Hearthstone
Forged in the Barrens Card Spoilers & Expansion Guide
Forged in the Barrens is the first Hearthstone set being released in the Year of the Gryphon. The expansion will launch on March 30 with a mini set being added later in the year.
Forged in the Barrens Quick Info
- New Keyword: Frenzy - Effects that are triggered the first time a minion survives damage.
- Spell Schools - Like minion tribes but for spells!
- Arcane, Fel, Fire, Frost, Nature, Holy, and Shadow are the schools.
- Older spells are being reclassified under these tribes as well.
- Ranked Spells - Gain power as a match progresses. They grow in power at 5 and 10 mana.
Forged in the Barrens Freebies
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What is in the Forged in the Barrens Mega Bundle
- 80 Forged in the Barrens card packs.
- 5 Golden Forged in the Barrens card packs.
- Battlegrounds Perks.
- Hamuul Runetotem Druid Hero Portrait.
- 2 random Golden Forged in the Barrens Legendary cards.
- Hamuul Runetotem card back.
What is in the Forged in the Barrens Bundle?
The Forged in the Barrens Bundle includes:
- 60 Forged in the Barrens card packs.
- 2 random Forged in the Barrens Legendary cards.
- Hamuul Runetotem card back.
Forged in the Barrens Community Compendium
See how the community initially rated the expansion! Check out the Forged in the Barrens Community Compendium!
Revealed Cards for Forged in the Barrens
These are all the cards that have currently been revealed for Forged in the Barrens.
Demon Hunter
Druid
Hunter
Mage
Paladin
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
Warrior
Neutral
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Forged in the Barrens Cinematic
Forged in the Barrens Announcement
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Are we going to get the quest log filled again when the new reward track hits?
If so: I'm going to complete every quest I have before tomorrow;
If not: I'd keep the quests in order to gain the experience in the new track.
Does anyone know how it is going to work?
Highly unlikely, Team 5 has never been generous about bonus XP
I want to know this too.
I guess there is no refill for weekly Quests. Because one of my weekly quest is to play 3 legendary minions from FitB.
But for Daily Quest, it would be good to know.
Why there is still missing release date?
I can't believe Caravans aren't listed in the Quick Info section as an exciting new kind of card.
Oh, wait, yes I can.
Interestingly enough, spell schools are not heavily supported in the expansion that introduces them. Some spell schools have no supporting cards at all.
Arcane - Nothing
Fire - Nothing
Frost - Rimetongue
Nature - Toad of the Wilds, Guff Runetotem, Bru'kan
Holy - Knight of Anointment, Cariel Roame, Veteran Warmedic, Spirit Healer
Shadow - Tamsin Roame
Fel - Nothing
I think that the concept of spell schools opens up cool design space, but as of right now I'm not seeing enough of it to warrant it as much of a deck strategy. A feature, not a core concept. Hopefully future expansions will lend more support to this idea.
They said they will had more spell school synergies in the mini set. So be patient ! Also, it is a permanent change so they will be able to add some synergy along along the game life. I guess they are most likely to add a little each expansion and focus on big expansion interaction like murlocs were they added a tons of cards to make sure it is viable
For Nature and Holy at least, there's definitely a need to build around the concept if you want to take advantage of the payoffs.
Arguably, Frost and Freeze are so intertwined that they form a strategy even though it's not explicitly tied together by the school concept.
Tamsin Roame is more of a Shadow package than a build-around, for sure.
They have stated that they wanted to start it off a bit slowly and then expand on it with the mini-set and further expansions.
With all cards revealed we can see which archetypes are forced:
DH - deathrattle - new archetype, doesn't look strong, but DH can transform everything into cancer
Druid - taunt - good that Hadronox isn't in standard, can be painful to fight against, especially with Greybough
Hunter - beast - will beast hunter be good enough? Dunno, he gets some draw mechanics but looks like he will end with aggro/midrange deck. Also I smell OTK deck with Tavish
Mage - hero power - last time played in Rastakhan's Rumble, because legendary. Now it gets even better legendary and more HP support, so definitely will see play
Paladin - secret - secret paladin was a thing because of Mysterious Challenger and good secrets. Will new cards be enough to bring back him form ashes? We will see
Priest - spell/heal - dunno, more healing and synergy is good, but most new spells looks underwhelming
Rogue - weapon/poison - will be cancer for sure, at least there is no Kingsbane in standard, ooze in every deck
Shaman - murloc - new murlocs looks pretty cool, but I'm not sure they will be a thing without Underbelly Angler. Murlocs can be hyperaggro but they will burn your hand pretty fast and shaman doesn't have good draws or hand refills.
Warlock - burn - combo breaker and a cancer
Warrior - taunt/frenzy - taunt can be pretty solid, but I'm not sure with frenzy
"Forced" is so overused these days. These aren't so much "forced" archetypes as just giving archetypes enough support so they aren't dead-on-arrival.
Ikr, I really don't understand why community keeps using it.
Isn't it how expansions themed ? For example, "This time; Freeze for Mage, Taunt for Warrior, Dragons for Hunter etc."
They use "Force" instead of "Theme". Noone is forcing anyone to play anything. There is Wild if you insist.
hyped
hyped
I hope the reveals start this week. I'm getting antsy waiting.
Tomorrow, finally, the reveal season will be started!!
I still want more time for Darkmoon Faire :(
Me too! Many achievements still far from being completed
You can complete them later, only XP will be removed.
Lol i know, but it lose interest to make them only for those useless achivement points