
In fairness there is an actual problem at rank 19-20 of people who know what they're doing insta-conceding games to stay low ranked to give them easy quests and portrait wins. But theoretically if you play enough you should get as many wins and losses from that.
I opened 82 packs last night, and ugh... the sheer amount of repeats when you're working with a 130 card pool is rather unsettling. I'm not even talking about over the course of time, but there were multiple times when I opened a pack and received two of the same card. Yes, I'm looking at you, Glaivezooka! I ended up getting three legendaries: Bolvar and Mal'Ganis. Am I having trouble counting? Nope, I got Mal'Ganis twice.
Such bad luck!
Personally, I think on opening a pack, of the 4 cards should have a RNG roll to determine rarity level (with the 5th automatically set to "rare" as a minimum), and once it determines the rarity level, a second RNG for picking out of all the cards of that rarity level for that type of pack, with every card of that level being an equal chance to be picked, but I don't think it is anything like that at all.
Oh, I forgot to mention one amusing thing that happened to me. I really haven't played much Hearthstone lately (WoW has devoured my soul), but I went to one of the usual gatherings. Since I hadn't even created a GvG-based deck, I decided to just play with my usual deck. I went with my Priest deck, as it's probably my strongest one. I was playing against a Warlock and absolutely dominating him... until I killed myself.
That's probably what you're thinking. How did I kill myself? I used Thoughtsteal and received a Mistress of Pain. I played an Auchenai Soulpriest earlier that let me deal some good damage with Zombie Chow, but what I didn't realize is what great synergy the soulpriest and mistress have together. The soulpriest turns the mistress's heal into damage. Since the mistress technically just damaged you, that procs its effect again, which causes it to "heal" (damage, because of the soulpriest) you again. You pretty much insta-kill yourself if you do this.
ROFL!!!!!!! I was laughing like crazy when I noticed that after reading your post.
Definitely a good fun game. I'm still an angry chicken. Looking for pointers on how to use the dust/craft cards. Tutorials?
It's stupid how good the zoolock and murloc decks can be. It's impossible to stop the onslaught of 2 minions a turn unless I get lucky with drawing aoe right away... even then somtimes it's a tossup.
Well, I was almost sorry for the mage I fought with my mage... almost. He had a really good draw (or a better deck than most). The early rounds were me dealing with his perfect counters. He managed to keep a Mana Wyrm and a Flesheating Ghoul out which I was struggling to clear (he put up 2 Ironfur Grizzly's and the mirror image spell). I eventually got through all of them, needing to use Loetheb, and a Piloted Shredder (and a mirror image to protect the Shredder), and he finally cleared my board instead of continuing to go to my face.
At this point I took control. The Shredder spawned a loot hoarder. I had played my ice block secret earlier, and I pulled out a mad scientist. He used his hero power on the hoarder, puts down a sorcerer's apprentice, played a secret, and then played a blood knight. I play a explosive sheep, which triggers his secret (a mirror entity, so he gets an explosive sheep as well), at which point I say, "sorry", attack his hero with the mad scientist, use my hero power to kill my sheep, which blows up (killing my mad scientist, which pulls a duplicate secret for me), kills his apprentice and explosive sheep, which blows up, and finishes the board wipe killing his blood knight. I then played a Ethereal Archivist.
This is where it gets bad.
He fireballs the Archivist which triggers my duplicate (so I get 2 more), and plays a water elemental. I play another archivist and another duplicate secret. He smacks the archivist with his elemental and then plays a mirror image. I play another archivist, and then use the echo of medivsh spell, to get 2 more archivists. He flamestrikes (killing an archivist, triggering my duplicate, giving me 2 more archivists), and uses his water elemental to freeze the second one (his elemental dying on this). I play 2 more archivists (giving me 3 on the table, 2 are 5/5, the third 7/4). He finally quits. It was a good thing I guess, cause I was going to play another archivist and another echo the next turn.... Only counter at that point would have been a deathwing.