Yesterday, we disabled Heroic Duels to prevent malicious users from using third party software to break deckbuilding restrictions. This is a violation of our Terms of Service, and the offending accounts have been banned.
We are currently testing a fix to close the vulnerability as soon as possible. Once confirmed, this will be added in a server-side hotfix and the Heroic Duels queue will be reenabled.
Additionally, players who had lost Heroic Duels games to illegal decks will receive 10 Tavern Ticketsâthese will be granted to impacted player accounts at a later date.
Thank you for your patience.
Edit: Tavern Ticket grants to affected players have now been distributed.
Edit 2: It looks like we missed one category of cheaters, so weâre opening this back up to finish the job.
Edit 3: Okay, NOW Ticket grants should have gone out to all affected players.
I had 2 instances of losing my games due to my opponents using illegal decks i have a screenshot of the first happening with my 8 win streak rogue game if i need to provide and i was so frustrated be the second one i threw my phone kknda and crashed the game the second one was vs a reno as a paladin my first game i have 20 hp and he starts /w a back pack treasure and went first played 2 catds and killed me 1st lowering my hp down to 1 and second dealing 1 damage for each creature in my deck
I had several last year that I reported to hacks@blizzard but never heard back on - such as one guy whoâd somehow tweaked his entire priest duels deck under Elise that was entirely made up of the astral mecha that gets stronger per copy. Like, no other minions in the entire deckâŚ
yes. essentially the entire deck was astral mechas and some priest removal with the only other minions being maybe 2 of those celestial projectionists.
Yesterday, I played and the game shown that there are some issue happening to my games which make the duel can not be started. I then cancelled the current run and start a new one in hopping for the trouble tobe fixed. Only by that time i realized duel can not be played.
Please, in the next time you terminate some thing or do any fix, please inform at the ingame start screen so we know what is happenning.
Hey yaâll, so iâm not sure what âIllegalâ decks were circulating Heroic runs, but here it is, 0145 EST and i had an encounter with this gem of an opponent:
Essentially started off the game with 20 passives, and drops a cool 600+ armor and HP before turn 1 just between multiple instances of different passives. I know itâs only casual mode, and duels is on itâs way out, but still⌠anyhoo. He conceded, and itâs no big deal, but this is the first time i can recall of anyone BLATANTLY cheating, so i figured Iâd post. Cheers
No cheating per say, but something Ive never witnessed before. On the 4th or so turn the player had a legendary that converted all their HP into Armor. They were playing as Sir Findley the murloc, half paladin half shaman i think is its dual classes. Power was the bubble one that costs 0. IDK. Ive never encountered such a broken card. Because of course right away it seemed like every minion they played afterwards had lifesteal, they were minions Ive seen and used before for just such ability, so those cards werenât a cheat as far as I know. But it didnt matter what I played, they had both a board clear, and board presence to increase pressure on me every single turn. I dont think I even have more than 1 board clear spell per class⌠let alone one for every single turn the way this person managed toâŚ
it just got to the point where there was no point so I just had to end the run at 10 turns on this match⌠with an all time high of this character of 4 wins in a single run. SO I had been making good progress til this broken character and his infinite armor right away and infinite board clearing⌠all the while lifestealing up before ai can even have a minion live long enough to even attack their armor downâŚ
I had only just built my deck, when i hit play i got the message about an error. Normally there is a button to âretireâ from the game. I canât even play in casual duels while this fix happens? I hope this is fixed soon. its been nearly a week
So-called âdeck trackersâ (actual hacks showing information otherwise not available in the game and possibly doing than that⌠like, ahem, âpilotingâ the game for you and doing other nefarious manipulations) are legal and fine, they saidâŚ
Nope, deck trackers dont hack. They operate completely client side, form info you have access to without a tracker on PC. Check the logs. Hacking is server side, not client side. Trackers only give the information the server sends to the client, which is not a hack as the host is providing the info to the client.
Trackers do nothing more than what an observant player and a notepad and pencil can achieve IRL. Ill admit they are bloody efficient at it but if allowed to rope every turn I could copy down all the same things a tracker tells me. The tracker just allows me not to need to rope or need a pen.
I had a great run in progress and then go up against a player that drops a 6/6 quelâdelar on turn 1 costing 0⌠ended my amazing run and pissed me off to no end.
One thing trackers do that you wonât be able to always be on top of and thatâs whatâs in their hand. Really good information to know how long they have been holding onto a card.
Just played a casual duels match. Clearly a hacked deck. Iâve played quite a lot and never seen anything like it. 2nd match of a run. We both start with additional passive of âboth players start with 10 manaâ. Opponent plays âfill board with random undeadâ. Next turn âdeal 12 damage to all enemiesâ. Not a real card. Also didnât actually damage anything oddly. Then âyour minions cost 0 this turnâ. Not a real card. Then a minion with âat end of turn deal 25 damage to all enemiesâ. Wtf. Screen name was djweb I believe. It was very fast thatâs all I can remember.
Itâs not enough that you ban these players, all players who lost a match to this exploit should be refunded full amount of money or gold.
Heroic brawl currency can be real money, and at least in my country that constitutes agambling. Should you choose not to refund players, you may be looking at a class action lawsuit. It would be possible to argue that you run a gambling product without sufficient oversight to prevent exploitation via fraud. That is illegal, at least in my country.
