Blizzard has unveiled the plans for Winter Veil this year and we've got free card packs coming, a free festive Shaman skin, and more!
Quote From Blizzard Starting tomorrow, Winter Veil comes to the Tavern! Throughout the Winter Veil celebration, you’ll be able to use special event emotes and participate in some fun activities, too.
Legendary Quest Chain
Give yourself the gift of free packs! Starting on December 21, you can embark on a Legendary Quest Chain to celebrate Winter Veil. The Quest Chain includes three quests, each awarding 1 Fractured in Alterac Valley Pack and 1 Standard Pack, for a total of 6 Packs!
Two Seasonal Tavern Brawls Return
First, the Gift Exchange tavern brawl is back! In this holiday classic, you and your opponent receive gift drops from Great Father Winter. Fight over who gets to open the presents to get their bonuses! If this is your first time winning in this Brawl, you’ll receive the Winter Veil Treat Card Back instead of your normal pack. Then, next week, GreatFather Kobold tries his hand at delivering presents in the Wacky Waxy Winter Veil Brawl!
Free Snowman Thrall Skin
Thrall’s taking some time away from battle to build himself a new snowman friend! Starting on December 21, you can go to the Shop to claim your free Snowman Thrall Skin and bring some fun to the ladder!
More Festive Skins in the Shop
Thrall’s not the only one having some fun in the snow. While you’re in the shop claiming your free Thrall skin, you’ll also find Winter Veil themed cosmetic bundles for Traditional Hearthstone and Battlegrounds, as well as the Greatfather Winter Magni Hero Set.
An Update on the Battle for Alterac Valley
We’ve received an update from the front after the first skirmishes in Alterac Valley, based on information through December 14! The Battle for Alterac Valley has been fierce and hotly contested. Both sides have fought with Honor, with each faction already amassing over one billion Honor! The Alliance has taken an early lead in the contest. They have rallied together for an advantage in overall numbers, and together they are strong! Will the steadfast Alliance be able to defend their foothold, or will the Horde rally to take back the valley?! It is up to you, brave adventurers, to shape the course of this battle.
Don’t forget that the Battle for Alterac Valley continues during Winter Veil! While the Winter Veil festivities end on January 19, counting for the Battle for Alterac Valley ends a little earlier, on January 11. Learn more about how to play games to earn Honor for your faction so that you may claim the ultimate prize of your faction’s leader as a Diamond card!
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Horde can suck it lol :P Vanndar is way cooler than Drek'thar, at least in terms of gameplay.
Even though the Battle for Alterac Valley ends January 11 we still have the whole expansion for completing the quest right? To get the other legendary.
Correct.
It sounds like I'm the only person who picked Alliance because I actually like the Alliance.
Whatever. I'll take a victory by proxy. That's the only kind of victory the Alliance is allowed to have.
That makes two of us! XD
I face almost all Alliance. I picked the Horde because I thought that card would look cooler with a diamond skin.
^This. The Alliance icon appears a lot more times than the Horde one.
I thought it was just me but I had noticed an oddly high number of Alliance opponents over the last several weeks. Can Alliance actually be winning this thing?
I think people generally overestimated the Horde appeal.
Here in Europe I ran into almost exclusively Alliance players on the lower ranks (which is where the majority of players are). As a result you get more Alliance games in total which means more Honor gained, even if Alliance players were to lose to Horde more often on average.
Vanndar is just the more "fun" card in general so it makes sense that the majority of casual players with no ties to WoW would pick Alliance to get hi early. Meanwhile Drek'thar is more competitive but only a fraction of the playerbase really cared about that.
I mean...just consider how many people genuinely didn't know which races belonged to which faction when it came to Merc alignment.
So many of the Mercenary skills/stats/abilities are totally lost on me. Even the whole double damage blue->green->red (or whatever it is). I've twigged that 'spell casters' are blue (and so on), but that's about it
For the double damage, I was lost for a while too. Then my spouse helped: Fire burns Trees, Trees drink Water, Water puts out Fire.
Maybe that will help you also?
If I still played it, it would help enormously, thanks :
I don't know why people are surprised, it was a Prisoner's Dilemma of sorts. A ton of people chose Alliance because they assumed Horde would win, and people didn't understand that you got both Golden Legendaries from the questline. Also, most of the big Hearthstone content creator's chose the Alliance on their main accounts, so they'd probably have some sway in everyone's decision.
That, or there is a silent majority of players who didn't know or give a sh*t who was stronger, and just think Vanndar is more interesting.
Back in the olden times, I helped organise a bunch of real-world FSGs in Toronto - a fairly large majority of folks we met had never played WoW before (myself included.)
I mean, I definitely took Vanndar for the higher combo potential in Wild.
I took Vanndar purely because I don't think I've ever made a deck with no 4+ cost minions that wasn't an all-spell deck, so I knew I'd never actually care about Drek'thar. Not that I've actually used Vanndar yet either :P
I've tried them both out in a few things. Roffle had a Secret Hunter list with Drek'thar to pull out Gossipers and Cloaked Huntresses. Using that and Dane's Big Deathrattle Rogue list I completed the objectives achievement, as well as the Snowfall Graveyard achievement and the Hunter secrets achievement for this expansion.