HEX Update – Primal Previews

Hi HEXers. We’ve been working with great fervor to get the ESports Arena ready for the HEX Invitational. Players arrived on Wednesday and have been mentally preparing to battle for their share of the $100,000 cash purse. With $40,000 up for first place, competition will be high and a single mistake could mean the difference between thousands and tens-of-thousands of dollars. We hope you’re able to join us at the ESports Arena in Santa Ana this Saturday and Sunday.

Doors open at 10 AM each day. If you can’t be there physically, you can be a part of the event digitally. It is a digital game, after all! We’ll be streaming the event on our Twitch channel with casters Dinotropia, Alucard, and SilentSnake bringing you all the action and stories from HEX’s first foray into professional ESports. There will also be dev interviews and perhaps a few Primal Dawn spoilers to boot, so tune in!

First Light

Yes, Primal Dawn is nearly upon us and we’ve released over 20 card previews!. The new keyword Empower allows players to double all stats on a card for a price, and the fourth HEX Shards of Fate set wraps up some of the existing themes from previous sets. You’ll find Necrotic, Vennen, Coyotle, and Elves receive even more support, and the cycle of dual-shard cards is now complete with all dual-shard combos now represented.

And now, for today’s preview… a dragon! As the avatar of Om, the Primal of Balance, he rewards those players who take up the power of all five shards. Daarmak helps you broaden your threats and mastery of the different shards, providing a diverse range of options each time you play a card. Though he requires a great investment in resources to play, there’s no other troop that offers Daarmak’s card advantage.

If all these spoilers still aren’t enough, then you’ll want to scope out the Gameforge forums for some community manager spoils! Feature spoilers will resume on Monday with this electifrying card.

Five Shards Weekly Tournament Series, Saturday and Sunday

For the first three weeks of March, FiveShards will run two weekly constructed tournament series. The open tournaments will be in-client, standard constructed, swiss with a cut to the top 8, require no entry fee, and offer 10,000 platinum for first place in addition to boosters and qualifying points for the top 16 players. Players may enter either or both tournaments (though the points are tied to a specific finale), and the final tournament will happen at the end of the month which features 20,000 in platinum prizes for the top 4 of each series! One series occurs on Saturday, at 4pm PST while the other will take place on Sundays, at 8am PST. For more details, visit the official FiveShards page for the series here.

FIVESHARDS SAPPHIRE CUP SEASON 3 – March 12TH

The fourth tournament of the FiveShards Shard Cup Tournament Series happens this March 12th, 2016 at 9:00am PST. Compete in this constructed tournament for over 250 boosters in prizes and earn points to qualify for the lucrative Cup of Fate. You can register for the tournament in client under the tournament screen and will be called “Community Tournament!” For more details, check out the announcement here.

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