Hearthstone Patch 11.2 - Taverns of Time Event, New Bundles, Free Golden Card Pack
A new Hearthstone patch has hit! Read on! Here are some highlights.
- Free pack day is on June 13 - login to receive a FREE GOLDEN CARD PACK! This is the same pack Twitch Prime members got a while back.
- A new event, Taverns of Time, runs from June 11 through July 2. New quests will be active and so will special card drafts in Arena.
- Get in here bundle expires June 19. For 7.99 USD/7.99 EUR, you get 2 of each pack that is in the current standard rotation (Classic, UNG, KFT, KC, WW).
- Mirrored heroes have new greetings.
New Brawl Chalkboards
New Quests
The following quests have been added to the game.
Quote from HearthPwnTimewalk This Way
- Description: Take 15 turns.
- Reward: 60 Gold & 60 Dust
Aeon and Off
- Description: Take 25 turns.
- Reward: 80 Gold & 80 Dust
The Alpha
- Description: Play 5 minions that cost 1.
- Reward: 60 Gold & 60 Dust
Card-boiled
- Description: Draw 15 cards.
- Reward: 60 Gold & 60 Dust
Card Mode
- Description: Draw 25 cards.
- Reward: 80 Gold & 80 Dust
Spell of a Time
- Description: Play 20 spells.
- Reward: 60 Gold & 60 Dust
Time Will Spell
- Description: Play 35 spells.
- Reward: 80 Gold & 80 Dust
Off the Scales
- Description: Play 3 Dragons.
- Reward: 100 Gold & 100 Dust
Arena Displaced from Time
- Description: Go try out the Arena. Some strange new cards from alternate Taverns are showing up!
- Reward: 1 Arena Ticket
Free Pack Day
- Description: Awarded for logging in on Free Pack Day!
- Reward: 1 Free Golden Classic Pack
I Can't Even...
- Description: Play 40 odd-cost cards.
- Reward: 60 Gold
The Odds Are Against Us
- Description: Play 40 even-cost cards.
- Reward: 60 Gold
New Arena Cards
Check out our dedicated thread on the arena forums!
Official Patch Notes
Quote from BlizzardThere’s a ton going on in this update: we’re celebrating a new Hearthstone holiday, inviting you to GET IN HERE for a great deal, mopping up Toki’s timeline hijinks, updating game mechanics, AND making improvements to Arena picks! We’re also be fixing a few bugs in the process.
Read on for details!
Taverns of Time Special Event
- Toki has tangled the timelines! Experience chronological chaos as alternate realities collide in the Tavern!
- Draft 28 special cards unique to the Arena.
- Special Taverns of Time Daily Quests award both gold AND dust.
- Taverns of Time begins June 11 and lasts through July 2.
Get in Here Bundle
- PILE ON the packs at a special price. Unlike previous bundles, this one can be purchased any number of times!
- This bundle includes two each of Classic, The Witchwood, Kobolds & Catacombs, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Journey to Un’Goro packs, for a total of 10 packs.
- Get in here while the getting’s good: this bundle disappears June 19 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Free Pack Day
Log in on June 13 to claim a free Golden Classic Pack, filled with golden Hearthstone cards!
Game Mechanics Updates
- Continued updates to game event timing to make card interactions more intuitive. Read our previous Game Mechanics Updates blog for more insight!
- Counterspell beats whenever and after triggers.
- Summon and Play triggers are now evaluated using their in-hand stats before they are affected by board modifiers and their Battlecry.
- Ex. Playing Faceless Manipulator targeting a 5-attack minion will no longer advance Jungle Giants. It will be considered a 3/3.
- Minions that enter the battlefield without being played from hand will have any (Whenever or After) summon triggers evaluated before board modifiers are applied.
- Ex. If Azure Drake is pulled onto the battlefield adjacent to Dire Wolf Alpha it will no longer advance Jungle Giants.
- Choose One minions that Transform now consider their transformation effects before entering play.
- Ex. Playing Shellshifter and selecting the 5/3 option will count as a 5-attack minion and advance Jungle Giants.
Arena Updates
- Added several new pick “buckets” for non-Legendary cards and two for Legendary cards.
- The new buckets are halfway in power between the existing buckets, and they’re intended to create more varied choices when drafting an Arena deck.
- The very strongest and very weakest cards do not appear in these new buckets, so those cards will appear as picks about half as frequently as they did previously.
Evil Twin Greetings
- When players with the same hero (except Death Knights) greet each other, new emotes will play!
Added the following card backs:
- Back in Blue – Acquired from winning five games in Ranked Play, June 2018.
- Lightforged – Acquired from winning five games in Ranked Play, July 2018.
Bug Fixes & Gameplay Improvements
- Logging in after a new season begins will now correctly display only the latest season results.
- Kingsbane that has been transformed into a different legendary by Prince Liam will no longer retain buffs.
