Nerf to the 4 most frustrating shadow isles cards is big, Hecarim isn't totally destroyed but I think he can be more easily managed and is less of an auto win card and auto include ("how to make a LoR deck? start by adding 3 hecarims")., we will see less of the shadow isles dominance for sure.
I am displeased with the elnuk change, sure it makes it less of a splashable package but.. I don't like the mechanic AT ALL.. at least we will see it much less, at least there are plans to rework in the future.
poro snax buff hype! also there is a huge lux support rework in demacia so many cards care about 6+ spells now you could probably do a full deck around lux as a main champion instead of secondary, it's weird though.. that the mageseekers and lux should cooperate in the same deck..
I had the article in my RSS feed. Here's more info:
The next expansion, Ashes of Outlands, is a big one
Hearthstone has held steady at nine classes since the game’s launch. Each class comes from World of Warcraftand has its own hero power, a pool of unique cards, strengths, and weaknesses. While World of Warcraft would eventually add more classes, Hearthstone has kept the core nine.
Now, a new class is coming to the game: the Demon Hunter. Illidan Stormrage, the Demon Hunter, will be coming to Hearthstone in the Ashes of Outlandexpansion, along with a free campaign that re-tells his origin story and grants players the Demon Hunter deck they need to play the class in competitive modes.
A second story campaign, based around a new threat called the Rusted Legion, will be coming to Hearthstone in a future patch. The Rusted Legion, run by Mecha-Jaraxxus, is raising the heroes who have fallen across Outland ... and strapping buzzsaws and lasers to them.
Here’s everything coming to Hearthstone in the upcoming Ashes of Outland expansion, from big mechanics to little Easter eggs.
The Demon Hunter
“Demon Hunters are brutal, in your face attackers that wield foul magic and utilize huge demon allies,” says game developer Alec Dawson in an interview with Polygon. Much like the Warlock, they use demons in their arsenal — but the Demon Hunter tends to use big, beefy allies rather than a swarm of smaller minions.
The Demon Hunter’s hero power is Demon Claws, a 1-Mana ability that grants 1 Attack. This gives the Demon Hunter a lot of up front power compared to other classes. It’s not as safe as the Mage’s Fireball or versatile as a Rogue’s daggers, but it’s cheap. In addition, the Demon Hunter has a keyword called Outcast, which makes cards more powerful when they are played from the right- or left-most position in a player’s hand.
“[Demon Hunters] don’t have much in the way of card generation, but you can run them out of resources,” says Chadd Nervig, game designer on Hearthstone. “They have card draw, but not generation, so you can fatigue them. They’re susceptible to hard removal. They also just don’t have much in the way of hard removal themselves; if they want to clear a big minion of yours, they have to use their face to do it. They don’t have any assassinate or polymorph cards.”
While Blizzard expects one of the immediate Demon Hunter strategies will be to try and swarm the board with early overwhelming force, the class is designed to have multiple playstyles and strategies.
For those who were disappointed with Illidan’s interactions — or lack thereof — with his twin Malfurion and crush Tyrande in World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, the three of them will have in-game interactions in Hearthstone. The Demon Hunter’s story campaign releases on April 2; the Demon Hunter is available to play on April 7.
New minions
Every existing class — except the Demon Hunter — will also get a Prime minion. These Legendary minions have two forms. The first is a standard version of the character, like Kargath Bladefist or Lady Vashj. Upon being removed from the board, a second version of these characters go into the player’s deck. Kargath Prime and Vashj Prime have much more powerful effects; Kargath has Rush, and upon killing a minion, he grants the Warrior 10 Armor. Vashj Prime comes with +1 Spell Damage, and allows a Shaman to draw three spells, and reduces their Mana cost by 3.
The second new kind of minion is the Imprisoned Demon. These minions are dormant on the board for two turns, they cannot interact with the game or be removed by the opponent. Once active, Imprisoned Demons tend to be very powerful cards. The opponent must use the time during which they are dormant to prepare a strategy or they’ll overwhelm the game.
Priest changes
Priests are also seeing a slate of changes, largely centered around solidifying their identity as a control class. These changes won’t arrive as new cards in Ashes of Outlands; Blizzard is going to the class’s core cards and making some tweaks. Some of these cards are slightly different, like costing less mana or dealing more damage. Others are totally new.
“There were aspects of their basic and classic sets that we weren’t planning to support, so they were sort of misleading Priests and taking up space,” says Nervig. “Things like Prophet Velen, which is an iconic Legendary for Priests, sounded really cool ... but really was only used for [one-turn kill strategies], which we weren’t planning to support.” These cards are now in the Hall of Fame, and can be used in the game’s Wild mode.
