Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 103 packs opened, Il’gynoth Kiri, Chosen of Elune Greybough Rinling’s Rifle Deck of Lunacy Sayge, Seer of Darkmoon Lothraxion the Redeemed G’huun the Blood God Deck of Chaos N’zoth, God of the Deep Y’Shaarj, the Defiler Level 16 in the Rewards Track Rank Gold 5 7950 Achievement points Vastidious: 80 Gold, Level 18 in the Rewards Track, Rank Gold 2 8075 Achievement points 107 packs opened Bundle Freebie: Golden Y’shaarj, the Defiler Free: Rinling’s Rifle Opened: Tickatus C’Thun, the Shattered E.T.C., God of Metal Tenwu of the Red Smoke Deck of Chaos Ended up with 2,250 dust I crafted N’Zoth, God of the Deep News * Darkmoon Faire is out* A few reminders about the expansion* 135 new cards* 35 additional cards will follow in a Mini-Set midway through the expansion, but no details or dates revealed yet* PvE Content will be coming in the form of another Book of Heroes story line* And Duels and Battlegrounds are reset with the launch* Logging in gets you the Darkmoon Faire Legendary card, Silas Darkmoon for free* All players opening up the first reward in the Reward Track, will get a random DMF Legendary card for free.* New Keyword: Corrupt* The Old Gods return with new tricks* New Old God artifacts* No more bundles but you can get the Tavern Pass for $20. Includes the Cosmetic coin, 2 alternate hero skin sets, the Annhylde Warrior hero, and XP boosts. And a Golden Silas Darkmoon.* Lots of people upset about the new Rewards Track and the perception that the rewards are not better than before, but actually worse. Blizzard did respond to the concerns and said that they’ve gotten a wealth of feedback. They have agreed with some of the criticism and have changed the pack rewards at the end of the track from 6 packs to 1350 gold so it can be spent however you like it to. They also said that there will be bonus XP opportunities at various seasonal and additional events.* Blizzard announces the Darkmoon Duel-Fest* 24 invited creators competing for $200,000 prize pool* November 24, 10am PT – 4pm PT Espo Mode Servant of Yogg-Saron Tryouts Rules: Help Yogg-Saron find a servant! Your deck is full of wannabes who cast a random spell at a random target when played. Rewards: A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once. Getting Better Hints and Tips/Top 5 Reviews and Emails iTunes Reviews: Emails: Twitter:
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Platinum 10, 2125 gold Vastidious: Gold 10, 870 gold News * Dave Kosak leaves Blizzard* After 12 years, Dave Kosak is leaving Blizzard* Moved to Deviation Games where he’s working on a new secret project as the new Creative Director* Chris Metzen announces his new project* Warchief Gaming Tabletop Company* Eyes of C’Thun card back is available in the store now for $2.99/500 gold* Twitch Drops are active from now until Nov 11th* Giving out Duels:Early Access to 500 random viewers every hour across the entire Hearthstone category* Duels: Early Access* Issues* If you don’t buy, you don’t play (alternative now being offered)* Only 1 Hero power and item per class* Limited cards to build a deck from* Choose a mode screen – Put Titles under each button 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 ...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank Gold 5, 1425g Vastidious: Rank Gold 10, 590g News * The Fall Reveal, has been revealed!* New Expansion – Madness at the Darkmoon Faire* New Keyword: Corrupt* System Revamp* New Game Mode: Duels* Expansion Details* Releases on November 17th* PrePurchase is available now* Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Bundle – $39.99* 45 MDF packs* 1 random MDF Legendary card* N’Zoth card back* Duels: Early Access* Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Mega Bundle – $79.99* 80 MDF packs* 5 Golden MDF packs* 1 random Golden MDF Legendary card* N’Zoth Warlock Hero* N’Zoth card back* Battlegrounds Perks* New Keyword: Corrupt* You corrupt a card by playing a higher cost card than the card with that keyword. So for example, Fleethoof Pearltusk, 5 mana, 4/4 Beast, Rush. Corrupt: Gain +4/+4. If you play a 6 mana card, and then this card, it becomes a 5 mana, 8/8 Beast with Rush. The card will change in your hand to...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 6, 1025g Vastidious: Silver 4, 370g, Level 50 and PF2, almost… News * Save the Date: October 22nd 8am PT* Livestream on both Twitch and YouTube with Benjamin Lee, Game Director* Teaser video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLBnyXVsmzY&feature=emb_logo* Twitch drops will be active. Watch 15 mins get 1 SA pack, watch 30 mins, get 2 SA packs.* Appears to be Darkmoon Faire?!?* New Expansion, System Revamp and New Game Mode* Evocation and Solarian Prime Nerf* Evocation* Old Cost – 1* New Cost – 2* Solarian Prime* Old Cost – 7* New Cost – 9* Patch 18.4.2 – Balance changes to Battlegrounds* Out today* Ragnaros, the Firelord* Old: After you kill 20 enemy minions, get Sulfuras* New: After you kill 25 enemy minions, get Sulfuras* Sulfuras* Old: At the end of your turn, give your left and right-most minions +4/+4* New: At the end of your turn, give your left and right-most minions +3/+...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Season Results: Espo: Gold 2, thanks to HAA Vastidious: Gold 7 – 2 packs – no legendaries Bundle: Professor Slate, Doctor Krastinov News * Masquerade Ball (Halloween Event)* Week 1* Battlegrounds:* New minion type: Elemental* A bunch of new Elementals* 4 New Heroes* Chenvaala – After you play 3 Elementals, reduce the cost of upgrading Bob’s Tavern by (2).