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I'm mildly excited. Unlocking powers and treasures is excellent as that was a serious pain to do sometimes. Plus with the recent bug it was literally impossible. The new stuff is cool, though I'm concerned some of those passives have power levels off the charts. Every 3rd minion you play costs 1?! That is a potentially massive tempo swing. Would love to see some kind of balancing to the mode as well. Druid needs fixing asap.

Not a huge patch, but I'll take it.

Duels is fun but just adding a new hero isn't gonna fix it. The format has been so refined at this point and there's a few extremely broken decks/passive combos that really need looking at.

Twig needs a ban or else druid is gonna keep getting 16 mana on turn 5 and elise completes and plays her quest on turn 6 because of all the insane mana cheating and refreshing available in that deck. Mummy magic is too oppressive with boars able to get the sword before turn 5. Even outside of boar decks it's an insane passive, should probably move it to the super rare bucket. The double damage on frozen enemies is pretty bullshit, especially with glacial downpour - fail to control one water elemental and you suddenly take like 20 damage - it shouldn't affect heroes. Mycelium is awful design, a 1-card win condition that goes infinite shouldn't be a thing.

Broken meta decks aside some things need buffs too. Warlock in general is absolute trash and has no viable decks outside of maybe getting a few discard zoo highrolls in the early games, Mage is mediocre since they banned wildfire and just relies on spamming freezes and hoping to get the broken double damage + glacial combo. Would be nice to see shaman have any other direction than just throw every burn spell in existence at the opponent's face. I can't even remember the last time I've seen Hunter either? What's even the pickrate on slate?

Ban Twig please. Will there be any expansions joinging Duels?

Duels could use a shake up.

I'm wondering about duels, why did they ban the cards they did?   Seems like some really odd choices.  I mean would Ice Lance or Reno be that problematic?  Leroy?  

I don't really understand.  These cards in duels might not even see play.  Yet they need to ban them?  Sylvanas?  

I mean I'm often playing deathrattle builds, and I'm not sure Sylvanas would make my list.  And if it's iffy for a deck that plans of giving it reborn, does it really need banned?

I'm irritated that Wildfire has to suffer a ban.  Can't they just ban it for Reno??

I'm thinking that they jsut don't have a very large group working on Duels.  So, that's why we don't see many changes.  We see recycled art.  For all I know it's just one guy working  on it.  And it's all he can do to give us new heroes once in a while.

Still I really like the mode.  It's fun.  But, maybe they coulld hire one more guy and double the team working on it.

I’d play duels more if I didn’t need to own and arrange the starter cards. Not having to build a deck before playing was the appeal of the single player modes. Duels missed the mark hard imo.

It feels like forever since they removed him from Battlegrounds, but in reality it hasn't even been 11 months. Time sure works in strange ways. 

Oh look, this game mode still exists. Thanks for the reminder blizzard.

Yes and I play it every day like the others battlenet friends.

Oh great, another warrior class in duels. It's not like we already got Brann and Diablo...All I'm saying is make other classes.

I miss Diablo.  Imo Darius was the most boring hero in witchwood.  I'm sure they'll get around to all the other heroes in witchwood and dalaran heist in the next, like, 8 years at this rate.

Diablo is gone and brann is a none argument because we have elise finly etc.

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Did they run out of inspiration when they decided to put a Deck Swabbie that has nothing to do with the BG one? I mean, it's confusing to see a card with the same name and same picture do different stuff.

 Seabreaker Goliath too

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Having everything unlocked now for every class and every hero is HUGE for barrier of entry for new players.

 

 Wait what?do you mean the collection?or just the duels only stuff?because if its the collection stuff then yeah that is pretty big,I don't see duels getting more popular than bg's but it will surely be a huge bump,as so many players are standard only

I see,thanks for the clarification,i got that wrong from your initial post,however i dont know if i agree,i feel like the treasures and hero powers offered interesting progression,its the collection i wish everyone had equal acces to,im a standard player,i eint crafting random epics and legenderies in wild for this mode....helll naw

but i guess good on the people who enjoy this change

I personally dont play Duels because i dont own any wild expansion, so i dont have most comboparts in the beginning of a run. Why dont they just make those expansions free to everyone just for Duels?

Bobby Kotick does not make things free.

Did they run out of inspiration when they decided to put a Deck Swabbie that has nothing to do with the BG one? I mean, it's confusing to see a card with the same name and same picture do different stuff.

Eh, I'm okay with deck swabbie being there, but only because it's a card that has a battlegrounds exclusive effect that would have no meaning in normal hearthstone/duels.

damn those are cool treasures and I loved Darius in Monster hunt!