Why you need to improve your dust management

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If you think Hearthstone is too expensive, you just need to improve your dust management…

Most players who complain about the cost of Hearthstone, I inspect their collection… They are sitting on tens of thousands of dust… Sometimes more than 200,000 dust… They are rich and don’t even know it…

No need to hoard so many cards, a lot of people are card hoarders, never dust cards they are never gonna use…

Worthless epics you’re not going to use? Dust it…

That abundance of shiny golden cards you never use? Dust them…

I guarantee every one of you reading this have at least 50 epics that you will never use, perhaps some are already wild… DUST THEM

Every day I hear someone complaining about the number of cards

The pros have all the cards they need because they have good dust management, which is a fun resource management component of the game

My friend and I went through our collections the other day and we dusted all of our wild commons and rares and we ended up with so much dust we didn’t even know what to do with it… We had so much dust it was ridiculous, we couldn’t stop laughing because for years we didn’t realize how much wealth we actually had

New quest system is not the problem here, Blizzard, thank you for making this great game for all of us to enjoy. Thank you for the free packs you have awarded us and all the gold. You could give us zero gold and zero free packs if you wanted, but you gave us packs generously and I appreciate it

I also love the new quest system, I love looking at my future rewards and I always check the progress, leveling up is easy I am already level 24 after just a few days

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lol sounds kinda like a get rich infomercial. I definitely dust any goldens I get. Of course, don’t complain when you can’t play duels because you dusted all your wilds.

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I pay 300 a year. I want for that abudance! Not to trying to find unfinished cigarette lying on the ground.

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Well, dusting golden cards if you have normal versions - is fine for me. But dusting cards which are not currently in use - awful idea.
Are you a fortune teller? Do you know which cards be viable after future nerf? Or in future tavern brawls? Or in duels? Oh, did they release some new broken cards and whole wild meta has been turned upside down because of them and bunch of old cards becomes viable again? Too bad for you since you dusted everything you supposed to be irrelevant.
If you’re married on the standart ladder and don’t let yourself watch to other modes because it’s cheating - fine for you, I think.
But I don’t like standart ladder and I suppose I’m not the only one. And I don’t like to feel myself miserable when funny tavern brawl appear and I don’t have exact card I dusted some time ago, because I thought nobody plays it ever.

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Shankar, don’t need to be a fortune teller, just need to use common sense
I’m saying dust the cards that are no longer standard
If you want to play wild, all you need to know is that if the power level of the card is not insanely high, dust it, it won’t be used in wild…

Dusting cards like Ravenholdt assassin or magnataur alpha is not a risky decision lol

Nerfs don’t make subpar cards playable…

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Well, I do remember some tavern brawls where magnataur alpha took place.
If stealth rogue took some love as well probably ravenhold assasin will also find a spot in this wild version of the deck one day. Who knows?

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Well, there is no right answer for this :slight_smile:
E.g. me: in the past, I have dusted lots of cards without thinking. Now, I regret it. I even switched to CCG-mode and started rebuilding my dusted collection, but that is the “crazy me”.

As others mentioned, there are Duels and Tavern Brawls where Wild cards can be used, but of course, some players do not play these modes.

In addition, Wild is a lot of fun - I enjoy it more than Standard, but of course, some people prefer Standard.

In addition, we never know what card can become good in Wild, but of course, there are some cards which will not 99% :slight_smile:

Anyway, Hearthstone IS expensive :slight_smile: Luckily, I do not play other games with an exception of Entropia Universe, so I can spend money in HS. I undestand that others can’t.

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Well, I’m agree with you, but disagree with topic starter.
Don’t like people who teaching another how and what to do without asking.
We all have our preferences and abilities.
If dusting works for him - fine. If he want to share - I don’t mind if he speaks about his own experience with pros and cons of this behavior.
But when someone start pointing me what I shall use and what I won’t - the first reaction is quite negative at least.

