Battlegrounds - Nerf to Demons This Week - More Content On the Way
After the announcement of possible nerfs last week, which we reported on, there is now the confirmation that these nerfs are coming this week through a tweet by Conor Kou, a Game Designer on the Hearthstone team at Blizzard.
There's also more content coming for Battlegrounds soon. What could this content be?!
Quote from BlizzardPlanning to have a nerf to Demons later this week.
We'll keep an eye on Demons and look at them again after our next big Battlegrounds content patch, which is right around the corner
I've lost my origin hearth pwn account after twitch integration and second after recent battle net integration Upsers.
Personally feel like divine shield mechs should be nerfed.
Battlegrounds feels like a great base for a game mode but needs a lot more support and updates. The card pool needs more options/rotations to keep things interesting. It was nice to see a meta shift with the addition of the new demons however I would rather see a larger variety of end game strategy over finding ways to balance existing ones. With this being the end of Year of the Dragon, it would be nice to see a dragon tribe get added to the game, and possibly an elemental tribe soon after.
Batteagrounds have nearly infinite potential. I can easily see some spells in it: at the start of a turn fireball random enemy minion, freeze enemy board until end of first attack wave, buffs, add random minions in your hand, even heal a bit.
And there A LOT of minions could be added even right now: faceless (tier 5-6 probably), Floop (t3-4), Hadronox (probably at some point), Mekgineer Thermaplugg (though i'm not sure what lepergnomes suppose to do as deathrattle), Al'Akir the Windlord, Bonemare (t6), Batterhead (i guess its on weak side, so t4-5)
I want to believe they working on it and just cautious. But blizzard failed too much lately so they probably just looking how to monetize it first, and then, MAYBE, they will add something
Interesting that demons are considered to be to powerful, yet Jaraxxus is considered to be one of the worst heroes. They should just change Jaraxxus completely.
Because it's better to use 2 gold to cycle any demon and get +10/+10 across weavers/watchers than use his hp
He's considered one of the worst heros because the hero tier list was last updated at least a month ago, when Demons were kinda shit and Murlocs good
If his hero power cost 1 like Tirion he'd be top tier.
The other problem is Demon builds often contain many things that are not demons like Wrath Weaver and Soul Jugglers, which don't get the buff. Tirion doesn't have that problem.
Jaraxxus used to be my favorite hero when I started. But he stopped showing up for me to pick and I then I saw that he was getting worse and worse in the meta. Anyways, haven't played Jaraxxus for months, but I still technically have 100% winrate with him according to the stats lol
Jaraxxus dropped in power because of Watcher. Jaraxxus was mid tier when you kept demons, but with Watcher you are cycling demons for the buffs, thus making his HP superfluous and overpriced. Currently when you HP with Jaraxxus you are only hitting one or two of your power cards.
Don't really care about bgs, hope they reroll arena in this patch
they dont really care about arena though
They dont really care about HS tbh
I like to think your username is a reference to Saronite Chain Gang but the name limit made it fail :P
Kinda, yeah. I've always heard it in exactly this way, "How long can this go on? How long..?" so after I encountered name limit I've shortened it to this version.
Though real reason was that fact I had to register for the 3-rd damn time. I've lost my origin hearthpwn account after twitch integration (no matter how I tried to log in, its gone) and second after recent battlenet integration. New year, new me I guess.
Nice to see Demons getting looked at. I don't know how exactly it should be nerfed, but it'll be interesting to see how they do it.
as for me BG became very poor in terms of fun and heavy rng oriented. I dont understand why is it so popular on twitch and youtube.... Can anybody tell me?
Agreed... I used to like watching Kripparrian, but his Battlegrounds video's feel like you're literally watching the same thing over and over and over again.
I have no idea. The games get extremely, EXTREMELY boring to watch, and game variety is almost nonexistent.
I was thinking the same, how it can be even compared to Underlords, its nearly empty and too predictive. But somehow when I resting after work battlegrounds comes in mind first. Its just casual chilling timekiller with some familiar design. And you know, stuff like this will ALWAYS be popular