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The Nexus Forces have taken over a Volskaya Industries Factory - fight to the death to obtain its manufactured power! Two teams enter, one team leaves.

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Rules:

• Battle it out on a single-lane Overwatch-themed Battleground known only as… the Trial Grounds.
• Shuffle Pick
  • Choose from one of three Heroes at the beginning of the match. Choose carefully though, you won’t have the opportunity to choose again after rounds.
• Elimination
  • A round is won when all Heroes on the enemy team are slain.
• Best of Three
  • The first team to win two rounds will win the Brawl!
• Round Events 
  • Starting at 60 seconds, an elevator will rise in the center of the Battleground, presenting one of the...

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Aggressive, or “aggro”, decks are the easiest to play in Hearthstone, right? Not necessarily. While the general plan of an aggro deck is clear—get your opponent dead as quickly as possible—in execution it is more complex... especially when you are facing off against another aggro deck. Watch the first video in our three-part Well Played: Aggro Mirror series to learn how to navigate this tricky situation.

That’s it for this week! Tune in next Wednesday (and the next!) for the second and third parts of our Aggro Mirror deep-dive.

Our latest round of Heroic Deals offers 50% off select Heroes, and brings a fresh set of skins and mounts into the featured item rotation. Check out the Hero sales and featured items listed below, and then head in-game to add them to your collection before this offer expires on November 13.

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Half-Price Heroes

Heroes	Discount Price
Chen	500 250 Gems
Rehgar	625 312 Gems
E.T.C.	300 150 Gems

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Featured Skins and Mounts

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Season 3 will end soon, which means we’re getting ready to spin up new maps for Season 4. For the next StarCraft II Versus season, we’re removing Acid Plant, Dreamcatcher, Lost and Found, and Fracture. Below you will find the new 1v1 maps we’re adding, as well as the new team maps.

1v1

On this abandoned wing of the Purifier starship, you find yourself in close quarters with your enemy. Thanks to the watchtowers, gold bases, and a hidden path to the main bases, there is plenty to fight for from start to finish.

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Leader of the notorious Deadlock Gang, Ashe is a rebellious gunslinger who plays by her own rules.

Name:	Elizabeth Caledonia “Calamity” Ashe
Age:	39
Occupation:	Thief, Gang Leader
Base of Operations:	Deadlock Gorge, Arizona, USA
Affiliation:	Deadlock Gang

 

"My business, my rules."

A...

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In this update we’re preparing the Tavern for the arrival of that monarch of the melee, King Rastakhan, and his riotous rabble of rowdy retainers in Rastakhan’s Rumble! We’ve also got gifts for our friends, new Classic cards, download improvements, bug fixes, and more!

Read on for details!

Pre-Purchase Rastakhan’s Rumble!

Pre-purchase one or both bundles and make sure your team is ready to throw down when Rastakhan’s Rumble releases starting December 4!

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There really is always room for another: the Hearthstone Tavern has now welcomed over 100 Million players to date!

Let’s Celebrate Together!

We’re humbled and grateful that so many players have chosen to join us in the Hearthstone Tavern! As our way of saying thank you, we’re throwing a party! 

Starting November 7 at 10:00 am PST through November 11, everyone who logs in will receive six free The Boomsday Project card packs. Then hang out and play with friends to earn up to 500 gold! Everyone* will receive the Celebrate the Players quest which rewards 100 gold when you play a friendly challenge. This celebratory quest is repeatable up to five times—you can even do them all in the same day!—for a total of 500 gold!

Thanks for joining us, and we look forward to sharing many more years of Hearthstone fun with you. See ...

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Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting until November 12. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.

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BlizzCon 2018 is a wrap! Learn more about what’s ahead for World of Warcraft.

Restoring History: Creating WoW Classic

Learn more about the journey of World of Warcraft developers to recreating the classic WoW experience in our panel coverage.

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World of Warcraft: What’s Next

Learn more about what’s in store for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth in our ...

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At BlizzCon 2018, the WoW community got their first chance to experience World of Warcraft Classic for themselves. To help players understand what goes into bringing a Blizzard-quality experience like this to life, software engineers Brian Birmingham and Omar Gonzalez along with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas took the stage Saturday afternoon to share their insights.

Finding the Pieces

Before we could begin our journey to faithfully recreate the original WoW experience, the WoW Classic team first had to take a close look at which elements of the original game we had to work with. Ultimately, it boiled down to three main pieces: database data, art assets, and source code.

• The database data includes aspects of the game like the hit points a creature has, the amount of stamina an item has, spawn locations around the word, and millions of other data points.
• Art assets include everything from how a night elf looks when it Shadowmelds, to the so...

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Before we look to the future, we’d like to take a quick look back at StarCraft II in 2018:

• Scarlett became the champion at the Intel Extreme Masters PyeongChang that led into the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• We celebrated StarCraft’s ...

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The war between the Horde and Alliance continues in Azeroth, but there are additional dark forces at work. To provide you with more insights for what lies ahead, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas was joined by designers Jeremy Feasel, and Ryan Shwayder.

