Expansion Reveal Stream Coming July 1, and a Note on Mercenaries
We've just got an unexpected announcement of an announcement for the upcoming expansion, which looks like an Alliance-themed one. Let us know about your theories in the comment section.
Mercenaries won't be ready in this expansion cycle, expect to hear more about Mercenaries this Fall.
Quote from BlizzardWith all that experience fighting Quilboar in the Barrens, heroes like you have leveled up! It’s time to replenish your bags, repair your armor, and prepare for a new quest. . .
Join us on July 1 at 9:30 a.m. PT, on either Twitch or YouTube, for the reveal of the next Hearthstone expansion! Lead Designer Alec Dawson will kick things off with an overview on what you can expect from Phase 2 of the Year of the Gryphon. From there, Game Designers Liv Breeden and John McIntyre will dive into what’s new in the upcoming card set. We also have some news to share for Battlegrounds. We’ve got plenty to talk about, you won’t want to miss it!
Separately, we know you’re eager to learn more about Hearthstone Mercenaries. While we’re very excited with how things are coming together, we need more time to implement all the awesome content we’ve planned for the mode. As such, we’re now expecting Hearthstone Mercenaries to be released in Phase 2 of the Year of the Gryphon and won’t be quite ready to share details on the mode during the stream on July 1.
Instead, we’ll be hosting a dedicated Hearthstone Mercenaries stream this Fall. We’ll give more details about this stream closer to its broadcast date. Until then, we hope you’ll enjoy the expansion reveal and all the things still to come in the Year of the Gryphon!
on the last expansion release i was at lvl 349/350
Now i am at 294/400
and i have played way more than last time !
what did they change?
It isn't released yet, you have some time still.
yea but it just seems more like a hell grind like last time. they had to change something i dunno.
they changed the level required to go up from 1300 to 1500 when you pass level 131
the post max level always increased up to 1500 before, the only thing they changed was to increase the base levels from 50 to 100 while keeping the total required XP.
You had an extra 1/2 a month last time, they started the reward track First half of November. There was always going to be a little less time this expansion.
The last expansion was the first with the new quests and achievements. So u earned allot of experience points right away and that way u leveled up more quickly i suppose? This time there where less achievements to get. So u got less.
The bags, armor and quest part must be a hint towards the expansion. Quests will return more than likely, the bag thing might be a new unique flavour card like spellstones or ranked spells. The bags sounds like some form of value type of card that when played/unpacked, adds stuff to your hand or deck.
As for the armor? Could be simple like more armor decks but I do wonder if it could be a new mechanic... a type of weapon that doesn't attack and comes with some passive ability. Some durabilty/health that your opponent will have to get to 0 to remove it from play similar to the shield of bulwark or whatever for warrior.
Prediction: A bunch of stupidly broken cards that keeps the game in the horrible state it's been in for years.
This. I give hope each expansion that broken 100% RNG cards are not added, but each expansion I'm disappointed. True RNG that decides the game state is not skill, and just damages the integrity of "Deceptively Simple, Insanely Fun", because it is just simple to play that 1 true RNG card, that ruins the other players fun.
So I'm hoping we don't see true 100% RNG cards, and I'm already at the point of, no RNG cards, or RNG cards that are just bad and provide no game state change.
Play Classic then you dumbells.
I'll add on that similar to the last few expansions, they will announce a card that everyone will know is so obviously broken, yet it will be released anyways and break the game for a week until it is hastily nerfed, indicating yet again they do not test their game.
1 July we get new Info? Don't forget to be late again.
Oh they get only better with each expansion, this trailer told so much we didn't knew
I guess they finished the expansion before they finished mercenaries and swapped them around on the schedule
This is earlier than I was expecting. I'm guessing it will drop at the end of July or start of August.
So..... I guess we're just not going to have a duels update like the roadmap said? that's fine....I didn't want a duels update anyways........
I mean, they did release new treasures and balance changes in this phase.
right, I forgot they added the spell school treasures, because most of them were bad (except the holy one). I was hoping they were going to release the mercenaries as alter heroes, because at Blizzconline they hinted at that.
Lame! I knew alliance was coming though, I hope warlock gets some badass stuff!