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New Hearthstone Mini-Set Announced - Throne of Tides - Launching June 1
Yep, he was just revealed!
Hearthstone Patch 23.2.2 Notes - Nerfs to Drek'thar, Multi-Strike, Dragonbane Shot + 17 Cards Buffed, Battlegrounds Balance Changes
Yeah, those unnerfs were kind of funny, but it makes sense I think. SI:7 Smuggler was never a really problematic card, it was just “bug fixed” because the initial effect didn’t match how the card was supposed to work. And Wildpaw Gnoll was obnoxious, but that was last rotation, with things like Secret Passage in Standard. The card might be just fine right now (of course we’ll need some time to find it out, but Thief Rogue can be a quite interesting deck if balanced correctly).
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming on Thursday (May 19) With Standard And Battlegrounds Nerfs And Buffs
I think it’s only a balance patch so there should be no new bugs since no new content is added.
Wait for 23.4 (mini-set patch) for the bugs 🙂
Celestalon Teasing Upcoming QoL Features
Not sure what you mean, you can still use the random one.
From Galvadon to the Juggernaut: How Quests Changed Over the Years
Sorry, didn’t close the card tag when linking Open the Waygate so a part of the text was gone. Fixed it!
Warcraft Mobile Game Will Be Revealed Next Tuesday (May 3)
Yeah, timing with Ben Lee would make sense, but my point was that I don’t think they would need designers as early as 2 years before they started hiring someone to create the game’s world. Because what would they actually even design for 2 whole years?
But you might be right, we’ll probably find out soon enough.
Warcraft Mobile Game Will Be Revealed Next Tuesday (May 3)
I’m not so sure. They only revealed that they’re hiring for world building and design for the survival game project like 3 months ago, and first Hearthstone devs left over 2 years ago.
Plus Ben Lee left after the survival game was already revealed and he still said that he leaves for an unannounced project (but I could KIND OF see still calling it an unannounced project).
Balance Changes Announced - Standard & Wild Nerfs - Releasing Next Tuesday (April 26)
Kazakusan nerf is a big deal for Druid. They don’t run any other Dragons than Onyxia so they would need to slot at least three more (and realistically four to play around stuff like Mutanus hitting one of them). And you often need Kazakusan in Control matchups because they might be able to answer your Giants/Ivus/Onyxia and then you’re left with nothing. So you either cut Kazakusan and make your Control matchups much worse or add a few Dragons and make all of the matchups slightly worse.
Miracle Growth to 8 is actually also quite a big deal, it often delays it by 1 turn or means that you can’t play Growth + Earthen Scales on the same turn. People usually underestimate the impact of 1 mana nerfs.
But yes, Kazakusan should still be playable. It’s possibly even a buff in Dragon decks that run a couple of non-Dragon minions. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t dust it, since you can always re-craft it later 🙂
(Shop Update) Battlegrounds Heroes - Champions of Shadows Returns At A Reduced Price ($9.99)
Those were some of the first bundles, I think they sold them at too high of a price (since they didn’t come with Bartenders nor other cosmetics like the new finishers) so they didn’t sell too well.
Voyage to the Sunken City Launch Guide - Release Time, Freebies, New Mechanics, New Decks
Time zones are difficult, thank you for letting me know! 😀
(Live Now) "Crab Rave" Coming Later Today With Pre-Order Bundle Giveaways & Twitch Drops
I’ve watched for the first 30 minutes and there were three of them.
Later I’ve seen them asking “show us how much you like Bob, we’ll pick one winner and give them a code” or something like that. Maybe they switched from just posting codes to those “mini-giveaways”, I’m not sure.
Iksar's Twitter Q&A #41 Summary - Shifting Classic to "Rotating Format", Wild-Only Set, Upgrading Cards to Golden, Tradeable in Core Set and more!
$5 feels like the right price for me, since we’re talking about a Legendary most of the players have the Golden version of anyway. So it’s not like we’re getting a new Legendary card + COSMETIC, it’s just the cosmetic part.
Even if they would price it at $10 I would say that it’s too expensive… but $25? It does feel like a joke indeed.
Sunken City Theorycrafting Streams Are Live Now With Two Free Packs From Twitch Drops + Pre-Release Weekend
Nah, you will be able to dust the Golden copy just fine. Only regular Faelin and Diamond Finley aren’t dustable since they’re from rewards track.
They’re just giving FULL dust refunds for disenchanting them within 24h from the expansion’s release for people who open them in packs during pre-release.
All Changes To The Hearthstone Core Set 2022 - 57 Cards Rotate Out, 72 Cards Rotate In
Core Set cards are all “rented” to the players for free. They are given out for the time they are in Core Set. So if you only play Standard you don’t have to worry, you will be able to play all of them until they rotate out again.
All Changes To The Hearthstone Core Set 2022 - 57 Cards Rotate Out, 72 Cards Rotate In
Sorry, Shaman’s banner didn’t show up for whatever reason even though I pasted it into the post. I fixed it now. But the changes were all listed already before 🙂
(August Reward Now Available) 4 Free Hearthstone Legendary Cards + Multiple Standard Packs Available Through Prime Gaming
Interesting, I thought that it’s a month all around. 7 days will still get you 2 rewards guaranteed if you time it right, but I think you could snatch 3 with a whole month.
22.6.1.1.1.1 Patch Notes
Yeah, they made a good decision but decided to bail out last minute… Pretty sad if you ask me.
Raid Leaders, the First Battlegrounds: Lobby Legends is This Weekend!
Yeah, I mentioned it in the post:
“Sadly there’s no info about Twitch / YouTube drops, so it would be safe to assume that there won’t be any.”
Almost hitting a certain rank and then going on a losing streak is the worst. I had a similar situation with Top 100 last season. Got to like #105, most likely one win away from Top 100, and then fell down all the way to 800. Feels really bad.