Trial by Felfire is Coming on June 9! Pirates in Battlegrounds, Story Adventure, Free Packs from Legendary Quests

Just like every year between the 1st and 2nd expansion, we’ll be getting a Midsummer Fire Festival. This time, because of the recent Demon Hunter class release, it will be called “Trial by Felfire” and will be DH-themed. Here’s what’s coming over the next few weeks:

  • Week 1 (June 9) Pirates enter the Battlegrounds roster, follow the link to read more about it. Minion type rotation has been added – at the start of each BG match, one of the types will get excluded from the pool for that match.
  • Week 2 (June 16) – Trial by Felfire single player adventure. Experience the story of Aranna Starseeker (Elise’s sister!) – fight against Mecha-Jaraxxus and the Rusted Legion with premade decks. Aranna Starseeker will also join Battlegrounds roster as a hero. She will also get her own card bundle with cosmetic DH Hero.
  • Week 3 (June 23) – Trial by Felfire Challenges adventure. Instead of premade decks, show off your deck building skills and fight the iconic Burning Crusade bosses with your own decks. Players will be able to get a golden copy of Kael'thas Sunstrider for completing it. Additionally, “The Burndown” Tavern Brawl will make a comeback.
  • Week 4 (July 1) – A new Brawl called “Rumbledome” will take place, in which players take roles of Rusted Legion henchmen and fight against each other.

We will also get three Legendary Quests (starting June 17), rewarding a total of 9 card packs over the course of the event.

Read more in the official blog post below:

The Felfire Festival of Music and VENGEANCE promises* to be the greatest show on . . . what’s left of this planet! Anyway, you’re coming. Scope the headliners:

JUNE 9 – PIRATES x BATTLEGROUNDS

Full Art for the Tide Razer, a new Battlegrounds Minion.Pirates take headbanging to the next level and good C’Thun, can they carry a tune! Dropping on June 9, this update includes 17 new minions and 3 new Heroes!! We even convinced Patches to come out of retirement (with a new hero power).

Read the patch notes for full details. ARGGHH MATEY!!!

JUNE 17 – TRIAL BY FELFIRE STORY ADVENTURE

Trial by Felfire In-game Level Select

The Tavern gets a makeover for the free five-chapter Trial by Felfire Solo Adventure, available June 17!  Follow the story of Aranna Starseeker on a journey of self-exploration, taking up arms with the Demon Hunters and teaming up with Illidan to take on the twisted architect of the rusted legion itself: MECHA-JARAXXUS! Furthermore, Aranna will enter Battlegrounds as a new hero on the same day. Check the patch notes for deets!

The story adventure is pretty epic. Like, it made us cry when we did the first rehearsal. Anyway, if you beat it, you’ll get the Rusted Legion Card Back! WICKED!!

Rusted Legion Card Back

JUNE 24 – TRIAL BY FELFIRE CHALLENGES

Trial by Felfire Challenges In-Game MapNext, you’ll get access to Challenge Mode where you can build a deck and take on some of Outlands biggest and baddest raid bosses. Complete all challenges to earn Golden Kael’thas Sunstrider! RAD!!

JUNE 24 – RETURN OF THE BURNDOWN TAVERN BRAWL

Burndown Tavern Brawl In-game Chalkboard

Then, the Burndown Tavern Brawl returns! Players will take control of a random deck and the loser of each brawl will be given their opponent’s deck for the next one. One deck will emerge as the most dominate! Then . . .

JULY 1 – THE RUMBLEDOME TAVERN BRAWL

Rumbledome Tavern Brawl In-game Chalkboard

Rounding out the lineup is the Rumbledome Tavern Brawl! Choose a class, one of several shiny new weapons, and let the rumble begin! When the felfire burns brightest, many will fight. . . only one will win!

LEGENDARY QUEST LINE

We’ve got a legendary quest line for festival goers, no one leaves empty handed!

  • June 17, 9:00 a.m. PT: Complete Chapter 1 in the Trial by Felfire adventure and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Rise of Shadows pack.
  • June 24, 9:00 a.m. PT: Play 4 Trial by Felfire Challenge games and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Saviors of Uldum pack.
  • July 1, 9:00 a.m. PT: Play 4 Tavern Brawl games and earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Year of the Dragon pack, and 1 Descent of Dragons pack.
JOIN THE MAYHEM

Felfire Festival Event Flyer, detailed below.

Kripp, Sylsssa, Educated_Collins, and RDU will be partnering with and playing against Hearthstone developers while streaming and discussing Pirates on their personal channels for two hours before the patch hits on June 9, from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PT!

