Patch Notes 27.6

 

What Are the Odds?	Only Tavern Tiers 1, 3, and 5 exist. Triple rewards Discover a minion of your Tier.
How to Even??	Only Tavern Tiers 2, 4, and 6 exist. Triple rewards Discover a minion of your Tier.
Deep Blue Sooner	At the start of your turn, get 2 temporary ‘Deep Blues’. They give a minion more stats each time
Treasure Hoard	On Turn 5, Discover a Golden Tier 3 minion. Dev comment: Like the “Oops All” Anomaly, there are multiple versions of this one.
Treasure Hoard	On Turn 6, Discover a Golden Tier 4 minion.
Treasure Hoard	On Turn 7, Discover a Golden Tier 5 minion.
Treasure Hoard	On Turn 8, Discover a Golden Tier 6 minion.
Valuation Inflation	Tavern Tier 1 does not exist. Minions cost gold equal to their Tavern Tier.
No Place Like Holmes	Each turn, look at 2 minions. Guess which one your next opponent had last combat for a Coin.
No Face, No Case	Every 4 turns, Get a ‘Faceless Manipulator’ that copies a minion of your choice. Faceless Manipulator: [Tier 1] 3/3. Battlecry: Choose a minion and become a copy of it.
Eleventh Hour	The first time your hero takes fatal damage, prevent it and gain 11 Gold next turn instead.
Feline Fortune	After another hero dies, Discover a minion from their warband. It keeps enchantments.

 

Additionally, the “Transient Treasures” Anomaly has been renamed to “Anomalous Evidence” (no functional changes).

 

New Minions

Observer of Myths (Tier 3)

• 1/4. After you summon a minion with more attack than this, give all friendly minions +1 Attack.

Diremuck Forager (Tier 3, Murloc)

• 4/3. Start of Combat: Give a Murloc in your hand +2/+2, then summon it for this combat only.

Heedless Hoarder (Tier 4, Murloc)

• 5/6. When you sell this, give a friendly Murloc this minion’s stats.

Slitherspear, Lord of Gains (Tier 5, Naga)

• 3/5. At the end of your turn, give your other Naga +1/+1 for each different spell you’ve cast this turn.

Sprightly Scarab (Tier 4, Beast)

• 5/2. Choose One – Give a Beast +1/+1 and Reborn; or +4/+4 and Taunt.

Hawkstrider Herald (Tier 5, Beast)

• 5/2. Start of Combat: Trigger all friendly Deathrattles.

Audacious Anchor (Tier 4, Pirate)

• 3/13. Start of Combat: Battle the nearest enemy minion to death!

Rapscallion Recruiter (Tier 5, Pirate)

• 9/3. Deathrattle: Summon 3 Scallywags.

Admiral Eliza Goreblade (Tier 6, Pirate)

• 6/7. Whenever a friendly Pirate attacks, give your minions +2/+1.
• Dev Comment: She’s alive!

Motley Phalanx (Tier 6, All)

• 7/7. Taunt. Deathrattle: Give a friendly minion of each type +7/+7.

Cultist S’thara (Tier 6)

• 11/3. Stealth. Deathrattle: Summon your first Demon that died this combat. It keeps enchantments.

Minion Pool Updates

• The following minions have been removed from the minion pool: Saltscale Honcho, Witchwing Nestmatron, Vanessa VanCleef, Reanimating Rattler, Critter Wrangler, Nightmare Amalgam, Palescale Crocolisk, Coldlight Seer, Mechano-Tank, Felstomper, and The Boogie Monster.
• The following minions have been returned to the minion pool: Tavern Tipper, Felfin Navigator, Kangor’s Apprentice, Goldrinn the Great Wolf, Tea Master Theotar, and Mecha-Jaraxxus.

Minion Updates

Kangor’s Apprentice

• Old: Deathrattle: Summon the first 2 friendly Mechs that died this combat.
• New: Deathrattle: Summon your first 2 Mechs that died this combat.
• Dev Comment: This is a text-only update.

Bassgill

• Old: [Tier 4] 6/2
• New: [Tier 5] 8/3

Goldrinn, the Great Wolf

• Old: 4/4. Deathrattle: Give your Beasts +5/+5.
• New: 3/3. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, your Beasts have +3/+3.

 

Arena Updates

When Patch 27.6 goes live, all current Arena runs will end and Hallow’s End will come to the Arena! Dual-class Arena is back, this time with the spooky new addition of Death Knight into the mix. Dual-class Arena will last until Patch 28.0. The eligible card sets during this period will be:

• Core
• Path of Arthas
• Rise of Shadows
• Darkmoon Faire
• Forged in the Barrens
• Festival of Legends
• TITANS

 

In-Game Event: Hallow’s End

There’s a new cowboy in town—the Headless Horseman! From October 17-November 2, you can complete holiday-themed Event Quests to earn Event XP on the special event rewards track. Complete the rewards track to earn two Standard packs, two TITANS packs, a Festival of Legends pack, a Lich King themed Dancin’ Deryl Battlegrounds skin, and a Pirate themed Illidan Demon Hunter skin!

