Hearthstone posted a thing on their Twitter teasing the reveal for a new expansion with a bunch of players dressed in robes of sorts.

What do you all think of it?

Cora has shared a few fun things about the new mini-set!

Quote From Cora

Few tidbits I can remember about this Mini-Set:

1. Gigantify is the reverse of Miniaturize, which meant we had to adjust our design philosophy. Instead of repetitive effects that are strong because they're cheap, we leaned into effects that are more exciting on a bigger minion.

2. The set was supposed to be named "Dr. Boom's Incredible Inventions (of Fun!)." We were asked to cut the "(of Fun!)" for length concerns.

3. We referred to the mini-set internally as "Misfit Toys" at the beginning, and the design ID on each card is MIS_ for that reason.

4. We considered giving Toyrantus a blank textbox for the memes. /s

5. I believe the keyword Gigantify/Gigantic was originally suggested internally as a joke, and we kind of ran with it. We don't usually introduce a new keyword in a mini-set, but this one made sense.

6. There is one specific art piece in this mini-set that is a continuation of the story of an art piece in the main set, and it's kind of messed up. I don't know who wrote the description, but they must have been going through it that day.

We've got a bunch of known issues for the new patch, including an unfortunate issue with Macs being unable to buy things in the store.

Also sucks that Cariel Roame and Alexstrasza are removed from the BG pool for now due to issues.

Quote From GnomeSayin

Patch 29.2 is here, bringing with it Battlegrounds Season 7, Battlegrounds Duos, and much more! This is a big patch, so there are a few known issues we’re tracking. Refer to this post for updates throughout this patch.

The known issues we’re tracking this patch include:

• [Shop] Mac desktop clients are unable to access the Shop in patch 29.2. We’re working on a solution to this issue. In the meantime, you can still make any purchases through the web shop or mobile devices.
• [Cosmetics] There is a bug where the default Coin is generated in-game instead of your Favorited Coin. This is scheduled to be fixed in the next major patch.
• [Added 4/16] [Collection] The team is investigating reports of players unable to open their last pack in a stack.
• [Added 4/16] [Battlegrounds] Using Reno’s Hero Power on Persistent Poet results in a visual bug where it looks like adjacent Dragons are also turned Golden.
• [Added 4/16] [Battlegrounds] The team is investigating player reports of getting Floop’s achievements without earning them.
• [Added 4/16] [Hearthstone] The team is tracking reports of the mulligan “confirm” sometimes not working.
• [Added 4/16] [BNet] The team is investigating why players who are in Battlegrounds appear as “Spectating Dragonblight” in the friends list.
• [Added 4/16] [Shop] The team is investigating reports that the screen will sometimes remain blurred after purchasing a product from the shop. In the meantime, clicking through the blur or restarting the client seems to resolve this issue.

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Battlegrounds Pool changes:

• Cariel Roame and Alexstrasza have been temporarily removed from the Hero Pool due to a bug. (Aranna Starseeker and Queen Azshara are also still temporarily removed from the Hero Pool).
• Skycap’n Kragg, Zephrys the Great, Reno Jackson, and Dinotamer Brann have been temporarily removed from the Hero Pool (Duos only) due to various bugs.
• Fluidity has been removed from the Spell Pool for crimes.
• Storm Splitter has been temporarily removed from the Minion Pool (Duos only) due to a bug.

Mercenaries doesn't seem to be working for me. All the icons are blank and cannot be clicked on. Issue is on my gaming laptop, but not mobile. Rest of Hearthstone works fine. Any ideas?

The deck recipe brawl returns!

Deck Recipes

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway, including the new members who joined our community to participate - I hope to see you all around still!

Congratulations to Lemushki, sule, and anchorm4n for winning the giveaway! You have all been sent emails and private messages with instructions on how to claim your prizes. Here are their winning entries:

Lemushki -  Botface Comment

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This one seems really powerfull as all minis are… Also Rotface was one of my favourite warrior cards ever. This one IS not going unnoticed by me.

I think this Will see play and maybe with the doctor?

If not… It at least Will be found

Sule - Toy Captain Tarim Comment

Quote From sule

This is interesting: The first half of Tarim is obviously going to be used as a buff for a smaller friendly minion, and the second half as a debuff for an enemy minion. A neat little two-for-one for aggro pally; I think there's a ton of gas for that archetype so I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing this guy around. (sidenote: one of the great tragedies of Baku-era standard was that Odd Paladin was so good that the obviously busted 6-Cost Tarim was close to an afterthought).

Anchorm4n - Voting on Painter's Virtue

Since we can't preview the vote, instead, here's anchorm4n's comment!

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Weird stats on this one. Obviously a hand wide buff can't be too cheap, but why not skip the Lifesteal and give it Windfury instead? Or just reduce the cost a bit... I'm not sold on this one.

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Good luck with your pack openings!

In this brawl you'll be given a hand full of cards that contain card names and you will need to match the card names to the minions that are on the board.

• You have more spells in your hand than there are minions, so don't expect this to be easy.
• If you make a mistake, the board resets!

Normally I'm not the guy who shows off the stuff he made, however I belive that I'm not the only one that thinks a Mercenaries fangame would be cool, so I made one and am sharing it here.

