Patch 17.6 - Battlegrounds, Nerfs, Pre-Order, New Weapon Frames & Game Improvements
Blizzard has just announced patch notes for Patch 17.6, which should be focusing on Battlegrounds, Nerfs, Pre-Order, New Weapon Frames & Game Improvements.
There are some parts that weren't included in patch notes, so here they are
- Pre-order is available in the in-game shop.
- Naxxramas CardBack from the July 2014 season is also available in the in-game shop for $2.99/€.
- Kel'Tuzad and CardBack are available as an alternative Hero skin for mage after you purchase the Scholomance Academy Mega Bundle.
- Scholomance is a new CardBack that is available for you after winning 5 games in ranked mode, August 2020 (on the right).
Full details
Quote from BlizzardToday’s 17.6 patch brings pre-purchase for Hearthstone’s newest expansion, Scholomance Academy! With it comes a handful of Battlegrounds updates, balance changes, and game improvements.
Battlegrounds Hero Pool Updates
NEW HERO
Tess Greymane
- Bob’s Burgles [Cost 1]
- Refresh Bob’s Tavern with minions from your last opponent’s warband.
Players with Battlegrounds Perks will have early access to Tess Greymane before the hero is formally released on July 28.
RETURNING HEROES
King Mukla
- Bananarama [Cost 1]
- Get 2 Bananas. At the end of your turn, give everyone else one.
Dinotamer Brann
- Battle Brand [Cost 1]
- Refresh Bob’s Tavern with Battlecry minions.
UPDATED HEROES
Aranna Starseeker
- Demon Hunter Training [Passive]
- Old: After you Refresh 7 times, Bob always has 7 minions. → New: After you Refresh 5 times, Bob always has 7 minions.
Captain Hooktusk
- Trash for Treasure [Cost 0]
- Old: Remove a friendly minion. Discover one from a Tavern Tier lower. → New: Remove a friendly minion. Get a random one from a Tavern Tier lower.
Battlegrounds Minion Pool Updates
- Pirates are no longer guaranteed to appear in every Battlegrounds game.
NEW MINION
Amalgadon
- [Tier 6, All] 6 Attack, 6 Health
- Battlecry: For each different minion type you have, Adapt randomly.
UPDATED MINION
- Goldrinn, the Great Wolf
- Old: [Tier 5] → New: [Tier 6]
Balance Updates
Craftable cards listed below will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks after the 17.6 patch goes live.
- Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (0). → New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (1).
Corsair Cache
- Old: Draw a weapon. Give it +1/+1. → New: Draw a weapon. Give it +1 Durability.
- Old: Swap your Hero Power to "Deal 5 damage." After 2 uses, swap it back. → New: Swap your Hero Power to "Deal 4 damage." After 2 uses, swap it back.
- Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health → New: 3 Attack, 4 Health.
- Old: [Cost 5] → New: [Cost 6].
- Old: [Cost 6] → New: [Cost 7].
- Old: [Cost 2] → New: [Cost 3].
Galakrond, the NightmareGalakrond, the Apocalypse (Rogue)
- Old: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (1).
Galakrond, Azeroth's End (Rogue)
- Old: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. They cost (1).
- Old: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. They cost (1).
Game Improvements & Bug Fixes
- When random card back is selected, you will now see a randomized card back every time you open a pack and every time you open the Crafting menu.
- The UI has been updated with an icon on the top right that will indicate when you’re offline.
Pre-Purchase Scholomance Academy
Pre-purchase one or both Scholomance Academy bundles, available in-game and on the Battle.net web shop!
Scholomance Academy Mega Bundle
The Mega Bundle includes 85 Scholomance Academy card packs and, for the first time ever, 5 of those will be Golden Scholomance Academy packs—each filled with Golden cards! The Mega Bundle also includes one random Scholomance Academy Golden Legendary card, the Kel’Thuzad Mage Hero, the Kel'Thuzad card back, and a Tavern Pass, which includes 4 Arena tickets.
