Hope this will be seen by somebody from Blizzard who can help fixing this error.
I have encountered a gamebreaking error in duels that makes playing frustrating and sometimes impossible. That error is Mozaki and specifically some passives which do not work as intended.
First and foremost “Freeze Solid” passive. Blizzard have banned a Voidtouchet Attendant from deckbuilding yet mage has it’s double effect as a passive and with addition of simple “Arcane missiles” or similar spells and cards you can lose your match simply because you could not prevent freezing effect once.
Second and worst error is an existance of the “Ring of Black Ice”. For some reason it triggers with every freeze effect infinitely while something like “Mummy Magic” works for first minion effected. Your minion is frozen allready? Don’t you worry our trusty ring will still trigger when second instance of freezing is applied. Have you frozen your minion with own freezing effect? Well I dont see why shouldn’t your opponent get a copy of it. Not to mention the copy is 2 mana less which breakes all the rules of similar cost reducing passives such as: “Emerald Goggles”, “Orb of Revelation”, “Endurance Training”, “All Together Now”, etc. All mentioned above reduce manacost to a certant point preventing fast over tempo spam or broken combos.
To sum up we have a class with 0 iq gameplay which I would consider at least toxic. It plays your exact cards but better because they cost less (or get copies of own minions with cost reduction) or you fail to kill a 2/1 freeze token and get smashed for 30 dmg with “Blastmage Miner” on turn 5-6 (skill issue). This crucial errors have to be fixed asap for the well-being of Duels community.
(This topic was created after 45 minute game of being held hostage by Mozaki)
I think the fact that duels is going away (literally) any day now makes it very unlikely this will be addressed.
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True, guess I can just switch to mercenaries which is so worth playing getting astonishing 0 gold and 0 packs for every couple of runs. The gamemode is so good that it is totally being played by more people than duels
It sucks to see them just scrap a mode instead of keeping it up for some players, but I’d say asking for fixes at this point isn’t worth your time
They are removing duels next week with patch 29.2
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You know mercs was cancelled way before duels right?
but they arent removing it
the are removing duels though
one can make money, the other cant
If they discontinue support and idiots keep paying for packs why not? It literally earns money for no effort on blizzards part.
So you were the Rattlegore I pwned on turn 6 with freezing potion + Blastmage for 27 damage to face?
Sorry bout that bud! Duels will be deleted from the game on 16th April, so there’ll be no more “Omg BS!” after that.
Cheers, have a good one!
Nah, was not me but ty for reminding that freezing potion exists, seems even more bs now
It’s good fun. Try it while you can.
Im guessing you havent met the OTK priest on Duels yet?
Frightened Kvaldir (you next heal does damage) → Heal Both Heroes to Full = Dead.
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I’d buy a battlepass to save duels and I haven’t spent money on this game in YEARS.
It’s a deck that loses in later runs due to pollution of own deck with bad buckets and you can simply apply pressure early on they have little to none removal
with chinesse coming back iis it possible the mode gets revived ? i remember reading the chinesse really loved the mode or was support ending after blizzard had to remove the games from china a coincidence ?
Duels is dead, not coming back, and I’m not sure how these could be linked.
They announced the duels mode ending this January 2024 and the NetEase deal fell through in January 2023.
the post i was answering to was about mercenaries
and i know the only small hope we have to play duels again is a twist season…
Apologies then - that connection is possible, the mercenaries announcement was just weeks after the NetEase deal fell through.
I’m guessing though that sadly whatever dev team was working on the format is long gone (most likely fired in one of the giant waves of dev layoffs the past couple years).
thats what happened to the guy who worked on duels