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r/hearthstone•
Polymerabbit

If you are free to play it will take about 1.5 years to get enough dust for all of the golden Naxx cards.

Assumptions:

Card Rarities:

  • 6 legendaries
  • 5 epics (1 per wing)
  • 5 rares (1 per wing)
  • 14 commons (1 per wing + 9 class cards)

If they cost the same amount to craft as regular cards then this would bring the total crafting cost for a golden Naxx set to 36,800 dust.

Dust per pack:

  • 109 (I remember seeing this number in a big post on the topic a while back).

Definition of free to play:

  • Only logs on once a day to complete the daily quest, re-rolls all 40g quests and never plays arena.

This would mean that it would that you'd have to open roughly 338 packs to receive enough dust to craft all of the golden Naxx cards.

Calculating the gold earned per quest (including the 3 wins bonus):

There are 25 different quests: 1 100g quest, 9 60g quests and 15 40g quests. Once you include the win bonus they become 123.33g, 76.67g and 50g quests (for the 40g quests I've just assumed that they take 3 wins to complete).

If you're re-rolling a quest then the value of that quest becomes:

(123.33 + 9 * 76.67 + 15 * 50) / 25 = 62.53g

I've assumed that only 40g quests are re-rolled so gold values of the possible quests become 62.53, 76.67 and 123.33. Using this we can calculate the average value of a quest:

(123.33 + 9 * 76.67 + 15 * 62.53) / 25 = 70.05g

Calculating the number of days/quests required to get enough dust for a full gold Naxx set:

100 / 70.05 = 1.43 (number of quests required for a pack)

338 * 1.43 = 483.34

EDIT: Accidently used 109 as the gold cost for a pack.

Posted Jul 9, 2014, 1:25 AM UTC · edited

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kingoftown•

Definition of free to play: Only logs on once a day to complete the daily quest, re-rolls all 40g quests and never plays arena.

How long will it take to get all golden non-naxx cards?!? This post is retarded. There has got to be 0.01% of the hearthstone population that is both free to play AND collecting all golden cards.

The people that care about all golden decks are the same people willing to spend cash to get it. That has always been the definition of gold/foil/shiny/etc cards in any CCG.

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Thrormurn•

But beating the Heroic Mode would be far more difficult am i right Blizzard? ... -.-

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scottjl•

Shrug. They are golden, big deal. I'd be quite happy with a full set of regular cards. Not everyone needs golden.

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dubesor86•

So... are you asking to get all the cards, and all expansions, and all golden cards/useless vanity items for free in a short amount of time?

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CFDragon06•

almost... if you really meant # of quests required for a pack, a pack only costs 100 gold, not 109. 109 is the avg. dust gained from a pack.

edit: unless there is an inherent conversion from packs to dust value?

no you are already working in packs so that should be 100 in the second to last equation, not 109

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PolymerabbitOP•

Oops. Thanks for catching that :)

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CFDragon06•

Np, now you're just looking at a year and four months...

Guess I won't be getting a golden collection anytime soon. Fun problem to think through tho ;)

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ploki122•

With a bit of luck, there is a legendary for owning the other 29 cards, and getting the whole kit would take you 41 days less...

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CFDragon06•

All 30 cards are accounted for as rewards, one reward from the leak grants you 2 legendaries at once because they are synergistic with each other

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PolymerabbitOP•

Nope, the mystery 30th card was made known with that massive leak. It turns out that one of the wings has a pair of legendaries as it's reward, so there will be 6 legendary cards in naxx but only 5 legendary rewards.

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bygeorge2512•

It looks like you didn't take into account that you need to craft 2 copies of each of the non-legendary cards.

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Kijon•

So 3 years? Sounds reasonable. o_o

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Niklink•

I ended up with the same numbers as you under different assumptions.

We already know there will be 6 legendaries in Naxx. I am assuming there will be 6 epics, 6 rares, 12 commons. A pretty reasonable guess. Now, how much is that in dust? Just under 58,000 arcane dust.

A competent player could collect dust fairly quickly in Arena mode, but since we're talking about players unable to complete Naxx Heroics, we're going to assume Arena isn't profitable for them. So how much time does it take in normal Play mode to collect 58,000 dust? Another calculation:

Assuming a 50% win rate, each week having 5 40g quests and 2 60g quests, and the average game taking 10 minutes, it takes 5 hours of play each day to collect 100g to buy a pack. Each pack of cards has been shown to contain, on average, 110 raw arcane dust. To collect enough dust to craft all the Naxxramas cards, you would need to play 5 hours a day for around 18 months.

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Shoxxz•

I dont think its a goal to have all golden Cards for a free2play Player anyways. At least a not that serious one.

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