Update: The stream is taking place half an hour earlier than originally announced. 9:30 AM Pacific (12:30 Eastern, 18:30 CEST)
We've got some amazing news coming out of the Hearthstone team today. We've got a teaser and a date!
Hearthstone's next expansion, which is Alliance-themed in contrast to the Horde-themed Forged in the Barrens set, will be revealed this week on July 1 at 9:30 AM Pacific. That's only a few days away and reveals should also start this month.
The spoiler shows Alliance Footmen lined up in different formations. Could Stormwind be heavily involved? As usual, stay tuned to Out of Cards and we'll be covering the new expansion live.
Quote From Blizzard With all that experience fighting Quilboar in the Barrens, heroes like you have leveled up! It’s time to replenish your bags, repair your armor, and prepare for a new quest. . .
Join us on July 1 at 9:30 a.m. PT, on either Twitch or YouTube, for the reveal of the next Hearthstone expansion! Lead Designer Alec Dawson will kick things off with an overview on what you can expect from Phase 2 of the Year of the Gryphon. From there, Game Designers Liv Breeden and John McIntyre will dive into what’s new in the upcoming card set. We also have some news to share for Battlegrounds. We’ve got plenty to talk about, you won’t want to miss it!
Separately, we know you’re eager to learn more about Hearthstone Mercenaries. While we’re very excited with how things are coming together, we need more time to implement all the awesome content we’ve planned for the mode. As such, we’re now expecting Hearthstone Mercenaries to be released in Phase 2 of the Year of the Gryphon and won’t be quite ready to share details on the mode during the stream on July 1.
Instead, we’ll be hosting a dedicated Hearthstone Mercenaries stream this Fall. We’ll give more details about this stream closer to its broadcast date. Until then, we hope you’ll enjoy the expansion reveal and all the things still to come in the Year of the Gryphon!
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HYPE
Damnit, I need to start putting away my five dollar bills again. Pre-ordering is always tough on my wallet.
hope they make dude paladin OP again. the archetype is almost there. just needs 1 or maybe 2 more pieces.
the problem is that the button is best as a resource generator, but a lot of the dude support cards want u to push for initiative. something like give your dudes taunt might be enough?
Seriously, that was all the BG news?
A new gnoll tribe?! God damn it, these devs don't play their own game (modes) or have a very different idea of what is "fun" in a totally random shitfest...
uhm, they havn't talked about the news yet...
Also, what's wrong with adding another tribe? That's the most gameplay impacting change they could possibly do.
Fooooooooooooooootman Freeeeeeenzy!
Doesn't look like we'll be heading to Darkshore for alliance with an Ashenvale themed expansion for horde vs alliance on the 3rd expansion. Its a shame because that would've been amazing.
9:30 AM Pacific is 18:30 in CET
Looked back at the Year of the Gryphon road map, and there's nothing exciting to discuss from Phase 2.
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23622607/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-gryphon
Although, there was something "Spell Locked" from Phase 1, and I don't remember if that was ever revealed (it's not Mercenaries).
I find it disappointing that Arena doesn't even warrant a little icon like "Duels Update" or "Tavern Brawls." I would really like to see Tavern Tickets (not to be confused with the Tavern Pass) become a tracked in-game currency, and have them regularly awarded to players (Three wins in Tavern Brawl each week gives you one? Incentivize multiple modes at once?). There needs to be a better incentive to get players into Arena and Heroic Duels. It's either that or make Arena and Duels strictly casual. As it is right now, the player base for all three modes (Arena, Casual Duels, Heroic Duels) feels too small. But they're great game modes! Blizzard just needs to actually direct players' attention to them.
The "Spell locked" one are the diamond cards. Blizzard also stated previously that they see Duels, Arena and Tavern Brawls as secondary gamemodes (as in, you play a around every once in a while), while Mercenaries, Battlegrounds and Duels are primary ones (like main modes).
They keep hyping Mercenaries and Battlegrounds as modes that aren't dependent on your collection. That's Arena too! And the game mode is already great! They just need to make it F2P or at least cheaper now that it's no longer 1 of 2 game modes like it was at launch 7 years ago.
They'd have to make it free entry to get me into Arena again. I give them enough real money every expansion; they dont need my in-game gold as well.
Oohh, Diamond Cards was the Spell Locked item from Phase 1. Don't get me wrong, I'm always hyped for a new expansion, but I don't expect anything to be discussed beyond that and Battlegrounds. Hope I'm wrong.
The spell locked from phase 1 was Diamond Cards.
So mercanaries Should have been in Phase 1 according to road map but we are getting it in maybe phase 3? either its a big project or they ran into problem.... or both
Fall definetly means second phase. Darkmoon faire was released in mit november which I would consider winter already. Or atleast the following month, which would be the earliest "Phase 3" non-expansion release I can think of. Oh, and it's definetely a big mode as it has been in the works for well over a year now.
November is 100% fall. This is not a matter of opinion. There is absolutely zero intersection between the month of November and the season of winter. Winter begins on December 21 or 22. November is also still Phase 2.
The Mercenaries stream could easily be put off until November according to the information in this article.
Just noticed that the post litterally said phase 2
I guess that's technically true, but when I hear Fall I'm definetly not thinking about december. I also think that an dedicated stream in November wouldn't make much sense since that would either be 2 weeks before or after the 3. expansion release, which would be way too close to each other.
Well, its going to be that time again.
One announcement, followed by 2 weeks of nothing before everything is vomited right out within a week.
please no