Hearthstone Patch 13.4 - Rise of Shadows Pre-Order, Random Card Back, Complete My Deck
A new patch has been deployed which gives us access to the new expansion pre-order and some other previously announced goodies.
Quote from BlizzardIn this update we draw up the plans for Rise of Shadows and give you a chance to join the crew before the heist begins. We’re also saying goodbye to the Year of the Mammoth card sets in style, adding some cool quality of life improvements, and fixing some bugs. Read on for details!
Events
Pre-Purchase the Rise of Shadows
Be ready when Rise of Shadows, Hearthstone’s newest expansion, begins!
Rise of Shadows Bundle
Get 50 Rise of Shadows card packs, the Jewel of Lazul card back, and a Legendary minion from Rise of Shadows.Rise of Shadows Mega Bundle
Get 80 Rise of Shadows card packs, the Jewel of Lazul card back, a golden Legendary minion, and the new Priest Hero Villain Madame Lazul!Farewell to Mammoth!
With the Year of the Dragon swiftly approaching let's take a moment to remember and celebrate the Year of the Mammoth which will soon be rotating to Wild. Join us for a Mammoth send-off!
- Free Packs – Log in March 25th through April 2 to receive 3 free card packs! (1 each from Journey to Un’Goro, The Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Kobolds & Catacombs)
- Brawl Block: Year of the Mammoth – The Tavern Brawl starting March 25 invites you to take those free cards and build decks using only expansions from the Year of the Mammoth.
- Shadows Rise in the Tavern! - The Tavern Brawl starting April 1 gives you an opportunity to earn a Rise of Shadows pack that you can open once the expansion is released.
Card Backs!
Game Improvements
We’ve further optimized Hearthstone's app size
It will be necessary to re-download app data, but Hearthstone will take up a lot less space now!Reconnect Improvements – Players attempting to reconnect to matches should now have a smoother overall experience.
Reroll Legendary Quests – To give players more freedom over how they’ll be rewarded while playing Hearthstone, we have now added the ability to reroll legendary quests (Special event quests, Expansion launch quests, etc.) into standard daily quests.
Random Card Back Selector – Let the Innkeeper curate your card back collection. Select the Random card back for a deck, and a random card back from your Collection will be chosen each time you play.Golden Heroes Now Count Arena Wins – Go for the gold in the Arena! We are updating the 500 Wins requirement for Golden Heroes to include Arena wins along with Ranked wins.
- NOTE: This will only apply towards Arena wins earned after this update is live. Any past Arena wins will not count towards the 500 Wins total.
Complete My Deck – Hearthstone’s better at helping you build decks than ever before.
- Helps you build established, proven decks using your collection.
- If you’re short of an established deck, the helper will help you choose the strongest stand-alone cards from what you have available.
Trigger Rules Update - We're updating the rules regarding how Poisonous, Lifesteal, and Overkill keywords work in specific cases, to make cards behave in a more intuitive way.
- Fixed several issues that could cause User Interface elements to overlap.
- Fixed an issue where Gral, the Shark’s effect could cause the eaten card to appear permanently on the gameboard.
- Playing Gral, the Shark will no longer cause visual effects to display on incorrect parts of the board.
- Gral, the Shark will now correctly gain the extra stats if the minion it eats was buffed in the deck.
- Fixed a visual issue with the effects in Rastakhan’s portrait.
- Nozdormu's visual effects will no longer persist after he is transformed.
- The Boomsday! card back will no longer light up during the mulligan phase.
- The lock icon for future overloaded mana crystals will no longer be erased after playing Mojomaster Zihi.
- Fixed issue where Magnetic minions could incorrectly execute their end-of-turn effects additional times after being bounced and replayed.
- Astromancer now correctly summons a minion immediately next to her instead of the far right of the board.
- If Big Bad Voodoo's effect triggers on a minion that doesn't have any valid minions to evolve into, it will now summon a random minion of equal cost.
- Fixed an issue where mulliganed cards would not be tracked as having started in your deck.
- Kalimos' Invocation of Water's card text will no longer indicate that the effect will be doubled while Prophet Velen is in play.
