Hearthstone’s Darkmoon Faire gacha adds a super cute Q’onzu pet costing up to a very ugly $158

Hearthstone is currently undergoing some big changes — communication, balance, bigger patches than usual — but one thing remains unchanged: their Darkmoon Faire gacha-style roulette game, the only current way to obtain pets, is still egregiously expensive and awful. It was introduced a while ago with terrible odds, and those still remain: this month, the top prize is the very cute Q’onzu pet, but to get it under the current circumstances, you’ll most likely have to pay the absurd amount of $158.

You can read the full details on our previous post, but the gist of the Darkmoon Faire roulette is that it’s a gacha-style roulette with several possible prizes, and your first roll is free. But the chances of getting the top-tier item on that single free roll are microscopically low (around 0.1%), and they increase by absolutely measly amounts with each new roll. At the same time, each roll costs proportionally more than the previous. By the time you’ve already purchased nine rolls and there are only two prizes left, you’d think your chances to get the pet would be at around 50%, right? Wrong: they’re still at a diabolical 6.67%.

The only way to guarantee you’ll get the top prize is to purchase all ten rolls, so you’ll obtain every item on the roulette. This time, since the prize is a bit less prestigious than exclusive pets or Mythic skins, the total Runestone cost to guarantee you’ll get all ten rewards is going to be a ludicrous 15,800, which equates to $158. An absurd amount of money for what you get, made even worse by the fact that it’s designed to mislead you into thinking your choices of getting the top prize before the final roll are realistic.

It’s another Darkmoon Faire update, and another great pet that only a tiny fraction of players — those willing to part with their money very liberally — will obtain. And we still don’t get even a single free pet to at least introduce the system to the vast majority of Hearthstone players.

Last published July 14, 2026. Updated July 29, 2026.