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They offer a bunch of events.

These are irregular and tied to specific events, and they also force you to spend time and play just to stay afloat with the increased costs (and when an event or holiday is perceived as compensation for the rip-off rather than a gift, it's not a great indicator). However, they constantly milk players with expansion packs and come up with new ways to extract money every few months.
The meta, as well as the gameplay of many classes, has improved, but this is due to the rotation itself. I can only praise them for finally gathering the courage and imagination after two years (lol) to start creating at least some interesting mechanics.

Overall, I don't care about the high prices because I'm a veteran player, I have a large collection, and I'm also a minimalist, so I don't spread myself thin across a million expensive decks. But the way they are increasingly and more aggressively milking the player base is obvious. I can only sympathize with the F2P newbies without savings and a collection – I feel that starting in 2018 is not as easy as it used to be. But I won't.
However, there is definitely a negative aspect with this expansion – some classes are completely useless for two months because the developers decided so, and then they "fix" it and artificially buff them, so the old favorites fall to the bottom, and everyone rushes to invest in the new ones. This is a completely cancerous design.

To put it simply, if in Heroes 6 you used to feel like a pauper, while in Heroes 7 you felt like a king, then over the past year and a half, the amount of cool stuff in Heroes 6 has increased many times over, and you suddenly feel like a king instead of a pauper. In Heroes 7, that feeling of wealth has somehow disappeared; now you feel like an ordinary person, although in reality, you are probably even richer than in Heroes 6.

kilometers of nerves wasted in three months of neutral crafting...

Well, I don't know, I was annoyed by the neutral blood until it was nerfed, but I was quite okay with the neutral sword (probably because I played with it myself). The dominance of the neutral priest somehow passed me by. And the neutral forest is one of the best decks ever; thanks to it, I came to love this crafting style. (Although its peak of glory came a little later, yes).

The ratio of resources that a player receives to those required for comfortable gameplay has increased fivefold, but the "events" themselves haven't improved. For example, with the release of the new update, quests appeared that rewarded players with private battles and a huge amount of resources just for logging in. But back then, there was only one legendary card per class, and there weren't any weak, low-power legendary cards that were needed in every deck. However, the most telling thing is that before, you could play any class comfortably, but now, if you want to play more than two or three (and even that isn't easy), you have to spend money.

The neutral forest is the only decent neutral creature because of its control ability.

And because it can be easily transported through a portal.

Throughout my time playing the game, I've only encountered a couple of players who use the Portal skill.

Those who stayed up all night, eagerly awaiting the release of the expansion, that was me. My haul from 73 packs: The most important thing: I got a pretty good haul. It could have been better, but it's definitely not as bad as it was with the previous expansion, when I only got two legendaries from 60 packs. I got a lot of good gold, and even a mega-value animated husband-craft. I have a decent number of vials to start with (I'll check for more in the animations), which will be enough for now. Almost all the legendaries I'm missing are from the previous expansion; ideally, I need three or four full sets from there. From earlier expansions, maybe Yorm and Corpse Lord, and perhaps a full set of Snow Queen. But those are things I can live without, and practice has shown that even if I don't have a full set of vials yet, the deck is still quite competitive with just two copies. Thanks, Suckergames, for making it so that out of their 100,500 legendaries, you really only need about half of them. Tomorrow I'll sort through the rest of the goodies.

But this is something you can live without, and practice has shown that even if you don't have a full set of Vials yet, a deck with two copies is still quite competitive.

Well, if by "live" you mean completing daily tasks, then maybe...

Usually, I only feel like playing daily quests/events, and that's enough for me. I watched my animated treasure again. It's worth a globe. Great husbands (except Vayne). Siegfried <3

I opened 20 free packs, got 0 legendaries and 10 gold cards. I certainly won't be opening any more.

Opened 22 packs. 15 were golden, and 0 were legendary.

Now, the only thing left is to figure out how to survive on 70,000 vials for these three months, considering that I need decks for the Portal and Sylvan factions.

5 legendaries from 36 packs: Chimera, Garuda, Proto-Bahich, Animated De La Fil, Animated Aru... basically, a Runecraft girl. It's funny that all of this dropped from 22 free packs, and from the 14 bought with gold, I got 0.

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I think that in the last 3 expansions (including the latest), I've gotten more anime legendaries than in the other 6 (counting the classic ones). And at the same time, legendaries in general seem to drop less often, especially in Chronogenesis.

Legendary pack: Vanya
64 packs of the brigade: Ferry, 3x Arulu, Latham, Adramelech, Purrson, Vira.
Basically, the game wants me to develop Rune and Blood, it's clear.
For now, it's not clear where to put the globe!

By the way, when opening the legendary pack, did the image of the new expansion appear in the background next to the others? I was also thinking of holding off on opening it for a bit until the update comes out, but I figured it would stay in the "TotG - DBNE" range.

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Or, to put it simply, did any new cards appear in it (although they might not have dropped randomly).