@bisonhero: Yeah you're correct as far as I understand the system. If you want golden Rag or golden Sylv for wild/tavern brawl, that's the way to go.
Honestly I'm pretty ok about the end of adventures. Obviously the value return for gold spent was on average higher than buying packs, but it never FELT that way in my heart so I always ended up talking my way into just spending real money. I don't know why but I have no problem saving gold for packs but hate saving gold for adventures. Pretty dumb!
@therealmoot: Yeah right now if you don't have Rag or Sylvanas crafting them will result in a net dust gain if you don't intend to keep them for playing in wild. You can actually profit from crafting any of the hall of fame cards you don't already have, but the profit scales pretty hard with rarity. If you had 3200 dust sitting around right now and don't currently have one of those legendaries it is 100% the correct move to craft one of them golden, as it results in a full refund plus a profit of 1600 dust when the rotation hits.
The generosity is probably in part a result of all the heat Hearthstone has been fielding from various corners of the internet. They've had a lot of mud slung at them from places like reddit and a move like this is a solid hearts and minds thing that doesn't cost them anything. And as has been pointed out above it's an incentive to grow the wild playerbase.
A bit of clarification regarding the "Hall of Fame" cards. Once the rotation happens they will still be available to both craft and disenchant as normal, the dust being given is an incentive for players to keep the cards for wild play. Also, gold copies will be prioritized over normal copies. For example I have 2 regular and 2 golden Azure Drakes, so I will automatically receive the full dust value for the 2 golden copies and would be free to dust however many of the 4 of them I wish for their regular disenchant value. That's my understanding based on some quick confirmations Ben Brode gave on twitter.
@mezza: Conceal is being sent to the hall of fame because it's hyper uninteractive, especially for classes like Druid who have very limited aoe options. This stops Rogues from being able to Gadgetzan Auctioneer and Conceal to ensure massive miracle draw turns, or stealthing a huge Van Cleef/Questing Adventurer to set up multi turn lethals that can't be stopped.
@megabattimus: I just finished playing through it the other day, and having known not one single thing about the first two witchers I was totally fine. They give a decent amount of context for Geralts various relationships naturally throughout the story, and extra history and finer details are available in a character lore menu. There's a few story beats that are tied to decisions from witcher 2, but they let you manually make the handful of decisions in a short cutscene, and honestly no matter what you decide the changes are pretty minor.
Dan is a food lunatic in a general sense, but in this one area he's 100% correct. The milk gets weird, it just does. It doesn't taste or feel like regular ass milk anymore and its very unpleasant. I do agree that pouring it out is a waste, but with decades of practice I can more or less hit the correct ratio of milk to cereal and waste very little. That's good clean living.
Though the podcasts are essential and reliable and Good, full play throughs (in their many forms) are comfortably the most entertaining things the site produces. In particular the 6-8 month run where gbeast got through Contradiction, Until Dawn, Life is Strange and I think 2 Castlevanias was maybe the best sustained string of content the site has ever produced. With the notable exception of MGS 5 the whole lot of lets plays here are very much my shit, and reason enough to keep me buying premium for as long as I can foresee.
Definitely 1 trillion percent not participating in this. I think it's good and important to note that they came straight out and said that if you aren't a proper ass competitive player, this mode is NOT for you. For the average person it looks like this could be akin to just tearing up a 10 dollar bill for grins.
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