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.
Ashes of Outland Card List & Expansion Details
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
Please warn about story spoilers. I came here for help and get immediately spoiled.
day 30004 still cant beat cenarius lol
The Prologue is awesome! It's really nice that they present Illidan's story in an awesome manner! I haven't played WoW before, but I know Illidan Stormrage since DoTA days and his HS card that summons Flames of Azzinoth. Speaking of Azzinoth, he is also present in this prologue! I love how they present Illidan as a hero and yet they imprisoned him as a betrayer. And now, really excited on the next adventure! Hearthstone really levels up their game since last year, and now, doubling it up with a new class and new ranking system. I will be forever in love with Hearthstone.
I completed the Ashes of Outland Prologue, you can check it out here:
I already see many complaints that the DH isn't available yet after the prologue and about the prologue being too short. Why can't we have good things without people ruining them? They could've released absolutely nothing until the 7th, yet they made something short for us to enjoy for free and immediatly people start complaining again that it isn't their expectation. If Blizzard ever stops releasing free stuff this is probably exactly the reason: people can't appreciate what they get, but only moan about what they didn't get.
The prolog was fun. Having cards in your collection you cant even test against the barkeeper? No thanks, dont need to be teased.
Pre-built deck code? :))
It is: AAECAea5AwLMugO8xgMOi7oDo7sD17sD2LsDibwDqbwD4LwDjb0Dx8YD98gD+cgD/sgDnMkDvtIDAA==
That *before demon* illidan portrait looks pretty good.
*before demon hunter* to be clear...
I want it as a mage skin.
Yeah, the young Illidan and Malfurion illustrations by Alex Horley are really nice callbacks to the cover of the War of the Ancients omnibus illustrated by Glenn Rane. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X8gdy
I hope they get added as alternate hero portraits at some point, unlikely though it may be. Or at the very least I hope we get to see the full art...
Interesting that the DH deck you get is different from the one you play in the prologue. I’m playing through some Blackrock and it’s OK, but would have preferred full access.
I feel like they haven’t really thought this through, as my autocomplete DH decks are now stuck there and can’t be removed.
Which heroics are you having luck against?
I managed Heroic Loatheb but it wasn't really optimal for it. I lucked out because I got all the rush dudes so I managed to get a full board with the spore buff before Loatheb cleared every time, but I still only beat him with 2hp left.
Took me a few tries, but I got lethal +1
Nice! Yeah the deck we have access to isn't a very good deck overall, especially not against heroic adventures in general, but at least it's something to play with!
I liked it. The battles are fun too, better than the last adventure!
so... that was dumb. Fun little solo story, but now no early access to playing the class? Seriously disappointed, not even letting us test stuff out against the bar keep is stupid. Why even release this early? 10 minutes of play to just now be disappointed...
you can test it on old adventures. Didnt tried all but naxxramas works :) adventures where you fight with specific heroes doesnt work obviously
doesn't work for me. The game gives an error if I try to start an adventure fight with DH deck.