In Ten Days, Hearthstone's Next Expansion Will Be Revealed - What We Know So Far
A countdown to the expansion announcement will show up on our front page next week - stay tuned!
In just a little under 240 hours, we'll know the name and some details of Hearthstone's next expansion - the last one for the Year of the Raven.
This year's BlizzCon on the surface won't be very different for us, but there's going to be something big missing - Ben Brode. One of Hearthstone's lead visionaries and fathers left the company earlier this year to found his own game studio with other ex-members of the Hearthstone team. Not only was one of the usual Hearthstone folk to tell us about the new expansion, but he was also responsible as the booming voice over the halls of BlizzCon.
Here's what you can expect this year that aren't so different.
- Announcement of Expansion during the Opening Ceremony.
- More details, including card reveals, during the dedicated "What's Next" panel.
- Details on any single player content they're adding in with the card set.
- Playable demo of the new single player content on the show floor.
There's also a couple of new things happening this year.
- An art panel where artists will showcase how they created the new card pack for this expansion.
- A panel talking about the past and future of Hearthstone solo adventures (likely additional, focused info on the new single player content).
Check out the full schedule of Hearthstone goodness over in our dedicated post.
What We Know So Far About Expansion 3
Not a whole lot! We do have a preview image of the theme though thanks to the Year of the Raven introduction from this past February.
- Expansion 1 showcased the trees of the Witchwood (which most, including us, thought we were going to Duskwood)
- Expansion 2 showcased The Netherstorm. No, Tempest Keep was not actually in store for us, it's just the home of Dr. Boom's Lab.
Expansion 3 is all over the place. We've got tribal-style markings that could be Troll themed (maybe even Orc?) and the middle contains what appears to be water, possible even a little bit of ice at the bottom left. The red rocks surrounding the "orb" in the center don't make any immediate connections unlike the Ethereal Gateway from Ex2 and roots from Ex1.
If I really wanted to go crazy with a guess, it would be something Pandaria themed thanks to the very natural, tranquil vibe the overall panel gives me. Come on Lorewalker Cho, let's go to your homeland and, hopefully, not make an absolute mess of it.
What do you think Expansion 3 will be?
did the guy on reddit who predicted the witchwood to be the cenarian circle eat his shoe already?
Could it be Redridge Mountains?
When I looked at it i thought about Furbolgs (cuz Blizzard prefer to do expansions aboute niche races/ characters that were not that important in WoW and Furbolgs are a little bit forgotten), what do u think guys?
please NO murlocs I hate them
Thinking of Colifang Reservoir mostly
Ratchet as second
but wouldn't mind a pandaria based one....would we finally get a new class
I really hope it's Troll themed.
Knowing the love of HS designers to turn upside down usual Wow concepts and locations (not in a bad way), we could also make a suggestion about murlocs on the moon, nagas in the red dessert or trolls that having a party on the yacht ( Karazhan-style themed). After Boomsday Dr.Boom labs I'm not even going to try to guess it :D
The poster remninds me a wet wood and some whirlpool in the middle. I thought it is Coilfang Reservoir. But red stone around whirlpool looks like red colors of exterior in Pandaria.
Some "foot" (whatever) prints in the bottom remind me of troll teeth (fangs in left and right, and teeth in the middle).
So my guesses are:
Maybe 3rd expansion will be themed as https://wow.gamepedia.com/Zandalari_Troll_Wars?
very interesting, very close to guesses ))))
Yasss!
More dragons? :)
Hope something water, last expack had no honourary Murloc cards we have making up to do!
There are spots beneath the circle, could be trolls teeth?
Maybe the green background of the next expansion’s logo means that it’ll be a druids’ expansion, named “Rise of the OP Class” or something, so maybe it’ll be some sort of just adding 1 druid legendary that says: “Start of Game: Change the cost of ALL your cards to 0” or even better “Start of Game: Win the game” xD
The graphic of the new expansion reminds me of Deepholm, added with the Cataclysm expansion.
Damn it, when might this new expansion come out? next year more than likely? Or during xmas?! gdamn it i was gonna quit my job and now this coming up Dx
Usually expansions release every 4 months. So I’m guessing it will release early December.
Thanks, not sure why people ppl are down voting me though
Most people are still stuck in the unemployment Meta.
So your post and clear lack of any kind of sensitivity towards others here will only continue 2B downvoted further.
Puzzle lab was one of the worst. Granted with the old adventures people used cookie cutter decks, but puzzle lab solutions were up day 1.