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09 Sep

Patch 30.4, launching tomorrow, includes a special vacation package: The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set, our first-ever Mythic hero skin, and more!

Extend Your Vacation with the Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set

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The Marin’s launch has kicked off a Tourism boom in Hearthstone. Dungar and Zephrys are teaming up to make vacation dreams come true—and they run a tight ship. Get the most out of your trip with more Tourist options, informational Brochure cards, and more!

The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set has 38 all-new cards. Get them in Perils in Paradise packs or as a complete 72-card* Mini-Set. Get the normal version for $14.99 or 2000 Gold, or get the all-Golden version for $69.99 or 10,000 Gold. The all-Golden version comes with a bonus Diamond copy of the Travelmaster Dunga...

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05 Sep

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Patch 30.2.3 is a server-side patch launching today with the following updates:

Battlegrounds Updates

Hero Pool Changes

  • Jandice Barov is no longer banned in Naga lobbies (but she’s still banned in Elemental lobbies).

  • Mr. Bigglesworth is now banned in Duos.

Armor Changes

The following heroes have had their Armor reduced to these new totals:

  • N’Zoth - High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

  • The Great Akazamzarak - High Rank: 7, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 5

The following heroes have had their Armor increased to these new totals:

  • Guff Runetotem - High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 15

Trinket Pool Changes

Some specific typed Trinkets will no longer be offered as pivot options when you’re not in that type. Additionally, the following Trinket...

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04 Sep

Greetings, everyone.

Last month, I committed to being more transparent with you and to proactively share changes we are making with our community, along with context for why we’re making those changes. With that in mind, I’m here to share some details about what we’re working on, starting with something coming right around the corner.

Allow me to introduce the coolest (hottest?) hero skin we’ve ever made: Ragnaros, the Firelord! Ragnaros is our first-ever Mythic skin, pushing the boundaries even further than our Legendary skins. The team went all-out with Ragnaros: his emotive 3D portrait oozes Hearthstone charm; he pops out of the frame and SMASHES your opponents with Sulfuras for his attack animation; he sprawls over your side of the board; he has explosive victory and death screens; and he’s our first-ever dual class Hero Skin, usable in both Shaman and Warrior!

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03 Sep

A lot of planning and coordination goes into perfecting paradise. Tourism is booming after The Marin’s grand opening, with more options than ever before. Now, you can make the most of your next trip with the Perils in Paradise Mini-Set: The Traveling Travel Agency!

The Traveling Travel Agency, launching September 10, consists of 38 new cards: 4 Legendary cards, 1 Epic card, 17 Rare cards, and 16 Common cards. Those cards can either be opened in Perils in Paradise packs or purchased as a completed 72-card set.* Normal versions of the Mini-Set can be purchased for $14.99 USD or 2000 Gold. The all-Golden version of the Mini-Set can be purchased for $69.99 USD or 10,000 Gold, and includes a bonus Diamond Legendary card!

* Includes one copy of each Legendary card and 2 copies of each other card in the Mini-Set.

Meet the Travel Experts

The Traveling Travel Agency flies around Azeroth scouting vacation locations and making dreams come t...

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29 Aug

Patch 30.2.2, launching today, includes balance changes across modes.

Hearthstone Updates

The following cards have been adjusted to be weaker:

Dev Comment: The Standard metagame has a variety of decks that are feeling balanced against one another. Because of that, we’re only changing a couple cards that are leading to unhealthy play patterns that we want to address. Tidepool Pupil is quite strong, and is allowing decks to copy key cards too easily and play them too many times per game. We hope this change doesn’t delete the card from the metagame entirely, but does make it less effective as an enabler for combos and spells that are particularly effective when repeated many times per game. Doomkin isn’t as much a statistical outlier, but is causing more frustration. The card seems to have overstayed its welcome, so we are slowing it down by a turn to decrease its popularity.

Tidepool Pupil

  • Old: [1 Mana] 2/1
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23 Aug

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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...

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21 Aug


20 Aug

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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 ...

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19 Aug

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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!

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17 Aug


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