Fire Festival Coming On July 6 - Details
Blizzard also gave us a schedule for the whole Fire Festival event that will go live on July 6 and will be available for 3 weeks.
See down below what you can expect each week:
Quote from BlizzardThe Fire Festival is back! This year, Ragnaros is throwing a house party in the Firelands. Everybody’s invited! The Fire Festival will last for three weeks, from July 6 at 10:00 AM PT to July 27 at 10:00 AM PT. Here are some of the activities you’ll be able to enjoy during that time, and some other fun stuff that’s on the horizon:
Legendary Quests
There will be 7 Legendary Fire Festival quests in addition to your normal daily quests. Complete one Legendary quest to unlock the next one! The first six quests will each reward you with a Year of the Phoenix pack, and the last quest will grant you a Druid of the Flame Malfurion Hero skin! These quests will only be granted until 10:00 AM PT on July 27, so don’t show up too late!
The Fire Festival Returns to its Roots!
July 7 – Ragnaros’ Fire Festival Tavern Brawl
Ragnaros has thought it over and decided that there’s nothing more Fire Festival than the Ragnaros’ Fire Festival tavern brawl. Construct a deck to face your opponent while Mini-Rag wreaks havoc on both players! You know, classic house party behavior. Feed Mini-Rag to charge up your emotes with festive fireworks!
July 14 – (Updated) Burndown Brawl
We’ve also updated the Burndown Brawl for a new take on another classic! This time, it’s The Duelist Burndown, and every deck borrows Treasures and a special Hero Power from Duels! Take control of a random deck and the loser of each game will be given their opponent’s deck for the next one. In the end, one deck will emerge as the most dominant of all!
More Fiery Looks with the Eternal Flame Bundle
Malfurion’s not the only one who has picked up a new look in the Firelands! The Eternal Flame Bundle offers the hot new Flamewalker Rexxar and Righteous Inferno Uther hero skins, as well as the Ragnaros card back and alternate Shaman hero! How handsome! The Eternal Flame Bundle will be available from July 6 to July 20, and is limited to one per account.
The Afterparty!
July 27 – The Party Continues with Battlegrounds Cosmetics!
Right after the Fire Festival ends, we’re moving the party over to Battlegrounds! The first-ever Battlegrounds cosmetics go live on July 27 with the Battlegrounds Bundle: Beach Party! The Beach Party includes beach party themed skins for seven different Battlegrounds heroes, as well as the Tikilord Ragnaros alternate Bartender. Tikilord Ragnaros includes a new portrait AND NEW VOICELINES FOR YOUR BATTLEGROUNDS BARTENDER! AMAZING!
Don’t let the party die! Or do. You can also pick up Battleground Heroes: Shadowlands for eight more Battlegrounds hero skins, based on Warcraft’s afterlife. Grab either set, or both, and personalize your Battlegrounds experience to whatever strikes your fancy.
Stay tuned for more Battlegrounds cosmetics, including more alternate Bartenders and more Hero skins, throughout the year!
Next Major Battlegrounds Update
Finally, looks aren’t the only thing being updated in Battlegrounds! In an upcoming content patch, Battlegrounds will get all-new heroes and undergo a major rework of all minion Types. We will be swapping out over 30 existing minions for new ones specifically designed to play off the core fantasy of that Type and re-emphasize how the Types play, giving the entire mode a massive refresh! For instance, Pirates will have a bigger emphasis on amassing Gold and treasure, with new cards like Briny Bootlegger and Nosy Looter.
Keep an eye out for more about the changes that will be coming to Battlegrounds as we get closer to the launch.
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Gold is not the same as free. You can use gold to buy packs, so if you would normally spend cash to buy packs, gold is worth money.
(Of course, I'm not buying BG skins because I don't play BG.)
Kind of disagree, for people who farm duel/arena. We tend to already have all the cards f2p, but I do wish we can buy bundles/passes and more stuff with gold. I am not sure about the gold situation on Ladder/ BG player, but I'd think BG player have a decent amount of gold as well that they'd like to spend on cosmetic.
You're not wrong, but there aren't that many people who are good enough at Arena or Duels to farm those modes.
Does BG even give rewards other than rating? I didn't think so, but it's been so long I don't really remember.
So, can we chain all 7 legendary quests tonight?
Right now Blizzard is spamming and selling cosmetics like never before , why they could not give cosmetics every month as an reward for something. I mean the game is expensive enough.
Why give you if they can sell you?
Simple enough answer: because people are buying them daaaaaaaaaa and because people that don't buy them don't mind them being in the game. Also, people that wanted a super fair F2P sistem already either left or accepted the situation. HS is a great game, but I took it too seriously for a time.
I'm not trying to defend blizzard, they are greedy assholes (as a company), but people seem to be ok with it so they keep pushing the limit. Again, this shit is a game, I'm not paying anything right now so I don't give flying fuck about it.
Why is it so hard to understand that companies SELL things?
It's the only reason they exist.
I think most of us had more gold than ever though, ever since duel released I've just been getting all the cards w/o paying and having a huge gold pool. I do wish they add cosmetic that can be bought with gold though.
Why they dont sell the others though? Blizzard underwhelming as always.
Firefestival 2017: you get double gold for all quests
Firefestival 2021: look at all these cosmetics you can buy for cash!
fckn true.. :O
I mean, you get 7 quests AND a honestly pretty cool looking Hero skin...
More like FyreFestival 2021.
I'll just wait until you can buy the skins with gold instead.
which might not happen, this is a special event like Lunar New Years
Tell that, for example, to The Thunder King, Dame Hazelbark or Sylvanas Windrunner, as all of them (along with their respective card backs) originally went on sale in their own limited-time special bundles for 10 bucks... the very same bundles you can now get for just 1800 gold (1500 gold initially).
Paying real money for this bundle is an eccentricity typical of whales that have too much money to spare and/or do not know how to control their spending... because I remind you, this video game company does not deserve your money at all.
Pretty presumptuous and judgemental to apply "eccentric whale" (via bad grammar) to people you don't know.
For many it's not a matter of controlling their spending or having too much money to spare. £9.99 or £12.99 or £17.99 for a bundle isn't a lot of money to some people in relation to what they earn. Or perhaps they enjoy the game and it's a purchase they're happy to make, same with the mega-bundles. £69.99 just isn't alot of money for me to pay for a game I enjoy to play.
In regard to the company "not deserving your money". You realise they're not forcing you to buy anything? In fact you can play their entire game FOR FREE that it's their day job to develop, produce and publish. They are also a commercial entity, not a non-profit so, what do you expect from them, should they give even more away for free in addition to the game itself and everything they give away free in game??
You don't have to buy their cosmetics it's just a choice that is presented to you.
Thanks god we now can buy Ragnaros hero and its cardback for 1500 gold, we only have to wait :D
I feel like the Ragnaros was supposed to be the Fire Festival free hero instead of Malfurion, since the other 2 heroes are similar to Fire Malfurion.
But blizzard said: Hey, people like Ragnaros, so instead of giving it for free, why not we put it in the bundle so that people would but that?