1. Pay2win?
What? How is this game PAy2win. I have a LOT of legendary cards, and I hardly include any of them in most of my best decks. They actually did a poor job with a lot of the legends. I know for sure a lot of players got to rank 40 without paying a dime. I am doing great without paying a dime too, so I don't see how this game is pay2win. If anything, you need to invest a lot of time to farm legendary cards in hearthstone to win. I am also a constant legends player in hearthstone, and I have to say the grind is much harder there in terms of obtaining a competitive deck.
2. Gems/currency
Does it matter? you can get to a good rank with just basic cards or rare or below. I am pretty sure it is your misconception that the grind is harder here because you have played hearthstone for a long time, and you forgot how long it took you to get a competitive deck. I remember when i started, and I never put money into hearthstone, I didn't get a real competitive deck for 6 months (took 3 months to get my first legendary card, which was lorewalker cho LOL).
3. Imitating hearthstone
I don't even know how to respond to this, if you think this game is imitating hearthstone, you simply have not played enough CCGs.
As far as the reduction in probabilities of getting legendaries in packs goes, here is my experience:
During the initial release I bought 3x2k packs, plus 3 starter packs, plus I opened about 10 packs from the hero quests, plus the first pack you get during the tutorial (you purchase it for 100 gems).
That's 3x23+ 10 + 2 = 83 packs.
I got 7 heroes (plus 1 guaranteed)
trickster
barrel pirate
9000
double mint
= 11 legends for 83 packs that's 1 legend every 7.5 packs
After the release I bought 1x5k pack and have opened 4 packs from hero quests.
That's 64 packs.
1 hero
9000x2
bananasaurus
hero wannabe
octazombie
armour plant
= 7 legends, for 64 packs that's 1 legend every 9.1 packs.
Obviously this is just anecdotal data and not necessarily representative of whatever the real probabilities are, but a drop from 1 in 7.5 to 1 in 9.1 doesn't really seem very significant to me, specially given that the packs DOUBLED IN SIZE!
