Legend of the Innkeeper : A Hearthstone Podcast for Casual Players

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:

Rank : Silver 10 Standard, Gold 10 Wild

34% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 28%)

Level 121 in Tavern Pass (was 91)

1195 Gold (995), 220 Dust (460)

Vastidious: 

Rank : Bronze 3 Standard (Bronze 3) – Silver 10  (Silver 9) Wild

36% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 36%)

Level 144 in Tavern Pass (was 130)

5205 Gold (4505), 4425 Dust (4425)

News

* Book of Heroes – Malfurion – Druid* Book of Mercenaries – Guff Runetotem – Druid

Storybrook Brawl https://store.steampowered.com/app/1367020/Storybook_Brawl/

Espo Mode 

Send in the Murlocs

Rules:

Murlocs have taken over the tavern! Choose a class and get a deck of random class spells and a whole mess of murlocs!

Rewards:

A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Shaman & Hunter

Top 3

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

Our YouTube channel is www.legendoftheinnkeeper.com/YouTube

You can follow us on Twitter 

LOTI Podcast – @LOTIpodcast.  

Espo – @Xcmtbgamer

You can support the show through Patreon at :  www.patreon.com/Legendoftheinnkeeper

Be sure to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

Until next show, Happy gaming!

Credits:Music by James Marantette – https://soundcloud.com/james-marantette

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:

Rank : Bronze 3 Wild

May Final Rank: Gold 8 Wild

28% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 36%)

Level 91 in Tavern Pass (was 83)

995 Gold, 460 Dust

Vastidious: 

Rank : Bronze 3 Standard (Gold 7) – Silver 9 (Gold 7) Wild

May Final Rank: Gold 6

36% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 44%)

Level 130 in Tavern Pass (was 94)

4505 Gold (2655), 4425 Dust (4015)

News

* Book of Heroes: Frostwolf Thrall * Completion will give you a Shaman pack as a reward, with Shaman-only Standard cards* New Bundle available on the store* New Hero Portrait – Frostwolf Thrall* 5 Shaman-only packs * $9.99* Book of Mercenaries: Xyrella (Priest) live with patch* New Dynamic Bundles* 3 different types of bundles, but the system will only offer you 2 of them and it’s different for everyone. * Bob’s Bargain – 40 Wild Packs, 2 Random Wild Legendary cards, $29.99* Tavern Special – 35 Barrens packs, 2 Random Barrens Legendary cards, $29.99* Bob’s Bargain 2 – 20 Year of the Phoenix packs, 2 Random Year of the Phoenix Legendary cards, $19.99* BlizzCon Update* BlizzCon not happening this year* Will be having a BlizzConline with smaller in-person gatherings* More details in the future* Will take place early next year* Blizzard announced that Battle.net is now global. You can chat with all friends in one list instead of different ones per region.

Espo Mode 

Blood Magic

Rules:

How much are you willing to sacrifice for power? All your spells will cost health instead of mana!

Rewards:

A Year of the Phoenix Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Shaman

Top 3

* Wailing Caverns Mini-Set* Out now* 35 brand new cards* Link to Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwV2yzqEL4

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Next Week: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

Our YouTube channel is www.legendoftheinnkeeper.com/YouTube

You can follow us on Twitter 

LOTI Podcast – @LOTIpodcast.  

Espo – @Xcmtbgamer

You can support the show through Patreon at :  www.patreon.com/Legendoftheinnkeeper

Be sure to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:

Rank : Bronze 2 Standard – Gold 9 Wild

April’s Rank: Platinum 8

36% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 25%)

Level 83 in Tavern Pass (was 70)

195 Gold, 170 Dust

Vastidious: 

Rank : Gold 9 Standard – Bronze 10 Wild

April’s Rank : Platinum 2 Wild

44% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 37%)

Level 94 in Tavern Pass (was 80)

