To those of you who spend the majority of your time in the wild format:
Which packs do you buy? At this point in time, do you find it best to target specific sets to get the sparse few legendaries you actually want in them or do you bulk order classic packs for the dust?
There are several important legendaries from various sets that I’m after and I’m unsure of how best to approach the situation.
Well most of us who play wild already had the cards from those sets when they we’re standard.
If you wanna get into wild this is how you might try it.
NUMBER 1.) THE BIG ONE. Play some games in wild first just to make sure you’ll have some degree of fun. Spending money only to hate the wild meta would be an awful feeling.
2.) Do you know about the 10 pack rule for Legendary’s? This works for all wild sets an could help you score some easy cards.
3.) Wild Adventures. Stuff like Naxx an BRM can still be bought from the online store an give you playeable cards, aswell cards you can dust. Overall easy value if you don’t own, an wanna spend money.
Is there certain wild decks you have eyes on? Some decks are easier to get cards for than others. An this info might help us direct you to specific sets to get cards from.
I think ‘Old Gods’ might be good.
1.) I have been playing in wild a bit and I’ve decided to play there as a total replacement for standard. I play hearthstone casually enough to not want to spend the necessary money to adjust to expensive meta shifts with every new release. I appreciate the stable yet more diverse meta that wild offers with the added benefit of earning cards that don’t effectively ‘expire’ after a point.
2.) I’m familiar with that rule but I don’t have tabs on how many packs I’ve accumulated from each set. With the release promotions that have been offering free packs here and there, it’s hard to know if I’m over or under ten.
3.) I’ve purchased and completed all of the old-school adventures that offered guaranteed cards.
Yes, I have my eyes on singelton warlock in particular- which I realize is extremely expensive. I’m okay playing a sub-optimal version of the deck and improving it over time as I earn dust. I also appreciate that the neutral legendaries translate well into singleton decks for other classes like mage.
I’m missing crucial inclusions such as:
I’m also missing Mal’Ganis but crafting him will be a bit more painful seeing as though it can’t fit into other class’ decks and is pretty niche within the warlock kit as well.
OOOOOHHHHHHH!
This is great then, because you covered all the base points. An I love the deck you picked! It’s up there on dust cost though huh? Lol.
Well getting dust for these cards you want maybe spend money on…the newest set since you’d like Zephrys an Siamat. You could get either ya know?
Zephrys an Kazakus are soooooo powerful for Highlander decks. Zilliax is amazing in A LOT of decks an Zola is so good aswell just woooo the choices to make lol. Honestly if you wanna play Renolock get Zephrys an Kazakus first. Those cards are THE CARDS to own for that deck.
Zilliax for sure when ya can, an Zola maybe later? If you really like Renolock I’d make Mal’Ganis before her. I promise that demon is good lol. In more than Renolock aswell.
While I’m not sure what to go for on how to get these specific cards, since Legendary’s are very hit an miss. Trying for any set you have the least cards in is what I’d buy. Options might lead you to other decks aswell etc. Best of luck, hope I helped somewhat.
That’s what I was thinking, but if I have very few cards in a set and the legendaries I want don’t happen to come out of the packs then I’ll hardly get any dust to craft them (seeing as though most of the cards I pull will be brand new to me). It’s very hard to know which route will be most efficient.
For sure, I really appreciate you taking the time to reply.
Just crossed my mind, but if you own any of the upcoming nerfed cards that dust would help a lot crafting the cards you’d like. So Boomsday packs could be a great buy if you wanna try for Booms, Lunas an Zilliax. 
As a general rule of thumb for buying packs of a set, the first 60-80 packs has the biggest payoff for expanding your collection, after that, the value starts to go down as you get more and more duplicates.
I’d second this. (Though TGT? really?)
You are not likely to get the 1 of 3 Old Gods in Whispers of the Old Gods, or the top 3 of Kazakus, Aya, and Patches from MSG in a pack for example, but will get some other legendary.
I’d recommend crafting the few legendaries you are looking for if you don’t get them, probably neutral/tri-class ones before class ones but it also depends on what type of Wild deck you want.
For Wild, Zilliax is less essential than in Standard but still very good. He is just a decent card to have at the 5 mana slot that functions as removal, healing, and stays on the board afterwards.
Probably top priority if you are still missing him out of those 5. I crafted this one Week 1 of Boomsday.
Siamat also functions pretty nicely as board control, or a threat the turn you play him, but being at 7 mana you can adapt your deck without him. I still don’t have this card.
Zola the Gorgon is very useful. Youthful Brewmaster is like a budget replacement but you lose more tempo doing so. I crafted this one as part of Quest Rogue but I ended up using her a lot more in other decks.
Zephrys is quite good, but I think the hype around him is starting to die down. If you just have this one card though, you make a deck with no/few duplicates worth the payoff in the long game. A very cool card.
