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.
For all the Demon Hunter cards and any information you could need about the Demon Hunter class, please see our dedicated Demon Hunter Card List and Guide or click the banner below!
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.
Ashes of Outland Card List & Expansion Details
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
i dont want entire expansion early.. just the Demon Hunter class.. :D whats the point of the prolog early then ? :D .. i guess.. you have to have cards early too then alright.. but i dont need all the cards.. just those free ones u get with demon hunter class.. :D
The DH cards are a part of the next expansion. I already have the cards in my collection because of a bug with Galakrond's Awakening that gave me the initiate set as a reward. It says in my collection that the cards isn't available until the expansion hits. The purposes behind us getting the prologue now are two-fold: First, it's to get people excited and give us something to do. Two, it's so that we can finish it before the 7th and therefore start playing DH immediately.
see ? you can be nice.. and had sense in your comment.. thanks.. upvote for you :D no im not being sarcastic :D
why cant be unlocked when you finish the prolog.. :(
It's not a bug as the cards are already in the game. Same reason why you can discover the DH hp.
It is a bug, it shouldn't happen. The cards are technically in the game, that's why it may confuse the system, but they're not officialy released yet (you can't craft them), so you shouldn't be able to interact with them through Discover effects and such. Just like you can't Discover cards from Wild in Standard. The same principle applies. So if it happens, it's a bug and should be reported.
It's been like that for every solo adventure expansion tho.
The week before galakrond's awakening hit, rogues were getting Shotbot from Pharaoh Cat and discovering other new cards aswell
Two reasons. One, it builds hype and gets people excited - which I am!
Two, you need to finish the prologue to get the class unlocked, so by giving people 5 days to do it we can go immediately into DH when the expansion launches.
idk why they unlocked the single player content and you cant use the reward for another 5 days, but Ill take it.
You expect them to change the release date because you're cranky? The class is a part of the next expansion and the next expansion has a release date.
Classic.
"here is something really cool, but you can not use it yet"
you made an account for that complaint?... sigh
You've been on Hearthpwn long enough. You should know how things work around here. Bitching and moaning > logic and reasoning.
Really exited for Demon Hunter.
Btw, it is already possible to get Demon Hunter's hero power using one of the Finleys.
You shouldn't be able to, but it wouldn't be surprising since HS always has those types of unchecked interactions until someone reports them.
It kinda makes sense to me that you can get the hero power already. The class is already in the game. There's a bug with one of the Galakrond's Awakening missons that gives you now the DH Initiate set as a reward for some reason, so I already have those 20? cards in my Collection already.
I have also encountered many other "bugs"(?). For example I got a DH card from "discover" while playing in wild. Also I saw on Youtube that it's somehow possible to get DH cards from Zephrys, but I have not encountered this myslef.
Yeah, I know the class is already in the game, but you shouldn't be able to interact with its cards or hero power since it's not "officialy" released yet, just like you can't Discover cards from Wild in Standard. The same principle applies.
Looking forward to this! Will play it several times :)
Are we able to use it somewhere outside ranked? For example against bots or friendly games? That would be awesome, so you can see how it is to play as DH outside ranked.