Scholomance Academy Bundle
The Scholomance Academy Bundle includes 55 Scholomance Academy card packs, the Kel’thuzad card back, and a random Scholomance Academy Golden Legendary card.
Log in and Get Transfer Student for Free
With today’s 17.6 patch all players can log in to receive two copies of the Epic Neutral minion, Transfer Student, for free!* Transfer Student has different effects based on which game board it’s played on, with 25 different effects in total, and can be slotted into your decks immediately!
*Limit two per account. Must log in by October 20 to claim.
Scholomance Academy Coming to Arena
When Scholomance Academy launches, the Arena will include cards from the following sets:
- Scholomance Academy
- Demon Hunter Initiate
- Ashes of Outland
- Galakrond's Awakening
- Descent of Dragons
- Saviors of Uldum
- Rise of Shadows
- Classic
- Basic
Weapon Frames Update – Coming July 30
With the introduction of Dual-Class cards, we went back and applied a class-specific frame to every weapon in Hearthstone. Class-specific weapon frames will appear in-game starting July 30.
Still no pirate nerfs for battlegrounds then?
Yea. More nerfs for DH. This class is almost useless now.
Yes, I can:
Mage have only one deck, the highlander, and Alex is one of few wincon in that deck, by far the deck suffer with the nerf in that card.
Goldrinn, the Great Wolf to tier 6 makes beasts a lot harder to play, while I felt they were not even that strong to nerf it this much.
for some reason I can't dust my dragoncaster for 100, only for 20... anybody else having that problem? other cards dusted just fine.
Dust refunds are allocated two weeks after the patch is released, so you have to wait 'til 28 July.
Everything dusted for full value for me at the start of the patch.
sure, that's why other cards already gave back full dust value...
I love that I got voted down so many times for sharing exactly what they said in the article. /s
You got voted down because you misinterpreted what Bilzzard said and therefore gave false information in your post.
Right after the patch the full dust fund got active and this stays active until the 28th of July. So until the 28th you can dust them for full value. It doesn't start on the 28th, but it ends on the 28th.
Oh wow Blizzard is going to continue to butcher Wild because they hit a wall with Standard. As a Wild only, 2020 is the worst Hearthstone year, ever.
I know Wild is not the main format but how the fuck did they even get into this mess in the first place. There is barely any demon hunter card left that didn't have to be nerfed, as well as dozens of other cards, more nerfs than ever before.
It's not fresh, it's unstable, and that is true for BOTH formats, just in the opposite directions.
The worst part for me is that they accepted insta-kills. If mage draws enough, and he will after freezing your troops 10 times, it's insta-game.
I gave up wild after I queued into 10 mages in a row. I realized wild has become a mage fest.
I don't understand these decisions sometimes. Basically one minion type has dominated battlegrounds since day 1 and with the right RNG snowballs so absurdly out of control you have literally no chance at stopping it ever. It gives you access to every single modifier in the game across your entire board of minions.
Of course i'm talking about murlocs.
Yet we need to nerf beasts? lol?
I am really surprised they didnt touch Murlocs as well. Goldrin to 6 is a good move though.
They just need to get poison out of the game for murlocs. Replace Megasaur with the 5/6 dragon that gives murlocs divine shield.
Poison is literally +infinite attack. If you look at megasaur options you have
+3 health
Windfury
Divine Shield
Taunt
2 1/1s deathrattle
+3 attack
+300000000000 attack
How does this make any sense?? That kind of buff is extremely out of whack with any other buff in battlegrounds on any other card. Divine shield at best doubles attack.
DH nerf is a #$^^#$%&^#^&$%^
This does almost nothing to Mage.
Kind of wish Dragonqueen Alexstrasza reduced the dragons' cost by 7-8 or something instead of setting their cost to 1. Those Nozari Alexstrasza combos were stupid, but lowrolling something like a Faerie Dragon feels even worse now.