Today’s 17.6 patch brings pre-purchase for Hearthstone’s newest expansion, Scholomance Academy! With it comes a handful of Battlegrounds updates, balance changes, and game improvements.
Battlegrounds Hero Pool Updates
NEW HERO
Tess Greymane
Bob’s Burgles [Cost 1]
Refresh Bob’s Tavern with minions from your last opponent’s warband.
Players with Battlegrounds Perks will have early access Tess Greymane before the hero is formally released on July 28.
RETURNING HEROES
King Mukla
Bananarama [Cost 1]
Get 2 Bananas. At the end of your turn, give everyone else one.
Dinotamer Brann
Battle Brand [Cost 1]
Refresh Bob’s Tavern with Battlecry minions.
UPDATED HEROES
Aranna Starseeker
Demon Hunter Training [Passive]
Old: After you Refresh 7 times, Bob always has 7 minions. → New: After you Refresh 5 times, Bob always has 7 minions.
Captain Hooktusk [Cost 0]
Trash for Treasure
Old: Remove a friendly minion. Discover one from a Tavern Tier lower. → New: Remove a friendly minion. Get a random one from a Tavern Tier lower.
Battlegrounds Minion Pool Updates
Pirates are no longer guaranteed to appear in every Battlegrounds game.
NEW MINION
Amalgadon
[Tier 6, All] 6 Attack, 6 Health
Battlecry: For each different minion type you have, Adapt randomly.
UPDATED MINION
Goldrinn, the Great Wolf
Old: [Tier 5] → New: [Tier 6]
Balance Updates
The following craftable cards will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks after the 17.6 patch goes live.
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (0). → New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (1).
Corsair Cache
Old: Draw a weapon. Give it +1/+1. → New: Draw a weapon. Give it +1 Durability.
Metamorphosis
Old: Swap your Hero Power to "Deal 5 damage." After 2 uses, swap it back. → New: Swap your Hero Power to "Deal 4 damage." After 2 uses, swap it back.
why should anyone believe what does this random website say?
If you are familiar with leaks in Hearthstone, they are almost always accurate, and this is believable enough considering that parts of it (most of the BG updates) have been leaked yesterday. A bit too realistic to be pure speculation.
why should anyone believe what does this random website say?
If you are familiar with leaks in Hearthstone, they are almost always accurate, and this is believable enough considering that parts of it (most of the BG updates) have been leaked yesterday. A bit too realistic to be pure speculation.
So Menagerie, which is currently considerably harder to pull of than Murlocs, gets a random adapt, while Murlocs still have Megasaur intact? Seems fair.
Hooktusk was nerfed to the ground. From one of the best to one of the worst. I mean, it still works on tier 1, when you can turn tokens from Cat or Murloc into a free minion. But other than that it's a worse Malygos.
They could have just made hooktusk's hero power cost 1 to stop her absolutely dominating the game in the first few turns with token economy abuse. Now it's useless at all points in the game - it wasn't broken in the higher tiers. I've had games where I'm against a hangry dragon, a 4/2 and a 2/2 murloc on turn 2 which is pure horse shit.
Tess seems incredible. I bet it becomes a 2 mana HP in the future. Brann seems legit. Hooktusk probably falls into Malygos tier. Not good, but not the worst. People are finally starting to learn how to play Aranna right. This buff is big. It'll be interesting to see how Mukkla plays out. I think he's likely very good though. Thank god they're finally moving Goldrin.
The nerf to Goldrinn seems overkill to me. Beasts are going to be really slow and bad with both of their key cards on the same tier. Beast comps are really dependent on Mama Bear and Goldrinn to be viable. This nerf is similar to the Junkbot change and probably is going to move them to their same situation: nothing but support for other builds.
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finally! it was annoying to go back and in again for a random card back
loving the nerf to hooktusk
fk hooktusk
Tess sounds insanely powerful.
That hooktusk nerf is brutal, tho.
brann is back baby!!!
Brann into dragons = gg
why should anyone believe what does this random website say?
If you are familiar with leaks in Hearthstone, they are almost always accurate, and this is believable enough considering that parts of it (most of the BG updates) have been leaked yesterday. A bit too realistic to be pure speculation.
I dont think hes talkin about that
mods, please do something with these new "accounts"...
Because it speaks true 99% of the time :D
So Menagerie, which is currently considerably harder to pull of than Murlocs, gets a random adapt, while Murlocs still have Megasaur intact? Seems fair.
Hooktusk was nerfed to the ground. From one of the best to one of the worst. I mean, it still works on tier 1, when you can turn tokens from Cat or Murloc into a free minion. But other than that it's a worse Malygos.
Tess hero power ''Bob’s Burgles'' sounds like a reference to the show Bob's Burgers. Though I don't see any connection :P
God dammit Blizzard stop nerfing Demon Hunter! Did Kayn really need to lose a point of health?
They could have just made hooktusk's hero power cost 1 to stop her absolutely dominating the game in the first few turns with token economy abuse. Now it's useless at all points in the game - it wasn't broken in the higher tiers. I've had games where I'm against a hangry dragon, a 4/2 and a 2/2 murloc on turn 2 which is pure horse shit.
lol? Hooktusk is the best hero at every MMR.
Battlegrounds this, Battlegrounds that... Jesus Christ, stop Blizzard!!!
Tess seems incredible. I bet it becomes a 2 mana HP in the future.
Brann seems legit.
Hooktusk probably falls into Malygos tier. Not good, but not the worst.
People are finally starting to learn how to play Aranna right. This buff is big.
It'll be interesting to see how Mukkla plays out. I think he's likely very good though.
Thank god they're finally moving Goldrin.
The nerf to Goldrinn seems overkill to me. Beasts are going to be really slow and bad with both of their key cards on the same tier. Beast comps are really dependent on Mama Bear and Goldrinn to be viable. This nerf is similar to the Junkbot change and probably is going to move them to their same situation: nothing but support for other builds.
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