New Features Coming to Hearthstone - Quest with Friends & Deck List Importing
Soon you're going to be able to import and export decks from Hearthstone, and more importantly, complete quests by playing games with your friends! Golden cards will also now stack with normal ones on your deck lists.
- We will support the deck list features here on HearthPwn.
- According to Daxxarri, the upcoming patch will not remove the 500 cap on class wins. That's still further out.
- Ben Brode clarified that the collection itself will still show separate goldens and normals. The new tech is only for deck lists.
Quote from BlizzardHearthstone’s upcoming update has a lot of cool stuff in it, but we wanted to call special attention to a couple of features that we’re particularly excited about. We think you’ll like them too!
Friends Forever
When the new Hearthstone update arrives, you’ll be able to complete quests in Friendly Challenges! Just issue a Friendly Challenge to someone on your Friends list and rack up credit for nearly any quest you can receive.
Last year, the Friendly Feud allowed players to complete quests when they played with a friend. You gave us a ton of positive feedback about that event, and a lot of you asked us to have Friendly Feuds more often. We thought that was a good idea, so we took it a step further!
There are some minor caveats. For example, any quests that can’t be completed as part of a Friendly Challenge aren’t eligible, such as those that require you to play vs The Innkeeper or watch a match. Most everything else is fair game though, so now you’ll have a reason to make friends with a recent opponent that isn’t just to send them a compliment.
Sharing is Caring
You’ll soon be able to easily copy and share decklists with Deck Importing! No more screen shotting decklists, or staring at a web page as you carefully build a deck, card by card. Trying—and sharing—a new decklist will be as simple as copy and paste!
Here’s how it works:
If your deck is already full, when you select the Hero portrait at the top of a deck in your collection, you’ll see a Copy button*. Press that button and your decklist will be copied to your clipboard. If you paste your decklist into a text document, it will look like this:
See that conveniently highlighted ‘code’ near the bottom? That code also works on its own, making it easier to share a decklist with friends in chat or social media.
Importing a decklist is easy. When you go to create the new deck, Hearthstone will “know” when you’ve got a valid decklist on your clipboard, so you’ll be asked if you’d like to create a new deck with the one you’ve got copied. Then you can watch your new deck be built before your eyes. You can also import decklists to Tavern Brawls!
Don’t have all the cards a deck requires? No worries! In that case, it works just like a deck recipe. Any cards you don’t already own will appear insubstantial and you can select them for suggested replacements. You might also notice that your golden and non-golden cards now stack in decklists too!
Deck Importing is great for finding and sharing new decks, but it’s also helpful for managing your library of decks. Save the code for decklists you rarely use, and when you’re ready to play one again, just copy and import it.
The new update including these features will arrive in the coming weeks. We’re super excited about them, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!
Soon...
I'm guessing ''Soon'' as in with the next expansion patch-package, or something like that : Aye, that kind of soon...!
And that's lead to the next question. What's estimated time for the next expansion?
Around August, if I am not mistaken - so soon enough :)
It's live now :)
It's about damn time. I hope this will happen today :)
When is the Quest with Friends feature coming? Tomorrow? End of the season? Next year? While I'm glad to know its coming, its only a hype post to me without any time frame reference.
Now net decking is easier than ever! You don't even have to upload the deck list! Just share it right through the client!
WOO HOOOO!
Importing decks seems really viable.
Great news, I really missed the possibility to play with friends and complete quest at the same time. Thanks
I hope this patch also fixes the freeze on game closing...
Did you guys fix the game freezing on spectate win "feature" you added with Ungoro?
Because that is obnoxious as hell.
I am excited to be able to earn my quests by playing my friends.
Another Fluff patch that ignores all the major issues the game needs fixed. While arena remains a complete unbalanced cluster fuck of a joke, Blizztards instead add a new feature to help people share their net decks with their friends who r to lazy to look them up themselves.
The technology is simply not there. Maybe next year? Meanwhile enjoy watching some Hearthstone: Mulligan clips which Blizzard will be putting out in the coming weeks/months.
Any plans on fixing performance on mobile?
No?
Oh silly me, too busy raising the prices on card packs... I understand.
I see Blizzard is still rolling out "fluff" instead of the most needed improvement the game needs, which is a tournament mode. Of course that might interfere with future plans of monetizing Blizz HS tournies - (Blizzard paid millions for MLG).
The deck importing is a necessary feature. And it should interfere with any tournament mode plans, if any. Development time and resources is not even comparable between the two features.
Ability to craft previous card backs would be nice in a future update!