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Hotfixes for December 5th, No Flying Poll, DLC #467
Update 3:04 PM EST: Launcher status has been updated. Maintenance extended until 1 PM PST for NA.
Update 2:12 PM EST: Maintenance has been extended another hour, until 3 PM EST (12 PST). (Source)
Update: 1:38 PM EST: Other regions will roll out after NA is stable. (Source)
Update: 1:35 PM EST: Zeriyah says GvG should be out once maintenance concludes. (Source)
Update 1:00 PM EST (Dec 8): Servers are down for maintenance
Update 7:48 PM EST: A tweet from Zeriyah from Friday points to an early afternoon release of GvG tomorrow (Dec 8).
Server Maintenance: Hearthstone will be unavailable starting at 10 AM PST on Dec 8. Maintenance will last around an hour. (Source)
Goblins vs Gnomes Launches Monday!
We've been through another great card reveal journey together, and now it's time for the release of Hearthstone's first expansion!
Goblins vs Gnomes goes live on Monday, Dec 8, 2014 in North America. Europe, China, Taiwan, and Korea will receive GvG on Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014. We do not yet have exact times of release, but we'll keep you posted.
Goblins vs Gnomes Theorycraft Decks
Some of our deck architects and other members have created GvG deck concepts they'll be trying out once the expansion hits, and would love for you to also give them a shot. Below you'll find several decks which have been Gnomified.
To create your own Goblins vs Gnomes deck, head on over to our Deckbuilder.
Special mention goes to DMTS3000's hilarious Bombs Away Mage deck.
Nuba's GvG Ramp Druid
TheChiv's Assembly Line
Nuba's GvG DemonLock
Chakal1000's Miracle Mech
Nuba's GvG Control Priest
Nuba's GvG Mech Shaman
Ilvalentino's Controladin
Salmonella_dub's Stall.. Stall.. Stall.. BOOM!
Spark's Deadly BeastsHearthstone Logic #7: Goblins vs Gnomes
Flamy507 brings us another video in his Hearthstone Logic series, this time featuring Goblins vs Gnomes action.
Card Clarifications
We've rounded up a ton of card clarifications from our Blizzard Twitter friends. You can find them all here, in our dedicated thread.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)Damn it feels good to be American.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)G V G B O Y Z
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Posted Dec 7, 2014 (GvG Launch)I think the official response is they want to make sure NA goes smoothly, then roll out the others.
Which, from a development perspective, makes sense when unleashing a big thing that changes your previously stable thing.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)What holiday would that be? You do know Europe is more than one country (and also more than the European Union), right?
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)Are you/we sure that it is actually 'the day after' and not just a time-zone thing? I mean 'afternoon in US' could easily mean after midnight here in EU.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)It's your punishment for not being an American.
Since I'm getting downvoted anyways: ITT Europeans complaining that an American game company is releasing a product for American consumers first.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)Sorry bro, but you can't use "nation wide" and Europe in one sentence ^^
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)Actually yes you can "bro"...before you go correcting someone, get your facts straight so that you don't look like the fool.
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Posted Dec 7, 2014 (GvG Launch)Not sure how I feel about the new set coming out tomorrow. If this were MTG, I'd be psyched, but as a ftp user, who has no intent on spending money, it just makes the game feel harder to keep up on. I'm hoping that older decks will still be viable intact against decks using the new cards.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)If this xpack wasn't free we'd all be buying it anyways, so why not spend the $20 the game would have cost and get a bunch of cards?
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)I don't think this is necessarily true. Naxx wasn't free and plenty of people ponied up the cash for it, myself included. The base game being free gets people to play, the expansions don't need to be free. People who play the game would buy the expansion. I'm honestly surprised (and grateful) that GvG will be free. That being said, I will be buying 15 packs, because I was expecting to spend $20 on the expansion anyways.
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Posted Dec 8, 2014 (GvG Launch)Where did I ever say that? If GvG wasn't free you wouldn't be able to access the new cards without purchasing the expansion (ie you couldn't get them from arena, buy them in the store, or craft them). This isn't rocket science. It would work the same way every other expansion in the history of video games works. Fortunately, it is free.
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Posted Dec 7, 2014 (GvG Launch)One day til GvG! Hype!
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Posted Dec 7, 2014 (GvG Prelaunch)Hooray! New cards!
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Posted Dec 7, 2014 (GvG Prelaunch)Patch from 10-11 PST better be the release. I will look at the decks more closely when I have cards to test them with.