Badlands Achievements Will Still Reward XP During Whizbang's Workshop

Published 8 months, 1 week ago by Fluxflashor

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Blizzard has announced that things are going to be a little bit different going forward with Hearthstone's expansion achievements and the rewards track. Let's see what's changing.

Whizbang's Workshop makes its debut next week on March 19, and with that will come the usual unlocking of new achievements to earn experience for the rewards track. However, we can expect to see fewer achievements this time around, but those achievements will instead grant additional experience over what we've been used to seeing in the past. As of right now, we don't have exact numbers, but we'll dig into it as soon as data becomes available.

Additionally, in a first for Hearthstone, if you didn't finish any of your Showdown in the Badlands achievements for that sweet experience, don't worry about it because you can gather experience from them still once Whizbang's Workshop goes live and it will contribute to the new rewards track. That's great news for anyone that has been taking a break from the game or just didn't feel up to the task of going through all the achievements. Will this be the easiest rewards track to complete?

Honestly, this is a quality of life improvement that was a long time coming. It wasn't very friendly to players to have the achievements lose their experience numbers and now it gives people a reason to experiment with all the content that Standard Hearthstone has to offer. How do you feel about the change? Do you have a ton of achievements you need to get to?

Quote From Blizzard

Unlike prior expansions, Showdown in the Badlands Achievements will not stop awarding XP with Patch 29.0 and will, instead, keep granting XP on the next Rewards Track! There will be fewer new Achievements in Whizbang’s Workshop, but each of those new Achievements will each grant more XP than main-set Achievements have typically given in the past.

Additionally, the progression on the Legendary Collector Achievement will now grant copies of two Signature cards, instead of a Diamond card:

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Caro Draconic Rager 2225 2542 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
- The Good: Achievements carry over to the next expansion is a big win and definitely incentivizes players to continue their achievement hunting. Just an assumption though but does the XP go away next year after Showdown in the Badlands rotates to Wild?
- The Bad: Less achievements in the Whizzbang expansion, less overall XP as well so it won't equate to 16 000XP anymore. While the good does make up for the bad, I do wonder why Blizzard decided to go this route. To cut costs maybe?
- The Ugly: Instead of a Diamond Legendary with awesome animations we get...a common and rare signature card...eeww. I guess those Diamond animations took too much time as well?
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Pezman Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

I love this change! I always feel so cheated when I am getting close to a few achievements and think I still have a week to complete them, then suddenly they're gone.

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darkjak Shadow Rager 860 1147 Posts Joined 07/06/2019

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

I'm gonna be severely disappointed if they are no Year of the Pegasus achievements.

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