{"id":89287,"date":"2026-09-12T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89287"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:39:09","slug":"hearthstones-first-new-class-in-4-years-and-a-more-story-driven-journal-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89287","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone\u2019s First New Class In 4 Years And A More Story-Driven Journal Are On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New class additions to Hearthstone don&#8217;t come often, but the next one has been announced during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">BlizzCon 2026&#8217;s Opening Ceremony<\/a>: The Monk is coming to the card game, leaving just the Evoker as the lone class to be left out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Monk&#8217;s upcoming addition was one of several major pieces of news for Hearthstone revealed. A new expansion called Reign of the Black Empire that is set 10,000 years in the past will focus on the Black Empire and a struggle between the Old Gods and the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ib5EMar4b1E  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that excites the lore enjoyer in you, you&#8217;ll also be happy to hear that the Journal is being transformed into The Journey. This is meant to give a more narrative-driven wrapper to the game, as it&#8217;ll seek to tie the story together between expansions, modes, and limited-time events. The Journey will grow as you play through Reign of the Black Empire, tying together quests, achievements, and more elements of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as the Monk goes, we don&#8217;t know much in terms of how they&#8217;ll play. We only got a short teaser for the new class, which marks the first such addition since the Death Knight arrived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New class additions to Hearthstone don&#8217;t come often, but the next one has been announced during BlizzCon 2026&#8217;s Opening Ceremony: The Monk is coming to the card game, leaving just the Evoker as the lone class to be left out. The Monk&#8217;s upcoming addition was one of several major pieces of news for Hearthstone revealed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":89289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89290,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287\/revisions\/89290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}