Hearthstone has gone full holiday season today with the Winter Veil event kicking off a new legendary questline, freebies, and some new shop bundles. We've put everything in one easy to find place so read on for all the details!
Winter Veil 2022 Legendary Quest
A new legendary quest has appeared! Completing this will reward you with a total of 6 card packs - 3 of which are from the Alterac Valley expansion. Here are the different quests you will be able to complete:
- Play 3 Games
- Play 3 games of Ranked Standard.
- Play 3 games of Duels. (Find starting decks in our latest Duels Meta Report)
Each quest rewards you with 2 card packs, 1 Alterac Valley and 1 Standard.
Wintery Tavern Brawls Return
We're going to see two Tavern Brawls return over the next couple of weeks, the first of which will be tomorrow.
The Gift Exchange brawl will be bringing back to Winter Veil Treat card back as a reward for anyone who hasn't earned it yet. If you already have though, you can expect a Year of the Phoenix card pack instead.
Snowman Thrall Hero Skin - Free!
Everyone gets a free hero skin this holiday season. Login to Hearthstone and visit the shop to claim Snowman Thrall for free. We do not know when this skin will no longer be available, so grab it early!
Greatfather Winter Magni Hero Set
We datamined this skin a couple patches ago and it has been a hot topic within the Hearthstone community because of how awesome it is. Greatfather Winter Magni is finally available in a $9.99 bundle alongside the Greatfather Winter card back. Awesome. This is a much better addition to the game when compared to 2019's horrific Dame Hazelbark shop bundle.
Winter Veil Cheer and Chill Bundles
We also got two new $24.99 bundles with holiday themed skins for the other 8 classes. Demon Hunters, Paladins, Rogues, and Warlocks are getting in the festive mood with these Cheerful new skins available in the shop.
Druids, Priests, Hunters, and Mages can all celebrate this wintery wonderland with these frosty skins.
Winter Veil Battlegrounds Bundle
Battlegrounds is getting some holiday love too! Like other Battlegrounds bundles, it costs $19.99 and features Greatfather Boom as the bartender replacement.
Notably, the Finley & Metzen image is a reference to Chris Metzen who left Blizzard a few years back to found Warchief Gaming, which recently successfully kickstarted their Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent Dungeons & Dragons 5E campaign. Also as a part of this extended trivia, Tabayrak, who works on Hearthstone Duels, is a designer on Auroboros on the side!
Metzen the Reindeer is a holiday character in World of Warcraft that can be found during a special Winter Veil quest titled "You're a Mean One..." and involves going to Alterac Mountains to free him after you slay the Abominable Greench.
That's a wrap on Winter Veil's 2021 content. Anything you are particularly excited for?
Comments
Yeah, I dislike the bundles. The Rexxar skin is rad but I'm not a big fan of the others in the bundle. I do like all the "cheer" skins though, but damn that's a high price to pay =/
I love the tyrande and valeera skins and dont care about the others and ofc theyre both in seperate bundles aswell
Beautiful (constructed) skins! I would love to buy the Priest skin - but 25$ is to expensive. :(
Im rather surprised to see that they didn't sell those skins separately like they did with the mech skins. Kinda sad, because Im pretty sure that there are plenty of players who will buy one or two skins, but certainly not 25 bucks for 4.
u can, but in the bn app
You cant do that. Unless youre from brazil, where legislation forces blizz to split the bundle.
Ah, scrolled down the comments more and learned something new. I had no idea this was a thing and that is awesome. We need that legislation everywhere!
Yeah, i'm from Brazil
but i didnt know bout that
thanks
As a whale, the Cheer and Chill bundles are way too goddamned expensive. They should’ve put them into one bundle and charged $30.00. I think the mech hero skins we just had were $15.00 per bundle if I’m remembering correctly, and if I am these skins are terrible value
Edit: The mech bundles were $30.00 as well, still too pricey