Pack Opening Thread -Barren Edition

Submitted 2 years, 11 months ago by

Since no one did this yet, let me start!

111 packs bought with gold.

Completed the commons in 29, the rares in 56.

22 epics, one of which is golden.

9 legendaries, one of which is a golden Kazakus, Golem Shaper.

I'm very happy with the results, and I wish you were as lucky.

  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Since no one did this yet, let me start!

    111 packs bought with gold.

    Completed the commons in 29, the rares in 56.

    22 epics, one of which is golden.

    9 legendaries, one of which is a golden Kazakus, Golem Shaper.

    I'm very happy with the results, and I wish you were as lucky.

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  • Nuagoo's Avatar
    370 117 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    158 packs here (preorder+gold) +5 golden packs from the preorder which I do not account for here:

    • 8 Legendaries (one of my worst openers in an expansion), none of which is golden
    • 37 Epics, one of which is golden

    But I did get my Go-To Legendaries already before opening any packs as part of the preorder, so I guess I'm fine with it

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  • SLima's Avatar
    The Undying 560 415 Posts Joined 08/17/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I opened 70 packs with only gold. I got 3 legendaries: Mordresh Fire Eye (okay), Firemancer Flurgl (terrible for me, won't use at all) and Scabbs Cutterbutter (fine as well). I will probably craft Xyrella and Overlord Saurfang. I never count the amount of epics i get but it felt like a decent enough amount. It was fine, overall. Not great but not bad.

    "True mastery takes dedication."

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  • MisterFerro's Avatar
    Charmander 395 129 Posts Joined 09/06/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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  • Live4vrRdieTryn's Avatar
    500 924 Posts Joined 07/14/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Around 80 packs opened and 3 Leg's. Game hates me.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5543 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Looks like lady luck just rang by as I opened my packs.

    Got 10 legendaries in like 85 packs. Don't know how it happened, but this is the best opening day I ever had.

    Practically missed all the targets on my wish list, but hey, can't complain with results like this.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I opened around 35-40 packs and have only gotten 2 legendaries so far. But I have gotten a surprising 11 epics, two of which were golden. My legendaries were Firemancer Flurgl and Barak Kodobane, both of which were on my wish list. I also got this wonderful pack:

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • NegativeNemsy's Avatar
    405 206 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I bought the $50 bundle.  Cariel Roame and Mordresh Fire Eye were my free Legendaries.

    Opened 67 packs so far.  4 legenadaries: Tamsin Roame, Plaguemaw the Rotting (golden), Kazakus, Golem Shaper, and Serena Bloodfeather.  16.75 packs per legendary. Great except for Serena.  I also opened 2 year of phoenix packs and landed a Vectus.  I was extremely happy about that!

    As for the epics,  I opened 11 out 67 which is around 1 in 6 packs.  I think that is also way above average but I can't remember what the timer is for epics.  I didn't get a lot of the ones I really wanted but no complaints. Oh!  Except for the fact that I opened a Primordial Protector which everyone gets at levels 65 and 75.  I would have thought these cards would have been taken out of the pool until we got them on the track.  I think epics are generally the hardest to collect completely.  I feel like I am now down 1 epic and am wondering if I should risk opening more packs until I get to those levels.  This is the kind of 'nickel and diming' that players do not like.  The game is expensive enough. 

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  • Synnr7's Avatar
    Winter Whisperer 1040 624 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I bought the Pass but did not Pre-order. I had about 4300 gold going into the expansion. I already did some rewards track and used some of that gold. Opened about 50 packs.

    Tamsin Roame

    Bru'kan

    Plaguemaw the Rotting (This may have been my level 20 track reward)

    Kurtrus Ashfallen

    Also crafted Overlord Saurfang just because. Loving that deck. Got to my highest rank so far piloting it and 1 day away from new month.

    So 3 legendaries opened. Didn't do too bad. Still have enough dust for another 2 legendaries if I want. Thinking of going back to craft Scholomance stuff I missed as I feel I got the least from their last year. I haven't used all the legends I got yet, plus all the free ones in Core, this feels really good. I got a lot of new toys, I'll be busy for a while.

