{"id":334516,"date":"2017-02-28T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/27\/hearthstone-first-2017-expansion-April\/21|21722968"},"modified":"2017-02-28T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:06:00","slug":"hearthstone-gets-first-expansion-of-the-year-in-early-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/hearthstone-gets-first-expansion-of-the-year-in-early-april\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hearthstone&#8217; gets first expansion of the year in early April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xAHwjbKQi04?rel=0&#038;wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Named for the <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/wowwiki.wikia.com\/wiki\/Un'Goro_Crater\">zone<\/a> of dangerous jungles and lost secrets, <em>Journey to Un&#8217;Goro<\/em> will introduce 135 new cards to the game. The first of this year&#8217;s three expansions ushers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/17\/hearthstone-will-release-three-full-expansions-in-2017\/\">Year Of The Mammoth<\/a>, which will rotate all content from 2015 out of the competitive Standard format.<\/p>\n<p>While that means finally saying goodbye to your beloved Reno Jackson decks, <em>Un&#8217;Goro<\/em> will bring in a few cool changes. First on the list are two brand-new mechanics: &#8216;Adapt&#8217; lets you choose from three random stat or ability options to give a creature once it enters play, while &#8216;Quest&#8217; spells activate their devastating effect after satisfying their requirements. There&#8217;s also a new creature type, Elementals, to join Dragons, Murlocs and Pirates as a theme to arrange your decks around.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-credit=\"Blizzard\" data-mep=\"1586752\" src=\"https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/9a732255e1b7d0a8964f2cbe60698f68\/204992734\/Hearthstone_questplusadapt.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Adapt&#8217; will likely up the game&#8217;s randomness and hopefully some &#8216;Quest&#8217; cards will be easier to attain than normal Legendary-rarity ones, but this early on, it&#8217;s hard to tell how <em>Un&#8217;Goro<\/em> will change <em>Hearthstone<\/em>. Blizzard will announce a batch of cards on March 17th with more trickling out until the expansion comes out in early April. The studio has already promised free packs, in-game gold and crafting dust in the weeks leading up to its launch, which will hopefully help make up for how much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/23\/hearthstone-most-expensive-year\/\">pricier<\/a> it will be to collect all of 2017&#8217;s cards than last year&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/7dcd08e2288d0f0029145ea3e1e8c891\/204992696\/JourneyToUnGoro_spread_web.jpg\" \/>It doesn&#039;t take much to set video game fans down rumor rabbit holes these days, but in this case, hints about Hearthstone&#039;s first expansion in 2017 were correct. Blizzard has officially announced that Journey to Un&#039;Goro will be the next content block&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-334516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}