Kazakus is just so useful, you can play him on Turn 4 and get a 5 mana potion that can deal a lot to your opponent’s board, and that’s just one scenario. I did try the Reno Mage archetype before I crafted him and I did still win, but if you want to play any Reno Mage, Priest, Warlock, he’s high priority.
As an extra read, I go into all the sets here: What to buy in wild packs - #6 by Jonius-11264
I agree, Kazakus will be my first craft seeing as though I don’t need many other cards from his set and because he’s so crucial to the archetype and usable by other classes. Luckily, I do have enough dust at the moment for one legendary.
I think I’ll buy packs from the latest set seeing as it’s the only one that contains more than one legendary that I need. After that, I’ll just have to craft whatever I’m missing on by one over time rather than attempt to buy them.
In the meantime, I do have complete big priest, zoo warlock, and jade druid decks that I can enjoy in the format.
This:
http:// wildhs .com/ultimate-budgeting-guide-for-wild/ (Remove spaces)
-was an excellent resource that you shared in the response you linked, as well as the response itself. Thank you for that.
my crafting order of those would be
Kazakus>Zephyrys> Zola<>Siamat>Zilliax
Kazakus and Zephy are mandatory for those that can run em.
The latter three are debatable.
Zola is usefull but not eccential.
Siamat is a big one but there are also other things like Ragnaros(nice after DK)
And as mentioned above Zilliax aint as strong in Wild as it is in STD.
My general rule of pulling packs is to pull enough till I reach the common and rare floor, in which 90+% cards I pull are duplicates. I usually just set an arbitrary amount of 4-6 legendary cards which will often mean I pull most of the common and rares along the way. Assuming you do daily quests and play a fair amount, I would pull from the current set till about one to two months before the next release, in which I start saving gold for the next release so that I can open new cards on day one, in then I repeat this cycle.
Before the standard rotation, I look at the sets and decide if there is an extremely busted set full of good cards where the epics and legendary cards outweigh the duplicates you would pull from common and rares. Examples of this would be KoFT, where Hero Cards are pretty much autoincluded for most decks and classes in the Wild Format.
Never buy classic packs. These are a waste. You get 40+ from Tavern Brawls, Spectators, and Adventure Quests. If you’re short on Classic Packs cause you just started, follow the same rule I said above and then resume with the current expansion.
Update: I pulled Zephrys from the explorer bundle and Reno the Relicologist too for a nice head start on singleton mage too. 
You may wanna take a read on these although they are outdated but you’re diving into wild anyway 
http://wildhs.com/wild-hearthstone-guide-for-new-players/
http://wildhs.com/ultimate-budgeting-guide-for-wild/
I play mostly wild and started with the Old Gods (awesome expansion) so I was and still am missing some really strong cards. I wouldn’t advice you to spend money on packs but rather use your dust to create exactly what you need because all sets have certain amazing cards and they’re spread out fairly evenly (unless we’re talking about the Grand Tournament … I don’t think there are lots of good cards from that one).
IF you want to spend any money, I’d get 10 of each so that you get your guaranteed free legendary in those 10 first packs.
the legendary cards on that set are unINSPIREing 
haha 
GET OUT OF HERE! xD
The best plan for acquiring wild cards? Ill give you out of the box answer.
Buy standard packs.
Its in standard where you usually get bundles, preorder, and deals from blizz. Dont look at individual card on them, look at the number dust you could get. Giving you a good ratio on dust/dollar ratio.
So yeah, the point is buy based on the number of dust you could get. Bundles, preorder, and promo usually the great way to do it.
There is sometime wild bundles blizz offer to us. Tho, not as often as standard.
Just make sure you check the ratio of the said bundles/promo. Use the usual 100dust per pack average.
Oh also, just try to recheck your own first ten pity timer. Buy the stuff again when there is wild bundles again. Make sure you have a notepad for them this time.
I suggest you to go against the risky plan on aiming certain card to open in a pack. You never know when you will get it. Sometime you get lucky, sometime you dont. You just never know.
Better allocate your resource on certain stuff. And crafting a card give you 100% chance to get said card.
Great post. Yep, that’s more or less going to be my strategy from here.
When a new set comes out, I’m going to buy 40 packs with gold which will net a guaranteed two legendaries from the first ten rule and the 30 pack pity timer. Beyond that, any gold spent on packs will be for the classic set just for the dust. Even at 1/4th value, having the flexibility to select the cards you get makes more worthwhile than paying and praying.
The only thing I plan to spend real money on from here will be the occasional wild bundle or other off-the-charts deals. I’ll use Amazon coins for this to stretch my dollar as far as it goes.
I’m also not above disenchanting cards that feel really niche or fit into playstyles that I know I don’t enjoy to finish out a deck I’m excited about. I was able to complete singleton warlock yesterday this way. I do my best not to make a habit of it though- you never know what cards may be printed in the future to make some of these weirder ones viable.
It’s a 40-pack pity timer. First 10, then every 40. Of course, you’re likely to get the legend before the pity count.
Ah, that’s disappointing. 
5k gold for new sets will be the goal then.