#357 - The Angry Chicken: “Ashes of Outland, Demon Hunters, & SO MUCH MORE”
03/17/2020
• Garrett • Jocelyn
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News
New Class - Demon Hunter
The Year of the Phoenix introduces Hearthstone’s first new hero class since launch: The Demon Hunter, Illidan Stormrage
- Hero Power: Demon Claws, a one mana-cost single-turn boost to the Hero’s Attack
- Exclusive Keyword: Outcast makes cards more powerful when they are played from the right- or left-most position in your hand
- Coming April 2nd with an intro campaign (single player), free to all players
- Includes 10 basic cards and a 20 card Demon Hunter set of starter cards. Demon Hunters will get an additional 15 cards per Year of the Phoenix expansion, for a total of 45
- Demon Hunter Class Identity: Aggressive attacker who can dominate the early game with glaives and claws, replenishing his health with lifesteal, or control the battlefield with devastating soul magic and powerful demons; Wield powerful fel and soul magic; sacrifice your minions to claim victory
Demon Hunter: Base Set
Link to Demon Hunter Base Cards
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Hall of Fame
It’s time for the rotation!
- 5 cards going to HOF
- 1 Leeroy, 2 Mountain Giant
- Very powerful win condition cards
- Leeroy is iconic, so may come back in a different form in the future
- Not all classes in standard can deal with an 8/8 turn 4. They want to support this playstyle but do it in different ways that will rotate in and out
- 3 MC Tech
- MC Tech not as big an issue in Wild, they’re not designing like this anymore in Standard
- 4 Acolyte of Pain, 5 Spellbreaker
- Neutral cards that do a niche thing, new card draw is hard to design and all classes were using the same package of neutral cards
- All about removing the staleness caused by the classic set
- Spellbreaker was a little too powerful, Owl fits if you just need a Silence. It feels more like a choice you make instead of an auto include because it’s less powerful
But that’s not all. There’s a massive Priest overhaul to talk about. Including some of their cards going into the Hall of Fame.
Priest Changes
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23319441/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-phoenix
Basic and Classic changes are coming to Priest March 26th (next Thursday)
- Bringing it in line with class identity, want to control, buff and heal while also moving away from face damage and DS/IF default deck
- HOF
- Cleric, Divine Spirit
- It was time
- Holy Fire, Prophet Velen, Shadowform, Soulpriest
- No more face damage, they’re moving away from this playstyle
- New Cards
- 6 new cards coming into Priest
- Natalie Seline, SW: Ruin, Kul Tiran Chaplain, Power Infusion, Psychic Conj, Scarlet Subjugator
- Buff - Power Infusion
- Removal - Selene (single target), Ruin (board clear)
- Balance Changes
- More damage, but can’t go face
- Lower mana cost in some cases
- Nerfs
- PW: Shield, arguably Holy Nova (can’t go face)?
- Each expansion should have it’s own playstyle/win condition but the base cards will be there because of classic/basic changes
Roadmap
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23319441/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-phoenix
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Ladder Changes
Full revamp, but legend stays the same
- New Bronze -> Diamond system
- Everyone is resetting to Bronze 10, but get a bonus multiplier based on rank in previous season
- Every rank has 3 stars
- Ranked floors at 10 and 5 of Bronze - Diamond.
- More rewards
- Chest is getting better, will be card packs, epics, rares, etc
- First time you hit a rank breakpoint you get cards
- As soon as you get your 5 wins you get your card back right away
- Matchmaking changes
- Will take skill level into consideration -> sounds like might be based on previous season’s rank?
- Legends won’t face last season’s Bronze players when the season resets because of the hidden MMR
- Launching April 1st
New Expansion: Ashes of Outland
We’re going to Outland Joce! Get ready for demons in addition to our demon hunters!
LAUNCHING APRIL 7th (in 3 weeks!)
PRIME LEGENDARY MINIONS
- Primes are powerful minions who shuffle a vastly-upgraded version of themselves back into your deck when they’re taken off the board.
- Every class (except Demon Hunter) has its own unique Prime, like the Warrior minion
Card: Kargath Bladefist
| Card: Kargath Prime
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Card: Archpore Msshi’fn
| Card: Msshi’fn Prime
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Card: Lady Vashj
| Card: Vashj Prime
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NEW KEYWORD: DORMANT
- There will be multiple Imprisoned Demons with the keyword Dormant.
- Dormant lasts for 2 turns.
- Dormant minions cannot attack or be interacted with until they wake up
- Idea is to allow both players to plan for what’s going to happen and strategize around it
Card: Imprisoned Satyr
| Card: Imprisoned Observer
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Free, right now!
Other previewed cards
Card: Metamorphosis
| Card: Skull of Gul’dan
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Card: Scavenger’s Ingenuity
| Card: Ambush
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Card: Bulwark of Azzinoth
| Card: Teron Gorefiend
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Patch 16.6
We got a patch TODAY! It’s live!!!
- Tavern Pass
- an all-new way to access Perks for Battlegrounds
- $19.99 or 2500 Gold
- 4 Arena Tickets
- For BGs: advanced stats, visual emotes, a third and fourth hero to choose from at the start of a game, and early access to new Battlegrounds Heroes
- Pass lasts for the duration of Ashes of Outland
- AoO Pre-Purchase is now live
- Cards were un-nerfed in Wild
- Battlegrounds Update
- Ragnaros, Sylvanas, and Patches have been removed from the pool.
- NEW HERO - Fungalmancer Flurgl added to the pool
- Sir Finley Mrrglton and Professor Putricide added back to the pool
- The Lich King, Ysera, Pyramad, Millhouse Manastorm, The Rat King, Milificient Manastorm, Deathwing, Reno Jackson, all have hero power changes to bring them in line with the rest of the pool
- Some minions were changed, either stats or Tavern Tier
- March 26
- Cards rotating are being changed
- Card Pack Changes, Hall of Fame, Priest Update, updated returning player experience, and free deck for new and returning players
- Illidan Stormrage enters Battlegrounds
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23319440/hearthstone-updates-march-17-patch-16-6?
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