Just a quick brag thread here (but also encouragement for my fellow Merc players). Yesterday I maxxed out Murloc Holmes, completing my collection of maxxed out mercenaries. I spent very little money on this mode (2 bundles early on, both in the $15 range), and just a lot of grinding. When the excess coin exchange arrived, I traded in for around 30,000 Renown. I now have about 1,000. Also have 73 packs saved up for future content drops. 

There is hope my friends! Yes, there are major problems with this game mode (bots in the pit, diminishing returns on coins, no pity timer on legendaries, etc.). But if you have fun playing it, keep going! The grind may be a slog, but at one PvP win per day and daily tasking, you can obtain a full set of maxxed out mercenaries. And there are lots of fun, competitive squads to play. I regularly encounter comps I haven't seen before, and sometimes I try them out myself!

Here's hoping for more content coming soon!

This keeps happening to me: between rounds, I place Maestra in the optimal position, then she moves over right after I click "ready," ruining my strategy. Has anyone else encountered this?  

For context, see this video from Old Guardian:

I had planned to finish the event this week, only to find out it has ended already. If they care so little about Mercenaries that they're not willing to properly correct this mistake by re-enabling the event until the previously announced end date, then I think I'll take the hint and stop playing this mode.

Has anyone had this happen? I'm super pissed right now, because 2 of my mercs had their equipment changed somehow, and I lost a match because of it.

If you want the details, I'm playing Old Gods almost always, Y'Shaarj with the extra attack on Rage Unbound, C'Thun with gaining stats on bench. When I summoned C'Thun in the late game, he was base stats and summoned the tentacle. I certainly never changed this equipment myself, but when I went to the collection after, sure enough, both were set to the wrong equipment. Changed them back, then won the next game.

WTF?

As the title says: I just hit the rank 1000 floor and my reward chest had 3 coin drops instead of 5. What BS is this?

Hey mercheads! Just in case you didn't notice this already, the Acolyte of N'Zoth bounty in Darkshore now awards coins for Finley and C'Thun. I've been beating it on normal twice daily (for the Toki task) and netting coins for those two upcoming new mercenaries. 

I'm also looking for help in PvP. Suddenly pirates are dominating the meta. The Patches/Vanessa/Smite synergy is absolutely insane. Does anyone have a good comp to suggest for beating them?

Brightwing

Ahh brightwing, the lovable fae dragon that used to be the big shot, now is mostly unused, here are my ideas for buffs.

1. Brightwing's Necklace should give at least +3 more health.

2. Pixie's Pouch should have been "Pixie Dust restores 4 less health but has no cooldown"

Illidan Stormrage

"You are not prepaired!" yeah, although I thought about your buffs in advance.

1. Blade Dance should be 4 random enemies.

2. All of his abilities are now Fel.

3. Winged Assault gives +3 attack.

Uther Lightbringer

Imagine dying, cringe

1. Libram of Sacrifice is now a Battlecry but only gives it to your Humans.

2. Blessing of Protection restores 2 more health.

Thrall

SMorc

1. For The Horde is now 5 speed, so you can now upgrade Mak'Gora.

2. Ornate Warhorn deals 7 more damage.

3. Warchief's Command does your right most minion instead. (So summons can work better, not really a buff)

That's all folks, I tried to choose mercs that most other people don't cover, and also the ones I personally think are cool.

C'thun will be coming as the last event OG. Here are my speculations.

He's Gonna Be A Fighter. It's prob true, the others were caster, protector, caster. So we are gonna get a fighter.

His long CD Skill Will Be A 20. Same thing, as fighter, n'zoth had 5 cd, next 10, next 15, then next 20 witch is c'thun.

Mechathun Portrait. I love mechathun, it's my fav art in the entire game, I hope it's the diamond version though, witch it might not be.

Beast Related. It's while possible, it isn't very likely, in world of warcraft the area c'thun is in is surrounded by bugs, bettles, etc. so it might be.

AoE Skills. He might have 'deal X damage split among random enemies' skill, just like yogg with his final skill.

 Figuring out the bosses , to me, is a two shot attempt at most. But getting to them intact? That's the trick nobody ever shows or talks about. I want to see the dozens of retries getting to the boss. At least a little more detail on how to beat the climb of these bounties would be nice. Not "This one is the easiest yet" as an answer.

Don't waste your time on that one. It says you have to kill the boss in Darkshores, but he's in Sunken City. No matter how many Pirates you bring to the boss alive. No matter if you skip all the Boons. There is no workaround and we just have to wait until Blizzard fixes it.

Wait, so you're complaining that some achievements are non-trivial? The clue is in the name: they acknowledge your ability to do something noteworthy. There would be no point in them if Blizz just handed them out for doing next to nothing.

Nobody forces you to do all the achievements, and you won't be significantly disadvantaged if you miss a couple of XP-giving ones. That wouldn't even come close to getting you an XP-level (an hence are worth <<50 gold), so don't worry about it. Just do what you enjoy doing, and stop there.

There's one at the end of the Barrens that just unlocked - it was locked yesterday. 

Not sure if there are others in other zones. 

Have fun, y'all!