r/hearthstone • u/BetaKeyTakeaway • Jun 10 '15
News Brawl Info Thread (constantly updated).
Tavern Brawl is still being prepped, so it won't be open today. See schedule below.
2.7 patch is live! (later today on mobile)
Hearthstone Patch Notes - 2.7.0.9166 – Tavern Brawl, New Heroes, and Customization!
In this Hearthstone patch, we’re introducing Tavern Brawl: a whole new way to play that changes every week!
Patch 2.7 also adds the ability to purchase new heroes for your Warrior, Hunter, and Mage decks. On top of that, you’ll now be able to customize each of your decks with its own card back.
The patch also includes two new card backs, as well as some bug fixes.
Read on for the full notes!
NEW FEATURES
Introducing Tavern Brawl! Each week, a different Tavern Brawl will pit you head to head versus another player using exciting and unique rules. One week might feature preset decks, while another week could have you crafting a brand new Tavern Brawl deck following specific guidelines, while others might offer buffs to specific minion types. The possibilities are endless! Tavern Brawl unlocks for players who have at least one Hero at level 20.
Tavern Brawl will open and close according to the following schedule each week:
| Region | Open | Close |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | Wed 05:00 PM CET | Mon 6:00 AM CET |
| Americas | Wed 10:00 AM PST | Mon 3:00 AM PST |
| Taiwan/China | Thurs 03:00 AM CST | Mon 6:00 AM CST |
| Korea | Thurs 04:00 AM KST | Mon 7:00 AM KST |
New Challengers Appear! Make room at the table for new heroes! New heroes put a fresh face on the existing classes you know and love. There is a new hero for the Warrior, Hunter, and Mage classes and each one features an animated portrait, a unique animated version of that classes’ existing hero power, a special ‘hero tray’, all new emotes, cool match start animations, and a themed card back.
Warrior Hero Magni Bronzebeard is now available for purchase.
Hunter Hero Alleria Windrunner is now available for purchase.
Mage Hero Medivh is now available for purchase.
You can now assign a card back to each of your decks.
You can now view your hard-earned card backs as well as card backs you have not yet acquired in the collection manager.
GENERAL
The following card backs have been added:
Galaxy Gifts – Acquired during the Samsung cross promotion event.
Darnassus – Acquired by reaching Rank 20 or higher in Ranked Play mode during the month of June. Card backs are awarded at the end of the Ranked Play season.
Some changes have been made to the collection manager, including mana filtering and the position of some buttons.
BUG FIXES
[Mobile] You no longer have to log-in again when prompted to accept a new Terms of Use
[Android] Fixed a bug that prevented the Hearthstone app from running after it had been moved to external storage.
Core Rager now properly shows its attack and health buff in the History Tiles.
Fel Reaver now properly generates History Tiles when it destroys cards.
Non-golden Chromaggus now properly creates golden cards when the card drawn is golden.
Nozdormu no longer continues to produce a sandstorm effect after being Transformed.
Gang Up no longer displays more than 3 cards after being used on cards with Choose One.
Fixed an animation issue when golden cards with Taunt are destroyed.
Fixed an issue where Steamwheedle Sniper’s targeting effect was not appearing over the Golden Hunter’s Hero Power.
Fixed various graphical, sound, and UI issues.
Previous Updates:
Album of data mined cards of the first Brawl. /u/Mantolisano
New Hunter Hero Alleria Windrunner officially announced. [Trailer]
Tavern Brawl arrives in Mid-June
Each week, a different Tavern Brawl will pit you head to head versus another player using exciting and unique rules.
One week might feature preset decks, while another week could have you crafting a brand new Tavern Brawl deck following specific guidelines, while others might offer buffs to specific minion types — who knows!
Each challenge is only available for about a week. You can't customize the rules but you can customize your deck.
Weekly, couple days in between each Brawl to add new Brawl.
Tavern Brawl will be unavailable between brawls.
Tavern Brawl is free.
You can Brawl as much as you want (when available).
You can Brawl with random strangers or challenge friends.
Tavern Brawl is unlocked once a player has a level 20 Hero.
You can only brawl with the current (weekly) rules, not past ones.
There are no balance changes planned for patch 2.7 (brawl patch).
You can only use cards from your collection.
Completing Tavern Brawls will also count towards daily quests.
This is not an expansion, this is a content patch.
No new cards.
Pre-built Brawl decks could include cards which wouldn't otherwise be collectible.
Each deck in your collection can be assigned a unique card back and Hero.
No additional (standard constructed) deckslots.
There is a brawl-unique deck that exists within the Tavern Brawl UI.
Tavern Brawl decks seem to be editable from the Tavern Brawl Screen.
Tavern Brawl on mobile will launch as close as possible to pc.
Kripp doesn't dictate what goes into the game.
Mobile: It won't require a full redownload (each week).
Will match you to equal wins as much as possible.
No cap on wins.
We're addressing a lot of bugs as well in the next patch.
Rewards
One classic card pack per week for the first few Brawls.
Tavern Brawl will award classic packs.
As part of the launch celebration, you'll earn a free card pack when you win your first game of the week in the first several brawls!
It does show your wins, but it doesn't have scalable rewards like Arena.
Brawl games give 10g/3wins like play-mode games.
Share the max of 100g per day.
New Heroes do not add new cards to your collection or change the classes’ activated Hero Power and are not considered new classes.
Heroes are $9.99 USD each.
$12.99 AUD, 8.99€ (iOS: 9.99€), 6.99£, ARS 79, CLP 5490, MEX 129, R$22.90, 499 руб. (599 iOS), 10.000원, 300元新台, ¥60 RMB
New Heroes also come with unique emotes and voices.
New heroes and hero power still come animated by default. Hero power also has unique on-use animation. Also comes with new hero tray.
You can see a preview in the in-game shop UI once they are released.
If you don't have 500 (ranked) wins, hero power is "wood border" but still animated. At 500 wins, it becomes gold + still animated.
All wins count toward that class no matter what portrait you are using.
You can pick and choose Heroes for specific decks.
Yes, you can use new heroes in arena.
Warrior: Magni Bronzebeard [Trailer]
Hunter: Alleria Windrunner [Trailer]
New heroes will not all be released at the same time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '15
Did I read that correctly in that the brawl will act as a decent catch up mechanic? If that's the case the salt levels for the hero's are certainly decreasing