Blizzard has released all the details on the progression system changes that are arriving in this week's December 15 patch.
Quote From Blizzard We’re making several major changes to the new progression system in the 19.2 patch:
- Reducing the amount of experience needed to reach certain levels on the Rewards Track.
- Reduced total required XP for completing the Rewards Track by 37,000 XP.
- Adjusting a variety of Daily and Weekly Quests that feel unrewarding or too difficult.
- Removed ‘Finish an Arena run with 4 or more wins’ Quest.
- Removed ‘Play an Old God Legendary from the Darkmoon Faire 10 times’ Quest.
- Adjusted ‘Play 50 Corrupt cards’ Quest to now read ‘Play 30 Corrupt cards’.
- Adjusted ‘Win 7 games of Ranked Play mode’ to ‘Win 5 games of Ranked Play mode’.
- Adjusted ‘Finish in top 2 in Battlegrounds’ to ‘Finish in top 4 in Battlegrounds’
- Adjusted ‘Deal 2,000 damage to enemy minions in Battlegrounds’ to ‘Deal 1,500 damage to enemy minions in Battlegrounds’
- Adjusted ‘Play two 10 cost cards’ to ‘Play one 10 cost card’
- Adjusted ‘Play 20 Murlocs’ to ‘Play 10 Murlocs’
- Adjusted ‘Play 6 Weapons’ to ‘Play 4 Weapons’
- Adjusted all 800 XP Daily Quests to award 900 XP.
- Adjusted applicable quests to count progress from Tavern Brawls and Battlegrounds.
- Adding more rewards to certain levels of the Rewards Track and expanding the Rewards Track levels above level 50.
- Added 50 additional Gold each to levels 27 and 30. Players who hit these milestones before the 19.2 patch will be compensated in a future update.
- Expanded levels 51-150 to a maximum level of 350 and adjusted each level after level 50 to require 1/3 as much XP and reward 50 Gold.
For more, you can find our full update on the Rewards Track here. After these changes are implemented, your existing earned XP value will be retained, so upon your next login you will likely see additional progress through multiple levels. Please ensure that you review your rewards after updating to the 19.2 patch to see what you can now claim.
Dev Comment: Removed quests will need to be rerolled or completed. For the quests that have their requirements reduced in 19.2, if you already have progress on that quest at or above the new quota to complete, the quest will not automatically complete. You’ll need to advance that quest requirement by one for it to complete.
Hearthstone Patch 19.2
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Comments
Please guys open your eyes.
They first gave us a crazy and unfair reward system to test how far they can go before people leave the game.
Then they make it a little better so people thinks their complains were listened. The reality is that with those changes we are not going to take 7k/8k without playing a lot.
OMG they make you actually play the game you like a lot to gain a lot.
Such douchebags.
Or at least pretend to play.
Several of my friends use bots to automate game search and AFKing. The funny thing is that they have the same or even higher XP levels without battle passes and actual playing, than I have with real time and money investments.
This makes me SOOOOOOOOOOO happy. I'm a casual player and having those requirements to get to each level felt incredibly difficult to attain.
Now, all that they need to do is make it easier to get the gold build up before a release in order to get packs. I would save up gold for a month or so and be able to "buy" 50+ packs. With this new rewards track, I'm still wondering how much of an impact this is going to have on that as well.
I got the "Play X Corrupt cards". I have to say, as a QA, that to exclude the CORRUPTED versions of the CORRUPT cards is a really grave oversight by all development team members. Because, who plays the UNCORRUPTED versions of the cards if they can avoid it?
This.
Tbh, I may not even think it was a mistake, but rather intentional.
Which makes it way worse if it's true.
Blizzard would gain nothing from making it harder and more confusing to complete. I think it was just ignorance and lack of testing on their side.
So if I'm looking at the current XP requirements correctly, if you are lvl 45 with about 1/3 of the xp you need to get to level 46, then Congratulations! You will get to pick your lvl 50 rewards hero portrait tomorrow!
I received the Deal 2,000 damage to enemy minions in Battlegrounds weekly & luckily completed it during my 1st BG match of the day.
It was gut wrenching as I was in 5th of the last 5 & managed to tie against the leader then tied with 3rd place. I was at 5 health so the back to back ties were huge. I ended up as 3rd overall.
My take on these changes: With the 20% XP boost and the restored rewards during events, this system is now slightly more rewarding than the old one was. Also, with the hardest quests fixed and Brawls usable for quests, the game doesn’t require any more time than it used to.
Hearthstone has always been more expensive than most (not all) F2P Hans, but also less demanding than most about your time commitment. This is still true. The changes are real, but minor.
It’s perfectly valid to think the game is too greedy or expensive, but if you think that then you should have quit it years ago. The expense isn’t a flaw of the new system.
Though they have introduced 3 mini-expacs a year. At a time when most of us would normally be conserving/saving our gold for the upcoming new expansion.
Sitting on current expac packs earned through end of season rewards etc can mitigate that a bit, though you need self discipline and doesn't feel fun :) Remains to be seen how many epics/legendaries will be added to the set.
It's a 19.2% saving in XP up to level 50.
Also you are forced to win ranked games every week even if you are already Legend and would otherwise take a break or you just play other game modes. Before you could just win or lose 3/6 games in casual every few days. Given the promise of "play Hearthstone your way" I hope this weekly will be changed to be any game mode at some point.
Definitely improved though with the changes for some quests completable in brawls or battlegrounds though. Step in the right direction.
Personally, those changes work fine for me. I mainly play ranked games anyway, and I’m excited to have a reason to open packs more often than every 4 months. (With duplicate protection, it will be easy to get the commons and rares. For epics and legendaries, I’ll hope for some luck but craft what I need, just as with main sets.)
I agree that different people will have different reactions to these changes, though. Hopefully Blizzard is approaching a system that works for more people.
Thank god you can do quests in Tavern Brawls again. Removing that was such a pointless slap in the face.
Are we certain that wasn't a bug?
Amen! I'm also still waiting to see if achievements can be completed in Tavern Brawls: there's a lot of potential gain for us there, especially with the current Battle of the Bans one.
I'm just going to say I love these changes. Yeah, Blizzard missed the mark BIG TIME with the rewards track, and even more so with how they communicated about it, but this is a big step in the right direction to making things better. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt (since they've given me the game I love so much), and see how things pan out.
Ok, the trolls are now welcome to jump in here and call me a boot-licking fanboy or whatever.
Nah.
Blizz-licker.
BOO! HISS! You are just a fan-licking boot boy! Wait....
Dang, I was trying to keep my fan-licking obsession a secret.
Turn it off before doing that if you don't want to be eating soup for the rest of your life :P