Updated June 2, 2019 23:45 GMT
Noteworthy changes
- 10 new Classic & Basic cards announced last week are now live in the game, with Vanish and Mind Blast now in the Hall of Fame
- Dark Bargain, Cleave, Multi-Shot and Forked Lightning can now be casted even if there is only one viable target on the board
- Matchmaking has been improved for players who are new to Arena mode. These players will be matched against other new players with the same number of wins
- Rafaam's Scheme and Dreamway Guardians can no longer be played if your board is full
- Shrink Ray and Equality will now behave in a way that’s consistent with Sunkeeper Tarim in regards to stat-buffing aura effects, such as Stormwind Champion
- Hunting Party will now generate golden cards if it is copying a golden minion
- Cards generated by Shadowcaster and Sonya Shadowdancer will now receive the bonuses from Magic Carpet
- Duel! can no longer be cast if both sides of the board are full
- Wilfred Fizzlebang's cost reduction now works with all card-drawing hero powers
- Shudderwock now randomly resolves any Discover spells cast by Drustvar Horror
- Pilfer is now updated to match their recent changes to other burgle cards
- Old text: Add a random card to your hand (from your opponent's class)
- New text: Add a random card from another class to your hand
Saviors of Uldum Pre-Order Bundles
The preorder bundles for Saviors of Uldum are now available, don't miss our Saviors of Uldum Preview posted earlier today!
Tavern Brawl downtime update
Quote from BlizzardDowntime for Tavern Brawls has been reduced to 1 hour per week. Tavern Brawls will now begin every week on Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT and end the following Wednesday at 8:00 AM PDT (times and dates will vary by region)
Card art updates
The following cards have received new card art:
- Bite
- Eviscerate
- Headcrack
- Deadly Shot
- Secretkeeper
- Windfury Harpy
- Succubus (now named Felstalker)
- Mistress of Pain (now named Queen of Pain)
Bug fixes
Quote from Blizzard
- Fixed an issue where Summoning Portal and Reckless Experimenter's effects were being applied at different timings than other similar cost modification effects.
- Fixed an issue where losing your internet connection while in the middle of editing a deck would sometimes not save the deck changes after you reconnected to the internet.
- Creating Zayle and Whizbang decks should now properly show the card's deck header art instead of the class art.
- [Mobile] Fixed an issue that could cause a blank page to appear if you changed regions while on the sign-in page.
- [Dalaran Heist] Spirit of the Tiger now summons tigers with correct attack and health values while fighting in the Underbelly.
- [Dalaran Heist] Cursed! cards from The Hand of Rafaam will now trigger their visual effects properly.
- [Dalaran Heist] Hero cards that are transformed by Golden Candle will no longer retain their hero power tooltip.
- [Dalaran Heist] Fixed an animation issue related to replaying minions affected by Bribery after they were destroyed.
Update:
Blizzard also announced a (partial) fix for the Psychic Scream bug via a Reddit comment:
Quote from BlizzardThis issue is actually resolved in this patch. Sorry it wasn't included in the patch notes!
Note that we were only able to get a partial fix in for this release, so you might see a little visual weirdness when this happens (but no more invisible cards). Expect that weirdness to be cleaned up with the Saviors of Uldum patch.
Dalaran Heist updates
Quote from BlizzardToday we will be applying the following adjustments to the The Dalaran Heist solo adventure:
General
- Moved some Normal and Heroic bosses to different difficulty tiers.
Adjusted the contents of the following starting decks:
- Skulker (Captain Eudora)
- Removed Stolen Steel and Unidentified Contract
- Added Deadly Fork and Eviscerate- Dead Man’s Tale (Captain Eudora)
- Removed Violet Haze and Southsea Squidface
- Added Buccaneer and Violet Illusionist- Kobold’s Desire (Captain Eudora)
- Removed Daring Escape and Shadowcaster
- Added Dark Iron Skulker and Pogo-hopper- Boomin’ (Mr. Chu)
- Removed Dr. Boom’s Scheme
- Added Piloted Shredder- Disciplined (Kriziki)
- Removed Lightspawn
- Added Kabal Talonpriest- Shadows (Kriziki)
- Removed Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Pain, and Shadowbomber
- Added Crystallizer, Spirit Lash, and Shadow Word: Death- Visions (Kriziki)
- Removed Lazul’s Scheme
- Added Resurrect
Normal
- Decreased the cost of Whirt the All-Knowing’s Prediction Hero Power to (1)
- Decreased the power of Archmage Vargoth’s deck.
Heroic
- Decreased the appearance rate of Haro Setting-Sun.
- Decreased the power of the following bosses’ decks: Carousel Gryphon, Applebough, Linzi Redgrin, Captain Hannigan, Xur’ios, Disidra Stormglory, Chomper, Anarii Duskgrove, Zuramat, Jepetto Joybuzz, Vas’No, Ranger Ar’ha, Tala Stonerage, and Kara Stamper.
