Legend of the Innkeeper : A Hearthstone Podcast for Casual Players

LOTI 270 : The InnBetween

03.10.2020 - By Vastidious and Espo, Hearthstone PodcastersPlay

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What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

News

* Dean Ayala – Battlegrounds post* Apparently Hearthpwn was able to sit down and interview Dean Ayala at the Hearthstone Summit, and they posted one of the questions they asked.* “Are there any plans to introduce a leaderboard or a reward structure to the Battlegrounds game mode?”* First need to solidify the pipeline. Frequency, balance, content updates* The Dragon’s patch is like 75% to 85% of what they want a big content update to look like for Battlegrounds.* Maybe see that type of update every 3-4 months* Would like to add some progression systems, or goals.* However first they would like to add a 8 player lobby to play with friends or for tournaments* Dean also announced they are going to Un-Nerf several cards* 5 Wild cards* 4 Year of the Raven cards (which are rotating to Wild)* 1 Year of the Dragon card* Battlegrounds Undocumented Update* Changed the number of minions available in each tier* Tier 1 – From 18 to 16* Tier 2 – 15* Tier 3 – 13* Tier 4 – 11* Tier 5 – 9* Tier 6 – From 6 to 7* For instance for every Tier 1 minion, like Wrath Weaver, there are now 16 available minions among everyone that plays. For every Tier 6 minion, like Kangor’s Apprentice, there are now 7 minions available. These are minions that get taken out of the pool when drafted and returned to the pool when sold, or when the owner dies.* Patch supposed to come out today that fixes the Android issues along with several other bug fixes.  It also removed Tirion Fordring and replaces him with Queen WagToggle.* New Wild Bundle in the Store* 24 packs for $14.99* Limited time – Until March 11th, 2020* Includes* 3 Classic packs* 3 Goblins vs Gnomes packs* 3 The Grand Tournament packs* 3 Whispers of the Old Gods packs* 3 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs* 3 Journey to Un’goro packs* 3 Knights of the Frozen Throne packs* 3 Kobolds & Catacombs packs* The Spirit of Competition Anniversary Event* Logging in gets you 6 free packs (2 from each expansion this year) (3/4-3/17)* Event specific Daily Quests with more packs* Special Year of the Dragon card back* 2 Special Tavern Brawls* The Burndown – Rekindled* Hall of Champions Brawl* Your Month in Hearthstone* I asked Blizzard where our monthly reports were and Chris Sierra let me know that “Seems we’ve had a data issue. We aren’t stopping these, just need to fix the issue and then we shall return to these!”

Espo Mode 

The Burndown – Rekindled

Rules:

The Burndown returns and is better than ever! Take control of a random deck, if you lose you’ll get a copy of your opponent’s deck! How long can your deck survive THE BURNDOWN!?

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A Classic Card Pack

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Outro

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