The Road Ahead

The release of each expansion is its own chapter in the ongoing story of Azeroth. With Battle for Azeroth, we’re just at the beginning of our journey and much like the content release schedule for Legion, Battle for Azeroth will provide a series of both large and small content updates to take you on that journey while providing a steady stream of content and focusing on systems and rewards.

Here’s a quick recap of what’s in store for the next content update currently on the Public Test Realm.

Tides of Vengeance Content Update

• New Warfront: Battle for Darkshore: In the ashen shadow of Teldrassil, the night elves strike back against the Forsaken to reclai...

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Introducing an adventurous new pet with an especially curious nature—Whomper the baby yeti! When you adopt him in-game or in his plushie form, you’ll be helping Code.org® boost its mission to expand computer science education around the world.

As a part of Blizzard Entertainment’s ongoing quest to empower youth through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) education, we’re teaming up with Code.org for this year’s charity pet campaign.

When you purchase the in-game pet by December 31, 2018 either in the ...

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Playstyle

Zeratul’s gameplay will revolve heavily around the Prophetic Vision ability, which allows the player to discover three Xel’Naga Artifact Fragments on the map. Players are encouraged to seek out these Artifact Fragments as they will improve Zeratul in a variety of ways:

• Zeratul, his units, calldowns, defensive structures, and even Probes will gain weapon, armor, and shield upgrades with each Artifact Fragment.
• Zeratul has no traditional researchable abilities. Instead, Artifact Fragments he finds will grant his units Artifact Enhancements, which are either new abilities or improvements to existing abilities.
• Zeratul has a potential of four top-bar abilities, but only one is unlocked at the start of the game. Players unlock new top-bar abilities with each Artifact Fragment they find.
• The Legendary Legion calldowns improve with each Artifact Fragment found.
• Zeratul himself gains bonuses.

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The fate of countless realms hangs in the balance, and it may just be up to Orphea, Heir of Raven Court and daughter of the Raven Lord, to put a stop to her father’s dark plans. Secure a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket and aid in the battle for the Nexus, Heroes!

Available in the first major patch after BlizzCon 2018 (which runs from November 2-3,) we are upgrading the Hero collection of all BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders with our first Nexus-born Hero, Orphea!

NOTE: Orphea will not unlock for players on the PTR, but will be available when this update hits the live game servers.

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In addition to unlocking the Heir of Raven Court, all BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders can sink their teeth into a set of exclusive Ne...

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The only thing that’s constant in the Nexus is change. As mentioned at BlizzCon 2018, in the coming months we’re bringing you gameplay and matchmaking changes, feature updates, and a whole new way to earn experience with Boosts! Read on for more information.

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Experience a New Experience… Experience:

One of our major goals with the 2019 updates is to implement gameplay changes that encourage closer matches and avoid the dreaded “snowball” effect. After careful design, implementation, and iteration, we felt that this best way to accomplish this goal was to slow down the “snowball effect” just as it starts to come into play. In short, we’re changing the way we reward players who prioritize push strategies to gain experience and power advantages. While we still want to reward players for pushing, we’re focused on removing the direct power advantage we give to these teams and will instead reward them with a strategic adv...

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This week’s Heroes Brawl is Braxis Outpost! A single-lane battleground set in the Koprulu Sector, it will be up to your team to survive in the lane and take down the enemy core, without the aid of Hearthstone or their Hall of Storms. Good luck, have fun!

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Rules:

• Shuffle Pick
  • Choose from one of three randomly selected Heroes before entering the battle on Braxis Outpost. Be quick about it though, you only have 30 seconds to choose!
• ARAM Rules
  • Players cannot use Hearthstone
  • Players do not heal at their starting location. (Hall of Storms)
  • Cores have no shields
• Mercenary Camps
  • Braxis Outpost features two mirrored Goliath & Raven mercenary camps.
• Be the first team to take down the enemy Core to claim victory!

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Get ready to sharpen your skills and perfect your strategies—Season 13 of Competitive Play has begun!

Unlocked at level 25, Competitive Play is designed for those players who want to put their skills to the test, and offers a more serious experience than our Quick Play or Arcade Modes.

• Getting Started
• Competitive Rewards
• What's New

To begin your competitive journey this season, click on the “Play” butt...

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Join us as we delve into a big swing play orchestrated by Linh "Seiko" Nguyen's Malygos Druid against Kevin "Casie" Eberlein’s Miracle Rogue at HCT Germany 2018. With his back against the wall, instead of taking a line that would have put him on life support, Seiko sets himself up for a Hail-Mary top-deck.

In Hearthstone, you don’t just play with the cards in your hand—you’re also playing with the cards in your deck.

Experience the Overwatch World Cup from any perspective in real time with the Overwatch World Cup Viewer. We’ve taken professional esports observer tools from the big stage and put them in your hands at home so you can curate your viewing experience. Watch live games alongside hundreds of thousands of other players around the world from all of the first or third-person, birds’, or worms’-eye views that are most important to you. Curious how South Korea’s Widowmaker landed the seemingly out of nowhere headshot on Australia’s Mercy? You can simply watch from her perspective as she lines up a pixel-perfect shot to secure the elimination before seamlessly snapping your camera back to the main teamfight on the payload.

Had to miss the game? Don’t worry, our replay system has you covered. Overwatch World Cup replays will be available for a month after ...

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