Thanks! Checking out the event finally after not playing Hearthstone in a couple years.
Yeah, itâs exactly like that, all factions require playing cards from the miniset
However, they did give you the option in shop to buy the faction cards individually for 1600 g, while the full miniset costs 2500 g, so itâs a ripoff, meant to help f2p do the quests, but in return slowing their progress down, instead of making it faster (simply to earn 1 skin, which isnât even anything special, and a few packs).
Highly recommended to simply forget about the quest if youâre having gold issues and cannot yet afford the full miniset.
They wanted to be greedy about the cost which is higher even in cash, but they wanted an excuse to pretend theyâre not that greedy and they made mini âŚmini sets of fewer cards for the people who mainly play âmainsâ.
They harm their game because instead they should be educating their players this is not World of Wacraft and grinding before opening gates is not required and minisets are extremely important to have in full.
I.e. only the big version should exist even if the price was higher, and they should stop pretending they are generous by splitting it because it made it worse (and as a sum theyâre even more expensive anyway).
I completely support their method of trying to fool customers into worse options which give something inconsequential short-term, but cost the customer progress, and thus, makes him spend more.
It is our job as consumers/customers, be it f2p or paying ones, to recognize the bait when itâs offered to us and say âThanks, Iâll passâ.
(In other words, if youâve proven to be stupid or impulsive enough to get baited like that, that means youâll probably get ripped off anywhere you turn, so itâs better for us, the company, to take your money, than it is to leave it to some other predator)
Itâs very anti-synergy in this case, because the only ones getting fooled are almost exclusively the ones playing for only like up to 3 months and on F2P and they are desperate for something when they are short of gold.
Hence itâs an attack mainly on new players that you desperately need while itâs mainly the veterans that are unphased by the trick.
To be fair, I think many of us who play on multiple servers did it because of the packs and the fact that those accounts do not need to progress like the one on the main server
You test and learn decks on the main, where you have all the cards and normal, f2p progression, and once youâve mastered a deck on your main, you play just that one deck on other servers, and youâre gucci.
Hence, many people took the bait, which is another reason why that option SHOULD be presented to us.
Itâs just thatâŚnone of us are paying customers xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
A specialized usage of mainly veterans. Iâm more concerned about the new player, not knowing yet how extremely important it is for F2P optimization to have the minisets early.
Blizzard never intended the game to be Totally Free but Microtransactions based, but itâs F2P players who are keeping any Format alive (e.g. look how dead Twist is (hostile to F2P)).
Yep, hence my recommendation 2-3 posts above, even though the thread seems to have already been solved 10 days ago.
I just felt it needed to be said, in case it helps some newbie.