Legend of the Innkeeper : A Hearthstone Podcast for Casual Players

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank : Silver 10 Standard, Gold 10 Wild 34% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 28%) Level 121 in Tavern Pass (was 91) 1195 Gold (995), 220 Dust (460) Vastidious:  Rank : Bronze 3 Standard (Bronze 3) – Silver 10  (Silver 9) [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank : Bronze 3 Wild May Final Rank: Gold 8 Wild 28% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 36%) Level 91 in Tavern Pass (was 83) 995 Gold, 460 Dust Vastidious:  Rank : Bronze 3 Standard (Gold 7) – Silver 9 (Gold [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank : Bronze 2 Standard – Gold 9 Wild April’s Rank: Platinum 8 36% Barrens Gameplay Achievements (was 25%) Level 83 in Tavern Pass (was 70) 195 Gold, 170 Dust Vastidious:  Rank : Gold 9 Standard – Bronze 10 Wild [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank : Silver 9 Standard – Platinum 10 Wild 25% Barrens Gameplay Achievements Level 70 in Tavern Pass 95 Gold, 265 Dust Vastidious:  Rank : Gold 5 Standard – Platinum 5 Wild 37% Barrens Gameplay Achievements Level 80 in Tavern [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Rank : Silver 9 Standard – Gold 4 Wild Level 49 in Tavern Pass 95 Gold, 390 Dust I’m 27 cards short of a full Barrens collection achievement 9% of the Barrens Gameplay Achievements Vastidious: Rank : Gold 5 Standard [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Silver 8, 3345 gold Vastidious:  Ended with: Rank – Standard Plat 10?,  Wild Diamond 8, Rank 73? Opened 143 packs & 5 Golden packs Legendaries: Cannonmaster Smythe Serena Bloodfeather Rokara Plaguemaw the Rotting Mordresh Fire Eye Tavish Stormpike Kazakus, Golem [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  2895 Gold, Weekly Achievements Vastidious:  5160 Gold, Weekly Achievements News Blizzard announces adjustments coming for the Rewards Track When the track refreshes when FinB launches, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on both tracks (if purchased). The [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  Rank Legend, 2445 gold saved, 150 on rewards track Vastidious: Rank Gold 9 in Wild, 2860 gold saved, level 41 on the Rewards Track News BlizzConline Round up Year of the Gryphon Basic and Classic cards will move to Wild [...]

This week we had a special guest on the show, Cora, Associate Game Designer from Blizzard Entertainment.

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Not much news because of Thanksgiving However, there was a hotfix that fixed numerous issues with players not getting quests, XP and other various things. That was fixed with a server side fix, and they are working to determine who [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 5, Vectus, Instructor Fireheart from Bundle;  Forest Warden Omu from pack  Playing Librams and am 31-14 Vastidious: Rank Platinum 8, 50 gold News 2 Updates since last week 18.0.2 Kael’thas Sunstrider – Every third spell you cast each turn [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 10 gold, Rank Gold 9 Played Libram Paladin (20-5) Vastidious: 50 gold, Rank Platinum 8 (was P6) Legendaries from the card opening: Espo Rattlegore from opening day Star Student Stelina (DH) Archwitch Willow Vast Infiltrator Lilian Golden Speaker Gidra High [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:Gold: 3630, Rank Silver 1 Vastidious: 1530, Rank Silver 4 News Patch 18.0 New weapon frames are now in game Battlegrounds Updates Mr. Bigglesworth – Kel’thuzad’s Kitty – Passive – When a player dies, Discover a minion from their warband. It [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 3110 gold, Silver 9 Vastidious: 1390 gold, Rank Silver 4 News We have a release date: August 6th Last Card Reveal livestream – Wed, July 29th – 10am PT With Kripp and Alec Dawson Community AMA summary – Some highlights [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 2660 Gold, Silver 9 Rank Vastidious: 1210 gold, Bronze 10 News New Expansion Announced! Scholomance Academy Release Date – Early August Login now – Get Transfer Student for free – 2 mana 2/2, This has different effects based on which [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 1730, Rank Silver 4?  2 Legendaries in my 3 pack reward! Vastidious: Gold 1040, Rank Gold 10 This week I defeated the Lich King! And Heroic Naxxramas! News 17.4.2 Server side patch rolled out Captain Eudora, Skycap’n Kragg and [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 1480, Rank 4 Silver Natalie Seline (Still need Shadow Word: Ruin for Classic set) Vastidious: Rank Gold 10, 870 gold Zixor, Apex Predator, Kanrethad Ebonlocke Battlegrounds – Captain Eudora – “4 digs left” means that you have to dig [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 1140 gold, Rank Silver 4 Vastidious: 690, Rank Gold 10 News Patch 17.4 is live Felfire Festival (summary) Week 1 – Battlegrounds Pirate Update Week 2 – Aranna Starseeker: Trial by Felfire story and battlegrounds; Legendary Quest #1 Week 3 [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 670 gold, Silver 10 Vastidious: 440 gold, Silver 3 News Nada 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 of [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 130 gold, Rank 9 gold Vastidious: 110 Gold, Rank 5 Gold News BlizzCon 2020 cancelled – Possible online event early 2021 Espo Mode  A Cavalcade of Brawls Rules: The cavalcade returns! Each class is associated with a previous Brawl and [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Patch 17.2.1 is live Balance Updates Aldor Attendant Old: Cost 2, 2 Attack, 3 Health New: Cost 1; 1 Attack, 3 Health Torrent Old: Cost 5 New: Cost 4 Shattered Rumbler Old: 4 Attack, 6 Health New: 5 Attack, 6 [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Bronze 1 Vast: Gold 5 News Duplicate Protection in Season Rewards Not Working Blizzard announced that they are aware that this was not working in the April Rewards chest.  They have addressed the issue and going forward it will apply [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  Rank Gold 5 Vastidious: Rank Gold 2, 70 gold News Arena Balance update – Update strives to bring balance closer to the 50% win-rate ideal.  Specifically the win-rates of Demon Hunter and Priest should now decrease and the rest should [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 4 rank,  Vastidious: Gold 1 rank News New Balance Patch Live Neutral Kael’thas Sunstrider – 6 mana up to 7 mana Bad Luck Albatross – 3 mana up to 4 mana Frenzied Felwing – 3 / 3 changing to [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Played the new hero… what’s it called? Purchased about a 1.5 packs a day with gold and opened Al’ar and Astromancer Solarian. Rank: Gold 5 What level is your DH? 32 Vastidious: Mostly played Mage.  Some updates here and there [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  Bronze 9 Vastidious: Rank : Silver 7 News Demon Hunter Prologue is live today (April 2nd) Totally FREE You play as Illidan Stormrage, going through his backstory Completing it unlocks the Demon Hunter Basic set (10 cards) and the Demon [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Patch 17 is live Card packs now have duplicate protection across all rarities Free deck for new and returning players, which they choose the class they want it from. Battlegrounds Updates Cobalt Guardian has been removed New Hero: Illidan Stormrage [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Year of the Phoenix Roadmap Phase 1 we will discuss in detail below. Duplicate Protection Extending this protection from not just Legendaries, but to cards of ALL rarities.   You will no longer receive more than two copies of any Common, [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Dean Ayala – Battlegrounds post Apparently Hearthpwn was able to sit down and interview Dean Ayala at the Hearthstone Summit, and they posted one of the questions they asked. “Are there any plans to introduce a leaderboard or a reward [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Battlegrounds Update – Dragons KNOWN ISSUE: Both iOs and Android updates appear to be causing issues for some people.  Blizzard is aware and working on an update. They suggest uninstalling and reinstalling to get around the issue, however many are [...]

