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
- Discuss the new cards.
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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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orphea not orphia
As long as we get a card to remove amor I will be happy!
Any comments on removing armor always gets downvoted, despite it no longer being about warriors and instead being more of a way to target all of druid's mindless armor gains that they use so they can afk until they draw combo. Have an upvote from me because I think this is a sorely needed card.
We have some already: Fireball, King Krush, Fiery War Axe...
Trolls, huh. I'm surprised it took this long.
I'm not feeling this set so far. The trailer, the skits, the cards. . .All of it feels so lifeless. I guess it's kinda hard to follow up the bombastic Dr. Boom.
i literally could not disagree any more. i had less than ZERO hype for boomsday, and the trailer for boomsday was the worst ever. this looks INFINITELY better and the trailer may be the best one yet for hearthstone (at the very least it holds its own with the top ones from the past)
kinda excited for zul'jin and see what he can do and of course gotta be hunter can't wait im happy with this theme so far. overall i see a lot of fun maybe even more crazy combos.
"Orphia, the new hero, is free for everyone at BlizzCon or with a Virtual Ticket."
At first glance I misread that as "Oprah".
YOU get a free hero and YOU get a free hero and YOU get a free hero! EVERYONE gets a free hero!!
Nope.
I haven't a virtual ticket and I'm not into the Blizzcon. I think I, and a LOT of people, have not free hero this time.
Blizzard continuing to print neutral cards like Sharkfin Fan is so bad for arena. It has no effect on constructed, but the fact that the card is 100x better in rogue than any other class (and downright awful in any class with no weapons) makes it an unfair arena card.
This would be true even without the bucket system, but that makes it even worse because how bad it is in other classes will cause it to be in lower buckets for rogue too, despite it being a great card for them. This should just be a rogue class card. Rogue is already the best class in arena and it doesn't need more cards like this making the balance even worse.
Every class will have a Loa and a champion, so looks like no playable hero this time, unless one of the champions is a hero. Hopefully Priest.
A wild god. Worshipped by trolls.
Maybe a playable hero can be the LOA of Death or Rastakhan's daughter. She being an NPC, does she have any class in WoW that could hint us which class could be getting the hero?
They confirmed we're getting a hero:
source: https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6044-the-rastakhans-rumble-information-panel-from
Shirvallah the Tiger, because we gave up on names.
wait until you see he's best buddy Hir'eek, the bat
More cards revealed at playhearthstone.
Warcraft 3 Remastered; it is seem from internet in game content created on observing the Map Editor which Blizzard are to preserve quality and continuity of productivity for it games; which stories and tales can be told on studding the editor; looks fantastic; also shame from ForeverAlones;
For me the strongest loa , god and even beast is Ben Brode.
He will be never forgoten.