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Hearthstone - The Curse of Naxxramas Now Live!
The first content addition to Hearthstone is now live! It adds thirty new cards, fifteen boss encounters, class challenges, Heroic Mode, and more!

The adventure is divided into 5 different wings and each wing will cost 700 gold or $6.99 USD. If you pay using real money and buy wings in bulk, each wing will only cost $5 USD. If you play Naxxramas during the first month, you will receive the first wing for free.









Originally Posted by Blizzard
Curse of Naxxramas: A Hearthstone Adventure
  • Curse of Naxxramas offers a new single player campaign to play Hearthstone against challenging NPC adversaries. Curse of Naxxramas can be unlocked with gold or real money and can be accessed by players that have unlocked all 9 heroes.
  • Defeat 15 fearsome bosses to unlock a total of 30 new Hearthstone cards for your collection, including Legendary cards! Naxxramas cards can easily be searched for within My Collection using the search function.
  • An all-new interactive Naxxramas-themed game board awaits you within the Adventure! Discover the surprises that lurk inside the slime pools, the quivering masses of spider eggs (spoilers: It’s spiders), and more!
  • Surmount 9 diabolical Class Challenges that test your skills with each of the unique classes of Hearthstone!
  • Defeating all of the bosses within a wing unlocks the extremely challenging Heroic Mode of that wing. Defeating all of the bosses of Naxxramas on Heroic mode unlocks a new card back for your collection.
  • Five unique wings await those brave enough to venture into Naxxramas. The first wing, The Arachnid Quarter, will immediately be available to play for free for a limited time. The remaining four wings are immediately available for players to unlock with real money or gold, and will become accessible over a period of time once unlocked.
    • The Arachnid Quarter – A web choked maze filled with many-legged minions.
    • The Plague Quarter – Necromancers brew deadly plagues while a fungal monstrosity lies in wait.
    • The Military Quarter – Tireless undead knights perfect their deadly arts within these chambers.
    • The Construct Quarter –Abominations stitched together from the Scourge’s victims stomp through these slime soaked halls.
    • Frostwyrm Lair – Chilly abode of Sapphiron and the arch-lich Kel’thuzad himself. (A curse upon my air conditioning bill!)

General
  • Marking yourself as “Busy” within the Battle.net desktop app will suppress incoming chat messages and toasts for friend requests.
  • The Shop interface has been updated to include Curse of Naxxramas.
  • Cards available within each wing of Naxxramas will become available in the Arena when that wing becomes available to play.
  • The order in which Deathrattle abilities resolve has been updated to be more consistent.
  • Additional music tracks have been added.
  • Players that appear in “Players Near Me” now appear more prominently within the Friends List.
  • Overall organization of the Friends List has been improved.
  • Sounds and graphics that occur when Mass Disenchanting now take less time to complete.
  • Cards can now be searched for using the artist of the card art in the Collection Manager.

Card Changes
  • Eaglehorn Bow now reads “Whenever a friendly Secret is revealed, gain +1 Durability”.

Practice Mode
  • Practice Mode is now entered through the Solo Adventures button on the main menu.
  • The AI in Practice Mode is now better at Hearthstone.

Bug Fixes
  • Improved various tooltips.
  • Resolved various issues regarding audio, text, animation, and display.
  • Resolved various issues that could cause cards to get stuck on the battlefield.
  • Actions should now be accurately represented in the play history.
  • The red targeting cursor will now properly track where you mouse cursor is pointing for your opponent in Play and Arena Modes.
  • The turn timer in a Friendly Challenge now calculates time correctly.
  • All Soulbound Common cards can now be properly found when searching for “Common� in the Collection Manager.
  • Disenchanting will now properly update the amount of Arcane Dust you have.
  • The side of the board is no longer visible on the Arena screen in specific resolutions while in windowed mode.
  • The XP bar for max level heroes no longer appears empty.
  • You are now able to properly select a friend by clicking on their Play Mode medal.
  • An incorrect version of the Hero Power icon will no longer appear when switching between golden and non-golden heroes while the Choose Opponent menu is displayed.
  • The Friendly Challenge button will now properly appear next to friends who have recently logged in or have been added to your friends list.
  • The Shop window no longer incorrectly closes when clicking within the Shop UI.
  • The scroll bar will no longer jump to the top of the Friends list when moving the cursor over the Last Played area of the Friends list.
  • Clicking the End Turn button at the very start of your turn no longer prevents the End Turn button from flipping back.
  • Resolved an issue where conceding can cause the client to crash.
  • The resolution time of certain spells has been shortened.
  • Resolved an issue with Brawl where the last minion to enter the fray was always the victor of the ensuing battle.
  • Resolved various issues with the Sword of Justice.
  • Resolved an issue with Shield Slam where it was being unaffected by Spell Damage if the Hero had 0 Armor and now has Spell Damage sparklies.
  • A weapon that is equipped on your turn will no longer have the attack value appear on the sheathed weapon on some resolutions.

Mac
  • Improvements were made to stability.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Hearthstone - The Curse of Naxxramas Now Live! started by chaud View original post
Comments 69 Comments
  1. MFDOOM's Avatar
    Wow, this launch is embarrassing. I thought they launched in the latter half of July so things like permanent disconnects, inability to connect, internal errors and such wouldn't happen.

