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.
Beautiful Cardback...
done it twice already, no help. Playing on IPad air, works on my Iphone XR, but don’t like phone interface/small screen
Which platform are you playing?
Unfortunately I will not buy buying this expansion or any future ones until their sales structure changes. It's become too expensive to buy 80 packs and only get 1/4 of the cards to be competitive in the standard meta. Farewell hearthstone.
how about fixing mobile app so that it would be possible to play, now crashing after each match, crashing during deck creation, app getting ridiculously slow in some part of the game... this used to work perfectly before this ”upbreak” release
Haven't had any problems with my Android phone
I had a lot of trouble a while ago with the app, and was expecting every update to fix it. Doing a full uninstall/reinstall eventually fixed it, have you tried this?
From Hearthpwn about 1 month ago.
https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6435-year-of-the-dragon-goodbye-genn-baku-new-solo
Bffff, now Blizzard found the way we give us more money, is not enough for they release 3 Expansion for year, now sell us Adventures too... There is no way I defend this kind of business.
You do realize that you can buy the adventure with gold? This time the adventure at least gives us packs again. Monster Hunt and Rumble Run, I found pretty boring and haven't completed either one of them yet. If there's 15 packs + 1 gold pack and 1 golden legy waiting at the end though I'll at least be sure to complete it.
where did u get information that u will be able to buy adventure with gold?
And it is confirmed by blizzard, every paid adventure has the chance to get the separated chapters for 700 gold each one, https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/rise-of-shadows-expansion-guide/
Seeing as how $80 dollars is a lot of money to this community really opens my eyes to the fact that people under 30 think socialism is a good thing. I pay more than 80 bucks to fill up my vehicle sometimes. instead of spending money on games maybe you should spend some money on resume software and find a decent job so you can buy the things you want and stop coveting what others have and are able to have because they do something called "work".
Damn I want the new priest hero so bad, but I won't be able to afford it sadly...
Knowing you made an account just to type"best comment ever." Priceless.
I could post that shut the f*ck and take my money meme here to collect some up-votes but i'm too lazy for that.
I'm not too impressed by the new autocomplete deck function.
If you add the quest and ask the deck to autocomplete, it doesn't even take the card into matter.
The best warlock quest deck, is zoo with no discard cards (except 2 soulfires)... :(
The best druid quest deck, is a toggwaggle deck with the quest... :(
The best shaman quest deck has 0 murlocs, instead it's full of elementals. :(
If you start making an odd mech palladin, and ask it to add the last 10 cards... none of the new cards synergize with mechs... It seems like they're just filling in the slots with the top net deck cards regardless of what your deck does.
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Seems like they just made net decking faster. This will only kill all creativity, and kill the game. Blizzard, you just shot yourself in the foot with this new feature.
Yes it's an improvement over the old version. But I don't think that this is something we need to encourage, and make easier.
I'm really hoping that the data will change every week to keep up with a changing meta. or that it never changes, and that people will actually decide that using their heads is better than just doing the autocomplete. Before it was funny to challenge friends with autocomplete decks... Now these are just net decks.... Sigh.
They've stated this feature will give you the best performing cards possible from your collection, not make you a synergistic tribe crap deck. The only thing this changes is people will hit Alt+Tab less, nothing more.
"It gets better though. Let’s say that for some odd reason, you decide you want to use Flame Leviathan, Duskfallen Aviana or another card you have never seen on the ladder. The smarter deck builder will take that into account and build the highest win-rate deck with that card. And you can do this with any combination of cards too!"
They said this in the interview, hinting towards it working. Or they just meant; put in a random card and the autocomplete feature will build a meta deck around it.
So basically: a somewhat better discount on packs than you would normally get at the store for buying in bulk (60 packs/$70 USD in the US), plus a lame ass made up hero skin, and a card back. This isn't a terrible deal if you buy cards anyway, because it's a nice discount, and hopefully the new solo content will be interesting. But overall this feels pretty weak value for an expansion pre-order. It's just a discount on packs.
Not a single time do you mention the legendary or golden legendary you get with the bundles, which are what make these especially interesting to me. If the legys were not included, I'd probably only go for the 80$ bundle (I don't even intend to use the Hero skin, I've got Tyrande for that). But with a Legy and a golden Legy I'm gonna buy both. 2 additional legys, one of which I can "reroll" if I don't like it is pretty significant to me. ^^