2655 Gold, 4015 Dust

News

* ??? Achievement * Celestalon twitter thread with a background to how this happened https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1390834961725333504* Walkthrough how to solve it https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/11xnahiQkqI2kanXsJNHYtYlTd2btIpRGxjdwnF7i9Ro/mobilebasic#heading=h.muyjyzoezzia* Khadgar Hero Portrait & Pizza Stone card back available in the shop for a limited time.* Hero – $9.99 or 1500 gold* Card Back – $2.99 or 500 gold* New Standard bundle in the shop* $4.99* Once per account* Available through May 24, 2021* Includes 5 Standard packs * 1 Random Standard Legendary* Patch 20.2.2 – Standard Balance Updates  & a couple Battlegrounds updates

Espo Mode 

UnidentifiaBrawl!

Rules:

After a very successful dungeon run your bags are overflowing with Unidentified Loot! Take a random deck into battle and identify those items!

Rewards:

A Year of the Phoenix Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Barrens – Paladin

Top 3

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Next Show: Shaman

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

Our YouTube channel is www.legendoftheinnkeeper.com/YouTube

You can follow us on Twitter 

LOTI Podcast – @LOTIpodcast.  

Espo – @Xcmtbgamer

You can support the show through Patreon at :  www.patreon.com/Legendoftheinnkeeper

Be sure to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

Until next show, Happy gaming!

Credits:Music by James Marantette – https://soundcloud.com/james-marantette

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:

Rank : Silver 9 Standard – Platinum 10 Wild

25% Barrens Gameplay Achievements

Level 70 in Tavern Pass

95 Gold, 265 Dust

Vastidious: 

Rank : Gold 5 Standard – Platinum 5 Wild

37% Barrens Gameplay Achievements

Level 80 in Tavern Pass

1055 Gold, 6585 Dust

News

* Alleria Windrunner Hero Set added to store for a limited time* $9.99 US * 1500 Gold* Comes with the Alleria Alternate Hero and Card Back* Balance changes will be coming in 2 weeks. The changes haven’t had their final decision yet so no announced changes.* Patch 20.2* Releases on May 4th * Battlegrounds:* Quillboar are being added as a new Battlegrounds minion type. * There will still be 5 minion types per Battleground game, but Quillboar will show up in every Battlegrounds match until the next major patch.* 17 new minions* 3 new Heroes* Death Speaker Blackthorn* Bloodhound (Passive) After you upgrade Bob’s Tavern, gain 2 Blood Gems* Vol’jin* Spirit Swap (Costs 0) Choose two minions. Swap their stats.* Xyrella* See the Light (Costs 2) Choose a minion in Bob’s Tavern to add to your hand. Set its stats to 2. * Rat King (Updated)* King of Quillboar (Passive) Whenever you buy a Quillboar, give it +2/+2. Swaps type each turn.* New Mechanic: Blood Gems* Spells that give a friendly minion +1/+1* Some Quillboar give you Blood Gems* Others have special interactions when Blood Gems are played* Favorite Coin skins now work in Battlegrounds* Battlegrounds ratings will reset to 0 when it launches* Diamond Ragnaros – Can be obtained by completing the Classic Legendary Collector 5/5 Achievement (Collect all 36 Classic Legendary Cards)* New Progression Achievement, Tavern Regular* Tracks total reward track levels earned on your account across all reward tracks from each expansion.* Completing each tier of this achievement will reward a choice from 1 of 10 new Hero skins* Each of these new Heroes will have their own VO and emotes* Battle-Ready Decks* Curated decks optimized from the most recent expansion.* You are able to add a complete deck list from the class of your choice to your collection permanently* Used data captured across hundreds of thousands of play sessions to ensure you are taking home a combat-worthy list.* $19.99 and only 1 per account* https://playhearthstone.com/en-gb/news/23665633* Book of Heroes Thrall* May 25th

Espo Mode 

Battle of Tol Barad

Rules:

Magical Creatures are escaping from Tol Barad! Play a minion and get a random spell of the same cot, but for free!

