Sure, but a spell “cooldown” should be independent of how long an animation happens to take.

Yes to turning off animations. Easily the most annoying part of Hearthstone. Sometimes I run out of time because the animation blocks the cards I need to click on next!

A solid and fair take. Let’s hope Blizzard keeps iterating and exceeds our expectations by the end of the rotation. Doing more stuff (such as weekly quests) to get the same gold and just a few extra old packs isn’t good enough. So hopefully they can do better than that.

New arena doesn’t start until 11/17 according to patch notes, so if it does reset it will be in a week when the xpack releases, not on patch day.

I’m sure they meant for this to be a mid-August bundle after pre-orders closed, just like they did the Year of the Dragon bundle in mid-April. They don’t want this bundle to compete with pre-orders, but as a second chance for people to invest in packs.

Don’t forget to mention that there were first time rewards for hitting each rank for everyone. There may be less incentive to climb this month when you only get the end of month rewards, or first time rewards for new ranks you didn’t reach last time.

I never said I did not contribute. However, I have a f2p account, and also I like to play on other servers where I am f2p. And let’s point out that you could pre-order but not order the “extra” money/gold sink and be non-competitive with the meta. Pay to win, indeed.

Interesting that of the 3 decks that look solid heading into the rotation, none are f2p-friendly. Rogue is expensive requiring multiple legendary cards for an optimal list, and both dragon hunter and embiggen druid rely on cards behind a paywall or hefty 2800 gold investment.

2nd paragraph “We have some more interesting news to share. First of all – Year of the Raven will add a bunch of interesting functions and things that players have been asking for years.” Should be Year of the Dragon.