Yes regarding Path of Arthas (mega bundle). And yes, there appear to be some post-launch bugs. We'll be looking into a more detailed compilation before long.
You are right, I'm being unclear. 'Current' for your own turn might be a better way to put it. As in "after your last turn counts whatever happens between the moment you passed turn to your opponent and the moment you get to play the card in question".
(I don't think I'm ever getting used to that wording, makes it all sound more obscure than it should be)
You and me both, it's just such a peculiar wording. Basically means it counts both your current (edit) and your opponent's last turn. For comparison, many cards from the earlier expansions only looked at what happened on your own previous turn i.e. "played an elemental".
The post has been updated, by the way. Short version: no Twitch drops, but random bundle codes being thrown out into the chat or pmed to people who respond to PlayHearthstone prompts. Good luck fighting against the bots and all this spam, should you dare to try your luck.
It's definitely not very intuitive with all these card rarities now and some being uncraftable on top of it.
With Grand Magister Rommath, you should be offered a reroll option if everything works correctly, since the regular copy is disenchantable (the same should be true for Golden). As in, you get to keep the Diamond Rommath version and then roll for a different normal Legendary from the expansion. No full dust for disenchanting these anymore, as that's meant to be taken care of by this improved duplicate protection.
Nice insights! I'm not holding my breath for any DK Rune indication, handy as it might be. Arguably it's not so different from when you have the likes of Aggro/Ramp Druid/Rogue pretending to be Druid on ladder and where you'd go for vastly different mulligans if you could only know which is which.
Final Update: It turns out the ultimate solution involved bringing back the special event as it was, for an extended duration! All is well that ends well.
Everyone is doing giveaways on their Twitter/YouTube/Twitch etc. pretty much every season now and sometimes in between, so that stopped being news per se (plus impossible to keep track of hundreds). Plus their timing varies greatly. And good point there!
I believe there were indeed a lot of players who expected to be able to play with Demon Hunter as soon as they unlocked it via Prologue (that's only logical from their perspective, isn't it), with in-game UI sort of supporting this expectation as well. Rather than for some weird reason having to wait until that's become possible later.
#Update: Just a quick note - our initial draft of this article did not include the Signature version of Grand Magister Rommath (turns out Mage gets two cards of the type, such special treatment). Avalon has already updated everything some several hours ago, in case you didn't catch it.
Sorry for missing it at first! This was a higher advanced level of math required than just counting to 10.
Update #1: Android issues and Duels deck codes should have been resolved by now. The mandatory mobile update seems to be present upon logging in.
Update #2: Fireside Gatherings inaccessible for the time being, more on Duels Buckets & Mercenaries Bounties. No Death Knights for Dungeon Run, unfortunately (just a visual bug).
Update #3: Fireside Gatherings should be once again working as intended (but the re-roll feature might not be), Duels Buckets improved, and Rattlegore Event is back in town.
We did it that way for Demon Hunter, and it caused a TON of problems/confusion/frustration. Trying it this way this time, more clear at least what's going on.
Many peope aren't particularly happy about it, of course. The strange nature of HS patching process strikes again.
I suppose there is one other change to bring up (I've added the relevant lines too) - Lor'themar Theron also becoming a Golden Uncraftable on the Tavern Pass. Previously (Denathrius, Faelin) those were disenchantable and craftable Goldens that could be found in packs early, hence the need for having that dust refund window at the start of expansions. I suppose that's their solution for not having to (what with redundant card handling not including non-disenchantable copies).
I was already seeing an occasional Pool 3 card even when at low levels of CL 400+, and it actually hasn't been that scary at 500 CL and above ever since. Most opponents I face hardly seem to have many Series 3 cards at their disposal, either.
That's because there are two types: voluntary updates and "forced" updates. The first you can go to for on your mobile storefront and download/upgrade as soon as it's available (lately after an hour). The second takes several hours before the storefront fully makes it so that the game prompts/forces you to download on mobile as soon as you try to log in.
This time around it also looks like they ran into some issue with the latter. If you're on Android 12+, it might be advised NOT to update just yet!
Hmm, there might be some weird issues getting in the way. We'll look into that, sorry!
Yes regarding Path of Arthas (mega bundle). And yes, there appear to be some post-launch bugs. We'll be looking into a more detailed compilation before long.
