United in Stormwind Launch Day - Everything You Need To Know!
Hearthstone's newest expansion United in Stormwind launches today, August 3rd. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.
- The United in Stormwind Expansion is LIVE!
- Yet another 135 new cards have been added to the game.
- Another 35 cards will follow in a Mini-Set midway through the expansion. There's no official details revealed yet!
- You can view all the new cards in our United in Stormwind Card List.
- PvE content for the United in Stormwind expansion will be a continuation of the Book of Mercenaries storylines.
Included for free in the Expansion
- All players logging in will get the United in Stormwind Legendary card Flightmaster Dungar for free!
- All players opening up the first Reward in the new Free Reward Track will get a Legendary Card for free, Lady Prestor!
- All players will have access to the free Core set, a replacement for the Classic and Basic set, read all about it here.
- There has been no mention so far of a chain of Event Quests to celebrate the release, like there often was.
We're investigating reports that Flightmaster Dungar doesn't count toward the Stormwind Legendary Collector achievement. Working on it!
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New Mechanics
- New Mechanic: Questlines - Cards that begin in your hand and have three steps of requirements and rewards, finishing with an upgraded Legendary mercenary minion!
- Mounts - Buff cards that give the target a deathrattle that will summon a Mount Minion, inspired by the original Mount spell.
- New Keyword: Tradeable - Special cards that can be reshuffled into your deck and replaced with a drawn card for 1-mana.
- Profession Tools - Weapons with special effects instead of attack values. Gathering the crafting requirements gets you an awesome effect!
Other Mechanics
Some mechanics that were seen in previous card sets were brought back on new cards, as well as some truly new mechanics were added:
- Interaction with the number of cards drawn that turn.
- Cards that shuffle minions into the deck that cast when Drawn.
- Tokens that go to your hand if they cannot fit the battlefield.
- A spell that gets shuffled back into your deck after use, and gets stronger.
- Handbuffing is back for Paladin.
- A minion that increases damage taken by 1 from all sources, for BOTH players.
- Start your game as a different class, until you play your first Rogue card!
- Handsize interactions for Warlock.
- Force your opponent's minions to attack a chosen minion on the Player's side.
- You can view all the new cards in our United in Stormwind Cards List.
Mercenaries
10 Legendary Questlines each representing a different class. The mercenaries stories will continue in United in Stormwind, as well as hopefully later in the new Game mode, Mercenaries.
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Arena Changes
The Arena rotation is being shaken up. This time it is the following card sets that are active:
- United in Stormwind
- Forged in the Barrens
- Wailing Caverns Mini-Set
- Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
- Darkmoon Races Mini-Set
- The Witchwood
- Saviors of Uldum
- Rastakhan's Rumble
- Core
Theorycrafted Decks
We created a special Decks post yesterday, with a lot of new archetypes and a lot of new deck ideas. You can find the links to that Decks post below.
Alternatively, create your own deck with the Deckbuilder, add a good guide on how to pilot the deck and help create the post-launch meta!
That should get you started! Thanks for being with us throughout this exciting United in Stormwind reveal period. Shoutout to everyone who helped in one way or another during this time, the other moderators and staff and the devs and all the users who gave us useful suggestions and feedback, and to everyone who enjoyed and supported our coverage. You rock!
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United in Stormwind Card List & Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
Seriously, again with no quest chain event?
Seriously, what did you expect? We are talking about Bli$$ard nonetheless...
i got a quest a few days ago that was complete 3 united in stormwind quests.
It could just mean that there has been no communication about it. There's been almost zero posts and info lately, not even a launch day pre-announcement. Things are just quiet at the moment.
That said, with the reward track there is kind of a built in set of rewards for the early expansion stuff, so perhaps that is why they haven't done specific quests lately.
We'll see when the expansion goes live if there is anything or not.
The last couple of expansions they didn't mention beforehand if there would be a quest chain or not, but there always were.
Yeah, employee walkouts do tend to mean certain things fall by the wayside. I think we're lucky we've gotten as much communication as we have.
That's because of the sexual harassment lawsuit. They announced leadership changes at Blizzard today.