We’ve also got a slew of streamers lined up to showcase the Felfire Festival action:

Week 1 – PIRATES X BATTLEGROUNDS

Week 2 – TRIAL BY FELFIRE STORY MODE

Week 3 – TRIAL BY FELFIRE CHALLENGES & BURNDOWN TAVERN BRAWL

Week 4 – RUMBLEDOME TAVERN BRAWL

  • RDU – July 1 at 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Solem – July 3 at 10:00 a.m. PT
  • Pathra – July 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT
  • Alliestrasza – July 7 at 10:00 a.m. PT
BATTLEGROUNDS BRAWL RETURNS

The epic finale of the Felfire Festival of Music and VENGEANCE will see the return of the Battlegrounds Brawl! With 4 teams, 16 players, $200,000 up for grabs, and Twitch Drops—this competition promises* to ROCK!!

WILL YOU JOIN THE ARMY OF FLESH AND CHROME IN THE CRIMSON SAND?

*The Felfire Festival of Music and VENGEANCE does not promise anything. The Felfire Festival of Music and VENGEANCE will not be held responsible in the event of untimely hearing loss.

Welcome to the Year of the Phoenix!

Stonekeep

A Hearthstone player and writer from Poland, Stonekeep has been in a love-hate relationship with Hearthstone since Closed Beta. Over that time, he has achieved many high Legend climbs and infinite Arena runs. He's the current admin of Hearthstone Top Decks.

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17 Comments

  1. Juventinino
    June 24, 2020 at 12:18 pm

    Today I didn’t receive the legendary quest, even though I had a free slot.
    I was among players who could not get the reward of the previous legendary quest. Are there other players in the same situation?

  2. Masterclaw
    June 18, 2020 at 12:42 am

    i done the same i run the adventure to chapter 3 but today it gives me the quest and i do chapter 1 again but i didn’t get the quest reward can some one help pls? How i can get quest reward?

  3. Juventinino
    June 17, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    Hi all. Am I the only to have complete the first chapter without completing the quest? Can it because I finished chapter I before the quest appears?

  4. Davidus707
    June 10, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Do you know if they are going to print the replacement cards for the ones that went to hall of fame?

    • Stonekeep - Site Admin
      June 10, 2020 at 8:21 pm

      No info yet, but I imagine that they will do it at one point.

  5. Solaris29
    June 9, 2020 at 6:07 am

    nothing changing the meta, no new cards in adventure. :/

    • Stonekeep - Site Admin
      June 9, 2020 at 1:05 pm

      Yeah, but we knew that for a long time. Galakrond’s Awakening was a one-time thing that they won’t repeat every expansion.

      • Nickus89
        June 11, 2020 at 12:16 am

        We can always hope. Last year at similar time we got a mech event with some buffs and Sn1p-Sn4p. Would be fun to see something similar.

  6. Schommel
    June 9, 2020 at 5:59 am

    sadly there is no goal in completing the Adventure.
    Pretty disappointed that there is no Heroic Card Back to collect…

  7. H0lysatan
    June 8, 2020 at 11:44 am

    Quite busy in upcoming weeks, and when it ended in july, we surely be teased by new expansion in the following weeks. Can’t wait to see it.
    As I said, quite busy.

    Sadly, no gold quest this time. only packs and free golden kael’thas.
    Luckily the solo adventure is free.

    And not to mention Runeterra getting pretty popular nowadays.

    • Tuscarora87
      June 8, 2020 at 12:38 pm

      No free gold (except 2 quests) like before, because of Tavern Pass. 🙂 Yes, we get dust (packs), but – less packs on day1 in August. Probably, because of numerous nerfs, season rewards and the new system with epic cards. I’m not complaining myself (have a lot of resources), just saying how Blizz calculates everything using psychological camouflages. New player experience is definitely improved. Veteran, too… but here not by much as they want it to look. It’s just okay. They’re more focused to attract casuals rn.

      • H0lysatan
        June 8, 2020 at 7:38 pm

        well, the idea of gold quest is simple, as F2P I always start saving my gold to buy the packs for new expansions. (Usually I can net around 70-80 packs without help).
        Gold Bonus from anything is always gonna help more for me to buy more new packs.

    • Stonekeep - Site Admin
      June 8, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      The outcome is roughly the same. Double gold lasted for two weeks, even if you rolled all 60g quests, it would still be 840 gold in total – ~8.5 packs. And that’s like the best case scenario – if you didn’t min-max you would probably get like 700g. Even less if you were busy and missed some quests.

      This time we’re getting 9 packs flat, which is probably better for an average player. But the obvious downside is that the gold is more flexible – you can always use it on something else or keep for the next expansion.

      • H0lysatan
        June 8, 2020 at 7:43 pm

        When you explained it that way, 800 gold bonus is not a big deal. True. I haven’t look it that way.
        But for F2P players like me, I always need more gold to buy new exp packs instead of old packs.

        But I guess beggar can’t choose, and I always grateful about the rewards they gave, even when it diminished little by little over time.
        For example, we don’t get anything for NobleGarden festival, and this 2 months (April & May) is stale without any bonus rewards.