The Forbidden Library is the Scholomance Academy mid-set event and we're getting loads of fun stuff! All the action begins next week when patch 18.2 arrives on September 8.
- Week 1 - September 8
- Battlegrounds Parties and New Battlegrounds Heroes
- The Mega Wild Bundle with 56 Wild Card Packs
- Week 2 - September 15
- Book of Heroes Adventure (FREE!)
- Scholar Jaina Mage Hero Bundle - Comes with 5 Mage Packs
- Week 3 - September 22
- Heroic Brawliseum Returns (Sept 23)
- The Magic of Dalaran Card Back Returns to the Shop
Quote From Blizzard Deep beneath the campus grounds lies the cobweb-ridden inner sanctum of Scholomance Academy, where Headmaster Kel’Thuzad has sealed away many a leather-bound chronicle and magical “experiment” gone awry. With powerful forces of dark magic in proximity, only brave (foolish?) souls dare meddle in the midst of this Forbidden Library!
The Forbidden Library is a limited-time event with new content unlocking weekly!
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Anyone remember the cost the previous wild bundle blizz sold?
I might pick this up over the jaina skin if it is priced well.
The last one I bought in march was 24 wild packs for 15€
Thanks!
It can hardly be called as an "Event"... but, I can see some positives :P
It's nice to have a month-long "roadmap" - so we know what is happening and when :)
I like to know in advance, when Brawliseum will appear, because I can organize my plans, do some things in real life earlier or later, to have more time for Brawliseum. Usually, new Brawl is a surprise, and in the past, I missed Brawliseum, because I just didn't have the time at that moment.
Personally I don't care about BGs, but surely it's a great feature, highly expected.
I have to agree - nice to know what's happening, but most of the things won't apply to me:
- 3 different paid offerings
- Battlegrounds
- Brawliseum (though I'll play the one we get for free).
Will play the free solo content which might be fun.
Lots of people love battlegrounds, and many will buy the premium bundles etc which helps finance the game etc so not complaining, just from a rewards standpoint the event is less generous than previous events.
FINALLY! A new Mage Hero, because there are so few to choose from... smh.... at least it's not a Shaman.
When do we get a new Rogue one, Vanessa van Cleef or Tess, maybe? The 1000 win Valeera is a joke and just a miserable costume.
And I guess Battleground Parties is the "New" Game Mode from their Roadmap? Kinda cool feature, if you want to play with and against your friends but not really anything new. Overall a little disappointed.
I am 99% sure that this feature is not the "new game mode" from Roadmap.
In financial report they said they work on "multiple new ways" to play the game, and that was after BG already started. It is a new way to play kind of, but it's just extended lobby for friends.
I think it was also said in interviews, that they increased the team, so more people work on new modes and features I am pretty sure. New features like upcoming "Battle Pass" for example (or so called, "New Progression"), achievements and so on.
Ben Lee said this year that the new game mode "will be similar in scope and scale to Arena". I doubt he would say so, if this was just a BG feature...
Just be patient and surely, closer to October we will see more on (or maybe even play?) the new game mode :)
This event feels quite lackluster compared to the Fel Fire Festival event, AND it had a much better cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsbCO5qC5A
Meh, next one-time adventure. I would play new dungeon run instead. They were pretty fun.
That free Mage pack is larger than the hero portraits. They are hyping up that one, single Mage pack like it's Smaug's personal gold bidet. I resent it.
I'm very excited for Battlegrounds parties, though. Finally!
This is quite disappointing. Half of the stuff is just bundles and other than that we are just getting a Battlegrounds update and a Brawl. The only "special" thing is the card back (which I don't think a lot of people care about) and a Mage Card Pack.
When was the last time we had a good event like the double gold quests or the gold+dust quests. Those were good events.
Brawliseum is back. While I really want to hype its return, its going to be back to facing netdecks all day everyday again. Better start training now for it anyway.
I hope (reward wise) this won't be the seasonal event - in the end, if you don't want to spend money, you'll just get a single pack and maybe (not confirmed yet, but likely in my opinion) a run in the Brawliseum.
Seasonal rewards have been fading throughout the years, but this would be an all-time low.
For what regards the Forbidden Library event itself, I'm sooo excited to revisit each basic her's past - even if it's not canon, it will be very interesting to learn about their past and see how they used to look like.
I really doubt they'll give a free run in the brawliseum - have they ever done that before? I can't recall...
In the Brawliseum yes since Witchwood, in the Heroic Brawliseum... well unfortuntately I've never had the chance to see it with my own eyes.
Ah, right.
I just hope that they don't charge and arm and leg for the bundles. Usually they are a decent discount though
I'm guessing $15 USD, though $10 would be ideal considering we're getting 10 new heroes in total.
$10 for the hero, $5 for the packs isn't a bad breakdown for $15 though.
I hope in 9.99 as they will do this type of event each month (10 months for 10 heroes plus 2 months without event during expansions to finish within one year as promised)
Cool, now I can have 3 Jaina's in my collection