World's Largest Fireside Gathering Battles the One Million Health Lich King
As of noon (EDT) on Wednesday, August 23, the Lich King has been defeated.
Yesterday, Blizzard published their gamescom 2017 preview where they announced everything you're going to be able to see at this year's event. When they got to the Hearthstone part, Ben Brode and Ben Thompson started talking about new Fireside Gathering features and how they'd be live at gamescom for everyone to enjoy.
It's the world's largest Fireside Gathering.
Upon connecting to the internet at the convention and you get yourself onto Hearthstone, you'll be greeted with a Tavern Sign indicating you are in the gamescom Tavern. This unlocks a special Tavern Brawl feature called Fireside Brawls which are accessible at all Fireside Gatherings. The brawl that is active this time around is a community-based Lich King takedown. It works like this:
- Grab a friend! They "expect" you to play this with two players on one device.
- Your opponent? The Supreme Lich King. He has one million health!
- Choose your hero and you're given a deck.
- When the game begins, you start with 9 mana and 20 health.
- The goal is to defeat the Lich King using everyone at the Fireside Gathering.
- You need to deal as much damage as possible to The Lich King, which will be displayed at the end of game on a scorecard.
- Once you've died, the second player gets to choose a new class through a discover interface.
He's also got some special cards!
- Soldiers of the Cold Dark
- Relentless March
- To My Aid Underling!
- The Final Battle
- Cancelling the Apocalypse!
- A New Hero Approaches
And Hero Powers! We don't know when he changes Hero Powers, but it's probably based on his Health.
The residing Innkeeper can tune the difficulty of the fight.
- MASSIVE Difficulty - 10000 Health (Many players)
- Heroic Difficulty - 3000 Health (10-25 players)
- Normal Difficulty - 1500 Health (Less than 10 players)
- Lich King Modifications, Increase Health, Decrease Health, Modifications Complete
Sounds fun, doesn't it? Check out this screenshots we grabbed from Thijs' stream - a vod from which you can find below as well.
Too bad the raid against LK can't be done from home.. I would have liked to try..
Having faced the Lich King at gamescom, I can truely say it was an epic experience. Especially when a full costumed Lich King (as seen in the hearthstone shorts), was around to intimidate casuals. He gave me a fistbump for reaching a measly 336 score ;)
Trump and Amnesiac did 2878 in an hour long fight with hunter against Supreme Lich King :)
My fireside gatherings ..
Weak.
How's tournament mode coming along?
Thijs dealing 1001 damage in one game was brilliant.
we 're need alextrasza..!
Alexstrasza say hello!
Lich King was just defeated. Players there got a KINGSLAYER badge as a reward. I saw it on TrumpSC stream (23Aug) and also Hafu stream.
In-game or physical badge?
Physical
I participated yesterday, did not get a badge...
Trump's stream: https://youtu.be/zY2WTA58zr4?t=17m28s
Cancelling the Apocalypse!
You can summon all 4 in one turn with Auctionmaster Beardo shenanigans though
Its a pre-made deck, which doesn't have the combo in. In the adventure itself, use it for every boss besides Sindragosa, but you don't have Beardo in the Paladin pre-made, or enough cheap spells. Beardo would be obtainable by Sindragosa's Frozen Heroes, but I dont think there are enough cheap spells, coins, or a way to obtain Maiden of the Lake.
No, you can't do that Flavinux. Once the third one is summoned, the board clear is immediately taken into effect.
I used to do that too, then I realized leaving the house wasted a lot of time that I could have used playing
withby myself.