HS_Celestalon

Originally posted by Voltairinede

Now, matchmaking will continue to be based on your internal rating even after you run out of bonus stars.

Great, so now ladder rank is totally meaningless.

Originally posted by Lexail

Matchmaking Update

Previously, matchmaking on the ranked ladder was based on your internal rating (commonly called “MMR”) while you had bonus stars and based on ladder rank after you ran out of bonus stars. Now, matchmaking will continue to be based on your internal rating even after you run out of bonus stars. This change should reduce matchmaking complexity and result in more consistent and fairer matches throughout the ladder.

Passive XP Grant Adjustment

In our continued efforts to combat bots and exploitive play patterns, extended periods of inactivity will now reward less XP. This change will not impact players taking normal game actions on their turns, such as playing cards, making attacks, or even just hitting the end turn button, so most players won’t see change in their XP earned—just fewer bots wasting their time.

HUGE. Sounds like we should expect more fairer matches going into D5-Legend. And less incentive to ro...

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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 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 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).

Originally posted by tokzik_

no idea. i accidentally spent over an hour trying to find both of them, and theres a huge discord full of people looking. theres still not even a hint at the entrance, let alone the solution, so it might not be available yet. something to do eith the upcoming event maybe

Originally posted by Megadarth

I hope I'm understood and understand your reply correctly. Are you refering to this specific case here with Millhouse?

SpecificallyI 'm asking because I've dusted Genn and Baku when they were Hall of Famed back in 2019 for example, before legendary duplication protection has been implemented.

When I open Witchwood Packs now and don't own every Legendary, do I have a chance to pull Genn or Baku before I have every other Legendary of that set or did the fact that I owned Genn and Baku at some point in the past stop me from pulling them now before I own all other Legs?

I'm assuming it's the former because I think I got a legendary I dusted some time ago once again as a "freebie" with a bundle.