    Pathetic.
  1. Cryptrot's Avatar
    Got the 3 bosses the 2 challenges and the 1st boss heroic down before the servers pooped.
  1. mmoc1301093fdb's Avatar
    yes launch is embarrassing indeed ;/
  1. Amerissis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by prudhvirazz View Post
    EU is stuck. too many players trying to play I guess.
    Is it live in EU as well then?
  1. Guyviroth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aceventura View Post
    yes launch is embarrassing indeed ;/
    Every game in every online genre on every patch day in the history of the internet's invention has always had problems. Why is this even a surprise or news to anyone nowadays? =/
  1. MFDOOM's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Guyviroth View Post
    Every game in every online genre on every patch day in the history of the internet's invention has always had problems. Why is this even a surprise or news to anyone nowadays? =/
    Why carry water for Blizzard? That's not a valid excuse for a botched launch. I'm not even sure if anyone is able to play Naxxramas at the moment. From my memory of the launch of WoTLK, the launch was pretty smooth, bar the reneging on Death Knights on other servers and lie about aerial combat.

    You're not getting any brownie points for excusing performance beyond mediocrity on behalf of Blizzard.
  1. mmoc3863ce14c0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gotodadyo View Post
    Just for the sole fact that wow was shut down for 12+ hours because of this gives me 1 more reason never to play hearthstone
    What in the world are you talking about?
  1. FoxStar85's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Guyviroth View Post
    Every game in every online genre on every patch day in the history of the internet's invention has always had problems. Why is this even a surprise or news to anyone nowadays? =/
    The trolls use the first day launch issues in order to complain for the sake of complaining.

    He doesn't really believe a single word he types. He's just saying stuff to goad people into responding to him.
  1. Salech's Avatar
    Some classes still are overpowerd as fuck compared to others, blizzards balance team are really not doing well with this game (balance wise).
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    As much as I like Hearthstone (I'm even very active in its subforum) I don't think its news should be posted here. Its unfair to other games that could've been on the front page.
  1. Veraki's Avatar
    Looks amazing but dc'd after every fight on solo adventure and problems logging in when I try to get back on. To be expected but good to finally be able to see it. The 'commentary' is a bit cheesy though after every stage or fight.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    MMOchampion. Hearthstone is not an mmo therefore I don't give a shit about it. kthxbai.
  1. Veraki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    MMOchampion. Hearthstone is not an mmo therefore I don't give a shit about it. kthxbai.
    Seriously - who you kidding? It's clearly wow champion and gives two sh1ts to anything other than wow or wow related products.

    Silly post!
  1. mmoc3f25629bd0's Avatar
    pretty fail launch.

    Bugs, lag, log on issues.,


    And the AI is hilarious, had it effectively kill itself twice on me.....


    Still, I like the actual content, just wish it was more polished and it woudl be nice if a company making over a billion a year, could perhaps not launch things like its an indie dev on its first project....
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Veraki View Post
    Seriously - who you kidding? It's clearly wow champion and gives two sh1ts to anything other than wow or wow related products.

    Silly post!
    Hearthstone is not WoW. WoW is an MMO. It's an MMO that was brought down for 12 hours to launch this stupid card game crap and now has been extended to 14 hours.
  1. Averrix's Avatar
    I didn't have any issues with the game other than major lag. Beat all three bosses and one of the class challenges and didn't get DCed once. But the lag was annoying me so I quit playing for now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Houyi View Post
    pretty fail launch.

    Bugs, lag, log on issues.,


    And the AI is hilarious, had it effectively kill itself twice on me.....


    Still, I like the actual content, just wish it was more polished and it woudl be nice if a company making over a billion a year, could perhaps not launch things like its an indie dev on its first project....
    I hear you on that, the AI is definitely a little wonky. I played Maexxna and got utterly destroyed the first match and then the second match it was like the AI wasn't even playing. Then I had one against Faerlina where the boss set me up for a win, I had one card out with was a 4/6 and the boss attacked my card cause it had 2 of the +1 worshiping minions out and attacked my card with it and then attacked my hero with the rest of her cards and that put her at 8 health left. Well, I was playing Paladin and had a blessing of kings in my deck and applied it to my card and won. It was rather silly that the AI would set itself up for a defeat like that.
  1. Runeweaver's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    MMOchampion. Hearthstone is not an mmo therefore I don't give a shit about it. kthxbai.
    That may be the name of the site. But it's expanded to go to all Blizzard products rather than just WoW, including important patches and information relevant to the game universes of Blizzard: WoW, Diablo, Hearthstone, Starcraft and Heroes of the Storm; while also touching other MMOs now and then.
    Long since has it been strictly only WoW; however WoW is still the main topic of the site (with other Blizzard products as secondary).
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Runeweaver View Post
    That may be the name of the site. But it's expanded to go to all Blizzard products rather than just WoW, including important patches and information relevant to the game universes of Blizzard: WoW, Diablo, Hearthstone, Starcraft and Heroes of the Storm; while also touching other MMOs now and then.
    Long since has it been strictly only WoW; however WoW is still the main topic of the site (with other Blizzard products as secondary).
    I've never seen starcraft news on this site.
  1. mmoc3863ce14c0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    Hearthstone is not WoW. WoW is an MMO. It's an MMO that was brought down for 12 hours to launch this stupid card game crap and now has been extended to 14 hours.
    Wow is running fine the HS launch has nothing to do with wow downtime

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