Patch 17.4 Is Live! - Pirates in Battlegrounds & More
Blizzard just released patch 17.4 featuring Shifting Minion Pools and Pirates in Battlegrounds as well as the Felfire Festival and other changes.
For full details, please read the article below:
Quote from BlizzardThe Felfire Festival is nearly here! The festivities begin on June 9 with the release of patch 17.4, which welcomes a salty new crew of minions to the Battlegrounds—Pirates! On June 17, the Trial by Felfire Solo Adventure will unlock, followed by Trial by Felfire Challenges on June 24. Beyond that, we’ve got some special Tavern Brawls and legendary quests lined up to mark the occasion.
Check out the full Felfire Festival announcement here!
Battlegrounds Shifting Minion Pools
At the start of each game of Battlegrounds, five of the six currently available minion types (Beasts, Demons, Dragons, Mechs, Murlocs, and now Pirates) will form the recruitment pool for that game. The active minion types will be displayed while you’re selecting a Hero—you can also check anytime during the Recruit phase by hovering over Bartender Bob’s deck. To keep things fair, Heroes designed with synergies around specific minion types will sit out if their corresponding minion type is unavailable.
Pirates will always be available in the minion pool until they join the rest of the shifting minion pool in a future update.
Battlegrounds Hero Pool Updates
Players with Battlegrounds Perks will have early access to the following new heroes before they’re formally released on June 23.
NEW HEROES
Captain Eudora
Buried Treasure [Cost 1]
- Dig for a Golden minion! (4 Digs Left)
Skycap'n Kragg
Piggybank [Cost 0]
- Gain 1 Gold this turn. Increases each turn. (Once per game)
Captain Hooktusk
Trash for Treasure [Cost 0]
- Remove a friendly minion. Discover one from a lower Tavern Tier.
RETURNING & UPDATED HEROES
Queen Wagtoggle
- Updated to include Pirates.
Patches the Pirate
Pirate Parrrrty! [Cost 4]
- Get a Pirate. After you buy a Pirate, your next Hero Power costs (1) less.
REMOVED
- Professor Putricide has been removed from the hero pool.
- Holy Mackerel has been removed from the minion pool.
New Battlegrounds Minions
UPDATED MINION
Lightfang Enforcer
- Updated to include Pirates.
Trial by Felfire Solo Adventure & Challenges
Follow the story of Aranna Starseeker (Elise Starseeker’s crafty younger sister) as she embarks on a thrilling journey of self-discovery, assembling a motley crew of outcasts and teaming up with Illidan to take on the mad architect of the Rusted Legion itself: MECHA-JARAXXUS! All five chapters of this Solo Adventure will be available for free on June 17. Complete the Trial by Felfire and you’ll also earn the Rusted Legion Card Back!
Before the adventure unlocks, Aranna Starseeker will enter Battlegrounds on June 16 as an early-access Hero for players with Battlegrounds Perks to try out before she formally joins the fray on June 30!
Aranna Starseeker
Demon Hunter Training [Passive]
- After you Refresh 7 times, always see 7 minions in Bob's Tavern.Finally, Trial by Felfire Challenges will unlock on June 24, where players will create a deck and battle Outland’s baddest bosses!
Face off against the likes of Doom Lord Kazzak, Supremus, and Mother Shahraz in a gauntlet of iconic raid bosses from the Burning Crusade! Complete all challenges to earn Golden Kael’thas Sunstrider!
Legendary Quest Line
Starting on June 17 there will be a new Legendary quest unlocking weekly with pack rewards!
- June 17, 9:00 a.m. PT: Complete Chapter 1 in the Trial by Felfire adventure and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Rise of Shadows pack.
- June 24, 9:00 a.m. PT: Play 4 Trial by Felfire Challenge games and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Saviors of Uldum pack.
- July 1, 9:00 a.m. PT: Play 4 Tavern Brawl games and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Descent of Dragons pack.
Game Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug on mobile where your opponent’s mana crystals would be displayed in the side bar during their turn.
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great would not offer Windspeaker in the case where Windfury on an un-targetable minion was highly valuable.
The game animations feel a bit slower than it used to be.
you totally forget about stats, Stats man! thats what is it about
As a collector, the alternate DH hero Alanna Starseeker is the only one thing I want from this. Oh, and golden Kael'Thas, of course. I don't give a **** about BG so the rest is meh for me.
how come, cant you get the golden kael'thas without buying... what? i understood you could get it by completing the challenges, that is, free
And Holy Mackerel is out. best murlock is gone... that's sad
there is a typo dude. you mean worst minion that broke the game
Oh come one, we waited long enough for the solo adventure ...
remember the days when we had midsummer festival and quests granted double gold?That was good times to play..
Remember the days Ben Brode was director and the game wasn’t a degrading mess that constantly created ways to nickel and dime players? That was good times to play...
2 week is so cute
Damn... even more waiting for solo adventure...
"Hero" of solo adventure is well inspired by current "american culture". I hoped for Illidan. Well, at least she is not bald.
What the fuck are you talking about?
damn nazi femoids ruining my safe space amirite gamers?
what have you been smoking dude? Are you on some reddit challenge? Good Lord.
I really tried to analyse this comment, but it really lacks logic :P
he means that every single game now includes some form of female/multiculture main characters that kinda dont even fit into the game but are forced to be here. I also hoped it would be about illidan not some demonhunter female wannabe
Indeed.
I highly doubt this new character will carry out Demon Hunter duties or fit the role for that matter.
WoW lore has well written material for female Demon Hunter (https://youtu.be/HHy9DSwbJAk?t=33).
But this?
I would bet 10 imaginary cookies, that she will not blind herself, put a blind fold and look like hobo. Instead we will have a magical prodigy that knows how to handle fel magic and be Demon Hunter without being one.
My bad, she is added to the webpage and from the looks of it, looks like a legit demon hunter.
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/heroes/demonhunter
We will have to see how the story goes.
Now the tavern pass costs 1250 :)
Is it worth to buy it now? And when will the perks ends?