and not target an expansion? I don’t get the statistical benefit of doing that; don’t you always need more cards in an expansion than in another expansion and in the worst case scenario it would be a 50-50 split anyway that evens it out?
(unless it’s people who like gambling)
(assuming getting them with 100 gold (not any fancy special offers making it a benefit to get more Standard packs specifically))
I get them when I don’t have all the newest rares yet but I’d also appreciate having a chance to open all the older epics and legendaries I still miss.
On the one hand, I don’t understand it either.
On the other hand, I don’t see any problem, at all, with an option that isn’t for me. I don’t stay awake at night wondering why other people aren’t forced to do things my way.
Please. This has nothing to do with judging others. I want to figure out if I miss something on ignoring buying them manually.
Oh. Well that’s a little bit like asking whether one slot machine is better than another slot machine. Maybe you’re the kind to minmax that but I’d just say pick whichever one you like the flashing lights of the most.
Ultimately the crafting system forgives mistakes regarding such decisions. If you don’t like what you get just dust it.
But hey maybe someone else will want to minmax, no harm in that.
It’s not a slot machine though. Assuming you want 1 extra card from one expansion over the others then it would be better to buy that pack, and if in a special case you equally want all expansions then it will even out anyway so it won’t matter if you buy an expansion or a general pack (in terms of “profitability per pack”).
Just because it’s a slot machine with more specified chances doesn’t make it any less of a slot machine. I’m going to guess there’s a small chance you could buy 100 packs for one expansion and not get the card you’re looking for, while someone else can buy ten of the Standard packs and find it within those 10. Sure, the chances are extreme, but it is possible.
i have 4 standard packs, and i want to bulk open them, but i need 5 to do so
^^ This answer is BiS! lol
Best in Slot
Ba-dum-tsss
Oh how I love an organic pun. they are very punny.
/Rogal Dorn
Also, have you not seen the slot machine animation when playing the game itself? This entire property that is Hearthstone is a Casino complete with Card game tables and Mall Arcade style token exchange storefront all with the flashing lights and animations and audio bytes of a slot machines. Thats all Hearthstone truly is, a glorified Chuck E Cheese’s.
I don’t understand, are there people still spending money on this dying game? Haven’t you yet understood that they are canceling entire game modes because the game is losing money as demonstrated by the 1600 layoffs in the last few days?
no idea why do you find role playing as an alien fun…
people
spend
money
on games
we have fun playing with …
yes
its that all there is to it
Standard packs are actually the best way to stock up on packs that will give you cards from future expansions when they come out. I usually never open my standard packs until a new expansion comes up because I already own all the cards I need from the current expansion.
I am not sure you can buy Standard packs from the store directly but they are often much better than expansion packs for this reason.
Yeah i general supplement an expansions packs with some extra standards i sit on. If you do the Brawl each week and take advantage of all the free ones they give out you can amass quite a pile of them. If you have a twitch account linked they give out 3 free ones each month as well.
Buying them when they hand you those crazy deals is the cheapest way to get what you need during the season. It’s obviously a bigger gamble but at the price they sell them it might be worth it to some.
As an aside for those that may not be aware or have considered it, opening standard packs this close to rotation is not optimal.
They will always award standard cards when opened, not when purchased.
Waiting until after set rotation will give you the best value from your current standard packs.
But how do we know when rotation occurs? I dont see anything in the game that tells us, nor for upcoming expansions for that matter either.
More like five nights, but without any of the charm.
This. After killing duels, they showed they truly care nothing about the game or the players…especially while dumping more and more mercstone bundles in the shop while not bothering to do the promised maintenance for it.
Some roleplay as humans, it’s not nice to shame others.
If this become more known, they’ll find a way to nerf it.
I’ll take a shot in the dark and go with when they announce the next release. Then after that date.
Seems to have worked since the game launched.
It happens in the Spring of each year, Cramer.
Three sets a year, so roughly four months between releases.
The first release of each year rotates three sets to wild and rebuilds the core set. When they announce “Year of the XXXX” it’s the beginning of sets. Last year, Year of the Wolf started on March 23.
Right now we have six sets in standard, and three of those rotate in about two months or less, meaning you may draw epics and legendaries that will be wild in just a short time. Saving those packs means you would only get cards for the current year, including cards from the next release if you wait that long.
Ok thanks for the info. I had hoped there would be some method to learn this from within the game itself. I suppose the suddenly unexpected (to me) time when it has the weird special log in animation telling us it is the year of a thing now. (no idea what the current year is as Ive never seen anything that says it elsewhere). Also the outside knowledge of knowing there is always a certain number of expansions per year, no wonder its so fast paced and theres no real ability to get the all cards before another set comes out.
For the worst clone: I dont make a habit to go out to do research on my own for info such as this as it doesnt occur to me to do so at moment of my question that i posed. I dont make a habit of doing homework on everything I dont know about or wonder about. I do have curiosity, and I do explore it from time to time. Occasionally I will look up how to do something Im unfamiliar with such as wiring a light switch compared to wiring an outlet which I already know. But I’m not like a bot with a simple “if:then” sequence hard coded into me to be like “If: I dont know a thing, then: google it” at every moment that occurs in the hour or in my day. If that happened I’d endlessly be on google and youtube asking how to everything in the wide world of verbs that exist. There’d be no end to my days as there would always be another thing after the next thing that I dont know. I have endless woodworking knowledge thanks to youtube suggesting a couple of shorts I liked and yet I own only a jigsaw and sander and dont own any type of woodworking tools or accessories or even a work table… but I know a lot of for now useless things in that realm… So eventually I just had to say enough is enough and put a stop to the endless feed of how tos and videos based on the subjects and just cold turkey the new habit. Having a lot of useless knowledge just tends to make someone a backseat driver or monday morning quartback or whatever you call the “Umm actually…” person that has no experience in a thing.
I have a IRL friend that is like that and it is infuriating trying to have a discussion about anything that isnt important to a story im trying to tell him because if I so much as use a name of a person he stops me and asks if he needs to remember this person and what their relationship is to others in the story thusfar or to come, to the point that now I borrowed a trait from Newbie Star Trek on youtube and anyone I deem unimportant to story in terms of importance to tell the story itself, they are all named “Tim.”
And the same occurs for him if I use an idiom he doesnt know the etymology of already. This one I think can be fair but most of them he already has heard and understands but now Ive instigated an opportunity to research the etymology of it instead of hearing what I have to say out and just putting that thought on the backburner til Im done. He hard stops all my attempts to tell the narrative until this new side-quest of his has been turned in yet.
So I do know that google addicts exist, I try my best not to become one.
I mean, it’s all good and well to know that the best time to open Standard packs is late March
but um that really doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with why one would choose to buy a Standard pack over a particular expansion pack.
I think Cheezus had the actual best case answer to that tho.
Good enough reason if I ever saw one that just needed to be good enough, lol.