- Fixed an issue which could cause the Mass Disenchant menu to show an incorrect amount of cards and dust.
- Fixed an issue where a person on your Friends list would show their last rank if they set themselves to appear offline instead of going offline.
- Fixed an issue where Card Backs earned from completing a Heroic Adventure would not show up properly in the Collection Manager.
- Returning players who had not previously completed the tutorial or a PvP match will now be included in the New Player Ranks.
- Fixed an issue where players could sometimes get stuck on a loading screen if they tried to spectate a game that ends before they finish loading.
- [Reconnect] Addressed an issue that could cause players who were attempting to reconnect to Arena matches to lose additional matches.
- [Reconnect] Fixed an issue that could cause players who were attempting to reconnect to matches to become stuck in an infinite reconnect loop.
- [Rumble Run] Choices from Branching Paths will no longer trigger twice with Pirate's Mark in play.
- [Mobile] Fixed an issue that could cause some sound effects to fail to play even after all sound files had been downloaded.
- [Mobile] Fixed an issue that could cause the text bubble for the adventure announcer to appear incorrectly sized.
- [Fireside Gatherings] Fixed an issue that could cause missing and duplicate patrons in the friends list when connected to a Fireside Gathering.
It's just a bit strange that if you choose some hero damage buffs, malfurion + gonk (8ish cards) that it assumes it would work well as mechathun deck.
I hoped it would at least try to find a deck that would go in that direction.
I am excited for the new priest hero skin. But the paywall is just too much for me. I MAYBE would have considered buying the pre-order package for the first time for 50€, IF it were included. But not like this.
Why not give it us for free in Solo Adventures like Arthas or C'Thun as a gift? Such iconic characters from each expansions, which they are built around, are not meant to pay for, imo! Not even Hero Cards. I got Hagatha by luck but didn't get Dr. Boom until now. I can't imagine it would hurt Blizzard's business models. On the contrary.
What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?
YES, it is.
I do not understand why there is only one icon...
Are these features ( Arena wins, Hero priest ecc..) live already?
Apologies but haven’t had chance to log in yet.
Yup, it's live.
I was expecting RAFAAAM to play a bigger role than a Warlock exclusive legendary and Madame Lazul a bigger role than a
badRare priest card -.- . That's a bit Underwhelming if you compare it with The Old Gods (Start of the Year of the Kraken) , Legendary Quests (start of the Year of the Mamoth) and Gen + Baku (Start of the Year of the Raven).But hey, they said we are going to see those guys in all 3 expansions or something like that. Plus I am looking forwards to the rest of the cards
HE IS THE MAIN VILLAIN!
They almost certainly will. This is literally the first piece of information about the expansion. I don't know why you would assume this is the end of their involvement.
xD
I was the guy who was preordering all of them. Got Mecha Jaraxxus and smaller preorder too. This time, it's too much, not gonna even buy the cheaper one. I really like to see Kalec finally added and I honestly do believe that this x-pac will have potential but it seems that the game stopped being worth this much to me. I do have some dust, will get another 5k from HoF so... maybe just a deck or two and we will see what's next.
Looking forward to the next cards though!
New icon for Android app is awful, isn't it?
The new hero is a surprise and a pity it's behind such a paywall. Part of me thinks a new Warrior Hero or Hunter Hero would be due? The store availability of the current skins aside, a new option for these classes would have been great.
Below average majority of the time 🤔
they finally cutted android client, 2GB now+cool new icon
Are you draft? Why should it be retroactive? Win now and get gold / golden.
Wait, what... Why? This sucks
because it might be hard to program it in a way to make previous wins count. this is an improvement after all, why not be happy?
Ya I see that, I'm just disappointed I guess. Just because it's *more* difficult, doesn't mean it's difficult. Just feels like they're half-assing this.
It would be lame to log in and just have like 3 new golden heroes unlocked, imo
Why? because they probably didn't track individual class wins in arena in their database. They probably added that field with this update and have no historical data. Which they should have just explained to us in that way. They don't even have a way to display your overall record of average wins across 30 runs per month in client. I would first be asking where the arena leader board is in game as that seems like something that should have been there from day one.
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