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I used odd DH and well went smooth to legend at 64% win rate from D5 to legend.

I have 190k dust and 15k gold why would blizzard wanted to rig my games? I have no intention of spending money in a very looong time so yeah I can’t imagine the reason why they have an algorithm to rig games

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Demonic Project wasn't.  This isn't much better even if it does cost 1 mana less.

 Usually Warlock plays minions and token druid doesnt and that 1 mana less is a huge difference in token druid.

Battletag: Macharius#2267
Region: EU
Trade Only: Trade, you go first

Sorry for the necromancy guys but I have to say that Shaman in fact is one of the best classes in Duels, another 12 run recently, not flawless but still 12 wins.

This time instead of elemental Shaman I tried murloc shaman (broken as hell with the battlecry passives) in fact my 2 losses was vs another Shaman.

At least Shaman is not useless in Duels compared vs standard...

Honestly I am starting to enjoy more Duels rather than Standard or Arena... In top of that the gold farming is real if you compare the gold I had 6 days ago and now is +1k gold, 1k/week is quite good.

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My man Kripp is so MANLY they needed 3 girls to balance his manly manhood!

 He’s with 2 grills and bloodyface

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Gonna need a citation for "they're here just for being girls", chief. 

 It's equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity and I'm not saying they've balanced the scales 50/50 outside of anything other than these are a list of popular and well known players, I don't follow the scene close enough or care enough to know about them individually. 

But I will say that the change up from the previous line up is either because they accept that they specifically picked male participants because of a bias against female participants or they are actively trying to get less known streamers out there. If it's the latter then that's totally fine but you're always going to them have the male streamers who are struggling who will feel like they aren't getting an opportunity simply because they are men. If its the former then you're openly admitting to bigotry. If its neither then it's likely that they are pandering. 

Then you get the issue of colour representation and you can keep playing this game, there aren't enough people of colour. Sure, you've got women in there now but why arent there an equal amount of Asian and other minorities? So on and so on.

This isn't a hearthstone issue, it's a much wider social issue so it's going to cause some friction somewhere. The problem with achieving equality of outcome is you are most likely going to discriminate against someone else in order to do it. It's an impossible game and one I'm glad I don't have to navigate on this sort of scale. You don't do anything, people are angry, you do something and different people are angry. It's fine for someone like Regis to step aside because he's very well set in terms of streaming and income but whoever you replace him with will be at the expense of someone else.

I don't think it's controversial to say they are specifically trying to up their female representation, that seems fairly clear to me. But it doesn't make all the problems go away because you then have people excluded for things outside of their control as well and seeing as there are more deserving streamers than spots, someone is probably going to feel aggrieved.

I'm a big fan of equal opportunity, not so much equality of outcome. If a person has done the right things to get an opportunity, they shouldn't be excluded because they are white or male or whatever. At the same time, you do need to foster an environment that allows all people a chance. If women aren't able to get to that position as easily then I understand the need to balance it out in some way. It's just difficult to do. The other difficulty is that having this conversation is really hard without each side shouting at each other. If everyone could hear out the concerns and talk it through, it may get more people on board but that means not dismissing anyone who doesn't necessarily agree, provided they are being respectful and aren't trolling or being abusive etc.

For the record I am NOT saying that these women don't deserve to be there. I'm simply saying that I understand why some people could have the perspective that it is representation for the sake of representation, given the goings on at the last event and that female representation is suddenly 50/50 from 80/20, I get why people can see it like they are being put there for political reasons rather than pure merit.

I personally feel chasing equality of outcome is a no win game and as I said, could easily see people accusing the line up of not having x or y represented enough. It can't realistically be achieved without discrimination of some sort and a struggling male streamer is mo less deserving of a spot simply because he's male, just as a female streamer shouldn't be excluded simply for being female either.

I've recruited in the past and ended up with 8 out of 10 jobs being offered to men. It had nothing to do with the fact that they were men. I've had other recruitment drives where more women were offered jobs. If you go with the most competent people, you likely aren't going to get equal representation across gender and race. So when it is completely equal, it's always easy to assume it's for political reasons. 

