New Features Coming Soon! Upgrade to Golden - Share Deck Codes - Favorite Multiple Card Backs
Not just Patchnotes today from Blizzard! Read about the new features below!
Quote from BlizzardIn the year of the Hydra, Hearthstone is focusing on improving existing game experiences and building a better, more player-friendly game client. With that in mind, we’re happy to share that three exciting new features will be coming to Hearthstone as soon as Patch 23.2!
Upgrade to Golden
The long-awaited feature is now here! Fans of Golden cards will now have the option of Upgrading their normal cards into Golden versions, in addition to the original option of crafting Golden versions from scratch. The Arcane Dust cost to Upgrade a card is the difference between its base cost and the Golden cost. That means that you get the full dust value of any of your cards you decide to Upgrade! Now fans of Golden cards have an option to easily and efficiently bling out their favorite cards.
Developer Comment: We’re thrilled to get this feature out there and see how you all enjoy it. We wanted it to be a smooth and convenient experience, without getting in the way of the normal crafting flow. We knew from the start that we wanted this to be more than just a convenience feature; since it gives you the full dust value for any normal card you Upgrade, it’s also cheaper now to turn your normal cards Golden, making it more enticing for players to enjoy that attractive option!
Share Deck Codes in Chat
Now you can easily share deck codes through the in-game chat! Send your friend a deck code and they’ll be able to quickly copy it directly from chat into their deckbuilder. Show off your cool homebrew or grab the latest tech from ladder with ease as you fill up both your friends list and your deck slots.
Developer Comment: Deck codes were one of the largest convenience improvements ever added to the game, but actually sharing those deck codes in-game was always rough. We set out to solve that issue and make this powerful sharing tool an even better experience.
Favorite Multiple Card Backs
Lastly, you will be able to Favorite multiple card backs, instead of just one. This means that in each game you will randomly equip a card back from those you favorited. With so many great card backs now in the game, how could you choose just one?! Since card back settings are now saved on a deck-by-deck basis, out-of-match things like pack opening will use whatever settings you most recently selected.
Developer Comment: So many amazing card backs have been added to the game over the years, we felt like we needed to find some middle ground between picking one card back and picking randomly from your whole collection. Finding the exact user experience to solve this was a challenge that we’re looking forward to hearing player feedback on!
These are just the first of several quality-of-life improvements that we’re excited to develop this year. We’re working on tons of cool new features, including some that we hope to share very soon. Keep an eye out for more updates, and let us know if there are any features that you’d like to see added to the client.
The Card Backs of Hearthstone
Learn more and see all the Card Backs in our dedicated guide.
OWKEE, they found a new way to get money from us....
Stop whining about everything, this isn't a feature that has any impact on your competitiveness, you'll not be any worse off if you don't use it a single time, and it's been something some players have been asking for for years now.
It's fine.
Actually, it's backwards. Converting to golden is more efficient and saves you dust than current approach... Did you read the patch notes?
I like these updates. Copying a deck to chat is simply amazing for me and my buds. I'd like to see an option for Coins per deck. Use Horde Coin for my Horde skins. Also can they finally move the create a new deck to the top of the list? Sick of scrolling on mobile.
if I diss a golden leg now, i get 1600 dust. after the patch i only get 800?
No, dis will work the same, 400 for the normal leg, 1600 for the golden leg.
and still no auto squelch option.
Can't believe people are complaining about this lol. This community can be so salty... It's good that they finally stopped creating unwanted game modes and put some love on the main client.
I'm really looking forward to the in-game report system, I think they said some time ago they'll do it!
just cosmetic, but is a option more for who want.
Shame that there still is no option for randomly choosing a coin. Cool new features though.
This year they want to add as many new features as they can, so I believe a random coin and a random portrait are 2 things that will for sure get added because everyone is asking them about it.
I wish they also implement the opposite
Downgrade a card to normal and keep the extra dust.
no that would benefit players and they dont want that
Are you silly? They want us to spend dust, not to save it
Will we get full dust back for the non-Golden cards we have redundantly? i.e. receiving 1600 dust for my normal Sylvanas, since I already have a Golden Sylvanas?
They didn't said so, so I guess not
I dont understand? You can already craft cards in golden type?
Instead of Disenchanting a legendary for 400 dust and crafting a golden legendary for 3200 you can now just upgrade your regular legendary for 1600, saving you 1200 dust for example.
Yeah true, but crafting a golden cost extra dust (for example normal epic=400 dust, golden epic=1600 dust). This is for people who haven't not enough dust to craft a golden card at that specific moment (for example 1600 dust), but opened that card from packs. With this new feature, people can save dust and when they have enough dust (for epic is 1200 dust), they can choose to make their cards golden
i don't understand what is the porpouse of upgrade to golden?