Patch 22.2.1 is now being deployed. It’s a small update mostly focused Battlegrounds, addressing some of the biggest outliers:
- Tarecgosa is now Tavern Tier 4 (up from 3).
- Elementium Squirrel Bomb (Millificent Manastorm’s Buddy) is now Tavern Tier 4 (up from 3).
- Drakonid Enforcer is now 2/4 and Tier 3 (down from 3/6 and Tier 4).
The patch also includes a small Duels update, making a bunch of Treasures (All Together now, Battle Totem, Disks of Legend and Totem of the Dead) rarer.
It’s a server-side hotfix, not a full client patch, so the changes won’t appear correctly when hovering over the minions or buddy matter. But the cards will have the new functionality. It will be updated in the next patch.
We’re in the process of deploying a hotfix that includes some balance changes for Battlegrounds and Duels, and a handful of bug fixes.
Developer’s Note: Because this is a hotfix change, the changes will not show correctly while hovering over the minions in the shop, on the hero select screen, or when hovering over the Buddy Meter. This will be corrected in a future update.
Hero Changes
Elementium Squirrel Bomb (Millificent Manastorm’s Buddy)
- Old: [Tavern Tier 3] → New: [Tavern Tier 4
Minion Changes
Tarecgosa
- Old: [Tavern Tier 3] → New: [Tavern Tier 4]
Drakonid Enforcer
- Old: [Tavern Tier 4] 3 Attack, 6 Health → New: [Tavern Tier 3] 2 Attack, 4 Health
Duels Updates
- All Together Now was moved from Treasure Pool 1 to Treasure Pool 2.
- Battle Totem, Disks of Legend, and Totem of the Dead were are all moved from Treasure Pool 2 to Treasure Pool 2 Ultra Rare.
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
- Fixed a bug where your opponent playing a Choose One card while holding a Pathmaker would cause a floating card to remain on your screen.
- Fixed a bug where Arfus would sometimes summon Reborn minions, instead of the properly resurrected 1 Health minions, when combined with Khadgar.
- Fixed a bug where certain Buddies’ on-play voicelines would not play in certain circumstances.
- Made progress on a bug where players were locked out of the Mercenaries Training Grounds. While a permanent solution is planned for Patch 22.4, restarting Hearthstone should now allow you to access the Training Grounds again if you were locked out.
- Fixed a bug where Duels achievements were not properly tracking runs.
- Fixed a bug where Duels Health totals did not match the Health totals intended for run progress.
Anyone else not able to play duels right now? I left runs unfinished on two servers and I’m allowed to resume (why?) but then the game does nothing.
EDIT: Tested all servers, it’s exclusive DLC for Asia.
I’m a bit confused what the change is to Millificent’s Buddy. What does the Tavern Tier matter for a minion that is not purchasable? In fact, it seems like a buff since if it survives you will hit the opponent for one more damage than before. Honest question, just looking for clarification. Thanks!
The buddy-meter takes the tavern tier of the buddy in to account. This means that tavern 4 buddies will progress slower on the meter compared to tavern 3 buddies (of course with tavern 2 buddies being even faster).
So this nerf is basically a delay to the buddy-meter for Millificent.
Moreover, with TT4, it is not as likely that you’ll get your 2nd and 3rd copy of the Squirrel Bomb (before you die, that is). Golden Squirrel Bomb was the nuts in the right build.
That’s correct! One tier higher usually means 1-2 more turns to get the buddy, depending on the exact situation of course. T4 buddies are the “slowest” and usually come online only around Turn 7-8. And that also – obviously – delays the Golden buddy. Golden T4 buddies are really, really late.
It will keep the Millificent late game comps revolving around Golden Bomb come online some time later, so opponents will have more time to react and build their own big boards or possibly try to counter it a bit.
Ah, I see! Thank you very much for your answer.