Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - July 15, 2024
Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting.
Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.
Vacation’s more fun when you party with friends! We’re approaching our destination and everyone’s preparing for arrival. Join in the festivities with special community events and, for the first time ever, creator-made deck ideas directly in the deckbuilder. See the 30.0 Patch Notes for even more updates coming soon!
Join your favorite content creators for a preview of paradise as they theorycraft the upcoming expansion. Invited players will be streaming their participation on their own personal streams, so make sure you’re following your favorite Hearthstone creators and tune in when they go live!
Marin’s about to cut the ribbon for the grand opening of his new resort, where a new Rewards Track awaits! When the Rewards Track refreshes with the Perils in Paradise launch, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on the current free Rewards Track and the Tavern Pass track (if purchased), before a completely new Perils in Paradise Rewards Track takes its place.
The free Rewards Track for Perils in Paradise will include packs from Perils in Paradise, a random Epic card, two random Legendary cards, Tavern Tickets, a new card back, and lots of Gold! There are also 14 Golden cards, along with the Gorgonzormu Legendary card from the set!* For finishing the Reward Track, you get to choose one of 21 Hero Skin options.
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Patch 30.0 launches tomorrow and sets sail for Perils in Paradise, coming to Hearthstone on July 23!
Perils in Paradise, Hearthstone’s next expansion, touches down on July 23. The new 145-card expansion includes the new Tourist keyword, tasty Drinks, re-opening Locations, and more! See all the new cards in the official Card Library today. This is your last chance to book your Pre-Purchase bundle, only available until the expansion goes live next week, so don’t miss out!
... Read moreGet an in-depth look at the Spiritborn, a class entirely new to the Diablo series, during a special livestream on July 18 at 11 a.m. PDT!
Join community director Adam Fletcher, game director Brent Gibson, associate narrative designer Eleni Rivera-Colon, art director Nick Chilano, and game designer Bjorn Mikkelson, as they reveal details about the Spiritborn’s story, art, design, gameplay, and more. There will also be a Q&A segment at the end of the stream for players to field their questions directly to the team.
Visit our official Diablo Twitch, ...
Read moreWe will be retiring Guild Services currently available in the in-game shop as of July 22, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Services that will be retired include Guild Realm Transfers and Guild Faction Transfers. After July 22, 2024, these services will no longer be available. The Guild Name Change service will continue to be available.
Catch up on the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week in This Week in WoW!
Big changes arrive with the introduction of Warbands, Skyriding, class and system updates, and more with the pre-expansion content update.
Take part in a new event, Radiant Echoes, and begin your first steps into the continuing story that will take you into the unexplored depths of Azeroth. The War Within g...
Read moreWith the launch of The War Within™ pre-expansion content update arriving on July 23, we will be disabling the Paid Character Transfer (PCT) service for transfers between Battle.net® accounts.
This service will still be available to use between realms and between World of Warcraft® accounts within a single Battle.net account. Please be aware that transfers between Battle.net accounts will not be available after the pre-expansion update has gone live. Any transfer tokens that you have saved to use on a transfer between Battle.net...
Read moreExpand the potential of all your World of Warcraft® characters with account-wide progression across your Battle.net® account, regardless of faction—including shared Renown, a Warband bank, Achievements, Collections, and more!
Upon first logging into World of Warcraft, the Warband conversion process automatically enables many of the game's progression systems to be account-wide. Players will not need to log into each character individually for all progression, items, etc., to convert; however, there may be a short wait for the system to completely process your Warband the first time you log in. The Warband conversion process can take up to 20 minutes or longer, and depending on the amount of data being processed, there could be a login queue.
The new Warbands system is effective for all characters on a player's Battle.net account and the items, Collections, an...
Read moreLevel to 60, discover new class runes, enter the Molten Core raid dungeon to face Ragnaros, and more in the latest phase.
Join Associate Production Director Clayton Stone, Lead Software Engineer Nora Valletta, and Senior Producer Josh Greenfield as they take you through more details of Season of Discovery Phase 4.
We’re leveling up Season of Discovery Phase 4 with a variety of leveling changes, new rune discoveries, class adjustments, professions and reputations updates, dungeon updates, PvP Class Sets, updated events, raid content, world bosses, and more.
Expand your collection of mounts and pets with some owlsome friends—the Charming Courier Mount and the Swoopy owl pet—in the skies and on the ground. Your adventures will owlways be a hoot.
Add the Charming Courier owl mount (with Skyriding!) to your multitude of mounts, spread your wings, and swiftly swoop into the skies! Purchase a ...
