Hero Academy! Can we please have more information?

[Garanwyn]

@TheSchmoo

There was a Dev Q&A some time back where one of the responses was that it was NOT necessary to keep stores of duplicate heros. 100% certain of this.

The actual quote doesn’t say what you think it said:

@Kerridoc

With the direction you’re heading with the Hero Academy, even though the design isn’t finished and things are very uncertain, should people be considering holding dupes and increasing roster size, or is that premature?

I’m hoping there will be a legitimate use for duplicates. Too early to tell, will need to see what is released in beta and how the Hero Academy will be functioning.

But it might be the case that this feature won’t make it into the Hero Academy.

Too speculative at this point to stockpile heroes; we can put out some more information once we are further along.

“Too speculative to stockpile heroes” is very different than “not necessary to keep stores of duplicate heroes.”

What he was saying back in March was that if you stockpile heroes, you’re making a bet that they will be useful, and he can’t promise that’s how Hero Academy will work just yet. So he wasn’t advising people to blow resources stockpiling duplicate heroes that might or might not be useful.

But the statement: “I’m hoping there will be a legitimate use for duplicates” suggests that Hero Academy consuming duplicates is a distinct possibility.

So…read the tea leaves as you see fit. My judgement was that roster space is cheap compared to 5* heroes. And so I have been stockpiling 5* heroes. We shall see if that was a wise call.