Following the leak last night that we covered, it looks like Hearthstone's teasers are now officially here!
The original leak has now been posted by PlayHearthstone, and some members of the community have been given the same teaser with a different phrase.
What does it all mean?
Quote From @PlayHearthstone and Friends A Storm is Coming
The Storm is Closing In (Thijs)
Can You Hear the Thunder? (RDU)
The Darkness Draws Near (Firebat)
A Storm Draws Near (Kripparrian)
A decade-cementing storm is coming (Frodan) (Note: he could just be meming himself)
Darkness Descends… (Trump)
Darkness Looms Upon the Garden (Kolento)
A Storm Approaches (Kibler)
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My guess is that this will be a Throne of Thunder expansion.
Mogu Cultist had a line, "The Storm Is Coming" which they play heavily into that Raid.
Could be some exciting cards. Especially if they play around with Tortos, Megaera, Durumu the Forgotten. I'd imagine we'd get a card for Lei Shen. I know there's a hero portrait but if Reno can get a hero card, and two cards, I think Lei Shen can get the portrait and hero card!
Also, perhaps the year of the phoenix ties in to the Pandaren Phoenix?
Well from the picture theres figures in the foreground that have been turned to stone, so it may relate to whatever calamity happened here:
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Petrified_Forest
it could just be our druid queen looking on whatever site that is, with a murloc nearby, hard to speculate and i dont know enough wow lore.
Illidan Stormrage here we go!!!! HYPE!!!!!
But I don't see a shred of evidence about Year of Phoenix.
Hoping for leaks, really just cant wait until 17th Mar to find out whats the deal in the summit.
Boyz, 'tis finaly the Post-teaser-pre-announcement's-announcement-pre-pre-reveal season !!
sooo....Darkmoon Faire?
Aye, I smell Throne of Thunder coming.
my hopes for the new year/ expansions are:
- pandaria related (maybe new monk class, sha card type,...)
- alliance vs horde (fraction combo cards)
- ulduar related (including the guardians, Algalon,...)
- Sunwell plateau/the eye (Kael'thas, Kil'Jaeden,...introducing "mounts"-cards)
Personally, I always preferred the expansions closer to the Warcraft-lore.
I’m gonna go with something related to the Stormreaver Clan. Gul’dan was the leader of the Stormreaver clan, Gul’dan is a warlock. Though it’s my least favorite class, probably about time Warlock gets a good bump in power level again.
I think this is Pandaria-related.
Those tall, pillary mountains remind me of the Jade Forest.
As for the statues, I haven't played WoW since Cataclysm, but I recall this from TV Tropes:
The storm and all the alt heroes imply something to do with Lei Shen. Alternatively, this is Hearthstone's patented re-imagining of the area, like The Witchwood to Gilneas.
Yes yes yes PLEASE be pandaren related! Lorewalker Cho could use a friend who doesn't waste all of their youth drinking beer.
All of them are phrases of Warcraft 3's heroes.
I hope all year is related with Warcraft 3's story.
"The Darkness draws near" for example one of Sylvanas Windrunner's phrase when you chose her and move her with right click.
If you've played DotA 1 while it was a map of Warcraft 3, Traxex says same phrases when you move.
I will try to find other phrases and I will edit this post.
I wonder if unnerfs will be announced on the same date, or if we're gonna get 'em tomorrow.
What great mystery doesn't begin with.. "It was a dark, stormy night..." ?
There, problem solved. It's a mystery (CLUE anyone?) themed expansion.
Communism E.V.I.L. is just a Red Herring!
When the Rise of Shadows takes place, then Darkness Descends???
Kolento's phrase has something that is not just a rephrasing of the original sentence. Maybe there's a famous garden somewhere in Azeroth/Outland? Particularly Nagrand? I played WoW a long time ago but maybe it's that Evergrowth thingy in Draenor? (=old Outland for those who do not know) A Gronn vs. Botani battle maybe?