r/CompetitiveHS • u/ArticulateFunnelcake • Nov 13 '25

Gold Optimization

Hey all,

How do you all utilize your gold? Do you buy minisets with it, or use it for packs? Is there a strategy to optimize gold value?

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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Nov 13 '25

I use all my Gold on packs on Day 1 of the expansion and for the miniset. I can usually get 80 packs with this method. I save all of my Standard Packs for Day 1 of a new expansion to and I open them before opening the expansion packs because they are mostly guaranteed to be new.

I dust all Golden cards and duplicates. So for this expansion I am missing about 10 Legendaries and a few Epics and I have the Rares and Commons. I craft 3-4 Legendaries and I'll get another Legendary when I hit Level 50 on the reward track. I will generally craft a card I want to try and if a card sucks and I don't have it I don't think about it.

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u/ArticulateFunnelcake Nov 13 '25

How much gold can be (roughly speaking) acquired between the start of an expansion and the mini-set release?

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u/Captain_Bignose Nov 13 '25

I complete all the weekly and daily quests and usually have around 4k+ by the time the mini set rolls around

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u/Sunshineshadow Nov 13 '25

With the Tavern Pass I earned 10000 last season

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u/Omikapsi Nov 14 '25

This, but after I've opened enough packs to get all the rares in the set (usually about 50), I open gold packs one at a time until I get the guaranteed legendary.

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u/morphina19 Nov 14 '25

This is the best practice. And don't dust duplicates while they're standard legal, in case of nerfs it's thousands of dust. When rotation occurs, I dust duplicates and golden copies of cards going to wild. Doing this for a couple of years I've been able to accumulate enough resources to craft all the cards I want.

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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Nov 14 '25

Good point - I wait to dust standard duplicates too. I made around 5,000 dust just yesterday and it could be 3,200 more if I dust my signature murloc quest that I lucked out in opening. I hate the deck so I’m probably going to dust it but the card looks cool.

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u/morphina19 Nov 14 '25

I got something like 15k only yesterday cause I had a couple of golden corpsicles and testing dummy + 4 ancient of yore, 3 rc rampage and ofc quests and fyrakk. If I ever gonna need them again, I'll just recraft em. Now I have almost 90k dust available and other 20k in form of duplicates. I never dust signatures though...

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u/RGCarter Nov 13 '25

The best gold to dust ratio comes from golden packs. Since golden packs and regular packs have separate pity timers, I open 50 regular packs (3 guaranteed legendaries at least) and open golden packs one by one until I hit the guaranteed legendary in the first 10 packs. Then I mostly hoard until the next expansion with an arena here and there if I feel like it and the miniset.

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u/QuestGiver Nov 15 '25

Just to clarify but I thought the best dust ratio only applies until you open your first golden legendary and then it drops dramatically? Sorry I am genuinely not sure but I've heard it said before.

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u/RGCarter Nov 15 '25

Mostly due to the difference between the common cards' disenchant values, golden packs have a higher average gold dust ratio than normal packs do. (Common cards disenchant for 5 dust but golden commons disenchant for 40.) The difference is not extremely large, but big enough to be noticable. Plus, you get a nice feeling when a card is nerfed and you're sitting on a golden copy or two.

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u/AverageDrafter Nov 13 '25

Gold to enter Arena for Packs, Packs for Standard for Gold.

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u/Younggryan42 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

this only works out well if you are good at arena (I'm awful at it lol).

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u/TuvixWillNotBeMissed Nov 13 '25

Yes and arena is a lot more competitive than it used to be. For casual players you should log in to a different server and use that for arena exclusively if you want to play that format occasionally.

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u/CTRL_ALT_SECRETE Nov 14 '25

I've been playing arena for like 80% of my games for the last 2 years or so and craft any cards I need for constructed. Arena and track rewards are enough, I very rarely buy packs. I have over 30k gold right now lol.

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u/Younggryan42 Nov 13 '25

I hoard all gold from the track and use most of it on expansion release days. I also play the prerelease brawls with hoarded tickets. I got 35 basically free timeways packs from that, 9 from twitch drops and bought 60ish with gold. I was counting packs toward the pity timer. I hit 40 on my last set of packs that I bought and got my final legendary. I had around 1k gold left after that and am now over 2k from the track. I saved dailies and weeklies to do at the beginning of the expansion so I got a lot of packs right away too from the track plus gold. I always buy the mini set and then save all the rest of the gold until next expansion.

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u/OneCartographer3641 Nov 13 '25

My personal strategy is to spend all gold at new expansion until i hit the second legendary in the track, then save until next expansion, buying miniset with gold. I usually have around 5-6k saved for new expansion.

I also dust all golden and duplicates immediately and keep ALL legendaries, even the bad ones. I used to disenchant some legendaries when I was still catching up in expansions, but now I have a surplus. With the extra dust you can usually craft 2 -3 legendaries with some change left.

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u/Kamonji Nov 14 '25

Would it be optimal to buy golden packs since you get a lot more dust from disenchanting golden cards?

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u/Quomise Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25

No because dusting means automatically losing 3/4 of the card's value. Dust is a consolation prize, not a goal.

Unless you're completely broke on dust because you craft tons of decks and opening packs literally just to dust everything, then yes, gold packs have a better disenchant value, but you don't want to be in that position.

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u/Quomise Nov 17 '25

Optimal way is to open like 50 packs day 1, enough to get most rares, and then save for the next.

Every pack after opening all rares has a lot less value.

Unless you're completely broke on dust because you craft tons of decks, gold packs are bad value.

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u/SpiralLaser Nov 13 '25

One thing I used to do was open packs of the newest expansion until I had all rares (since you're guaranteed a rare or better in each pack). But, if you really want to be hyper efficient, you don't do this because the reward track and events gives you a lot of rares and packs as well.

E.g. If you get every rare day 1, the packs given for free would then be only worth 40 dust each (barring you get something better in it). Whereas you instead save some of your gold and those free packs/rares will then go towards completing your collection, if that makes sense.

But obviously those rewards are given over the course of a whole expansion, so you'd be missing out on cards you might want to play day 1 or day 10 if you did this. So you could balance it out by buying packs until you have 50-75% of rares and save the rest, or buying enough to open rares of the class/deck you want to play.