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.
Pls Blizzard dont fuck this up. ICC was the peak of WoW, best encounters, best story, if this expansion is shitty, all hope is lost !
inb4 Sylvanas retrain
Anduin is holding Shadowform, so synergy maybe?
I guess there will be kind of "dk modes" for each hero, via spells and minions.
Perhaps we shall have an XPAC with a lot of "Cannot be targeted" minions.
Make a great bolvar card blizz
I think that there will be several deathknight spells for each hero and dk form with new heropower for each hero.
Erm, anybody else noticed that Gul'dan is missing from the art at the top?
EDIT: Nevermind.
No he's not. Left group at very bottom.
Lol I already said i found him xD
So, Blizzard has promised us a bound expansion, right ?
Welcome to the hype train, or riot !
Boring
thank you for sharing that VITAL piece of information with us. xD
Holy shit, HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please Blizzard let there be a Death Knight class!
T5 already mentioned that they have no intention to add a death knight class
or monk and demon hunter
Only thing they mentioned was CURRENTLY or in NEAR FUTURE, can happen in few year, pretty sure we'll see all 3 classes eventually.
I know, but I wont give up that easy. I don't care too much about Monk and Demon Hunter, but Death knight would be awesome - Undead tag and raising dead allies. Monk would be too similar to rogue or druid I think and Demon hunter to rogue aswell.
Aunduin looks scary as hell
disturbed by the lack of Arthas in that pic, so basically the HS universe of ''alternative WC facts'' continues :/