The subsequent Hearthstone enlargement combines the cardboard recreation with the fervor and festivity of a rock live performance. Blizzard announced Festival of Legends on Tuesday, together with a trailer that confirmed off slightly little bit of the enlargement’s theme and taste. Within the lore of Hearthstone, the Pageant of Legends is an enormous music competition set within the Thousand Needles. Not solely will the 145 playing cards within the enlargement be made up of musicians and performers, but in addition everybody else you would possibly discover at such a celebration like songwriters or roadies.
Pageant of Legends introduces a brand new key phrase: Finale. If the participant depletes their remaining mana with a Finale card, there will likely be an added bonus that ensures their flip ends with some type of tasty bonus.
The one factor extra Legendary than the music… is that this enlargement.
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Every class will get three distinctive playing cards: a legendary musician, a legendary music, and their instrument of selection as a weapon. Whereas Paladins favor disco, the Warrior is represented by a rock star. The Warlock musician prefers basic, and in a shock twist, the Shaman class will get to dabble in jazz.
Pageant of Legends has a brand new minion kind: soloists. These minions are at their finest after they’re alone on the sphere, so gamers ought to drop them when there are not any different creatures on their aspect of the board. New harmonic spells additionally supply a strategic selection; they swing between a Harmonic or Dissonant mode every spherical. For instance, would you slightly give +4 assault to 2 random minions, or grasp on a flip and provides +2 assault to 4 random minions? There’s no universally proper reply; it will depend on the precise recreation.
Metallic concert events have technically been canon in World of Warcraft for fairly a while now. Elite Tauren Chieftain, often known as ETC, is a metallic band helmed by Blizzard workers who periodically present up in recreation to rock out for followers. ETC even earned a spot on the Heroes of the Storm roster, with a capability package filled with shredding and thrashing. With Pageant of Legends, we’re seeing each Warcraft faction take part on the enjoyable, from undead bassists to demonic opera singers.
The enlargement has a few evergreen adjustments for Hearthstone as nicely — one is a brand new Priest-specific key phrase known as Overheal, and the opposite is a brand new format for signature playing cards that’s rather more aesthetically pleasing. Pageant of Legends arrives in April; Blizzard didn’t specify a precise date.