Players feeling like "Hearthstone"'s "Whispers of the Old Gods" is already stale can finally breathe easy (or excitedly) again—we're getting a new single-player adventure, and this time the game is visiting Karazhan.
The new "Hearthstone" adventure, "One Night In Karazhan," is set in the magic city; players are invited to a dinner party hosted by the iconic Warcraft mage Medivh. However, once they arrive, he's nowhere to be found, and magic has caused chaos in the place.
The adventure will have a clear magic/mage theme, with some mage abilities and mechanics bleeding over into other classes in "Hearthstone". For example, the new Ivory Knight card, a Paladin rare, has you discover a spell. (That effect as is appears on Mage common minion Ethereal Conjurer.) Rogue has a new rare, Ethereal Peddler, that reduces the costs of cards in your hand—another Mage effect.
Considering the usual complaint with "Hearthstone" is blatantly overpowered cards and power creep, giving Mage effects to other classes is an interesting decision that may or may not backfire on Blizzard.
"One Night In Karazhan" will give players 45 new cards to play with in "Hearthstone." As always with all single-player adventures in the game, individual wings will be unlocked over the course of four or five weeks (and must be paid for, costing 700 in-game gold or $7 each wing, or $20 for the whole adventure). The first mission, which serves as a prologue to the adventure, will be free and give the player two new cards, according to GameSpot.
Heroic Mode and Class Challenges will also be part of the adventure, as always, and the cards will be playable in the game's Arena mode after the full adventure has been released. "One Night In Karazhan" will debut in "Hearthstone" on August 11.
For all the new cards Blizzard has revealed in their announcement, you can check out GameSpot's gallery.
