A new patch hit Hearthstone today and with it came some very interesting client data! We've got details to share for an upcoming Hearthstone brawl called Blackrock Crash!
Internally the brawl is referred to as EVIL Blackrock Mountain. Awesome.
What is Blackrock Crash?
You brought the city of Dalaran to ME? laughs in Nefarian
We only have a small glimpse into it so we're not 100% certain on everything here so keep that in mind. Yep, that's a datamined content warning.
With that out of the way, Blackrock Crash is a very interesting piece of content. It appears to be a Solo PvE Tavern Brawl that actually takes form as a Dungeon Run and will be available during this year's Fire Festival. From it, an old card back is returning, the Ragnaros card back, which is earned when you complete a run.
There's also a second component, or at least that's what it appears to be, where the brawl takes form as a mega raid boss for Fireside Brawls. Much like when The Lich King was raided years ago with a combined health pool, the same seems to be the case for Ragnaros. Oh yeah, that Ragnaros has 15000 health.
Blackrock Crash Voicelines
Quote From Out of Cards
- Nefarian: You brought the city of Dalaran to ME? laughs
- Omnotron: Intruding city detected. Defenses activated.
- Ragnaros: SUFFER TRESPASSER!
- Dr. Boom: I'm suitin' up!
- Rafaam: How did we crash into A MOUNTAIN!? Seriously?
- Dr. Boom: Hey! Runnin' into a mountain isn't an art, it's a SCIENCE!
- Dr. Boom: Now to redocorate this place as my secret lair!
- Hagatha: You might be evil but WE ARE LEGION!
- Madamu Lazul: Everything happens for a reason. Even if it's an odd one.
- Togwaggle: Silly mountain is more like molehill!
- Rafaam: Promising! Very promising!
Blackrock Crash Quests
The brawl has some special quests associated with it. We're earning an old card back for completion of a run and some individual cards.
Quote From Out of Cards
- Mountain Climber - You completed a run of Blackrock Crash!
- Rewards: Ragnaros Card Back (Originally March 2015 Season 12 Reward)
- Rockin' with Rafaam - You finished a run with Raffam!
- Rewards: 1x Rafaam's Scheme
- No Brakes Drake - You won in under an hour!
- Rewards: 1x Bronze Herald
- E.V.I.L. Mastermind - You won in under 40 minutes!
- Rewards: 1x Recurring Villain
Finishing a run requires defeating Ragnaros.
Blackrock Crash Heroes
You'll be playing as members of the League of E.V.I.L!
Quote From Out of Cards
- Dr. Boom - Steal a city they said, it'll be fun they said.
- Lazul - She should have seen it coming!
- Togwaggle - Why are we stuck in giant candle!?
- Hagatha - A curse upon you! A curse upon this mountain!
- Rafaam - This is everyone's fault but mine!
Here are all the heroes alongside their hero powers.
Blackrock Crash Bosses
There are eight bosses you will fight inside the Blackrock Crash. We don't know the exact order of them other than Ragnaros being last, but here they all are!
Comments
I think it's cool Blizzard is doing this for the player base.
As for the card back situation, do you even remember the card back your last opponent had? I certainly don't.
There is ONE cardback that actually got my attention which is a dark purple one with a moving eyeball. My own is set to random so yeah.
Limited time exclusiviy is one of the worst things to ever happen to video games, the less we have it the better
when I'm playin arena against Pandaria owner I'm ready to have a good game because I know it's an old player. And now they probably will give it to everybody it's so sad.
Even if there will be a Pandaren themed expansion/Tavern Brawl, which I really look forward to because I like Chen Stormstout from WC3 and Lorewalker Cho, they shouldn't give Pandaren cardback outright to everyone. That would be a disgrace to everyone who started Hearthstone since the beginning of it.
I am amazed that someone is carrying that much about this card backs. And who the hell care that it is exclusive. Now I understand why so much people are here and are irritated by hearthstone. You are forced to play the game every month in order to win exclusive card back, not because you want or like that game at all. My only concern for this event is that instead of classic pack it will reward some useless card back which will stay near all other 50 card backs which never see play. And who of you (who argue, how important is this to be exclusive) is actually checking every month all of his "exclusive" card backs and "clearing" dust from them. I personally don't even watch at them, except if some new interesting appear. Even if everyone receive my pre-orders card backs I barely care. I make pre order not for the stupid card back (as all who don't pre order think)... I pre order because packs are cheaper during pre-order, and I want cards from them. If they stop putting this useless heroes and card backs, but give for example for 80$ bundle two legendaries I would be even more happy.
