As I previously mentioned the generals are going to be a thing, operating as the cores, and destroying keeps will spawn “tanky melee Reavers,” who will actually tank the general core. Blizzard production director Kaeo Milker explains that you’ll be attacking and defending constantly, and after winning the event the winning side will spawn three cavalry units similar to the spiders from the Tomb of the Spider Queen - except in this case they buff heroes and aren’t super effective on their own, so you need to support them.Ĭores are also changing for the first time. It’s a three-lane battleground that focuses on freeing “cavalry” from a cage and features the “iconic” generals from its namesake. To date it’s one of the only major races from any of the represented games that hasn’t been part of the Nexus universe - that’s finally changing very soon.Īnd what better way to ring in a major facet of Warcraft‘s lore than with a Warcraft event? I had the chance to speak to several key members of the Heroes of the Storm team and get the lowdown on one of the game’s biggest content updates of 2018.įirst up, Alterac Pass, based on the Alterac Valley PVP map from World of Warcraft, is coming. For the past several years fans have been clamoring for a Draenei character in Heroes of the Storm.