The first piece of Ashes of Outlands will drop on Tuesday, March 17. Players can log in and receive the Legendary card Kael’thas Sunstrider. When Kael’thas is on the board, the third spell cast every turn is free.
Priest looks amazing. Glad to see they reduced costs on a lot of the cards across the board. I'm honestly floored that they introduced a new class, does this mean we can expect more future class releases? Adding additional classes is bound to cause balance issues, so does this mean Hearthstone is getting revived/more funding from papa Blizzard?
The Article not only states that the new Expansion is ashes of outlands but that we are also getting a new class the DEMON HUNTER!. Priest basic set is also going to get a rework and the PvE will be free again! I think it's entirely possible that this leak is real, so LOOK FOR YOURSELF!
Legends of Runeterra Patch 0.9.2 Arrives this Tuesday - Major Changes to Hecarim & Kalista, 23 Card Changes
Awesome patch.
Nerf to the 4 most frustrating shadow isles cards is big, Hecarim isn't totally destroyed but I think he can be more easily managed and is less of an auto win card and auto include ("how to make a LoR deck? start by adding 3 hecarims")., we will see less of the shadow isles dominance for sure.
I am displeased with the elnuk change, sure it makes it less of a splashable package but.. I don't like the mechanic AT ALL.. at least we will see it much less, at least there are plans to rework in the future.
poro snax buff hype! also there is a huge lux support rework in demacia so many cards care about 6+ spells now you could probably do a full deck around lux as a main champion instead of secondary, it's weird though.. that the mageseekers and lux should cooperate in the same deck..
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
thats the name of the game
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
If an Outcast card is the left or right-most card in your hand when play it, you get the Outcast effect.
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
What does the keyword Outcast do?
Secret Level
This is one of my favorite card backs. D2 ftw
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
Well, I wasn't prepared for that one!
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
Wow, just wow.
New Expanion Leak and much more
There's no need for that, we also saw that and grabbed them: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/943-ashes-of-outland-is-hearthstones-next-expansion-new-demon-hunter-class-priest-getting-overhaul-see-the-demon-hunter-cards
New Expanion Leak and much more
I will try to upload the cards I can dig from here on this post
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
I had the article in my RSS feed. Here's more info:
The next expansion, Ashes of Outlands, is a big one
Hearthstone has held steady at nine classes since the game’s launch. Each class comes from World of Warcraft and has its own hero power, a pool of unique cards, strengths, and weaknesses. While World of Warcraft would eventually add more classes, Hearthstone has kept the core nine.
Now, a new class is coming to the game: the Demon Hunter. Illidan Stormrage, the Demon Hunter, will be coming to Hearthstone in the Ashes of Outland expansion, along with a free campaign that re-tells his origin story and grants players the Demon Hunter deck they need to play the class in competitive modes.
A second story campaign, based around a new threat called the Rusted Legion, will be coming to Hearthstone in a future patch. The Rusted Legion, run by Mecha-Jaraxxus, is raising the heroes who have fallen across Outland ... and strapping buzzsaws and lasers to them.
Here’s everything coming to Hearthstone in the upcoming Ashes of Outland expansion, from big mechanics to little Easter eggs.
The Demon Hunter
“Demon Hunters are brutal, in your face attackers that wield foul magic and utilize huge demon allies,” says game developer Alec Dawson in an interview with Polygon. Much like the Warlock, they use demons in their arsenal — but the Demon Hunter tends to use big, beefy allies rather than a swarm of smaller minions.
The Demon Hunter’s hero power is Demon Claws, a 1-Mana ability that grants 1 Attack. This gives the Demon Hunter a lot of up front power compared to other classes. It’s not as safe as the Mage’s Fireball or versatile as a Rogue’s daggers, but it’s cheap. In addition, the Demon Hunter has a keyword called Outcast, which makes cards more powerful when they are played from the right- or left-most position in a player’s hand.
“[Demon Hunters] don’t have much in the way of card generation, but you can run them out of resources,” says Chadd Nervig, game designer on Hearthstone. “They have card draw, but not generation, so you can fatigue them. They’re susceptible to hard removal. They also just don’t have much in the way of hard removal themselves; if they want to clear a big minion of yours, they have to use their face to do it. They don’t have any assassinate or polymorph cards.”
While Blizzard expects one of the immediate Demon Hunter strategies will be to try and swarm the board with early overwhelming force, the class is designed to have multiple playstyles and strategies.
