Let’s say, if you have 10k gold, 10k dust, $100.
What is the most efficient/value way to spend them on the next expansion?
How would you spend it?
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I’d get the larger pre-order and the battle pass. Then I’d spend the gold on 100 packs, dust all golden cards that aren’t needed to complete a playset, and use the dust to fill out whatever is missing. That should get you the entire set with a decent amount of dust left over
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I disagree with this. I never dust anything unless I need the dust to craft a specific deck OR the card was just nerfed.
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My rationale is that if I have everything then I don’t need to worry about what’s been nerfed. The only time I concern myself with what’s been recently nerfed is if I have a golden copy of the card that’s currently completing a playset in which case I convert that card to a regular version and bank the free card of whatever rarity (usually epic or legendary). If you have everything then there’s nothing to spend dust on. Most cards don’t get nerfed and I’d rather just have everything
i’ve been a purely f2p player, so the 100$ is right out of question.
i usually buy something like 60-80 packs depending on my gold reserves, open the 10-20 bonus packs from quests, accumulated packs, early track rewards, and etc, and then wait a bit.
after like 2 weeks i start spending dust to complete what decks intrigue me.
only sometimes, when i see a leggendary/epic i absolutely must have due to simply me liking it (knowing very well it may be trash competitively wise later on) do i spend dust before the grace period of 2 weeks is over.
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as F2P player, with similar gold and dust I will probably use gold on BGs perks and rest into packs.
I expect to have from packs all common and rares and hopefully couple legendaries. Will craft few decks I want to play right away and I have cards for it (probably Rogue and priest).
With the rest of dust, I will wait for meta to settle.
Dustwise - I use it for decks I want to play. Definitelly rogue legendary,
You only have everything if you’ve been buying cards since day one. Few people have an entire wild collection. Saving everything until nerfed or needed gives more freedom to make decks there.
In the long run wild is actually the cheaper format since you could niss an entire expansion (or even year) and still have string decks.
Wild is long term a cheaper format yes but that also means you don’t need to be saving dust optimally to play in wild.
When I say I have everything I mean everything in standard which is often enough to compete in wild because of how much power creep has been in recent sets. Having everything in standard is pretty easy if you buy just the large pre-order and even easier if you add in the battlepass
This would be my general recommendation as well.
The first step after launch would be to buy the Season Pass and claim the Rewards Track Diamond Legendary. While there’ll be a full dust refund if you open it, you might as well just save yourself the time. But if you get it as one of the free golden Legendaries (which are awarded on login), that’s just bonus dust.
With an average roll of Legendaries (9-10 from 185 packs), there will be 10-11 Legendaries missing. That’s 16k-17.6k Dust to craft.
The average roll for Epics would give out 37 (1 in 5 packs). Since there are 25 different Epics and you need 2 for a playset (ie. 50 total), there’s a solid chance you’ll miss some and to get a full playset you’ll on average need 5200 dust to craft a full playset of every Epic.
So with the 10k dust in the bank, you’ll very likely need 11.2k-12.8k dust from the extras. With 185 packs I would expect somewhere in the region of 6-7k dust from extras.
I agree with this but I’ll make an exception for extras. This is mostly covered by autodusting, but you will need to search your collection with the “extra” keyword to ferret out the goldens you don’t need.
You’re forgetting the battle pass and the pre-order bonuses. You get 2 legendary cards in the pre-order, 1 from the beginning of the rewards track, and 1 from the battle pass. that brings it down to 6-7 legendaries to craft which brings the cost down to 9600-11200 dust.
Opening 190 packs, including 5 golden packs, is gonna result in a lot of dust being generated which will easily cover the legendary cards needed and a decent chunk of any missing epics.
I already accounted for those in my math.
That is highly questionable and from my point of view only for people, who started early and/OR invested ton of money over the years to gain that collection and the dust. Unless you think hard what you will play long-term and craft just few decks per year, which are staples.
If you want freedom to play anything, you need to build that and if there are new cards/archetypes, you have similar need as standard. I started aroun Lich King time and I gave up on wild immediatelly, because without investing heavily I had no chance to get competitive deck in standard, let alone wild.
Standard on other hand is quite close to F2P player, because you can get around 5-10k gold from expansion, you get some free decks, so it is quite ez to build standard and just turn it around every year.
That’s strange because I’ve been doing this math for a while now with only slightly higher numbers and came up with the following:
25 legends in the set
210 packs opened
10-11 legends from packs
4 pre-orders + rewards track
1 freebie that we already have
10k dust banked → 6.25 legends
That’s 21.25/25 legends
You’d only need 6k dust from the duplicates which is pretty likely (7.6k for 185 packs)
So it might not be everything in the set but it would be a huge percentage of the set and basically everything playable from it
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The important thing is as well, how playable those legendaries are.
Only 8 legendaries from Stormwind have 2%+ playrate, 7 in Barrens, 5 from Darkmoon, 4 in Scholomancer and 2 from Outlands.
Of course it is given by time and powercreep, but overall I would say it is quite clear, that there are 5-10 legendaries, which see decent play, maybe 5 more that are niche and 10 which are absolute trash.
So unless you are unlucky to get only the trash, you are more than fine.
10k gold = 100 packs
Preorder = 80 packs + 5 golden packs (and 5 Merc packs)
So that’s 185 packs, which is on average 1 less Legendary than you expect.
I accounted for that in the final dust estimation. It still seems pretty reasonable to get most if not all of the legendary cards in a set from that kind of purchase. Just pick one unplayably bad legendary and don’t craft that one
Apologies if my 1st post was short (and sketchy), but I like to see some players’ view and spending habits. (thus, not adding more details)
Part 2:
As I have read somewhere that pack value decreases dramatically after 90-100packs. Would that be a significant consideration to players here.
If so, then purchasing 100packs from gold and thereafter crafting whatever that is needed from the 10k dust bank. Save up the $100, which can get alot of other items of other value.
or does anyone have things to add?
Part of my “best value” in not dusting everything comes from impulsive decisions. I’m less likely to craft something just because it looks cool if it means hunting through my extras for things that will give enough dust and are unlikely to be nerfed.
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all these calculations are all nice but that is assuming you will want playsets of everything and most of the legendaries, wich is never the case there always plenty of trash cards
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