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.”
Dire Wolf Alpha removed from the pool
Dire Wolf Alpha: finally, i'm out! yay
When will this be live?
Here’s what I’m excited about battlegrounds
-Dire wolf alpha removed from the pool
Yeah, that’s it
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The patch is LIVE folks, downloading 3GB now...
When does this update come out? Still see dire wolf alpha in BG even after deleting and re-installing
Someone smarter than me explain to me how Lady Vashj's power is not a strictly better Elise? Or has Elise been removed from battlegrounds?
when you are leveling and all minions on bob's board are all 1 star, then you will get the option to buy only 2 stars minions, no matter if you are leveling to tier 2 or 6
Elise gives you a map of the higher tier, 3 options guaranteed
I dont know percentages, but it is not guaranteed that you can get even 1 minion of the tier you are leveling to.
of course, you can be very lucky and get more than 3 minions. and depending on your strategy/composition, other star minions may be more useful to you, anyway
Glowfly Swarm should also read ‘Summon a 2/2 Glowfly for each other spell in your hand’
After 3 years we got 9 more deck slots, after 6 years we can reorder deck lists. I cant wait to get additional 9 deck slots in 2023, i hope this will not confuse new players
We need more slots!
After 3 years we got 9+ decks (a pity confused new players, we salute you) with very technology advanced right arrow click change a screen. Now after 6 years we will have advanced newest gaming technology implemented in form of click+press and drag&drop deck to another slot. Wow, just WOW! I'm so happy!! Good work devs, HS is the best game and others can learn from Blizzard how add fast the new technologies into products!
Cant wait for the patch!! THANK YOU BLIZZARD!
P.S. can you please on 10th HS anniversary in 2024 make cardbacks in game nice visible? I think it can be possible. If you will do it then I will purchase at least 200 packs for real cash to thank you!
We could have not gotten a patch at all dude.
I like how that they replaced a regular hearthstone card for a battlegrounds original one.
Regular Hearthstone cards can only be balanced by moving them up and down tiers or removing them altogether. So they limit design space a lot.
On the other hand, battlegrounds original cards can also have their statlines and card texts altered.
Maiev looks like the most useless hero right now. Good work right there
I dunno man. Might be good for farming triples on a more consistent basis
I don't see how it's anything except sindragosa but far, far worse.
Oh, I misread that you actually get the minion. That's nice!
Yes, that is exactly the strategy. Say you have a decent board and you are lv 3. You have two copies of a minion and see the other one in the tavern. Usually, I freeze them and rush to lv 5 so I can get a lv6 minion with the triple. The problem is, all the tavern minions will be frozen. With Maiev, I can basically freeze only the minion I want, while the other ones keep updating, so when I finally reach lv 5, I can buy the minion I want for the triple and possible a lv 5 minion.
If nothing else, it's also a pseudo-free minion every turn starting from turn 3/4 (depends if you get a token minion on turn 1, and you may miss a turn or 2 here or there depending on breakpoints). Even if it's just a +1/+1 or +2/+2 battlecry that's not too shabby for free.
So first time hitting legend, and I got placed 5,840. Thought you started in the 20,000s. Someone explain.