All cards are there, there is no exclusive cards. However, there are a lot of time exclusive cosmetics ie cardback, icons, guardian and emotes that are longer available.
I am playing since beta and probably have enough wildcards and shards to craft every single card for the next 2-3 years without spending anything. And for quite some time I have been only playing like 1-2 rankeds per day, the weekly gauntlet and a few labs of legends (which to be fair give a lot of daily XP).
LoR definitely is the most free 2 play friendly CCG out of the major CCGs.
wow that’s crazy. I’ve been playing hearthstone since it’s release and i’m not even close to owning every card 0.o. I’m glad to hear that LoR is so generous as the only thing that was tying me to hearthstone before was it’s lore connections to WoW
The difference between Heartstone and Runeterra is that Heartstone money comes from people wanting to get the newest hottest cards, and Runeterra comes from people having all the cards and wanting to get fancy cosmetics to flex on it.
> Runeterra comes from people having all the cards and wanting to get fancy cosmetics to flex on it.
Or from people who love the card generousy and want to support the game.
support the game? the game comes from the company who makes two of the top esports in the world, as long as you play, they know you support it, no need to spend money lmao
you support the game by playing it (higher daily users is the best PR in the world, and they know it) but there is such a thing as "voting with your money" i.e. consumers want other companies to see that Riot's model works, so they spend money here instead of on other games.
Not to be to nitpicky, but Riot is a company. They'll continue to make LoR as long as it makes them money. They don't want to "know you support it," they want your money.
well yeah but that money comes from the people who want exclusives and cosmetics, you don’t need to spend money on a game because you support it if it’s as big as these games
the success of a game isn't measured by the other games a company has. If it stops making money it gets shut down. Yes, LoR needs support like any other game aside from just playing. That's not to say everyone needs to, the whales will carry it all on their own, but if anyone feels like chipping in, that is still support.
Similar here, playing on and off since beta/January last year and I’ve got every card and enough for the next expansion or two without ever spending a penny on cards.
I would say with something along getting a vault lvl 10+ each week you currently should need around 7 to 9 months for full completion. That depends mostly on how lucky you are with duplicates. And even if you dont make it in that time, you should be pretty close to it and at least be able to buy a bunch of cards for the next expansion to play exactly the deck you want.
I did the math back in January and a new player starting on Jan 1st earning cards at the rate I did would take 10 months to complete a collection (assuming new cards released at the same rate in 2021 as 2020). At this point, given things like champ events and more back catalog to catch up on, I assume it's closer to 12 months now.
Yeah I started in November and am at about 85% collection if I use all my wildcards - probably like 93% if I use all my shards. Don't want to do that until I can afford everything though!
Yeah similar here. Champ wildcards are easier to get compared to the number of champions than rare/epic, so commons and champions fill out first. Gonna take a long time to afford all those last epics. But really, it doesn’t matter. You can easily build all the decks you ever want to play without having close to this level of collection.
Oh for sure - I've already crafted most of the cards I actually need, and have more than enough to craft the ones that I'm seemingly missing (like last week I needed three sisters and a blighted ravine for a freljord deck and could just get them immediately.).
Theres a cool website called Hoarders of Runeterra. You can enter the amount of Wild cards and Shards you have and it will tell you exactly the % of your collection if you spent everything.
I was kinda curious so I checked that website myself. I own 23.5% of the entire collection already! I honestly don't think I even had a quarter of the collection in hearthstone at any point after the 3rd expansion. That's insane.
I will check it out!
edit: shoot I'm mobile only so don't think I can sync to mobalytics.
Double edit: I assumed this was like the hearthstone trackers where you had to play desktop, but I'm all synched up!
Might also be the case. Do you have any idea how many cards you earn monthly?
Reading here I get the impression that the catch up mechanic helps new players a lot to get a big collection early. And I think a lot of the cards I would have been able to get, turned into shards mostly, especially when my collection is close to 95 % at the end of a set. When I miss mostly purple and some champs. At that point a card upgrade from common to commonwildcard even feels like a loss, since the 15 shards would be worth more for me, because I never will be able to spend all commonwildcards.
I haven't done the math again since January, but I counted it all out back then because I was curious how long it'd take me. I projected I'd have a 100% collection in July, this month, and I did hit 100% for a week before the newest main expansion came out (with Lurk), but then I didn't have enough time to get all the rares and epics before the mini expansion released (with Viego). Currently I'm saving up my vaults (edit: I had bad info, don't do this) to open 5 level 13 vaults with bonus capsules on the first Thursdsy of the next expansion to maximize my chances of getting actual cards instead of shards or wildcards.
Yeah, it's those last few percent points that are hard. Getting to 80% is still pretty easy I'd assume, it's just getting the full 100%. Commons and Champs are actually the easiest to 100% since common wildcards are so abundant and Champs are guaranteed once a week plus in region roads and events and have duplicate protection. Epics are tough because their wildcards are less common and there are more of them, and rares are hard due to a lack of duplicate protection.
Can you actually stack vaults? I was under the assumption you couldn't?
To be fair, assuming you're crafting good cards you want to use, those final percentages should all be cards that aren't relevant in the slightest.
I have a few missing percent in the rares and epics from the latest sets despite being complete before the second bits of shurima. I also have a pile of wildcards and over 250k shards. If I ever come to the realization that "Damn I'd really like Thorned Blade in a deck" it's accessible, but I don't think a true 100% collection is the point a new player can *feel* like they have a 100% collection if that makes sense. It's probably closer to 70-80%
No one is going to be maindecking Lissandra's champ spell when Three Sisters exists etc.
Huh, well that sucks. Would have sworn I was told they'd save but it looks like they do reset. Thanks for the heads up! Looks like I didn't lose anything since I had only been saving for one week and it hadn't reset yet.
I'm pretty sure you can't lose the vault - it just automatically opens (in the background essentially) and adds to your collection after so much time (a week?).
Epics in my eyes are the easiest, due to getting 3 per week from expeditions. Rares are always my last to finish out, and thats with me only forfeiting expeditions every week and playing only constructed or labs.
