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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"Now"? Literally the first three skins ever released past the basics cost $10 each, with 0 cards attached. Be grateful that they ever decided to give away handouts, and stop expecting a company to act like a charity.
50-60 dollar paywall was a new thing with mecha jaraxxus. After they saw the success it got, it led to this...
New Shaman Hero... No legendary King RastaKhan
sooo close to warcraft 4, but nooope
hearthstone stuff is aight, i guess
Sooo.... double Cold Blood, Lifedrinker, Fungalmancer, Saronite Chaingang, Captain Greenskin...
This... this will be fun.
It has combo so 2x +2 = 6 with the original effect, windfury leroy for 6 :)
cold blood and chain gang give me nightmares
Cold Blood doesn't work. It says only for minions
Oh, Jesus... And here I thought last year's BlizzCon was fucking barren. This year was almost completely devoid of anything new or original... When your biggest announcement is a mobile phone spinoff of a franchise literally everyone else was expecting to have a major new entry, it's beyond embarrassing.
I'm actually feeling really bad for J. Allen. Dude's inherited a quickly dying company that everyone else seems eager to jump ship from.
The new keyword is pretty boring tbh, but Im sure they can make some neat stuff maybe with it. (not another inspire ideally)
The 4th bullet point under "Blizzard" is the best bullet point! \(^_^)/
can't say i'm very excited about the cards they've shown so far. we'll see if anything interesting pops up.
Well none of that excites me. Come on Blizzard you're better than this. Man I'd be sad if I went all the way to Blizzcon and that's all that was announced.
I mean I like that Hearthstone is getting an expansion but I mean they're scheduled now. We know when they're coming. Warcraft 3 remastered before doing Warcraft 4 seems super lame. Nothing for Starcraft at all? What about the mini-campaigns? Did Nova Corps. fail that hard? Diablo 2.5 with everything you hated about Diablo 3 now with mobile controls? No thanks. Not into WoW, HotS, or Overwatch. So, I guess it's just a down year.
Look no matter what card they print, playing this minion is NEVER gonna be worth playing 25 mana of spells EVER, if you have to spend 25 mana in spells for a card to be worth it the effect better be amazing, this is nothing more then a mediocre minion that dies to removal and won't keep you alive.
i get double the health with branching paths as armor (without needing a target to attack) for 4 mana or if you want a paladin minion take ragnaros lightlord for 8 mana without requirement which is 1000x times better than this, i can't believe anyone can seriously defend this card as good.
you mean you dont want to spend an impossibly high amount of mana in paladin to play a card that has less value than a 3/2 lifesteal/shield/taunt/rush for 5?
who says playing 25 mana worth of spells? if you play 15 you`re still getting a 7 damage removal + 7 heal with a 7/5 body to boot for 10 mana.
I agree that it feels bad when you compare with Ultimate infestations. But with handbuffs it can be pretty strong, if you can duplicate it with zola and other stuff it can become a very powerful board control tool lategame.
Another hero skin locked behind a preorder. That's it then. I knew the Mega Bundle would lead to this, and hero portraits are not only paywalled again, they're expensive as hell, and limited time offers.
At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if we no longer got free hero portraits at the Hearthstone New Years anymore. They'll probably paywall that as well now.
You should get out and find a job so you can get hero portraits, which in all honesty, don't matter in any way.
Mecha Jaraxxus was relevant for the first day after release. The next day people didn't give a shit.
Thought other people realised it this time around, but seems no. Still complaining...
And that will be the death of the world, right? You won't get to use the emote you forget to use after 2 games!