For those who were disappointed with Illidan’s interactions — or lack thereof — with his twin Malfurion and crush Tyrande in World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, the three of them will have in-game interactions in Hearthstone. The Demon Hunter’s story campaign releases on April 2; the Demon Hunter is available to play on April 7.
New minions
Every existing class — except the Demon Hunter — will also get a Prime minion. These Legendary minions have two forms. The first is a standard version of the character, like Kargath Bladefist or Lady Vashj. Upon being removed from the board, a second version of these characters go into the player’s deck. Kargath Prime and Vashj Prime have much more powerful effects; Kargath has Rush, and upon killing a minion, he grants the Warrior 10 Armor. Vashj Prime comes with +1 Spell Damage, and allows a Shaman to draw three spells, and reduces their Mana cost by 3.
The second new kind of minion is the Imprisoned Demon. These minions are dormant on the board for two turns, they cannot interact with the game or be removed by the opponent. Once active, Imprisoned Demons tend to be very powerful cards. The opponent must use the time during which they are dormant to prepare a strategy or they’ll overwhelm the game.
Priest changes
Priests are also seeing a slate of changes, largely centered around solidifying their identity as a control class. These changes won’t arrive as new cards in Ashes of Outlands; Blizzard is going to the class’s core cards and making some tweaks. Some of these cards are slightly different, like costing less mana or dealing more damage. Others are totally new.
“There were aspects of their basic and classic sets that we weren’t planning to support, so they were sort of misleading Priests and taking up space,” says Nervig. “Things like Prophet Velen, which is an iconic Legendary for Priests, sounded really cool ... but really was only used for [one-turn kill strategies], which we weren’t planning to support.” These cards are now in the Hall of Fame, and can be used in the game’s Wild mode.
The first piece of Ashes of Outlands will drop on Tuesday, March 17. Players can log in and receive the Legendary card Kael’thas Sunstrider. When Kael’thas is on the board, the third spell cast every turn is free.
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
Woow! So hyped. New class. Didn't expect that.
Can't wait to play it, race to 500 wins, and get a golden portrait.
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
Priest looks amazing. Glad to see they reduced costs on a lot of the cards across the board. I'm honestly floored that they introduced a new class, does this mean we can expect more future class releases? Adding additional classes is bound to cause balance issues, so does this mean Hearthstone is getting revived/more funding from papa Blizzard?
I feel like this raises more questions!
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
Wow, that's huge!
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
holy fuck,, how many years? it happened. 2 new classes!!
Demon hunter and priest!!
Ashes of Outland is Hearthstone's Next Expansion - New Demon Hunter Class, Priest Getting Overhaul, See the Demon Hunter Cards
So hyped for the new class! and priest looks like a new class with these cards
Legends of Runeterra Patch 0.9.2 Arrives this Tuesday - Major Changes to Hecarim & Kalista, 23 Card Changes
One elusive unit got nerfed (yeah not the solitary monk but still one that is core to elusive strategies).
They want to keep this cheese strategy around for some reason, I think they will eventually nerf it just that they didn't yet found the solution.
For now the power level of the elusive deck is down for another follower, and an early game one in that.
You can counter elusives by having heals,removal or racing them.. now it's easier to race them as well so..
New Expanion Leak and much more
here are the images
New Expanion Leak and much more
FOUND IT ON WAYBACK MACHINE!
Holy shit! The page actually existed for a while
https://web.archive.org/web/20200316173433/https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/16/21181241/hearthstone-ashes-of-outlands-expansion-new-class-demon-hunter
New Expanion Leak and much more
If you have it open you can make a screenshot, can't you
New Expanion Leak and much more
heres the link to the screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/P43mGqz
I will post the images in a few seconds
New Expanion Leak and much more
I want to see :D
New Expanion Leak and much more
Also getting a 404 error.
I'm inclined to call bull on the basis that I doubt a new class will ever be a thing.
EDIT: Nevermind, hype as hell. Never been so happy to be wrong.
New Expanion Leak and much more
they took it down. I have the website still open, give me some minutes
New Expanion Leak and much more
404 Not found. :(
New Expanion Leak and much more
I just stumbled upon this gaming Website who released their post a day to early!
https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/16/21181241/hearthstone-ashes-of-outlands-expansion-new-class-demon-hunter
The Article not only states that the new Expansion is ashes of outlands but that we are also getting a new class the DEMON HUNTER!. Priest basic set is also going to get a rework and the PvE will be free again! I think it's entirely possible that this leak is real, so LOOK FOR YOURSELF!