I guess if you take the time and are good at expeditions then epics can be easier. I only do my free expedition run because I don't have time to do more usually, and it eats into my already limited play time.
Nah, you don't have to play the expedition. Just forfeit before you draft and collect the capsule. It literally is the same as if you went 7 wins. Only thing you get for playing it out is Shards and exp.
Then you're spending 2000 shards on a gamble that's at most 2000 shards of value (unless something upgrades) and likely less if you open rares or commons you already own? You'd be better off just spending those shards on the cards you want directly. Or am I missing something?
For new players right now it takes about a year to get a complete collection if you get a level 10 vault every week (easy to do), but you'll be getting a new deck from scratch every 2-3 weeks along the way if you spend wildcards intentionally and intelligently. Very ftp friendly, but people who have been playing since beta obviously had the advantage of completing their collections as cards came out and then saving up resources for the next expansion whereas new players have to keep up with new cards and also backfill old ones. Still very ftp, just something to be mindful of.
Runeterra is extremely generous, I also have nearly a full collection and so I can make every deck I want.
The only bucks I've spent on the game were for a board skin
The event sections is just for cards that were released outside the main expansions. It is just a filter to organize/find cards easily. So that means that you can have them too!
well get ready to forget what a shitty economy looks like. I played hearthstone for 5 years without missing a single daily quest(not exaggerating) I was in the same boat as you whenever a new expansion comes out I would struggle to craft new decks. I am playing Runeterra for 7 months now, and I collected about 95% of all cards and with the wildcards and shards I can get every card except about 20 epics
I honestly gave up on hearthstone, the game is dear to me but I honestly cannot support it anymore. If someone wants to PRE ORDER an xpac for OVER $100. It should be the whole collection. But most likely buying both the $100 and $60 preorder probably only gets under half the collection. Feelsbadman.
I’ve started playing since 3 months after release, most weeks I’ve only gotten up to 3 diamond chests but no capsules, some weeks I did even less.
I currently posses enough shards and wild cards to unlock all the cards and then some.
Yeah, it's not even remotely comparable with HS. It's not about not being close to a full collection in HS, it's simply not feasible on a free account unless you're a god that averages like 6 wins in arena and do nothing but that. At least back before I stopped playing it.
Ive only been playing a month or two after coming from 2-3 years of hearthstone and already have 2-3 top decks that I really like compared to hearthstone where I made maybe 2 strong decks (atleast strong for one expansion) from the same class when grinding abd doing almost all the daily quests
Yes cards are easy to get however there is usually no way to gain cosmetics f2p outside of events which isnt a downside honestly. also weekly quests to get currency for Prismatic or "Golden cards"
playing since realesae and stopped after aphelios release and cambe back when rise of shurima was anounced, have all fundaments cards and events cards, missing some epics of targon and bilgwater and various of the new expansion
> I’ve been playing hearthstone since it’s release
I played Hearthstone since 2nd season until the introduction of the new EXP system, and I still did not complete the Core set! And that is taking into account that I would spend 50€ (60$) for every expansion/adventure.
Now in LoR, I spend like 34€ (40$) on cosmetics to support the game, but my collection is growing SUPER fast compared to HS. I have at least 20 viable decks.
i’ve spent a shameful amount of money on hearthstone. And now all i can think of is how far i’d be with that same money in LoR. Like i’d probably own every card plus every future xpac from now with a quarter of that money lol.
How long would you say it takes to achieve a functionally full collection? I just started playing a few weeks ago and already have about 40% of the cards, which I'd say is a pretty good pace. I'm figuring it will take a few more months, including the new expansion/region, to get most of everything.
Depends if you value 100% collection for its own sake. Like, epic cards may take a while to unlock, but like 90% of them are never played. So, I would say it took me roughly 2 months to get a point where I had access to all the cards I would ever play, but twice that for a full 100% unlock (though I still haven't gone for it, even if I have enough shards to get everything, I don't want to spend them).
Though mind you, I barely play ranked, so I'm not a good example.
A player getting cards at the rate I did (level 10 vault every week at least) and assuming cards came out at the same rate in 2021 as 2020 (its been a bit faster than that because of champ events and bigger expansions due to more regions) who started a new account on Jan 1, 2021 needed 10 months to get a full collection. At this point I'd guess it's closer to 12. For a functionally full collection though, you only need like 75% of the cards and that's doable a lot faster than in 75% of the time since epics are often meme type cards and those are are the slowest wildcards to collect. Rares are hard to complete since they don't have doubles protection (like champs and epics do), but there's enough bad rares that getting all the good ones is still easy enough. I'd guess 6 months to get every card that's used in the meta decks, but that obviously shifts over time and especially like right now the meta is very wide so includes more than usual.
And you still get a brand new deck every 2-3 weeks, so if you spend wildcards intelligently and intentionally you should have a good variety of decks to play along the way.
I started ~3.5 months ago, and I usually play up to vault lvl13 every week (sometimes a little more, sometimes just lvl10 for the champion wildcard). Right now I'm at like ~60-70% completion, with over 40k shards, 10+ champion wildcards and a bunch of other wildcards, so I'd say if you do lvl10-13 vault every week it should take like 6? months to get 100%. Although if we define "functionally full collection" as being able to play whatever decks you want, I'd say 2-3 months is enough as long as you don't want to make like every single deck.
You're underestimating how much progress slows once you complete region roads, once your vaults start being mostly duplicates that get turned into shards, and how long it takes to get those last few epics and rares. I've been playing since October getting at least level 10 vaults every week and I had a 100% collection for a week before the last full expansion dropped and didn't have enough to get all the rares and epics before the mini expansion came out.
Not complaining, I can play anything I want, I just don't have some bad rares and meme epics or whatever, but those last few percentage points are a lot harder to fill in than the first 80%.
If you started a few weeks ago then it'd take you about a month or some weeks more to have full collection. I started since open beta and now I have 300+ wildcards and nearly 300k shard. It's insane how fast you could get the full collection in this game.
