Expansion Leak From China - Knights of the Frozen Throne
Disclaimer: Everything below is from the official Chinese website for Hearthstone. The name may be different in English. This has technically not been official unveiled, however, with an official host of Hearthstone having this up on their servers, it's legit.
Well, it finally happened. Blizzard was keeping a great secret and then less than a day before the reveal, the official Chinese Hearthstone website run by Netease managed to leak assets.
It looks like our Heroes have all died and become.. Death Knights! At least from the image below that's what it looks like. Whether or not that's actually the case, we'll soon learn.
Spotted in the image:
- Top of Icecrown Citadel, home of The Lich King.
- Frostmourne.
- The Heroes of Warcraft as Death Knights. Note the skin tones and blue glow in their eyes.
Domain
knightsofthefrozenthrone.com was registered on GoDaddy on April 26, 2017 - quite some time before today's leak. Seems excessive for a promotional link when compared to ungoro.com or gadgetzan.com, but it could just be brand protection. Currently it has a GoDaddy landing page for the url, but if it changes to point towards Blizzard DNS later today, this would further confirm the name of the expansion.
Animated Banner
You can see in the middle card at the bottom a glimpse of the cinematic.
More Images
Source
- Wreyrwy on reddit found the update on the site.
- LiriX on reddit translated the logo.
- SHIT_PROGRAMMER on reddit found extra assets.
Do you mean there is another part of the planet that it's not in USA?
Warcraft 3: the frozen trone was released on July 1, 2003. So I think that for Blizzard the seasons aren't important)
Half of the planet but 90% live on one half and 10% on the other
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i'm really hoping with the new expansion mage will fall out of meta.. it's about time to get rid of that bullshit class at least for 3 months
god hears you
Mage sucks
Are face hunters and pirate warriors a little better?
This is never gonna happen, Fireball & Frostbolt are the core cards of the mage and the cards that leads mage to the win in almost every single game.
that¡s is never going to happen because...
Blizz loves mage. My years in warcraft and wow teach me that. You can't do a thing about it. What is worse, mage-rogue-priest will beat everything with closed eyes and without great effort.
come on, even in overwatch they added a frost mage (mei), it just a matter of time that will be top meta for ever like every other blizz game.
Mage is just hiding behind Ice Block while you throw burn spells at the opponent's face.
How do i see it.
They do the same thing for minions affected by Fandral Staghelm, so it's not completely unprecedented.
for a company as big as blizzard its not exactly hard to make some animated pictures. it may even be the reason why we didn't see too much new heroes in the past. it's absolutely possible that all heroes (including future ones) may get an alternate artwork.
Anduin never looked better IMO :D
All i hope is that there are some cool combos with wild cards
In the name of all EU players who HATE TO GET UP AT 4.00 AM: Thank you China!!!! :)