All the Announcements from BlizzCon 2018 Day 1

Blizzard Geposted 03.11.2018 um 02:44 von Neryssa

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Check out all our coverage for the first day of BlizzCon 2018!

Battle for Azeroth

World of Warcraft: Classic

Warcraft III: Reforged

Other Games

Destiny

Destiny 2 Now Free on Battle.net: players will be able to acquire the base Destiny 2 game on Battle.net for free, as long as you claim the game before November 18th.

World of Warcraft

New Cinematic: Lost Honor - Featuring Anduin and Saurfang discussing honor at the Stockades.

New Charity Pet: Whomper - 100% of the proceeds from Whomper will go to Code.org.

The What's Next Panel covered Patch 8.1 release date, Terror of Darkshore Cinematic, Patch 8.1.5, Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara, and Goblin/Worgen model updates.

World of Warcraft: Classic

The WoW Classic Demo is available to play at the BlizzCon Show Floor, or at home by Virtual Ticket holders, until November 8.

Classic WoW will be released by Summer of 2019.

An active subscription is required to access WoW Classic.

Warcraft III: Reforged

Warcraft III: Reforged: Warcraft III is getting remastered, with updates to all characters and animations.
Warcraft 3: Reforged will release next year.

The Culling of Stratholme mission is available to demo on the show floor.

The website is now live - https://playwarcraft3.com/

There's a special version of Reforged called the Spoils of War which will gives some goodies to the other Blizzard games, including a Meat Wagon Mount with a working catapult.

Players can pre-purchase the game for $29.99 Standard Edition and $39.99 for the Spoils of War Edition.

Special deal on Spoils of War and Virtual Ticket - $79.99

Diablo

New Game - Diablo Immortal: Mobile game being developed by Blizzard in affiliation with Netease.
Diablo Immortal is placed in the timeline between Diablo II and III, telling stories that happened during the interlude between both games.

You will be able to run into games in the open world, there are also 4-man instanced areas.

Westmarch is the capital city in Diablo Immortal, as it was a thriving place before the events of Diablo III.

Diablo Immortal will start with 6 classes available in Diablo III (Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer, Wizard), which more added according to player feedback.

Diablo Immortal also counts with social features such as linking to your Battle.net account to connect with your friends.

Hearthstone

New Expansion - Rastakhan's Brawl: Takes place in Stranglethorn Vale and players will play against each other with the help of spirits and the Loa.
Rastakhan's Brawl will release on December 4.

New Keyword - Overkill: Dealing excess damage in order to kill a minion grants you an effect.

Spirits are interesting 0/3 minions with Stealth for 1 turn. They are very resilient and class dependant. For instance, Paladins fight with Shirvallah, the Tiger Spirit.

Overwatch

New Animated Short - Reunion: Featuring McCree, as he fights against the Deadlock Gang in Route 66.

New Hero - Ashe: Leader of the Deadlock Gang, this damage character is great at zoning areas with her ultimate, B.O.B.

New Merchandise: New Funkos, LEGOS, and Hasbro action figurines on the way.

Heroes of the Storm

New Hero - Orphea, Heir of the Raven Court: The first Hero not part of any previous Blizzard games and entirely based on the lore of the Nexus, Orphea is available for free for all BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders.

In Development - Skins and Gameplay: New skins include the highly sought after Janitor Leoric!

StarCraft II

The Dark Prelate Zeratul is the newest commander available for Co-Op.

More Warcraft Coverage on Wowhead

Patch 8.1 releases on December 11th (US). We also saw a special Terror of Darkshore cinematic showing the power of Malfurion and Tyrande.
The press kit revealed the key art for Tides of Vengeance, featuring Rastakhan and Mekkatorque.

Patch 8.1.5

Allied Races are also coming in this patch. Zandalari Trolls can be Paladins and we learned about the Kul Tiran Racials.

Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara

Tauren and Gnome Heritage Armor

Sylvanas and Xal'atath - she's wielding this weapon in a slide, what could it mean?