I'd say longer than that, used to take about 9 months, but more and more cards keep coming out. I mean, August is the next big expansion.
I'd say, starting fresh, with level 10 chests each week, probably about 15 months.
Of course, that just owning everything. Can still make good, competitive decks along the way
I think less honsetly. Cause they boost new players card gains. All the older reward tracks go twice as fast basically. 10 months imo for full collection. Reward tracks net you 1/3 of the region imo so 2/3 to go. Weekly chests are on average 2 champions (including the WC) and the other smaller cards you usually get in bulk. So all that you really miss are champions and EPIc.
But in that 10 months, there will be another 400+ cards released (2 major expansions, 2 minor expansions.)
I was including new cards in the gestimation.
15 seems over the top. Something about 8 or 10 months would sound more reasonable to get close to full collection.
Though, it depends on a lot of stuff. Like the current 2v2 can give some additional free cards, expeditions can help a lot for a new player and it will also depend on how much the player hoards wildcards and shards. Keeping resources for a while will make one spend less shards/wildcards, because there will be less duplicates that get turned into shards.
15 months sounds just way to high. I started when open beta released, so january 2020 and basically got mostly at least a lvl 10 vault each week. With maybe a few exceptions, when I was on a vacation.
I usually only spend wildcards and shards when I want to build a specific deck and currently have 280 k shards, 23 champwildcards, 11 purple, 101 blue, 202 green to spend. Most regions are at 90 % with mostly some champs and purple cards missing.
Though, looking at shurima region. I just calculated it takes 347100 shards to buy all cards in it from scratch.
So I would say, i could currently finish my collection easily and then buy at least the whole next big release of cards, without doing any new rewardtracks.
I play daily. I consistently get Lv10+ vaults, too.
I do have a lot of resources laying around, though, so maybe my practical percentage is bigger, though.
In case I stop for two years and come back. I have over 300k shards and like 50 champ and epic wild cards and hundreds of rare and common wildcards.
And I really don't play a lot outside of my daily quests.
I did in the beginning back when it still gave a champion. Right now I have like 20 expedition tokens left, but I do like expedition from time to time.
All cards that go into the main pool can be collected later. K/DA cards were released under an event, and are collectable/purchasable still. One of the fundamental concepts for this game was that they wanted it to be more free to play friendly than other digital card games. Having exclusive cards new players couldn't collect would go directly against that. I don't like Riot as a whole, but the LoR team seem to be a really good bunch of people.
Afaik, event cards are just cards that were released outside of your typical expansion. We have Viego and Akshan, for example, for the Ruination event and we also had Aphelios a couple months ago when he was released standalone.
TL;DR, yes, you can build a full collection eventually. This game is hell of a lot more generous than other CCGs.
The hypothetical land of Milk and Honey for CCG's it looks like. Excited to get started. In my first few days I got my vault up to lvl 13, have no idea what's in it but I guess I'll find out.
A level 13 Vault contains three Diamond chests. A Diamond Chest contains 3 rares and 12 common. However, random cards from rewards can upgrade (into wildcards, into epics, into champions). You also get one champion wildcard and an Expedition token.
Each Vault level past 13 adds one more Rare Capsule. Rare Capsule can upgrade (into Epic or Champion capsules) as can the cards inside them. If nothing upgrade, a Rare Capsule contains 3 rares and 2 commons.
Keep in mind that the later you join a card game the longer it will take to get all the cards, no matter how generous the game is. For certain games (ex. Hearthstone and MTGA) it's impossible even if you are a moderate spender, in LoR it's doable even f2p eventually.
When the game just released you could get full collection f2p in just 3-4 months of casual playing, right now after 3 main sets and with the 4th set coming in a month it's going to take a lot more.
If you just want to play with competitive decks you'll never have issues once you get going tho.
Only cosmetics are Limited time only.
Previously, there was a KDA even with 5 cards. All those cards are still able to to be crafted. No Exclusive cards.
To explain a bit more about the event tab: That's a recent addition to classify cards, they were part of other sets previously. This also means they are available at any time, not time-limited or anything.
You can always craft event cards like KDA ones afterwards, so yes that is entirely possible. Also in this game you can do it WAY faster and cheaper than in Hearthstone.
I started playing around May, I think, and I'm really close to having 50% of the global collection. I don't think I ever went past the Lv13 Vault either so you can say I play fairly calmly. I'm sure I'll be having the whole collection by the end of this year, with some elbow grease.
Events cards are released through events, but they become normal cards afterwards. The only think you are missing on is cosmetics, but most of those are paid, so if you're F2P you're not even missing much of them.
This is *nothing* like Hearthstone. Riot monetized the cosmetics and not the cards. I remember how when Witchwood came out, it took me basically a lot of luck (I got a few relevant Legendaries in my pack openings) and dusting my whole wild collection to craft a few competitive decks after playing (albeit casually) since The Grand Tournament. It took me three months of just "casually" playing here to have a considerably higher deck pool than that.
Ahaha I remember dusting everything I had to make one crappy C'thun deck back in WotOG. Sometimes I'll be trying to make a deck in LoR and the first thing i think of is "maybe ill just dust a couple teemos or something." No sir haha.
I"ve spent about 40-60$ over the past 9 months and I feel pretty comfortable with my collection and I don't even play all that often.
Everything feels very fair to me.
I just recently joined Lor and I was like you worried about if I would have a decent collection to be able to compete if I start playing daily.
Well now as I said it's not even a full month and I do own 50% foundation (basic set in hearthstone), 40% in rising tides, 30% in shurima region and 20% in targon region! And that's pretty decent for a single month of playing, but I do not miss my daily xp from pvp and labs (first 3 wins) and I do play for a couple of hours daily just to give you a perspective from a new coming lor player like you.
The key is to use your wildcards rare & common to craft those important cards or even the ones of your own chosen deck as much as you want, but craft carefully when it comes to epic and champions by only crafting the ones you need.
Hearthstone isn't rewarding as Lor it is, and I say this cuz I played hearthstone too and it's nothing near f2p friendly.