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Yeah, he could have phrased that differently :slight_smile:

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Worthless epics you’re not going to use? Dust it…

And then cry when you are handicapped in the duels mode. Blizzard greed is very smarter than the geniuses like you my man. They thought of a way to make you craft cards you will never use just to have access to more stuff in Duels. For added benefit, did you guys know Transfer Student does not count toward the 20 epic card requirement for unlocking more treasures in Duels? This is the greedy monster we are dealing with here.

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lol I’m not keeping hundreds of dollars worth of cards I’m never going to use (Tavern brawls don’t count, not worth my time)

I’m a dust investor… Your problem, Shankar, is you think the only risk comes from dusting a card… You do not realize that by keeping assets (valuable yet useless cards) you are also running a risk (keeping something valuable that may never be used)

There is also an opportunity cost to hoarding cards. Keeping bad cards hoarded in your collection is costing you the opportunity to make the deck you really want to play… In 5 years I always prioritized aggressive dusting for competitive ranked decks, as a result, my win rates increases, gold increased, after 5 years of doing this, my collection is looking pretty bare, yet I’m always living with an abundance of dust to craft whatever my heart desires

Here are an example of some legendaries that I dusted from adventures:

Stallag
Fuegen
Elise Starseeker
Rend Blackhand
Nefarian (I hate dusting dragons, but it was necessary)
Rafaam (the league of explorers one)

I also nerfed naga sea witches for an easy 200 dust… “Oh but what if it’s good in wild one day and they nerf it?” – It was good in wild for a spell, but it took years for it to happen and when it did, they fixed the issue with a patch, not a nerf, which means no full dust refund for sea witch…

Meaning that investors who sat on sea witch for 4 years hoping it would appreciate in value got HOSED

Now if you have fun building a collection for the joy of collecting, all the power to you

if you enjoy bringing out your collection to try to have an edge in tavern brawl or
duels, all the power to you

(I don’t play duels btw, not everyone follows the latests fads)

My advice is for people who are not collectors, people who just want to be economically and competitively viable on ranked

Keeping useless epics, rares, legendaries, heck, even commons, just to do well in a tavern brawl… That’s not impressive from an investment standpoint because you can win the brawl and get the pack just by playing a friend with any deck, good or not

So for the spikes or the hearthstone dust investors of the world, do NOT freeze up your dust assets just for a tavern brawl… Not a good investment

For dust investors who hoard cards hoping they’ll get nerfed - It’s a wise approach in the short term, long-term, not so much

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Hearhstone is very expensive if you spend $45 on an expansion and only have 1/3 of the cards of less. I built two new decks I liked on hearthpwn and now have no dust after opening 80 packs.

Also, not everyone wants to dust all their wild cards as wild is a fun mode to play.

If you’re spending $45 for an expansion you should get a large majority of the content in that expansion. There really is no excuse for that.

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This limits your decks in wild and duels. If you don’t want to play either modes then im sure there is lots of dust to be made. However, you may get bored of standard and regret dusting all the cards that could be used to make fun decks.
To most people, hearthstone is about having fun with differn’t decks. Not just dusting everything to get the top netdecks of the season.

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WIld is fun, I play it myself… But if you think a wide variety of cards are used in wild, you are sadly mistaken… I could easily give you a list of hundreds and hundreds of wild cards that are safe to dust…

It’s called prioritizing – Choose the wild decks you want to play, dust the wild cards that have no place in them

NPCs like you keep repeating the same talking points… Playing wild is not an excuse for hoarding cards that are not viable… Remember, my advice is for the spikes of the world, not the timmies

I dusted all my unplayable wild commons and rares and from that alone got over 10 thousand dust

By the way you talk, I bet you got at least 50,000 dust worth of cards that aren’t earning their keep… Now if you enjoy collecting, great… but don’t confuse that with good investing

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“NPCs like you keep repeating the same talking points…”

The only “NPC” are people like you who find every excuse in the book to justify getting a fraction of content for the full price of a new game.

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I don’t want my opponents to have all the cards, why would I want them to have that? I like the survival of the fittest situation just fine

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I love these unpopular opinion threads.