Hearthstone devs responded to a number of questions...
Q: How will Electra Stormsurge work with the Hero Power from completing the Corrupt the Waters quest?
A: The reward works the same way as Brann Bronzebeard or Murmuring Elemental, so there is no change to the mechanic. Battlecries will still only happen twice.
Q: Can we have 2 active Quests at the same time?
A: No, only one Quest can be active at any time. The second one cannot be played until you finish the first one.
Q: Will both Quests appear in the mulligan?
A: Yes.
Q: Does Questing Explorer work with the original Un'goro Quests as well?
A: Yes.
Q: Do Reborn cards count twice, when it comes to resurrection mechanics, etc? Once for the original card (with Reborn keyword still active) and once for the reborned card (with 1 health remaining)?
A: Yes. Deathrattles would trigger twice as there are two copies in the pool of dead minions. Note that if resurrected, the 1-Health version will come back with full life and Reborn keyword - the two copies are functionally identical. Works basically like the paladin secret (Redemption).
Q: Does Reborn set the minion’s life to 1 Health or deal damage until it has 1 Health remaining?
Q: How does it track if Reborn has triggered?
Q: If I copy a Reborned minion, do I get a Reborn keyword back on the copied minion?
Q: What happens if I Silence a Reborn minion with 1 Health?
A: The minion returns with 1 Health remaining, but it can still be healed to its normal maximum Health.
A: You can tell that Reborn has been triggered via the visual effect on it (similar to how you can tell that a minion's Divine Shield has been used up).
A: If a minion started with Divine Shield, then that Divine Shield got used up, copying it wouldn't give the Divine Shield back. Same with Reborn.
A: Silence does remove the Reborn state (again, same as Divine Shield).
Q: Sir Finley Mrrgglton is shown riding his loyal steed. What is the name of this magnificent beetle?
A: Jeweled Scarab is the type of mount he´s riding, what do you think he should name this one?
Q: Ossirian Tear's text states: “Your Choose One effects have both effects combined.” But how does that effect Wardruid Loti?
A: We often go with text that is easy to process on your first read and this is a good example of that. We talked about writing "all effects combined" to make it more clear in the case of one legendary at the cost of being less clear in every other case and decided not to do that. (Editor - by that answer we can deduce that all 5 effects will be combined at the same time.)
Q: Sir Finley Mrrgglton is a Mage?
A: Reno's class is based around what amazing loot he has most recently found. That means for this expansion he is a mage because of his gun of magic wands. Sir Finley Mrrgglton is a paladin btw.
Q: Will the Saviors of Uldum characters have the same stats as they did in League of Explorers?
A: Matching stats like that is a nice to have so that people see the link. It is one of those design things that feels good. However those numbers are really good for balancing cards and determining what else you can combo them with. There are a ton of factors that go into deciding the numbers on a card. The aesthetic of matching numbers vs balance vs tempo vs combo potential.
Noteworthy details...
Quote from BlizzardAbout Solo Content
- Further details regarding Saviors of Uldum’s corresponding Solo Adventure, available in September, will be announced in the weeks to come.
About Pre-Orders
- Starting today and up until launch, players can pre-purchase Saviors of Uldum card packs.
- One of each can be purchased per account.
About Quests
- Quests is a returning mechanic featuring game-changing objective cards that are now easier to achieve and reward players with powerful alternate Hero Powers.
Blizzard responds and issues hot fix for Patch 14.6 issues on mobile devices...
Quote from Chris SierraWell Met Friends,
With the recent 14.6 update, we identified some pesky bugs that needed squashing. We are currently rolling out a fix that will resolve the following issues:
- Fixed an issue where hitting the home button while in a match on a mobile device would not bring you back to your match.
- Fixed the “Global Asset Cellular Download” pop-up from showing.
As for the login issues on Mobile, we are still investigating this. There is a workaround that should work for you in the meantime: uninstall and re-install the app. This should let you patch up properly and not get stuck at the Tavern doors. Sincere apologies for the miscommunication on my previous post!
It’s now live on Google Play and should be rolling out on iOS soon.
Please let us know how the experience is on this new patch! We’ll be sure to keep an eye out for any other issues that could crop up.
