Battlegrounds Patch Now Live - Tirion Removal, Queen Wagtoggle Return
The Battlegrounds Patch, announced earlier this week is now LIVE. Enjoy everyone! You can find the details of the patch repeated below:
Quote from BlizzardHey everyone!
We have a small 16.4.1 patch planned for this Thursday (3/5) that includes the following Battlegrounds updates:
- Removing Tirion Fordring from the Hero pool.
- Adding Queen Wagtoggle back into the Hero pool.
- Fixing an issue that causes Refresh to show you one less minion than it should.
- Fixing an issue that causes Triple rewards to only offer 2 options.
- Fixing an issue where Replicating Menace causes combat to desync between two players.
- Fixing an issue where Demons summoned by Khadgar via Imp Mama do not have Taunt.
- Fixing an issue where Hero Powers for Malygos and Galakrond cause unintended effects, such as triggering Holy Mackerel.
Additionally, the ongoing Android issues which resulted from the 16.4 update should now be resolved.
But as Blizzard said his high win rate is only in the low rankings. In other words he is a low skill hero, very consistent plan that's hard to mess up, so at lower ranks with general skill lower his consistency increases his win rates.
Tirion was 100% top tier.
I dont know how bad you gotta be to fuck up playing him. He's the only character who can safely get a near guaranteed 2nd or 3rd place with a Tier 1 tavern.
There was slightly more potential to 'low roll' and miss all neutrals after the last patch, but it wasn't enough. I could still play Tirion half AFK and finish top pretty much every game I picked him. I kinda wonder if people have been sleeping on Bolvar with him, like obviously everyone knows he was good with Tirion, but I used to power to 4 and roll for him, kinda like how deathwing does with ratpacks right now. Couple of Bolvars with the tier 1 minions you've been buffing all game and its over, and super easy to get as no one else is buying him cause he sucks for everyone else.
Why do people rip on this team, that produces a game that they enjoy? I say enjoy, because you obviously play enough to have an opinion on two heroes. Tirion was absolutely top tier. The only issue that he saw with this expansion was two tribal T1, making it harder for an early push. He is still bananas in this patch. We could argue about it, but stats say he was. Top tier players say he was. I don't really matter, but I say he was, too. Personally, I enjoy Togwaggle and have finished first with her a number of times. (I honestly don't know when she was removed, but I am assuming the last patch though I don't remember seeing it.) Not to mention that her hero power is menagerie, which got stronger. What do I know though, I am just a player who enjoys the game, has a decent rating and doesn't constantly complain that professionals don't know what they are doing.
Devs are idiots honestly . I don’t care what the stats say, tirion was barely top tier if at all. I could hardly pull neutral minions in this dragon patch if at all. And you bring back garbage like queen togg waggle? Like sure, she’s ok if you don’t die, by time you get a variety of strong minions to use, but how often does that happen? Never? I thought so. The devs are going for super stale game play all across. They nerf everything to death, to where people would rather just watch tv because the excitement is dead.
"I don't care what the stats say" is a pretty good reason to ignore everything else you said. Tirion had an astronomical winrate across hundreds of thousands of games - your anecdotal view of him is literally irrelevant to his position in the meta.
I don't even think Tirion was the strongest hero. I would've loved to see some of the weaker heroes buffed like Jaraxxus.
Stats disagree with you.
maybe I'm wrong .. but jaraxxus wasn't that great ...
He had insanely high winrate dude.
https://www.hearthpwn.com/guides/battlegrounds/7054-hearthstone-battlegrounds-hero-tier-list-with-win
22%. The next two closest were 19 and 16% respectively. That means that he wins about 18% more than the second place, 40% more than third place, and since 11-27 all have 11% winrate or less, that means he wins DOUBLE the amount of most other heroes.
Imagine if in Constructed we had Warrior sitting at a 90% winrate and you'll see the problem.
What is Holy Mackerel?
A Battlegrounds exclusive murloc.
The Tier 6 8/4 Murloc that gains Divine Shield whenever another of your minions loses Divine Shield.
Our lord and savior
Thanks! I have seen that minion, but never read the name before..
Murlox do need a hero...
There was Giantfin you know...
Still hoping for a return of Giantfin or King Mukla
Plz just announce the standard hof and expansion already. I'm sorry, i just cant get excited for bgs. Not sure why
That is your problem, and completely off topic. Why do so much people feel the need to comment on the state of standard in BG's threads?