Srsly they are giving away the oldest cardback in my collection, i honestly dont undesrtand why. imo they should make new ones, old ones gain value once they cant be obtained anymore, i see laziness from blizzard side here
hushh, I have been downvoted to oblivion to say that. be aware. :)
Fire Festival is always a great success (that is, as long as double gold is implemented).
I don't know about you, but I pay attention to the cards being played, not the card backs. I very rarely see anyone with the older card backs anymore. I used to roll with the Blackrock Heroic one or Naxx Heroic for the longest time because I felt cool. Now I realize it doesn't really matter to anyone except me.Which is why mine is set at random, because it doesn't matter if I had the paid versions of card backs, or the limited release ones. It doesn't change game play, so I am all for them re-releasing older card backs.
5 years from now if someone wants the WC3 remastered back, and they have some event for it..sure I'm for it even though I PAID for it. Go ahead Blizzard, bring that sucker back and let people earn it. See what I did there...EVERYONE is EARNING it. It's not being GIVEN away. Earning it makes this situation different. Some people played for a few days / hours to get up to rank 20 to get it back in the day. Some people will play a few hours or days to get it now. Logistically, I feel that it's pretty much the same time/effort. It's apples and oranges, different fruit, but still fruit for people to enjoy. We don't need the card backs altered to show difference.
Would Releasing Lunara Or something of those sorts for an play to earn EVENT be acceptable since people got it for FREE just for showing up? Or would they still be mad? Probably the latter, because people want to complain about everything. That's the point that disgusts me the most.
This topic of hatred reminds me of the "Back in my day, I used to walk a mile up hill in the snow both ways" jokes. Ego's are ego's I guess.
What a big leak! It may even spoilers what will be the last expansion set of 2019 (I've already read around of people thinking about a full "nostalgia year" with Blackrock as the last settings, after Dalaran and Uldum).
Is there an achievement for being downvoted to a certain level? lol that's the only reason I can see for someone being so selfish about something purely cosmetic from years ago that most people probably don't even set as their cardback except when it shows up randomly in the new shuffle setting. :)
4 more pls... It will be 100 almost.
C'mon, it's not aboout selfishness or hatred. I am not about new players getting that card back. I don't care they will get or not, I'm complaining about what blizzard do. Why the fuck I don't want someone gets something free.
I am just saying this; maybe I could have played something else in that month, or I could have spent my time something else, Maybe I liked that card back so much and I renounced something else to be able to get that card back. They never know, You never know.
I am saying Blizzard betrayed to my loyalty. How hard could it be to understand ?
Fuck new players, Fuck cardbacks. Why the fuck I am on a silly cardback which i never used ? Yes, I never used that Ragnaros cardback. I am just saying blizzard broke my loyalty with doing this. That's all.
Who the fuck cares who takes which cardback ?
In addition, this Cardback is only available for a limited period of time, namely during the brawl. The exclusivity of the cardback will therefore remain in place in a temporal manner, if Blizzard were to offer it for money, it would still not be particularly bad, but the time limit would be completely lifted. So I think this is a very good solution.
Does anyone know when this brawl will start? Tomorrow or next week?
Probably July 17th
Is there any source I can have a look at? Because I couldn't find within official forums/news or sth.
If anything the new version of the card back should be golden/better to distinguish the new players, as it looks like we will need to work hard to get it (1500/15000 HP Nefarios WAT)
Certainly harder than just sitting on your @$$ and logging in at the right time.
If I can manage to get pass all the bosses listed above I will feel offended that I could be confused with just one of the "veterans".
Would be funny if everyone that already has the cardback gets ... nothing as a reward :P
I joined the month after naxxramus came out, so I missed out on the naxxramus MONTH card back(the one that came out in the same month naxx came out), I went on to finish naxx on heroic and got the worse looking card back of the 2(green and grey) , i'd like to be able to earn the cardback I missed.
So this is a great idea and i'm sure blizzard just wanted to give a participation award for this blast from the past visiting the molten core.