Duplicate protection not working

I got the 90 pack bundle and there’s a lot of duplicates even though I do not have all of any of the rarities. I assume that this is a bug, but what is Blizzard going to do about this for people reporting this?

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you have all common and all rare with 90 packs so not a bug

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I was going to complain myself but then I started comparing them to the card list. I have all of the Commons and Rares and no more than two the many of the Epics.

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the protection isnt working for me either, they promised we could complete the collection faster. instead Ive got a bunch or commons, a few rares, and only 3 legendaries. the sad thing is that ive got like 6 of the same common card a lot of times…

The protection was not going to help you get more legendaries. That’s not how it works.

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I knew this would happen, they should’ve called it something else. Lots of people are going to complain. There are duplicates after you collect all of that type.

After you get all the common cards, you’ll start getting duplicates of it. This is after about 28-30 packs.

Since commons are common, you’ll see them pop up often in duplication.

Same goes for the other types.

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I know how the process is supposed to work. No confusion on the wording on my part. I’d have to look over my whole collection from Outlands to compare if I actually have all the commons, but I’m almost positive that 90 packs didn’t give me all the rares in the set and I’m still getting duplicates. We’ll see if I’m wrong when I waste some time to look that over or it probably will be easier for me to tell when the expansion officially comes out since it currently won’t allow me to separate the cards from the expansion that I have from the ones I need to craft.

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Yeah I think Tuesday it’ll be easier to see if there’s a bug or not. I can’t see the cards I need to craft for dust now.

Ashes of Outland has 35 rare cards. At most, it would take 70 packs to get all rare cards under the new system, and the actual number is likely lower given that sometimes you can get multiple rare cards per pack.

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You can also get NO rare card in a pack, if you get an epic or a legendary INSTEAD. So it might in some cases even take more than 70 packs, but that’s not going to happen very often…

That said, to quickly check if you have all cards of a rarity, switch to the desired expansion in your collection and activate crafting mode. Type “Missing common” or “Missing rare” into the search field. If no cards show up, you have all of them.

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I opened 90 packs. The duplicate protection was working, but I have never had such bad luck: just 3 legendaries. I’ve been watching Regiskillbin and Dekkster opening their packs and they were very disappointed with the outcome as well. Feels like Blizzard made it sound like an improvement, but we’re actually worse off. :frowning:

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I’m going to open mine in about 5 hours from now. I don’t like the sound of all the bad luck people are having with their openings. I’m going to post my results in another thread.

In regards to dupe protection, it definitely works because I reached Rank 5 silver yesterday and I got a Classic pack. I had 2 commons to dust but I went checked the entire set and yep, it was spot on. I had 2 of every common. I still need a lot of Rares, Epics and Legendry’s.

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the same thing happened to me, i’m sure i didn’t receive letters of all rarities, but i’m full of duplicates

I’ll post my Legendary and other pack results in another thread but for this pack protection one I tracked every single Ashes of Outlands card as I got them…both bundles worth, all 145 packs.

Basically the pack protection works and I love it. It got to the point where I was cheering and excited to see Epics come through as well. See below:

Demon Hunter

Legendary – Metamorphosis
Legendary – Kayn Sunfury: (Pack 58)
Epic – Pit Commander: (Pack 96) (Pack 114)
Epic – Warglaives of Azzinoth: (Pack 75)
Rare – Furious Felfin: (Pack 36) (Pack 42)
Rare – Skull of Gul’dan: (Pack 1) (Pack 50)
Rare – Imprisoned Antaen: (Pack 40) (Pack 51)
Rare – Priestess of Fury: (Pack 9) (GOLDEN, Pack 41) (Pack 60****)
Rare – Coilfang Warlord: (Pack 52) (Pack 59) (GOLDEN, Pack 67*****)
Common – Spectral Sight: (Pack 4) (Pack 18)
Common – Fel Summoner: (Pack 20) (Pack 22)
Common – Crimson Sigil Runner: (Pack 9) (Pack 22) (GOLDEN, Pack 71)
Common – Immolation Aura: (Pack 16) (Pack 18)
Common – Netherwalker: (Pack 14) (Pack 22) (Pack 33*)
Common – Ashtongue Battlelord (Pack 1) (Pack 7)