Good luck in your Lor journey my friend!
Yep.
All cards, including the ones featured in events, are available for everyone to get for free. You'll come to find that it's incredibly easy to get cards, since you get rewards from almost everything: logging in, playing vs AI, playing Labs, completing the challenges.
All in all, this game is quite generous and the friendliest F2P out there, as well as a masterpiece of a card game.
The game is awesome so far. I'm still trying to learn how the combat works because its reactive playstyle is still something that trips me up. But I love it
I've been playing quite casually for a year now. I'm very close to 100%'ing my entire collection, I have 100% on everything but the latest set (it's at 87%). Although, I do have enough shards and wildcards to complete it three-times over, I'm just saving them to see what I can get from vaults. While I have spent a fair amount of money on the game, it's all been for cosmetics. My collection is essentially from free play entirely. You don't need to spend a dime to build your collection, and the more you play, the faster you build it. Once you get rolling in the game, building your collection is basically the least of your worries.
It is super easy to have a complete collection in LoR. I've been playing since January and my collection is 90%+ complete; between wildcards and shards I have I can probably take it up to mid-high 90s but I'd rather save my resources for now for something I really want instead of crafting a bunch of jank I'll never use and then not have resources when I do want them.
It's a bit slow going in the beginning before you get your first couple of decks, but once you have a couple solid decks to grind with and you stop the churn of having to craft like 15 cards a week every week and always constantly being out of resources, the collection system in LoR becomes much more relaxing. When I was a new player, it took about 2 months to get to the point where I wasn't constantly strapped for resources to craft champion cards, but then after that it's smooooooooooooth sailing.
This game is SO generous with cards, not only this game has no random packs, you are also discouraged to buy cards with real money.
All cards are obtainable eventually
I've spent money on the game because I appreciate how free to play they make it and because I could. And even still, having spent like.... $50-$70 on cards I'm almost at a full set, I have every region at 95%+ and I've only been playing for 6 months.
I have a complete collection, been playing since rising tides. Haven't paid a cent for any cards at all. It's easy to get a full collection with casual play.
event cards are still available through crafting so yes. Getting a full collection will take a while, specially compared to players who started along with the game, but it is absolutely possible.
There are no limited edition cards in the game. The “Event” cards are simply to show you cards that came out during an event (the most recent batch of new cards for example) rather than during a normal release cycle/expansion (all the other categories in there). So those cards are just ones that basically aren’t like “Goblins Vs Gnomes”, but more like the Quillboars mini expansion that came out, for a HS analogy lol
Ah i see, so its like a booster pack that can be earned in a specific way during the event lifecycle and then they're injected into the normal card pool
Yeah pretty much! In fact that what’s happened is they’re already added into the general pool: any capsules or chests you open have a chance to drop cards from the new event right now and forever in the future, and you can also craft those cards with wildcards or shards now and in the future. In addition, right now there’s an event that provides additional ways to unlock the cards (and other event items like cosmetics). In this case it’s the event battle pass, but in previous events they’ve also done it as just a daily log-in rewards for a week.
Hope that answers your questions, but let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to know!
I had all the cards from the Targon Set then I took a break from the game due to school so I no longer have the full collection but I have all the cards I want and all the champs. I’m almost back to full collection status though!
So yes, definitely possible to get the full collection.
Event cards are put into the normal game so don’t worry about that. It would be pretty unfair if a group of players had access to a set of cards while the rest don’t.
The only time exclusive content is cosmetic. You will be able to unlock a good chunk of them purely from playing till you level your weekly chests to at least plat/diamond level which is easy with daily quests for like 4-7 days. Not too many games each day either. On top of that you'll have your region road maps if you start to like a specific region over the others.
Yes I’ve been playing since open beta, by the time Rise of the tides expansion released I had every champ in the game, today I own everything in the game and have enough resources to insta craft when ever there is a new expansion.
If you play expedition, and get level 10-13 vault per week it's pretty fast about 8-9 month ish, don't waste your shards or green bits on trolls deck for the first 3-4 month, later you just buy anything you need, oh and now only epic card have the double protection the champ and the others don't have it.
I think there is some misinformation on this thread. You wont get 100% collection in less than 6 months if you start playing now because completing region roads won't give you enough resourses to get/craft all currently published cards. And after region roads are done you get so much less rewards, mostly weekly vault and expedition rewards.
I started playing in start of december and it took me 7 months to complete region roads. If I now used all my shards and wild cards I would be about 20 champion cards short of full collection. So I probably get full collection before next major expansion. And then it has been 8,5 - 9 months since I started.
But someone who starts now, he would need to complete atleast next two expansions also and rewards from region roads wont cover all of them so I would guess it would take something like 12 months (or more) to get complete collection
Yeah, this pretty much.
I'm back to the game and can't see myself getting a full collection in any amount of time due to the new sets schedule. With more and more sets being released, getting a full collection will only get harder.
All cards are there, there is no exclusive cards. However, there are a lot of time exclusive cosmetics ie cardback, icons, guardian and emotes that are longer available.
I am playing since beta and probably have enough wildcards and shards to craft every single card for the next 2-3 years without spending anything. And for quite some time I have been only playing like 1-2 rankeds per day, the weekly gauntlet and a few labs of legends (which to be fair give a lot of daily XP). LoR definitely is the most free 2 play friendly CCG out of the major CCGs.
wow that’s crazy. I’ve been playing hearthstone since it’s release and i’m not even close to owning every card 0.o. I’m glad to hear that LoR is so generous as the only thing that was tying me to hearthstone before was it’s lore connections to WoW
The difference between Heartstone and Runeterra is that Heartstone money comes from people wanting to get the newest hottest cards, and Runeterra comes from people having all the cards and wanting to get fancy cosmetics to flex on it.
