Revamping Progression & Rewards in Hearthstone
Blizzard announced a new Progression system. Read all the details below!
Quote from BlizzardYou’ll be able to access each of these pages by clicking on a new Journal icon that will replace the Quest Log on the main menu. The Progression & Rewards revamp detailed here will go live on November 12!
Achievements System
The new Achievements system tracks a diverse set of stats and in-game accomplishments, and there are a ton of them! There are achievements related to each class, your collection, ranked milestones, adventure content, Tavern Brawls, new modes such as Duels and Battlegrounds, and gameplay achievements that are tracked from match to match! In addition, you’ll be able to see exactly how many cards you have from each expansion in one place. New achievements will be added with every expansion, future game mode, and major update.
Here are just a few examples of Achievements you can expect to see:
- Encounter another player with the Mark of Hakkar card back.
- Finish in 1st place as Ragnaros the Firelord in Battlegrounds.
- Collect all Scholomance Academy Demon Hunter cards.
- Summon 1000 Murlocs.
- Win a game without summoning more than 1 minion.
Reward Track & Tavern Pass
The Reward Track is a map of rewards that can be earned during an expansion by gaining experience (XP) from completing Quests, completing select achievements, and playing the game in any mode. When a new expansion launches, all players will get a new Reward Track for that expansion. Complete all 50 levels on the Reward Track and you’ll get to choose from one of 10 all-new Hero Skins! Along the way, you’ll unlock a bevy of loot, including card packs from sets in Standard, Tavern Tickets that grant access to either Arena or Duels, the Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Card Back, an Epic card, two Legendary cards, and a ton of gold! You’ll receive 150 gold for every level you climb beyond level 50.
The Reward Track includes a free track for all players, and a paid track that can be unlocked by purchasing the Tavern Pass. Purchasing the Tavern Pass at any point during the expansion will immediately grant the Golden Silas Darkmoon Legendary card, a 10% XP Boost that lasts for the duration of the expansion, and all items up to your current level on the free track. As you progress with the Tavern Pass during the Madness at the Darkmoon Faire expansion you’ll earn additional XP Boost, the Annhylde Alternate Warrior Hero and Card Back, three Jaina Hero Skins, three Thrall Hero Skins, and one of Hearthstone’s first-ever collectible Cosmetic Coins!
Battlegrounds Perks will now be available as a standalone purchase, separate from the Tavern Pass.
Cosmetic Coins
Cosmetic Coins will have their own tab in the Collection Manager where you can set them as your favorite to use during games, much like Hero Skins and Card Backs. There are two Cosmetic Coins available in Madness at the Darkmoon Faire obtainable by the following means:
- Completing all 50 levels of the Reward Track with the Tavern Pass.
- Collecting 135 unique Madness at the Darkmoon Faire cards.
Collecting all 135 cards from the expansion may seem like a lot, but once the Darkmoon Faire Mini-Set launches in a few months, there will be 170 cards in the set, so getting that coin will become a lot easier! You can learn more about the Mini-Set and the rest of what you can expect from Year of the Phoenix Phase 3 in our Madness at the Darkmoon Faire announcement blog here.
Daily, Weekly, and Legendary Quest
The Quest system is also seeing a revamp, with Quests now awarding XP on the Reward Track. We’ve also added Weekly Quests! At the start of every week (Monday at 12:00 a.m. PT), you’ll be given 3 new Weekly Quests to complete, which are a little more difficult than your average Daily Quest. Like Daily Quests, you can reroll 1 Weekly Quest per day. While they now award XP, Daily Quests are functionally the same. We’re also pleased to share that Legendary Quests will no longer override your Daily Quests! Legendary Quests are a series of special event quest that cannot be rerolled.
XP values displayed in Quests above are not final. Please note that when the Progression revamp goes live, all Quests (with the exception of Starter, Returning Player, and Duels Legendary Quests) will reset, so be sure to complete any old Quest you have in your log by November 11!
