Good news everyone! Blizzard has faced a lot of backlash after the new Mage skin – Scholar Jaina – sold in the bundle released alongside Book of Heroes adventure didn’t have any unique voice lines. It was unprecedented, since before then every purchasable Hero skin had new emotes. Because players got upset (understandably so), Team 5 has decided to add new voice lines to those Hero skins. They will be added in a future patch (no date was given yet).
Additionally, upcoming hero skins associated with Book of Heroes solo adventures won’t start with unique voice lines, but they will also be added in the future. After all, they need to record those first.
You can read the full statement below:
We wanted to update everyone regarding our new hero skins, particularly Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther. We are planning to add unique voice lines, start of game voice lines, and a couple other special voice lines to both Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther in a future patch. We’ve taken feedback on board regarding emotes for those and upcoming hero skins. The next skin, which will be released shortly, has new emotes for all 6 regular board interactions and a few other commonly played lines as well. There will be hero skins in the next expansions associated with their corresponding Book of Heroes chapters that will not have unique lines at launch, but we plan to add them as soon as VO recording allows. Stay tuned for updates here.
Adding context as to how we got here: We started out with the idea of adding skins for our classic heroes that allowed us to get more options for visual customization into the hands of our players at a much quicker than normal pace. We’re confident in the idea behind these skins and they’re already seeing a lot of use within the game. However, we missed here on painting a clear picture of the difference between these skins and the alternate heroes we’ve done in the past, that include all sorts of unique audio and visual effects. That’s something we should have gotten across better and want to ensure that we address in the future.
What future patch? When?
I didnt buy the Jaina bundle because of the missing voice lines.
Now I cant get it anymore. Good job Blizz.
Back to Legends of Runterra.
Works for me! I already have the Jaina skin, and the animated HP alone is worth it.
Fair enough for me. Probably means I’ll get the Uther bundle now.
So they can’t make things on 100 percent right on launch. They will make changes after fans of the game are protesting, but till that everything is fine. Pathetic.
This !
100% agree.