- Increased the power of the following bosses’ decks: Dalaran Fountain Golem, Lieutenant Sinclari, Flightmaster Belnaara, Nozari, Dagg Cruelmight, Sharky McFin, Queen Wagtoggle, Dazzik “Hellscream”, Draemus, and Madam Goya
- Increased the cost of Applebough’s Apple Toss Hero Power to (3)
- Increased the cost of Captain Hannigan’s Raise the Alarm Hero Power to (1)
- Increased the cost of Chomper’s Chomp Hero Power to (3)
- Decreased the Attack reduction on Haro Setting-Sun’s Darken Hero Power from -2 to -1
- Decreased the cost of Whirt the All-Knowing’s Prediction Hero Power to (1).
- Decreased the cost of Ol’Toomba’s Tales of Fortune Hero Power to (1).
What the fucking fuck? Secretkeeper had the best art IN THE GAME. Dicks out for Secretkeeper...
It's not about being "just picture changes" it's about Blizzard bowing down to suck China's money and disrespecting their fans and themselves. All the art was perfectly good for years, suddenly it is bad. Why? Because China doesn't like it. I like some of the new art, Secrete keeper and Harpy (not that you will ever see that one in game) look better in my opinion, but that doesn't justify it. And entirely changing some cards? Why is Succubus wrong now? It's Warlock summon in WoW for 15 years, it fits the theme, it was perfectly good in HS for 5 years, it has great bases ion mythology, so why? Because China, that's why.
HS is ESRB rated T, for "Alcohol Reference, Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes". We are getting blood and mild suggestive themes removed now. (More cards will get hit by this, mark my word. All the Val'kyr are getting hit at some point and I guess Bloodlust will get changed since it references both blood and lust, maybe Muchangry?) And who knows, maybe alcohol and fantasy violence will get removed as well. So no more death sounds or Deathrattles.
And the stupid lazy excuses they gave for some of those? Headcrack was too dark and you couldn't see what's going on? I can't see why the new card is named Headcrak. It's some goblin shooting a sling. Where is the headcrack?
With all due respect; fuck China, and fuck Blizzard for doing this shit.
you are clearly not the only one that is completely missing the point of the whole situation...
am i the only one who doesn't think this is that big of a deal? it's literally just some pictures, who cares, there are more important things to care about.
So apparently Hearthstone is now a kids game? Cause it seems like neither blood or any form of showing boobs is allowed. I can already see it in front of me, a new card Blood Bath and its just a guy playing with marmalade......
It does nothing against the game, but its just dumbing things down..... We are back to Blizzard making some understandable, but just sad decisions.
#notmyblizzard
the random enemy thing is a big change!
I've been playing HS for about two and a half years and have spent approximately $1,500 on the game. One of the reasons that I enjoy playing video games is that I find in them a small escape from some of the negative aspects of everyday life--one of which is the progressive destruction of beneficial age-old ideas, practices, and institutions in our society. This erosion has become increasingly widespread in recent years. You can see evidence of it in people's preoccupation with political correctness and the eagerness with which those in high-profile positions in business and politics kowtow at the demands of any special interest group able to feign sufficient outrage.
I'll take Dave Kosak at his word that these recent changes to card and hero art were not made because of external pressures, but because "We went back and really just brought everything up to our standards." Whether these changes were made because those making the decisions at Blizzard believe in this sort of political correctness or because they wanted to cater to those who do, I won't be spending another penny on HS.
seriously blizz? even if you change it it still promotes kids to gamble
CommuniStone confirmed, I'm done with Blizzard -.-
Finally changing my DP in memory of our fallen HS waifu. Now we truly play a children's card game.
But I still love that card to death.
forsen was right
I wonder if this may possibly lead to the option to use alternate art. Could be really awesome if you could customise which art of a card you use. If it's a censorship issue, countries against certain stuff and under aged users could have the art setting locked to PC mode.
I won't even say they did this to appease China or make it more kid friendly. These are all cards from the start of the game.
If you look at ALL of the cards that followed in ALL expansions they are pretty much in line with the art change in these cards. I'd say it was more to be consistent for the overall look of Hearthstone.
All you weird fapper kids complaining that need a slight look at the skin of a part of illustrated boob.. there is still skin and skimpy clothing. FAP ON YOU CRAZY KIDS but these are kids who fap to Japanese cartoons so hard to reason with that sort of mindset.
Hearthstone is a game for adults, so why censoring it? Or do they sell their gambling-addiction-game (rng-based-100$-per-expansion-game) for children now?
Abra kadabra! Your succubus is now a felhunter!!
New arts looks FUCKING TERRIBLE!
Seriously.
What's wrong with the old Secret Keeper if Heroic Innkeeper is A-Okay?
They even changed the voice!
voice was too sexy and hot Kappa