It's happening! Blizzard has released the official times for the launch of Rise of Shadows via Twitter! This will be the first ever simultaneous global launch!
Quote from PlayHearthstone TwitterWe’re thrilled to announce that tomorrow’s release of #RiseOfShadows will be our first simultaneous global launch!
▪️ Americas: 09 April 10:00 PDT
▪️ Europe: 09 April 17:00 GMT
▪️ Asia: 10 April 02:00 KS / 01:00 CST
▪️ China: 10 April 01:00 CSTDon’t forget, logging in during the launch of Rise of Shadows will unlock the Archmage Vargoth Legendary card for free, and give you access to some truly Legendary launch quests.
Good luck to you, the newest member of the League of E.V.I.L.! We’ll see you in the tavern, soon.
Who is hyped? What will you be doing when the expansion drops?
We don't need to clear our quest slots do we?
There's an extra questline, so you'd need at least 2 slots probably
Anyone else feeling kind of apathetic about this expansion? Maybe I'm just getting bored of this game but meh, I probably won't bother even logging in on launch day
You're so apathetic you are going to a fan-site devoted to the game and clicking on a news story about the upcoming expansion.
It's kind of a habit at this point, it's like watching a one of those late night tv ads. I ain't got anything better to do atm.
It's definitely understandable to get Hearthstone burnout - I had it myself until about 2 weeks ago when I started having some fun again in the game.
For me personally, the first-of-year expansion is the best time to play, given the format rotation. We get rid of some really nasty cards - and while we are also getting some strong cards coming in, at least it'll take a few weeks, or even a month or two, for things to get annoying - if they end up tracking that way this time.
For one, while I love actually playing with some of them at times, I'm really, really glad that the death knight rotation is going out. Plus Genn and Baka - hate taking non-tier decks to the lower ranks of ladder (sub-15), seeing a paladin get upgraded hero power, and thinking "ugh, virtually no chance I'll win this one".
Do you see that time? is the time when Cubes and Death knights die.
Was a nice meta... till it stank. This goes for the Year of the Raven. I'm sure it will eventually apply to the Year of the Dragon, but right now: I'm hyped!
Can't wait to try both Rogue and the new concept of Resto druid (even if right now it doesn't seem that good)
The hype is real guys!!! Wish you all good luck with the unpacking!
18 more hours till no more death knights.
It's like being a kid again and waiting for Christmas!
don't worry :D less than 3 hours after expansion start, people will already start asking for some nerfs !!
The next week will be the "hype season".
The week after the majority of the HS community will be asking for nerfs.
I'll just curse the resurection mechanics in Priest class :)))
Plays Mad Summoner (Say good bye to your res pool.)
I'm with you! No more ressurection crap please---
Pretty much sums up my plans! Plot twist and bomb warrior will be my go to things and then definitely having a play around with rogue, a class I've never put a serious deck together for or really played that much.
I'm also pretty interested in Heal Druid, another of my least played classes (Hunter, Druid, and Rogue are the only three I don't have at level 60, and each probably has less than 30 ladder wins). So I guess Good Job, Blizzard, making me interested in classes I haven't been before.
I'm not super interested in anything Shaman related this time, which is odd, but I'm also like 15 wins from Golden Shaman, so if I set that class aside soon that won't be so bad.
I've got the week off and am really psyched about launch. I was very active just before boomsday dropped, I pre-ordered, had gold stashed and it was a blast. Opening packs and throwing new decks together with what I opened. It was the first expansion I was pretty heavily into the game and opening boom, hurriedly getting some decks around him and having a great time with mech warrior is probably why that card holds a place in my hearthstone heart. I'll always have a boom deck on the go now and I can't wait to see what else I get tomorrow.
Id taken a step back when RR came out and didn't pre order. As much as I still liked the new expansion, fifa was taking most of my game time and I wasn't playing too much.
The last month or so has really drawn me back in and I'm very much excited to have a few hours tomorrow just messing about, experimenting etc. I'll probably lose most of my games but it's all good.
I took a vacation leave for two days for this.
Servers expected to explode at that time as well.
Debating on taking my pad to a cafe and getting some munch on while waiting to log on. French toast. Maybe chicken and waffles instead. Blastmaster Boom should approve that.
Launches at noon my time, and I don't have anything scheduled tomorrow till 2:30, so plenty of time to open my packs and craft any of the cards I really want that I didn't open. Can't wait!! Most excited to try out Dragon Pally, Bomb Warrior, and see what sort of craziness Plot Twist enables.
And I might finally craft Tess and a second Espionage (just realized I already have two Spectral Cutlasses) and try out Thief Rogue--it's one of the classes I have the least epics and legendaries for, but a lot of the ones I didn't have but would've wanted before are rotating, now might be the best time to get in on an archetype I've always liked but always felt a bit too expensive dust-wise to start playing.