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Join us November 13 at 10:00 am PST for a special presentation celebrating 30 years of Warcraft and a look ahead at what’s next.

Watch the Warcraft 30^th Anniversary Direct on our official channels:

• Twitch
• YouTube
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The final countdown is about to start as we prepare to blast off into The Great Dark Beyond! Join us for stellar community celebrations, a new type of Tavern Brawl, and more as we chart the unknown.

The Great Dark Beyond Theorycrafting Streams October 24-25

Join your favorite content creators as they take their first steps into The Great Dark Beyond and theorycraft the new expansion. Featured players will be streaming their participation on their own personal streams, so make sure you’re following your favorite creators when they go live!

• NA/LATAM/EMEA players will play on October 24, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (PDT)
• APAC players will play on October 25, 2:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PDT)

All participants need to include at least 10 The Great Dark Beyond cards in their decks (that can be 10 individual cards, 5 duplicates, or anything in between).

Theorycrafters to missio...

Starting next week, on October 29, we’ll be kicking off the Great Dark Beyond Pre-Release Tavern Brawl. This Tavern Brawl will be a place for you to open your pre-purchase packs, try out cards from the new expansion, and earn more new cards to update your decks and try again. We also see this as a way to add value to our pre-purchase bundles without blocking other players from participating in the fun.

This is our first time doing something like this, so I wanted to share a little more about our thought process and open the floor for your feedback.

Eligible Sets and Cards

In the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl, you can build a deck with cards from the following sets: Core Set, Event Set, Whizbang’s Workshop, Perils in Paradise, and The Great Dark Beyond.*

With that card pool, this Tavern Brawl can be like a preview for the upcoming Standard, with a focus on the newest cards rather than just the current Standard meta decks. Doing it this way also keeps th...

Patch 30.6.2 is rolling out today with the following updates: 

Hearthstone Changes

Dev Comment: This round of changes is focusing on preparing for our next expansion: The Great Dark Beyond, launching on November 5 (when Prince Renathal rotates back out of Standard). As we plan for the post-launch meta, our focus is primarily on adjusting harsh play patterns like fast board floods, powerful board wipes, huge life swings, and cards that get end-game cards out too quickly.

Some of these are reversions to prior changes—our balance philosophy remains that we’ll try to make the best changes for the game in each specific patch window and not be afraid to revert changes when they don’t work out or the circumstances are no longer right for them.

Finally, in Wild, we’re changing Radiant Elemental to be consistent with Sorcerer’s Apprentice. This effect is generally very powerful, even by Wild’s standards, and this change is be...

Hi, everyone!

Before we blast off into The Great Dark Beyond, I’m here today to share some information about our next progression adjustments, coming in Patch 31.0. To better understand where we’re going, let’s first go back a bit to see how we got here.

Earlier this year, we made some adjustments to our Weekly Quests. Our initial changes in Patch 29.2 were aimed at rewarding our most committed players while encouraging others to play more. But after the changes went live, they didn’t reward players for their time in-game quite like we had hoped. On the contrary, we saw that some players gave up on those harder quests and played less instead of more. Those who did work to complete the Weekly Quests told us they saw them as a chore.

An important part of design is acknowledging when a change doesn’t work, learning why it doesn’t work, and then adjusting in a different way. So, starting in Patch 31.0, we’re making three changes to our progression syste...