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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Nice cardback
Dustakhan confirmed
Also so done with these new dungeon runs. It was fun the first time to go alongside an expansion, but it's overdone. Bring back old adventures. Im sick of expansions with 70% of the cards are seeing <1% play.
And the cycle starts once again.
T1Concede has already deemed it Dustakahn. And so early!
Will Doomhammer see play again?
Hey... Druid might actually get a 25 mana legendary...
lol disappointed
I knew it will be trolls :P
I am more hyped for WC3 REFORGED than HS new expansion
Here we go!!!
That accent was Troll-cultural appropriation.
Omni/ curse is alive!
They had problems during one of the previous reveals as loud, any headphone users were treated to a 1,000,000 decibel noise right next to their ears xD
HS "vanished". QR will disappear....
well at least thanks for destiny 2 !!
Auto-Squelch is added to HS - affects even Ben Thompson!
I don't understand why they skipped HS panel completely. Will they come back to it? Or is it running right now without it being streamed?
Did they just skip Hearthstone announcement because they couldn't get the sound right?
Can't disappoint everyone even more if you can't announce the expansion. blackguythinking.jpg
The Sound guy plays Artifact...