Hearthstone Dev Tracker

Patch 30.2.1 is a server-side patch rolling out now with the following updates:

Battlegrounds Updates

Trinket Changes

The following Lesser Trinkets now cost more:

Automaton Portrait

• Old: 5, New: 7

Shaker Portrait

• Old: 6, New: 7

Quilligraphy Set:

• Old: 4, New: 6

Enforcer Portrait:

• Old: 6, New: 7

Rewinder Portrait:

• Old: 4, New: 6

Yogg-Tastic Pastry

• Old: 5, New: 6

Lucky Tabby

• Old: 2, New: 3

Eternal Portrait

• Old: 4, New: 6

The following Lesser Trinkets now cost less:

Bob-blehead

• Old: 2, New: 1

Ship in a Bottle

• Old: 4, New: 1

Souvenir Stand

• Old: 4, New: 3

Rockin’ Music Box

• Old: 4, New: 1

Primor...

30.2 is now live, with Battlegrounds Season 8: Trinkets & Travels! We hope you find
the perfect knick-knacks to remember your stay here.

Here are some bugs we’re tracking with this patch:

• [Resolved] [Progression] All players who were unable to claim their free Golden Pack from the shop should now received their pack.

• [Resolved] [Arena] Arena has been temporarily shut down as we work on resolving a bug with card generation pools. Arena is now open again (you may need to logout and log back in to get access).

• [Resolved] [Battlegrounds] The team is working on a bug fix to an issue where all players can sometimes have a turn skipped and their Trinket for the turn auto-selected.

• [Battlegrounds] When tripling an “All” type minion with Elemental of Surprise, the Golden version loses its “All” type and becomes just an elemental.

• [Battlegrounds] Colorful compass can offer a ...

The following is being posted on behalf of Mitchell Loewen, Lead Designer on the Battlegrounds team.

Greetings everyone!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s Battlegrounds preview event, and that you’ll check out Trinkets when they launch tomorrow!

One of the core concepts of Battlegrounds design is to keep the game accessible to everyone, but full of depth for our super-engaged players. To that end, Season 8’s Trinkets were designed so that they “just work” without extra homework. If you want to learn the basics, check out our Battlegrounds Season 8 Announcement blog, or just hop into a game!

Hey all,

Since our last update, we’ve actioned over 90,000 additional accounts for botting. As we previously shared, we introduced system changes in Patch 29.6 to combat bots and other exploitive gameplay patterns on a scheduled, proactive basis. We’re happy to report that since that update we’ve seen a trend of fewer and fewer unauthorized bots in Hearthstone.

With these developments , we’ll be stepping back from monthly bot-ban update posts. We’ll still be watching the botting problem and maintaining ...