Our big Arena Revamp adds a new hard mode and fresh rewards.
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This seems fine except for the 300 gold to play part. I love arena and use it to get packs for each expansion. The fact that the baby version doesn’t give gold rewards means I won’t play that. And the adult version costs too much. Just keep it at 150 and scale back the rewards. I want to play the real arena but not at double the price.
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The price is a steep barrier. Thankfully will not play it.
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Due to all the crashing issues i wont be playing arena, ill spend my tickets for the packs but thats it
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Why use a scrolling GIF for displaying the rewards instead of listing them in a table that is much easier to read?
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“The new version of The Arena costs one Taven Ticket to enter and will end after five wins or two losses.”
So real money entry only, or why are only Tavern Tickets mentioned?
Edit: They updated the article
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it says in the article tavern tickets can be bought with 150 gold. (free to play option) or 200 runestones.
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So the new arena system starts on June 2nd?? Or we wait a bit more and there is just an arena seasonal update on Monday?
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Yes they edited it now after my post.
Pretty certain, it would make no sense to launch a new mini-season inbetween. And they say in the end of the article that with the update on tuesday, the classes come with “curated cards” which is probably the feature mentioned here:
To make the drafting process smoother, we’ve added a new feature to the start of the drafting process of both modes called Legendary Groups. The Legendary card you choose is bundled with three additional cards that complement your choice and set the tone for your deck. Your Arena drafts will now start off with a stronger foundation of four cards with solid synergy!
I liked the part where Arena mode goes back to the main screen. The re drafting 5 cards is also cool, and they are onto something here for sure. But without the opportunity for any gold at all in the “mini” version, that’s a serious letdown. Which i hope gets addressed after the community speaks up about it.
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TLDR: fewer rewards for higher price
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No, there’s nothing in the current Arena’s rewards table that would give you back another arena run + 2 card packs at 5 wins.
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Will keep being a rigged game…
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Dude, its a shame! I won’t even talk about underground mode, even if you are a player with an average of 7 wins or more, it will still be worse than it is today.
I’m going to talk about the baby version, which I have no words to describe how bad it is for most Arena players and if there were real rewards I would even give it a chance.
1- we dont like packs or dust. we like GOLD!
2- 2 losses and you are out! (as a MMR based, you will have something around 50% winrate. So, your attempt will end 2-2, 3-2 or 4-2 the VAST majority of the time. Therefore, no ticket for a new draft.
I wish I could say more, including how I’m feeling about this change. But if I do, I’m sure I’ll be banned. One of the feelings I can say is sadness, because the only game mode I like is on its way to its end.
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I can understand underground having a steeper gold cost compared to regular arena, but I really dislike that in regular arena, you do not get any gold unless you get 5 wins for a free tavern ticket. Please put some gold, even 10-20-30-40 gold for 1 2 3 and 4 wins. Thank you.
I honestly feel like it should be less gold for entry, as even if you draft a crap deck or get unlucky, you only need to get 2 losses to get kicked out. We are paying the same amount of gold for an overall shorter arena experience, with less gold if things go sour. That is pretty bad.
We are paying the same money for less of an experience and for no gold unless you get 5 wins for a ticket. You should really maybe even just lower the gold cost to 100. Why am I paying 150 gold for a shorter arena experience?
Please change this. I just got back into the game and only play arena currently to slowly build up my collection for standard. With these changes, I don’t see me playing often at all.
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But you get 3 cards that “work” with the legendary you pick, apparently that justifies it
I haven’t played arena in years. This won’t be bringing me back. I’ll stick to standard where I can’t lose because someone drafted better than me.
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Shaman hero skin in the Underground mode for reward when Shaman is under the ground… nice. However can’t feel sorry for them because they were too OP for too long against slower decks… but still. 
If it’s still P2W (or P2P at least), no chance. You have to make it F2P-partly just like Standard is are at least just how Battlegrounds is.
This is my first time logging in here just because I want to leave my comment in regards to Arena (Underground) new update changes.
Foremost I am really thrilled and excited that there is something NEW for Arena mode and I am all time Arena-favourite player. The Redraft mode definitely is cool. This is the best mode Hearthstone has which I have played for closing 10years (I am not a f2p player btw) However the entry fee 300g is really costly, and there is no guaranteed gold reward, only with the low % chance of winning 2000g.
Also players need to get minimum 6-7 wins only he can sustain to play in Underground mode. 6-7 wins means you are quite a GOOD Arena player. Normal arena-skill players usually ends at 3/4/5 wins. Does this mean at the latter days, Underground will mostly left with GOOD players and they have to compete among themselves to get 6-7 wins or above, while the often losing GOOD players will eventually stop playing (or alternatively pay for runestones for more games).
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