* Rakanishu – Give a random friendly minion stats equal to your Tavern Tier* Al’Akir the Windlord – Start of Combat: Give your left-most minion Windfury, Divine Shield, and Taunt* Ragnaros the Firelord – Passive: After you kill 20 enemy minions, get Sulfuras; Sulfuras – Passive: At the end of your turn, give your left and right-most minions +4/+4* New Rating system* Between 2000 and 6000 rating, every 500 rating (2500, 3000, etc.) will act as a new rating floor where you cannot lose rating.* Below 6500 rating, players will earn a small bon...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 6 packs opened… no legendaries, Gold 7 Vastidious: 1 pack opened … no legendary, Gold 7 News * Blizzconline Announced* Feb 19-20, 2021* https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/23513935* Main details are about the Community Showcase* Cosplay* Art* Digital Storytelling* Talent* March of the Murlocs* Mike Morhaime founds new company – Dreamhaven* 2 development studios* Moonshot* Jason Chayes (Hearthstone, SC2)* Dustin Browder (SC2, HotS and C&C)* Ben Thompson (Hearthstone)* Secret Door* Chris Sigaty (Hearthstone, SC2, Hots, War3)* Eric Dodds (Hearthstone)* Alan Dabiri (Hots)* The Magic of Dalaran Card Back in shop – $2.99 or 500 gold* Battlegrounds Rating reset incoming next week* Resetting to 0, to make way for a new rating system* More details soon Espo Mode Heroic Brawliseum $9.99 or 1000 gold Rules: Make a Standard deck to compete with the best! Stakes are high, the competition intense. More win...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 7, No New legendary Vastidious: Gold 8, 30 gold – 1 new Legendary – Shan’do Wildclaw News * Book of Heroes – Solo Adventure* It’s Live with the first in the series, Jaina Proudmoore* Defeating all 8 bosses will reward 1 Mage Pack, containing only Mage cards from Standard.* Scholar Jaina Bundle* $9.99* Available through 9/21/20* 5 special Mage Class packs* Scholar Jaina mage hero skin* We’re on Amazon Music/Podcasts Espo Mode Randomonium Rules: An encounter at the crossroads… under a manastorm! Choose a class, get random cards. Each turn your cards’ costs are randomized! Rewards: A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once. Warrior NEXT WEEK: DRUID 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 info@legendoftheinnkeeper.com. You can also visit our website at l...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 8 Vastidious: Gold 0, Rank: Silver 5 News * Mega Wild Bundle – $34.99* 56 packs total, from the following expansions: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, Journey to Un’Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne, Kobolds & Catacombs, The Witchwood, The Boomsday Project and Rastakhan’s Rumble* Available until 9/14/2020* Micro Mummy bug/fix – When creating a Golden Micro Mummy in Battlegrounds, it would cause the game to crash. This has been fixed server side.* Freezing Trap issues – Working on a fix, however if you see the issue, drag the card to play it. Clicking it won’t work.* Iksar talked this week about the math behind the ranking calculations in Battlegrounds when it comes to the inclusion of groups. They are going to be capturing data over the coming weeks and see if what they have now works as well as they hope it will. They will adjust if needed.* He also said that they are planning a reset ...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 4 Vastidious: Plat 6, 3 packs, 5 cards, 6 star bonus 1st pack, 2 epics (one golden), 1 rare, and a Golden Legendary (Sphere of Sapience) News * Cupcake Card is available for purchase for $2.99 or 500 gold for a limited time* New Limited Time Event : The Forbidden Library (9/8-9/29)* Week 1* Battlegrounds Parties* Queue with up to 7 friends* Private game – Queue with 5 or more* Ranked game – Queue with 4 or less* Scholomance Heroes in Battlegrounds (Available 9/22, unless you have the Battlegrounds Perks.)* Lord Barov – Friendly Wager (Cost 1) – Guess which player will win their next combat. If they win, get three coins.* Jandice Barov – Swap, Lock & Shop it (Cost 0) – Swap a friendly non-golden minion with a random one in Bob’s Tavern.* Forest Warden Omu – Everbloom (Passive) – After you upgrade Bob’s Tavern, gain 2 Gold this turn only.* Micro Mummy (Tier 1 minion)* REMOVED: Me...
Updates: What did you do this week? Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 4, Crafted Zixor Vastidious: Rank Platinum 7, 40 gold News * Hearthpwn has posted some insights from the developers on working remotely. https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/7617-hearthstone-team-on-launching-scholomance-academy* Hearthpwn also posted an article showing interesting details, stories and facts from the Scholomance Academy artwork. https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/7614-interesting-details-stories-facts-from-the 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 Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once. Mage Top 3 Reviews and Emails iTunes Reviews: Emails: Twitter: Facebook Shoutout: Legendary Patron Shoutout: NEXT WEEK: PRIEST Outro That does it for this episode. You can email the show at info@legendoftheinnkeeper.com. You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we wil...