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Big Patch 22.0 Hotfix - Refunds for Vanndar/Drek'Thar, Korrak Dust Refunds Back, Collect AV Legendaries Achievement, And More!
I meant the end of quest chain, not the end of event.
But technically if you pick the losing faction, you get Diamond version of the opposing leader on January 11 too.
Behind the Scenes of Hearthstone's Free Your Mind, a Hack-A-Thon Tradition + Cute "Nimbus" Card Back
From what I’ve heard, they can either continue regular work OR attend the event, and they get normal pay if they pick the event. But most of the devs pick the event because it’s apparently more fun, they can do whatever they want there as long as it’s HS-related.
Of course I haven’t been there myself and I don’t know how it looks like in person, but it sounded like a positive thing overall.
Behind the Scenes of Hearthstone's Free Your Mind, a Hack-A-Thon Tradition + Cute "Nimbus" Card Back
Wait, what about the event sounds toxic? I’ve been talking with some devs who were attending it and they loved it.
Patch 22.0 Known Issues Update & Hotfix - Mercenaries XP Gain Fixed, Korrak Not Giving Full Dust Refund
It’s a known issue, and that’s the only thing I know. I didn’t see any updates about it, sadly.
And yes, you can pull them from packs. The faction leader you picked has duplicate protection because you already have it in Golden, but the other one can be unpacked.
But I 100% agree with your last point. Thie achievements shouldn’t only tell you that you’re missing a card or two, but you should be able to see WHICH cards you’re missing. I hope it’s something they implement in the future.
Patch 22.0 Known Issues Update & Hotfix - Mercenaries XP Gain Fixed, Korrak Not Giving Full Dust Refund
Same thing for me. Vanndar was the first Legendary I opened from the new expansion ๐ I wish they changed their stance about it.
(OUT NOW!) Fractured in Alterac Valley Launch Guide - Release Time, Freebies, New Mechanics, New Decks, Honor Event
Yep, they’ve been adding more sets to Duels every expansion and it hasn’t been “rotating”.
I wonder what their plans for Duels are… We’re still stuck with the same Heroes over a year later (well, plus Diablo), and the constantly expanding pool of available expansions is slowly turning it into Wild.
I think that they planned to support it a lot better, rotate Heroes every expansion etc. but the mode just turned out to not be popular enough for that to happen.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Theorycrafts Round-Up - New Decks To Try On Day 1
Just posted 3 DH theorycrafts.
New Features Iksar (And Community) Would Like In Hearthstone - Guilds, 2v2 Mode, Card Market, Player Profiles, In-Game Deck Tracker, Battlegrounds Brawls And More
This issue isn’t on the list most likely because it was already addressed a few weeks ago. We don’t know what it will be yet, but devs have confirmed that they have plans for something to do with Coins after you max out a Merc.
I hope that it will come out in the next major Mercenaries update.
New Features Iksar (And Community) Would Like In Hearthstone - Guilds, 2v2 Mode, Card Market, Player Profiles, In-Game Deck Tracker, Battlegrounds Brawls And More
I think that’s a known issue and they’re already working on a fix. I would expect it in one of the upcoming patches.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Theorycrafts Round-Up - New Decks To Try On Day 1
They already commited to nerfing Questlines if they prevent new strategies from being playable, and I hope that they keep their word.
I honestly didn’t even hate the Stormwind meta, Questline Warlock was the most fun I had in Hearthstone in a while. I have always loved slower Warlock decks – Handlock, Reno Warlock, Cube Warlock are some of my favorite builds in the history of HS. But I can definitely see how some people didn’t have fun with the game lately and I don’t mind it getting nerfed to open more space for other strategies.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Theorycrafts Round-Up - New Decks To Try On Day 1
Tbf the “Freeze” part is mostly a meme, because every single card Shaman got this expansion is a Freeze card. Most of them aren’t actually “Freeze Shaman” decks, just other decks with some of the new cards added.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Theorycrafts Round-Up - New Decks To Try On Day 1
We’ll have them before expansion’s launch, just wanted to post a compilation now and then add the missing classes later.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Druid Theorycrafts โ New Druid Deck Ideas
I did try to theorycrafts something like that, but then I realized that Celestial Alignment is just better for those Combo decks. Not only you have two copies (so it’s more reliable), but it takes like 1-2 turns after Celestial to set up your combo, unlike Guff, where it would take you much longer to required mana.
Some people were already running Mr. Smite combo in Anacondra Druid and I think that’s the way to go. But those strategies didn’t really get new cards – maybe Pathmaker for Nourish, but I’m still not sold on that one.
Celestalon's Twitter Q&A #1 Summary - Questlines in Alterac Valley, New Evergreen Keyword, Design Teams & Focus, and more!
We can go even further back, with Medivh playing Medivh and Khadgar playing Khadgar ๐ But yeah, I get what you mean, however the difference is that that others are only cosmetic Hero portraits, while Illidan is the basic Hero for Demon Hunter class. They can’t realistically do that for every Hero portrait because they would have to exclude A LOT of iconic characters, but they can do that for base Heroes (like we don’t have an Anduin card or a Malfurion card). And cosmetics are probably considered “non-canon”, unlike the base Heroes and cards – to not look far, the new Mecha skins.
(Update: LIVE NOW!) Battle for Alterac Valley Event (Honor System) Will Go Live Today, Ahead of Expansion's Launch
Four seasons even, since the event is supposed to end with the 1st expansion of 2022 (probably early April).
If I remember correctly, people calculated that it will be about 3 games per day on average to get there. But it looks like Alliance players will have it a bit easier, since (from my experience so far) Horde is much more common, so you don’t get nearly as many bonus points for beating players from opposing faction.
Fractured in Alterac Valley Rewards Track Refresh + Alliance vs Horde Honor Event Details
I’m sure that you can craft them, but I don’t know about packs. I would assume that you can get them in packs too, honestly. (Non-Golden versions, that is.)
Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks - Stormwind (+Deadmines) Week 17 - November 2021
I didn’t look at the stats closely, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all. The deck has up to ~30% popularity at certain ranks (high Diamond), when something gets so common, people start playing decks that have a good matchup against it, or add some techs to improve win rate.
But I think that it’s still a very good deck, one of the best in the game.
Kobold Taskmaster
Well, they’re 1 mana I’m afraid. It would be really busted if they were 0 ๐
Fractured in Alterac Valley Expansion Card List & Guide! Release Date, Reveals, Pre-Purchase Info, New Mechanics and More!
I’m really sorry about that, could you please send a screenshot? The problem is that ads are targeted depending on your region and so on, and it doesn’t happen to me or the devs. If you show us which ads are problematic we’ll try to get rid of them in favor of less intrusive ones.
Yep, mini-set cards are added to the packs so if you own all the expansion cards by the time mini-set drops, you’re guaranteed to get them.