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.
I just SINCERELY hope we don't get a purchaseable Hero portrait for Warrior.
DK should be in this game, and this is the one opportunity for that to actually be reality.
Even if it isn't, I think we've all waited long enough for this one that we will still wreck the pre-order records.
Very low chance. They will probably just use hero transform to allow everybody to become a death knight.
If DKs are transform cards, then they need to be guaranteed in the mulligan just like quests. It would suck building a DK deck and then playing some games where you don't draw the card until turn 12+
They will replace mana crystals with runes and improve our game balance experience to the level non seen before!
Looks interesting for sure!
Looks interesting for sure!
Naxx 2, Electric Boogaloo?
Sure hope these knights won't be Jousting
Blizzard got a super timing , season 7 GoT coming and winter with it :).
Paladin has also some weapons. I doubt Arthas as Warrior.
Arthas became a Death Knight once he got Frostmourne, and before that he was a Paladin. So it'd make way more sense for him to be a Paladin card.
Probably going to be a neutral legendary like Medivh was
OMG!, anduin looks so badass ,
That slutty bad version of Valeera tho...
Blizzard has succeeded in hyping me up again. I hope we have alternate hero portraits ! :D
Exactly what we don't need. They need to add DK to this game.
Is it not summer? I thought "Blizzard" will release "Frozen Heroes" when "Winter Is Coming" !