Will buying wings of liberty or heart of the swarm allow me to play ranked ladder with the legacy of the void expansion, both WoL and HotS is 50% off and starter edition of SC2 allows me to play LotV expansion
Starcraft – Will I be able to play legacy of the void ladder if I buy wings of liberty or heart of the swarm
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If I'm understanding your question properly, in order to have two Heart of the Swarm licenses you need two Wings of Liberty licenses.
Since Heart of the Swarm is not a stand alone expansion, you need to have all the prerequisite games in order to play it (each copy).
You can see for example, on this Cataclysm box art for World of Warcraft, that it requires "Wrath of the Lich King to play". Wotlk says it requires TBC, and TBC requires the base game. It is expansions all the way down. This trend stands true for all Blizzard games to date, as they don't release stand alone expansions.
I was wandering around Arqade Meta and found this:
This is currently the case for Starcraft 2 HOTS. Everybody can preorder on Amazon and get a free Beta key.
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No, you can only play ladder for the edition of of StarCraft 2 that you have. The exception is if you team up one a friend you can use the "temp upgrade to your friends' edition" that they offer but that is just while you are playing with your friend.
If you want to play LoTV ladder, you need to buy the LoTV standalone "expansion".
For what it's worth (my opinion, this point on) it's worth the money if you are going to play both the campaign and do ladder.