If you've already completed Illidan's Book of Heroes chapter, you might have noticed a rather strange pop-up screen after winning the last fight. For those who are yet to dive into it, we're talking about what you can see in the picture below.
Kerfluffle, Hearthstone Community Manager, published a post in Blizzard's forums uncovering the mystery. This pop-up is supposed to reward you with a Golden Standard Pack. Luckily, this will be retroactive so players that login to the game this week after the game patches with an update will receive their completion credit and won't miss out on the pack.
Quote From Kerfluffle Separately, we’re aware of an issue where a pop up appears with placeholder text after finishing all Book of Heroes installments. We’ll be fixing this pop up in a patch next week and will be issuing a Golden Standard card pack to all players who completed Book of Heroes, which will be the reward for completing this content moving forward.
That does it for Hearthstone's Book of Heroes which made its debut just over 11 months ago. If Blizzard were to extend it or start a new book, which characters would you like to play the stories of? What did you think of Book of Heroes overall? Let us know in the comments below.
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Anyone has received the golden pack from this achievement with today's patch? Because I haven't ...
Me too. :(
Same here...
Having not really played Warcraft since Warcraft 2, I found the stories mostly baffling.
"When I was a kid, Azeroth was the name of a kingdom and Orcs were always green. What's a dragonflight? What are you doing on my lawn?!"
I'm curious about whether you found it baffling because of changes like Azeroth becoming the name of the planet (I think the old 'Azeroth' is now Stormwind), or because most of the stories are trying to cover too much ground to really work in 8 fights?
I personally found the smaller scale stories (e.g. Valeera and Gul'dan) to be more effective than the bigger ones that necessarily jump around all over the place. Jaina and Thrall tried to cover events before Warcraft 3 up to the end of Mists of Pandaria (WoW's 4th expac), which you just can't do properly in 8 fights.
mostly covering too much ground and on a foundation of things that took place well after the Warcraft stories that I'm familiar with.
The smaller scale stories definitely worked better than the bigger ones. Because the big ones had to cover so much from games that I've never played it all kind of ran together with no real sense of what happened in what order.
But that's kind of baked in to Hearthstone in a way. The heroes are from all across the timeline effectively, making any attempt to explain why they're all 'fighting' at the same time kind of difficult. In that way, I think the mercenaries (and their book) is more effective, even if I like some of the individual mercenaries less than their original counterparts
They have definitely done a better job with the Book of Mercenaries, yes. By making each individual chapter quite small and forwarding the same series of events as everyone else they have been able to make the whole thing easy to follow. It still assumes some knowledge of the lore (e.g. Tavish and Xyrella bickering with Scabbs about SI:7), but nothing much more than a normal book would mention some things and only explain them fully later.
As for the mercenaries themselves, I think they did a decent job overall. Some of them are a bit too 1-dimensional and stereotypical (e.g. Kurtrus and Tamsin), but others are surprisingly relatable for adventurers in a world of cataclysmic events (especially Xyrella and Bru'kan).
I don't particularly like PVE, so in my opinion, they can drop it altogether.
they could add book of heroes with alternate heroes, such as Tyrande, Maiev, Arthas, Medivh, Magni etc. that would be fun I guess
The idea of BOH is nice, but not the implementation, your mulligan is "rigged" and the difficult is really low at the 90% of games.
The adventures should be a challege as the old adventures was. I remember how i was complaining against Heroic Naxx or some dungeon run adventures, and BOH needs that.
And, about the question, i love the idea about a book of evil heroes, but the real ones, Medivh, Deathwing, Sargeras, Mal'Ganis... not Heistbaron Togwaggle or Madame Lazul.
Heroic Naxx was dificult due to the limited card pool. With the amount of wild cards available today, I doubt any boss could be challenging.
Exactly, they tried to solve this problem by only allowing standard decks in the Trials of Felfire, but most of the fights were still rather easy because it also needed to be doable in any potential future standard rotation.
I can confirm they are not a challenge with the full Wild card pool, as I recently beat Heroic Kel'Thu-freaking-zad with a permanent stealth meme deck* without any modifications for the fight. I don't think I did it first try, but it was only a few attempts, and playing rogue when your hero is frozen and takes 3 damage on the first 10 turns is really dumb.
* Anka, the Buried -> Majordomo Executus -> no longer being rogue -> Tess Greymane endlessly casting Cloak of Shadows, Vanish and a bunch of rogue minions.
I think the Books of Heroes/Mercenaries are fun (it's the only part of the game where I put the sound on), but basically zero replayability. So from that perspective, I can believe that they might not invest much more time and effort in this mode.
I would love to play a Tyrande chapter, though!
Still need to do Illidan, but overall, pretty cool. I learned some things. After Book of Mercenaries is done, I think they should move on. We probably don't need a Book of Alternate Heroes or something. I guess there are a few we could learn more lore from, like Sylvanas.
Don't know about anyone else, but I'll pretty much definitely be converting my entire pack to dust. Except maybe if I get an epic or legendary.
i hated it, except gul'dan chapter which had puzzles!
I'm a bit curios. Why is your profile-picture Dragonfire Potion instead of Holy Water?
cz Dragonfire Potion is way cooler than Holy Water xD
As someone who's never played any of the Warcraft games, and only a little bit of World of Warcraft, I absolutely adored the Book of Heroes. It was a great way to discover the backstory for all the main Hearthstone protagonists!
It would be great if they looked at the alternate hero skins like Nemsy and Mecha-Jaraxxus once the Book of Mercenaries is done.
Thanks for the reminder that I still need to finish Illidan's story. Sometimes I forget that the Initiate solo content wasn't his BoH story.
Also...
HAPPY NOZ DAY!!!