You are right, I'm being unclear. 'Current' for your own turn might be a better way to put it. As in "after your last turn counts whatever happens between the moment you passed turn to your opponent and the moment you get to play the card in question".
(I don't think I'm ever getting used to that wording, makes it all sound more obscure than it should be)
You and me both, it's just such a peculiar wording. Basically means it counts both your current (edit) and your opponent's last turn. For comparison, many cards from the earlier expansions only looked at what happened on your own previous turn i.e. "played an elemental".
The post has been updated, by the way. Short version: no Twitch drops, but random bundle codes being thrown out into the chat or pmed to people who respond to PlayHearthstone prompts. Good luck fighting against the bots and all this spam, should you dare to try your luck.
Then I would just debate those along with some potential alternatives and suggestions, instead of trying to get personal for no good reason.
We get it, too high of a skill cap might be rather intimidating. 'tis fine, just as long as you don't get badly burned.
It's definitely not very intuitive with all these card rarities now and some being uncraftable on top of it.
With Grand Magister Rommath, you should be offered a reroll option if everything works correctly, since the regular copy is disenchantable (the same should be true for Golden). As in, you get to keep the Diamond Rommath version and then roll for a different normal Legendary from the expansion. No full dust for disenchanting these anymore, as that's meant to be taken care of by this improved duplicate protection.
It's definitely more than anyone might've expected, but you won't hear me complaining. Now it might have the highest rate of completion of them all.
Nice insights! I'm not holding my breath for any DK Rune indication, handy as it might be. Arguably it's not so different from when you have the likes of Aggro/Ramp Druid/Rogue pretending to be Druid on ladder and where you'd go for vastly different mulligans if you could only know which is which.
Final Update: It turns out the ultimate solution involved bringing back the special event as it was, for an extended duration! All is well that ends well.
Yes, it's been actually addressed with the opening line of the post. Apologies if it's not very clear.
Everyone is doing giveaways on their Twitter/YouTube/Twitch etc. pretty much every season now and sometimes in between, so that stopped being news per se (plus impossible to keep track of hundreds). Plus their timing varies greatly. And good point there!
I believe there were indeed a lot of players who expected to be able to play with Demon Hunter as soon as they unlocked it via Prologue (that's only logical from their perspective, isn't it), with in-game UI sort of supporting this expectation as well. Rather than for some weird reason having to wait until that's become possible later.
#Update: Just a quick note - our initial draft of this article did not include the Signature version of Grand Magister Rommath (turns out Mage gets two cards of the type, such special treatment). Avalon has already updated everything some several hours ago, in case you didn't catch it.
Sorry for missing it at first! This was a higher advanced level of math required than just counting to 10.
Update #1: Android issues and Duels deck codes should have been resolved by now. The mandatory mobile update seems to be present upon logging in.
Update #2: Fireside Gatherings inaccessible for the time being, more on Duels Buckets & Mercenaries Bounties. No Death Knights for Dungeon Run, unfortunately (just a visual bug).
Update #3: Fireside Gatherings should be once again working as intended (but the re-roll feature might not be), Duels Buckets improved, and Rattlegore Event is back in town.
They did it with DH, and decided against it this time:
Many peope aren't particularly happy about it, of course. The strange nature of HS patching process strikes again.
I suppose there is one other change to bring up (I've added the relevant lines too) - Lor'themar Theron also becoming a Golden Uncraftable on the Tavern Pass. Previously (Denathrius, Faelin) those were disenchantable and craftable Goldens that could be found in packs early, hence the need for having that dust refund window at the start of expansions. I suppose that's their solution for not having to (what with redundant card handling not including non-disenchantable copies).
I was already seeing an occasional Pool 3 card even when at low levels of CL 400+, and it actually hasn't been that scary at 500 CL and above ever since. Most opponents I face hardly seem to have many Series 3 cards at their disposal, either.
That's because there are two types: voluntary updates and "forced" updates. The first you can go to for on your mobile storefront and download/upgrade as soon as it's available (lately after an hour). The second takes several hours before the storefront fully makes it so that the game prompts/forces you to download on mobile as soon as you try to log in.
This time around it also looks like they ran into some issue with the latter. If you're on Android 12+, it might be advised NOT to update just yet!