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I also got a new legendary quest with this update: "Intro the Fray" -- Play 1 game of Battlegrounds (2-week deadline).

Does this chain into additional quests?

I'm hoping this cleans up all the bots in Classic. You can count on encountering one or two dozens of bots during the course of a month, especially in the latter half. They're always playing aggro decks (zoolock mainly, sometimes face hunter) and making nonsensical plays (playing minions when a Doomsayer is on board, attacking but not killing a Doomsayer, …

You can tell that people at Blizzard have been regretting their decision to make Battlegrounds free-to-play for a while now. They overcompensated wildly with Mercenaries, and outside of 2 or 3 bundles (such as the Welcome Bundle), all of their Mercenaries offers have been overpriced garbage.

Now with runestones, they can finally get some steady revenue from all these …

I can confirm a similar setup for the Canadian store: the 500-stone package is the most affordable value. Either you're saving 1 whole cent (sarcastic wow!) on the 2000- and the 8000-stone packages, or you're losing up to 50 cents on the other packages.

I can see two possible reasons for this situation:

• Incompetence on the part …

Note that there are only 4 matches today and tomorrow, and only 3 matches for the finals on Sunday. However, all the matches are Conquest best-of-7.

Basically, this means the broadcasts are shorter than usual (e.g. 5.5 hours today), which significantly shortens the window during which you can earn packs. 

With Sottle increasing his involvement on the production side and Jia leaving, there's certainly a big gap to fill in terms of "strategic analysts" for casters.

Out of the guest casters they've used in recent months (Dragonrider, hunterace, Edelweiss, Jambre, etc.), Edelweiss is certainly the one who's come closest to fill that role, although I find her a bit …

Going from the past 9 months, I would say I usually get the packs the same day, sometimes right away, like you. There were one of two exceptions when I got the packs the next day, or even on Monday.

In other words, I wouldn't get worried yet if I were you.

A good idea, but I prefer a little bit more consistency:

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Prestor Chess
Class: Druid

(0) Innervate
(2) Capture Coldtooth Mine
(2) Jerry Rig Carpenter
(3) Wild Growth
(4) Overgrowth
(6) Lady Prestor

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Side note: During this Brawl, if you Discover spells from your class or the opponent's class, your only option …

As a reminder, if you're looking for free packs, Master's Tour: Castle Nathria (the fifth of six Master's Tours this year) is happening this weekend. As always, YouTube drops will be enabled (once you have linked your YouTube and Battle.net accounts, watch 2 hours over the weekend to get 1 pack, or 4 hours over the weekend to get 2 …

The "Supplemental Mode" team has really been dropping the ball lately. Not only are some recent adventures (Book of Heroes and Book of Mercenaries) now impossible to complete because the programmed draws fail to account for nerfed cards, but we now have the THIRD repeat of a Brawl in a single year, following other recent repeats.

Murder at Castle …

For all those decrying YouTube, you have to remember that the exclusivity agreement ends in December of this year. Given all that's happened in the past 2 years at Blizzard -- specifically their new esports management team and the buyout by Microsoft -- I think it's a fairly safe bet this agreement won't be renewed.

• Best case scenario: …

I'd be OK with reskinning the [card]Animal Companion[/card]s if it was a different class. However, re-using the effect in hunter, especially for such iconic minions, seems quite lazy. Either use the standard companions (not ideal, since they have no connection to Altimor), or come up with new statlines or abilities: rush and lifesteal are the two big ones that …

I completely agree -- restricting this to minions is a huge limitation, because they are inherently less powerful than spells simply due to the fact that they can be used over multiple rounds.

The most obvious class for new Kael'thas is rogue because of [card]Shadowstep[/card]. However, I can't think of an expensive and impactful minion they would want to …

I'm much less enthusiastic about the Relics package, because the floor is very low -- you're basically paying 1 extra mana over what you would expect for the base effect to slightly improve further cards. And with only 7 cards that care about Relics in your deck, the ceiling is also fairly limited; realistically, you'll cast your seventh Relic on …

Quote From FrostyFeet

No packs from Battlegrounds tournaments for some reason.

There is some logic to not offer packs for watching Battlegrounds tournament -- Hearthstone packs only help you if you play a constructed format, and presumably, a large part of the audience is focused on playing Battlegrounds. Why give out a reward that many …

Quote From dapperdog

Before anything start panicking about edwin 2.0, this is [card]biteweed[/card], a card that saw no play.

This is not like [card]Biteweed[/card] at all, and certainly the best location we've seen so far:

• You don't have to activate it immediately. In fact, I expect that 99% of the time, this will …

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As you can see from the picture below, Snowclaw will appear on the board as a 8/150 Caster with two 0/25 Frostbite Totems. Each of the aforementioned enemy units has an additional effect:

• Yeti Hunter Ranel - After an enemy casts an ability of (8) Speed or slower, it takes 10 damage.

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I'm also surprised that this focuses on deathrattles in druid, as it's never been part of that class's identity. In fact, they've been about the exact opposite: vitality and living creatures (beasts and treants, in particular). I know we're going to the Shadowlands and there's a big emphasis on souls and the afterlife, but the card's effect still sticks out …

I agree, this small change doesn't solve the fundamental problems with this encounter:

• Their duplication ability is too fast for most teams. At the abolute best, you'll be able to take one out of the six Dopplegangsters.
• In the second and subsequent rounds, their damage output is overwhelming -- 36 x 6 = 216 points of damage, …

[quote from="Developer Comment"]...with how easily cards like Sentinel and Moon Girl compliment the Dino.[/quote]

I know it's a common typo, but this is what I thought when I read this:

"Oooh, what a cute dino! You're a strong dino; yes, you are! Who's the best dino? Who's the best dino?..."

;-)