Update 8:15 AM EDT: Yogg-Saron's artwork has appeared on Hearthstone's Facebook page for some countries. Looks like we'll be seeing Yogg sometime this week!!
Whispers of the Old Gods Releases April 26th
The Naxxramas bundle in the Battle.net Shop has received a warning message before you get to purchase it. The message states that on April 26th you can only use the cards in Wild format. Since Standard and Wild will be launching with the expansion, it's safe to assume that Tuesday, April 26th is the release of Whispers of the Old Gods.
It should also be noted that there is still enough streamers to provide us with 2 weeks of voting card reveal content, so there's no way we'd even see the expansion before the 18th. An extra week for additional site reveals and the inevitable huge dump of cards right before launch is perfect.
Via /u/hythl0day on reddit
Yogg-Saron Artwork
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Last Week's Card Reveals
We saw 13 cards revealed in the past week, down from 14 the week before.
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Learn More About Whispers of the Old Gods
Want to see more cards that are in Whispers of the Old Gods, or learn more about the set? Head on over to our guide to Whispers of the Old Gods to see the 45 currently revealed cards! Be sure to also check out Blizzard's Official Old Gods Page.
There's also a weekly card vote going on over on the official Hearthstone site! Go vote for which card you'd like to see revealed, new cards are revealed daily.
Ill be counting days! .... actually not, hearthpwn will do it for me
They are like: "hey, let's write this notification here no one will relate that with expansion release, right?."
If this date sticks, the wait becomes so much easier knowing when we have to wait until. 3 weeks!
"Available on 26th" in blizzardish tongue, i will translate it for you, my beloved forum users coming from EU.
This is what Blizzard means when they say in blizzardish tongue that WOG will be available on 26th:
* Available on 26th, up in US server.
* Sadly, only available on 27th in EU server.
* EU server will be collapsed for 24 hours, but you're gonna have a lot of fun starting 28th April. Cheer with us and don't forget to pre-order your packs! *blink-nudge-blink*
*to apologise for the trouble you had, we are giving you 3 more packs.
i've heard they did this in the past, well, i would make that deal.
They did it once, to be fair with them; and yes, i would make the deal too :)
They gave away 2 boosters (classic) for a problem with EU server, though not the usual "expansion launch and server is down" problem, but because of an outage in login system in for a few days and without an apparent reason.
If standard comes at 26th it will be kind of weird...
so they tell us the bought cards can be playedin Arena
As if the purchase changed anything in arena...
Wouldn't be surprised if they just end the ranked season 4 days early or something to that effect, or hell, they may just not allow WoG cards to be played in ranked until the 1st, but it really won't make that big of a difference either way.
Seems like the perfect timing to release it; gives us a few days to play with new decks right before the fresh season starts on May 1.
Again, why should WOG alter the season if previous expansions didnt? The meta will shift, the rank will be split into both formats, i don't think they will abruptly end the season.
They didnt in previous adventures and expansion coming out in the middle of the season.
Moreover, upon release, and if experience serves for something: some people will start experimenting with new cards as soon as they are available, while other players will gravitate towards face decks and steal rank 5 and legend ranks easy with them. That's what i expect to see on 26th: people trying suboptimal new decks facing (never more appropiate) ultrafast decks like face hunter, eboladin, or face burst shaman.
has been said that they will split the rankz and both formats will copy the same rank anyone have already, so if u're rank 5 one day before the expansion hit, you will be rank 5 in both formats the next day. no need to break the system or anyfin.
So we will have shorter ranked season this month?
Why? Many expansions have launched last week of the season, without shorting them. WOG will not be a difference.
Oh boy. Still seems a little speculative to me.
Let's hope it's right!
It's kinda funny how the community always finds out these things before official announcements. Or perhaps this is all part of Blizzard's grand plan, to let us find out ourselves and build the hype.
Given the fact we will have separate ladders for wild and standard, I assume this season's Standard ladder will only last 4 days ?! (As we play in wild right now). For this season, witch format will count for the official championship points ? Blizzard said Standard would be the main format but for this season I guess it would make more sense that they count wild.
Nice! It could be impossible to wait 31th of May.
the end is coming !! - Doomsayer
Good thing I'll have Dark Souls to keep me entertained till then.
nice