Patch 17.0 made it possible to prepare for the arrival of the next expansion while making very many changes to Hearthstone.
The departure of some cards to the Hall of Fame, the Standard rotation, the Ranked system changes, the anti-duplication system, and the new Demon Hunter class — legions of new features and contents have invaded the client.
With the arrival of Ashes of Outland and the beginning of the Year of the Phoenix, Blizzard are planning so many changes that the risk of bugs naturally rose.
Blizzard is currently working on 2 patches that aim at correcting many bugs, while the first one was already implemented yesterday. The second is planned for today while the last should hit live on April 7.
Already fixed
- Identified and fixed an issue that could cause the game to fail to offer some eligible players the Returning Player Experience. Affected players should now receive the appropriate quest line when logging into Hearthstone.
- Whizbang the Wonderful will no longer offer decks with cards that have moved to the Hall of Fame.
- Kingsbane will now correctly be destroyed and shuffled into your deck when it reaches 0 durability.
- Living Root, when disenchanted, now properly gives the amount of dust of a common instead of an epic. However, its gem rarity will not be updated until Monday (3/30).
- Invoke cards will now no longer appear from cards that generate other cards.
- Clever Disguise will now correctly function as intended when played.
Coming March 30
- Darkness Awaits will no longer be incorrectly marked as collectible in the Collection.
- Basic cards will no longer be incorrectly earned from Arena rewards.
- Living Root’s gem rarity will be corrected from Epic to Common.
Coming April 7
- Felfin Navigator will correctly appear in the Battlegrounds minion pool.
- The Battlegrounds Perks button will correctly function as intended when clicked.
- The new Priest cards will correctly appear in the Arena card pool.
- Demon Hunter Initiate cards will no longer be granted by completing Galakrond’s Awakening Chapters.
- Hallucination and Blink Fox will work correctly when played against Demon Hunter in Practice Mode.
- Curious Glimmerroot will no longer cause client crashes when played against Demon Hunter in Practice Mode.
- The Search Bar in the Collection will correctly function as intended, and will no longer jump to the top of the screen.
The Year of the Phoenix is just around the corner, and the Hall of Fame is already live with this patch 17.0. Illidan is also coming to Battlegrounds, as well as some new features.