    Also Nozdormu the Eternal is going in most of my decks so far! Sadly only matched up with one Noz player. And  yes I'm always in ranked. Speed stone lets go!

    Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast. 

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  • anchorm4n's Avatar
    Toybox Tactician 1895 2305 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I think I'm more or less in dapperdog's boat this time:

    Big preorder bundle = 85 Barrens packs (5 of them golden, nothing of note in there)

    Another 40 packs with gold = 125 Barrens packs total

    1 Priest pack and 6 Rogue packs from book of heros and Gladiator Valeera bundle

    Results were golden Cannonmaster Smythe and Barak Kodobane from the preorder, Death Speaker Blackthorn, Guff Runetotem, Tavish Stormpike, Cariel Roame, a golden Xyrella, Apothecary Helbrim, Scabbs Cutterbutter from a Rogue pack, Tamsin Roame and Blademaster Samuro which was basically a wildcard because I bought the Tavern Pass this time.

    Definitely a great opening, but all the wrong cards for me with the exception of Tavish and Scabbs. I day 1 crafted both Mage legendarys and might add what's need for the 12 angry orcs deck plus Kazakus.

    I notice I am confused. Something I believe isn't true. How do I know what I think I know?
    Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, hpmor.com

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  • Bluelights's Avatar
    425 397 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    My luck seemed to have been all over the place, got a bit unlucky with the pre-order, but in the 100 packs with gold I got like 10 legendaries with 3 of them being gold. All in all not too shabby

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    The droprate for epics is 1 in 5, the pity timer for epics is 10. So you're a bit below average.

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  • JodyV's Avatar
    Pikachu 400 206 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I've opened 70 packs so far and got 3 Legendaries...

    The following statement has no grounds but:

    This is the first time I've opened all packs on my phone and it feels like the drop rate is worsened somehow.

    I've been here a while; just hanging out in the background. 

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  • Alleria's Avatar
    Eevee 1275 863 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I´ve bought 112 packs with gold, opened 8 legendaries (but not the ones I wanted, sigh), have all commons, all rares, missing 10 epics (none was golden). Not too bad I guess.

    ♡ u 4ever 2008 - 2022

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Opened 74 packs (all gold) and got 6 legendaries (minus mankrik and vol'jin ofc). 23 epics with 2 golden. I got lucky, very lucky.

    Best pack and I'm stoked:

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  • TyrionFordLannister's Avatar
    165 11 Posts Joined 07/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Opened 100 packs and got 9 legendaries, 3 of which were golden, and another 2 were in the same pack. Considering I didn't spend any real money this is probably the best pack opening I've had.

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I usually buy both preorders and all gold is spent on day 1 on packs. 

    This time I had 145 packs from preorders + 140 from gold and I was quite happy, because I was able to get a complete set without crafting anything. 

    Next time I will not but the small preorder, with Tavern pass change it is not needed anymore.

    Actually, I have one legendary thrice (and only this one) - I got the golden one from preorder golden cards and the regular one as first duplicate from Reward track at level 20 :-)

    At Reward track I'm at level 30 after saving the dailies and weeklies

     

     

    -=alfi=-

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From NegativeNemsy

     

    As for the epics,  I opened 11 out 67 which is around 1 in 6 packs.  I think that is also way above average but I can't remember what the timer is for epics.  I didn't get a lot of the ones I really wanted but no complaints. Oh!  Except for the fact that I opened a Primordial Protector which everyone gets at levels 65 and 75.  I would have thought these cards would have been taken out of the pool until we got them on the track.  I think epics are generally the hardest to collect completely.  I feel like I am now down 1 epic and am wondering if I should risk opening more packs until I get to those levels.  This is the kind of 'nickel and diming' that players do not like.  The game is expensive enough. 

    The pity timer for epics is average 1 in 5, but guaranteed 1 in 10. So your epic drop rate was about average.

    As for the golden epic thing, I also opened a Primordial Protector and faced a similar dilemma. Think of it like this, nothing was taken away from the rewards track to give us these golden cards, they were added on for free. So while it is annoying to open an epic that you would have gotten for free, just remember that getting excess cards for free is better than not getting any free cards. Also keep in mind that up until about a year ago, opening third copies of epics could happen all the time. I am kind of annoyed at getting uncraftable cards, but it isn't a huge issue.

