If you wanted to play a game of Heroic Duels (you probably didn’t, but hey), sadly you can’t do it right now. The mode has been temporarily shut down. No specific reason was given, but players reported that the mode has been bugged lately – e.g. players could “live” past their 3rd loss or not receive any rewards for their run.
We’ll give you an update once the mode is back up!
Hey everyone,
We’re temporarily disabling Heroic Duels due to an unforeseen issue. We’ll provide an update here as soon as Heroic Duels are back online.
Update:
Heroic Duels are back online.
Update 2/1: Heroic Duels are back online! Thanks for your patience.
Fun fact : I actually DID want to play a heroic game of Duels, and I got surprised. At first I thought it had to be a regular thing kind of like arena I believe? Sometimes you can’t play or something? Or maybe that was in the past. Haven’t played arena in ages. Duels is straight up better to me.
Arena is locked – as in you can’t draft new decks – shortly before season changes. But other than that, I don’t believe it’s closed at any time.
But yeah, Heroic Duels should normally work all the time, it was just temporarily disabled due to some bugs 🙂
I have been a regular heroic duels player …
But then what the heck.
I’m Timmy.
Ooh. Cool treasures.
Ooh. Absolutely broken and disgusting combos.
(Usually in the hands of my opponents – but still fun to watch even as you are being tossed off a cliff.)
And for those of us of the less competent persuasion –
Having a game mode that really depends on you being lucky and getting a treasure that synergizes with your deck
As opposed to being normal and getting “that’s nice dear” treasures that have nothing to do with the cards you have …
Well, randomness is life.
Seeing the perfect match treasure for your deck in the selection pool is happy happy time.
I don’t think most other Hearthstone players see things the same way.
All Hearthstone formats reward skill –
But Duels may offer the smallest skill-reward-premium
Due to the mega-effect of just drawing the right treasures.
Oh yeah, I agree, the mode is really fun to play, but mostly when you get lucky and end up with treasures / passives / deck that all synergize with each other. The main issue is that it feels really bad when you end up with a bunch of treasures that don’t belong in your deck and then lose quickly when you face decks that actually work.
Doing crazy things is fun, but not when only your opponent is doing them 🙂
Fine minds think alike here.
I like to watch Trolden videos,
So if I can get beaten with grace and outrageous style … I’m game.
When one’s own deck is doing nothing and you are beaten by just big guys doing things better …
Boring loss of an entrance ticket.
“If you wanted to play a game of Heroic Duels (you probably didn’t, but hey)”
Guilty, this Mode sucks in its current state
Heroic duels isn’t popular? is there some sort of metric you’re using, or is that in your opinion?
There were some stats on reddit that have shown that regular Duels is the least popular free game mode (so not counting Arena). And since Heroic Duels is paid, it’s definitely even less popular.
But it was mostly a joke.
Surprising. I love this mode.But I always play it heroic.
It was funny some people are daft haha
I’m under the impression you need a tavern pass (if that’s the right term) or a couple bucks to play heroic just like arena.
If I can play casual duels, I’m going to use my passes on Arena. But are the rewards for heroic duels better than the arena ones? That I don’t know.
The price & reward structure in Heroic Duels is exactly the same as Arena.