Rewards:

A Year of the Phoenix Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Barrens: Druid

Top 3

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

NEXT WEEK: Paladin

Outro

That does it for this episode.

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:

Rank : Silver 9 Standard – Gold 4 Wild

Level 49 in Tavern Pass

95 Gold, 390 Dust

I’m 27 cards short of a full Barrens collection achievement

9% of the Barrens Gameplay Achievements

Vastidious:

Rank : Gold 5 Standard – Platinum 5 Wild

Level 64 in Tavern Pass

55 Gold, 8930 Dust

I’m 2 Legendary cards short of a full Barrens collection – 183 

35% of the Barrens Gameplay Achievements

Switched to FireStone for card tracking instead of Hearthstone Deck Tracker 

News

* Grandmaster’s Week 2 is coming up this weekend. You can watch it on the Hearthstone YouTube channel. April 16-18* Winning 1st in the weekly match will earn the player $3,000* No pack drops enabled for this weekend* Patch 20.0.2 went live April 13th* Standard Balance Updates* Deck of Lunacy* Old Cost : 2* New Cost : 4* Sword of the Fallen* Old: 1 Attack, 3 Durability* New: 1 Attack, 2 Durability* Jandice Barov* Old Cost : 5* New Cost : 6* Pen Flinger* Old: Battlecry: Deal 1 damage. Spellburst: Return this to your hand* New: Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to a minion. Spellburst: Return this to your hand* Far Watch Post* Old: 2 Attack, 4 Health* New: 2 Attack, 3 Health* Mor’shan Watch Post* Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health* New: 3 Attack, 4 Health* Battlegrounds Balance Updates* Returning Heroes* Queen Wagtoggle – (new) Give a friendly minion of each minion type +1/+1* Captain Hooktusk – (new) Remove a friendly minion. Choose one of two from a Tavern Tier lower to keep.* Minion Updates* Steward of Time* Old: 3 Attack, 4 Health – When you sell this minion, give all minions in Bob’s Tavern +1/+1* New: 3 Attack, 3 Health – When you sell this minion, give all minions in Bob’s Tavern +2/+1* Pack Leader* Old: 2 Attack, 3 Health* New: 3 Attack, 3 Health* Monstrous Macaw* Old: 4 Attack, 3 Health* New: 5 Attack, 3 Health* Herald of Flame* Old: 5 Attack, 6 Health* New: 6 Attack, 6 Health* Wildfire Elemental* Old: 7 Attack, 3 Health* New: 7 Attack, 4 Health* Lieutenant Garr* Old: 5 Attack, 1 Health* New: 8 Attack, 1 Health* Lil’ Rag* Old: 4 Attack, 4 Health* New: 6 Attack, 6 Health* Duels Balance Updates* Ace in the Hole* Old: Costs 2* New: Costs 3* Rally the Troops* Old: After you play your first Battlecry card in a turn, draw a card. It costs (5) less. * New: After you play your first Battlecry card in a turn, draw a card. It costs (3) less.* Connections* Old: Passive* New: Costs 1

Espo Mode 

TOP 3

Rules:

Let’s mix it up a bit, shall we? Pick three cards and we’ll make you a deck with ten copies of each card.

Rewards:

A Year of the Phoenix Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Barrens – Mage

Top 3

Espo: Runed Orb, Reckless Apprentice, Mordresh

Vastidious: Refreshing Spring Water, Wildfire, Reckless Apprentice

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: James!  Thanks for the packs!

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo: Silver 8, 3345 gold

Vastidious: 

Ended with: Rank – Standard Plat 10?,  Wild Diamond 8, Rank 73?

