Patch 15.6 just went live (we might still need to wait up to few hours before mobile launch). Most important feature is – of course – early access of Hearthstone Battlegrounds. It was given out to owners of BlizzCon Ticket (including virtual), as well as players who pre-purchased the expansion. You will also be able to earn it through Twitch Drops by watching your favorite streamers.
To celebrate the official Open Beta launch (a week from now), we’ll get extra Legendary Quests:
November 12, 10:00 AM PT: Battlemaster – Play two games of Battlegrounds to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
November 13, 10:00 AM PT: Into the Fray – Play three games in any mode (including Battlegrounds) to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
November 14, 10:00 AM PT: A Worthy Opponent – Play two games in Play mode (Standard, Wild, or Casual) to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
Yep, that’s nine free packs in total between those Quests, including three Descent of Dragons packs!
Besides that, Sathrovarr has just launched. BlizzCon ticket holders are getting a Golden version, while every other player will get a regular version. Either way, you can already start building new decks that include it!
When it comes to other changes – we’ve seen so updates to Quests (less popular ones were removed, some others were made easier to finish, a few new daily quests were added). To celebrate Warcraft’s 25th anniversary, players logging in between November 13 and 27 will earn some Warcraft-themed rewards (they should be announced soon). New card backs were added to the game. Smart deck builder was made even smarter. A new streamer mode was added to the game, which censors your Battletag, as well as your opponent’s Battletag (so streamers no longer have to hide it if they don’t want to get sniped/ghosted). We’ve also got some more bug fixes.
Just like always, you can read the entire patch notes in the official blog post below!
Hearthstone’s newest expansion, Descent of Dragons, launches on December 10! Read on to find out what changes were just added to the game.
Descent of Dragons Mega Bundle – Get 100 Descent of Dragons card packs, the Deathwing Warrior Hero, The Shattering card back, a golden Legendary card from Descent of Dragons, and early access to Hearthstone: Battlegrounds.
Descent of Dragons Bundle – Get 50 Descent of Dragons card packs, The Shattering card back, a golden Legendary card from Descent of Dragons, and early access to Hearthstone Battlegrounds.
Hearthstone: Battlegrounds is a brand-new auto-battling game mode that introduces a fresh, strategic, 8-player experience to Hearthstone. In Battlegrounds, you’ll take on the role of a familiar Hero straight out of Hearthstone history, craft a powerful board of recruited Minions, and face-off in an action-packed series of duels until a single winner is crowned!
Battlegrounds is now live with today’s update for a week of Early Access for players who have acquired the Descent of Dragons pre-purchase bundle, the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, or BlizzCon Attendees. After this early access phase ends at 10 a.m. on November 12, we’ll enter Open Beta where everyone will be able to hop into Bob’s Tavern to try their hand at being the best of the Battleground Heroes!
Battlegrounds System Requirements: Due to the nature of an 8-player match with tons of attacks, effects, and animations triggering at the same time, Hearthstone: Battlegrounds is currently only supported on mobile devices with more than 2 GB of RAM. This means that some older devices may not be able to run Battlegrounds. As we progress out of Beta, we will be optimizing the experience so that players with older devices can participate in this new game mode.
To celebrate the launch of the new Hearthstone: Battlegrounds game mode, we’re introducing a new set of Legendary* quests with some awesome rewards! The quests will be initially available on the following dates, but anyone who logs in between now and the launch of Descent of Dragons will have access to these quests.
November 12, 10:00 AM PT: Battlemaster – Play two games of Battlegrounds to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
November 13, 10:00 AM PT:: Into the Fray – Play three games in any mode (including Battlegrounds) to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
November 14, 10:00 AM PT: A Worthy Opponent – Play two games in Play mode (Standard, Wild, or Casual) to earn a Descent of Dragons, Saviors of Uldum, and Rise of Shadows card pack
*Important Note: Legendary Quests will automatically replace an existing quest if your quest log is full, so be sure to have an empty spot on these days!
BlizzCon Rewards
BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders will be granted a Golden version of the Neutral Legendary Descent of Dragons card Sathrovarr and the Blizzard Events 2019 card back.
A normal non-disenchantable version of Sathrovarr will also be granted to players who log into Hearthstone after this update goes live and through the Descent of Dragons expansion.
Daily Quest Changes
We’ve cut some of the less popular daily quests (such as quest requiring you to play Divine Shield Minions, Overload Cards, Secrets, 50 Murlocs, etc) and tuned down some quest requirements to make quests generally easier to complete.
Daily quests have also been split into two buckets: Easy (50g) and Slightly More Difficult (60g). Rerolling a Slightly More Difficult (60g) quest (like Play 10 Beasts) will always give you an Easy (50g) quest, so you can get Easy quest every day if you’d like.
We’ve also added some new daily quests that we’re excited for you to discover!
Warcraft Anniversary Event
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise, players who log into Hearthstone any time between November 13 10:00 AM PT and November 27 10:00 AM PT will receive awesome Warcraft themed rewards. Stay tuned for more details soon!
The following Card Backs have been added to the game:
Cake of the Dead: Acquired by winning 5 games in ranked mode, November 2019.
Blizzard Events 2019: Acquired by participating in Blizzard events during 2019.
The Shattering: Acquired by pre-purchasing Descent of Dragons.
Hellfire Peninsula: Acquired by winning 5 games in ranked mode, December 2019.
