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- Hamilton Chu has taken the stage!
- We're going to Gadgetzan. (Totally didn't know this at all, right)
- Hamilton Chu is making it seem relaxing..
- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is the title of Hearthstone's forth expansion.
- There are three crime families that run everything in Gadgetzan.
- The Grimy Goons are the brutes and enforcers of Gadgetzan.
- The Jade Lotus
- The Kabal are spellcasters.
- There are Multi-Class Cards!
- Priests, Mages, and Warlocks are a part of The Kabal.
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- They're talking about the Blizzard journey from their early days until now.
- World of Warcraft content panel later today will talk about upcoming patches.
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- Overwatch Arcade will have 1v1 and 3v3 game modes.
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Means Streets of Gadgetzan Trailer
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Quote from BlizzardGadgetzan: City of Opportunity
Listen up, pal. The great big city of Gadgetzan dat you see before you? It started out as a sleepy little desert town and a twinkle in da eye of a few ambitious folks eager to get their stubby little mitts on some coin. It only took a convenient, earth-shattering dragon attack to turn what were a few desert shanties into a bustling seaport, and dat brought in a new era of trade. With trade came money, and with money came power. Don’t fall asleep on me, kid, I’m tryin’ to make a point here!
Whether you’re here to see the sights, sample a few of Gadgetzan’s five star-fire restaurants, or to find a new friend to watch your back, you should know what’s really goin’ on behind da scenes. Walk with me, I’ll show you the sights. Da architecture in this burg is first class!
Who Runs the Streets?
Gadgetzan might look all excitin’ and cosmopoli-whateva on the outside—they have done a good job getting you tourists to visit, after all—but it’s also packed with hooligans, brawlers, and assassins down every alley, watching and lurking in the shadows. If the word on the street is true, you’ve made a bit of a name for yourself, and those unsavory characters are gonna want to make sure that you’re on theirside or on no side at all, if you catch my drift. Better get to know da crime families that run the streets, and quick.
The Grimy Goons sure picked a flattering name for themselves. They’re your gangsters and weapon smugglers, eager to make their coin by equipping Gadgetzan with all sorts of untested and illegal weaponry. They’re easy to pick out of a crowd; you can usually smell ‘em before you see ‘em, but watch out for ill-fitting brown vests and garish orange ties. What they don’t have in brains, they make up with brawn.
Members of the Jade Lotus family excel in the ancient arts of stealth, assassination, and turning murlocs into finjas. Yeah, I said finjas. Don’t give me that look. I didn’t come up with that name. Rumor has it they’re meddling with some sort of ancestral juju and hitting the local art and relic exhibits—I don’t know how true that is, but I’ll tell you one thing: the statues outside their business are really creepy.
Need some mana quick? The Kabal got you covered. These crazy chemists control the illicit mana trade in Gadgetzan, and there’s never a shortage of magic-users looking for a little extra boost to their latest potent potable or kooky concoction. Just a warning: never drink what they offer you. You may up with a fuzzy coat of wool, or at the very least, a killer headache. Emphasis on the killer.
Pre-Purchase Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
Looking to get ahead of the pack? I can hook you up. Right now, you can pre-purchase a bundle of 50 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card-packs for $49.99 USD.Don’t worry, my friends at the Bank of Gadgetzan are gonna hold ‘em in their vault for you until the expansion’s official release. It’ll be safe, I promise! Get it? SAFE! I kill me.
Gearin’ Up for Release
Got your buddies waiting for you? Good. You wanna be ready to hit the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan when it comes out for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices later this year. Just to keep you in the know, here’s some other important tidbits of information . . . but you didn’t hear it from me.
The Grimy Goons, the Kabal, and the Jade Lotus are going to show off their best and brightest to try and recruit you to their side. Check out the minions, spells, and weapons each crime family has to offer at gadgetzan.com. I hear they’ve even recruited some other big shots from around the globe to show off some cards.
My ugly goblin mug won’t be posting nothin’, but I’m sure there’s going to be some interesting pictures of Gadgetzan ending up on Facebook and Twitter. Who knows, you may get the attention of some of the big wigs if you use the hashtag #Gadgetzan. That’s when they know you’re in it to win— hashtags mean business. And hit up Talan at his bar if you have time. There’s always new information flowing through there, so I’m sure he’ll have something new to tell you.
