Patch 21.6, while not as bugged as 21.4, still had its fair share of issues. Some of them already got resolved yesterday and it looks like another hotfix is getting pushed out right now.
First and most importantly – Diablo got buffed in Battlegrounds. The base stats of Lord of Terror have been increased from 3/3 to 5/5 – that’s a pretty big deal and it will make him more powerful all throughout the game (remember that the Lord of Terror stats double every 4 turns, so every time there’s a Diablo fight).
Other than that, “Farwell and Good Night” Quest from the Hallow’s End Legendary chain got fixed, we’ve got a bunch of Mercenaries fixes to tasks and equipment. The issue that caused players to get an error when ending Duels run also got fixed, but now some players are stuck and they can’t enter the game mode at all. They’re working on resolving the last one and unblocking those poor souls.
Read more below:
11/4 Update: We’re in the process of deploying a hotfix that includes the following changes:
- Fixed the issue involving the Farewell and Good Night Quest mentioned above.
- [Battlegrounds] Updated Diablo’s Lord of Terror minion base stats from 3/3 → 5/5.
- [Mercenaries] Fixed the issue where players could become stuck on certain Vol’jin task levels mentioned above. Impacted players will be compensated with 100 Vol’jin coins in the coming days, and Vol’jin will be reenabled as a village visitor.
- [Mercenaries] Fixed an issue where Equipment Level 2 for Cookie’s Cooking wasn’t working as intended.
- [Mercenaries] Fixed an issue where the level 30 achievement for Mr. Smite and Captain Eudora were attributed to the wrong characters (Garrosh and Varian).
- [Mercenaries] Fixed an issue where the main campaign task chain would not progress or could be delayed in progressing.
- [Duels] Fixed an issue that could cause an error when ending a Duels run. Update: We’re aware that a small number of players are receiving an error message and being blocked from entering Duels. We’re investigating the source of this and are working to get these people unblocked as soon as possible.
In times like this, we’re used to having bugs everytime a huge patch comes in. But this time, might be more than the usual, especially in Mercs which luckily I didn’t play anymore.
These things is not okay, even with the effort of fast hotfixes.
Some unique bugs even make me burst out laughing when someone could exploit gaining repeated thousands of Tavern Tickets, and the fix was to deduct the gold directly.
Well, they could play a lifetime Arena for free now. Thats equal to 80000 packs!!
https://twitter.com/geyuan6_hs/status/1456192955035762692
The point is, I know it’s bad enough that Mercs has been delayed over and over again, but if the mode still crawling with bugs, that’s no excuse to release the game whatsoever.
And the aftereffect is even more devastating, when the miniset also infected because they don’t have enough time with one month left before next expansion. All I’m saying is, if the mode not ready, don’t release it. There’s only greed like, “We need all the money, sell them now, we can fix it later”.