- As Kingsbane is not destroyed when its Deathrattle triggers, Rummaging Kobold will no longer retrieve it.
- Spellbender will no longer trigger Rat Trap or Hidden Wisdom when it triggers.
- Rat Trap no longer triggers when your board is full.
- Voodoo Doll and other Deathrattles now correctly trigger during a Defile.
- Shadow Reflection now appears correctly when transformed into a spell.
- A Zombeast crafted out of Vicious Scalehide and Exploding Bloatbat will no longer trigger its Deathrattle animation when it’s played.
- Tess Greymane will now replay hero cards with her Battlecry.
- Tess Greymane’s Battlecry is now limited to 30 cards, and will stop if she is silenced, killed, transformed, leaves the battlefield, or if any hero dies.
- Lynessa Sunsorrow’s Battlecry is now limited to 30 cards and casts the buffs in a random order.
- Lynessa Sunsorrow’s Battlecry will now include the effects of Choose One cards.
- Leyline Manipulator now correctly reduces the cost of cards created by Golden Kobold.
- Effigy triggered by killing Molten Giant now properly summons a new Molten Giant.
- Night Prowler now has yellow glow in hand when no minions are in the battlefield.
- King Togwaggle will now swap decks without burning cards if both decks were over 30 cards.
- Transform effects such as Thrall, Deathseer will no longer activate summon triggers like Starving Buzzard and Blubber Baron.
Monster Hunt
- Shaw's Shank now correctly counts minions that have taken damage equal to their unbuffed Health.
- Alternate Timeline no longer resets Infinite Toki’s Health to full when played by a player.
- Frostmourne will now correctly summon minions that it destroyed before using Toki’s Temporal Loop Hero Power when its Deathrattle triggers.
- Pillage the Fallen treasure now triggers when Sword of Justice expends its last durability.
This is the same pack as the one given to twitch prime customers which was confirmed as different to the other packs and had no pity time or association with the standard packs. The cards you pull will be based on the normal probablities.
Best bundle ever: opened a Malygos, Master Oakheart, Sonya Shadowdancer AND a golden Clutchmother Zavas in one 10-pack bundle!
I guess you are just fucking lucky?
Well, he got two from the same set, so no pity timer. I got 2 from the classic packs in the bundle Malygos and a golden Captain Greenskin
Oh man, that Lightforged cardback looks so good. That could have been a Top 500 Legend Cardback IMO
I was just wondering... are the new quests starts on June 11?
This is wrong. Standard quest maly druid run two faceless- primarily for the OTK combo, but also if one is drawn before the quest goes off, the ability to use it to advance the quest is a big help. This is a completely unnecessary nerf to that deck, which is ridiculous considering all the broken interactions in the meta currently.
Exactly. WHAT THE FUCK, who asked for this nerf? The ability to use one faceless to advance the quest made it much more consistent. Was this deck dominating the meta or something? Jesus.
Does anyone have the full quest list?
First they Nerf Corridor Creeper and Bonemare, now they are nerfing Jungle Giants in other ways.
Why does Blizzard hate Barnabus so much?
If this nerf affected your quest druid, you're building it wrong.
That bundle man... I just burnt my entire BfA stash of WoW gold to buy 12 bundles... Only got four leggos, but I did get a golden Arf-Arf (who got promptly dusted :p)
Maybe a dumb question, but during this Taverns of Time event are ALL new quests you get each day going to be from the Taverns of Time quest pool they added? Or are they just a possibility? I hope it's all regular quests disabled and you only get the Taverns of Time quests!!!
This event has to be leading up to their announcement of the next expansion too!
Awesome Patch ! i'm happy to see some new things added to the game. This Dust + Gold Quests is really Goood. Also, i like those "Evil Twins" quotes, can't wait to see it =) .
The only thing i don't like about this new patch is the "No dust Refund for Tess" Since the cards that burgle rogue gets are random, that's actually a nerf, she could kill herself really soon, just like after-nerf yogg. And Yogg gave a dust refund. So... stop being greedy Blizz...
Why the fuck Tess needs a nerf? It was my favorite card from the expansion... FeelsBadMan
I think the fact that after Kingsbane is destroyed it is "resurrected" back into your deck, this would mean it is "alive" again and hence, was not destroyed. Just a thought
For those who don't think the change to Tess Gerymane constitutes a nerf. Here's what Mike Donais said about Tess before the release of Witchwood (clearly indicating their intention that Tess operate like pre-nerf Yogg - now they are nerfing her to operate like post-nerf Yogg):
And he elsewhere states she should operate like "Pre-nerf Yogg currently".
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8aeax2/new_rouge_card_tess_graymane/
Problem is things posted on Reddit are for entertainment purposes only - not cannon.
so many nerfs considered by blizz to be fixes. fixed a lot but still no explosive runes/divine shield interaction fix? sad
Brode's last dying wish before he left: "free packs....." "but not too much though"