Patch 17.2 - New Heroes & Card for Battlegrounds, Deck Rearranging Feature
Blizzard has just announced patch notes for patch 17.2 featuring New Heroes for Battlegrounds as well as a New Card and other changes like deck rearranging.
Players with Battlegrounds perks will have immediate access to playtest three new heroes before they are fully unlocked on May 26.
Blizzard has just added a few Zephrys changes to the patch page.
Quote from BlizzardThe 17.2 patch includes three new Heroes and a new minion for Battlegrounds. We’ve also added the ability to rearrange your decks, a new visual aid for end of Season rewards, and more!
As a note, we’ve restructured assets in 17.2 so the data download for this patch will be similar to a fresh install. Pardon our dust!
Battlegrounds Updates
- Dire Wolf Alpha has been removed from the minion pool.
NEW MINION
Rabid Saurolisk
- [Tier 1, Beast] 3 Attack, 1 Health.
After you play a minion with Deathrattle, gain +1/+1.
NEW HEROES
Players with Battlegrounds perks will have immediate access to playtest these three new heroes before they are fully unlocked on May 26.
Lady Vashj
- Evolving Electricity [Passive]: After you upgrade Bob’s Tavern, replace his minions with ones of a higher Tier.
Maiev Shadowsong
- Imprison [Cost 1]: Make a minion in Bob’s Tavern Dormant. After 2 turns, get it with +1/+1.
Kael’thas Sunstrider
- Verdant Spheres [Passive]: Every third minion you buy gains +2/+2.
Deck Ordering
You can now reorder your deck lists! While viewing your deck list in the Collection Manager, press and hold a deck button to enter “rearranging” mode. Once you’re in rearranging mode, just click and drag on your decks to order them! Deck rearranging will not work until all nine starting heroes (excluding Demon Hunter) are unlocked.
Zephrys the Great Improvements
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great would miss lethal when there was an enemy Taunt minion with Lifesteal that you could attack into.
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great would prefer not to transform/Silence certain high-stat Deathrattle minions (such as Waxadred).
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great could miss lethal using Unleash the Hounds.
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great would not offer Silence options for minions with the “Can’t Attack Heroes” effect.
- Zephrys the Great is now slightly less likely to offer single-target removal for next turn.
- Zephrys the Great will no longer offer Natalie Seline for next turn.
- Zephrys the Great may now offer Polymorph instead of Hex in a few cases where it would be better for your opponent to have a 1/1 than a 0/1 with Taunt.
- Swipe will now fill the AoE category (instead of single target damage) if Zephrys the Great expects it to be used against the enemy hero.
- Improved how Zephrys the Great evaluates enemy minions that have low base stats for their cost, but are buffed.
Game Improvements and Bug Fixes
- End of Season rewards.
- Your total rewards accumulated within the current Ranked season are now highlighted in green inside your Rewards Chest, which can be found at the top of the Quest Log.
- Collection Manager filter panel (mobile).
- The filter panel will now remain open after using Search.
- The filter panel will now hide once cards are dragged to a deck and will reappear after they’ve been added.
- The filter panel will no longer be dismissed until the “Done” button has been pressed.
- Card text for Teron Gorefiend has been updated to be more technically accurate: “Destroy all other friendly minions. Deathrattle: Resummon them with +1/+1.”
Your placement depends on your performance in the previous games, and the number of players already in legend. If you race for legend like a maniac at the start of a season you could place within like top 100 from the get-go, and if you went on a crazy win streak to get to legend you'll place higher too.
We all know why they took so long to implement this. They were figuring out the best possible way to charge for this feature,but they realized it was a scam.
They've never locked QoL improvements behind a paywall.
Most of us don't notice because we buy the bundle anyway, but this is the first batch of 'early play' heroes to push the Tavern Pass as Blizzard tries to figure out the best way to make money off of BGs. Problem with the Pass is that it expires at each expansion, so its value is less & less as time goes by. 30 days less of use, same price. This creates a very awkward product come July, even June really.
It's a very, very awkward product anyway. I mean, if you're buying the bundle it's a nice extra. But I can't imagine many (if any) casual players spending $20,- on a 4 month subscription to some extra / early hero options.
The same money could buy you 15 packs. Still overpriced but at least you get to keep something for longer than 4 months.
next expansion will most likely be in august. But I agree with you, I think the pass should be for a full year, not just an expansion
New beast is pretty clear deathwing buff. Gives you something beefy to go along with your mecharoo, harvest golem, imprisoner, kindly grandmother, or rat pack.
Ah yes.....
The TRAGEDY of having to wait a little longer for your free items.
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
Awesome! How bout we get that auto-squelch now?
It's amazing, people is complaining because they actually added what they wanted. This community is incredible.
We want more than 18 decks
Deck rearranging in 2020... Is this real? It took them only 6 years? CLAPPING!!!
They probably waited this long because they realized that chargin for this feature is a scam.
3 new heroes are nice, but expected more. I hope they have more changes to announce. Otherwise heroes doesn't really sound that interesting for now. . Lady Vashj is not bad, Kael'Thas too. Maiev doesnt look pretty strong and interesting to play. Deck rearrange is nice, but expected gameplay features :)
As far as I understand, you can and should refresh the tavern, otherwise her HP would not make sense. The downside (quite huge!) of such a powerful effect is that you only get the minion after two turns.
Wow, what an amazing patch! Adding a feature that should have been there years ago and lameass battlegrounds content, it's like Christmas!
This patch is very weak. Is it not better realising bigger patchs? Nothing new in this one.
who would've thought a company would try to make money out of their f2p game
shocking
Interesting to say, TFT doesn't have the necessity to put new things that affect gameplay behind a paywall..interesting, isn't it? :^)
how dormant guy on bob work?? like can u still refresh the for new minions and still keep that 1 you dormant in there or would you lose that dormant 1??