Update: It’s your last chance to grab the bundle if you’re interested. It expires tomorrow, probably around 10 AM PDT / 19:00 CEST.
Blizzard has been really pushing cosmetics in Hearthstone for a while now – Hero skins, which were quite rare in the past, are now very common and easy to obtain (either by playing the game or through purchases like this one). And so, as a part of Fire Festival 2021 celebration, they’ve released an Eternal Flame bundle.
The bundle contains three alternate Hero portraits + a card back:
- Flamewalker Rexxar Skin
- Righteous Inferno Uther Skin
- Ragnaros Shaman Skin
- Ragnaros Shaman Card Back
The entire bundle costs $19.99 – which makes it a fitting $6.66 per Hero skin with a card back on top of that. Frankly, it’s a pretty good value if you’re into cosmetics, given that those alternate Hero portraits look AMAZING and they also all have a unique set of voicelines. Ragnaros in particular is the most fleshed out one, as it also has multiple interactions with different Heroes, casting various Fire school spells (such as Volcano or Molten Blast) and so on.
Of course – there’s a pretty high chance that they will become available for in-game Gold in the future, but the question is when. Many of the old event portraits are still unavailable.
You can get the bundle in game or through the Battle.net shop. The deal expires on July 20, probably around 10 AM PT.
The card back is very similar to that of blackrock mountain or i’m wrong?
I took a closer look and indeed, it is similar to Blackrock Mountain pre-order card back, but it’s more… “molten”? It makes sense that its similar, since Ragnaros was summoned in BRM, he ruled BRM and his fight in WoW happened in BRM.
Why Ragnaros get represented as Shaman is beyond me.
The weapon, Sulfuras, better described him as Warrior-ish.
Flaming body and trademark is more Warlock-ish (creature from other plane) than Shaman.
Correct me if I wrong.
because Ragnaros is literally an elemental.
To be fair, Ragnaros doesn’t really “represent” any class, but since this is Hearthstone and Blizzard doesn’t actually have to follow the lore, I think that Shaman works best. Shaman is the master of elements, and Ragnaros is one of the four original Elemental Lords. Two other Elemental Lords – Al’akir and Neptulon – are Shaman cards too. Sulfuras is a mace, and maces are more of a Shaman (and Paladin) weapon than Warrior weapon in Warcraft lore too (Warrios are more about axes and swords). And when it comes to Warlock and flames, I’d say that Warlock focuses more on Fel flames (the green ones) – yes, the class can use regular ones too, but not more than Shaman (and Mage is the class using them most anyway).
So overall, I’d say that if I had to pick a class for Ragnaros, Shaman would be my first pick.
I’m no Blizzard fanatic & F2P, but I’m telling you. I’ll gave them thumbs up for making additional way to get income, as all other free games who make cosmetics. Because I don’t have to buy cosmetics to play the game. And I can manage so far with only gold. But if they start charging me money just to play the game, I’ll be the first to quit.
I think the idiot here is the on who can’t tell how a good marketing works.
These portraits are cool as hell
Already bought the bundle
Ikr, all three are boss. >:D
“Only idiots pay for nice looking clothes, you just look better but clothes are clothes.”
“Only idiots pay for high quality food, it just tastes different while providing the same nutrients.”
“Only idiots buy decorations for their house, it’s a waste of money, they don’t do anything other than looking good.”
Or even:
“Only idiots pay for games since you can just download them from torrents.”
Yeah, no.