Druid

Legendary – Archspore Msshi’fn
Legendary – Ysiel Windsinger
Epic – Marsh Hydra: (Pack 4) (Pack 41)
Epic – Glowfly Swarm: (Pack 62) (Pack 71)
Rare – Fungal Fortunes: (Pack 56) (Pack 58)
Rare – Germination: (Pack 2) (Pack 47)
Rare – Ironbark: (Pack 17) (Pack 23)
Common – Imprisoned Satyr: (Pack 19) (Pack 27) (Pack 32*) (GOLDEN, Pack 126)
Common – Bogbeam: (Pack 15) (Pack 24)
Common – Overgrowth: (Pack 4) (Pack 18)

Hunter

Legendary – Zixor, Apex Predator: (Pack 44)
Legendary – Beastmaster Leoroxx
Epic – Augmented Porcupine: (Pack 93)
Epic – Nagrand Slam: (Pack 51) (Pack 132)
Rare – Mok’Nathal Lion: (Pack 22) (Pack 33) (GOLDEN, Pack 96) (GOLDEN, Pack 107)
Rare – Scrap Shot: (Pack 20) (Pack 46)
Rare – Pack Tactics: (Pack 6) (Pack 35)
Common – Scavenger’s Ingenuity: (Pack 2) (Pack 3)
Common – Imprisoned Felmaw: (Pack 14) (Pack 26)
Common – Helboar: (Pack 29 x2!) (Pack 31*)

Mage

Legendary – Astromancer Solarian
Legendary – Evocation: (Pack 92)
Epic – Apexis Smuggler: (Pack 39) (Pack 46)
Epic – Apexis Blast: (Pack 19) (Pack 98)
Rare – Imprisoned Observer: (Pack 31) (Pack 39)
Rare – Font of Power: (Pack 29) (Pack 44)
Rare – Deep Freeze: (Pack 30) (Pack 32)
Common – Incanter’s Flow: (Pack 26) (Pack 27) (Pack 32*) (GOLDEN, Pack 56)
Common – Starscryer: (Pack 1) (Pack 10)
Common – Netherwind Portal: (Pack 10) (Pack 11)

Paladin

Legendary – Lady Liadrin
Legendary – Murgur Murgurgle: (Pack 10)
Epic – Underlight Angling Rod
Epic – Libram of Hope
Rare – Aldor Truthseeker: (Pack 33) (Pack 51)
Rare – Libram of Wisdom: (Pack 55) (Pack 57)
Rare – Imprisoned Sungill: (Pack 17) (Pack 37)
Common – Aldor Attendant: (Pack 11) (Pack 15)
Common – Libram of Justice: (Pack 4) (Pack 13)
Common – Hand of A’dal: (Pack 17) (Pack 24)

Priest

Legendary – Reliquary of Souls
Legendary – Soul Mirror
Epic – Sethekk Veilweaver: (Pack 84)
Epic – Skeletal Dragon: (Pack 54) (Pack 145)
Rare – Dragonmaw Overseer: (Pack 21) (Pack 55)
Rare – Dragonmaw Sentinel: (Pack 26) (Pack 34)
Rare – Psyche Split: (GOLDEN, Pack 21) (Pack 36) (Pack 60****)
Common – Imprisoned Homunculus: (Pack 11) (Pack 28)
Common – Renew: (Pack 22) (Pack 23)
Common – Apotheosis: (Pack 1) (Pack 5) (GOLDEN, Pack 128)

Rogue

Legendary – Akama: (Pack 114)
Legendary – Shadowjeweler Hanar
Epic – Greyheart Sage
Epic – Bamboozle: (Pack 106) (Pack 123)
Rare – Ambush: (Pack 12) (Pack 27) (GOLDEN, Pack 127 x2!)
Rare – Blackjack Stunner: (Pack 47) (Pack 48)
Rare – Ashtongue Slayer: (Pack 45) (Pack 49)
Common – Cursed Vagrant: (Pack 7) (Pack 9)
Common – Dirty Tricks: (Pack 5) (Pack 10)
Common – Spymistress: (Pack 14) (GOLDEN, Pack 20) (Pack 30*)

