Mike Donais Talks Frozen Throne - Undead Tribe, Build-a-Beast Spell, Hero Powers
Mike Minotti of GamesBeat got a chance to speak with Mike Donais about the new expansion and Donais had quite a few interesting things to say. Here's everything that we learned!
Frozen Throne
- The idea for a Lich King expansion has been one the team has had before launch.
- They're not excited about trying to make brand new classes due to it clashing with their philosophy behind class identity.
- Warlocks are getting some cool cards but they have to be careful.
- Warlocks have been strong since the start of Hearthstone with the exception of Un'Goro so they may need to slowly give them more power over multiple sets.
- The only characters reappearing as new cards during the set are the hero cards. This won't be an Old Gods corrupted-minions-fest.
Undead Tribe
- Mike Donais could see an Undead tribe added in the future. "I don’t think there are too many disadvantages".
- One reason why we didn't see an Undead tribe for Frozen Throne was due to them just adding a new tribe in Un'Goro.
Hero Powers
- The Build-A-Beast Hero Power was originally a spell in the set.
- The new Death Knight Hero Powers were what they spent the most time on. Rexxar saw "maybe 10" iterations.
- An early Hero Power from DK Rexxar was 5/5 beasts summoned for each beast that died that turn.
- Another version of the Hero Power saw an N'Zoth-style effect where beasts which died that game were re-summoned.
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Get your warlocks (warlocksies?) ready boys and girls.
So no Undead tribe for now?
i hope it's not more emo-lock sh*t and no healing
"emo-lock" LUL
So, DK Rexxar initially was just Maiev after the solitaire?
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At this point, I've accepted the fact we'll never get new classes. Plus I really like the idea of the Hero cards.
I also like they're open to the idea of an Undead tribe, and glad we're not getting a new tribe since Elementals were just added. Get the Elementals some more synergy then make the Undead tribe next year.
Adding a new tribe is a cheesy way to make an expansion (8m 6/8 if your "something" has the new tribe name, does 5 dmgs, soooo original). i'm glad we don't get another!