Patch 22.4, which was announced last week, is now out! The most important part of the patch is Onyxia’s Lair mini-set – 35 new cards should make a decent impact on Standard gameplay, and possibly other formats too. The patch is already live on PC, and just like always, mobile release (Android, iOS) should follow within the next few hours, I’ll update this post when it’s live. The patch is now live on all devices. If you don’t see it, try forcing an update manually. Enjoy!
Here’s a quick summary of what’s coming:
- Onyxia’s Lair – Alterac Valley mini-set was just announced. It will contain 35 new cards, card reveals starting later today.
- Diamond Vanndar – All players will get a free Diamond copy of Vanndar Stormpike to commemorate the winners of Honor event.
- New Battlegrounds Heroes & Cosmetics – Battlegrounds is getting three new Heroes – Varden Dawngrasp, Rokara and Onyxia. Kael’thas, Silas and Chenvaala are also added back to the pool after they were temporarily disabled due to a bug. We’re also getting new BG cosmetics – Battlegrounds Finishers. It’s as special animation that its played when you win a round (and an even bigger one when you deal 15+ damage). Also two new Battlegrounds boards will get added to the game.
- Mercenaries Update & Event – We’ve got 5 new Mercenaries, new bounties, but maybe most importantly the first ever Mercenaries event. Players will get a chain of 10 tasks, two new ones will be available each day for the first 5 days of the event. Complete all of them to earn a new Chi-Ji Epic Mercenary, Chi-Ji portrait and over 1000 Coins for the new Mercs.
- Duels Update – It’s a really small update with one Signature Treasure nerf – Infinite Arcane is now 7 mana up from 5.
- Arena Rotation – Arena is finally getting a new rotation. The pool of cards will include: Fractured in Alterac Valley, Onyxia’s Lair, One Night in Karazhan, Blackrock Mountain, Journey to Un’goro, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan and Descent of Dragons.
- Book of Mercenaries: Bru’kan – The next chapter of Book of Mercenaries launches on February 15. It’s the penultimate chapter, so it should nearly wrap the story of Year of the Gryphon.
- Bug Fixes – Just like always, we’re getting a bunch of bug fixes and QoL changes.
Ok, now Blizzard must just be rubbing it in our face. They new set they just released has 66 new cards and it costs 69.99. Really? 3 6’s in a row when you look at it both ways? Man, they really are just trying to shove it in your face to show what they really worship.
Is it intended that Demon Hunter And Rogue did not get a new achievement for their mini-set cards?
Or maybe some bug, most likely fixed in the far future?… 😛
It’s a bug, I’m posting “22.4 known issues” right now! You’re kind of right about the “far future”, although maybe not THAT “far”. They will be added in 22.6, which should drop in a few weeks.
Feels good to actually get the 1st diamond card ever.
But feels bad to actually have to grind for new achievements yet again.
how come losers get to have both vandaar and drekthar but winners get one? winners need to get honor points but losers have both right now?
To be fair, if it was the other way around, the ‘losers’ would have got both too.
So, No matter what you do, you could either finish the honor points until the end of expansion to get Drek’thar for free, or you could craft the non-golden one.
I usually go for the free one.