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.
İ guess the reason behind offering odd pally deck is, it's win rate even with shirvalla in it is higher than OTK pally :)
Blizz said autocomplete will give you the highest win rate deck within available card pool.
I thougt we will get a offer from amazon?
Amazon is always available...
so wait, If I pre order now, do I get the free legendary now? or when the set releases?
Set release.
There was a glitch where players were receiving the golden cards right away but they were improperly indexed since the new set hasn’t been patched into the game and therefore not real cards.
They shut down the shop temporarily to fix. After it’s back up you should only get the new hero portrait and the cards upon release.
That’s my guess at least. Not being a blizzard employee take my word only as opinion
Obviously when it releases otherwise people will complain about the meta.
Having just tried out the deck completion tool it’s definitely worlds better than it was before. It still has a couple questionable choices but generally seems to put decks together close to the popular meta version.
For instance I tried putting in Baku the Mooneater and Fire Plume's Heart into warrior and it gave me pretty close to the meta version of odd taunt warrior which uses Blackwald Pixie to maximize rag shots
also just put Tess Greymane into a blank rogue deck and it gave me the Tesspianage deck
so overall seems to be a lot better than filling my deck with Ogres and Yetis
I might try it on my EU account (since I have a lot less cards there) and see what it puts together on a more limited collection. But it seems like it will help newer players who aren’t sure what to fill out their decks with
50 and 80 euros for a DLC each 3-4 months - goooooood joke xD
It's not that bad actually! I'd rather spend money on this, which I've put hundreds of hours into, than the $70 bucks on a AAA game that I'll play a total of 10-15 hours maybe.
I earn bit more then 2k euros per month - which is really nice in my country - and i'm gonna repeat - 50-80 euros for a DLC to a so called "F2P" game it's just ridiculous...
Fortunatly i dont need to get ripped off like an idiot - since i've got already 15k gold...
F2P means Free to PLAY, not Free to Have Everything. Games like that rely on micro-transactions to pay their employes. And it's been 50 euros for exp pre-order since I can remember.
Ofc - F2P it's pure scam, that's all.
I'm playing HS since very start in 2014 and i've got everything without spending 1 euro - but that's not the point. Blizzard or rather Activision it's just so greedy nowadays that it makes me sick...
For a long time player like me it's easy to maintain all possible cards etc. but if you just starting... it's a money sinkhole without bottom!
Welcome to Bobby Kotick's Blizzard.
it's been this way for awhile what is wrong with you people
15k gold... That's cute
Yes, it's certainly a ripoff, but you can always skip buying an expansion from time to time and save more gold and dust for the next. I personally buy the non-crappy bundle each year, which feels like I support the game and at the same time gather in-game resources for the next expansion.
I don't get the hate towards F2Ps though. I started off as an F2P too and by playing more and more, I decided to invest some money to enhance my gaming experience. Blizzard should give intensives to new players (like the Welcome Bundle) as well as others, to keep those players around. My brother tried the game long after I did and with my guidance and his own skill, he reached rank 18 in a couple of days. You could imagine his disappointment when he encountered only viable meta decks there, while he was still using an incomplete basic and a non-existent classic collection. He didn't give the game a second chance after that and had no motivation whatsoever to spend money on this, or ever return for that matter. The community needs to address those issues, if it wants to grow and the F2PS' opinions are vital for that purpose.
No the PvE content this year is paid. They said so in the Year of the Dragon announcement blog.
But also unlockable with gold (700 as with adventures), if I understood correctly?
This might be a dumb question but if you pre-order any of the bundles, you won’t get any of the PVE content?