n00b asking n00b questions everyone's favorite right? /sarcasm
1. I'm sure everyone here has been asked this before, but how much real money have you sunk into this game, and do you think it was worth it? I've only been playing for 3-4 days and want to purchase Curse of Naxxramas (esp since all the decks I wanna make require a bunch of the cards), but for $25 plus maybe Blackrock Mountain plus some other packs in the future, it seems a little on the expensive side. Should I try to just buy the wings with gold and skip arena and stuff since I'm not exactly breaking even in terms of gold most of the time?
2. Crafting. I've looked at a few guides, but a lot of them are pretty vague about whether you should buy all the cheaper cards you want first or save up for epic and legendary cards. Any advice, or does this just fall under personal preference?
Sorry for the spammy post, just looking for help y'all ^.^
I've spent $145 US on this game. Have to keep a tally to make sure I don't spend too much lol. You'll quickly realize, if you haven't already, that you are going to have to spend either money or time on this game. For example, I was F2P for a year (been playing since open beta), but other responsibilities pulled me away from the game (read: a full time job). Nowadays, I have way less time to play, but now I have money to spend on Hearthstone if I want to as opposed to having all the time in the world, but being broke.
That sounded so bad, but oh well :P
Anyway, it's a balancing act is what I wanted to get at. Was the money worth it? Yeah it was, but partially because my collection was built on a foundation of a year's worth of grinding. Also, if this is a game you find yourself sticking with and you ever do spend money in the future, realize it's a card game. Meaning there is never going to really be a point where you drop a bunch of money/gold and you're "one and done". This is not a "spend $60 and that's it" game (I see so many people treat it that way), unless you plan on spending money once and then just grinding gold for the rest of your days to get everything else. New sets/adventures will be coming out and you'll have to get some of the new cards to keep up. Of course this doesn't apply as much if you plan on just playing Arena.
As far as crafting, again I wouldn't worry about this if you are going to exclusively play Arena. Other than that, I think it just comes down to personal preference. If I had to do the F2P thing again though, I would've just played with all the classes with the cards given to me at the start, decided which classes I wanted to commit to and then just grind Arena for a couple of months until I had the collection to build the decks I wanted for those classes. But even that is harder now because Arena only gives out GvG packs. Arena is still worth it, but it's even more important to go "infinite" nowadays IMO(earn enough gold to pay for your next run)
I rambled too as usual.
