Patch 29.0.3, launching in the present day, consists of the next stability modifications to Commonplace and Battlegrounds.
Hearthstone Updates
Dev Remark: We hope you’re having fun with Whizbang’s Workshop to this point! We’ve seen you experimenting with plenty of new playing cards and archetypes throughout most courses—and discovering a couple of outliers. This patch is generally to weaken these outliers and to supply a pair higher-confidence buffs based mostly on early information.
The next playing cards have been adjusted to be weaker:
Tigress Plushy
- Outdated: [3 Mana]
- New: [4 Mana]
Deputization Aura
- Outdated: Your left-most minion has +3 Assault and Lifesteal. Lasts 3 turns.
- New: Your left-most minion has +1 Assault and Lifesteal. Lasts 3 turns.
Shroomscavate
- Outdated: [3 Mana] Give a minion Windfury and Divine Protect. Excavate a Treasure.
- New: [2 Mana] Give a minion Divine Protect. Excavate a Treasure.
Dev Remark: Paladin is the most important energy outlier since launch, with plenty of harm from hand and therapeutic. We like the general play sample of the deck, however we’re making these changes to tone down these two overperforming elements of it.
Awakening Tremors
- Outdated: Get three 4/1 Worms. They price (1).
- New: Get three 3/1 Worms. They price (1).
Dev Remark: Hunter is one other class that has overperformed within the early meta. Awakening Tremors is a card that has been performed in virtually all Hunter decks for a while now, and which might make for some actually early snowballs. Shaving a bit of energy from it ought to assist hold different decks from falling too far behind as early as turns 1-2.
Thrall’s Present
- Outdated: Uncover a brief Lightning Bolt, Hex, or Bloodlust.
- New: Uncover a brief Lightning Storm, Hex, or Bloodlust.
Dev Remark: Nature Shaman is primarily a sentiment outlier, with entry to quite a lot of harm very early within the sport. Nevertheless, it’s additionally anticipated to get a greater matchup unfold after the opposite modifications being made on this patch. This alteration removes a few of that burst harm and redundancy within the deck. We expect Lightning Storm is one other good and flavorful choice for Thrall’s Present, weakening this particular deck, however providing choices to different Shaman decks that weren’t there earlier than.
Aftershocks
- Outdated: [4 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
Odyn, Prime Designate
- Outdated: [8 Mana]
- New: [9 Mana]
Dev Remark: Warrior is one other class that’s trying very sturdy within the early meta, and which is more likely to get even stronger after the opposite modifications on this patch. Aftershocks mixed with Acolyte of Ache to let Warrior draw too shortly by way of its deck for its highly effective late-game playing cards. We’re making these modifications to make that endgame a bit of slower and fewer constant.
Zilliax Deluxe 3000 (Ticking Module)
- Outdated: [4 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
Dev Remark: The reception to Zilliax Deluxe 3000 has been nearly… perfection. We love all of the completely different variations persons are making an attempt, however Ticking Module was proving to be a bit too environment friendly. We hope this transformation will convey this Zilliax extra into line with total energy stage and likewise encourage extra continued Zilliax selection.
The above craftable playing cards will likely be eligible for a full mud refund for 2 weeks following Patch 29.0.3.
The next playing cards have been adjusted to be stronger:
Dev Remark: We don’t often make buffs this early in a meta, however this time we had been in a position to see a pair buff targets even within the very early information. We’ll keep watch over these modifications and look out for extra alternatives in our subsequent stability window, once we’ll have extra information to tell these kind of modifications.
Sky Mom Aviana
- Outdated: [6 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
Frost Lich Cross-Sew
- Outdated: [5 Mana] Deal 4 harm to a personality. If it dies, summon a 3/6 Water Elemental that Freezes.
- New: [4 Mana] Deal 3 harm to a personality. If it dies, summon a 3/6 Water Elemental that Freezes.
Battlegrounds Updates
Quest and Quest Reward Updates
The next Quests have been made simpler to finish, however can now not be paired with low-requirement Quest Rewards:
- Observe the Cash
- Strain the Authorities
- Dev Remark: These modifications ought to scale back the frequency of Quest-Reward pairs that really feel too simple or too troublesome to finish.
The next Quests have been faraway from the Quest Pool:
- Exhume the Bones
- Kind it All Out
- Dev Remark: These Quests had too many conditions the place they had been both very troublesome or trivially simple based mostly in your early board, moderately than the Reward they had been paired with. Eradicating these two from the Quest Pool will make Quest-Reward pairings smoother and extra constant throughout video games.
The next Quest Rewards have been made simpler to earn:
- Splitting Scroll
- Present of the Golden Kobold
- Temporal Tampering
- Anima Bribe
- Cooked Guide
- Wondrous Wisdomball
- Growth Squad
- Bloodsoaked Tome
The next Quest Rewards have been made more durable to earn:
- Sinfall Medallion
- Steady Amalgamation
- Tumbling Catastrophe
- Turbulent Tombs
- Gilnean Conflict Horn
The next Quest Rewards have had their results up to date:
Sinfall Medallion
- Outdated: After you play a minion, give 2 different pleasant minions of its Tier +2/+2.
- New: After you play a minion, give 2 different pleasant minions of its Tier +4/+4.
Minion Updates
Moroes, Steward of Demise
- Outdated: 5/1. Reborn. Deathrattle: Give your Undead +1/+5.
- New: 5/2. Reborn. Deathrattle: Give your Undead +2/+5.
Felboar
- Outdated: [Tier 6] 3/8
- New: [Tier 5] 2/6
Tichondrius
- Outdated: 4/4. After your hero takes harm, give your different Demons +1/+1.
- New: 3/3. After your hero takes harm, give your Demons +1/+1.
Dwelling Azerite
- Outdated: [Tier 4] 4/4
- New: [Tier 3] 3/3
Wildfire Elemental
- Outdated: [Tier 3] 6/3
- New: [Tier 4] 8/4
Bream Counter
- Outdated: 5/5. Whereas that is in your hand, after you play a Murloc, acquire +3/+3.
- New: 6/6. Whereas that is in your hand, after you play a Murloc, acquire +2/+2.
Bug Fixes and Recreation Enhancements
- [Hearthstone] Mounted a bug the place Shudderblock couldn’t deal harm to the enemy hero if performed after which its impact was not consumed.
- [Hearthstone] Mounted a bug the place Warsong Wrangler may buff the King Krush hero pores and skin. You’ll be able to’t wrangle the King!
- [Hearthstone] Mounted a bug the place there have been completely different variations of Air Elemental in Core and Journey to Un’Goro. Now, each variations may have 3 Assault.
- [Battlegrounds] Cloning Conch will stay faraway from the Tavern Spell pool with this patch.
- [Battlegrounds] Mounted a bug the place Turbulent Tombs, Gilnean Conflict Horn, Secret Offender, and Ghastly Masks had the flawed completion issue modifiers (generally making them too simple to finish, generally making them too exhausting to finish).
- [Battlegrounds] Mounted a bug the place Free-Flying Feathermane’s impact may set off through the Recruit part.
- [Progression] Mounted a bug the place the “destroy Jepetto Joymancer” situation didn’t progress the Toymaker’s Hassle Occasion Quest.
- [General] Mounted varied localization points throughout languages.