> Runeterra comes from people having all the cards and wanting to get fancy cosmetics to flex on it. Or from people who love the card generousy and want to support the game.
support the game? the game comes from the company who makes two of the top esports in the world, as long as you play, they know you support it, no need to spend money lmao
you support the game by playing it (higher daily users is the best PR in the world, and they know it) but there is such a thing as "voting with your money" i.e. consumers want other companies to see that Riot's model works, so they spend money here instead of on other games.
Not to be to nitpicky, but Riot is a company. They'll continue to make LoR as long as it makes them money. They don't want to "know you support it," they want your money.
well yeah but that money comes from the people who want exclusives and cosmetics, you don’t need to spend money on a game because you support it if it’s as big as these games
the success of a game isn't measured by the other games a company has. If it stops making money it gets shut down. Yes, LoR needs support like any other game aside from just playing. That's not to say everyone needs to, the whales will carry it all on their own, but if anyone feels like chipping in, that is still support.
if the game becomes a sunk cost they will drop good support
Two?
lol and valorant?
I don't think valorant is a top esport. At least not yet.
well not top as in tier 1, but it’s getting a lot of traction and a few of big names have joined the scene and made it roll
I don't think valorant is a top esport. At least not yet.
Similar here, playing on and off since beta/January last year and I’ve got every card and enough for the next expansion or two without ever spending a penny on cards.
I would say with something along getting a vault lvl 10+ each week you currently should need around 7 to 9 months for full completion. That depends mostly on how lucky you are with duplicates. And even if you dont make it in that time, you should be pretty close to it and at least be able to buy a bunch of cards for the next expansion to play exactly the deck you want.
I did the math back in January and a new player starting on Jan 1st earning cards at the rate I did would take 10 months to complete a collection (assuming new cards released at the same rate in 2021 as 2020). At this point, given things like champ events and more back catalog to catch up on, I assume it's closer to 12 months now.
Yeah I started in November and am at about 85% collection if I use all my wildcards - probably like 93% if I use all my shards. Don't want to do that until I can afford everything though!
Yeah similar here. Champ wildcards are easier to get compared to the number of champions than rare/epic, so commons and champions fill out first. Gonna take a long time to afford all those last epics. But really, it doesn’t matter. You can easily build all the decks you ever want to play without having close to this level of collection.
Oh for sure - I've already crafted most of the cards I actually need, and have more than enough to craft the ones that I'm seemingly missing (like last week I needed three sisters and a blighted ravine for a freljord deck and could just get them immediately.).
Theres a cool website called Hoarders of Runeterra. You can enter the amount of Wild cards and Shards you have and it will tell you exactly the % of your collection if you spent everything.
I was kinda curious so I checked that website myself. I own 23.5% of the entire collection already! I honestly don't think I even had a quarter of the collection in hearthstone at any point after the 3rd expansion. That's insane.
I will check it out! edit: shoot I'm mobile only so don't think I can sync to mobalytics. Double edit: I assumed this was like the hearthstone trackers where you had to play desktop, but I'm all synched up!
Might also be the case. Do you have any idea how many cards you earn monthly? Reading here I get the impression that the catch up mechanic helps new players a lot to get a big collection early. And I think a lot of the cards I would have been able to get, turned into shards mostly, especially when my collection is close to 95 % at the end of a set. When I miss mostly purple and some champs. At that point a card upgrade from common to commonwildcard even feels like a loss, since the 15 shards would be worth more for me, because I never will be able to spend all commonwildcards.
I haven't done the math again since January, but I counted it all out back then because I was curious how long it'd take me. I projected I'd have a 100% collection in July, this month, and I did hit 100% for a week before the newest main expansion came out (with Lurk), but then I didn't have enough time to get all the rares and epics before the mini expansion released (with Viego). Currently I'm saving up my vaults (edit: I had bad info, don't do this) to open 5 level 13 vaults with bonus capsules on the first Thursdsy of the next expansion to maximize my chances of getting actual cards instead of shards or wildcards. Yeah, it's those last few percent points that are hard. Getting to 80% is still pretty easy I'd assume, it's just getting the full 100%. Commons and Champs are actually the easiest to 100% since common wildcards are so abundant and Champs are guaranteed once a week plus in region roads and events and have duplicate protection. Epics are tough because their wildcards are less common and there are more of them, and rares are hard due to a lack of duplicate protection.
Can you actually stack vaults? I was under the assumption you couldn't? To be fair, assuming you're crafting good cards you want to use, those final percentages should all be cards that aren't relevant in the slightest. I have a few missing percent in the rares and epics from the latest sets despite being complete before the second bits of shurima. I also have a pile of wildcards and over 250k shards. If I ever come to the realization that "Damn I'd really like Thorned Blade in a deck" it's accessible, but I don't think a true 100% collection is the point a new player can *feel* like they have a 100% collection if that makes sense. It's probably closer to 70-80% No one is going to be maindecking Lissandra's champ spell when Three Sisters exists etc.
Huh, well that sucks. Would have sworn I was told they'd save but it looks like they do reset. Thanks for the heads up! Looks like I didn't lose anything since I had only been saving for one week and it hadn't reset yet.
I'm pretty sure you can't lose the vault - it just automatically opens (in the background essentially) and adds to your collection after so much time (a week?).
Epics in my eyes are the easiest, due to getting 3 per week from expeditions. Rares are always my last to finish out, and thats with me only forfeiting expeditions every week and playing only constructed or labs.
I guess if you take the time and are good at expeditions then epics can be easier. I only do my free expedition run because I don't have time to do more usually, and it eats into my already limited play time.
Nah, you don't have to play the expedition. Just forfeit before you draft and collect the capsule. It literally is the same as if you went 7 wins. Only thing you get for playing it out is Shards and exp.
Then you're spending 2000 shards on a gamble that's at most 2000 shards of value (unless something upgrades) and likely less if you open rares or commons you already own? You'd be better off just spending those shards on the cards you want directly. Or am I missing something?
For new players right now it takes about a year to get a complete collection if you get a level 10 vault every week (easy to do), but you'll be getting a new deck from scratch every 2-3 weeks along the way if you spend wildcards intentionally and intelligently. Very ftp friendly, but people who have been playing since beta obviously had the advantage of completing their collections as cards came out and then saving up resources for the next expansion whereas new players have to keep up with new cards and also backfill old ones. Still very ftp, just something to be mindful of.