Shaman

Legendary - Lady Vashj
Legendary – The Lurker Below: (Pack 109)
Epic – Boggspine Knuckles: (GOLDEN, Pack 46)
Epic – Shattered Rumbler: (Pack 25) (Pack 38)
Rare – Torrent: (Pack 5) (Pack 28)
Rare – Bogstrok Clacker: (Pack 3) (Pack 8)
Rare – Vivid Spores: (Pack 8) (Pack 19)
Common – Totemic Reflection: (Pack 6) (Pack 7) (GOLDEN, Pack 74)
Common – Marshspawn: (Pack 9) (Pack 20) (GOLDEN, Pack 42***)
Common – Serpentshrine Portal: (Pack 19) (Pack 24) (Pack 31*) (Pack 33**)

Warlock

Legendary – Keli’dan the Breaker
Legendary – Kanrethad Ebonlocke
Epic – Shadow Council
Epic – Darkglare: (Pack 59)
Rare – The Dark Portal: (Pack 15) (Pack 16)
Rare – Imprisoned Scrap Imp: (Pack 29) (Pack 49)
Rare – Enhanced Dreadlord: (Pack 3) (Pack 18)
Common – Unstable Felbolt: (Pack 21 x2!)
Common – Hand of Gul’dan: (Pack 6) (Pack 27)
Common – Nightshade Matron: (Pack 25) (Pack 28)

Warrior

Legendary – Kargath Bladefist
Legendary – Bulwark of Azzinoth
Epic – Warmaul Challenger: (GOLDEN, Pack 13) (Pack 140)
Epic – Bladestorm: (Pack 13)Rare – Corsair Cache: (Pack 4) (Pack 5)
Rare – Bloodboil Brute: (Pack 7) (Pack 43)
Rare – Scrap Golem: (Pack 10) (Pack 25)
Common – Sword and Board: (Pack 26) (Pack 29)
Common – Bonechewer Raider: (Pack 18) (Pack 20)
Common – Imprisoned Gan’arg: (Pack 12) (Pack 25)

Neutral

Legendary – Kael’thas Sunstrider (Freebie upon login until 29th June): (Free Login Reward)
Legendary – Teron Gorefiend: (GOLDEN, Pack 64)
Legendary – Al’ar: (Pack 6)
Legendary – Maiev Shadowsong
Legendary – Magtheridon
Epic – Mo’arg Artificer: (Pack 118) (Pack 139)
Epic – Replicat-o-tron: (GOLDEN, Pack 124) (Pack 138)
Epic – Waste Warden: (Pack 30) (Pack 79)
Rare – Scrapyard Colossus: (Pack 43) (Pack 49)
Rare – Blistering Rot: (Pack 24) (Pack 53)
Rare – Infectious Sporeling: (Pack 11) (Pack 14)
Common – Imprisoned Vile Fiend: (Pack 11) (Pack 16) (GOLDEN, Pack 83)
Common – Supreme Abyssal: (Pack 8 x2!)
Common – Guardian Augmerchant: (Pack 19) (Pack 24) (GOLDEN, Pack 82)
Common – Felfin Navigator: (Pack 21) (Pack 23) (Pack 31*)
Common – Disguised Wanderer: (Pack 6) (Pack 23) (Pack 32*)
Common – Overconfident Orc: (Pack 3) (Pack 12) (Pack 32*) (GOLDEN, Pack 57)
Common – Ruststeed Raider: (Pack 9) (Pack 17)
Common – Bonechewer Brawler: (Pack 12) (Pack 13) (Pack 33*)
Common – Bonechewer Vanguard (Pack 2 x2!)
Common – Dragonmaw Sky Stalker: (Pack 2) (Pack 7)
Common – Burrowing Scorpid: (Pack 13) (Pack 28)
Common – Soulbound Ashtongue: (Pack 3) (Pack 25)
Common – Scavenging Shivarra: (Pack 8) (Pack 23) (GOLDEN, Pack 102)
Common – Ethereal Augmerchant: (Pack 17) (Pack 26) (Pack 30*)
Common – Rustsworn Cultist: (Pack 5) (Pack 16)
Common – Rocket Augmerchant: (Pack 1) (Pack 14)
Common – Rustsworn Initiate: (Pack 15) (Pack 28)
Common – Terrorguard Escapee: (Pack 12) (Pack 27) (Pack 31*)
Common – Frozen Shadoweaver: (Pack 15) (Pack 16) (GOLDEN, Pack 30*)

