Knights of the frozen throne solo adventure

IGN: ItвЂ™s Mean Streets all over again! Dave Kosak: (Laughs) Yeah, but mechanically they do all play uniquely. вЂњ Dave Kosak: Something that did come from the art team, though, was the idea that we wanted to embody the three presences of Death Knights вЂ“ the blood, the plague, the unholy вЂ“ and so, the nine heroes kind of do fall in those categories, and maybe if you do look at the art closely you might be able to figure out whoвЂ™s falling into each one. Jerry Mascho: On the art team we always want to support gameplay first, so it was always an idea that came from design, and weвЂ™re just trying to amplify that and make sure itвЂ™s really clear to the players, so itвЂ™s super accessible and also really clear that when youвЂ™re playing that hero that looks like what he or she does. IGN: IвЂ™m curious whether the art direction informed the game design at all? Like, if the initial concept art for Jaina includes her holding a particular staff or something and then that feeds back. Jerry Mascho: Yeah, we had a lot of fun with that.

IGN: It must have been a lot of fun to reinvent all nine of those heroes. TheyвЂ™re not just Death Knights, theyвЂ™re something totally different. Jerry Mascho: On our team, one of the internal artists, Jomaro Kindred, heвЂ™s the senior concept artist on the team, he did these really cool designs for each of the heroes, and he worked with design to find out what these guys would look like, as far as taking those iconic heroes and showing the dark side, and really amping that up. The individual heroes вЂ“ definitely we iterated on it and some whole designs were thrown out, but ultimately we wanted to do this, we wanted to make sure every hero had something really cool going on. That was one of those ones where you kind of hit on it early. вЂњ Dave Kosak: With this one we were really looking at вЂ“ whatвЂ™s the coolest fantasy? How do we express the coolest possible thing that could happen with the Lich King and Northrend and Death Knights? How do we make sure that every class has a lot of fun? And the idea that all of our nine marquee heroes get changed into Death Knights, that came pretty early, because that was like вЂ“ that seemed like the most fun, right? So we began noodling on that idea really early on and that stuck throughout the process. The Lich King is obviously one of the most significant and important elements of Warcraft lore, so seeing him in Hearthstone is a big big deal for fans. TheyвЂ™ll take the form of eight boss battles as players enter the Icecrown Citadel and eventually face off against the Lich King himself. If you can get to the mid-game, this is a little like another take on the Warlock hero power.This will also be the first expansion thatвЂ™s paired with mission content, which was formerly the domain of HearthstoneвЂ™s adventures. YouвЂ™ll be offered Hunter and neutral beasts at equal rates, theyвЂ™ll always be five mana or below and the first pick is cards with text, the second with keywords or vanilla.) ( Mike Donais has clarified how this works a little. Playing his card will gain you armour, do AOE damage and give you a new hero power that lets you stitch together hideous chimera-like creatures, via a double Discovery, where you choose two beasts and then they fuse into one, with all the stats combined, all the abilities represented and costing whatever the total mana cost is. Rexxar, for instance, becomes Rexxar Darkstalker. ThereвЂ™s one of these per class and playing them sees the hero transform into a Death Knight version of themselves. Knights of the Frozen Throne is coming in August and will take players to Northrend and give them 135 new cards to play with, including a new type of card, the Hero card. Blizzard unveiled its next Hearthstone expansion yesterday, and boy, is it going to shake things up.

Knights of the frozen throne solo adventure