Hearthstone Patch 22.0: Full Notes and Updates

Open the way for Broken in Alterac valley, From Hearthstone In the upcoming expansion, Blizzard will be rolling out some important changes in Patch 22.0, including updates to Mercenaries, Battlegrounds, Duels, and Arena.
Here is the complete list of Note because the From Hearthstone Latest live updates.
Fractured in Alterac Valley primer
Hearthstone’s next expansion is out on December 7. Broken in Alterac valley includes 135 new cards and features the new Honorable Kill keyboard, Objective cards and the return of Hero cards.
As soon as the expansion goes live, all players will be able to compete for Honor and claim free rewards and claim victory for their faction. Players get Honor by playing and winning during the qualifying period:
- 10 Honors for every game played
- Add 10 Honors for each win (20 total)
- Add 20 Honor for each win against an opponent from the enemy side (40 total)
Honor can be obtained in Traditional, Arena and Duel modes. Players will climb through the ranks of their faction to eventually capture a gold copy of the enemy leader. On January 11th, all Honors will be checked and in a future update every player from the winning faction will receive a Diamond copy of their faction’s leader card.
Mercenary
Mercenaries will receive a second installment of Mercenaries, Bounties and Bosses with Patch 22.0. Every mercenary listed below will be available with the patch, except Vanessa, who will release directly with the expansion.
New mercenary
Valeera Sangunar (Legendary Warrior)

- Blood Elves
- 13/73 max stats
- Ability:
- Sinister Strike five: (Speed three) Take +10 attacks this turn and attack the enemy with the lowest health. Combination: Gain Invisibility
- Ambush Five: (Six Speed) Deals 10 damage. If this Mercs has been stolen, trade 25 . instead
- Fan of Knives five: (Seven Speed) Deals seven damage to all enemies. Your other Mercs are (three) faster next turn
- Equipment:
- Hidden Path Four: Passive: Whenever a friendly character loses Invisibility, grant them +six attacks
- Shadow Dagger four: Ambush is (three) faster and gains “Deathblow: Gain Stealth”
- Unnatural Smoke four: Passive: While this Merc has Stealth, friendly characters a (four) Speed is faster
Sky Admiral Rogers (Epic caster)

- Mankind
- 11/76 max stats
- Ability:
- Sky Guard five: (Speed five) Get + five attacks and attack the enemy. If you’re a Pirate, gain Immunity when attacking this turn
- Tactical Master Five: (Speed Two, Cooldown One) Deals 12 damage to enemies or heals allies for 12. It’s next
- Active Location Five: (Six Speed, One Cooldown) Deals 20 damage to all enemies hit
- Equipment:
- Swash Buckling Sash four: Sky Guard provides +five extra attacks
- Ship’s Bell four: Master Tactician deals four more damage and makes the target go last
- Scout’s Spyglass four: Passive: After this Merc attacks, deals four damage to all enemies. (Deal Critical Damage to Pirate)
Trigore the Lasher (Rare Protector)

- Beast
- 10/80 max stats
- Ability:
- Frenzied Attack 5: (Speed seven) Attacks an enemy. If this turn deals damage, deal 12 damage to adjacent random enemies
- Backlash 5: (Speed One) Next time an enemy deals damage to nearby allies this turn, take +5 extra attacks and deal damage from this Merc’s attack to them
- Cooldown 5: (Speed four, cooldown one) This turn takes critical damage. At the end of the next turn, restore this Merc to its full state
- Equipment:
- Amber Transmits Four: Frenzy attack deals four more damage
- Razor Claw 4: Backlash grants +4 extra attacks
- Regenarative Scales 4: Regrow Head restores 16 Health when cast
Vanessa VanCleef (Epic Guardian)

- Pirates
- 10/75 max stats
- Ability:
- Burgle Barrage five: (Speedy) Attacks enemies. Combo: Steal five attacks from them
- Makeshift Weaponry five: (Speed three) Deals all stolen attacks to damage all enemies
- Shifting Satchel five: (Speed five, cooldown one) Deals 16 damage to enemies. Grants + a cooldown for skills they did not use this turn
- Equipment:
- Dreadblades four: Burgle Barrage is faster (four) and always combines
- Extra Bag Four: After using Makeshift Weaponry, this Merc continues to attack up to five times
- Blade Catcher four: Passive: Whenever this Merc is attacked, steal four hits from the attacker
New Bonus
- Razorgore
- Vaelastrasz
- Ch magnegus
- Nefarian
New bounty will be added to Blackrock Zone. New Mercenary, Portrait, and Coin tags will be added to all existing related Mercenary item pools.
Vanessa VanCleef will also be given away for free at the start Broken in Alterac valley Follow the free rewards and her portrait can be earned with the Tavern Pass. Each new mercenary will come with its own Quest Chain.
Battle field
Diablo defeated
The Diablo Special Event is now over and Bob’s Tavern is still intact. Diablo has now been removed from the Battlegrounds hero pool.
New hero
NSCabbage Cutterbutter