This week we take a closer look at the new Warrior cards released with the latest expansion, Descent of Dragons.  We also check out the last chapter in the solo player content, Galakrond’s Awakening. Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? News Master’s Tour Indonesia moved to Los [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 100 Gold, Rank 10  Embiggin Druid AAECAZICBK8EnQ2ggAOftwMNQOEE0qUD2akD+60D/a0DjK4D3q8D57AD/7ADhbEDh7ED/7UDAA== Pirate Rogue AAECAYO6AgKvBIixAw7LA6gF1AXuBogH5weuhQPPiQPbjAOJmwP/pQO/rgPpsAObtgMA NoNek Rogue AAECAYO6AgiyAq8EoIADkpcDgrEDm7YDn7cDy8ADC7QB7QLNA4gHtJEDj5cD9acDua4D/q4Dqq8Dzq8DAA== Vastidious: 720 Gold, Rank 20 News Possible changes coming with the Demon tribe in Battlegrounds (source) – Question came up asking about tuning them downward and Blizzard [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:160 gold, rank 8 Vastidious: 530 gold News Mike Donais and Peter Whalen are no longer on the Hearthstone team.  They are working together on another project, “something cool” that they can’t talk about right now.  (source)  This was later confirmed [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 1020 Vastidious: Gold 240 News Galakrond’s Awakening: Chapter 1 is live Patch 16.2 came out with this update Battlegrounds Update – 2 new heroes Tirion Fordring – Honorable Warband – (Cost 1) Give minions with no minion type +1/+1 [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: 530 gold , rank 17, no new packs, just saving for GA Vastidious: 240 gold, rank 19, nothing new out of free packs News New Video from Hearthstone, Northrend Newscast 4 new Legendaries in the Adventure Takes place from the [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:   Vastidious: 40 Gold, 7835 Dust News Masters Tour / Grandmaster Updates (source) 6 events this year, up from 3 $250,000 in base prizes for each event Will continue the crowdfunding initiative to bolster the prize pool beyond that ESL/Dreamhack will [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Ended rank 13, no new cards =( Vastidious: Ended Rank 18, currently at Gold: 30, Dust: 10,025 – Bought a pack tonight with gold, and opened Chenvalla News 3 weeks until solo player content, Galakrond’s Awakening Espo Mode  (Postponed to [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  Vastidious: 60 Gold, 10150 Dust News  No news this week Espo Mode  A New Year Bash Rules: The party is here! Work together with another player to decorate the tavern and kickoff a New Year’s party! Rewards: A Classic Pack [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:63 packs opened Legendaries: Veranus, Chenvaala, Dragonrider Talritha, Deathwing Mad Aspect Vastidious: 128 packs opened Legendaries: Goru the Mightree, Mindflayer Kaahrj (Golden), Murozond the Infinite, Murozond the Infinite (Golden) CRAFTED, Waxadred (Golden) Free Card, Zzeraku the Warped, Deathwing, Mad Aspect, Frizz [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo:  5000 Gold, 8 packs ready to go, 1845 dust, BG: 18/63, 3836 Vastidious: 2170 Gold, 107 packs ready to go, 14025 dust, 7/72, 4978 BG Stats: Triples Created, Tavern Upgrades, Damage in one turn, Biggest Minion, Time Played, Top 5 [...]

Updates: What did you do this week? Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends? Espo: Gold 4410, BG: 13/54/3682 Vastidious: Gold 1900, BG: 4/46/4565 News Blizzard compensates for Patch 15.6 issues. 3 Saviors of Uldum card packs (granted to players who downloaded 15.6 between 11/5-11/11) 300 gold – Brawliseum – Battle of the bands issues [...]