It looks like i’m either blind or don’t know how to google , but i just learned that every single expansion from now on will have a miniset . Last year we got Galakrond’s awakening , now with Darkmoon Fair we will have a miniset so i thought that this idea is a thing only for the last expansion of each year , not every expansion going forward . So i am asking all of you . We expressed our disatisfation about the initial rewards track situation . We are we silent on a much bigger problem ?We are talking about a 4th expansion each year just split in 3 pieces . We are talking about the need of ~30% more resources needed each year . Yes , shaking the meta is important for a competitive online game , for an esport . But this kind of shaking would not be needed if every single expansion didn’t include 10 dead on arrival legendary cards and ~50% of the epics never finding a spot in the meta .
This rant is not about money . I’m not f2p , i buy the 80 preorder bundle for the past 2 years , i’ve bought all adventures with real money and the last 2 value for money bundles (Felosophy and C’thun givings) . And i don’t mind because i want to support the game , even if all the above deals are from ok to “bad” deals (Because yeah , paying the price of a AAA game for around 50% of a card set is a bad deal) . This is because adding 35 cards to the latest expansion instead of a standalone set , tranforms every single bad deal to a JOKE of a deal .
So you want to normalise minisets ?Fine . I don’t think we can change that . What we can change and fight about is for minisets being standalone content for the usual price of 2800 gold /20$ , starting with the one being released 4.5 months from now
Why are we silent? Let’s see:
During Gadgetzan meta, Blizzard decided to increase the price of packs, because apparently, the prices in U.S. were bigger than the prices in E.U. And why reduce the price in U.S. when you can just increase the ones in E.U.? What did the players do? They expressed their disatisfaction. What did Blizzard do? They said they will discuss this internally. What happened afterwards? Prices remained increased. Sure we got a dupe protection and a Legendary on the first 10 packs but the prices didn’t change.
Let’s see, what else? Oh right, the BG pass. In the past, when playing BG, you could choose from 4 different heroes and in order to unlock some cosmetic emotes, all you had to do is buy some packs. That’s it. Now, we have a BG pass which is worse then what we had before. Did players cry? Yes, they sure did. What did Blizzard do? Remove the arena tickets the pass gave you. But the BG pass is still here.
Now let’s talk about the reward track. What did Blizzard do? Not much, they made a few tweaks here and there but that’s all. The reward track still exists.
Now, do you understand why we are silent about these mini-sets?
Yes i do understand . And i couldn’t agree more . No matter how hard we fight , we get small “somethings” that don’t resolve our problems . It’s just that in my 100% subjective view the minisets are the icing on the cake that i personaly can endure 1 time per year . Not 3
Well, if you can’t endure 3 mini-sets per year, then it’s time to walk away from HS. You can always come back either when you’re ready to endure them or if they change them.
mini-sets dont have to be a bad thing. one thing players complain alot about during the last month of every expansion is that the meta is stale and demand ridiculus nerfs to get a meta change. with a mini-set introduced halfway through the expansion the meta will change up and the game wont feel stale during end of expansion
and if most of the cards are commons or rares it ll be easier to get and at the same time will make it so packs after getting all commons and rares increase their value after the mini set are released
i do hope the mini sets wont have any legendaries !
You could always save dust for the miniset. I may do that myself since I’m not sure what legendary I want to craft next.
We still don’t know what the rarity distribution is for the mini sets. You could save packs from season rewards and events to get most of the commons and rares free with the duplicate protection. If it’s only 0 - 2 legendary cards it will probably be better than $20/ 2800 gold. Of course if it is 5 legendary and 5 epics it will be worse. My guess is 2 legendary, 3 epic, 10 rare and 10 common
I like the miniset idea: even if it has 5 legendary cards (like galak adventure), I won’t find them anyways, but at least there could be one that I may like and I would craft.
I doubt there will be 5 legendary, but probably at least one and no more than 3.
My guess is: 1 legendary, 6 epics
You almost have to. I think it would be really ill-advised to start crafting now with a mini-set less than 2 months away and a rotation less than 3 months away
Let’s say you craft multiple legendaries for a current top tier deck, then the mini set comes out and shakes up the entire meta and now your crafts are nigh-worthless until the next expansion (you hope) or even possibly later
I personally like and dislike the mini-sets for this reason. They do shake up the meta, and if the meta sucked and was boring, then the shakeup is a good thing. If the meta was interesting or if you just crafted a good meta deck that all of a sudden with the mini-set release became garbage? Ouch, you just wasted thousands of dust
Damn I just want teasers, I expected to have something we could see by now, like the first 3 cards of the set or a legendary.
I’m hoping there are no legendaries. If there are I’m going to be sick of this game…im a whale and I just can’t keep up.
And I can only imagine your frustration when you found out.
Many of us in this forum have been very critical of the mini set. So I don’t understand why you, who apparently just started posting here, are trying to lecture us about not having said anything about it.
I was personally so concerned I started a topic a month ago explaining to people to stop opening MDF packs so they would have enough packs banked to get all Common and Rare cards from the mini set on release date.
I don’t think the main problem are the mini sets. They’re actually something good. Releasing new content at the mid of an expansion will refresh the meta, as it happened before with big events.
It’s an expensive game, as most GOOD card games are (for anyone quoting LOR lol)… And it’s even more cheap than the others. It should be cheaper? It really should. But I mean… It’s an USA company. You know how USA works dude, it won’t EVER EVER EVER be different. Not only with Blizzard, but with ANY company from USA. They only care about money.
HOWEVER, I do agree it’s annoying that they fill the packs with useless (or unplayable 'till last 4 months) epics and legendaries. I mean, DARKMOON RABBIT. We all know that card is and will be GARBAGE. At least if they made those cards rare, I wouldn’t complain…
this is 112% accurate
I would prefer the mini set to be paid story for gold or money
The story in Rise of Shadows, solo adventure were amazing with cool trailers and music
Getting cards by playing actually story removes RNG from opening packs for mini set
You are wasting time here, Blizzard is not making money from this game, so they don’t have the budget to collect players voices. I came back to play this game cus of my friends, but they all quit now.
Blizzard is making tons of money from HS, I don’t know what you’re talking about. They are just trying to increase that because stock market, team and executive bonuses. Player base isn’t increasing so prices have go up somehow. It’s how capitalism works. DMF was my last paid expansion. Going wild and free from here on out.
If mini sets becomes a common thing then it will be bad for HS players FTP or PTW.
Blizzard needs to start tweaking weak/dead cards!
It would not surprise me if the Mini sets are just new versions of wild cards, because that all they seem to do.
Yet we keep buying the same crap!
The only thing I can suggest to the general public is this, if you buy bundles then don’t open them till the mini sets are released. At least you won’t get as many duplicates this way.