KickAss how else is combat going to be done. do you want the server to actually wait in between moves on the video combat and determine the next move? You will get the same results. In combat the program can calculate the results of all moves necessary to complete combat in a second or 2. It just takes 2 or 3 minutes to actually visualize it for us humans. So saying combat is predetermined is not necessarily correct. The results are just calculated and determined at a super high speed. Same with the tavern and runes. This is no different then any other game i have ever played. Rigging any of this so some people get better results then others is not advantageous to the company. Does it seem impossible to get the heroes you want or the runes you want? Sure, but that's true in this style of play for free type game. They need you to spend money to get lucky and get better. If every time a legendary hero appeared in the tavern you got it, what would be the point of spending money on the game to buy credits. From my experience the average is this
you will pick a legendary hero once out of every 50 times a legendary hero appears in the tavern.
How did i figure that out? by comparing how many legendary heroes myself and others have and our spirit tokens. And most of the people i talk to are having about the same results as me. for every legendary hero they have picked after the shuffle they have about 50 spirit tokens

If anyone else is having extremely drastic results please post those results

Also having which card you pick being "predetermined" is actually a good thing. Other wise it is pure luck if you ever get a legendary hero. By the system determining which one you will get regardless of which card you pick allows the game to be programmed out to have the results I mentioned above. Which is for x number of times a legendary hero appears you will receive a legendary hero. This in turn keeps teh playing field more level in the long run and encourages early spending on a server.

Everything is done mathematically. It is possible for a developer/programmer to be going in to individual's accounts and weighting certain persons results one way or another. But do you really think they have the time to do that across all the server with all the players. I seriously doubt it. The results of all the "random" events in the game are a simple mathematical formula that will average out in the long run. Of course the formulae are weighted in the game's favor to make you spend money. But they are not imo weighted so certain individuals get better results then others