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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!
Buying with gold does make it "free!" But no cost at all is... SUPER FREE!
You have to press a little above the button. I found that out the hard way.
https://twitter.com/CM_Zeriyah/status/573897753895501824
Well crap, I was right. Guess I'll have to save some gold from now on.
I'm really excited for some dragon decks, considering how expensive dragons generally are we're probably also looking at more controllish decks(while mechs were geared more towards aggro), which is nice. Was hoping it'd be more cards than naxx, and it technically is but only by 1 lol. Was hoping for something like 50 or so, but on the flip side, I was expecting to have to wait till July to play this so an April release date is certainly welcome. All in all, not bad.
Excited, but somewhat disappointed with not being able to use gold for pre order card back.
Time to accumulate gold for the wings ;) Finally something new.
That 4 drop gonna be really good pick on arena and its common.
Hopefully we will get more 4+ mana commons with good stats with this expansion and aoes to balance things out.
Buying wings with gold is the most unprofitable thing you may do with it.
Technically, it is the most profitable if you do not factor in time as a resource of value. But hey, buying wings with bucks is probably a lot easier :P
WTF is Hidden Lab? Why didn't they use Blackwing Descent?
Hidden labyrinth, perhaps? IE. Blackrock Caverns?
For sure it means Hidden Laboratory, as Nefarian does a lot of experiments in both BWL and BWD but it's strange they didn't use a more know location as a name
This was a joke, right? Cuz I laughed my butt off!
For the record, I absolutely LOVE that i was down voted for making fun of someone that quoted the very words that answered that person's question. Whether any of you people like it or not means not a FUK to me! :D
I hope you realize your stupidity after re-reading the OP's comment at least three times again.
You cant use gold to pre order. It's been explicitly typed in red. I don't get the confusion.
Some people don't read full articles before commenting. It happens.
Naxx was a good thing and this time i'll have an entire week to try the heroic mode just because of the pre-order. Having the cards right as they launch is a huge difference, i can tell this after buying Naxx only months ago.
Great news!
Hope finally I will be able to utilize my Onyxia...
yeah what i enjoy the most about new cards is how somehow they revive cards that didnt see any play. like mad scientist revived mage secrets for example.
nice catch! updating