Opened 143 packs & 5 Golden packs

Legendaries:

* Cannonmaster Smythe* Serena Bloodfeather* Rokara* Plaguemaw the Rotting* Mordresh Fire Eye* Tavish Stormpike* Kazakus, Golem Shaper* Firemancer Flurgi* Scabbs Cutterbutter

News

* Expansion is live!* Launch wasn’t flawless. * Bug where if your or your opponent’s deck contained a golden core card, you couldn’t join any games. * This has been fixed and they found that players could still receive 16 cards that were added to the Classic set later in Hearthstone’s history from Classic and Golden Classic packs between patch 20.0 and the expansion launch. * Blizzard issued Arcane Dust full refunds for each card that was a part of that list.* Sylvanas Windrunner is back – Hero skin and card back for $9.99

Espo Mode 

Everybunny get in here

Rules:

Happy Noblegarden! Celebrate the season by dyeing eggs, one will spawn each turn! You’ll get 10 random class cards and a bunch of dyes to help you hatch something cute.

Rewards:

A Year of the Phoenix Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Getting Better

Hints and Tips/Top 5

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

Our YouTube channel is www.legendoftheinnkeeper.com/YouTube

You can follow us on Twitter 

LOTI Podcast – @LOTIpodcast.  

Espo – @Xcmtbgamer

You can support the show through Patreon at :  www.patreon.com/Legendoftheinnkeeper

Be sure to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

Until next show, Happy gaming!

Credits:Music by James Marantette – https://soundcloud.com/james-marantette

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:  2895 Gold, Weekly Achievements

Vastidious:  5160 Gold, Weekly Achievements

News

* Blizzard announces adjustments coming for the Rewards Track* When the track refreshes when FinB launches, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on both tracks (if purchased).* The new rewards track will be available in its place (you might have to log out and back in if you are in game when it goes live)* New Rewards will include:* Card packs from expansions in Standard* The Zuldazar card back* Tavern tickets* A random Epic card* 2 random Legendary cards* A lot of gold (over 5,000 gold)* The number of core reward levels were doubled, from 50 to 100 and they halved the amount of XP required for each level.* Included new packs called: Year of the Phoenix packs. These include cards from the 3 expansions released last year, including the mini-set* Updated Achievements to show progress bars for each type of Achievement* You will also now be able to re-roll the guaranteed Weekly Quest: Win 5 games of Ranked Play Mode* And a reminder, that incomplete Madness at the Darkmoon Faire gameplay Achievements will no longer grant XP after the 20.0 patch is released, instead there will be a new set of Forged in the Barrens gameplay Achievements in its place. * Diamond Cards* All new cosmetic card tier for Hearthstone. Each Expansion will include one or more handcrafted Diamond Legendary cards that feature completely new 3d animations, more real estate for card art, and a stylish Diamond border.* Blademaster Samuro and Bru’kan will have the Diamond treatment in the first expansion. Here is how you unlock each* Diamond Blademaster Samuro – Purchase the FinB Tavern Pass and claim it on the rewards track* Diamond Bru’kan – Completing FinB Legendary Collector 5/5 Achievement (Collect all Legendary cards from the set)* Diamond cards cannot be crafted or disenchanted* Diamond cards cannot be found in packs* Tavern Pass* Purchasing the Tavern pass at any time during the expansion will immediately grant.  * The Diamond Blademaster Samuro Legendary card * 10% XP Boost for the duration of the expansion* All items up to your current level on the paid track* As you continue you will earn new rewards like:* Additional XP boosts* The Barrens card back* The uncraftable Shadowhunter Vol’jin Golden Legendary minion* The Firefang Rexxar Hero skin* A new Cosmetic coin* Also Hero skins for the new Mercenaries:* 3 x Rokara Warrior Hero* 3 x Kurtus Demon Hunter Hero* 3 x Xyrella Priest Hero* Cosmetic Coins* First obtained by completing the first 90 levels of the Reward Track with the Tavern Pass* Second by collecting 135 unique FinB cards (There is a 35 card mini-set coming to make that easier to get)* Bigglesworth coin for collecting every card from the Scholomance Academy

Espo Mode 

A Temporus Shift

Time is an illusion, turn times doubly so. Build a standard deck and each turn (except the first turn this time) you’ll get an extra turn!