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Chris_Attalus
Editor's note: These Questions & Answers were gathered from developer responses to community questions; sources include developers' personal Twitter accounts, Reddit comments, and official pages. We have made formatting and wording tweaks to improve flow. You can find the original source for each answer by clicking the Saviors of Uldum banner above that question.
Saviors of Uldum Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated expansion guide.
"Q: Sir Finley Mrrgglton is a Mage?
A: Reno's class is based around what amazing loot he has most recently found. That means for this expansion he is a mage because of his gun of magic wands. Sir Finley Mrrgglton is a paladin btw."
Sir Finley Mrrgglton is a paladin btw
Looks like I won't be touching Paladin anytime soon then. Jesus the only redeeming factor would be if they didn't chain Paladin back to murloc synergy, but we all know Blizzard are just lazy at this point and will just go with whats easy. "O what's that? Paladin already has some murloc synergy? We'll fuck it, that's half our work done".
Do we finally have the hero cards for the classes with only one hero card or no? Do we know this?
I believe they said with the release of the last expansion that they were laying off the hero cards for awhile.
So, I am again very very disappointed. Some classes have two, why the others don't have the hero card?
One addition - Mike Donais said that they might release one Hero card this year. Also he said that Bartender Bob would be a great Hero card. But these might be just to confuse us, but as you said, the main info is that we shouldn´t see them this year.
As usual they wont push control paladin, instead we will get cards that support murloc decks - the most boring archetype ever, 1 exp ago they tried pushing dragon paladin and this time around it prob wont get support, paladin will suck as always
MURLOCS!!! MORE MURLCOS!!! :D MRGLGLGL!
I hope you know that murlocs are favored by those who fancy their own gender.
i think reno will be something like: spell damage +x. Split the damage of your spells among all enemies
Reno's Power: Whenever your hero casts a spell, Reno casts arcane missiles
My Prediction about Reno:
He'll have some sort of synergy with low-cost burn spells or your hero power to help support "Machine Gun Mage" decks.
The 'card teasers' for Reno's "gun of magic wands".
weird how none asked about the new lackeys, based on the trailer would seem that one of them would be a flying insectoid, maybe with the Beast tag
If we Observe the trailer, Brann riding a Dinosaur(Like a beast riding Hunter) Finley is using Melee (Like a paladin), Reno seems to flex out magic that the ground shakes like an magnitude(Mage), and Elise already confirmed as druid due to hero skin, and she is wielding mana at the end of trailer.
Brann=Hunter
Finley=Paladin
Reno=Mage
Elise=Druid
Brann is Hunter simply by process of elimation
Warlock ,Warrior, Rouge, Priest and Shaman were the villian classes with schemes
Finley = Paladin
Reno = Mage
as confirmed here
Elise = Druid due to hero skin like you said
that leaves Brann as Hunter.
-We've seen murloc sinergy in paladin - an unsurprising reason for Finley being a paladin. He seems to be a noble character also, tbh.
-Elise feels admiration and respect for nature and wild life - Druid at all.
-and Reno, well, he is a human, he can be whatever he wants to be lol
And Brann is Hunter, Because he is riding freaking DINOSAUR.
Also, after linking the members of E.V.I.L. to 5 classes, they probably wanted the LoE to cover the remaining four.
Interesting they gave Reno to the Mage class. As a mage player I'm not complaining, but surprised non-the-less. When it comes to trying to give these characters a class, Mage was never one I thought of for Reno. He just doesn't scream "mage" to me.
I figured if anything he'd go to Paladin and Finley would go to shaman, since the murloc quest and a good chunk of his hearthstone bretheren cards and related spells reside in that class.
Brann SHOULD go with Warrior since his brother is already a hero skin for the class.
Either way I'm stoked and looking forward to seeing these characters' effects, I just hope Reno's is still highlander based so I can use him in my old reno/kazakus builds.
Few points for you:
These characters (Brann, Finley, Elise, Reno) can be just splitted among 4 classes - Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, as other classes are the "E.V.I.L" ones.
Interesting thing about reno being in mage - Mike Donais told us on his stream with his daughter that he enjoys playing reno mage in wild. Could be spoiler, could be his idea about Reno being a mage character.