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.
Yep and I am sure the death knight hero cards will be *ahem* LEGENDARRRRRY
There hopefully will be an "Undead" tribe. Especially if they did introduce (finally) a graveyard discard pile.
I see only 8 heroes. Either Guldan or Thrall is missing, I think that's Thrall tho.
Or Im blind.
Gul'dan is underneath Garrosh. He's a bit hard to see in the animated gif.
Lol. Thanks.
He didn't stand out to me for some reason at first. I just saw him as part of Garrosh.
It looks like Guldan is on the bottom left, underneath Rexxar, and to the right of Garrosh.
We have to remember that this will be the first expansion with an "Adventure-like" game, so we may see some interesting things happening in the game when it releases!
A bear shark maybe
I mean uhhhh bear sharks wont be in the set XD WHO TOLD YOU THAT? NOT ME!
I hear the pirate voices in Icecrown Citadel: "I'M IN CHARGE NOWWW!"
hopefully they introduce some control plans for hunter and some sort of heavy healing for warlock
Corrupted Anduin looks really cool
How many of you will be disappointed when Arthas will start dancing and singing in between 2 bad jokes ?
I expect some Groovy Arthas.... Party in Icecrown ... basically an alternative story where its just one big Disco party like at Karazhan... maybe arthas will have an afro
Maybe also a card graveyard mechanic like magic?
This. All this ^
Since Lich King will probably make appearance in this expansion i wonder with which Lich King they'll go. Ner'zhul, Arthas or Bolvar. Logically speaking Bolvar makes most sense, since he is the current Lich King ever since events of Wotlk.
But do they dare use Bolvar over Arthas? Arthas is such a iconic characther in WoW universe and everyone knows about him...
PREDICTION.
The Lich King will be a free legendary (like C'Thun or like the adventure rewards). He will be a high manacost minion that does something like this:
Battlecry: Give your hero deathrattle: turn into a death knight with 10 health, a new hero power (this hero power will have to do with raising skeletons), and equip frostmourn.
OR ... he will cost 25 mana (too high to ever play from hand), but he does something like this:
If Arthas is in your hand at the start of the game your hero gets deathrattle: summon Lich King from hand or deck and your hero is raised from the dead as a death knight with 10 health and new hero power.
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that everyone's eyes are blue EXCEPT Valeera's?