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Blackrock Mountain Wing 5 Release Status

NA Latency Issues, T6 Raekor & In-Geom Barb, Natalya's DH Solo GR 54
Rotation for April 28, 2015, Skin Spotlight: Master Azmodan
Patch 6.2 PTR - Build 19953, Upcoming Raid Testing, Blue Posts

Blackrock Mountain: Hidden Laboratory

The final wing of Blackrock Mountain, Hidden Laboratory, opens on Thursday, April 30, in North America. This week's wing has four bosses, and 6 new cards which you can earn. Details on everything in this week's wing can be found below.

Remember, we will be compiling information on the four new bosses and class challenges, including heroic decks, so stay tuned to the front page on Thursday for more information!

Wing Card Rewards

The four bosses, Omnotron Defense System, Maloriak, Atramedes, and Nefarian will each drop one card, with Nefarian dropping once all four bosses have been downed.

Drop: Omnotron
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Drop: Maloriak
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Drop: Atramedes
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Drop: Nefarian
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Wing Completion Reward
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Class Challenge Rewards

This week things are a bit different since we only have one class challenge, and it's all about the Paladins. Completing the final class challenge will grant you two Solemn Vigil.

Paladin Class Challenge
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Hidden Laboratory Boss Cards

Planning on theorizing some decks before Hidden Lab launches on Thursday? Below you can find all of the boss-specific cards that we know about for each of this week's encounters.

Keep in mind that the heroic versions of these bosses most likely have armor, the values of which we won't know until the wing is live.

Omnotron Defense System

This fight is going to revolve around the four different trons being summoned or activated in either a pre-defined order or randomly. Looking at the mana costs of the activation spells, it looks like we may see Arcanotron first followed by Toxitron, Electron, and finally Magmatron, with the fight continuing randomly afterwards.

If that's the case, spells can be pretty deadly early on, but you'll want to have some beefy minions on the field to avoid dying to Toxitron's AoE ability.

Maloriak

This fight's unique mechanic is swapping the Health and Attack of all your minions. Playing minions that normally have very high health and low mana costs could prove to be beneficial in the early game. At some point he will start to release Aberration, which on Heroic will be at 3/3 due to the passive hero power - you may want some taunts to lessen the blow on your hero. He will very likely have at least 4 of this card in his deck.

Atramedes

The Atramedes fight involves some heavy weapon mechanics. His hero power will spawn a him a new weapon which starts off at 0 damage. The weapon gains damage every time you play a card. If you want to get far in this fight, you may want to play around with cards which can destroy his weapon when it gets too big such as Acidic Swamp Ooze, Harrison Jones, Sabotage, or Blingtron 3000.

Reverberating Gong may be a card that you receive and not one that he has - it worked that way in the WoW fight!

Nefarian

The final encounter of Blackrock Mountain! Looking at the cards, it looks like this fight is just like the Nefarian fight in WoW's Blackwing Descent. Assuming that it is, the following should be correct.

The fight should start off with Onyxia as the Hero with the hero power which lets Nefarian rain fire from above. After Onyxia is defeated, Nefarian will take over and he will summon Chromatic Prototype. After you defeat the prototypes, all that will be left to do is to kill him while keeping the bone constructs under control.