Warcraft Rumble

For information on the in-universe game, see Arclight Rumble.

Warcraft Rumble
Developer(s)	Blizzard Entertainment  Incubation
Publisher(s)	Blizzard Entertainment
Platforms	Android, iOS, iPadOS
Release	November 3, 2023
Genre(s)	Mobile action strategy
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer

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

On 8 August 2023, the game was rebranded to just Warcraft Rumble, dropping Arclight from the name.

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.

Warcraft 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

Warcraft 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

Warcraft 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. Generally, flying beats melee, melee beats range, and range beats flying.

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

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

Team	Rank-and-file troops	Spells
	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	Grglmrgl, Baron Aquanis, Aku'mai
Dire Maul	22	Stomper Kreeg, The Eyes of Immol'thar, King Gordok
Deadmines	22	Mr. Smite, Cookie, Sneed

Zones

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Zone		Stage		Boss
Elwynn Forest	0	The Dockmaster	0	The Dockmaster
		Verminhide	1	Goldtooth
		Morgan the Collector	2	Morgan the Collector
		Fang's Feast	3	Mother Fang
		Wanted: "Hogger"	4	Hogger
Westfall	5	Carrion Carnivore	5	Vultros
		Beachside Brawl	6	Old Murk-Eye
		Marshal Redpaw	7	Marshal Redpaw
		Bucket of Copper BoIts	8	Foe Reaper 4000
		The Dreadnaught	9	The Dreadnaught
Duskwood	10	A Ghoul's Delight	10	Ghoulia
		The Restless Dead	11	Mor'Ladim
		Raven Hill Revenant	12	Morbent Fel
		A Banshee's Wail	13	Blind Mary
		He Hungers!	14	Abercrombie
Stranglethorn Vale	15	Ruins of Zul'Kunda	15	Jin'do the Hexxer
		Gurubashi Gorilla	16	King Mukla
		Small Game Hunter	17	King Bangalash
		Swole Troll Patrol	18	Jin'rokh the Breaker
		Booty Bay Baron	19	Baron Revilgaz Fleet Master Seahorn
The Barrens	20	The Sickly Gazelle	20	Geaulieu
		Razorfen Crone	20	Charlga Razorflank
		Gazlowe's Fireworks	20	Gazlowe
		Counterattack!	20	Hezrul Bloodmark
		The Crossroads	21	Grommash Hellscream
Onyxia's Lair	21	Onyxia	21	Onyxia
Ashenvale	24	Splintertree Post	24	Draaka
		Mystral Lake	24	Tideress
		Fen Fatale	24	Branch Snapper
		Strike from the Shadows	24	Maiev Shadowsong
		Sentinels of Astranaar	26	Raene Wolfrunner
Thousand Needles	29	Sandweaver's Mirage	29	Na'shala the Sandweaver
		Landslide	29	Rok'Alim the Pounder
		Roguefeather Den	29	Grenka Bloodscreech
		The Pools of Vision	29	Magatha Grimtotem
		Freewind Post	31	Cairne Bloodhoof

Zone		Stage		Boss
Lordaeron	34	Special Delivery	34	Chef Audrey
		Pyrewood Village	34	Son of Arugal
		Blood for the Bloodmage	34	Bloodmage Thalnos
		Blades of Light	34	Herod
		Scarlet Cathedral	36	Inquisitor Whitemane
Dustwallow Marsh	39	Raptor Run	39	Goreclaw the Ravenous
		The Hermit Alchemist	39	Tabetha
		Darkmist Cavern	39	Darkmist Broodqueen
		The Daughter of the Sea	39	Jaina Proudmoore
		Wyrmbog Treasure Trove	41	Emberstrife
Un'Goro Crater	44	Lakkari Tar Pits	44	Tar Tyrant
		Apes of Wrath	44	Uhk'loc U'cha
		Heart of Fire	44	Blazerunner
		The Crystal Shaper	44	The Crystal Shaper
		Devilsaur Queen	46	Devilsaur Queen
Winterspring	49	Ursa Major	49	Ursius
		Frostwhisper Gorge	49	Kashoch the Reaver
		Wintersaber Ambush	49	Shy-Rotam
		Flight of the Whelps	49	Azurous
		The MazthoriI General	51	General Colbatann
Plaguelands	54	The Immovable Object	54	Gish the Unmoving
		Ruins of Andorhal	54	Araj the Summoner
		Light's Hope Chapel	54	Tirion Fordring
		Glutton for Punishment	54	Ramstein the Gorger
		The Baron of Stratholme	56	Baron Rivendare
Blackrock Mountain	59	Molten Mining Camp	59	Volchan
		Omnotron	59	Omnotron
		Keepers of Flame	59	Emperor Thaurissan
		Blackrock Stadium	59	Rend Blackhand
		Dragonspire Hall	63	General Drakkisath

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 original title formed the acronym "WAR" which could have been a reference to the franchise as a whole. Since the rename in August 2023, the title forms the "WR" acyonym.
• 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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  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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  Alliance Leaders
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  Horde Leaders
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  Beast Leaders
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  Blackrock Leaders
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  Undead Leaders

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

Miscellaneous

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  Original logo
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  Old key art
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  App Icon

Videos

• Announce Cinematic Trailer
• Gameplay Preview Trailer
• Developer Overview

External links

• Blizzard Entertainment 
• Arclight Rumble Superbase