You don’t even need to log in right now - you get the bundle just for logging in any time between the 2.0 launch (April 25) and may 22.
It’s an unbelievable offer with enormous value - we’re talking an awful lot of hours worth of play to earn enough gold to unlock all these guys. Stupid, stupidly good deal.
If you’ve ever even **entertained **the notion of maybe possibly playing this game one day, you absolutely want to log in during that window so that you can claim your bundle.
List of bundles here: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/megabundles/
I need to figure out which one has the most heroes that I don’t have yet :).
Make a copy of that and then enter the heroes you own. It’ll tell you which bundle will get you the most value - more heroes doesn’t necessarily mean more gold’s worth of heroes.
Well, the only heroes I don’t own at the moment are 10,000 gold ones, so in my case it does.
I already own most of the heroes I’m actually interested in (or at least, most of the ones I’m interested in that existed while I was still playing), and my valuation of a hero is likely to be uncorrelated to how much they cost. Possibly even anticorrelated, since a hero that I’m only sort-of interested in, I might have bought at 2000 but passed for 10,000.
See, I’m the opposite. I already own most of the heroes I’m interested in so if I’m getting a bunch of free heroes I’d rather get the higher gold value. That spreadsheet tells me that I can get 9 heroes or 7 heroes by choosing one of two bundles, but the 7-hero bundle is worth a lot more gold. Since neither set contains a “must have” hero for me, I’ll probably go with the more valuable one since it will be cheaper to buy from the other if I change my mind in the future.
I’m a bit confused how to work this. Do I type “Abathur” in the “enter owned hero” thing? Just an X? I’m being really dense this morning.
Just put an x into the pink column for each hero you own.
At the bottom, it will tell you the gold value of each bundle, along with how many heroes you’ll get.
I’m torn between the Assassin bundle and the Tanks and Bruisers. Tanks & Bruisers has more that I want (three) and I’m missing 5 total, and two of them are really cheap. But the Assassin has six I don’t have, and they’re all gold expensive. But, I probably won’t ever play them. Decisions, decisions.
They aren’t doing a very good job promoting it. I play Overwatch a lot, and sometimes click through the launcher pages for the other games. The HOTS page just has some general “Check out 2.0” stuff. I only learned of the free packages by clicking on an old WoW bookmark.
I own zero heroes. I guess I’m getting the mixed package. Tempted by Support though. Does the Support list include any heroes of any other kind?
Yeah, if you look at the page I posted above they list 8 guys as either Bruisers or Tanks (Warrior subtypes I guess?) plus there’s Abathur, who is a specialist though he’s basically a support guy if one of a very different kind. No Assassin types though.
To answer your question, all of the packages have really nice mixes of characters. Blizz went all out in making these really, really nice gets.
Anyway, HotS and Overwatch are very different games even though they share some characters. If you’re unfamiliar with MOBAs, you may want to go with something other than Flex.
If you’ve never played a MOBA before, I’d recommend the Tank/Bruiser package. It has some really good beginner characters who are both easy and effective.
After that, the Support/Specialist package has a bunch of supports who are easy to pick up, and also gets you really solid tanks. It might actually be the superior choice.
They Flex package actually contains the most difficult characters in the entire game - characters who can be quite powerful but who also require deep knowledge of the game to use effectively.
Only partially related, but if anybody reading this is under level 10 and is planning on getting more into the game with the overhaul, please consider sending me a message.
I’ll give you a referral code that will net you some free stuff (a stimpack and some heroes, I think) and get ME a space motorcycle mount if you (and several other hypothetical people) ever level up a bit.
Most people who have completed this promotion have done so by making several fake accounts and leveling them up to 10. I can’t be bothered to do that, but if any of y’all are planning on getting into the game anyway, help a Doper out.
So I have a lot of gold saved…in 2.0 the only thing gold will be used for is to buy heroes? And cosmetic stuff will be bought with the new currencies?
So there’s no real reason to save or spend gold now, except you only want to spend gold after you get the free mega-bundle, because you’ll be getting a lot of free heroes.
Or are prices going to be revamped after 2.0?
Apparently you can also spend gold to reroll chest openings - I’m not really clear on how that works or what the expectations there are. But my sense is it’s better to just save the gold for now and see how things shake out.
Gold can be used to re-roll crates that don’t have anything you want in them.
How’d we all do on loot boxes? I got some nice skins, a few cool mounts, and three new characters (Lucio, Probius, and TLV). Lucio was the one character that I really wanted but didn’t get from my megabundle. I may have gotten murky, too. Or maybe I just got murky skins. I can’t remember. Either way, my collection is a lot closer to complete than it was on Monday.
I spent almost 30k gold rerolling, with a huge chunk of that just on my four veteran boxes - if you’re going to get a legendary every single time you may as well reroll until you get a legendary you really want. The strategy I saw on Reddit was, assuming you have enough gold, to always reroll a box if you only get the minimum payout unless you get something you really really want. It worked out okay for me.
If you don’t have the Gazlowe announcer, you should craft the Gazlowe announcer. Some of the funniest content I’ve ever seen from Blizzard.
A buncha skins, some mounts, a few announcers, and zero heroes, but then I think the only heroes I have left are legendaries. I probably should have rerolled my veteran boxes more aggressively.
Just learned something:
If you haven’t done it yet, click the settings button and complete the veteran challenge thing. You’ll get a lootbox with a 7-day stimpack and a hero at minimum.
OK, so I opened up a bunch of lootboxes that I had apparently accumulated and got a lot of stuff. The heroes, skins, and mounts, I understand. And I’m guessing that announcers replace the arena voicetrack (Blackheart or the Queen of Spores or whoever) with someone else. But what the heck are voicelines, sprays, emojis, and banners for?
As an aside, my strategy for re-rolling was to keep it if it contained a hero, a mount, or a skin for a hero I actually use, and to re-roll it if it didn’t. Was this about the right way to go?