BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony - Hearthstone Expansion Announcement
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Expansion Launches December 4.
The largest event of the year, BlizzCon, has arrived! We'll be updating this post live with everything that happens within the opening ceremony. You should expect to see brief details on the new Hearthstone expansion alongside a couple of card reveals. More information about the new expansion will then come later on during the dedicated "What's Next" panel.
Note that the Opening Ceremony will be broadcast on all of Blizzard's Twitch channels for free, but the rest of BlizzCon (outside of Esports) will require access to a Virtual Ticket. We've embedded the stream down below.
- The Challenger's Bundle - "Ready to Rumble" Card Back, 17 Card Packs - 19.99 USD
- Rastakhan's Rumble - New Alternate Shaman Hero: King Rastakhan, "Ready to Rumble" Card Back, 50 Card Packs - 49.99 USD
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Opening Ceremony Live Recap
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- Rastakhan's Rumble is the name of the next expansion, leaked by PCGamer.
- Ben Thompson has taken the stage. Audio is cutting out - woot!
- Gurubashi Arena is where we're fighting in the new expansion.
- In the single-player mode for Rastakhan’s Rumble, Rumble Run, compete for glory before cheering crowds in a no-holds-barred smackdown in the Gurubashi Arena! Players will choose a troll champion and climb the ranks in this gladiatorial contest to be crowned champion.
- Spirits are a new mechanic - each class has one. They are minions with stealth for one turn.
- Overkill is a new keyword. If you deal more damage then you need to kill a minion, you get a bonus.
- Logging in when the expansion launches gets you a free Legendary Loa card and two copies of the spirit from the class of your random Loa.
- Logging in also gets you six free card packs for the expansion.
Blizzard
- Destiny 2 is Free for everyone on Battle.net - Must redeem by November 18th through Bnet Gifts to keep it.
- Mike Morhaime, Blizzard's old president, has taken stage to introduce BlizzCon.
- Mike passes the torch to Blizzard's new president, J Allen Brack
- Overwatch raised 12.7 Million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
- Heroes is getting a new hero. She isn't from any of Blizzard's franchises.
- Orphia, the new hero, is free for everyone at BlizzCon or with a Virtual Ticket.
- WoW Classic launches next Summer.
- WoW Classic can be accessed by players with an active subscription to WoW.
- WoW showcased a new cinematic featuring Saurfang and Anduin.
- Overwatch is playing a new cinematic on Route 66 with McCree eating some delicious pie.
- Overwatch is getting a cowgirl - Ashe!
- Warcraft III Reforged! An HD remake of Warcraft III Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne.
- Culling of Stratholme is playable at BlizzCon.
- Warcraft III Reforged comes with a Hearthstone card back.
Watch Live
The Opening Ceremony is available for free to those without a Virtual Ticket. If you want to watch the panels though, you'll want to buy a Virtual Ticket.
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so.... an aggro/midrange, has anyone understood what i'm talking about?
glad you can get excited for for a slightly bigger chillblade champion as a legendary, i sure can't
The flavor of this expansion is really refreshing. On a side note, that legendary looks awful lol (unless the new paladin cards have some big spells in them)
prismatic lens maybe? trade for one of your 1 mana secrets.... the lens isnt that good so far anyway :)
Huh I guess that could sorta work.
I'm hoping to see a control paladin variant with big spells for a change. At least the legendary hints at it.
Not going to comment the announced stuff until most of it is revelead, but hell the virtual ticket experience is HORRIBLE this year :(
Aww I was hoping we could use the new hero now if you prepurchased but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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You get free skin once a year in April...
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Unpopular opinion time (as the popular ones only seem to be those who are already complaining), but I think this expansion is going to be freaking bonkers. With each class getting spirit cards of some sort and some kind of legendary that's likely to synergize with those spirit cards, I'm hopeful that we'll end up with several new archetypes, at least one of which will probably be nice and game-breaking for a while. Bonus: lots of Jamaican accents.
I approve and look forward to much more.
BRING BACK VOL JIN
YAY POSITIVE COMMENT!
I'm also excited. I like the idea of the spirit cards, Overkill looks cool (unlike Recruit and Echo), and the art is so good!
Thank you! I'm excited too. The "troll melee" flavor is fresh and fun, and the overkill mechanic opens up some cool gameplay options.
I preferred the preorder options for Boomsday with the Golden Legendaries. Wish they’d have done that again. Challenger bundle has 2 extra packs? Why bother?
20$ for 17 packs is super weird and i appreciate i have no desire to buy it at all
wish they gave more with the 50 but ill still get it
edit: wait theyre not giving a golden legendary with this one what the fuck
Good call - that is a bummer. I really appreciated the golden legendaries of the last two sets. Splintergraft and Myra's Unstable Element for me.
Well, two extra packs plus a cardback :)
I've often wished that there was a pre-order option lower than $50, so that's a nice turn, but 17 packs for 20 isn't particularly impressive value.
So locking skins behind the paywall is a tradition now ...
THEYRE FUCKING COSMETICS