Patch 18.6 - Server-Side Hotfix
Blizzard just announced a server-side hotfix for Duels mode. Robes of Gaudiness has been removed from the Treasure pool and more.
Server-side hotfix coming today!
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) October 24, 2020
⚙️Robes of Gaudiness has been removed from the passive Treasure pool.
⚙️Loot buckets will now populate properly when playing as Turalyon, the Tenured in Duels. pic.twitter.com/p69jXJhuGu
Quote from BlizzardUpdate1: We’ve encountered an issue with the ranked floor fix for Battlegrounds mentioned above. We’re now planning to ship that fix separately next week. Thanks for your patience!
Update2: We’ve run into a few more issues that have prevented us from deploying the hotfix for Robes of Gaudiness and Turalyon, the Tenured to all regions. We’ll update here once the hotfix has been successfully deployed for everyone.
Agreed. Its kinda weird that Robes somehow got through playtesting, but on the other hand - if Blizzard has like 10 people playtesting stuff versus hundreds of thousands games played every day, it understandable that the community figures out what OP much better. Glad for the fast fix. It was making Duels too coinflippy in later stages (after 5 wins it was about who has the Robes and who doesnt).
gaudiness is a different playstyle thing so they were prolly trying it out as a balanced gamble, clearly that failed
Ah, yeah I should have parsed that with my sarcastic goggles on. No. I was beign serious. It;s a good thing they balance quickly and decisively at the start and not let the critics of the game mode have a legitimate reason to complain.
It's still likely that the game mode is not totally balanced (mage seems very strong) but Robes is just....broken. Glad they realized that quickly and went to remove it.