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Mentions of some visual customization bundle (which could be just special character skins for all we know)

I don't think that these skins are for Mercs. The source is about the patch in general and this information was seperat from the other Mercs news. Also the translation mentioned that it's a "class" bundle, further hinting at that these skins are for constructed. I also don't think that Blizzard dares to further monetize the mode in its current state.

As for the rest the patch seems to have 4 less mercs than last time, even though the devs claimed that that patch was below what they wanted because they just shifted to this "one big update every 4 months" model and only had 2 months for that patch. I hope that the 5 extra bounties are worth it. I'm also confident that the new zone will be Darkmoon themed, because a bunch of bosses have been datamined months ago. Plus it would also fit the current Mercs Story, which last time ended with the LoE taking down Ysharj as the 2. old god and a foreshadowing that there is more to come.

Remember Myra Rotspring? Probably not because the card never saw any real play since its launch. Sure this is a straight up better version of her, but I'm not sure if he's better enough to see real play. Especially because there is still a big variance in his discover pool.

Who would have guessed that 6 mana "gain 9 armor" would potentially break the game one day.

Unique and over the top crazy design. That's how I like my card reveals.

Again no trailer for the mini-set? And just like last time the mini-set feels really disjointed from the main set. The expansion was all about who killed Sire Denathrius and now we are suddenly following Sylvanas in a Trial without even getting a resolution? A simple cinematic about murloc holmes pointing out that the murderer was posessed by Sylvanas, that Denathrius survived it and that he sends Sylvanas to this trial would have been enough for me to fill this gap.

On the flip side this mini-set seems like it again has a bunch experimental cards in just like the last ones. Even if those mechanics don't make it into the meta it's still cool that those mechanics exist now.

Also yay that Mercs "time to shine" atleast gets mentioned this time. We already know that the pve endgame likely comes out at the end of the year, but hopefully it includes the coin exchange that was mentioned in the 24.0 patchnotes.

Edit: this was posted on Discord by one of the merc content creators that has a reveal on September 26. You know, at this point I take anything.

Edit edit: here is the official source

This patch was delayed for almost a month because of a critical bug, but wow is it still incredibly buggy. I and other can't get past the loading screen and the ones who do report issues like softlocks when a new location is revealed, settings not getting saved aswell as constant error screens and crashes.

Edit: After leaving the game open for an hour and error window appeared and I could log into the game just fine afterwards.

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Additionally support has moved from actual Hearhstone to Battlegrounds

I never understood what makes people think that way. Constructed gets 510 new cards split across 6 releases, atleast 3 new keywords and a bunch of side-mechanics (Relics, suspicious minions, sunken cards, objectives etc.)  in a single year. Not to mention that they recently released the first new cardtype in 5 years aswell as a bunch of QoL features purely for constructed. And let's not forget the addition of Nagas, spellschools and the core-set.

Compare that to the regular Battlegrounds updates which are basically exactly 1 new mechanic and (roughly) 30 cards and 2 heroes three times a year. Granted, the last update also finally came with the addition of a progression system that goes beyond "number goes up or down", but that's still nothing compared to the support constructed gets and definetely not the norm for BG focused updates.

At no time in the games history have they reduced the constructed support for the long run.

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Also that 4 expansion a year thing was nowhere confirmed and was just brought up in a Q&A. Additionally if  they would go for it they would scrap mini-sets (meaning that the total number of cards in a year would go from 510 to only 540), reduce the levels it takes for the reward track and increase the overall rewards.

This really came out of nowhere, especially because he just recently became game director. I wonder who will take his place. Oh, and RIP regular Q&A's.

I'm really looking forward to the pc client. I'm also curios how they are going to translate the vertical gameplay to a horizontal pc screen.

Besides Hearthstone (though I've been drifting away from constructed recently) I also really enjoy lost ark. The combat itself is super fun and the weeklies have incredibly cool and complex bosses.

It's really easy if you are on Android. Just look up a apk of the game in the Internet and install it (I'm not putting any links here just to be on the save site, but I never had issues with a certain website for apk-mirror s). From there you can just play the game normally and can log in with your google account. If you do that you will even be able to find the app under the installed section in the playstore and can update it just like any other app later.

Alternatively you can also just put on a vpn for any of the soft launch countries, force stop and clear the cache for the playstore and then you should able to find the app in the Play Store through a simple search. If that doesn't work you may have to make a new google account with the active vpn before that. However you can still login with you normal account once you are done.

I don't have a Iphone, but from what I've heard you have to make a new apple account that's set in on of the softlaunch countries and then download it from the store.

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However keep in mind that the game is still very much buggy in certain areas and very much unfinished. For example: when I started playing it months ago the game would heavily lag my whole phone during the tutorial, forcing me to restart it. After testing a bunch of stuff I finally found a solution. I had to install the game on a pc emulator, do the tutorial there, log into the game on my phone again and then set the graphic settings from low to high, otherwise the same thing would happen again whenever I que for a match.

You can click on legendary quests to see the next ones in the chain. The following quests are:

• Win a Battlegrounds Match (rewards a new emote)
• Win a Battlegrounds Match in 1. place (rewards a new Jandice Battlegrounds skin)

Because Riot invented anime (skins) and is the the only possible inspiration out there?

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Now that I can't earn in-game gold from Battlegrounds

The ammount of XP that you get for the Reward Track is unchanged for BG

I thought about this too, but there is no way that they are going to release the Mini-set + the big Merc update (which hopefully gets more recognition from Blizzard this time) only two weeks after the huge BG progression overhaul and quest addition. How else are they going to fill the time between now and the next expansion, which accoarding to the Tavern Pass at earliest launches December 5.

Are you talking about this?

"We've chosen Runestone bundle sizes to exactly match the top selling products, and minimize wasted Runestones."

I'd say this was pretty accurate. As of right now there are only 3 extremely specific purchases you can't make without having excess Runestones(assuming that you buy the 500 Runestone Bundle).

• the basic deal of 2 Packs for 300 Runestones (or you just pay 3$ directly with money for this terrible deal)
• Tavern Ticket for 200 Runestones (who even bought these with real money anyways?)
  
• Single BG skins for 150 Runestones

Or you just take the official explaination: They wanted to keep the prices for the current products.

a 4.99$ bundle now costs 500 Runestones which can be bought for 4.99$

a 9.99$ bundle now costs 1000 Runestones which can be bought for 9.99$

The problem here obviously is that it's cheaper to buy the 500 Runestone bundle multiple times, however this is unavoidable with the previously mentioned goal in mind. Now add currency exchange into this mix and the gap becomes bigger in some countries than in others. The only way around this would be to sell these Runestone Bundles for a flat 5$ and 10$ or for 4.99$ and 9.98$, but both of these would change the actual prices of the products

"* Battleground Perks are not included in the Mega Bundle pre-purchase this time. We’re reworking how Battlegrounds Perks and rewards work for next Battlegrounds season. Until then, some of the current Perks are being extended."

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-gb/news/23817874/announcing-murder-at-castle-nathria-hearthstone-s-next-expansion

that's confirmed to be a purely visual bug

The BG season 2 announcement post got updated with more details about Runestones btw.