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Weekly News Recap

Two Hearthstone patches, plenty of blue posts and tweets, a delicious Hearthstone cake, and more!

• January 13
• Blizzard posted the card changes coming in the next patch.
• Blue Tweets! Blizzard discusses game balance and the next patch.
• We posted a decklist roundup for the weekend's ManaGrind tournaments. (NA Swiss / EU Swiss / NA Open / EU Open)
• We posted the top 100 legends for the end of season 1.
• January 14
• Blizzard sent out a wave of opt-in invites to those who did not receive a beta invite but signed up for one.
• ManaGrind posted interviews with the NA and EU Open winners for the weekend tournaments. (NA Winner - Imablackbelt / EU Winner Spo)
• We posted Rosanna Pansino's Hearthstone Roll Cake video. Omnomnom!
• January 15
• Blue Tweets! Blizzard discusses game design, golden heroes, and player harassment.
• Blue Posts!
• Zeriyah responded to a thread discussing game balance concerns.
• January 16
• Hearthstone Beta Patch 4458 went live! Alongside the card changes, a new timer was added to show players the estimated queue times for matches.
• Hearthstone's Lead Designer, Eric Dodds, posted a blog on Card Balance and Philosophy.
• The final wave of Hearthstone opt-in invites was sent. Next on the list, open beta.
• ChanmanV and Kripparrian interviewed Eric Dodds on Value Town #15. They discussed Eric's blog on balance philosophy, the recent patch changes, and answered viewer questions from chat.
• January 17
• Hearthstone Beta Patch 4482 went live! There was an adjustment to the minion swapping bug to make it happen less, and the Korean version of the game received some card text changes.
• Jotto posted his weekly tournament review thread in preparation for the weekend's events.
• Blizzard posted the top 100 NA and EU ladder rankings. We made them look pretty.

Known Issues Update - Quest Cancellations Temporarily Disabled

Aratil provided an update to the known issues thread today noting that the ability to cancel quests has been temporarily disabled. This is due to a bug with cancelling quests not giving you a new one in return. Check out the known issues thread below.

Quote from Aratil

 We have identified two known issues with this most recent content update that we wanted to make sure everyone was aware of:

• There is an issue that may sometimes prevent a player from cancelling a quest, or when cancelling a quest, not replacing the cancelled quest with a replacement. The ability to cancel quests has been temporarily disabled while we continue to investigate this issue.
• Players may experience some delays and unresponsiveness when accessing their card collection, decks, and when disenchanting cards. After creating or editing a deck, please try waiting a few minutes or restarting the Hearthstone client to check if the issue persists.
• We are aware that the issue with minions arbitrarily swapping places with other minions on the board has appeared to become more prevalent with the recent patch. This issue is one of our top priorities to resolve as soon as possible, but unfortunately has been extremely complex to fully resolve. We will provide additional updates once more information becomes available.

Patch 1.0.0.4482 Update: Resolved some issues that were introduced with the previous patch that exacerbated the frequency in which minions arbitrarily swapped places with other minions on the board. This issue is not yet fully resolved but should now be less prevalent than it was with patch 1.0.0.4458. 

For other known issues, please check this thread.

Top 5 Plays of the Week

GiantKiller of 2pPressStart published a new episode of Hearthstone, Top 5 Plays of the Week. This week's plays come from PoopSteve420, Enor, Savjz, Zloc, and Sharpie. Congratulations guys on some great plays!

Constructed Talk: Hunter Bumrush

Noxious uploaded a new video discussing his new hit you in the face really hard Hunter deck. Check out the deck in action in the video below, the deck contents below that, and feel free to comment over in this thread.