Hey guys !
With the release of the new duplicate protection there is a new way of getting a lot of dust after nerfs. Let’s see how it works. In the latest patch 2 common and 3 rare cards were nerfed. If you disenchant all copies of them, you will miss 4 common and 6 rare cards so if you open a pack you will get (in the worst case) all the commons you miss and a rare back. After this you disenchant again and open a pack again. With this method you can get 260 (4*40+100) dust from each pack in the worst case (worst case because you can still open a new legendary or epic card or you can open one of the nerfed cards in golden).
So my question is: Is it something we can do safely or is it considered exploitation ?
Dusted cards count as already obtained for the purposes of triplicate protection. In other words, if you have all rare cards and dust one, the game still assumes you “own it” and you’re not guaranteed to get it back.
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Is this a 100% sure that this mechanic works this way ?
Blizzard stated so in their Year of the Phoenix announcement (https://playhearthstone.com/en-gb/news/23319441/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-phoenix), in the section about card pack changes. Quote (emphasis mine):
Once this change goes live, you will no longer receive more than two copies of any Common, Rare, or Epic until you have owned two copies of all cards of that rarity in a set. Crafting a card counts towards acquiring it, and any cards you acquire and later disenchant (whether golden or non-golden) count as well. 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. This change does not affect the overall distribution of rarities in card packs.
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Thank you for the explanation but it says " … you will not receive it again until you have all cards of that rarity from that set.". This means if I have all the rare cards from Ashes of Outland and disenchant the latest nerfed rare and open a pack I will get that rare I disenchanted before. And I can do this over and over again because it will be the only rare I miss from the set.
No it means you have an equal chance to either get one of the cards you dusted or a third one of a card you already have… at least that how I read it, but should be pretty easy to check
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You can go ahead and test it right now. Go to Hearthstone, disenchant a couple of nerfed cards, then buy enough packs to get them back. Come back and let us know the results.
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Then do it and share it with us.
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Well the only thing that holds me back for doing so is that Blizzard takes exploitations serious and I don’t want any bad consequence of doing so.
If it makes you feel any better, I just tested it. I disenchanted both copies of Priestess of Fury, and bought two AoO packs. The rare cards in the first one was Vivid Spores, and the one for the second pack was Scrap Shot. Both of which I already had two copies of.
You’re welcome for the 200g I saved you.
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Do you get the packs illegally?
And the current question are “does anti dupe really works that way?”
If you worried, just do it thrice with commons then stop. That if it works that way.
While the official info arent saying that.