Season 8 is Coming August 20th, with a new mechanic: Trinkets! Read on for everything about it!
Trinket Summary
- Trinkets are a new mechanic in the same vein as Quests and Buddies.
- They are similar to Quests in how they spice up game play, but they are far more dynamic with up to 60 choices, twice.
- You will get a Lesser Trinket on Turn 6, when you have 8 gold and a Greater Trinket on turn 9 (or your second 10 gold turn in other words).
- You are offered 4 Choices and are forced to choose 1 of them.
- Trinkets cost Gold, but different Trinkets cost different amounts.
- Trinkets are tied to 1 or 2 Minion types and will not offer if those are not in lobby.
- The lesser Trinkets are more broad in appeal and less likely to force you into a specific minion type for the rest of the game.
- The greater Trinkets are more specific and will offer a higher power level
- Trinkets offer a payoff for what you are doing, or offer a pivot choice to go do something else.
- Your Trinket offerings and their Costs are influenced by your Hero, the Minion Types in the game, and your Warband.
- This is NOT a weighted system. The system is designed to eliminate terrible trinket choices, not to offer the perfect one.
- Example: if you go for a Beasts build, and do not get offered the perfect trinket to go with it, then this is NOT a bug.
- One of the goals with trinkets is end-game board diversity.
New Cards Revealed
Revealed on Twitter by the official Blizzard account.
Quote from BlizzardNo vacation is complete without a stop at the souvenir shop. But this is a unique boutique: it sells magical Trinkets—the new Battlegrounds seasonal mechanic! Come see what’s in store for Battlegrounds Season 8, Trinkets & Travels, launching on August 20!
With Season 8, Battlegrounds Ratings will reset (for both regular Battlegrounds and Duos) and Buddies will rotate out of the Tavern to make room for new Trinkets.
New Mechanic: Trinkets
Trinkets are special passive power-ups that you buy with Gold and use for the rest of the game—kind of like Quest Rewards. Trinkets are offered twice per game: on turns 6 and 9. Each offering, you’ll get 4 Trinkets to choose from.
In total, there are 56 Lesser Trinkets (turn 6) and 60 Greater Trinkets (turn 9) coming in Season 8! Some Trinkets have a Lesser and a Greater version--letting you diversify or double-up on your effects!
Your Trinket offerings and their Costs are influenced by your Hero, the Minion Types in the game, and your Warband to ensure you’ll always be offered something exciting to build from.
New Hero: Marin the Manager
Want a special Trinket offer? Speak to the Manager! Marin the Manager is coming to Battlegrounds in Season 8, bringing you an extra Trinket—and one turn early, to boot!
Full Itinerary of Reveals
When Season 8 begins, 38 minions will be removed from the minion pool and 18 old favorites will return, plus 27 new minions and 2 new Tavern spells will be added. Follow your favorite content creators as they check out all the sights on each reveal layover ahead of Patch 30.2 at these times:
- Neutrals: August 7, 12:00 p.m. (PDT)
- Elementals: August 8, 12:00 p.m. (PDT)
- Demons and Mechs: August 9, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Naga and Quilboar: August 10, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Pirates: August 11, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Undead: August 12, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Beasts: August 13, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Dragons and Murlocs: August 14, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
You can track the flight using the hashtag #BGSeason8.
Battlegrounds Preview Event
On August 19, the day before Patch 30.2 launches, watch your favorite content creators try out Trinkets live! Participating players will be streaming on their own channels, so make sure you have notifications turned on. Time slots by region are:
- APAC region: August 19, 2:00 a.m. - 8:00a.m. (PDT)
- NA, LATAM, and EMEA regions: August 19, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (PDT)
Battlegrounds Track Refresh
On August 20, Battlegrounds Season 7 will end and Season 8 will begin! With that, you'll switch over to begin earning rewards on the new Battlegrounds Season 8 Rewards Track. Any rewards that were already earned in the Season 7 Rewards Track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed for you.
The Season 8 Battlegrounds Track includes vacation themed cosmetics. Pick up the Season Pass to instantly unlock +2 Hero options at the start of each game. Then, progress through the track to earn the Beach Blast Legendary Strike, 17 additional Hero Skins, a new Bartender, and more!