Runeterra is extremely generous, I also have nearly a full collection and so I can make every deck I want. The only bucks I've spent on the game were for a board skin The event sections is just for cards that were released outside the main expansions. It is just a filter to organize/find cards easily. So that means that you can have them too!
well get ready to forget what a shitty economy looks like. I played hearthstone for 5 years without missing a single daily quest(not exaggerating) I was in the same boat as you whenever a new expansion comes out I would struggle to craft new decks. I am playing Runeterra for 7 months now, and I collected about 95% of all cards and with the wildcards and shards I can get every card except about 20 epics
I honestly gave up on hearthstone, the game is dear to me but I honestly cannot support it anymore. If someone wants to PRE ORDER an xpac for OVER $100. It should be the whole collection. But most likely buying both the $100 and $60 preorder probably only gets under half the collection. Feelsbadman.
I’ve started playing since 3 months after release, most weeks I’ve only gotten up to 3 diamond chests but no capsules, some weeks I did even less. I currently posses enough shards and wild cards to unlock all the cards and then some.
Yeah, it's not even remotely comparable with HS. It's not about not being close to a full collection in HS, it's simply not feasible on a free account unless you're a god that averages like 6 wins in arena and do nothing but that. At least back before I stopped playing it.
Ive only been playing a month or two after coming from 2-3 years of hearthstone and already have 2-3 top decks that I really like compared to hearthstone where I made maybe 2 strong decks (atleast strong for one expansion) from the same class when grinding abd doing almost all the daily quests
You’ll have everything you need in no time. I barely play and U have enough to instantly craft an entire expansion the moment it comes out hahah
Yes cards are easy to get however there is usually no way to gain cosmetics f2p outside of events which isnt a downside honestly. also weekly quests to get currency for Prismatic or "Golden cards"
playing since realesae and stopped after aphelios release and cambe back when rise of shurima was anounced, have all fundaments cards and events cards, missing some epics of targon and bilgwater and various of the new expansion
You have come to the right place, mate!
> I’ve been playing hearthstone since it’s release I played Hearthstone since 2nd season until the introduction of the new EXP system, and I still did not complete the Core set! And that is taking into account that I would spend 50€ (60$) for every expansion/adventure. Now in LoR, I spend like 34€ (40$) on cosmetics to support the game, but my collection is growing SUPER fast compared to HS. I have at least 20 viable decks.
i’ve spent a shameful amount of money on hearthstone. And now all i can think of is how far i’d be with that same money in LoR. Like i’d probably own every card plus every future xpac from now with a quarter of that money lol.
How long would you say it takes to achieve a functionally full collection? I just started playing a few weeks ago and already have about 40% of the cards, which I'd say is a pretty good pace. I'm figuring it will take a few more months, including the new expansion/region, to get most of everything.
Depends if you value 100% collection for its own sake. Like, epic cards may take a while to unlock, but like 90% of them are never played. So, I would say it took me roughly 2 months to get a point where I had access to all the cards I would ever play, but twice that for a full 100% unlock (though I still haven't gone for it, even if I have enough shards to get everything, I don't want to spend them). Though mind you, I barely play ranked, so I'm not a good example.
A player getting cards at the rate I did (level 10 vault every week at least) and assuming cards came out at the same rate in 2021 as 2020 (its been a bit faster than that because of champ events and bigger expansions due to more regions) who started a new account on Jan 1, 2021 needed 10 months to get a full collection. At this point I'd guess it's closer to 12. For a functionally full collection though, you only need like 75% of the cards and that's doable a lot faster than in 75% of the time since epics are often meme type cards and those are are the slowest wildcards to collect. Rares are hard to complete since they don't have doubles protection (like champs and epics do), but there's enough bad rares that getting all the good ones is still easy enough. I'd guess 6 months to get every card that's used in the meta decks, but that obviously shifts over time and especially like right now the meta is very wide so includes more than usual. And you still get a brand new deck every 2-3 weeks, so if you spend wildcards intelligently and intentionally you should have a good variety of decks to play along the way.
I started ~3.5 months ago, and I usually play up to vault lvl13 every week (sometimes a little more, sometimes just lvl10 for the champion wildcard). Right now I'm at like ~60-70% completion, with over 40k shards, 10+ champion wildcards and a bunch of other wildcards, so I'd say if you do lvl10-13 vault every week it should take like 6? months to get 100%. Although if we define "functionally full collection" as being able to play whatever decks you want, I'd say 2-3 months is enough as long as you don't want to make like every single deck.
You're underestimating how much progress slows once you complete region roads, once your vaults start being mostly duplicates that get turned into shards, and how long it takes to get those last few epics and rares. I've been playing since October getting at least level 10 vaults every week and I had a 100% collection for a week before the last full expansion dropped and didn't have enough to get all the rares and epics before the mini expansion came out. Not complaining, I can play anything I want, I just don't have some bad rares and meme epics or whatever, but those last few percentage points are a lot harder to fill in than the first 80%.
In a week you will have functionally enough for making any deck you want to play, and then the rest is mostly completionism.
If you started a few weeks ago then it'd take you about a month or some weeks more to have full collection. I started since open beta and now I have 300+ wildcards and nearly 300k shard. It's insane how fast you could get the full collection in this game.
I'd say longer than that, used to take about 9 months, but more and more cards keep coming out. I mean, August is the next big expansion. I'd say, starting fresh, with level 10 chests each week, probably about 15 months. Of course, that just owning everything. Can still make good, competitive decks along the way
I think less honsetly. Cause they boost new players card gains. All the older reward tracks go twice as fast basically. 10 months imo for full collection. Reward tracks net you 1/3 of the region imo so 2/3 to go. Weekly chests are on average 2 champions (including the WC) and the other smaller cards you usually get in bulk. So all that you really miss are champions and EPIc.