Cake of the DeadBlizzard Events: 2019The ShatteringHellfire Peninsula
Smart Deck Builder
The smart deck builder now considers historical data rather than the just the current meta, though the current meta has a higher priority. For example, putting [[Lakarri Sacrifice]] into an unfinished deck will most likely lead the autocompleter to create to a quest discard warlock instead of an existing meta Warlock deck, such as zoo Warlock.
Streamer Mode
We’ve added the ability to censor your Battletag (and your opponent’s Battletag) both in matches and at the top of your friends list. This new feature can be enabled by holding Ctrl + Shift + S (or Command + Shift + S on MACs).
As mentioned in our “Behind the Tavern Doors” blog, we’ve added alternate search terms for some hard-to-type cards such as E.M.P. Operative, Dyn-o-matic, Zephrys the Great, and SN1P-SN4P. We’ve also added a few common misspellings and simplified versions of leetspeak card names (found on some Mech minions). For example, searching “snip” or “snap” will now show you SN1P-SN4P. We will continue to add terms as needed for future cards with difficult names.
The quest lines for new Hearthstone players has been updated to create a better experience with significantly more rewards.
Quest cards will now display the Quest Reward when selected in the Collection Manager.
New card icons will now be cleared after viewing the page with the new card shown. You will no longer need to click or hover over the card.
A Hearthstone player and writer from Poland, Stonekeep has been in a love-hate relationship with Hearthstone since Closed Beta. Over that time, he has achieved many high Legend climbs and infinite Arena runs. He's the current admin of Hearthstone Top Decks.
On my tablet, its always laggy for a day or two after the patch deploys but then it clears up. I usually limit myself to brawls and causal matches for those days so I don’t get upset if I toss a game. 😉
Soo … they seemed to manage that Android issue. But now, deck lists are busted? There are some serious problems when you have a golden and a nongolden copy of a card in your list – the golden one is locked, but shown as missing in the list.
Seems to be a problem on all plattforms (Android and Windows PC confirmed by myself; iOS confirmed by a friend of mine).
I must say this is … disappointing to say the least.
The latest patch seems to be buggy as hell. They’ve been adding lots of features this year, but at the same time introduced even more bugs :/ Last night I didn’t get my daily quest – now I’ve got it, but I can’t reroll them. I get Disconnected commonly and then I have troubles logging back in. Like you’ve mentioned, most of my decks are unplayable and I need to remake them. I hope that it all gets fixed soon.
>> …is currently only supported on mobile devices with more than 2 GB of RAM. This means
>> that some older devices may not be able to run Battlegrounds. As we progress out of Beta,
>> we will be optimizing the experience so that players with older devices can participate in this
>> new game mode.
Oh poo. I’ll have to check my tablet; it’s my primary HS device and old enough that it might not meet that. Hopefully “progress[ing] out of Beta” doesn’t mean the same thing here that it does for TFT…
Teamfight Tactics, the League Of Legends autobattler. It’s been in “beta” since June with no sign of when said beta will end. Fortnight, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Slay the Spire, and Ark: Survival Evolved all did similar: for all practical purposes, they release an functional-but-unfinished game and then just continuously patch and balance for months and sometimes years until they feel like its done. If that’s your preferred method to develop your product that’s fine; it’s just not what “beta” has historically meant for video games.
I can’t even play on my phone it’s so laggy after the patch downloaded
On my tablet, its always laggy for a day or two after the patch deploys but then it clears up. I usually limit myself to brawls and causal matches for those days so I don’t get upset if I toss a game. 😉
When is thuis live for IOS?
Soo … they seemed to manage that Android issue. But now, deck lists are busted? There are some serious problems when you have a golden and a nongolden copy of a card in your list – the golden one is locked, but shown as missing in the list.
Seems to be a problem on all plattforms (Android and Windows PC confirmed by myself; iOS confirmed by a friend of mine).
I must say this is … disappointing to say the least.
The latest patch seems to be buggy as hell. They’ve been adding lots of features this year, but at the same time introduced even more bugs :/ Last night I didn’t get my daily quest – now I’ve got it, but I can’t reroll them. I get Disconnected commonly and then I have troubles logging back in. Like you’ve mentioned, most of my decks are unplayable and I need to remake them. I hope that it all gets fixed soon.
At least Battlegrounds are fun 🙂
>> …is currently only supported on mobile devices with more than 2 GB of RAM. This means
>> that some older devices may not be able to run Battlegrounds. As we progress out of Beta,
>> we will be optimizing the experience so that players with older devices can participate in this
>> new game mode.
Oh poo. I’ll have to check my tablet; it’s my primary HS device and old enough that it might not meet that. Hopefully “progress[ing] out of Beta” doesn’t mean the same thing here that it does for TFT…
And what does it mean for TFT? I’m not up to date with that game.
Teamfight Tactics, the League Of Legends autobattler. It’s been in “beta” since June with no sign of when said beta will end. Fortnight, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Slay the Spire, and Ark: Survival Evolved all did similar: for all practical purposes, they release an functional-but-unfinished game and then just continuously patch and balance for months and sometimes years until they feel like its done. If that’s your preferred method to develop your product that’s fine; it’s just not what “beta” has historically meant for video games.
Did they say anything about the android bugs? I don’t see anything in the announcement or am I overlooking something?
They did not, but for me the patch isn’t even out yet on Android :p
When the patch will be for smartphone players?
If I get the pre-order bundle now will I get access to the Battlegrounds beta or has that ship sailed?
You will still get it 🙂