Update 12:06 PM EDT: Added Alleria promotional video.
Battle.net Friends Lists - Now Supporting 200 Friends
The friends list limit on Battle.net has been increased to 200 earlier today, up from 100. Go make some new friends!
New Heroes - Alleria Windrunner and Medivh
Thanks to the Korean Battle.net website, as if we couldn't tell already, we now know that Alleria and Medivh are going to be the next two cosmetic heroes which will be purchasable in the store for $9.99 each. This tip comes to us from DCInside (via reddit)
The card back names in the screenshot below translate to Medivh (메디브) and Alleria (알레리아). The image itself is quite low quality, we will have better resolution card backs available once assets are published to the Battle.net website.
This brings us up to three new known heroes, Magni, Medivh, and Alleria.
Alleria Windrunner - Promo Video & Art
Check out her promotional video below. If you'd like to see her full resolution artwork, click here, or the banner below the video.
Tavern Brawl
Taven Brawl is Hearthstone's newest gamemode which will be introduced in mid-June! It is a weekly event which has a different theme each week which you build a deck around to compete. Head on over to the Tavern Brawl announcement post to learn more.
- Tavern Brawls launch mid-June.
- Admission to Tavern Brawls is free.
- It is a weekly event which has a custom deck building rule for that mode that everyone must adhere to.
- One week you may need to build your own deck, or you may be given a premade deck.
- The gamemode unlocks after you have leveled up any hero to level 20.
- There will be a couple of days delay after a brawl ends before a new one begins.
Alleria reveal cinematic on Hs youtube.
Alleria art looks bad. I thought it would be better.
it is because ot size it should be smaller .
larger friendlist.. kripp called it yesterday in his video WTF?
He already knew about it, some test thing he got to be a part of.
Well, at least now I don't have to stare at Rexxar's stupid face while I'm getting SMOrced.
Well, the community sure called those out fast. I'd like to see some more races from the warcraft universe get representation though. Give us a troll shaman, and tauren rogue!
i think we might get hamuul for druid.
One would argue the same for Ogres, but Hearthstone kinda bonkered that with Ogre Ninja :D
@TCG_Guy Haha yeah, the tauren rogue bit was more of a joke than anything. I'd just like to see more races get represented in Hearthstone.
I've never even thought about The Forsaken vs The Worgen. Now that would be a cool expansion.
Well Medivh was expected, but I can honestly say I wasn't expecting Alleria.
Where is Horse Mage?!?!?!?That's because she hasn't really been heard of in WoW, but played a role in Warcraft prior to WoW. She is one of the heroes you see as a statue outside of Stormwind.
She plays a big lore in the lore, but not as of yet in World of Warcraft. Check out the valley of heroes in Stormwind, there you see her statue :) A sister of Sylvanas she is as well.
she's a fan-fav along with Turalyon so it's not surprising she got the spot, the log in screen into WoW even used to mention both of them, speak to characters in Honor Hold, read the statue of the Sons of Lothar and speak to Khadgar in Shattrath and you will hear her mentioned, also read the descriptions of statues at the entrance to SW
It's Ashe from LOL isn't it?
The 200 friends is quite a welcome change! Especially since your friendslist is tied with other blizzard games.
After 3 years of playing Hearthstone/Wow/Diablo still have just 20 friends. Only pro streamers need this.
Not like I have that many actual friends. But Hots gives you a 50% xp boost for playing with friends, so I add people a lot more easily there :)
Another Elf and Terran skin. Give me a Zombie or even a Worgen!