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Originally posted by adanine

One criticism I can see is that you need to craft the legendary card corresponding to the exact name of the hero to unlock it, but some of these heroes have two to four different cards - and the art used often doesn't even correspond to the relevant card.

For example, there are four different Finley legendary cards in constructed, but from the wording in the article it appears only the League of Explorers version unlocks Finley as a hero in this twist season... but Finley's portrait in Twist appears to be art from a single player adventure store bundle and not the League of Explorers Finley card? Isn't that confusing?

N'Zoth is even worse! It's using the art from Madness at the Darkmoon Faire that's evocative of the Darkmoon Faire Nzoth card, but requires the Whispers of the Old Gods card. Same with Dr. Boom - using the art from the Hero card from Boom Labs, but seems to require the GvG legendary to unlock. Edit: Brann is using Uldum art, but ...

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Originally posted by Munrot07

That's my assumption too. Look back some cards have the extra bit, some don't. I'm guessing blizzard add it whenever they can, and ignore it otherwise.

Originally posted by deevee12

a huge new Twist season with several unique decks and new hero powers

Wait a goddamn second...

Originally posted by CheezCurls1230

Yeah, I have seen reports of this ever since March 19, so I kind of suspect that core rotation has broken the solution as it has in the past. I am sure u/HS_Celestalon will see to it that the new legacy version of Ysera the Dreamer will work in the future but maybe it will take some time.

Originally posted by EtherealProphet

Holy frick Cora commented on my post, play it cool man play it cool

Thanks, I’m so glad you liked it! I was really proud of that line as well. I’m happy to add to the community hype for this expansion. Best wishes and congratulations for the launch tomorrow!

Originally posted by Atomicapples

What was the 1 year challenge, for those not in the know?

Originally posted by Chefofbaddecisions

Even if its not, my 5yo will claim this is a skibitoilet reference.

Originally posted by Nerowinner2020

Man this expansion has the most unique effects I have seen from a long time. Almost every single legendary felt like a custom card.

Originally posted by ItsJamali

In what ways would you expect it to be communicated?

New players are far more likely to be facing bots, and far less likely to know about the report function.

I've played through the new NPE a few times, at some stage you can face other players also playing through the NPE.

After your first match against another human would seem the appropriate time to have a short pop up tutorial showing players how to add other players as friends, and also how to use the report function.

This way the focus can be on encouraging the social aspect of the game, instead of the report feature itself.

For everyone else they could be shown the same pop up tutorial on logging in like other announcements.

Any less and you're talking about social media posts which just don't reach a wide enough audience.

Originally posted by ItsJamali

Appreciate the response, and that there are limited resources.

The most meaningful feedback I could give you is:

1. The existence of the report feature is not communicated to players, it's something you have to figure out yourself or learn about from forums.

2. The Botting option should be top level, cheating is synonymous with hacking to a large number of players, so leaves room for confusion. People say it's buried because you don't see the Botting option until you've already selected Cheating.

Originally posted by ItsJamali

1. Can you confirm if reporting bots in game is useful?

A lot of players feel that reporting bots is a waste of time, especially when the option is buried under "cheating".

1. If it's helpful are there any plans to give players an incentive to report bots?

In some games you receive a notification if someone was banned with your help, in others there are actual rewards. For Hearthstone there's simply no feedback.

1. Are there any plans to combat the bots besides banning them more frequently? Is banning them actually reducing the number of bots over time?

People have suggested things like PvE puzzles as in game captchas, separate ques for accounts receiving many bot reports, and changes to arena to deincentives bot owners farming for runs.

Is there anything you can share with the community?

Originally posted by ItsDominare

Appreciate you're not going to go into details on detection methods here, but do the in-game reports actually help? I try to remember to do one if I see an obvious bot, but you never get any feedback so it's hard to know if one is screaming into the wind or not.

Originally posted by badimojo

Does anybody spend the extra time reporting bot accounts? And following up to that, does anybody think that reporting is a worthwhile thing to do?

(I do report if I can remember to but I'm not very sure that it's worth the trouble).