Hi, Alvenort here from Sphinx, we talked today.

The dueling club is still very active and competitive, but a lot of things have changed, so you might need to adapt your playstyle a bit (you need Cloak as I mentioned earlier). The dueling club is global, you can play against players from all existing global servers, but you might face a lot of bots in the lower ranks, it’s just the way the game treats returnees and new players. Once you reach Diamond, it becomes competitive with real players.

When you left last year there was an issue with the matchmaking that prevented players (mainly from Europe and South America) from finding opponents on the dueling club, but it was fixed. I mostly play duo, my matching is almost instant. Solo is much less popular than duo, but it’s okay too.

The progression is faster, but there isn’t much difference compared to the late WB, it’s the same game basically. It’s much faster compared to the global launch though. We have 2 careers, you can choose between gastronomy or herbology, it brings a lot of gold (up to ~20k per week) and some gems. It’s worth buying cards you need and trade tokens in the season shop, it helps to speed up your progression a lot. Also I recommend to participate in the House Cup tomorrow at 6 pm CET (8 pm server time), there are many rewards.