When I face discard warlock, it seems that ALL of their cards are discard cards. Yet I rarely get offered a discard bucket. Maybe 1 in 3 times. Are those folks just lucky, or is there a trick to building your deck to up the rate of offering?
Well, only those who have lucky buckets and treasures get to win in Duels mode so, yes, you only face lucky opponents, the further you go the luckier they (and you) are.
No trick that I know of, the 1 in 3 times discard bucket is the one you face, the other 2 just lost.
When I face discard warlock, it seems that ALL of their cards are discard cards. Yet I rarely get offered a discard bucket. Maybe 1 in 3 times. Are those folks just lucky, or is there a trick to building your deck to up the rate of offering?
They are probably just lucky but there are ways to up the rate of offering. Idea is to reduce the chance of getting useless buckets.
Soul fragments is an OK bucket for discard warlock but you may want go other direction to not get those and have no soul fragments package in the main deck. Demon buckets is something very easy to get if you have many demons and it is a very meh one. Consider cutting non-essential demons from the first 15. Many 1-2 drops will give you swarming. And so on...
But you still may get crappy buckets and have your run ruined
Not specifically Warlock, but I noticed something in one of my recent runs.
I built a Shaman burn deck with 1 Elemental and got offered a good bucket for my deck that included exactly one Elemental. So I picked it and after each of the next 3 games, I got offered an Elemental bucket. And none of them dealt any damage or worked even the slightest in my deck. That was weird to see. It felt like Blizzard wanted me to move towards Elementals because that's the expected archetype now, I guess? Needless to say, this run didn't last too long.
I have played countless Warlock runs before the last update, and I can basically confirm the 1 in 3 runs gives you discard synergies thing. I assume that the buckets work depending on the number of cards you have in your deck and the system just assumes buckets that could help you. Since discard was very strong, but didn't have many discard synergy cards in the starting deck, it offered the bucket rather rarely. That being said, I don't know if they take cards like the discard quest into consideration, but they absolutely should.
Regarding the soul fragments package, it's obviously not the best bucket you want to be in, but it used to be very helpful for Malicia to add 2-3 more soul fragment creator cards to your deck in case you didn't get the Battlecry Totem passive treasure. And token Druid was very popular, so another School Spirits was pretty helpful. Discard is obviously stronger overall, though.
As Strongpoint has said, there is no guarantee to get a useful bucket. And that's probably fine, given that the buckets are basically a draft mode. Also, imagine everyone alsways gets the best possible bucket and treasure...Well, I would like to see that mode tbh.
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When I face discard warlock, it seems that ALL of their cards are discard cards. Yet I rarely get offered a discard bucket. Maybe 1 in 3 times. Are those folks just lucky, or is there a trick to building your deck to up the rate of offering?
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i feel that so much. and yeah it seems to be just insanely lucky. Or otherwise extremly unlucky for us.
Well, only those who have lucky buckets and treasures get to win in Duels mode so, yes, you only face lucky opponents, the further you go the luckier they (and you) are.
No trick that I know of, the 1 in 3 times discard bucket is the one you face, the other 2 just lost.
Have you tried one of the skill-based game modes?
They are probably just lucky but there are ways to up the rate of offering. Idea is to reduce the chance of getting useless buckets.
Soul fragments is an OK bucket for discard warlock but you may want go other direction to not get those and have no soul fragments package in the main deck.
Demon buckets is something very easy to get if you have many demons and it is a very meh one. Consider cutting non-essential demons from the first 15.
Many 1-2 drops will give you swarming.
And so on...
But you still may get crappy buckets and have your run ruined
Not specifically Warlock, but I noticed something in one of my recent runs.
I built a Shaman burn deck with 1 Elemental and got offered a good bucket for my deck that included exactly one Elemental. So I picked it and after each of the next 3 games, I got offered an Elemental bucket. And none of them dealt any damage or worked even the slightest in my deck. That was weird to see. It felt like Blizzard wanted me to move towards Elementals because that's the expected archetype now, I guess? Needless to say, this run didn't last too long.
I have played countless Warlock runs before the last update, and I can basically confirm the 1 in 3 runs gives you discard synergies thing. I assume that the buckets work depending on the number of cards you have in your deck and the system just assumes buckets that could help you. Since discard was very strong, but didn't have many discard synergy cards in the starting deck, it offered the bucket rather rarely. That being said, I don't know if they take cards like the discard quest into consideration, but they absolutely should.
Regarding the soul fragments package, it's obviously not the best bucket you want to be in, but it used to be very helpful for Malicia to add 2-3 more soul fragment creator cards to your deck in case you didn't get the Battlecry Totem passive treasure. And token Druid was very popular, so another School Spirits was pretty helpful. Discard is obviously stronger overall, though.
As Strongpoint has said, there is no guarantee to get a useful bucket. And that's probably fine, given that the buckets are basically a draft mode. Also, imagine everyone alsways gets the best possible bucket and treasure...Well, I would like to see that mode tbh.