- I Spy (price two)
- Discover a simple replica of a minion from your next opponent’s war ice
[New] Hero is back
- Lord Barov has returned to the hero group Battlegrounds
Battle field Administrative Council

Battlegrounds Boards will launch in Patch 22.0. A brand new cosmetic option for Hearthstone Battlegrounds, Battlegrounds Boards are special boards that you can bring into the combat phase of your Battlegrounds battles. These boards have new images for you to see and show off to your competitors.
The first table is Arena of Champions. It will be available in the store as soon as the patch is released.
Duel
Update tag group
On December 7, Broken in Alterac valley and Goblins vs. Gnomes will be added to the group of eligible cards. New groups will be added to cover the cards from the newly added card sets.
New Passive Treasure Card
Natural Force – Group One
Kindling Flame – Group One
Evil Gift – Group One
- At the start of the game shuffle five Death Knight cards into your deck
Bitter Cold – Pool one
Fast burial – Group two
- At the start of the game, exchange each Deathrattle minion in your hand and deck for 1/1 costing (one)
Mantle of Ignition – Group two
- Whenever you target a minion with a spell, cast it again on its neighbors
Unreliable trousers – Group two
- After you cast the Fel spell, mix two Fel Rifts into your deck
Iron Root – Group two
- After you cast Nature spell, give a random friendly minion +2 / + 2 and taunt
Bronze signboard – Group two
- Whenever you draw a minion, add a copy of it to your hand
Battle stance – Group two
- Your hero has +two attacks on your turn
Ring of Black Ice – Group two
- Whenever a minion is frozen, add a copy of it to your hand
Elune’s Idol – Group two
- At the end of your turn, cast a spell you cast this turn (targets are random)
Runic Helm – Group two
- At the end of your turn, add a random Death Knight card to your hand
Cloak of Emerald Dreams – Group two
- At the end of your turn, add a Dream card to your hand
Glacial Downpour – Group two
- At the end of your turn, summon 3/6 Water Elemental if you cast Frost
Arena rotation
The current Dual Ranked Arena event will end with the launch of Broken in Alterac valley and the pool of eligible Arena sets will rotate so that the following sets form the Arena card pool:
- Broken in Alterac valley
- Uldum’s Savior
- Kobolds and the Catacombs
- League of Explorers
- Scholomance Academy
- Project Boomsday
- Core
Fix some bugs and improve the game
- Fixed a bug that allowed players on some devices to close Broken in Alterac Valley side selection screen without faction selection
- Fixed a bug that prevented Cram Sessions from receiving bonus magic damage from Talented Painters or Lab Partners
- Fixed a bug where the Brittlebone Destroyer glowed even when its effect requirements were not met
- Updated the text of Soul Cleave to correctly represent that it only attacks enemy minions, not all enemies
- Fixed a bug where cards returned by Tenwu of the Red Smoke could not be further reduced by cards like Scabbs Cutterbutter
- Fixed a bug that prevented Goblins v. Gnomes Yellow cards due to being handmade or discolored
- Fixed a bug where cards drawn by Malygos the Spellweaver after Celestial Alignment were not affected by Loatheb
- Fixed text error that caused Nithogg’s Storm Eggs to show that they had summoned 20/20 Devils instead of the 4/4 Dragons with Rush they actually summoned
- Players will now be able to watch their Mercenary Party while selecting the Bounty Treasure
- Completing multiple Quests and Bounties at the same time will no longer cause duplicate notifications on mobile devices
- You can now complete a number of other Daily Quests in Mercenaries, including Challenge a Friend, Spectate and Friend, and the “Play a certain amount of a Mercenary Type” quests. . More daily and weekly missions can be added or redone for future patches
- Fixed a bug where The Lich King’s Helm of Domination would not activate as intended under certain circumstances
- Fixed a bug where Blink Fox’s Mind Stealing Ability would retain an Ability copied after two uses, instead of just one, while Tenth Tail was equipped
- Fixed a bug where using Mutanus’ Swallow Attack caused the reincarnated Cairne to become invisible
- Fixed a bug that caused Eudora’s Briny Bra Cancer bullets to deal less health
- Fixed a bug where Edwin, Defias Kingpin was displaying the wrong work in its Diamond pane
- Fixed a bug that caused iOS users to get the “Low RAM” warning displayed incorrectly when entering Battlegrounds
- Fixed a bug where the Mercenary Equip Achievement was counted each Equipment upgrade as a new Equip
- Fixed a bug where Small Backpacks in Duels could draw C’Thun the Broken before he broke
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from using the Hero Skin selection function in Classic
- Fixed a bug where Steel Guardian Malfurion and Vanndar Stormpike Hero Skins were missing their custom hero power animations
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