After weeks and weeks of frustration within the Hearthstone community, Blizzard Entertainment on Monday afternoon revealed how they plan on tweaking the updated rewards track that players can use to unlock in-game cosmetics and content.
Less than a month after the final Hearthstone expansion of the year Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, went live the game's passionate, dedicated, and vocal community is up in arms. No, there isn't a specific card or class dominating the meta that has the official Hearthstone subreddit busting at the seams with anger (though some would argue Demon Hunter is a little too strong at the moment). Rather, it's those at the tippy top of the game's food chain, Activision Blizzard, drawing ire from every which angle.
An attempt at a light-hearted, community-driven event turned sour on Wednesday afternoon when Blizzard Entertainment's Old Gods Ask Me Anything (AMA) announcement was met with frustration from members of the Hearthstone community.
When Madness at the Darkmoon Faire launched on Tuesday, things were a little different. While many were talking about cool cards and decks they were experimenting with, more were focused on an announcement Blizzard had made earlier in the day.
As if Tuesday's announcement wasn't enough, Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone team announced one of the largest patches in the game's history is going live on Thursday, impacting two multiplayer game modes. Titled patch 18.6, more than 30 cards and hero abilities in the Battlegrounds and Duels game modes saw balances changes, substantially changing metas and playstyles.
Reveal season has begun in the world of Blizzard Entertainments's digital card game, Hearthstone, for their upcoming card expansion titled Madness at the Darkmoon Faire. On Tuesday afternoon, the game's development team unveiled the first two cards that are coming to the set outside of what was shown at the reveal stream two weeks ago. And, surprisingly enough, they're Hunter cards and they both really, really want to go face.
Chaos, pandemonium and a little bit of fun were announced on Thursday morning as Blizzard Entertainment revealed their upcoming Hearthstone expansion titled Madness at the Darkmoon Faire. Scheduled to go live on November 17, players will be able to summon the Old Gods once again to go along with a 170 card set, the largest in the game's history. Traditionally, Hearthstone expansions release the full set of cards all at once but for the Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, things are changing. Mid-way through the expansion's life cycle, a 35 card mini set will launch that will build off of existing content while keeping players excited for something new.
On Thursday afternoon, a blog post was shared on the game's official website announcing an upcoming event that is taking place on Thursday, October 22. During the Fall Reveal stream, which begins at 8 a.m. PT, Hearthstone's Game Director Benjamin Lee is revealing "several major announcements." The game's community speculated the last expansion of the year would be shown at the event. But on Friday afternoon, a whole lot more was teased.
Dust off your dancing shoes, pick up your finest suit from the dry cleaners and make sure your hair is looking fresh as a glorious affair has arrived in the world of Hearthstone. On Monday afternoon, Blizzard Entertainment revealed the newest in-game event for their collectible card game titled the Scholomance Academy Masquerade Ball. Taking place between today and October 21, players from around the world will get to experience never-before-seen content across each of the game's playable modes.
In a year that has been anything but normal, the annual tradition of crowning a Hearthstone World Champion will continue as Blizzard Entertainment announced details for the upcoming online event on Thursday morning.
On Thursday afternoon, Blizzard Entertainment announced the next set of content coming to their digital card game, Hearthstone, and the title's popular auto chess game mode, Battlegrounds. Beginning on Tuesday, September 8, players will be able to team up with seven of their friends in a lobby for a match of Battlegrounds against one another as part of their Forbidden Library event.
The Hearthstone development team kicked off a new week with a bang, releasing details of the upcoming 18.0.2 patch coming in a few days. In Monday's blog post, more than a dozen changes to champions and units in the title's Battlegrounds game mode went along with two cards receiving nerfs in the traditional card game.
Although students from around the world recently started their summer break, Hearthstone is headed back to school. On Tuesday morning, Blizzard Entertainment revealed their upcoming expansion for the long-time collectible card game, Scholomance Academy. The fifteenth expansion, set to launch in early August, introduces 135 new cards, including 40 Dual-Class ones that (as the name implies) can be used by two of the ten different classes to create unique playstyles, strategies, and mechanics shared by both.
12-years-ago, the world was Luke Kooken's oyster. He dabbled in standup comedy, played poker at a high-level and his passion at the time was dancing. Salsa, tango, swing, breakdancing, and jazz all occupied any free time he did have when his college workload was not in the way of doing what he loved. However, as the cryptic saying goes: all good things must come to an end. And for Kooken, who now goes by "Nohandsgamer" online, his life (ironically) changed on the dance floor one day and he hasn't been the same since.
On Thursday afternoon, Blizzard Entertainment released details of eight Hearthstone cards receiving balance changes in their upcoming 17.6 patch scheduled for July 14. Once the patch goes live, all players will be able to disenchant the cards seeing changes for a full dust refund for two weeks.
At this point in the six-year history of Blizzard Entertainment's collectible card game, Hearthstone, it's almost routine that long-time professional player and content creator David "Dog" Caero will, at one point or another, break the speed at which he plays. Back in 2018, Dog was known for mastering a one-turn-kill combo that required as much APM (action per minute) as it did brainpower to pull off. For a casual player tuning in to watch his stream on Twitch, it was mesmerizing and inconceivable to see so many moving pieces on a 2D board in a game that, by definition, aims to limit the number of actions a player can make in a single turn by having a mana cap.
For the maybe the last time, the League of Explorers and the League of E.V.I.L will square off against one another and Hearthstone players will get to decide the fate of the universe. Throughout 2019, the two teams have battled against one another across numerous card expansions and are heading for an epic conclusion in the frozen wastes of Dragonblight. Arch-Villain Rafaam's master plan aims to resurrect the progenitor dragon, Galakrond, and lay waste to the world as we know it. Can the League of Explorers stop him in time?
Fresh off their holiday break, the Hearthstone development team was back to work this week and on Wednesday afternoon they revealed the upcoming balance changes coming to the traditional card game and Battlegrounds, the auto chess mode. Titled "16.0.8 Balance Update," the blog post was shared on Blizzard's official forum and outlined some changes scheduled to go live later this week. In total, seven cards from the traditional card game are being nerfed and one from Battlegrounds.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Hearthstone development team released a blog post detailing their most recent round of nerfs to their collectible card game and auto-chess game mode, Battlegrounds. With the Descent of Dragons expansion launching a little more than a week ago, this round of nerfs is the fastest to come after a card set was introduced in the game's history. As "Shamanstone" has returned as a meme within the community due to the class's higher-than-average power-level, the development team moved quickly to even out the playing field prior to members of the company taking a holiday break in the upcoming days. While there are numerous cards in the current meta that individuals suspected would be targeted in this round of balance changes, three Shaman cards and one neutral power-house were hit.
Hearthstone's latest expansion, Descent of Dragons, has only been out for 24 hours but that hasn't stopped high-level players from dissecting the ever-changing meta and creating decks to wreak havoc on the ladder with. As all nine classes received new tools at their disposal, forging 30 card decks can be overwhelming shortly after an expansion goes live. Not to worry though, we have gathered some of the most popular and powerful decks from across the internet and compiled them below for novices or experienced players who want to try something new but aren't sure where to start.
