by OtakuMZ - 7 years ago     show comments

Introduction

Today was the first day of this year‘s BlizzCon. Shortly after the unraveling of the new expansion, Kobolds & Catacombs during the opening ceremony, other news for Hearthstone were presented in the “Hearthstone: What’s Next” panel.

New Expansion „Kobolds & Catacombs“: Key facts

• 135 cards expansion
• Kobolds, dungeons, adventurers, and treasures are the theme
• New keyword from the Treasure Guild: Recruit
  • summon a minion directly from your deck to the battlefield
• 2 class legendaries for every class
  • 1 minion
  • 1 weapon
• Marin the Fox, Neutral Legendary Treasure Guild leader will be playable next week and is given to all players for free. Virtual Tickets owner get a golden version too.
• Expansion launches in December
• Pre-purchase available now
• Kobolds and Catacombs website is up now

The hosts explained, that the expansion was initially called the Treasure expansion. t revolved around Blingtron and was called Blingtron’s Lootapalooza. Kobolds were later chosen as representatiteves in the place of Blingtron in resemblance to classic dungeon crawling. The king of kobolds – Togwaggle – will be the host of this expansion.

To reflect the treasure theme, special cards were developed like the unidentified items, whereof exist three. One was shown, the Priest card Unidentified Potion. Those unidentified cards reveal their nature only when drawn and you need to adapt your playstyle according to the random outcome. Other special cards are Spellstones. Those are the representation of progression. Spellstone cards update over the course of the game from a lesser to a normal and then to a greater Spellstone. The Shaman Spellstone was one of the exhibited which upgrades by overloading a certain amount of crystals throughout the game, increasing the effect of summoning 1,2 or 3 copies of a friendly minion.

Finally there are all the monsters that lurk in the dungeons and some crazy Legendaries of which the Warlock one – Rin, the First Diciple – was shown off. She herself offers a quest that after various summoning ritual cards and 31 mana spent give you a 10-mana 10/10 Demon that as a battlecry destroys your opponent’s deck. See all the mentioned and unmentioned revealed cards in the following gallery.

New and free single player mode: Dungeon Run

• Pick a Hero with a deck of 10 cards
• Fight 8 out of 48 bosses
  • Room of Traps is a rare and very difficult encounter
• Get threee different kinds of loot along the way, including incredible treasures
  • Powerful passive abilities, up to two each run
  • Insane Treasure Cards, also two per run (way too powerful for constructed play!)
    • total of 40 in the game mode
  • Additional Piles of Loot containing three cards after each boss, select out of three piles
• no entrance fee
• unlimited replayability because each Dungeon Run will be different every time
• Self-contained, meaning you do not need the cards in your collection