Read moreAn exciting update for Overwatch 2 has arrived and with it brings new skins, new rewards, and fan-favorite ways to play. Roll out with unique cosmetics in a heroic collaboration with the TRANSFORMERS and forge your legend with the inaugural Mythic Weapon skin added to the Mythic Shop. Then break out the sunscreen as you hit the beach with the 2024 Summer Games event and all new Lifeguard themed skins to collect. Finally, get ready to choose new passives to power-up in a Quick Play Hacked event.
Calling all TRANSFORMERS fans, you’re needed in the Overwatch 2 universe for our newest collab event! Join the epic battle between the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS with Reinhardt as Optimus Prime, Ramattra as Megatron, Bastion as Bumblebee, and Illari as Arcee. Each hero bundle comes packed with additional TRANSFORMERS cosmetic effects including highlight intros, victory poses, player icons, and name cards. You can also unlock the entire colle...
Read moreCatch up on the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week in This Week in WoW!
The Great Push has returned for its second-ever full season in the final season of Dragonflight! Each weekend, six of the world’s top dungeoneers will have five hours to push the assigned dungeons as high as possible.
TGP pits the top players in the world against one another to test their limits and set records by pushing Mythic+ keystones as h...
Read moreThe denizens of Azeroth are clamoring to the Spiral Isles by zeppelin, ship, or dragon, for the launch of Perils in Paradise. How will you beat the crowds?! Luckily, we have a surprise for you: tickets on Yogg Air, the fastest airline in Azeroth. On this flight, you’ll experience Anomalies that speed up your games so the wait for the expansion launch flies by.
Anomalies return to Standard and Wild this week, bringing us the following in-flight entertainment:
After several younglings are lost attempting their om’gora rites, Thrall begins questioning the value of the trials. The new generation places such emphasis on martial strength and battle prowess that they would risk death attempting the rites before they are ready. Walking through Orgrimmar with his family, Thrall reflects on his son’s readiness for the trials, his own coming of age, and how to prepare this new generation to build on the legacy he and his friends started long ago.
Read moreThe young orc moved like a shadow through the palm fronds.
The edge of the Northern Barrens was a beautiful place: countless trees heavy with fruit, the sound of songbirds calling above. The young orc had heard stories of how the night elf druid Naralex and others restored this once-arid land to the stunning glory that now lay before him. And yet there was great danger here, for all that rampant green majesty. There were scars upon the land if one knew ...
The Great Push has returned for its second-ever full season in the final season of Dragonflight! Each weekend, six of the world’s top dungeoneers will have five hours to push the assigned dungeons as high as possible.
The Great Push (TGP) is a spinoff of the Mythic Dungeon International (MDI), the premiere Mythic+ speedrunning competition in World of Warcraft. The Great Push pits the top players in the world against one another to test their limits and set records by pushing Mythic+ keystones as high as possible over the span of several weekends. All the action will be streamed live on the Warcraft Twitch and ...
Read moreHey everyone! It's been a bit since our last Director's Take. We’ve missed a few of these in recent months. Sorry for the gap, speaking to all of you will continue to be a priority for the team.
Let's talk about tanks. Let me rephrase that… a lot of you are talking about tanks, I'd like to contribute from a developer point of view.
We've heard from players that the tank role is in a tough spot right now and has been since Season 8 ended. We agree. That's not to say that tanks were in a perfect spot before Season 9, but the problem now is that most of them just don't feel as 'tanky' as they should. Many times, both Support heroes need to focus solely on the tank just to keep them alive. In this scenario both the Tank and Supports can feel like they have limited options in their gameplay, as they are essentially tied to each other.
Our internal stats show this as well. We've come up with a new metric since Season 9 that we simply call "tankiness." It's roughl...
Read moreCatch up on all the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week!
Season of Discovery Phase 4 is arriving July 11 and will launch worldwide at 1:00 pm PDT. Players will be able to level to 60, discover new class runes, enter the Molten Core raid dungeon to face Ragnaros, and more.
Join Associate Production Director Clayton Stone, Lead Software Engineer Nora Valletta, and Senior Producer Josh Greenfield as they take you through more details of Season of Discovery Phase 4.
The raw power of Ragnaros’ summoning is causing an upheaval in Blackrock Mountain. Players can experience more of the story behind this upheaval and take part in the recurring event and the associated quests while this event is ...
Read moreLet the tides of summer carry you away this month. Take Trishi the baby naga pet with you everywhere you go. She’ll help keep an eye out for you on all your adventures!
Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.
Patch 29.6.2, launching today, brings balance changes and more!
Dev Comment: This is a smaller patch, designed to prepare for the launch of Perils in Paradise by weakening a few cards that are warping the meta in a way that could stifle new expansion development. As a note, we want to let that early post-expansion meta develop a bit before we step in, so our next major balance pass is scheduled for slightly later than the last few (about two weeks after expansion launch instead of about 10 days).
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