The expansion that prepares Hearthstone for the arrival of Rastakhan’s Rumble is now live!
Rastakhan’s Rumble is nigh! This Hearthstone update makes the final preparations and readies the Tavern for the arrival of Hearthstone’s newest expansion starting December 4! We’re also adding a Fireside Gatherings Pre-release event for Rastakhan’s Rumble, stocking up on Winter Veil decorations, and fixing some bugs.
Read on for details!
Rastakhan’s Rumble Approaches!Rastakhan’s Rumble, is a knock-down, drag-out, no-holds-barred expansion for Hearthstone featuring 135 new cards, starting December 4!
Get ready to rumble with:
- Legendary Champions and Loa minions for all nine classes!
- Enhance their powers with new Rare quality Spirit minion cards!
- New keyword: Overkill! Do extra damage for powerful bonuses!
- Rastakhan’s Rumble free single player content, Rumble Run, opens December 13.
For a limited time after Rastakhan’s Rumble begins on December 4, log in to claim 6 Rastakhan’s Rumble card packs, as well as a random Legendary Loa minion and 2 copies of the Spirit card for the same Class—FREE!
Rastakhan’s Rumble Pre-ReleaseAttend a special Pre-Release Fireside Gathering between November 30 at 10:00 am PST through December 3 at 10:00 am PST to open your Rastakhan’s Rumble card packs and Tavern Brawl with the new cards EARLY before the official release date! Find one at www.FiresideGatherings.com
Choose One Minions
When choosing a minion to Transform into, these cards now show the minions the card can become. Affected cards include: Shellshifter, Druid of the Claw, Druid of the Flame, Druid of the Saber, Druid of the Scythe, and Druid of the Swarm.
Rank 20 FloorPlayers that achieve Rank 15 or higher during their Hearthstone career can no longer fall below Rank 20. This should ensure better matches for rank 20 to rank 25 players.
Winter Veil!
Be sure to visit the Tavern starting December 18 to cozy up by the fire for a nice round of Hearthstone!
Added the following card backs:
Winter Veil Treat Chillin’ Acquired from Winter Veil 2018. Acquired from winning five games in Ranked Play, January 2019. Pizza Stone Rumble Runner Acquired from winning five games in Ranked Play, February 2019. Acquired from successfully completing a Rumble Run. Game Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Game Mechanics Update – Different damage redirection effects can chain with each other, but each one will only occur once. Re-directed damage is applied before modifiers (e.g. Cursed Blade) and will only damage the final target once.
- Added a black and purple sparkle effect to indicate when cards and powers that normally provide healing will do damage instead (such as when affected by Auchenai Soulpriest).
- The Rogue Quest card, Crystal Core, now applies to minions in your deck, rather than applying after they are drawn.
- Enchantment tiles now use a square border like history tiles.
- Deathrattles that move a card to hand or deck will no longer sometimes prevent its other Deathrattle effects from triggering.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent Augmented Elekk from activating.
- Tracking will no longer sometimes make a card invisible when your hand is full.
- Resolved various minor UI and visual issues.
- Resolved several interaction issues in single-player content. Set watermarks will no longer appear on non-collectible cards.
- New Player Experience
- An Undo button is now available after disenchanting a Wild card when in New Player Ranks.
- When at Legend in both Standard and Wild, if the Wild rank is higher, it will once again be shown on the Quest Log and Friends List.
What is Legendary LOA?
One of the 2 Legendaries per class.
In tis case the Loa is the animal refered to the Champion.
Quest Roque: What about the cards in your hand? Do they get the buff?
Yes they are still buffed. The only thing this update changes is what happens when someone steals a card from your deck (be it death grip, switching decks with togwaggle, etc.). Before they would get the unbuffed minions, now, afaik, they would get 4/4s
“The Rogue Quest card, Crystal Core, now applies to minions in your deck, rather than applying after they are drawn.”
did they nerf rogue quest?
Looks like the biggest Quest Rogue nerf to date to me… no immediate effect from finishing quest and nothing that says the effect is ongoing, so it looks like additional minions that are shuffled into your deck might not get the buff either.
This will likely kill Quest Rogue as a competitive deck in Wild.
No. This is just a change of interaction; previously, minions in your deck would be at their base stats up until you drew them, and then the Crystal Core buff would go into effect. So you would draw Glacial Shard as a 2/1 and it would gain the buff in your hand. This just means it will already be a 4/4 before it’s drawn. I believe this may mean switching decks with Togwaggle may retain the 4/4 enchantment as well but that will require testing.
Is the rank 15 requirement retroactive to previous months or do we need to reach it at least once going forward?
It says during career so I would guess it is retroactive
I was rank 12 in wild and I got reset to rank 16. So it must be from the beginning of this season.