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Blackrock Mountain Confirmed
The Blackrock Mountain Adventure has been confirmed at PAX East 2015. It will release in April 2015. We've summarized and organized all the information below from the panel and the official announcement post.
- There are five wings in the adventure, each of which can be purchased for 700 gold, or $6.99 USD.
- You can get a discount on the wings if you buy them in bulk. All five can be purchased together for $24.99.
- There is no free wing this time around. (Source)
- Wings will be released on a weekly basis, one at a time.
- Thirty-one new cards will be obtained through seventeen bosses, wing completion, and class challenges.
- Pre-orders for Blackrock Mountain begin on March 19th or 20th, and will reward a special card back.
- You cannot obtain the card back through a Gold pre-order. Real money only.
- Purchasing the expansion only unlocks it for the region you have purchased it in. (Source)
- Dragons will be getting some love with this adventure, with lots of interactions between the card type!
- Heroic Mode will once again be available and will reward players with a card back for completing it.
- When a new wing releases, the cards from that wing will be available in The Arena, even if you haven't played the adventure.
New Cards
We've got five new cards out of the thirty-one to check out! All these cards are usable in the deck builder. Get theorycrafting!
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Adventure Format
Blackrock Mountain will use the same format as the Curse of Naxxramas adventure, with bosses being inside of wings and the wings being released on a weekly basis. There will once again be a set of class challenges, which will reward your class cards. Heroic mode is also available which rewards a card back upon completion.
There are five wings in Blackrock Mountain, each representing a different place in the mountain. In these five wings reside seventeen bosses. The last three names weren't announced on the site, but if you look into the markup for the official BRM page, you can see their names! Thanks i2lurchi for the tip!
- Wing 1 - Blackrock Depths
- Grim Guzzler (Coren Direbrew)
- The Arena
- Dark Iron Emperor
- Wing 2 - Molten Core
- Wing 3 - Blackrock Spire
- Wing 4 - Blackwing Lair
- Wing 5 - Hidden Lab
Card Backs
Three new upcoming card backs which are blackrock themed are going to be available to players.
"Molten Core"
Season 12 (Mar. 2015)
"BRM Heroic"
Clear Heroic Blackrock
"BRM Pre-order"
Pre-order Blackrock
New Gameboard
A new Blackrock Mountain themed gameboard will be introduced in the adventure. Below you can see Coren Direbrew, the first boss in Wing 1, Blackrock Depths.
Ragnaros' Hammer Clickable
Zeriyah posted a video of part of the Ragnaro's Hammer board clickable animation.
Cinematic Trailer
Blizzard has released the cinematic trailer for Blackrock Mountain!
Hearthstone Mobile is now in Alpha
Hearthstone's mobile version is being tested internally among Blizzard staff right now. They are estimating that it will be out within a couple of months. Below you can see screenshots of the start screen, collection manager, in-game board, and card pack opening. Quite a bit different than the normal client!
Great job! But why its called "naxx" wing?
It's not so much lazy devs. They already had a CSS class built for that look and feel. And when you name things, sometimes you name it for what it is now, instead of what it could be for in the future. So that's why naxx wing.
They are just reusing old code to give everything the same look and feel. Happens all the time on the internets.
Wait, it doesn't say anywhere about the first wing being free. I guess we are going to be paying 700 for it. Kinda disappointing.
Why not to mention about announced heroes of 1st wing and the name of the wing?
Is there any VOD of the PAX presentation can be found?
I don't ususally do this...but I'm so excited for Dragon interactions! Time to dust off the "Here there be dragons!" Druid deck!
Finally!
For all who love golden cards, it might take 49600 dust to craft all Blackrock Mountain cards (Naxx had 30 cards and was 46400 cards, BRM ist 31 cards, so my guess it's 1 more legendary card.)
Can't wait for the new meta - HYPE! :)
Here's the 5 other cards that flash up at the start;
Everything so far is "Dragon in hand" which is fine if you run Alex or maybe Ysera (which I have not seen in a long, long time), but a lot of the current dragons, you want to play earlyish. Twilight Drake needs to be played with cards in hand and early to make it a true thread, Azure Drake is a turn 5 play if you can for the cycle. And that is pretty much it. Whelp is garbage unless there is super strong dragon synergy. Faerie Dragon is decent, but there are other 2 drops I'd rather have (again, unless there are some crazy dragon synergy combos).
I guess we'll have to see, but unless they have some more dragons or better synergy, I don't believe this will be the expansion that will enable Dragons to reach competitive levels. Fun gimmick decks, maybe. Excited to see what is in store.
Can i just say that the cards art are bad?? Except for the 5/6 dragon, they are ugly
It's hard to make a dwarf look good :-)
I do love the art on Rend Blackhand, the 5/6 Dragon is decent but generic.
How dare you....
I actually really like the art for Dark Iron Skulker. Patron is pretty meh though.
Wait, 4 fan of knives????
Why not?
might be for the golden version. the filter version is non existent in tablet or ipad or pc so it might be to save space and filter non golden or golden only filter is differs from search.
good eye though i dont notice the little things im distracted by the DECK NAMES ( BOLVAAAA)
Maybe is this,thanks!
It's 700 for each wing. If it's like before the first wing is free for a period of time. So that makes a total of 2800 gold to spend for the whole/all wings OR 3500 if you miss collecting the free wing. Last time people had a month to get it, so no rush.
I think to preorder, you need to spend real money.