Community Day and More!

Starting today, get into the spirit of the season with a treat of one free pack per week from the in-game shop, for a limited time. Check back often so you don’t miss any!

Then, this weekend, October 21-22, we’ll be hosting a special Community Day to celebrate the announcement of Showdown in the Badlands, prepare for the upcoming Twist season, and get hyped for BlizzCon! By participating in Community Day, you can rustle up 9 free packs within 24 hours! From October 21, 9:00 a.m. (PT) to October 22, 8:59 a.m. (PT), earn five drops, each for watching 45 minutes of any Hearthstone stream.

• First drop: 2 Journey to Un’Goro Packs
• Second drop: 1 Voyage to the Sunken City Pack + 1 Murder at Castle Nathria Pack
• Third drop: 1 March of the Lich King Pack + 1 Festival of Legends Pack
• Fourth drop: 1 TITANS Pack + 1 Showdown in the Badlands Pack
• Fifth drop: 1 Showdown in the Badlands Pack

Tune in to your favorite streamers and join them for this fun celebration of Hearthstone’s community! Make sure you link your Twitch and Battle.net accounts so that your viewing time counts towards drops. Streamers in Hearthstone’s Creator Program have also been given BlizzCon Collection codes they’ll be giving away on their streams to add some giddyup to the celebration!

 

Mass Pack Opening Is Here!

Mass Pack Opening is now here, just in time for Showdown in the Badlands. Now you’ll be able to open up to 40 of the same type of pack at once (or up to 20 at once for Golden Packs)! That means you’ll be able to crack open your Pre-Purchase Bundles, or any other big bundles, with just a few clicks. Yee-haw!

Grab a pack from your stack and hold to pick up multiple packs at once. After you’ve gathered all the packs you want, move over to the pack-opening area and release your stack of packs!

The interface will then show you some highlights from your packs, which you can reveal one by one or all at the same time, and then it will give you a full summary of all the cards opened in that pack stack. All the cards will be in your Collection, like normal, for browsing and deckbuilding once your packs are all open.

 

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [General] The Hearthstone tutorial has been revamped and streamlined.
• [Hearthstone] Cards like Rolling Fireball and The Lurker Below will no longer skip over Dormant minions and Locations. Instead, if there is an illegal target blocking the effect, the effect will end there.
• [Hearthstone] Scarab Lord is an Undead and Corruption is a Shadow spell.
• [Hearthstone] Scarab Lord’s Scarab Gong has had its text updated to “Whenever” instead of “After” to better match how the effect works.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where playing a secret discovered by Void Scripture would cause a disconnect.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Amitus, the Peacekeeper’s “Reinforced” Ability sometimes caused disconnects for the opponent.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Thori’belore did not trigger its Deathrattle when it died from being returned to hand when the hand was full.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Arcanite Ripper would upgrade if the attacker took damage equal to the Armor they had.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed bugs with Jotun, the Eternal’s duplicate effect and Cast When Drawn spells and spells that gain effects when they enter your hand.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Disciple of Eonar’s effect would apply, but not be spent, if a Choose One spell was either randomly cast or Cast When Drawn.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Kologarn’s Deathrattle would return minions that had been stolen and then put into your deck to the opponent.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Zok Fogsnout’s effect text would be inconsistent with a weapon equipped.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where a Rivendare, Warrider victory would result in screen shake even when screen shake was turned off in the menu options.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Temple of Earth (generated by Runi, Time Explorer) used base HP instead of current HP.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Reliquary Seeker triggered off a board that included Locations.
• [Battlegrounds] Shifter Zerus will now carry over enchantments when it transforms in hand (meaning, if it gets buffs while it’s in your hand, they won’t be erased when it transformed).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bugged interaction between Spellcraft and Magnetic.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where a Taunt Magnetic Mech wouldn’t grant Taunt to a minion that previously had its Taunt removed by Iron Groundskeeper.
• [Duels] Fixed a bug where your Win/Loss record did not appear in-game.
• [Solo Content] Fixed a bug where some players had issues accessing Adventures on mobile devices.
• [Progression] Fixed a text issue where the “Trust Fall” Achievement included the wrong card name.
• [Progression] Fixed a bug where the “ALWAYS” Achievement only tracked excess damage directly done to the attacked minion, not counting cleave effects.
• [Progression] Fixed a bug where the Poor Social Distancing Achievement progressed off a Poisonous minion killing the enemy hero, instead of just enemy minions.
• Fixed various visual bugs.
• Misc. other bug fixes and game improvements.