A question almost as old as Hearthstone itself; Monk, or Death Knight?
This afternoon, Dean Ayala took to Twitter to ask everyone in the community which of the two classes they want to see inside of Hearthstone. Although he did preface this with the fact that neither was being worked on, Dean is at least curious as a game designer and because of that, we need to help him get that data!
Adding an 11th class to Hearthstone could be a lot of fun and it could take us to some great places.
Monks
A Pandaria-themed expansion would be more than expected, and welcomed, when Monks make their inevitable addition to Hearthstone, which would give Youthful Brewmaster some new friends and Lorewalker Cho could spend his time taking us through a story or fifty.
The additional awesome point on Monks is that Dean himself would like to do Pandaria in Hearthstone so it is possible we could see the class added before Death Knights, though it should be noted Dean isn't the only person making these decisions, we just know of 1 person of the large team that supports the addition. It would be fitting to see Monks added next as well since we'd be going in the reverse order of Hearthstone's big brother, World of Warcraft, which released the classes starting with Death Knight and ending with Demon Hunter.
Death Knights
If Death Knights were going to be added though, we'd almost certainly make a return to the frozen wasteland that is Northrend; A fan favourite destination since its title debut in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Hearthstone took us to the icy land almost four years ago in August 2017, so by the time Death Knights would be done, if they were being worked on now, it would be around six years which makes the return likely.
There is still plenty to explore in Northrend including the titan-forged complex of Ulduar, a fav favourite in World of Warcraft which has been on the Hearthstone whiteboard for at least six years, the great nation of Zul'Drak, home of the Drakkari tribe of trolls, the spider kingdom of Azjol-Nerub, and so much more. Hearthstone could use the opportunity to return to explore the stories within Northrend that World of Warcraft was never able to finish.
So, what do you want to see next? Monks? Death Knights? Another class that isn't playable in World of Warcraft? Let us know in the comments below!
Quote From Dean Ayala NOTE: Neither of these are in development, just a curious question from a curious designer.
Monk or Death Knight?
Comments
Monks and i would like to see how they show the other races than pandas implemented in the class. I mean, I hope it won't be super-themed around only pandas since there are other races that can be monks like humans, dwarves, night elves etc.
And yet, we don't have Chen Stormstout in hearthstone, even after those years; isn't it a bit weird ? I guess we will have him finally as a hero portrait rather than a card. Don't having him as a legendary card was always makes it suspicous as monk class is coming or not at the first place.
We have him in a way in Hearthstone, as pandaren brewmaster cards depicts him.
Like how shatetred sun cleric shows lady Liadrin in the art.
Time Traveler ;)
Toki, Time-Tinker has shown the way
Monk for sure. DK-lovers have The Lich King and the Death Knight cards to hold them over; the Monk has....nothing.
Death Knight was my main in WoW for a long time, but we've already explored them thematically multiple times. I would like to see monks, since we have yet to visit Pandaria.