Update 5:17 PM EDT: Database has been updated with new card images.
Hearthstone Patch 6485
A wild patch has appeared on the download servers, and it has some treats! This patch is not yet available on the Battle.net launcher.
This patch includes Leeroy Jenkins and Starving Buzzard card nerfs, card backs, and some updates to misc. Naxxramas strings.
Card Changes
- Leeroy Jenkins mana Cost is now 5, up from 4.
- Starving Buzzard mana cost is now 5, up from 2. Attack is now 3, up from 2. Health is now 2, up from 1.
New Card Backs
The previously announced Plundering Pirates card back is in, and it has two friends- The Dalaran Flame card back, and a "Coming Soon" card back. Although no images of the Coming Soon card back was found in the client, there are references to them.
"Plundering Pirates"
Season 6 (Sept 2014)
"Dalaran Flame"
TeSPA - License Detected
The Dalaran Flame card back is the previously seen "TeSPA" card back, and it is rewarded from a licensedetected trigger. A license trigger activates when your Battle.net account activates a game/purchase code/key. This trigger was also used in BlizzCon 2013's Elite Tauren Chieftain and the Diablo III Reaper of Souls game license "Reaper of Packs" card pack to grant those rewards. It is possible this card back will tie into a TeSPA promotion, or will be a reward to TeSPA chapters; but this is pure speculation.
The "Coming Soon" card back doesn't have any data associated with it, but it too is triggered by licensedetected. Perhaps it is for the Warlords of Draenor card back, but there is no way to know for sure right now.
Quote from HearthPwn
- Card Back Path: Assets/Game/CardBacks/IceCrown/Card_Back_TeSPA
- Note: dalaran flame cardback
- Trigger: licensedetected
- Description: You have earned the Dalaran Flame card back!
String Changes
Not incredibly important, but there were a few string changes to Naxxramas shop descriptions. They no longer mention the Naxxramas opening event sequence since it has concluded.
Great news about nerf. But it's unfair to include cool card back when millions of players won't ever have a chance to obtain it. We can't all become members of TeSPA. At least they are not making any specific cards for community with unique abilities like Deathwing for 2 mana and without discard.
I agree... I know they want to make tespa special, but they should at least have some other way to obtain it. That card back is so sexy.
I guess they've had enough trying to change Unleash to be balanced LOL
This card back must be the "Hearthstone In-Game Reward*" referred to in the 25 members milestone. (Scroll to the bottom of this page.)
I would still like to see the option to chose a different cardback per deck. Then I would get use out of all these backs that I have and never equip.
Agreed!! I'd be really awesome to apply the Naxx card back to your handlock deck and the Icecrown back to your freeze mage.
That tespa card is nice! too bad my college doesn't have a chapter...
Why are there only nerfs and not buffs to cards that never get played?
The nerf to Buzzard was simply necessary(albeit a severe one) to lessen the ridiculous amount of Hunters on the ladder. And in my opinion, don't fix anything that ain't broke because in every CCG, there are cards that will never be played, sometimes ignoring those cards may not be the worst thing.
It's easier to destroy than to create. To make everything on par with the strongest cards is much more difficult than nerfing the few standouts into line with other stuff. I wish that buffs to lesser played cards were more frequent than nerfs to dominant cards, but it seems sadly to be the impractical approach.
In every game there is always a dominant deck you could make the same argument for that.
It was initially announced to be "around" September 22, not November. The patch still hasn't made it to live servers, it could come out tonight, it could come out in a week. Sometimes we spot them early =)
I agree on the "Coming soon": probably Blizzcon.
My guess is that one is for Collector's Edition of Warlords of Draenor and the other is for the Virtual Blizzcon Ticket.
My hope is that both will get more than just a card back. Maybe the 10th anniversary of World of Warcraft could influence the card backs. Well, I hope Soon(tm) is soon :-)
I really hope we're getting a BlizzCon card back and that is why it says "Coming Soon". Card back would be much cooler than an RNG card, although I'm sure Noxious wouldn't mind some more RNG for Randuin Wrynn.
Also: Yaaaarrrrrrrrrr Haaarrrrrrr
Boo rng card > card back.
Long live the golden gimmicks!
Why not both?
I'd love a new RNG card too for, "It tells a story"
Card backs for chumps!
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