*Had ALL Commons by Pack 30. Now up to dusting them.
**Abandon writing down Common doubles. It seems copies come in any order or number after you get 2 of every copy in each rarity. Serpentshrine Portal (Shaman Common) already had a second copy (4th time in total) before any other Common had a chance to see a 3rd one appear.
***Still keep tabs on GOLDEN Commons.
****Had ALL Rares by Pack 60. Now up to dusting them.
*****Continue tracking GOLDEN Rares after the fact.

People claiming protection doesn’t work don’t understand the system. As mentioned early in this thread, the protection is applied for a given RARITY; once you have 2 copies of all commons in the set, you WILL get duplicate commons. The same goes for rares and epics.

One thing to mention though, is that golden copies are treated as their own rarity. In other words, if you have 1 non-golden and 1 golden copy of the same rare card, you could get another non-golden copy even if you don’t have all the rares yet.

Side note for those compiling stats: I opened the 90 packs of my megabundle, and I got 5 legendaries*, so that should dispel any worries about Blizzard tinkering with the occurrence of legendaries in the new system.

*Unfortunately, one of them was A’lar :cry:. I guess I’ll keep him around to prevent me from opening it again…

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According to this in the release notes, you won’t. “This means that if you get a card that you don’t want, you can disenchant it and you will not receive it again until you have all cards of that rarity from that set.”

Legendary:
Pack 1 - Al’ar
Pack 35 - Keli’dan the Breaker
Pack 61 - Soul Mirror
Pack 73 - Astomancer Solarian
Pack 85 - Zixor, Apex Predator
Pack 95 - The Lurker Below (Golden)
Pack 101 - Shadowjeweler Hanar
Pack 102 - Maiev Shadowsong
Pack 133 - Lady Liandrin

Epic:
Apex Plast: 48, 11
Apexis Smuggler:
Augmented Porcupine: 45
Bamboozle: 40, 51
Bladestorm: 100, 104
Boggspine Knuckles: 11, 71
Darkglare: 52, 84
Glowfly Swarm: 49
Greyheart Sage: 36, 142
Libram of Hope: 110, 134
Marsh Hydra: 117
Mo’arg Artificer: 79
Nagrand Slam: 18, 39 (G)
Pit Commander: 123, 124
Sethekk Veilweaver: 92, 100
Shadow Council: 51
Shattered Rumbler: 10, 50 (G)
Skeletal Dragon: 62,
Replicat-o-tron: 27, 140
Underlight Angling Rod: 126
Waste Warden:
Warglaives of Azzinoth: 72
Warmaul Challenger: 54, 88

No duplicate legendaries, no duplicate Epics. 1 golden legendary, 2 golden epics, 12 golden rare, 12 golden commons. Seems like it’s working.

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Blizzard explicitly stated in their announcement that the rarity distribution would not be affected.
People just don’t read.

sigh

If you delete A’lar, you won’t receive another copy of him until you’ve opened all the other Legendaries. Same goes with any other card, which sort of seems like a double edged sword because I’ve been known to delete cards that I thought I wouldn’t need anymore, only to realize that was a boneheaded mistake lol.

Yeeeah I got hosed by the idea, not the actual implementation as well, thinking “oh, good guy that Blizzard. So when I have 2 of a card, it’ll fill in the rest of my expansion”. It wasn’t until I started seeing +3 and being like waaaait a minute…/forums lol.