 Yeah well I dont see many construction ladies working below the sun in summer dont me weong, people complain about equility if fancy jobs but in the crappy ones no lady wants even to try it.

Nice gender equality in all teams 2 dudes and 2 ladyas per team. Finally!

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Just curious, what was the original decklist that you used? Seems you ended up with some pretty good elemental synergies. Combine that with cheaper/double battlecries, I can see why you did well.

I've just recently started messing with duels again, and I would say that your ending deck seems above average, but overall, just looks like it works well together.

In my most recent runs, I would on occasion get offered buckets that don't really match what I have already and then you'll end up with some draws that don't do as much as they could.

 Here you have:

So yeah, I am not a big duels player, and I just decided to give it a try, then I picked shaman and copy-pasted some random initial deck for shaman, the first one I could craft without honestly looking what cards were included is that deck.

The thing is the whole run was a joke, double battlecry gave make infinite value, and I just destroyed all kind of opponents, paladins with that shit making everything 3-3s, discard locks, secret and deathrattle hunters, ele mages... I think I just faced all kind of decks except maybe another shaman

The easiest 510g of my life and sweet achievements, even the pack was worth it 3 epics.

Pasives; All Together Now & Battle Totem

Treasures: Hunter's Insight (used only 1 time) & Gentleman's Top Hat & Blood Moon (never used) Blade of the Burning Sun (used 2 times only) & Greedy Pickaxe (used once maybe?)

 Now, my question to all of you, as said im not a big experienced duels player, so I dont know guys if muy deck was totally broken with the treasures and powers, or shaman is usually just like this? Fire elemental 8 damage face for 5 mana, leaving a 6-5 body is a joke on my opinion in top of that I had that elemental dude making your battlecries twice so in some runs that elemental was 16 damage face for 6 mana.

89 packs 4 legendaries kind of average....

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Its definitely double counting - i disenchanted a silence and it reduced the dust from mass disenchant by 10

Still not brave enough to actually try it 

 Thanks for testing, regarding Blizzard poor small indie company....

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I have exactly the same “issue” - an absolute ton of extra dust reported on the mass disenchant button.

I have a hunch it may be simply double counting classic cards (i.e. counting each classic card once for classic mode and once for standard/wild) in which case this would be a lot of free dust.  

Im definitely not brave enough to try it though

 Me neither, I was not planning to press that button I am just a dust hoarder but I was wondering.... what will happen if I click that

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 That would be terrible, TERRIBLE! I hope this is not the case. But I'd rather not press the button :)

 Now im start thinking the other way around, Initially I said oh! Blizzard is so generous this year, but now its like... hey its a trap! yes I will have my 30k extra dust but then I will lose the whole Classic collection... Not sure if it is intented or just weird bug/interaction... 

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Guys, I don't understand:

so after the core set will be live we will get refund dust for the past crafted cards that will be in the core set ? 

For example, I've got a bunch of golden cards for my 5k achievements but I've already crafted golden versions of these cards in the past and I want to know if I should disenchant them or wait for the core set to come live. 

From my understanding, the core cards act as a sort of token. This also explains why a lot of players are experiencing an increase in their pool for disenchanting dust. They have the original card from its set, say King Krush (Classic), but also receive King Krush (Core-set). The disenchanter now shows King Krush as a duplicate, and thus King Krush (Classic) can be sharded while keeping the core-set one. 

Imagine a new player, they do not have any of the core set cards, and thus receive them (uncraftable/non-disenchantable) from the core-set. Other players with the card in their collection now have King Krush (Classic) and King Krush (Core). Obviously, they are in different formats, and with some cards, act differently. If you were to shard the core-variant, you would not be able to play with it on say wild.

You will probably not be refunded, but be able to disenchant them, whilst keeping the core-set. However, since they are core-set, they can only be used in core format, and once dusted, they cannot be used in say wild, or classic. Think of it as a borrowed set. 

It wouldn't make sense otherwise. 

 Meaning that if I click that mass disenchant button I am going to disenchant my legit copies of the classic cards and I will keep that borrowed core set? but then what will happen next year I will not have my legit copies of that cards anymore so I dont want to do that I want to have my legit copies of that cards.