    It would have been nice if instead of pre-determined golden cards, it just gave you a random uncraftable golden card of a specific rarity, or if they were disenchantable. But like I said, these golden cards were added to the track for free with nothing subtracted. 

    One thing that should be fixed though is how multiple copies of cards are displayed in the collection. It was mildly annoying to have two copies of the basic set, but now with the core set and the golden core set you can have four copies of a card sitting in your collection. Blizzard should find a way to condense all versions of a card into one slot in your collection. It would save so much space.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Riffraff's Avatar
    755 370 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I opened a total of 243 Barrens packs yesterday (140 from the pre-orders, 100 from gold, and 3 from a lapsed Arena run and the two that you get early in the Rewards track). I was very fortunate to get the entire set except for two legendaries: Xyrella and Guff Runetotem. I also had the 5 golden packs from the large pre-order bundle. It's the second expansion in a row where my pack opening has been really excellent - averaged a legendary in just over every 15 packs. 

    I had one pack with two legendaries in it, and opened a golden Scabbs Cutterbutter in another.

    Given how well Day One went, I won't need to buy any other Barrens based bundles to target guaranteed legendaries, and will either eventually craft the two I am missing or use dust to backfill my Wild/Classic collection a little more.

    As I, and many people have said before, duplicate protection on all rarities of cards has been one of the best things Blizzard has done for how the HS economy "feels" to paying players like me. Getting 100% of rares in about 60 packs and 100% of epics in a set in about double that feels way better than getting stuck with 4 copies of Furnacefire Colossus or Sul'thraze!

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From KANSAS
    Quote From NegativeNemsy
     

    One thing that should be fixed though is how multiple copies of cards are displayed in the collection. It was mildly annoying to have two copies of the basic set, but now with the core set and the golden core set you can have four copies of a card sitting in your collection. Blizzard should find a way to condense all versions of a card into one slot in your collection. It would save so much space.

    This should be fixed in the future.

    Blizzard: Other things to know about 20.0:

    • Duplicate cards from the Core Set and Wild can show 4 times in the Collection Manager. This is something we’re looking to change in the future.

     

    -=alfi=-

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  • h0lysatan's Avatar
    Zombie 1065 790 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    No Pre-purchased Bundle, No mega Bundle. Pure gold. 90 packs.

    Got 6 legendaries (No golden)
    22 Epic (1 golden)
    Complete Rares and Commons)

    Totally average. a bit better from my worst pack opening in Uldum expac.
    Still saving 5000 gold for miniset, in case the price get more expensive.

    EDIT, I know I only play Standard my whole life, I know I can get about 30K dust for all cards from Dragon Year and Classic. I could then craft all the missing cards from Barrens. But I just can't press that disenchant button for some reason. Very heavy decision.

    Knowledge is Power

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  • griffior's Avatar
    925 330 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Got the mega bundle, and had enough gold for 140+ packs.

    Got a legendary in each of my golden packs, and got a complete FitB collection

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  • Halvard's Avatar
    Snow-Covered 385 46 Posts Joined 06/08/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I opened 90 packs bought with gold.

    Got 5 legendaries. Golden Flurgl and regular Obama (barack kodobane), Xyrella, Saurfang and Canonmaster.

    And i got Kazakus free frol the lvl 25 battle pass.

    Crafted Mordresh fire eye and will craft Tamsin Roame and Kargal Battlescar. So I am really happy with what i got

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  • MisterFerro's Avatar
    Charmander 395 129 Posts Joined 09/06/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    I opened my 1st pack from seasonal rewards and twas a good pack!!:

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  • agentmcr's Avatar
    495 40 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From Live4vrRdieTryn

    Around 80 packs opened and 3 Leg's. Game hates me.

    This

    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

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  • Tetsuo's Avatar
    Magma Rager 840 638 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 11 months ago

    Opened 100 packs from in-game gold, and only got 4 legendaries.

    Kurtrus Ashfallen

    Mordresh Fire Eye

    Scabbs Cutterbutter

    Xyrella

    Oh well, at least they're the powerful ones. I might buy the tavern pass and one of the bundles they release, hopefully they still include free legendaries in those. 

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