Twitch Drops for Duels Early Access Now Available Across the Entire Hearthstone Category

Update: If you got the drop, but can’t access Duels yet – try waiting a bit. Official rules state that that the access will be given out within 48 hours.

Duels, the new Hearthstone game mode, was released in the early access last week. In order gain access, players needed to purchase one of the Darkmoon Faire pre-order bundles. But that chages now! While the pre-order is still the only guaranteed way to get in, Duels early access will start dropping on Twitch.

Once you link your accounts (if you don’t know how to do it, there’s a guide in the official blog post below), watch any Hearthstone stream and… that’s it. 500x Duels Early Access will be dropped every hour randomly. Given the usual Hearthstone’s viewership on Twitch, that gives you 1-2% to get picked in theory. In practice it’s a big higher, because some people don’t have their accounts linked, and others have got the drop already. It still doesn’t seem like a high chance, but no one says that you need to actively watch the streams. If you just leave it open in the background, you are very likely to get the access pretty quickly, maybe even before the weekend. And if you get lucky, even sooner.

If you don’t get lucky, however, you will need to wait until November 12 for the Duels early access launch across the board (but – even better – until November 17 when the Season 1 launches, new Hero Powers & Treasures get released etc.).

Good luck, everyone!

Duels: Early Access Twitch Drops

From October 28 at 10:00 a.m. PT to November 11 at 11:00 p.m. PT, we’ll also be giving away Duels: Early Access to 500 random viewers every hour, across the entire Hearthstone category on Twitch! Watch any Hearthstone stream to be eligible to receive a drop, so long as your Battle.net and Twitch accounts are linked.

Link Your Accounts

Before you can receive rewards, you’ll need to link your Twitch.tv and Battle.net accounts. Here’s how:

• Log in or create an account on Twitch.tv.
• Navigate to the Settings menu by clicking your account name in the top-right corner of the home screen.
• Navigate to the Connections tab of the Settings menu.
• Find the Battle.net section, then follow the instructions after selecting a region and clicking Connect.
• When connecting accounts, be sure that you’re currently logged into the Battle.net account on which you’d like to receive your rewards.

The official rules for Twitch Drops can be found here.

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