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.
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I think the special ones will substitute the normal ones.
Why is the get in here bundle costing me €8.99 when the exchange rate puts the euro cost at €6.78? Why rip off all the Europeans?
So... Kingsbane is not destroyed when its deathrattle triggers? You can tell that to Grave Shambler
I know is nothing major but still, it breaks consistency.
I'll admit, all these changes are good. But... there must be something people can complain about, right?
Oh, Tess! Everyone can form an angry mob about Tess! Thank goodness, if everything was positive, how could the community direct the fiery rage towards Blizzard? ;-)
*someone hands me a note*
What's this? Blizzard is rolling back the worst of the changes to Tess? Oh man... Someone, quick, start a new salt thread about pay-to-win or something. The anger must be directed at Blizzard, no matter how much people are enjoying Hearthstone!
where's the quest druid change.. I ron't see any change here..
Did I understand it correctly. There will be new quests that give dust together with the gold? Is that patch live?
The post just before yours asked the same question and was answered. I will answer yours anyway.
Yes, but you won't see them until the 11th. So save a quest on the 10th to re-roll. I would also recommend logging in late that day to make sure it's live before you get your quest. I don't know if that will make a difference, but most updates go live at the same time in the morning.
Are these new quests that reward gold and dust staying for good? Or is this a limited timewalking event thing? If so, how long will these quests be available?
Maybe read all the way ...
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Wait, wait, wait. How is Kingsbane not destroyed when its deathrattle triggers? Destruction is how deathrattles trigger! The game needs a proper graveyard already. That way, "destroyed" wouldn't mean two different things as a verb and an adjective.
Yeah it's a bit weird, but deathrattle is different than destroyed in this case, deathrattle is something that triggers on the event of death, take Malorne as example, when you "kill" him, the deathrattle triggers, but you didn't destroy him, he just goes back in the deck.
Yeah I agree, they should consider triggering the battlecries, the card is really weak right now, especially after these "nerfs", maybe she could actually see some play if we had the battlecries
Say more that Blizz don't give you free content.. Hearthstone is now more friendly for new/casual/F2P players than I suppose one year ago.
Small bundles are great option! I miss that there was only big 50+20 bundle for 50, but no for example 15+10 for same price as 15. It will help many people to afford it. Free arena run? Great! Golden classic pack? Best option. Also more dust and gold quests. Please don't complain :)
Actually, I created Status Elemental before. I made it for class creation competition, in phase 1 it was one of my ecxmple cards. It was Ice Slime - 2 mana 1/4 with battlecry: Freeze a minion . It stays frozen until thos minion dies. Go check out the Spirit class in phase 1 !
July card back is cool. Looking forward to get it.
Vol'jin still gives a minion 3 hp if there's a Stormwind Champion on the board.
the HYPE is real,
Free pack Day on June 13!! :D