Level XP to level Cumulative XP Free Reward With Season Pass 1 0 0 2 Hero Slots 2 20 20 Gnomeregan Omen (Rare Emote) 3 20 40 Beach Chenvaala (Rare Emote) 4 20 60 Crystalsong Sindragosa (Rare Hero Skin) 5 30 90 Gnomeregan Omen Sunglasses (Epic Emote) 6 30 120 Exodar Guff (Epic Hero Skin) 7 30 150 Beach Chenvaala (Rare Hero Skin) 8 30 180 Beach Blast (Rare Strike) 9 40 220 Future Nozdormu Ohoho (Rare Emote) 10 40 260 Fishing Cookie (Rare Hero Skin) 11 40 300 Moody Jandice (Rare Emote) 12 50 350 Snorkeler Elise (Rare Hero Skin) 13 50 400 Future Nozdormu (Rare Emote) 14 50 450 Future Vacation Nozdormu (Legendary Hero Skin) 15 50 500 Moody Jandice (Rare Hero Skin) 16 60 560 Outdoorsy Ini (Epic Hero Skin) 17 60 620 Surfer Kael'thas (Rare Hero Skin) 18 60 680 Bird Watching Drek'Thar (Legendary Hero Skin) 19 60 740 Castle Mutanus (Rare Emote) 20 60 800 Surfer Kael'thas (Epic Emote) 21 60 860 Dalaran Wagtoggle (Epic Hero Skin) 22 60 920 Griftah (Epic Bartender) 23 60 980 Swashbuckler (Rare Strike) 24 60 1040 Orgrimmar Rakanishu (Epic Hero Skin) 25 60 1100 Griftah (Rare Emote) 26 60 1160 Ribbon Tavish (Epic Hero Skin) 27 60 1220 Castle Mutanus (Epic Hero Skin) 28 60 1280 Beach Blast (Epic Strike) 29 60 1340 Royal Edwin (Epic Hero Skin) 30 60 1400 Sunburned C'Thun (Legendary Hero Skin) 31 60 1460 Orgrimmar Faelin (Epic Emote) 32 60 1520 Desert Ozumat (Epic Hero Skin) 33 60 1580 Moonwell Sylvanas (Epic Hero Skin) 34 60 1640 Griftah Just Right (Rare Emote) 35 60 1700 Swashbuckler (Epic Strike) 36 60 1760 Ski Ragnaros (Legendary Hero Skin) 37 60 1820 Vacation Holmes (Epic Emote) 38 60 1880 Vacation Holmes (Epic Hero Skin) 39 60 1940 Shark Patchwerk (Legendary Hero Skin) 40 60 2000 Beach Blast (Legendary Strike)
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Posted Aug 7, 2024 (Perils in Paradise)I'm very excited about the trinkets, the effects seem very interesting.
Just disappointed that they cost gold. I would rather have more stuff to do in an average turn instead of doing less, and pressing a single button to buy a 6 gold trinket seems like doing less. More economy cards please!
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Posted Aug 7, 2024 (Perils in Paradise)hahahah, they add more depth and creativity to this mode but leave the core of this game intact. so pathetic.
theres no point of playing this rng rigged game because while the game OFFERS you the choices HE MAKES, its useless.
so the game will always give the worst player the best choices so he can win, making him buy new stuff later, like skins and battle passes.
pathetic game and mode.
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Posted Aug 7, 2024 (Perils in Paradise)For a hot second I though this was the Mini-set announcement and I lost my mind.
It looks fine. Is like, you can buy your own Quest Reward. Seems good. Quest are the most fun gimmick in my opinion in BG.
I'm not sure if I'm a fan of being forced to buy one, but I guess that unless you get 4 pretty expensive ones, that are also not that usefull for your build, cause you are just that guy, you probably are going to be fine buying any of them.
They really squeezed every penny they paid out of the art of Yogg-stactic Pastry.
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Posted Aug 6, 2024 (Perils in Paradise)I prefer the normal way. No buddies, anomalies, quests, etc.
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Posted Aug 6, 2024 (Perils in Paradise)Sounds like a more impactful version of Darkmoon Prizes. No dynamic when you get them, but more bonuses with long-term effects.
The fact that the system only tries to not offer something completely useless is a small comfort. It shouldn't always offer the perfect trinket, of course, but the difference between getting the perfect thing and something that's just ok might be massive. With quests, you knew early on what you'd have to do and could think about how you could make the reward work. This is more like rolling dice at a late point in the game and hope for the best. You can still change your build by Turn 9, of course, but it highly depends on how much health you've left.
But I'll wait and see what all the trinkets actually look like.
Sadly no news on whether they try to improve matchmaking in Duos. The frustration of frequently playing with someone who sticks with Tavern 3 beasts or dragons and never levels beyond 4 is kind of ruining it for me, as fun as it can be sometimes. Also, a few more ping options would be nice.