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Update 9:03 PM EST: Added video containing partial animation of the Ragnaros' Hammer board clickable.
Update 4:33 PM EST: Added tweet from Zeriyah confirming you must buy the adventure in each region individually.
Update 3:22 PM EST: Made adjustments to the text in the article to make it more readable. Enjoy!
Blackrock Mountain Confirmed
The Blackrock Mountain Adventure has been confirmed at PAX East 2015. It will release in April 2015. We've summarized and organized all the information below from the panel and the official announcement post.
- There are five wings in the adventure, each of which can be purchased for 700 gold, or $6.99 USD.
- You can get a discount on the wings if you buy them in bulk. All five can be purchased together for $24.99.
- There is no free wing this time around. (Source)
- Wings will be released on a weekly basis, one at a time.
- Thirty-one new cards will be obtained through seventeen bosses, wing completion, and class challenges.
- Pre-orders for Blackrock Mountain begin on March 19th or 20th, and will reward a special card back.
- You cannot obtain the card back through a Gold pre-order. Real money only.
- Purchasing the expansion only unlocks it for the region you have purchased it in. (Source)
- Dragons will be getting some love with this adventure, with lots of interactions between the card type!
- Heroic Mode will once again be available and will reward players with a card back for completing it.
- When a new wing releases, the cards from that wing will be available in The Arena, even if you haven't played the adventure.
New Cards
We've got five new cards out of the thirty-one to check out! All these cards are usable in the deck builder. Get theorycrafting!
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Adventure Format
Blackrock Mountain will use the same format as the Curse of Naxxramas adventure, with bosses being inside of wings and the wings being released on a weekly basis. There will once again be a set of class challenges, which will reward your class cards. Heroic mode is also available which rewards a card back upon completion.
There are five wings in Blackrock Mountain, each representing a different place in the mountain. In these five wings reside seventeen bosses. The last three names weren't announced on the site, but if you look into the markup for the official BRM page, you can see their names! Thanks i2lurchi for the tip!
- Wing 1 - Blackrock Depths
- Grim Guzzler (Coren Direbrew)
- The Arena
- Dark Iron Emperor
- Wing 2 - Molten Core
- Wing 3 - Blackrock Spire
- Wing 4 - Blackwing Lair
- Wing 5 - Hidden Lab
Card Backs
Three new upcoming card backs which are blackrock themed are going to be available to players.
"Molten Core"
Season 12 (Mar. 2015)
"BRM Heroic"
Clear Heroic Blackrock
"BRM Pre-order"
Pre-order Blackrock
New Gameboard
A new Blackrock Mountain themed gameboard will be introduced in the adventure. Below you can see Coren Direbrew, the first boss in Wing 1, Blackrock Depths.
Ragnaros' Hammer Clickable
Zeriyah posted a video of part of the Ragnaro's Hammer board clickable animation.
Cinematic Trailer
Blizzard has released the cinematic trailer for Blackrock Mountain!
Hearthstone Mobile is now in Alpha
Hearthstone's mobile version is being tested internally among Blizzard staff right now. They are estimating that it will be out within a couple of months. Below you can see screenshots of the start screen, collection manager, in-game board, and card pack opening. Quite a bit different than the normal client!
cool!
Don't even care about the cards,all I wanna lay my hands on is that gorgeous Heroic card back......
If they are going all-out for the phone version, please revamped tablet one's as well. Make it smooth like 60FPS. Don't fix it to just 30FPS!!!
Turn 4 Grim Patron as Warrior (coin)
Turn 5 two Cruel Taskmasters, Whirlwind (after attacking something with 0 attack with the original Grim Patron), and your board fills up with a ton of 3/2s and 3/3s plus two 2/2s. I think this is pretty OP, what are your thoughts?
I think this can't happen, since Grim Patron costs 5 mana :P
So I was wondering if anyone knows if BRM cards are soul bound or can they be dusted like regular cards
Thank you much
You've got the cardback names wrong. The preorder one is Molton Core and the season one is Ragnaros
Can't wait to play the new adventure! :D
Gotta say... I actually really liked the cinematic. I am psyched for the adventure, I absolutely loved the Naxx heroics and that you had to build custom decks.
Mobile hearthstone will make my life end please no
They should make an Disney-esque singing/dancing video featuring WoW-villains.....'cause that Blackrock trailer was awesome
I can't wait. Pre-order cardback looks amazing here and I hope it will look so awesome in game as well.
The nerf drums are already pounding for Hungry Dragon
The power creep rumour has spread throughout the country...
I just realized how similar the cards here are to the ones first announced in Naxxramas.
1 weak,heavily specific legendary (Rend Blackhand vs. Baron Rivendare)
1 strong-looking common (Hungry Dragon vs. pre-nerf Undertaker [before we knew what monster UT would turn out to be])
1 strong rare (in the right deck) (Dark Iron Skulker vs. Nerubian Egg)
1 odd, niche card that only gets used in a very specific deck (Grim Patron vs. Dancing Swords)
Only exception seems to be Blackwing Technician vs. Shade of Naxxramas, because the latter was considered weak before being largely used on druid decks, while the former may see play in more than one deck. Hum...both are 3-drops?
Either immediately or once the first wing opens.
Wats this thing about mark up in the BRM US.BATTLE.NET page about the name of the 14 bosses i only know 3 from the announcement :)
anyone clear this up
saw the post funny how rightlck inspect element screenshot and printscreen can do.
beneath the facade secrets lies from plain sight :)
gud eye and thinking nothing gets passed us
I can't find the names when I inspect element. where are they? Can you post them?