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United Kingdom1381 Posts
Once StarCraft II Patch 2.1 is in your hands, you’ll find a number of exciting new leveling rewards to help customize your look on Battle.net and in-game. We’re also happy to share that we’ve increased the level cap for each race from 30 to 35 so that those of you who are hungry for more out-of-game progression can get your fix with a six-course meal of new portraits and decals.
New Leveling Rewards
We’ve seen the immense amount of support and enthusiasm that many of you share for the animated “StarCrafts” series, created by Jonathan Burton of Carbot Animations, and we’ve also heard your requests to see more of his content added to StarCraft II. Jonathan visited Blizzard HQ a short time before BlizzCon 2013 and while he was here, we asked him to draw up a few new portraits and decals that we could offer to you in-game. Let’s take a look at the awesome artwork he put together to make this happen.
As you can see above, we’ve got a Carbot-themed portrait and decal for each race, meaning there’s a total of six brand new rewards waiting for you with Patch 2.1. All you’ll have to do to earn them is play games of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to gain XP and level up. Achieving levels 32 and 35 with Protoss, Terran, or Zerg will respectively award you with the decal and portrait specific to that race. Reach level 35 with each of the three races to collect them all!
First Win of the Day
Alongside the new rewards and increased level cap, we’ve also quadrupled the amount of XP you’ll earn with “First Win of the Day” XP bonuses. Following the patch, your first win of the day with each race will award 100,000 XP so that you can pack even more punch into your StarCraft II play sessions.
We’re always looking for new ways to make leveling in StarCraft II an even more fun and rewarding experience, so we hope you enjoy these “StarCrafts”-themed portraits and decals once we release Patch 2.1. If you haven’t had the chance to check out an episode of StarCrafts yet, or just can’t get enough of Jonathan’s work, you can head to the official Carbot Animations YouTube channel and CarbotAnimations.com to stay up to date with all the latest releases.
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I like the first win of the day thing!
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Solid additions. Exactly what the game needs.
Hope there will be a way to disable those decals.
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Protoss is the first race on both the pictures and they use protoss for win of the day blizzard bias confirmed + Show Spoiler +This is some pretty obvious sarcasm <3
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first win of the day thing is def a good way to get people to at least put in a few every day, just wish the levels were harder to get so that people wouldn't max level in 1 week lol
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Finally. 
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So.... is that all?
I mean, aren't there some other very *cough* *cough* important things to address *cough *cough* ?
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people are so negative, i like it and it's obviously not the only thing they will be bringing with the patch 2.1, they already announced other things during blizzcon.
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I hate to be so negative, but who really cares about having a level cap increase from 30 to 35? it's not like we're earning customizable paint schemes for our units, and this isn't an MMO. XP and a leveling system just feels totally unnecessary on the grand scale of things that the community wants Blizzard to work on.
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nice preview i'm so excited guys, can't handle all this emotion
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Russian Federation4295 Posts
On January 10 2014 08:08 Undead1993 wrote:
people are so negative, i like it and it's obviously not the only thing they will be bringing with the patch 2.1, they already announced other things during blizzcon.
Patch 2.1 is really the weakest client-patch of all patches that we had.
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What? and what happened to the Clan decals/logos & the new Mods system???
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not really a patch. But I do like dem portraits!
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On January 10 2014 08:32 Uvantak wrote:
What? and what happened to the Clan decals/logos & the new Mods system???
They're still coming in 2.1. This preview was only for a couple of the more minor features in the patch. Everything being tested in the PTR should be released, plus it's a big deal that all custom maps and Arcade will be f2p once the patch goes live.
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On January 10 2014 08:21 Existor wrote:Show nested quote +On January 10 2014 08:08 Undead1993 wrote:
people are so negative, i like it and it's obviously not the only thing they will be bringing with the patch 2.1, they already announced other things during blizzcon. Patch 2.1 is really the weakest client-patch of all patches that we had.
You guys are aware this is not a full list of changes, right? They've mentioned earlier that they will be doing all kinds of additional changes like re-introducing SC1 music and changing ladder parameters so the leagues are distributed differently, etc.
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On January 10 2014 08:45 Nerevar wrote:Show nested quote +On January 10 2014 08:32 Uvantak wrote:
What? and what happened to the Clan decals/logos & the new Mods system??? They're still coming in 2.1. This preview was only for a couple of the more minor features in the patch. Everything being tested in the PTR should be released, plus it's a big deal that all custom maps and Arcade will be f2p once the patch goes live.
Yeah, i got scared there for a moment! i'm terribly exited by the Mod thingy and the f2p arcade ^^
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