BlizzConline - Hearthstone Chat and Opening Ceremony - What's Next?
We are hours away from the BlizzConline Opening Ceremony, at 2pm PT/ 5pm ET/ 23:00 CET. We will live recap it in this very post, so keep an eye on it if you want to keep up. We have already gotten some teasers about what we can expect to hear about, so check them out below if you haven't yet.
For tonight's full schedule see our post from last week with all the details as well as a link to the official site.
Otherwise, just use this post to comment with your thoughts and ideas about what's coming! Let's get HYPE!
The Live Recap of the Opening Ceremony
Join us for the Live recap of the Opening Cermony!
- BlizzConline started with a long cinematic about 30 years Blizzard!
- J. Allen Brack takes the stage and adresses us about the last year, and how the last year has meant that even though we are apart physically that we are still united by games.
- J. Allen Brack is proud of his colleagues for how they managed to still keep working through the challenges and deliver.
- He now mentions some aspects of Esports of the different Blizzard games.
- To the games!
- Blizzard Arcade Collection: Lost Vikings, Rock and Roll Racing and Blackthorn. Now in definitive editions!
- FREE for anyone that bought an Anniversary bundle!
- World of Warcraft!
- Shadowlands: Chains of Domination will be the next big patch in Retail.
- We see an AMAZING cinematic where Anduin is not who we thought he is and is about to bring about a terrible fate for the world of Azeroth!
- Charity Pet Program: New way to donate. Everyone can donate what they want, or not, and still everyone will get the new pet. If the stretch goal for donations is reached, we get a second pet!
- Bananas and Digsy are the pets!
- Classic: Burning Crusade is the next Classic adventure.
- Coming in 2021! Beta starting soon.
- Every Classic character will get the choice to go to Burning Crusade or to stay in Classic.
- Diablo
- New Playable Class in Diablo 4: Rogue
- Diablo 2: Resurrected. Remastered version!
- Coming to PC and consoles.
- Full HD remaster of both the main game and the expansion. All cinematics remastered as well.
- J Allen Brack thanks us for being Blizzard gamers and hopes we will have epic gaming experiences far into the future.
- That's it for the Opening Ceremony!
- The Opening Ceremony closes with METALLICA!
- Hearthstone!
- New Year: Year of the Gryphon
- Standard will get a Core set. Totally free and with 29 new cards.
- Ysera changed to a Battlecry for all her cards.
- Malygos now a Battlecry that gives you spells.
- Deathwing, still clears the board, but only discards a card for every minion removed.
- New Expansion: Forged in the Barrens
- Set in the Barrens, we get to meet characters there.
- New Legendary: Shadow Hunter Vol'jin. FREE for everyone on log in.
- FREE: 30 years of Blizzard Card Back
- New Key Word: Frenzy: First time your minion takes damage and survives, this triggers.
- New spells, that upgrade at 5 and 10 Mana.
- Alliance will get content later this year!
- New Game mode: Hearthstone Mercaneries: Build teams of some of the most iconic heroes and villains.
- Level them, give them gear and maybe even evolve them into more powerful versions.
- Launches later this year!
A Leak
A short while ago a new Logo popped up on Reddit, which seems inline with earlier leaks to suggest that the name of the expansion will be "Forged in the Barrens". Come discuss the evidence in our dedicated Expansion post!
Teaser video
World of Warcraft Loading Screen
This is the loading screen for the Razorfen Downs dungeon in World of Warcraft. It looks eerily similar to imagery in the teaser video above.
Teaser Tweet
Where will the Hearthstone clock land after the Year of the Phoenix? ✨
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) February 18, 2021
Tune-in to #BlizzConline on February 19 - 20 to learn about the upcoming year! pic.twitter.com/x8JOq4dX44
How Ysera is going to work with the 0-mana card that brings her back? Infinite combo?
as infinite as you willing wasting 9 mana each turn to get it
I'm old enough to remember what happened last time Blizzard Remastered an old, beloved game.
How do you update 3 dragkns, but none of them are Nozdormu?
uuuh,, i hope Hearthstone Mercaneries will come soon.. thats exactly what i want.. what i need :D
Will we keep old dragons or not?
Old dragons will be available in classic and wild i think.
I'm gonna say the next year will be Year of the Worg or Year of the Wolf. Or Year of the Kodo.
Boring theme. Like a kobolds and catacombs. Where are titans? Ulduar? Those interesting themea. Some pigs is not fun
i hate that is allways so late in EU... i really wanted to watch the first hour to see all the big news about all the games but its so late... i need to get up early
hahahahaha
Year of the Cancer
This is not funny. My mother die because of cancer. Please don't make that disease a joke.
you are a joke
The humor always hurt somebody. The black humor it's like legs, someone get it, someone don't. XD
Dude, im with you, cancer is no laughing matter. But he clearly wasn't making fun of people with cancer, just the state of this game. Is it a shitty joke? Yeah but I dont see the comparison
I meant cancer like a crab or zodiac (HS year animals are themed in shape of constellations after all) not cancer the disease. My godmother passed away because of cancer, so I feel you here, but she always managed to made jokes of her disease while she was around.
This meta has been my favorite since the introduction of demon hunter, I'm happy to not be vs a dh like 70 percent of the time. Even going against the most annoying decks isn't that bad
Do you think they will print more Pure Paladin cards?
So, Paladin cards? To go in an all Paladin deck. I think so...
(j/k I know what you mean. I suspect they won't this set. The reason being pretty silly, but, if the hints are true then this expansion is about the Horde and the Barrens, and their origin. And in the original start of the Horde, there were no Horde Paladins. Paladins were Alliance exclusive. And so I think there probably won;t be any continuation of the Pure Paladin archetype, silly as this particular reasoning for it might be, The other reason is that Pure Paladin has had it's moments to shine the past 2 expansions and it;s time for the Paladin Wheel of Fortune to spin again.)