Warcraft Rumble

"WAR" redirects here. For the old archive format, see WAR (archive format). For information on the in-universe game, see Arclight Rumble.

Warcraft Arclight Rumble
Developer(s)	Blizzard Entertainment  Incubation
Publisher(s)	Blizzard Entertainment
Platforms	Android, iOS, iPadOS
Release	TBA
Genre(s)	Mobile action strategy
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer

Warcraft Arclight Rumble is a free-to-play mobile action strategy game announced by Blizzard Entertainment on 3 May 2022, where players build armies with their heroes and villains from Warcraft and battle it out in scenarios designed to test their tactical wits.

Gameplay

Modes include the single player campaign, dungeons, and raids. Players can engage in these modes in co-op, and battle against other players in PvP. It is primarily a PvE game, and the game's campaign represents a number of locations from World of Warcraft, including Elwynn Forest, Duskwood, and Westfall. 70 PvE maps will be available at launch, each of which has a boss with a specific mechanic that players must find a way around. Certain modes only become available after the play has retrieved enough skulls.

The game also has a quest system, which involves playing old maps to gain experience for specific units. The game's dungeon mode is a 3-map gauntlet with a single army. For every map, the player gets to pick one new relic. The relic has various properties, and can provide a troop-wide buff, such as increasing certain units' speed or health. After each successful dungeon is cleared, the dungeon will level up. Dungeons will only be available for a certain amount of time. Dungeons are also the only means of obtaining Valor, which is an in-game resource used to upgrade leaders.

Arclight Rumble has been compared to the tower defense genre, but in the words of the developers, it is more of a tower offense game.

A match will generally consist of the following aspects:

• 1: Deployment: Use gold reserves to deploy minis on the battlefield. The player gains gold passively over time by mining and finding treasure chests.
  • The gold rate can be increased by deploying a miner to harvest gold.
• 2: Capture: Capture objectives such as guard towers and meeting stones, then use them to deploy minis closer to the objectives.
• 3: Conquer: The player's minis will march toward the enemy leader to take them down.

Monetization

Arclight Rumble uses a free-to-play model. It has been stated that it is not a "gacha game," and will not have loot boxes. Players will be able to purchase any unit they choose either with their own money or through in-game coins. The units can be bought in bundles. Levels are purchased using in-game coins.

The game will not have NFTs.

Factions

Arclight Rumble has five factions, each of whose leaders specialize in a certain area:

• Alliance: Alliance leaders support defense, healing, and stealth tactics, as well as heavy use of spells.
• Horde: Horde leaders encourage building momentum through earning additional gold, fast attacking troops, and enemy control with area of effect stuns.
• Beast: Beast leaders can disable enemy defenses, helping the player's forces quickly overwhelm the enemy. Others specialize with using a flurry of fast troops to swarm the enemy.
• Blackrock: Blackrock leaders reward the player for fielding heavy-hitting flying troops and searing elemental magic users.
• Undead: Undead leaders use powerful necromancy on the battlefield, allowing them to summon endless armies.

The game does not force players to choose one faction. Players can choose their leaders (and units) from all five to form a varied army.

Minis

There are over 65 Warcraft minis to collect, including leaders, rank-and-file troop minis and spells. Different minis have different advantages in combat—flying troops are effective against infantry, siege troops deal additional damage to guard towers, etc. Each unit is classified as either ranged, melee, or flying, and the three form a rock-paper-scissors system.

After each battle, experience is gained that levels up minis. Leveling them up unlocks the ability to use game-changing talents.

Leaders

The leader is typically the most powerful unit the player will field. Each leader also has one leader ability that will affect offer units in your army while they are on the battlefield. For example, when Rend is in play, it costs one less piece of gold to summon flying units.

Team	Leaders
	Tirion Fordring  Maiev Shadowsong  Jaina Proudmoore
	Grommash Hellscream   Sneed  Cairne Bloodhoof
	Charlga Razorflank  Hogger
	Rend Blackhand  General Drakkisath
	Bloodmage Thalnos   Baron Rivendare

Troops

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Troops in-game include rank-and-file troop minis and spells. Each unit has three passive abilities called "talents," which can be unlocked over time.

Team	Rank-and-file troops	Spells
	Defias Bandits Footmen Gryphon Rider Harvest Golem Huntress Mountaineer S.A.F.E. Pilot Worgen	Arcane Blast Blizzard Holy Nova
	Bat Rider Darkspear Troll Frostwolf Shaman Goblin Sapper Ogre Mage Stonehoof Tauren Warsong Grunts Warsong Raider	Chain Lightning Execute
	Angry Chickens Gnoll Brute Harpies Murloc Tidehunters Prowler Quilboar Raptors Spiderlings Vultures	Polymorph
	Blackrock Pyromancer Core Hounds Dark Iron Miner Drake Earth Elemental Fire Elemental Flamehammer Flamewaker Molten Giant Whelp Eggs	Living Bomb Smoke Bomb
	Abomination Banshee Gargoyle Ghoul Meat Wagon Necromancer Plague Farmer Skeleton Party Skeletons	Cheat Death

Maps

Dungeons and Raids

Dungeon/Raid		Boss
Blackfathom Deeps	22	TBA
Dire Maul	22	TBA
Deadmines	22	TBA

Zones

Dungeon/Raid		Boss
Elwynn Forest	0	The Dockmaster	0
		Verminhide	1
		Morgan the Collector	2
		Fang's Feast	3
		Wanted: "Hogger"	4

Development

When making Arclight Rumble, the developers took inspiration from tower defense games. The game's unit roster was decided on the need to make the characters to stand out on small phone screens. As such, each model needed an identifiable silhouette, as well as a color-coded palette. The developers conciously chose factions outside the Alliance and Horde, as they wanted representation from across the Warcraft universe.

The game entered internal alpha in mid-2021. As of May 2022, there are no apparent plans to port the game to consoles, or to develop an e-sports scene.

Notes and trivia

• The in-universe conceit for Arclight Rumble is that in taverns across Azeroth, a mysterious machine has been found, powered by gnomish technology and "arclight." The machine depicts (in)famous battlegrounds where animated figures do battle for the users' entertainment.
  • In the game's cinematic trailer, the users in question appear to be patrons of the Hearthstone inn, including Velaris, Urk, and a much older Ava.
• The game's title forms the acronym "WAR." This could be a reference to the franchise as a whole.
• Comparisons have been made between Arclight Rumble and Clash Royale. The developers have played a lot of the latter, but have stressed the differences of the former (elevation, leaders, and factions).

Gallery

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  Key art

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  Build a team

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  Command troops

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  Eastern Kingdoms

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  Fight foes

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  Head to head battles

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  Kalimdor

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Concept art

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  Aku'mai

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  Araj the Summoner

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  Azurous

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  Blackfathom Deeps

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  Goblin sapper

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  Golemagg

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  Gryphon arcade

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  Darkspear Troll

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  Tar Tyrant

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  Tower

Videos

• Announce Cinematic Trailer
• Gameplay Preview Trailer
• Developer Overview

External links

• Blizzard Entertainment