Demon Hunter Prologue - Everything You Need To Know!
The Demon Hunter Prologue is LIVE right now. It's totally for FREE and it is the start to being able to play Illidan Stormrage, Demon Hunter, when the expansion launches on Tuesday, April 7th.
The Prologue lets you play as Illidan Stormrage and will guide you through his backstory to show you how he came to be a Demon Hunter and what drives him. Completing the Prologue unlocks the Demon Hunter Basic set and the Demon Hunter Initiate set as well as a pre-built Demon Hunter deck if you have a deck slot open.
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Summary
- Demon Hunter Prologue launches: Today and is LIVE right now.
- The Prologue, its rewards and unlocking Demon Hunter is FREE.
- Rewards for completing the Demon Hunter Prologue:
- 10 Basic set cards for Demon Hunter and 20 Initiate set cards for Demon Hunter, meaning 2 full Demon Hunter sets!
- Full pre-built Demon Hunter deck. You will need 1 open deck slot to get this!
- Demon Hunter class then unlocks for play: Tuesday, April 7th, with the new expansion, if you have completed the Prologue.
The Prologue: Playthrough and Screenshots
The Prologue consists of 4 separate fights against:
- Azzinoth as Illidan Stormrage, the Mage.
- Xavius as Illidan Stormrage, Mage with Demon Hunter Hero Power.
- Mannoroth as Illidan Stormrage, Demon Hunter.
- Cenarius as Illidan Stormrage, Demon Hunter and Outcast.
Playthrough
Fight 1: Azzinoth as Illidan Stormrage, the Mage. Azzinoth has a basic Demon deck and can equip the Warglaives of Azzinoth. He has a Manaburn spell like Demon Hunters get. Fairly straightforward fight, use your freezes smartly to prevent him from attacking and you should have no problem with him.
Fight 2: Xavius as Illidan Stormrage, Mage with DH Hero Power. For this fight you have to kill 30 minions in Co-op style with Xavius. It's a co-op fight with 1 side playing cards and the other side having the active Demonic Elementals, with at End of Turn the roles switching. Xavius plays some useful Lifesteal minions. Using those should keep you alive long enough to tag team the Demonic Elementals with Xavius. Once the fight is done Sargeras, the leader of the Burning Legion Demonic army, turns you into a half Demon with Spectral Sight as a "reward".
Fight 3: Mannoroth as Illidan Stormrage, DH. You have to kill a 40 health Mannoroth, who brings out ever bigger and badder demons, mostly with your weapons and attack synergy cards. You do get some help from Malfurion Stormrage, the Druid hero and your brother, who gives you some Treants in the starting few turns. Once done you pick up a Vial of water from the Well of Eternity, turning Malfurion against you.
Fight 4: Cenarius as Illidan Stormrage, DH and Outcast. You have to kill Cenarius who uses a host of Druid spells and minions, and creates some huge, tricky to deal with taunt minions. You have no removal so you will have to carefully use your weapons, spells and lifesteal effects to both stay alive and kill Cenarius. Once done, Illidan smirks that this is how it SHOULD have gone, but that instead he got imprisoned for TEN. THOUSAND. YEARS.
Rewards
After defeating all 4 fights, you get the rewards. The ability to start using the Demon Hunter Hero when the expansion releases, 30 Demon Hunter cards total and a Demon Hunter deck, if you had a deck slot open.
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I dont see the harm in letting players have the 30 DH cards a week early to play in non ranked games?
"a pre-built Demon Hunter deck IF you have a deck slot open!"
i didn't have a deck slot open so i miss out on the demon hunter deck!!
Is there a work around for this? Everyone is playing the old adventures with demon hunter and I have no cards unlocked for him...
idk why this has a lot of downvotes. the same thing happended to me. is there gonna be a work around?
I suppose not. You can't do the reward unlock a second time, which is when it checks if you have an open deck slot and gives you the deck.
If it's any consolation, I suspect that the deck you get is basically just the 2 full free sets you got today, put together in a deck of 30 cards, so there's no extras or fancy stuff.
The only thing you could try is to remove one of your decks and do the final Cenarius fight again and see if it procs. I doubt it will, but only way I see it could happen.
Same here :( They should have informed us. I was not prepared...
hes telling a story happening 10 000 years ago. Mannaroth was defeated by then. But demons cannot be killed for good when not in twisting nether. So he came back, grommash killed him, and guess what? Ashenvale isnt twisting nether either. So hes still out there somewhere
Something strange, in episode 3 he did not kill the monorot, he was killed by Gromash,
i cant login inside the game because of a +1000 minutes wait que.
anyone else getting this at this very moment?
The same for me.
Me too 😢
Same here, seems Blizz servers were not prepared after all....
love this reply!!!! lol
Oh the 2nd match was a coop match? I let Xavius kill himself and I won.
After prologue I took DH for a spin, Nethrandamus feels soo good to play:)
https://imgur.com/IbgRefu
Beat her on first try
First time I "won" the 2nd fight (coop with Xavius) and became a demon, actually nothing happened. I needed to concede as otherwise the game would never end. On the 2nd try everything worked and killing the 30th thingy turned me to a demon (again) and I won.
Small indie company.
As a World of Warcraft player I really enjoy the lore they implement from WoW to Hearthstone.
There is even soundtrack in the adventure map from the game.
I understand that releasing this early was to get us hyped for the full expansion next week.
But seriously, you can get DH cards/Hero Power off of discover effects in standard games and you can play against DH in practice mode. There is no reason to give us the class 5 days early and not let us play it when it's obviously all ready to go.
If we have to wait until the 7th to play as DH, then DH cards should not be available in standard games yet.
Blizz is such a cock tease. Just release the expansion already.