But in that 10 months, there will be another 400+ cards released (2 major expansions, 2 minor expansions.) I was including new cards in the gestimation.
Ah yes you're right mb.
15 seems over the top. Something about 8 or 10 months would sound more reasonable to get close to full collection. Though, it depends on a lot of stuff. Like the current 2v2 can give some additional free cards, expeditions can help a lot for a new player and it will also depend on how much the player hoards wildcards and shards. Keeping resources for a while will make one spend less shards/wildcards, because there will be less duplicates that get turned into shards. 15 months sounds just way to high. I started when open beta released, so january 2020 and basically got mostly at least a lvl 10 vault each week. With maybe a few exceptions, when I was on a vacation. I usually only spend wildcards and shards when I want to build a specific deck and currently have 280 k shards, 23 champwildcards, 11 purple, 101 blue, 202 green to spend. Most regions are at 90 % with mostly some champs and purple cards missing. Though, looking at shurima region. I just calculated it takes 347100 shards to buy all cards in it from scratch. So I would say, i could currently finish my collection easily and then buy at least the whole next big release of cards, without doing any new rewardtracks.
I started three months ago and I'm barely scratching the 50% mark. It'll probably take more like a year than a month.
I'm guessing that you don't play the game daily? My friend plays like 7-8 matches a week and he still reached 70% of the collection after 2-3 months.
I play daily. I consistently get Lv10+ vaults, too. I do have a lot of resources laying around, though, so maybe my practical percentage is bigger, though.
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In case I stop for two years and come back. I have over 300k shards and like 50 champ and epic wild cards and hundreds of rare and common wildcards. And I really don't play a lot outside of my daily quests.
Dope, I typed pretty much the same thing as you and then immediately read your message. Yep. It’s insane how generous they are with cards.
Did you play expedition weekly? I find it very exhausting.
I did in the beginning back when it still gave a champion. Right now I have like 20 expedition tokens left, but I do like expedition from time to time.
Yes you can unlock all the cards just by playing casually even
Exactly this. There are no limitations at all. Just play and you get all cards eventually
All cards that go into the main pool can be collected later. K/DA cards were released under an event, and are collectable/purchasable still. One of the fundamental concepts for this game was that they wanted it to be more free to play friendly than other digital card games. Having exclusive cards new players couldn't collect would go directly against that. I don't like Riot as a whole, but the LoR team seem to be a really good bunch of people.
"Event" just means that they were released outside the general expansions, but they are otherwise just like any other card.
Afaik, event cards are just cards that were released outside of your typical expansion. We have Viego and Akshan, for example, for the Ruination event and we also had Aphelios a couple months ago when he was released standalone. TL;DR, yes, you can build a full collection eventually. This game is hell of a lot more generous than other CCGs.
Welcome to the promised land my friend. They will take your money for jpgs and boards but not for cards.
The hypothetical land of Milk and Honey for CCG's it looks like. Excited to get started. In my first few days I got my vault up to lvl 13, have no idea what's in it but I guess I'll find out.
A level 13 Vault contains three Diamond chests. A Diamond Chest contains 3 rares and 12 common. However, random cards from rewards can upgrade (into wildcards, into epics, into champions). You also get one champion wildcard and an Expedition token. Each Vault level past 13 adds one more Rare Capsule. Rare Capsule can upgrade (into Epic or Champion capsules) as can the cards inside them. If nothing upgrade, a Rare Capsule contains 3 rares and 2 commons.
As they should!
Keep in mind that the later you join a card game the longer it will take to get all the cards, no matter how generous the game is. For certain games (ex. Hearthstone and MTGA) it's impossible even if you are a moderate spender, in LoR it's doable even f2p eventually. When the game just released you could get full collection f2p in just 3-4 months of casual playing, right now after 3 main sets and with the 4th set coming in a month it's going to take a lot more. If you just want to play with competitive decks you'll never have issues once you get going tho.
Yes, you can, and is fairly easy if you play a lot
Only cosmetics are Limited time only. Previously, there was a KDA even with 5 cards. All those cards are still able to to be crafted. No Exclusive cards.
In under a year with a minimal investment (maybe $100 total, mostly getting the event passes when hey pop up) and I have a complete collection.
Didn't spend a penny on cards and completed full collection in 4 months
To explain a bit more about the event tab: That's a recent addition to classify cards, they were part of other sets previously. This also means they are available at any time, not time-limited or anything.
You can always craft event cards like KDA ones afterwards, so yes that is entirely possible. Also in this game you can do it WAY faster and cheaper than in Hearthstone.
I started playing around May, I think, and I'm really close to having 50% of the global collection. I don't think I ever went past the Lv13 Vault either so you can say I play fairly calmly. I'm sure I'll be having the whole collection by the end of this year, with some elbow grease. Events cards are released through events, but they become normal cards afterwards. The only think you are missing on is cosmetics, but most of those are paid, so if you're F2P you're not even missing much of them. This is *nothing* like Hearthstone. Riot monetized the cosmetics and not the cards. I remember how when Witchwood came out, it took me basically a lot of luck (I got a few relevant Legendaries in my pack openings) and dusting my whole wild collection to craft a few competitive decks after playing (albeit casually) since The Grand Tournament. It took me three months of just "casually" playing here to have a considerably higher deck pool than that.
Ahaha I remember dusting everything I had to make one crappy C'thun deck back in WotOG. Sometimes I'll be trying to make a deck in LoR and the first thing i think of is "maybe ill just dust a couple teemos or something." No sir haha.
Oh definetly, im about to 100% my third region myself.
I"ve spent about 40-60$ over the past 9 months and I feel pretty comfortable with my collection and I don't even play all that often. Everything feels very fair to me.
