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.
Sweet!
Yo, who is hyped for a potential DRANOSH SAURFANG as a legendary?!
I don't see Guldan in that montage of DKs. Guess Warlock is getting served shit again this expansion. Because they can't just give all the classes the tools they need (read: broken cards) to diversify the meta like they claim they so desperately want to, they only do it for one or two classes every 6 months...
u can see him under warrior shoulder..
When Jaina becomes DK she looks so happy lol
This has me worried a bit.
By and large, Journey to Un'Goro has been an amazing expansion. There are as many top-tier decks as there have ever been, and it's great. But the one bummer was that it felt... expensive. The cool new things were those legendary quests, which clock in at 1600 dust. We all got C'Thun and some starter worshipers, so everyone was able to experience the cool new mechanic of WotOG. MSoG had the various gangs, with their lower-rarity tri-class cards, so you at least got to play with that trick (particularly with the glitched distribution in packs of gang cards).
Now, don't get me wrong, JtUG is perhaps the best expansion yet (best adventure League of Explorers?). But if there's a problem, it's that it felt like the gold/dust/money gatekeeping on the quests was very high, and that the power level of the quests varied widely between the classes. Presuming the leaks are correct, giving each class another legendary-rarity card which is potentially class-defining for the expansion feels worrisome to me. I'm sure some class or two will have another Marsh Queen or Last Kaleidosaur, which will be doubly-disappointing if you've got to waste 1600 dust to feel like you can experience the "cool new thing" of the expansion. Now, Bliz has hinted that there are at some point going to be "adventure-like" elements to some of the expansions. This gives me hope. Perhaps the transformational cards will be granted by doing PvE bosses, in which case, I'm super pumped. I'm just a bit worried we'll be bummed out.
No edit button, but it seems that at least one of the new Hero cards will be accessible through adventure bosses. Good.
The art already looks AMAZING for this expansion. Jaina looking like the Lich Queen is worth my $50 alone. This tugs all the WC3 heart strings just right.
EDIT: And Evil Thrall? Holy shit, Blizzard finally made Thrall cool for the first time since maybe Vanilla WoW.
Legendaries that shoud be included in Lich King related expansion: Lich King, Arthas as a paladin, Sylvanas Ranger General, Illidan reskinned, Darion Morgaine, Kel Thuzad as a necromancer/ mage of the Kirin Tor, Saurfang, Bolvar as Lich King, Murradin.
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MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Hearthstone players will be able to chill out with the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion coming in August. The new addition will bring 135 new cards to the game and will take place in Northrend with the Lich King himself as the final boss. New cards will include "terrifying bear sharks, ridiculous geists, indigenous Tuskarr ice fisherman and the addition of runic magic".
Legendary Hero Cards will allow players to give any of the nine heroes the essence of undeath and to turn them into Death Knights. As expected, Death Knights have altered and modified abilities.
Players can take part in some of Knights of the Frozen Throne for free. The prologue, two wings with three bosses and a battle against the Lich King will all be available. Finishing the prologue will have players earn a random legendary Hero card. Each wing completed will also see players earn a card pack.
Preorders for the expansion will run $49.99 and comes complet with a bundle of 50 card packs and a special card back.
Knights of the Frozen Throne will be released in August. You can learn more on the Hearthstone site.
Source: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XH6tEE_8gp0J:www.mmorpg.com/hearthstone-heroes-of-warcraft/news/get-chilly-with-knights-of-the-frozen-throne-expac-in-august-1000044776+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
To read or not to read?
Read, lots of great info.
Including sharks, and bears, or both.
I'm going to wait for an hour for the announcement. Since I'm wasting my night here hahah
Everybody has been wanting a death knight for so long.. But blizzard has made it clear that it's not practical to implement..
So I think there is going to be a compromise .. A card that replaces your hero with a death knight .. I predict it will be one of the most detailed hero replacements.. Giving you a new hero power, but also possibly adding cards to your deck like the un goro pack.. Or even replacing your deck like renounce darkness.
Yep, the legendaries will give you the power of the death knight class.
errrrrr don't mind me ^-^ just speculation *giggles*
New Class Deathknight please.!!!!!
Game still has millions of subs and he calls it a sinking ship. LOL
Final Fantasy 14 has anywhere from 600k-1+ million subs at any point and is extremely profitable as well and still puts out WoW-size expansions as well on a lesser budget and smaller team.
Yeah, WoW isn't a sinking ship, pal.
Blizzard: Why have one class be a Death Knight when ALL the classes can be Death Knights?