In the online card game Hearthstone, Blizzard has revealed the identity of the new hero for the Hunter class. There are already hints about the Mage and the new card backs.
Most had suspected and pieced together via fuzzy logic: The current hero among the guys who love to go full Face is the male Horde Hunter Rexxar – perhaps there will be an Alliance Hunter. The image already looked like an elf woman. Sylvanas is present in the game as a servant and is taken… leaving her sisters.
And indeed: Alleria Windrunner, the lost high elf general, is the new alternate Hunter in Hearthstone.
Gameplay-wise, the new heroes will make no difference to the previous ones: The cards remain the same, the hero ability as well. They are “merely” new skins of the existing heroes with new animations, emotes, and voices. Additionally, there will be a new card back. They will be available for about 9 euros. Alongside Alleria, Magni Bronzebeard has been announced as the new warrior, and there is still a “Mage” to come – following the previous logic, this could likely end up being a Horde character.
Is this what the card backs of the new heroes for Hearthstone look like?
A leak on the Korean Battlenet site seems to already reveal who it is: It appears to be Medivh, one of the key figures in the entire World of Warcraft lore.
