The Hearthstone patch that brings us nerfs to Small-Time Buccaneer and Spirit Claws is live! Along with the nerfs, Arena is being changed to the Standard format, card rarity distribution is being altered, spell cards are being increased, Neutral cards will show up less frequently, and Golden cards will now be available. Season 36 (March 2017) of the ladder will also have rank floors added at ranks 15, 10, and 5, which means you will not de-rank once you hit each of these milestones.
Year of the Mammoth Login Rewards
Once Year of the Mammoth goes live, you will be rewarded for logging in each day! Check out the rewards below.
- Day 1: 50 Gold
- Day 2: 1 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Pack
- Day 3: 100 Arcane Dust
- Day 4: 1 Whispers of the Old Gods Pack
- Day 5: 1 Journey to Un’Goro Pack
- Day 6: 50 Gold
- Day 7: 1 Journey to Un’Goro Pack
- Day 8 – Day 14: 50 Gold
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Pre-Purchase Journey to Un’Goro
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Patch Notes for Update 7.1.0
The expedition begins soon! This latest update blazes a trail for the Journey to Un’Goro, Hearthstone’s latest Expansion as well as the arrival of the Year of the Mammoth and a new Standard format. This update also includes adjustments to Ranked play, Arena updates, balance changes to Small Time Buccaneer and Spirit Claws, some visual improvements and optimizations, and several bug fixes.
Whew! That’s a lot to cover, so read on for details!
- This update begins preparations for the Year of the Mammoth celebration that kicks off at the end of March.
- Pre-purchase for Journey to Un’Goro, Hearthstone’s latest expansion, is now available! You can pre-purchase 50 card packs and get the Fossil card back for $49.99 USD.
- Ranked Play
- Upon achieving certain milestones in Ranked Play, it will no longer be possible to lose ranks beyond those milestones for that season. The milestones are Rank 20, 15, 10, 5, and Legend.
- Arena
- Creating decks for the Arena will now feature Standard cards only. Arena runs that were started prior to the patch will still include Wild cards.
- Rares, Epics, and Legendaries will be offered more frequently during Arena deckbuilding.
- Spells will now show up with a higher frequency.
- Neutral Basic / Classic cards will appear less often.
- If you own a Golden version of a card, the first copy you draft will be Golden. If you own multiple Golden copies of a card, all copies you draft will be Golden.
- Balance Updates
- Small-time Buccaneer’s health reduced from 2 to 1.
- The mana cost of Spirit Claws increased from 1 to 2.
- General
- Added some memory optimizations.
- Improved matchmaking for new players.
- We are testing an update to the account creation process for mobile players. This will minimize the overhead associated with creating a new Battle.net account, and will be available in limited release.
- Maximum in-game music volume has been capped in order to retain the best audio quality.
- [Android] We made some optimizations to Android distribution, allowing for a smaller install size and smoother patching in the future.
- Bug Fixes
- Resolved inconsistencies in the way that Small Time Buccaneer’s Attack interacts with effects such as those generated by Humility, Keeper of Uldaman, and Crazed Alchemist.
- Resolved an issue where a Kazakus potion spell cards could appear blank when copied by a minion or spell effect.
- Knuckles will now correctly use its effect when under the effects of Misdirection.
- Addressed an issue with the interaction of Wrath’s card draw timing in conjunction with Daring Reporter.
- Snipe will now correctly trigger after Potion of Polymorph.
- Djinni of Zephyrs will now correctly copy spells buffed by spell damage.
- Bouncing Blade will now correctly continue bouncing after clearing a Divine Shield.
- Resolved an issue where seasonal reward cards could take a while to show up in the Collection Manager.
- Searching the Collection Manager with a class name will now correctly display Tri-Class cards.
- Resolved issues that could slow or stop payment authentication when using the in-game Shop.
- Fixed many minor visual issues and some card text inconsistencies.
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Do you know if the “Year of the Mammoth” starts right away in April or when Journey to Un’Goro is released?
It starts when Journey to Un’Goro is released.
Alright, thanks!
The Dust thing were if i have golden cards i get more dust happens when ? just so i craft a golden ragnaros get the dust then uncraft him 😀
That happens when the new expansion is released, so early April at some point.
well you craft him which is 3200 dust
then you get 3200 dust, back at 0 profit 0 loss
then you salvage, profit 1600
now when you don’t have golden rag but have normal one you get 1600 dust
profit stays the same. Craft it golden if you have the dust and want fancy cards, else just save the trouble and cash in dust
Its already out for mobile (at least for iPhone, just finished my update). I’m in Sweden if it matters.
Are you sure that 1 of the rewards Its a WOTG pack? I mean its is the only one that comes out of nowhere like carrot, potato and elefant
That’s what was data-mined, but we’ll see what happens.
Any idea when this update is coming for mobile??
Sorry, not sure when it’s going up on Mobile.
The update is live from what I’ve seen. I have the option to update it right now!