by JR Cook - 9 years ago     show comments

The Patch notes for BRM were made available through the Battle.net launcher. Check them out below!

Blackrock Mountain: A Hearthstone Adventure

• Blackrock Mountain has been added and will be accessible starting April 2.
• Blackrock Mountain is a new single-player Adventure that pits you against challenging NPC (non-player character) adversaries. Blackrock Mountain can be unlocked with gold or real money and can be accessed by players who have unlocked all 9 heroes.
• Defeat 17 fearsome foes to unlock a total of 31 new Hearthstone cards for your collection, including 5 Legendary cards! Blackrock Mountain cards can easily be searched for within My Collection using the search function.
• An all-new interactive Blackrock-themed game board awaits you within the Adventure. Discover the surprises that stew in shimmering magma pools, hammer down the fine art of blacksmithing, and more.
• Overcome 9 nefarious Class Challenges that test your skills with each of the unique classes of Hearthstone.
• Defeating all of the bosses within a wing unlocks the extremely challenging Heroic Mode of that wing. Defeating all of the bosses of Blackrock Mountain on Heroic mode unlocks a new card back for your collection.
• Five unique wings await those brave enough to delve into Blackrock Mountain. Each of the five wings are available to purchase with real money or gold, with a new wing unlocking for players to enter each week over the course of April.
  • Blackrock Depths – This sprawling underground city is the stronghold of the Dark Iron dwarves, thriving deep beneath the surface.
  • Molten Core – Face fiery elemental minions in searing magma tunnels at the heart of Blackrock Mountain.
  • Blackrock Spire – Climb to the heights of Blackrock Mountain to invade Nefarian’s domain and square off against ogres, orcs, and dragonkin.
  • Blackwing Lair – Foil the lord of Blackrock by disrupting his attempts to create the perfect draconic minions.
  • The Hidden Laboratory – The final showdown, where you’ll contend with fiendish technology, horrifying experimental monstrosities, and the mastermind behind them all.

Bug Fixes

• Friends that are Away in Battle.net will no longer be displayed in your online friend count.
• We’ve nailed the game board to the table: Spells that create screen shaking effects should no longer get your screen stuck in a bad position.
• Warsong Commander will now give charge to minions summoned by other minions – charge forward!
• Bane of Doom can now summon any collectible demons. Doom . . . DOOM!
• Sylvanas Windrunner will no longer steal a minion that is about to die, which is weird because that’s generally her thing.
• Vol’jin will no longer destroy itself if the only other minion in play is stealthed.
• Minions that are spawned from a Deathrattle are now targetable sooner. This will affect the Slime from Sludge Belcher, as well as the spawns from Harvest Golem, Piloted Shredder and Piloted Sky Golem.
• General bug fixes and UI improvements.

Quick Thoughts on the Bug Fixes:

• Warsong Commander is finally fixed, so you can finally Get Lethal on last week’s BlizzPro Puzzle. YAY! The Real Reason for this fix though is likely to allow for the Warsong Commander/Grim Patron combo that we saw in the BRM preview livestream.
• It is interesting that the Bane of Doom change is listed as a Bug Fix. As I mentioned on our Mending Mondays series, Bane of Doom had a pretty good lore reason to summon the minions that it did, so that was most certainly intended and not a bug. And while his is certainly a buff to the card, I don’t think it will be enough to make it playable.
• Another very relevant fix is that you won’t have to wait forever to be able to target Deathrattle spawned minions. This is very important because it could even cost you a game if you took too much time thinking your play and your rope was about to completely burn.

What’s your favorite change? Let us know using the comments below.