Winter Veil is Coming! New Card Back, Bundle Deal, Free Packs Through Quest
Winter Veil has hit the asian Hearthstone servers and will soon be out in Europe and the Americas. We heard about the holiday again in the Rastakhan's Rumble patch notes.
- Winter Veil Returns on December 18.
- There is a new card back that will be rewarded via a suspected tavern brawl.
- A new quest gives you 4 Boomsday packs for simply playing 100 cards in play mode.
- A bundle is available that gives you 30 packs for 20 bucks.
- You should be able to wish other heroes a Happy Feast of Winter Veil with an emote.
- Orgrimmar and Stormwind game boards will become snowy.
We'll let you know if anything fun pops up that we don't yet know about.
Winter Veil Wonder Bundle
Blizzard has introduced a bundle into the store as well that will cost $20 USD or 20 EUR. In contained 30 card packs, six each of the 5 expansions prior to Rastakhan's Rumble. Seriously though, why is it so difficult to include some of the new expansion packs? At least we're not Heroes of the Storm and essentially had our game cancelled this holiday season.
New Card Back
Previous Winter Veil
We first saw Winter Veil three years ago in 2015. It brought a new card back through the Gift Exchange Tavern Brawl which in turn brought forth complaints about the reward not being a free pack. Fast forward to 2016 and instead of complaints about a card back, there were complaints because we had no brawl at all for the holiday season! It was instead was brought back in February 2017.
Last year in 2017 we had a new brawl, Wacky Waxy Winter Veil which was themed for Kobolds & Catacombs, the expansion that had just launched. No card back reward though, instead we received 3 Frozen Throne card packs. Going back to a card back reward, and a new one at that, is a nice change!
This concluded a brief history of Winter Veil in Hearthstone.
There was a bundle that you could buy multiple times. I'm pretty sure it was when witchwood started
Yeah, that was in June I think and there were 2 of every pack. But if this one is a one time purchase i think I'll maybe but it :P
Thanks everyone for the info :)
At least free Boomsday packs are better then Frozen Thrones again.
I prefer Frozen Throne packs
Frozen Throne is out in 4 months. Boomsday will be here for another year.
There was a new character announced and released directly after Blizzcon, unless you want to define where you're deciding to move these particular goalposts.
The last update that significantly changed the game and brought former and new players to the game was 2.0. I guess you could call those huge balance changes a while back a major update, but it didn't bring old players back either. The blizzcon character didn't have a huge impact on the meta, so thats hardly a major update.
Why did they give Boomsday packs instead of Rastakhans? Not that I'm complaining since I need a good amount of cards from Doomsday still.
Blizzard is allergic to giving us the most recent card packs as rewards for anything =(
6 packs from 5 exps is so much worse than 30 from 1 exp. You are much less likely to open a legendary card this way. Cheap blizzard is cheap.
If you haven't got any legendaries from any of the mentioned expansions, you might get a legendary since you are guaranteed to open one in first 10 packs. Good for new players maybe, not so good for others.
But again, 3 of these expansions will rotate out in April. If you are focused on Standard, this is not a good time to invest on these.
"At least we're not Heroes of the Storm and essentially had our game cancelled this holiday season."
Why do you spread this gross misinformation? Production was scaled down 4 years after release and an official esport event was canceled. Hots is better than ever and actively worked on by a passionate team.
HoS just died yesterday, man, even if you don't want to believe it.
-Entire esports scene cancelled with no advance notice
-Last major update almost two years ago
-They said in the release that they'll be releasing heroes a lot slower (and whens the last time we got a new map?).
-Que times are already a lot slower since the announcement
First off, HotS is Heart of the Swarm, the game you are referring to is called Heroes.
It wasn't only one event, it was the entire competitive scene. With no big backing from Blizzard, teams aren't going to be profitable which means there aren't any teams which means no one with a brain is going to create an event for it. Not only that but since its a team game it is very expensive to fly around 5 players compared to solo games like StarCraft which even though it is incredibly small now, it can still be profitable to send players around.
Scaling down the game put the game in maintenance mode. The game never got big and was considered dead on arrival to many. I enjoyed my times I've played Heroes but it never had a chance in the market. The timing of launch was late, alpha itself was late (and took way too long), though the team was good at putting out updates. It just got to the point where it was no longer profitable for them to have many devs on it.
I don't know if you happened to miss the entire outcry from people following the announcement but I can assure you after it, the game is more dead than ever. You'd be silly to buy anything in the game when you aren't sure how the pacing of new content is going to go (vital in a F2P game), which is going to hurt it financially more and possibly cause more people to be dragged off and onto other projects. Then we've even got people who want refunds on stuff they bought within the past few weeks because they bought it under different circumstances. I know if I was sucked in to a 365 day stimpack I too would be wanting my money back.
You're of course welcome to your own opinion, as am I, but calling it gross information makes me think you haven't seen the full picture.
It's not an opinion that you are spewing gross misinformation, and continue to do so. The game is not in "maintenance mode." The game was not "dead on arrival." You wanting these things to be true, doesn't make them true. You're no different than the miscreants that have been crying it's demise since before it even launched. You should never speak on this subject again because you clearly don't want to be informed about it, and just want to spread more hate-mongering.
There's no need for you to be putting your ridiculously incorrect editorializing about that subject in a news post about an entirely unrelated matter as well.
I wont be getting the bundle, it should be 30 RR packs or they should include packs from RR at the very least.
Still, the cardback is nice and the 4 boomsday packs will provide some free dust, so no complaints about freebies.
I also hate all things free please comment on how much you also hate free items on a scale from 1-10 thank you in advance
Seriously? Boomsday packs? I was so happy to get 4 rastakhan packs and suddenly... boomsday cards? Screw you blizz.
Winter is here