Blizzard has announced a new Hearthstone patch will be hitting live servers tomorrow which will include some new Battlegrounds goodies and the ability to reorder your decks!
It is also important to note that we'll be seeing a large download for this patch since the team has reorganized how assets are stored. We're not sure if this is going to help reduce the size of the game, but hopefully, there are some positives here!
Quote From Blizzard The 17.2 patch includes three new Heroes and a new minion for Battlegrounds. We’ve also added the ability to rearrange your decks, a new visual aid for end of Season rewards, and more!
As a note, we’ve restructured assets in 17.2 so the data download for this patch will be similar to a fresh install. Pardon our dust!
Battlegrounds Updates
- Dire Wolf Alpha has been removed from the minion pool.
NEW MINION
Rabid Saurolisk
- [Tier 1, Beast] 3 Attack, 1 Health.
After you play a minion with Deathrattle, gain +1/+1.
NEW HEROES
Players with Battlegrounds perks will have immediate access to playtest these three new heroes before they are fully unlocked on May 26.
Lady Vashj
- Evolving Electricity [Passive]: After you upgrade Bob’s Tavern, replace his minions with ones of a higher Tier.
Maiev Shadowsong
- Imprison [Cost 1]: Make a minion in Bob’s Tavern Dormant. After 2 turns, get it with +1/+1.
Kael’thas Sunstrider
- Verdant Spheres [Passive]: Every third minion you buy gains +2/+2.
Deck Ordering
You can now reorder your deck lists! While viewing your deck list in the Collection Manager, press and hold a deck button to enter “rearranging” mode. Once you’re in rearranging mode, just click and drag on your decks to order them! Deck rearranging will not work until all nine starting heroes (excluding Demon Hunter) are unlocked.
Game Improvements and Bug Fixes
- End of Season rewards
- Your total rewards accumulated within the current Ranked season are now highlighted in green inside your Rewards Chest, which can be found at the top of the Quest Log.
- Collection Manager filter panel (mobile)
- The filter panel will now remain open after using Search.
- The filter panel will now hide once cards are dragged to a deck and will reappear after they’ve been added.
- The filter panel will no longer be dismissed until the “Done” button has been pressed.
- Card text for Teron Gorefiend has been updated to be more technically accurate: “Destroy all other friendly minions. Deathrattle: Resummon them with +1/+1.”
Comments
Start counting 3 years from now till we get additional deck slots.
Rabid Saurolisk looks so exciting! Most deathrattles do appear on beasts as well so this card alone helps you transition nicely into either deathrattles only or beats and deathrattles :D I'm keen!
Only thing I'm unsure on is, if we can use him if we haven't bought the tavern pass?
Lady Vashj seems like a diffrent take on Elise, probably she will end up being on similar power level, which is low T2 at the moment, which is fine. Playable for sure.
Maiev I am afraid will be garbage. I am not sure how she is gonna work, so that is what I assume: you press hero power button on turn X for minion Y. On turn X+1 you see 1 less minion in tavern, because one is dormant. On turn X+2 you get minion Y with +1/+1. The problem is, that 2 turns later you are probably on higher tavern tier and you don't need that minion any more. +1/+1 will hardly matter. Unless there is some specific strategy meant for her that I cannot see yet, I think we are looking at T4 here.
Kaelthas is the best out of these 3 in my opinion. Significant buff that lands where you (kind of) want it to. It will make double buy with 5 gold always good, because of the buff, and then on the 7 gold turn you get another buffed minion with tavern upgrade. +2/+2 is no joke, I think Kaelthas will be strong T2.
Cheers!
'' You can now reorder your deck lists! '' ?!
That´s the best news for me, even though I think this should be in game from the beginning by default..
These new BG Heroes seem pretty interesting. And that Tier1 beast that scales from the early game can be interesting as well.
I hope it will also fix the problems on the Samsung A60/70! I cant play this game on mobile for more than a month now
It's totally aesthetic, but I would like to see that deck ordering option.
Somewhat unrelated, but any word on when the single player content is supposed to release? Wouldn't this usually be the week given how release schedules have gone the last several cycles. It seems like it's been oddly quiet,
The rumor is June 10th, which seems more and more likely as we fail to hear anything about the Adventure. It might have been delayed because of the coronavirus, but they could have said as much at some point :(
I believe that when I last logged in and looked, it said "releases in 5 weeks," so June 10th should be right on schedule. I know they're trying to spread things out, but when you show "Coming Soon" and it releases about 2 months* later...
I guess Blizz and I have different opinions on what Coming Soon™ means ; )
*It's said "Coming Soon" since the Prologue released O_o
They might just be experimenting a bit with how to divide stuff up differently for in between expansions.
The new beast makes me happy. Direwolf was trash.
All of the Heroes strike me as good - assuming that Maive works as a freeze, allowing you to rotate the tavern while keeping 1 minion for the next turn or two. It still might be a tad underpowered at +1/+1.
Vashj is interesting because it plays out similarly to Elise, but with the fact that some lower tier minions will still be thrown in.
Kael'thas will likely be about a high mid-tier hero. Kind of Rat King-y, but not as good as Yogg or Edwin.
Maiev will give you the minion once it wakes up. You are essentially buying a minion for 2 less gold but you have to wait 2 turns to get it.
Finally deck rearranging!! This is the best news out of all of this! The changes to the mobile collection manager and filter panel are also long overdue and very welcomed! Glad to see some UI work being done to the game!
I honestly haven't touched BG's very much since the dragons were added, Lady Vashj looks interesting.
I too haven't touched BG since Uldum. I don't because they don't give any reward.
I honestly think that MMR rating doesn't do anything (even when it's F2P).
It'll be very different outcome if they add some kind of rewards.
Adding rewards would mean adding an entry fee. I would rather the mode stay as F2P as it can.
That being said I really hate the tavern pass.
"You can now reorder your deck lists!" - took them long enough
Yup, it only took 6 years and 2 months... At this rate, will they figure out how to add more deck slots in 2025?
Let me remind you that we did get extra slots! It used to be 9 only. Rejoice!