Update: Most of those issues got fixed in a patch today.
Patch 25.2 was released yesterday, and just like always, a bigger update like that comes with a bunch of bugs and issues. Blizzard has already made a post acknowledging some of the more popular ones – so if you encounter any of them, you don’t need to report them again since they’re already (hopefully) working on them.
The biggest issue is some cards having different stats/effects than they’re supposed to. The most shared example would be Magister's Apprentice swapping from 3/2 to 2/3, but another would be Sunfury Clergy having Rush. It’s probably more cards like that, but hopefully they will get fixed soon. I wonder what happened here, maybe those cards were changed pre-release and an earlier version of them “leaked” or something?
Another issue is with the new Omen skin for Demon Hunter is bugged and blocks upgraded Hero Power. Normally it’s not a problem, but if you play Odd Demon Hunter in Wild, stay away from it for now.
We also have a bunch of Battlegrounds issues – since it’s a big BG update, there’s no wonder that some of the things don’t work as intended. Some of Heroes (Scabbs, Tess, Tamsin, Illidan) got temporarily disabled because of unintended interactions. Murozond was also temporarily removed from the minion pool.
Oh, and the achievement for Arfus in Mercenaries was added, but the card is not in the game yet – it will be added later. Would be pretty exciting if not for the fact that the mode is… let’s just say not the most popular one.
Check out a full list of bugs below. I’ll update it once new ones are added:
Patch 25.2 is now available, bringing with it the new Battlegrounds Season 3! We’ll be using this post to track issues that pop up during the 25.2 patch period.
The issues we’re tracking this patch include:
- Hearthstone: Magister’s Apprentice had its stats unintentionally swapped. The team is tracking reports of other cards having unintended adjustments as well.
- Hearthstone: The new Omen Demon Hunter hero skin unintentionally blocks getting an upgraded Hero Power.
- Battlegrounds: Minions that Baltharak (one of the Mecha-Demons generated by Mecha-Jaraxxus) Magnetizes to lose Reborn when the minion gets tripled.
- [Resolved 1/17] Battlegrounds: The team is tracking a bug causing server de-syncs (resulting in players seeing different life totals and results from combat).
- [Resolved 1/17] Battlegrounds: Sin’dorei Straight Shot’s effect is not removing Taunt like it should, only Reborn.
- Mercenaries/Achievements: There is a Mercenaries achievement for Arfus, but Arfus will not be added to the game until a future patch.
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- Battlegrounds: We have temporarily removed the following Heroes from the Hero Pool while we address a couple unintended interactions: Scabbs Cutterbutter, Tess Greymane, Tamsin Roame, and Illidan Stormrage. We have also temporarily removed Murozond from the Minion Pool at this time.
