Diluted card pool?

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We have TWO new classes without any changes to how often cards show up and how many cards you get per pack. If that isn’t a decrease in your returns, people are blind.

We paywalled BGs outright. That change will be a big deal to a whole bunch of players when quests disappear from the mode and hero choice becomes relevant again.

And they put runestones in to divorce transactions from actual currency, hiding the price of items from everyone. (I’m not going to debate this. If you don’t understand how runestones are designed with the intent of absolutely f ing players over using psychological tricks and deceptive practices, start another thread. Runestones are morally wrong and should be criminal in more countries. I don’t care how many games do it, they’re all criminally wrong as well.)

Thats a pretty hard string of predatory monetization, imo.

It’s shocking to me that people will defend them over these issues as though they enjoy being abused. Seems like we have some players with addiction issues unwilling to seek help.

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this is true on its face, but they also added a second way to achieve legendaries this x-pac with the signature cards. so, your chances of getting a legendary increased by %100. that is not insignificant.

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Whaaaat?
Are you telling me that signature cards have a 40 packs pity timer?
If this is true, then they did an incredible job to increase what we find; but then you have to consider that signature cards are very limited, they aren’t from the whole pool (which may be better or worse, depending on what you are looking for).

But are you really sure they have a 40 packs pity timer? It seems strange to me, because it is very generous and this is the first time I read it (it would have been discussed a lot if it worked like this, so I am skeptical)

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You are talking about a separate pity timer for signature cards?
Because that sounds way more generous than I have come to expect from Team 5.

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If it exists, my guess is it is as high as the golden legendaries pity timer.
I would be very surprised if it’s the same of the normal legendaries or slightly higher

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Um, no.

Show how you arrived at this conclusion.

Adding a card into the pool doesn’t change any rate of drops, changing rate of drops does.

I did not see anything to suggest this, so if someone has information about this topic I would love to see it.

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Signature Legendaries will appear about as often as golden legendaries, but they take the place of what would have been a common in your packs.

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That is way more generous than I would have ever imagined this Company to be capable of these days…

Well Done, Blizzard.

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Keep in mind Mall, Golden Legendaries drop once in every 200 or so packs. Dont give them too much credit.

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Yeah. There is that. I haven’t gotten a Golden legendary since about 2014.

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Oh, wow. So not even remotely like the pity timer for legendaries.

I guess I still have about 175 packs or so before I see a golden legendary… or signature card.

I don’t even like them, tbh, so there’s that.

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my fault, the stuff i was reading apparently applied to golden packs not regular. you’re right it sucks hard for ftp, as usual. sorry about the confusion. in the future I’ll try to human less… lol.
ty for correcting me, everyone. sorry i was wrong. it would’ve been cool to give a new pity counter. even if it was 1.5/2 x the legend one. somehow even that meager bone was too much for blizzard to throw.

sadge :frowning:

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I remember I opened Golden DK Jaina.
Next pack was Golden DK Gul’dan.

I was like “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?!?”

Yet I have never opened up a pack that had 2 legendary cards in it. Lame. Hoping that changes on Tuesday.

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