Profile Page
We’ve reworked the in-game profile page as well. The profile page is a space we intend to expand on in the future as new content, features, and game modes come to Hearthstone. The page will display lifetime stats for your account, including:
- Current rank in both constructed Standard and Wild
- Current Battlegrounds Rating
- Current Duels Rating
- Total number of wins in Arena
- Class levels and number of wins per class
- Next card reward for classes under Level 60
- Progress towards Golden Portrait for classes at Level 60
We hope you’re as excited about the Progression & Rewards revamp as we are! It all happens on November 12. Be sure to check out our official announcement of Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, available for pre-purchase in-game and from Battle.net Shop!
Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Card List & Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
does the tavern pass in darkmoon faire perpurches include the tavren pass for reward track to?
They say "revamp" but it smells like a nerf..
You need to get to level 63 (which will probably be impossible) to get the equivalent amount of gold you used to from the daily quests..
You hit the nail on the head. "Its a very clever system created by addiction psychologist to maximize profit." Nothing else matters to a game creator.
So true. So many whiners. You can tell just by how many times your post got down voted.
Those changes sound great, but they're coming like what, 3 years late maybe ? But better late than never, I guess. Thinking back about it, Ben Brode was a terrible Game Lead, probably one of the worst. Just sitting on top of his pile of cash, counting it, and doing not much else.
Great rewards, but, sadly same toxicity with RNG.
Will we retroactively gain achievements we've already earned?
Pretty important question here. I hope so.
If it's anything like when WoW added achievements, then things that can be checked against your account (e.g. "Collect all Scholomance Academy Demon Hunter cards") will be retroactively awarded, whilst things that require data that they wouldn't have ever been recording (e.g. "Encounter another player with the Mark of Hakkar card back") won't be.
I believe you will retroactively gain achievements from stats the game already keeps track of. Such as arena wins, class wins, etc. I highly doubt you will retroactively get anything you didn't know youve done before, such as:
etc
Mother Russia has spoken.
I wonder how much xp the revamped 80G friendly challenge quest will give.
Are you copy-paste this message everywhere? Get creative...
So far I still have two main questions: will the battle pass be purchasable in Gold; and will 3 wins grant you 100 gold or some XP as well? I suppose it's the latter, as I don't quite see where else would XP (and XP+10% if on battle pass) be earned.
A lot of maths will have to be done on release to determine if overall, we earn more or less than before, if it depends on how much you play, and in that case where is the threshold set. Not to forget the number of "things to purchase" can skyrocket if you want to seriously engage in multiple game modes, these things to purchase might not all be purchasable in gold, and we're unsure if these 35 mid-expansions added cards will be offered through a free adventure or asking for more gold.
Hearthstone's getting too expensive now. I didn't mind putting in $60 a year (price of a AAA game), but I always felt there was nothing inaccessible for me by doing that.
How much am I going to have to pay now? Battlegrounds pass is now a pay-to-help-win as you have extra options.
I also have to buy the Tavern Pass to allow me access to rewards on the new tracker. Unless you can purchase this with gold?
That's on top of the bundles to help me stay competitive on standard.
Just feels there're too many things locked behind a paywall now, without the option of me grinding for them if I really wanted.
If the Tavern pass is too extortionate, I'm going to skip the whole thing and just go F2P. Industries like this employ psychologists to assess how to squeeze the maximum profit from their customers. Battlepass, tavern pass and the equivelant purchase of x3 AAA games a year is just too much for me though.
Well the Battlegrounds Tavern Pass is currently sold for either cash or gold, and I haven't seen any suggestion that that's going to change for the Rewards Track Tavern Pass.
Having said that.. if you don't want to spend more than $60 a year, then I don't think the Rewards Track Tavern Pass would be a very good buy. Surely much smarter to spend that cash (and your gold, too) on things that will affect your gameplay, like card packs, rather than on getting extra cosmetic rewards?
I guess it's better late than never but adding achievements now kind of feels like starting the distance counter when you've already run 80% of the marathon.
Where is the "a ton of gold" from??? So far I only see 150 gold after level up to 50
Why are there always people who cry like babies when new, innovative changes come? My God! Go back to kindergarten and let your mothers change you and just stop playing before you drown in your tears.
Great job blizzard !!!