Listen bud, it’s been a pleasure, but I got things to do and people to see. The mean streets wait for no one. I’ll see you on the other side, boss.
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Well, just from these cards alone, as a priest and rogue fan, I am very excited for the meta change :D
This feels so magical, I like it!!! :D
New Expansion Hype train :D
Hopefully mixes the meta up a little, the overwhelming number of shamans tires me...
Sad there won't be an exclusive card back with the pre-order. Means I maybe won't preorder at all...
Are TgT - Brm - LoE going to shift to wild now? or do we have another year of these. if so, reno decks will be more fun to play than they even were :P
After that we will have Kazakus decks on standard... Need to see how big an impact he will have on the meta though...
Usually, it's available until the release of the expansion.
So, from top to bottom :
Moar board swarming and outrageous face damage thanks to weapons ( Oh, and free Kill Command activator, because planning and holding on cards in Hunter was REALLY getting out of hand ).
Whatever, this will not fix Rogue's problem with survivability. This isn't even about this being a bad card, it's a very good one, it's just that as a dedicated rogue player, I honestly can't be bothered to give a f*ck about this if it's all rogue gets. For all I care they can give no cards to rogue and just put Blade Flurry at 2 mana and we're golden.
And now, before your very eyes, Priest will follow in Shaman's path and get outrageously broken cards to make up for Team 5's inability to patch actual weaknesses.
That wording is a clustferf*ck as Discover is defined as only being able to reach cards that are neutral or from your own class.
Oh, yeah, that one original card everyone will like ? Not neutral, because f*ck you.
Hey, everyone liked that card with Deathrattle. HERE COMES THE ORIGINALITY.
The worst in that ? This is what Blizzard thought was their best.
Jesus christ, get the fuck out.
You're judging all of this based on less than 10 cards. Uninstall the game and delete your account.
Priest just got 2 AOEs ( Well, one indirect because it synergizes with SW:H ; Did you know Priest now has 5 AOEs ? ), and a minion that is worth 10 stats for 3 mana.
"1 mana : Give +1/+1 to all your minions" Power of the Wild was already mainly played for this one aspect ; Now for 1 less mana.
"3 mana : Draw 3 1-cost minions from your deck" Does this even need explaining ?
"5 mana : Draw 2 cards ; Minions drawn cost (2) less." This is a very dire tempo loss, EXCEPT if you play these minions very fast, mmh ?
"3 mana : Gain 1 empty mana crystal for each friendly minions" Again, not strictly but very realistically powercreep over an already universally played card.
"1 mana 1/1 Charge summoned whenever you play a pirate"
Yeah I was definitely wrong as to Priest being the next flavour of the month class and Blizzard going for the board swarm. And you could counter that with "Yeah, but they printed control cards" ; And I would answer that they've always been, but when you're dead by turn 7, an 8-drop ain't worth much ( Unless you're druid, but since they're already sorta going for a token approach, and this will only buff that archetype...Nope. ).
Time will tell, but I honeslty wouldn't hold my breath when they think that set of cards is supposed to make us think we're done with the sh*t that's been going on for some months in HS.
If you hate the game so much then leave quietly, stop trying to draw attention to yourself like an angry 10 year old and fucking quit.
So now giving your opinion is forbidden. Oh no, wait, it's giving your opinion when you think Team 5 didn't do the bestest move ever.
No wonder they get away with the likes of midrange shaman, people just give them slack for whatever they do. "Huh, yeah, we know we just buffed the deck we were actually trying to nerf with that patch, but, huh...It's okay I guess ? Yeah we cool.".
As to leaving, I haven't played in weeks, and I was just waiting to see some of the expansion to actually uninstall, which I guess is indeed coming. If you think this is about attention, you can just ignore me ; Or maybe you think there's more to this than "Huh, you're obviously not right in any way, this is just a cheap attempt at getting likes" ( Which so far hasn't really been the result ).
Another discover card, with even more variance and another add health priest card.
Yawn.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/174530-i-think-i-know-what-the-next-expansion-is-going-to
CALLED IT
well... this expansion better have some overpowered control cards... im so tired of aggro
kazakus 100 % craft for me ..
is gadgetzan.com not working only for me?