As the year winds down, we wanted to give you another update on our increased actions against unauthorized bots this year.
Since our last update in October, we’ve banned an additional 114,237 accounts for botting. We’ve now banned over 284,000 total accounts for botting throughout the year. As you can see from those numbers, we’ve been ramping up our efforts throughout the year. We’ll be continuing the fight into the new year, and we have ...
Read morePatch 28.2.3 is a data-only patch going live today with updates to Standard and Battlegrounds. This patch is our last scheduled patch for the year, and our aim is to make the most fun patch we can for the holiday break. We hope you enjoy and we’ll see you in the Tavern—and in the new year!
Dev Comment: The overall goals for this patch are to make buffs across underperforming classes, decks, and cards, especially ones from Showdown in the Badlands, and to weaken a few overperforming decks that are keeping other decks down. Our intent isn’t to kill these decks that players generally like, but to bring them down a little to make more room in the meta.
Paladin has been the biggest overperformer since the last adjustment. We’re targeting its AoE board clears because that’s a mechanic we want Paladin to have access to, but not excel in. There are other potential targets that we looked at...
Read morePatch 28.2.2 is a server-side hotfix patch, rolling out now with the following updates:
Battlegrounds Updates
General Updates
We have adjusted turn times to be slightly shorter in the early game to minimize idle playtime and to be slightly longer in the late game to account for the current metagame. We will keep an eye on these and continue to iterate on them in the future.
Armor Updates
The following heroes now have less Armor:
Lich Baz’hial has 5 Armor.
Snake Eyes and Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher have 6 Armor.
The following heroes now have more Armor:
Infinite Toki now has 13 Armor.
Lord Barov now has 14 Armor at higher ranked lobbies, still has 19 Armor at lower ranked lobbies.
Kurtrus Ashfallen, Deathspeaker Blackthorn, and Vol’jin now have 15 Armor at all ranks.
The final Masters Tour of the year is this weekend! The top point earners from the January through November Ladder rankings join the champions of the Spring, Summer and Fall Masters Tours in a showdown for their share of the $350,000 (USD) prize pool. Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the action, only on Twitch and YouTube.
what is supposed to happen in the case of a tie?
Neither card costs less, therefore nothing should be destroyed.
This is known and will be fixed in an upcoming patch!
Patch 28.2.1 is a data-only patch launching today with the following updates.
Dev Comment: This is our balance patch for Worlds! We specifically requested this early balance window so that we could make changes that we think will make the coolest Worlds possible! Overall, we think the meta is in a good spot, with most classes having something interesting to play and most top decks having play patterns we’re comfortable with. That lets us take a high confidence, step-wise approach with this patch, instead of making risky, drastic changes.
Enrage Warrior was the biggest standout we wanted to adjust down, and we wanted to make Sif Mage a bit more attackable. We’re also taking this opportunity to buff some underperforming archetypes, especially with new cards. Excavate as a whole got a little love with buffs to a Treasure at each rarity, the Neutral Burrow Buster, and a couple low-p...
Read moreAfter a short delay, Patch 28.2 is now live on all devices. Come celebrate Battlegrounds Season 6 in the Spellslinger’s Saloon, a new Shop layout, and more!
The following are some of the known issues we’re tracking this patch:
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