The prologue to the Ashes of Outland story featuring the backstory of our new Demon Hunter Hero Illidan is now live!
Playing through the prologue will unlock the Demon Hunter class along with its Basic and Initiate sets, though you won't be able to play as them until Ashes of Outland releases on April 7th. We reviewed the Demon Hunter Basic and Initiate sets (Basic, Initiate Part 1 and Initiate Part 2) so head on over there to get a feel for the new cards.
If you'd like a fuller picture of Illidan's backstory, why not check out our lore guide?
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You're actually able to use DH in older Adventures such as Nax, Blackrock, League, etc. (any adventure where you can make your own deck).
Instead, just choose the DH pre-made deck that was awarded for finishing the Prologue. Taking forever to level up...I'm only at 22 : /
That's cool! I'm level 21 now! Muahahahaha!!
It wasn't quite clear that you wouldn't be able to use the cards at all until the 7th at first - we've updated the post to make it clear that you can't use them anywhere until the expansion releases.
It’s a cool story, and I enjoyed the games, but it’s just kind of weird to say, “You’ve unlocked this! But yeah, you can’t play with it until next week...”. I mean, why not just release it next week
By releasing it early, you give everyone a chance to unlock the class so that they can play it immediately when the expansion launches, rather than having to wait to get through the story first.
I imagine staggering the release will also help alleviate potential server issues.
Of course, this doesn't excuse not being able to at least fight the Innkeeper as the Demon Hunter, even if it was just with a pre-built deck.
Have Team 5 announced what kind of paid content will be released after the Outlands expansion? Is it more chapters of this Demon Hunter story?
I'd like to budget for it if it's non skippable (some this year have been, last one wasn't but they gave us a heads up before I spent all gold on DoD packs).
I think they said adventures this year will be free
Supposedly the Rusted Legion story for Ashes of Outland is a free, linear story adventure with no new cards.
So I'm puzzled. I finished the Prologue, but the Story toggle says that, that part will be available "soon". So that means that will be unlockable at 7th April as well? Plus, if we got the basic and ini sets now, that'll have no rewards?
The Rusted Legion story will probably not be for another month, if previous adventures have been anything to go off of. This prologue exists primarily to get people familiar with the Demon Hunter (and to unlock him, of course). The story will not have any new cards associated with it.
The WC3 Night Elf music!
On mobile I can't delete the unreleased DH deck slot...
Super fun mini game to play... Now to construct a control deck that will use a lot of freeze to keep everyone from attacking me to combat the number of people playing DH
You can use the DH pre - made deck in the older adventures and even get xp and level them up.
Oh nice! Thanks!
You won't be able to until the expansion is released on the 7th.
Yeah, I saw and tried to delete the comment, but for some reason it didn't delete. 😂
Playing solo content for 30 plus cards? man that's a good deal.
I hope DH is fun, that's one of my caveats for pre-ordering this time
Whether DH feels new and fun all rests on the 1 mana hero power and the outcast mechanic, because beyond that it doesn't do anything especially novel imo.
I personally don't expect to find the class that fun since it brings together all the parts of rogue and warlock I never liked much (aggro-tempo and big demon cheating respectively). But that's just me, and I understand them not starting the class off with the shenanigans I most enjoy in other classes.
I mean, he probably wins a lot, so that should be entertaining at least
...for your opponent, not so much.
Except for the fact EVERYONE is going to be playing demon hunter, so there will be a frustrating number of mirror matches. :-P