We've got an announcement of an announcement from the Hearthstone team this afternoon which makes it look like the mini-set is coming soon with an announcement tomorrow!
If this is going to be anything like the Stormwind mini-set which started its reveals on a Thursday, we can expect card reveals throughout the weekend and a patch next week with all the new cards. We're not sure of course if that is going to be the case, but we're certainly more than ready for these cards to drop!
If you want to know what our predictions are for the upcoming mini-set, Avalon put together a great article for exactly that.
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It's always been more dark red/scarlet bordering on purple, to my eye. Whitemane's staff also tends to look slightly different below the gems part. The models in World of Warcraft had some updates throughout the years.
There's another thing that in my mind speaks against this being Scarlet Monastery. We've seen our mercenaries level up, get mounts and ding 60 (hero cards), so taking on their first raid is a much better fit than going back and farming mid level dungeons. Scarlet Monastery would've been a great fit for United in Stormwind.
Since MoP's rework of SM, Whitemane has been using Benediction, as her staff.
Yeah, that probably makes more sense story-wise. I cannot for the life of me understand why we got Saidan, though.
I am still thinking it could be Whitemane, though my first thought was Prestor. It's a toss up as the design is basically the same, but the red gem matches Whitemane more than Prestor's purple gem in the middle.
Regardless, given the stories within Book of Mercenaries (spoilers of Tavish's story ahead)
Boom!!!!
Scarlet Monastery incomming =)
Realistically this most likely references Preastores staff, but it's worth noting that they ingame announcement mentioned new merc content, and that this also looks like the staff from High Inquisitor Whitemane, which was datamined when the mode launched. But there is no way they are going to introduce her to the story now...right?
Exciting stuff!
Kinda looks like a cave, and is that staff a poor mans Benediction? Would it be Molten Core rather than Onyxia's lair?
It's Lady Prestors staff. - 50 DKP for me not recognizing it at first.
It is indeed Lady Prestor's Staff
DRAGONS INCOMING!
I wonder if we'll get another Onyxia, otherwise probably Kazakus in dragon form. While highly unlikely, it would be cool with either of them as a first neutral hero card.
But we gotta get another Onyxia to rival Deathwing, three is a magic number! (Yes it is, it's a magic number).
Edit: Oh, there are four five Deathwings. Deathwing, Deathwing, Dragonlord Deathwing the Destroyer, Deathwing, Mad Aspect and Deathwing.
Don't forget Deathwing the hero portrait lol
Nice.. Seems like a mage weapon, hopefully