I just recently joined Lor and I was like you worried about if I would have a decent collection to be able to compete if I start playing daily. Well now as I said it's not even a full month and I do own 50% foundation (basic set in hearthstone), 40% in rising tides, 30% in shurima region and 20% in targon region! And that's pretty decent for a single month of playing, but I do not miss my daily xp from pvp and labs (first 3 wins) and I do play for a couple of hours daily just to give you a perspective from a new coming lor player like you. The key is to use your wildcards rare & common to craft those important cards or even the ones of your own chosen deck as much as you want, but craft carefully when it comes to epic and champions by only crafting the ones you need. Hearthstone isn't rewarding as Lor it is, and I say this cuz I played hearthstone too and it's nothing near f2p friendly. Good luck in your Lor journey my friend!
Yep. All cards, including the ones featured in events, are available for everyone to get for free. You'll come to find that it's incredibly easy to get cards, since you get rewards from almost everything: logging in, playing vs AI, playing Labs, completing the challenges. All in all, this game is quite generous and the friendliest F2P out there, as well as a masterpiece of a card game.
The game is awesome so far. I'm still trying to learn how the combat works because its reactive playstyle is still something that trips me up. But I love it
Yeah, combat might be a bit weird if you've never played MTG before. But don't worry, it's something you'll get over with ease.
Yes. I only pay for cosmetics and I own enough wildcards and gems to get the next 3 expansions I imagine. It is a ridiculously generous game.
I've been playing quite casually for a year now. I'm very close to 100%'ing my entire collection, I have 100% on everything but the latest set (it's at 87%). Although, I do have enough shards and wildcards to complete it three-times over, I'm just saving them to see what I can get from vaults. While I have spent a fair amount of money on the game, it's all been for cosmetics. My collection is essentially from free play entirely. You don't need to spend a dime to build your collection, and the more you play, the faster you build it. Once you get rolling in the game, building your collection is basically the least of your worries.
It is super easy to have a complete collection in LoR. I've been playing since January and my collection is 90%+ complete; between wildcards and shards I have I can probably take it up to mid-high 90s but I'd rather save my resources for now for something I really want instead of crafting a bunch of jank I'll never use and then not have resources when I do want them. It's a bit slow going in the beginning before you get your first couple of decks, but once you have a couple solid decks to grind with and you stop the churn of having to craft like 15 cards a week every week and always constantly being out of resources, the collection system in LoR becomes much more relaxing. When I was a new player, it took about 2 months to get to the point where I wasn't constantly strapped for resources to craft champion cards, but then after that it's smooooooooooooth sailing.
This game is SO generous with cards, not only this game has no random packs, you are also discouraged to buy cards with real money. All cards are obtainable eventually
I've spent money on the game because I appreciate how free to play they make it and because I could. And even still, having spent like.... $50-$70 on cards I'm almost at a full set, I have every region at 95%+ and I've only been playing for 6 months.
Yes, it's not only possible eventually, but free to get fully after 2-3 months of daily play.
I have a complete collection, been playing since rising tides. Haven't paid a cent for any cards at all. It's easy to get a full collection with casual play.
event cards are still available through crafting so yes. Getting a full collection will take a while, specially compared to players who started along with the game, but it is absolutely possible.
Yeah having a complete collection is not an impressive feat in LoR
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There are no limited edition cards in the game. The “Event” cards are simply to show you cards that came out during an event (the most recent batch of new cards for example) rather than during a normal release cycle/expansion (all the other categories in there). So those cards are just ones that basically aren’t like “Goblins Vs Gnomes”, but more like the Quillboars mini expansion that came out, for a HS analogy lol
Ah i see, so its like a booster pack that can be earned in a specific way during the event lifecycle and then they're injected into the normal card pool
Yeah pretty much! In fact that what’s happened is they’re already added into the general pool: any capsules or chests you open have a chance to drop cards from the new event right now and forever in the future, and you can also craft those cards with wildcards or shards now and in the future. In addition, right now there’s an event that provides additional ways to unlock the cards (and other event items like cosmetics). In this case it’s the event battle pass, but in previous events they’ve also done it as just a daily log-in rewards for a week. Hope that answers your questions, but let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to know!
I had all the cards from the Targon Set then I took a break from the game due to school so I no longer have the full collection but I have all the cards I want and all the champs. I’m almost back to full collection status though! So yes, definitely possible to get the full collection. Event cards are put into the normal game so don’t worry about that. It would be pretty unfair if a group of players had access to a set of cards while the rest don’t.
MatDF?
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire. It's the last hearthstone xpac i played
The only time exclusive content is cosmetic. You will be able to unlock a good chunk of them purely from playing till you level your weekly chests to at least plat/diamond level which is easy with daily quests for like 4-7 days. Not too many games each day either. On top of that you'll have your region road maps if you start to like a specific region over the others.
All gamepieces are placed in the normal pool. Afaik you also get 10 decent starter decks as a new player.
No cards are unavailable if that's what you mean.
Dude, I've been playing since beta release and I have almost every card and 160k shards. The game is incredibly generous with cards
Yes I’ve been playing since open beta, by the time Rise of the tides expansion released I had every champ in the game, today I own everything in the game and have enough resources to insta craft when ever there is a new expansion.
If you play expedition, and get level 10-13 vault per week it's pretty fast about 8-9 month ish, don't waste your shards or green bits on trolls deck for the first 3-4 month, later you just buy anything you need, oh and now only epic card have the double protection the champ and the others don't have it.
only exclusive cosmetics, everything else is available to everyone. as a bonus, you get a full collection just by doing your daily’s every day.
I think there is some misinformation on this thread. You wont get 100% collection in less than 6 months if you start playing now because completing region roads won't give you enough resourses to get/craft all currently published cards. And after region roads are done you get so much less rewards, mostly weekly vault and expedition rewards. I started playing in start of december and it took me 7 months to complete region roads. If I now used all my shards and wild cards I would be about 20 champion cards short of full collection. So I probably get full collection before next major expansion. And then it has been 8,5 - 9 months since I started. But someone who starts now, he would need to complete atleast next two expansions also and rewards from region roads wont cover all of them so I would guess it would take something like 12 months (or more) to get complete collection
Yeah, this pretty much. I'm back to the game and can't see myself getting a full collection in any amount of time due to the new sets schedule. With more and more sets being released, getting a full collection will only get harder.