As a part of the pre-release event (which wasn’t officially announced this time – we all know why at this point), players are able to host Fireside Gatherings in order to open their United in Stormwind packs early, as well as access two Tavern Brawls letting them play around with them. Of course, because of the current global situation, only private Fireside Gatherings are possible – but it still means that you can open packs and possibly play a few matches with your friends and family in your home.
You can create your private Fireside Gatherings on the official website.
Tavern Brawls are the standard ones we’re getting every pre-release, so there’s really nothing to add. Here’s the official description of the two available Tavern Brawls:
A Recipe United – Take up arms and fight for Stormwind! Choose a class and enjoy the latest deck recipes!
United in Stormwind No Cards Barred – Make a deck with any United in Stormwind cards, no restrictions! All classes! All copies!
Since we didn’t have an official announcement we don’t know how long will it last. However, pre-release events tend to last over the weekend and into Monday. In this case, it would mean all the way until August 2nd at 10 AM PT (19:00 CET).
I have a question, if i am going to purchase tavern pass, is it better to wait for live release, so i won’t pull lady prestor/varian from the packs? Or is there drop protection for these cards?
I may heard of this somewhere, but both Golden Lady Prestor or King Varian still have drop chances in the packs if you haven’t get them yet. Best scenario is to get both of them,
Lady Prestor by claiming the Lv.1 free track
Diamond King Varian by buying the tavern pass then.
And by doing so, you won’t open them in pack anymore, because Hearthstone will marked it in your collection as already have.
True, but you can’t unlock them before expansion release. Hence you can still open them in prerelease event. To compensate for this, in Forged in the Barrens expension the opened ones could be disenchanted for full dust, just like nerfed cards.
Btw, thank you for posting this, Mr. Keep. You should work on Blizz communication department when all the stuff be solved.
Bought the megabundle. I opened seven legendaries, one golden. Gonna wait for the two golden legendaries left on tuesday. btw, did I had luck on this?
7 legs out of 80 packs sounds good. Gratz
In my 85 packs (counting the gold ones) I opened 9 legendaries and 3 were golden. I think something is up with the pack openings and it’s in our favor.
Thank you for taking the time to post this. I’ve been waiting for this confirmation:)