The Fire Festival has returned! Ragnaros is throwing a party over the next few weeks (until July 27) and everyone is invited. Let's break down what you can expect from the festival this year so you don't miss out.
- There is a special quest chain with 7 quests. Completing them rewards you with a Druid of the Flame Malfurion hero skin.
Fire Festival 2021 Legendary Quests
We've got a series of Legendary Quests available for the Fire Festival that will unlock the Druid of the Flame Malfurion skin, and a total of 6 Year of the Phoenix packs.
The quests go away on July 27.
Here are the quests that you will complete:
- Enter the Firelands
- Play 10 Fire Spells.
- Fires of Competition
- Play 3 games in Ranked Play Mode.
- A Fiery Duel
- Play 3 games of Duels.
- Righteous Flames
- Play 3 games as Paladin.
- Beasts of Burn-den
- Play 3 games as Hunter.
- Embrace the Firelord
- Play 10 games as Shaman.
- Happy Fire Festival
- Play 3 games as Druid.
In total, we'll need to play 25 games of Hearthstone and 10 Fire Spells to obtain Druid of the Flame Malfurion.
And here is a preview of the voicelines from Druid of the Flame Malfurion.
July 7 Tavern Brawl - Ragnaros’ Fire Festival Tavern Brawl
Quote From Blizzard Ragnaros has thought it over and decided that there’s nothing more Fire Festival than the Ragnaros’ Fire Festival tavern brawl. Construct a deck to face your opponent while Mini-Rag wreaks havoc on both players! You know, classic house party behavior. Feed Mini-Rag to charge up your emotes with festive fireworks!
July 14 Tavern Brawl - Burndown
Quote From Blizzard We’ve also updated the Burndown Brawl for a new take on another classic! This time, it’s The Duelist Burndown, and every deck borrows Treasures and a special Hero Power from Duels! Take control of a random deck and the loser of each game will be given their opponent’s deck for the next one. In the end, one deck will emerge as the most dominant of all!
The Eternal Flame Bundle
A new bundle with a card back and three new hero skins is available until July 20. It contains an exceptional Ragnaros Shaman hero and:
- Flamewalker Rexxar Hero Skin
- Righteous Inferno Uther Hero Skin
- Firelord Card Back
We have a preview of the Ragnaros voice lines (and for the other heroes) so you can see what you're getting into. The Ragnaros hero has some great interactions with spells that are cast.
The Fire Festival Afterparty
On July 27 when the festival has ended, we'll see Ragnaros taking a break in a new set of Battlegrounds cosmetic heroes!
- Ragnaros the Tikilord joins Battlegrounds as a purchasable replacement for Bartender Bob.
- 7 New Beach-themed hero skins are included in the bundle.
- 8 New Shadowlands-themed hero skins are included in another bundle.
Comments
Surprisingly graphically intensive (and pretty!) shaman hero power as Ragnaros :)
Purchaseable Bartenders seem a little bit odd to me: you can't flex with them because you are the only one seeing them...
So, if we keep the packs until United in Stormwind, could it include cards from that expansion?
No. It's Year of the Phoenix packs, so it's cards from Outland, Scholomance and Darkmoon (+ races).
Class card packs from Book of Heroes/Mercenaries will be updates with Stormwind, however.
Guess I'll be waiting for Rag to be available later on for gold or real cash because 20 bucks is fairly vertical at this point. Had it been just Rag with maybe 10 card packs then it might still be a decent deal. But 20 bucks for 3 skins with no packs, and the fact that the same amount of money can easily net you two legendaries or the tavern pass, that's just pushing it too far for me.
For those who bought it, hats off to you. Wish the exchange rate wasn't so rotten so 20 American bucks doesn't look like I'm selling part of my kidneys every time.
Quests complete - doing it in the tavern brawl (not the ranked quest of course) with mana reductions and conceding on 15 or less health speeds thing up considerably.
Yeah, Im doing it in tavern brawl too.
Its funny how priest still manages to be cancer even when Im not caring to win.
I love Ragnaros, and I don't have a good Shaman hero, so...take my $20, I guess. Uther is cool, too, so it's not a waste of a bundle.
With TikiLord Rag around the corner, might have to skip a preorder this time around.
Thanks god we now can buy Ragnaros hero and its cardback for 1500 gold, we only have to wait :D
wouldnt bet on it, only a select few old portraits are available for gold
Tell that, for example, to The Thunder King, Dame Hazelbark or Sylvanas Windrunner, as all of them (along with their respective card backs) originally went on sale in their own limited-time special bundles for 10 bucks... the very same bundles you can now get for just 1800 gold (1500 gold initially).
Paying real money for this bundle is an eccentricity typical of whales that have too much money to spare and/or do not know how to control their spending... because I remind you, this video game company does not deserve your money at all.
Actually for 3 heroes and a cardback would be 3*1800 + 500 gold = 5 900 gold, which is 59 packs which is actually much more expensive to buy in real money.
Also why do you think that if someone can afford to pay $20 (17 eur) does not know how to control his/her spending?
Imagine having the audacity to tell others what to do with their time and/or money. Every time you post (and this isn't the first time I've noticed this) you always have downvotes follow you. Perhaps you should take some time and close your mouth, instead of putting your foot in it.
I hope that at least your realise that people that do actually buy those bundles are the ones who are keeping the game alive
also thanks to those bundles selling well they can keep making pack preorder pack bundles contain more packs and legendaries and whatnot
if people weren't paying there wouldn't be a game for you to play
No, he's right and you're wrong since all non-preorders heroes/cardbacks are buyable with gold. Maybe we have to wait two years or more but still they are a good chance you can buy those one with gold too.
I'd put my money on a year of exclusivity. It would be a solid start to next year's Fire Festival to make the "old hero" available.