Rewards: 1 Classic Pack

New Cards

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:  Rank Legend, 2445 gold saved, 150 on rewards track

Vastidious: Rank Gold 9 in Wild, 2860 gold saved, level 41 on the Rewards Track

News

BlizzConline Round up

* Year of the Gryphon* Basic and Classic cards will move to Wild under the Legacy set* Free Core set of 235 curated cards will take their place* Little over half are returning basic and Classic cards* Wild cards will be part of the set too* Legendary Dragons will see a revamp* 29 completely new minions included* Changes to Shaman coming with the 20.0 update including buffing some core cards* Shaman hero power will replace Wrath of Air totem with the new totem Strength Totem* New Magical Spell Schools which will retroactively update previously released spells. * Arcane* Fel* Fire* Frost* Holy* Shadow* Nature* New Classic format, where you can play Hearthstone the way it was on launch day, with all balance changes since then reverted.* To celebrate when the 20.0 patch goes live you will get a Golden Classic card pack for logging in.* New game mode – Mercenaries* A tactical RPG and Roguelike type game mode* Like playing Hearthstone with 3 Heroes instead of just 1* Complete missions* Progression is permanent* Separate collection from regular card collection* Progression is single player, but there are battles between players* More info in the future* Forged in the Barrens will introduce 10 all-new Mercenary characters as Legendary minions.* Their stories will be told throughout the year in Book of Mercenaries, starting with Rokara on April 6th* Updating the new player starting Legendary quest lines and they will now include a total of 15 card packs from recent expansions as rewards.* You can also complete all Book of Heroes missions to unlock the class* Q&A Session* Reward track will have both xp and rewards halved, instead of 5000 xp for a level, it will change to 2500xp. Rewards were 300gp will be now 150gp. So more rewards, more often* Reward track will get some surprise additions that the team hopes we love* Duels will get new Heroes later this year as well as seeing 2 new sets being added* Would like to change the Core set by around 30% year over year* Fireside Gatherings is something they want to bring back, but will have to wait until safe to do so* Lots of things they would like to do but nothing to announce yet* New Expansion: Forged in the Barrens* New Keyword: Frenzy* Keyword triggers the first time they survive damage* Ranked Spells* All 10 classes will have access to an all-new Ranked Spell that will grow in power as you reach 5 and 10 Mana Crystals, regardless whether it’s in your hand or deck* New Mechanic: Spell Schools* Mentioned earlier with spell schools* Login to get a free Shadow Hunter Vol’jin* New Cards announced:

Espo Mode 

Getting Better

Hints and Tips/Top 5

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

This week we had a special guest on the show, Cora, Associate Game Designer from Blizzard Entertainment.

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

News

* Not much news because of Thanksgiving* However, there was a hotfix that fixed numerous issues with players not getting quests, XP and other various things. That was fixed with a server side fix, and they are working to determine who was affected and how to compensate players that were. Some compensations have already been sent out.* Rewards Track updated based on player feedback. Gold instead of packs* Level 33 – now 150 gold* Level 37 – now 200 gold* Level 40 – now 200 gold* Level 42 – now 200 gold* Level 46 – now 300 gold* Level 48 – now 300 gold

Espo Mode 

Shake, Deathrattle and Roll!

Rules:

There’s a whole lotta rattlin’ going on! Choose a class and get a random deck. Every minion you play will gain a copy of a random minion’s deathrattle effect!

Rewards:

A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

Getting Better

Hints and Tips/Top 5

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews:

Emails:

Twitter: 

Facebook Shoutout:

Legendary Patron Shoutout: 

Outro

That does it for this episode.  You can email the show at [email protected].  You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed. 

Our YouTube channel is www.legendoftheinnkeeper.com/YouTube

You can follow us on Twitter 

LOTI Podcast – @LOTIpodcast.  

Espo – @Xcmtbgamer

You can support the show through Patreon at :  www.patreon.com/Legendoftheinnkeeper

Be sure to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

Until next show, Happy gaming!

Credits:Music by James Marantette – https://soundcloud.com/james-marantette