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United in Stormwind Live Recap
- United in Stormwind is Hearthstone's next expansion.
- The Fire Festival returns next week.
- Battlegrounds is getting cosmetic heroes including Millhouse.
- Battlegrounds is getting an overhaul in a future patch which replaces old cards with new ones to better flesh out tribe identities.
- We're getting new minions and tribes are getting more fleshed out.
- Tradeable is a new Keyword:
- Cards with the new Tradeable keyword can be played like normal, or for the low cost of 1 Mana, swapped with a different card in your deck!
- Questlines
- An adventure is only as good as the quests you take along the way. All 10 classes will have access to a Questline that highlights the journey of their class’s Mercenary through Stormwind. Questlines are Legendary spells that start in your hand and have three tiers of progression. Get a reward after you complete each step of the Questline, culminating in a powerful Legendary mercenary minion!
- Mounts & Professions
- You’ve grown a lot in the Barrens, and it’s time to level up! Pick up a mount to aid you in battle—and even keep fighting after you’re gone! Or maybe you can learn a new skill while you’re in town. Profession tools are weapons that have special effects instead of attack values. Gather the crafting reagents to get an awesome effect!
United in Stormwind Pre-Order
There are two pre-orders available.
Standard
- 60 United in Stormwind Packs
- 2 Random United in Stormwind Legendaries
- Lady Katrana Prestor Card Back
Mega Bundle
- 80 United in Stormwind Card Packs
- 5 Golden United in Stormwind Card Packs
- 2 Random United in Stormwind Golden Legendaries
- Lady Katrana Prestor Mage Hero Skin
- Lady Katrana Prestor Card Back
- Battlegrounds Perks
- Ve'nari Alternate Battlegrounds Bartender
United in Stormwind New Cards
Mage Legendary Questline
Warlock Legendary Questline
Flightmaster Dungar
Comments
didn't they promise a new rogue skin like last year and we have yet to get one other than the rewards track ones/book of heroes which don't really count
In Reward track there will be a lot more skins - most likely 3 mercenaries each with 3 skins + at least one additional skin, just like in last time.
Yeah I think you're right. I remember that being in one of the AMAs with Iksar or something?
LOOKS like GOLDEN Fligtmaster Dungar is "unlockable after purchasing the Unit in Stormind Tavern Pass".
Overall super positive first impressions.
Tradeable seems like a busted mechanic in certain decks independent of the card effect. I'm curious to know if Tradeable triggers combos in Rogue. Fire Sale is the best card shown, and maybe the Rustrot Viper replaces Ooze. Potentially a huge change to the game, and I wonder if the mechanic will continue beyond this expansion.
0-attack item-weapons. Yes. Great. Excellent theming. No idea if these or others will be good, but it should be a more common card-type. Opens up a lot of design space, and I'm glad it's being revisited after Kobolds & Catacombs.
Mounts? Yes. Spikeridged Steed was great, and I like how these work the same.
Quests with super-powered rewards? Which ones will we hate and which ones will we love? Which will get nerfed? Either way, I like how the mechanics are a bit different this time around. Great way to keep the mercenaries lore going.
Peasant? Looks like some drunk fell off a caravan. 0/5.
Tradable is kinda like Escape keyword in Escape from Elwynn poggers
A very nice Alliance-hero for the pre-purchase. POG!
Expansion seems fun, nice designs and card texts!
Lady Prestor as the pre-purchase hero is an absolute joke. Not because she makes no sense, but because yet again rogue mains have to watch another class get yet another hero skin when there was a perfectly good rogue character who could have been there.
The sad thing is they're probably going to include Scabbs portraits on the rewards track and say "look, we give rogue hero skins too". At which point I'll call bullsh*t because in all likelihood every mercenary character will get a trio of portraits so it doesn't really count in the same way.
And what are the odds Alterac Valley will have a rogue associated with it? Practically zero. Shaman will get Drek'thar as their thousandth hero, which they really need now they're getting Ragnaros next week too...
*Sigh* I know it's just pixels, but I can't believe whoever's in charge of the cosmetics is so oblivious to the inequality here.
I wonder, why people downvoting this message. Guys, are you happy to get 'another' Jaina skin?
I was sarcastic, I expected a heroic citizen of Stormwind. Like one of the statues outside SW.
This hero will play huge part in the story of mercenaries.
And I was salty :P
I'm not sure Onyxia will play that large a role. Hamuul ended up nothing more than a quest giver (deter-er?) after all. Most likely her role is akin to Kazakus', so being consistent we could still have seen Mathias Shaw here.
It's really unnecessary, even if you're the most puckered rules lawyer in the realm. You haven't even played with this card yet, but you already know exactly how it interacts.
The countdown is very entertaining, watching a time-lapse of an illustration!
calling it now, the frame he/she draws is the opening of the trailer which will fluitly start after the countdown...or atleast that would be cool.
This is like when you eat your popcorn and drink your coke during the trailers at the cinema. I legitimately thought it would start at half 5 lol.
What are the odds of a 4th hogger?
What's the third one? I only know Hogger and Hogger, Doom of Elwynn.
Third Hogger's in Heroes of the Storm, riding the hearthstone cardback mount
Cap'n Hoggarr
Two Hoggers incoming!