Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons
Release Date: December 10, 2019
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Seventeenth expansion to Hearthstone card game from Blizzard Entertainment studio. Descent of Dragons introduces the last chapter of the Year of the Dragon feature campaign, in which we witness the final battle between the League of E.V.I.L. and The League of Explorers. In addition, we will find here new cards and game mechanics.
Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons is another expansion for the free card game from Blizzard Entertainment. The expansion was revealed at BlizzCon 2019 as the culmination of the Year of the Dragon story campaign, which began in Rise of Shadows and continued in Saviors of Uldum.
Plot
Descent of Dragons is the culmination of the story of the League of E.V.I.L., a group of villains known from previous Hearthstone expansions: Rafaam, Togwaggle, Hagatha and Boom. After the battle with The League of Explorers in Uldum, both groups head for the ice continent of Northrend, where Galakrond, an ancient proto-dragon defeated by the Dragon Aspects at the dawn of history, awakend from his slumber. That's where the final battle between the heroes and villains will take place.
Mechanics
According to tradition, Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons introduces 135 new cards, including Galakrond, a character available for five classes of heroes. Each of them received a different version of the dragon, but all of them can strengthen it by playing cards with the new keyword - Invoke. Another novelty are the Side Quests. The rewards for completing them are not as big as those for Quests from Journey to Un'Goro and Saviors of Uldum, but they are also much easier. As a result, Side Quests do not require the creation of a special deck for the benefit of summoning a minion.
Game modes
Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons introduces a new game mode - Battlegrounds. It offers game gameplay, similat to auto battlers like Teamfight Tactics and Dota Underlords. In it, eight players fight as one of 24 heroes with unique special powers, trying to create an invincible army to stand as the only winner on the battlefield. However, we do not create our own deck here. Instead, we recruit supporters in Bob's Inn, similar to Adventures from previous additions, but with significant changes: we get a certain amount of cards, from which we choose a few that we want to use in the fight. We choose our minions by paying coins for them, but we can also use them to draw a new set of cards, get rid of unnecessary copies or improve the inn to offer more powerful minions.
Technical aspects
Descent of Dragons does not change anything in the audio-visual layer of the game, except for the introduction of new illustrations and effects when playing cards introduced in the add-on.
Last updated on June 22, 2020
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Videos and Screens
[1:36] Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons trailer #1
Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons Summary
Platforms:
PC Windows
Android
Apple iOS
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Pentium D 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0 GHz, 3 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB GeForce 8600 GT / Radeon HD 2600 XT or better, 3 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.2 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce GT 240 / Radeon HD 4850 or better, 3 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10
Android
Additional information: Internet connection is required.
Apple iOS
Additional information: Internet connection is required.
Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons - New Expansion and Auto Chess Mode
A new expansion for Hearthstone has been announced, called Descent of Dragons. As you can guess, most of the cards will revolve around dragons and related mechanics. The game will also include the a new mode modelled on the genre of auto chess (auto battlers).
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Paul Wozniak
November 1, 2019