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.
The space optimization is really nice for me. I mostly play on my 16gb iphone. I wonder how much the space will decrease.
Glad they finally updated the resolution for my iPad 11” so that I don’t have to look at black space on this device. Maybe now I can farm gold using my iPad 2018 instead of my Xs Max.
130 packs from pre-buy another 90 free from doing nothing but the quests with re-rolls since the last xpansion. Another 10 from the special buy another 80 purchased from the shop and maybe a few more random free packs 3-5 from lead up makes 310 plus packs on release day. Coupled with full golden dust pile from hall of famed cards and random dust I have no use for with a complete collection makes 24555 dust too. Looks like I’ll have fully golden tier 1 decks to farm quests and log out til the next xpansion. Considering I buy with amazon coins I will spend roughly 175 bucks for the entire set plus a massive dust pile. I guess that’s worth a tad over 40 a month to have every card and make the 3-5 best legendaries from the set gold. And people think you need to be a whale to own all the cards, I just laugh. Hopefully it takes more than 48 hours for me to be bored with the expansion this time. At least it takes a week for my kids to be bored with them. I’m actually looking forward to the solo content. I hope they actually put more than 3 brain cells into the design this time and it takes more than 7 minutes to get a card back.
Good for you? Also "cry more"(c)
Wow. The amount of people who think they can choose a random card an the game will produce a tier 1 deck is baffeling... Its meant to complete your deck, if youre missing cards... If you only choose 1 card it will built the most successful archetype plus that card.... Why would you think this would work any other way, when the devs specified how its suppossed to be used?
Woo! All sounds nice.
Love the card back!
Rafaam will be great for control warlock
It won't, because replacing your deck with random legendaries has actually became bad over the years. You get below average legendaries huge majority of the time.
It depends, back in the day Warriors used the original Elise that had a similar effect to replace useless cards for something else when close to fatigue, if a similar scenario is common it will be played.
As you said, that was back in a day. Average legendary minion right now is pretty weak.
It doesnt matter if the average legendary minion is weaker for that scenario, you are replacing cards that will do nothing or hinder your chances of winning if played for something else and playing the Rafaam himself.
Back in the day as I said, it was used to replace those cards, you literally can't help yourself if among your last cards there are a bunch of Brawls, Shield Blocks and Acolytes of Pain in a control matchup, even an 8 mana 5/5 will do the trick here.
I'm pretty sure legendary quality has gone up. There are less neutral legendaries now compared to the older expansions. Class legendaries are generally better. Still, there are a lot of shitty ones indeed. I actually managed to climb from rank 5 to rank 3 with a 30 legendary paladin deck (for fun).
I'm looking forward to trying out this Complete My Deck feature. Maybe I can finally build a half decent deck with it, though maybe shouldn't expect miracles when I lack the cards to build virtually any net deck I can find on Hearthpwn.
On that note, I may have to skip the brawl, as 15 cards won't be enough to make a deck. Unless they mean Mammoth expansions and evergreen cards.
So, what's the deal with Fluxflashor also hosting HearthStation?
No Rafaam as a hero skin, instead he's a shitty legendary. New hero skin available for 80$ only and yet it's another horrible hero skin. Also the arena wins will count towards golden heroes BUT previous arena wins will NOT count for that. Way too much disappointment for me, I think I will finally leave Hearthstone after 3 years of being a loyal player. This was just a final nail in the coffin, it's just.. horrible. I'm so sad.
- Agree with you with the horrible heroe skin. i really wanted tyrande but i missed it.
- Of course not gonna count the past arena wins. maybe the don't even have a way to know the arena wins distribution per heroe per player.
-I think that this year is gonna be great. The Lore is finally interesting.
Goodbye. You wont be missed. Go play apex/fortnite and be toxic there. We dont care
You are literally what's wrong with people on internet. If only you could explain how I was 'toxic'. 'I won't be missed'. By who, you? We don't even know each other so you can piss off, nobody asked you anything loser. I bet you have 0 friends in real life. Apex and Fortnite? Never tried and never will, cancer games. That's probably what you're secretly playing.
First of all, thank you EVX for not being toxic like the person below you. They DO actually keep a track of previous arena wins and by what heroes but I guess they were too lazy to combine it. Really, really sad. I would actually have motivation to get all golden heroes. Oh well.
You said it was the last nail in the coffin and yet you're still talking. You can stop talking now.
What a nice troll comment. No gameplay complain, but only to comsetic. Yup hearthstone sux, cos cosmetic is too expensive and it is not unlocked automatically without doing nothing. In dota they sell Arcane skins for 60euro so than DOTA SUX right, because of that?