18.6.1 Patch Notes - Battlegrounds & Duels Changes
Blizzard just posted a huge list of changes coming to Duels and Battlegrounds tomorrow!
Quote from BlizzardWe’re planning to release a sizable balance patch for Duels and Battlegrounds tomorrow! You can read the full details below.
Duels Balance Updates
- Ratings change dialog at the end of a run will now be more impressed with your number of wins.
Active Treasures
Party Portal
- Mr. Bigglesworth has been removed from the active Treasures pool.
- Dev Comment: Mr. Bigglesworth was a very bad kitty and snuck into the pool, he has now been removed and is being dried off.
- Old: 6 Health
- New: 4 Health
Amalgamate
- Old: [Costs 1]
- New: [Costs 0]
Spyglass
- Old: [Costs 2]
- New: [Costs 1]
Canopic Jars
- Old: [Costs 4]
- New: [Costs 5]
Wish
- Old: [Costs 11]
- New: [Costs 10]
Pure Cold
- Old: [Costs 6]
- New: [Costs 5]
Passive Treasures
Crystal Gem
- Old: On your first turn you have 2 Mana Crystals.
- New: On your first two turns you have 1 extra Mana Crystal.
Demon Hunter
Summoning Ritual
- Old: [Costs 4]
- New: [Costs 5]
Rogue
Deadly Weapons 101
- Old: Give your weapon +2/+1. Combo: Also give it Poisonous.
- New: Give your weapon +2/+2. Combo: Also give it Poisonous.
Roguish Maneuvers
- Old: [Costs 2]
- New: [Costs 1]
Shaman
Totemic Power
- Old: Summon a random Totem. If you’re Overloaded, summon a non-basic Totem as well.
- New: Summon a random Totem. If you’re Overloaded, summon a non-basic Totem instead.
Warlock
Dark Arts
- Old: [Costs 2]
- New: [Costs 1]
Warrior
No Guts, No Glory
- Old: [Costs 2]
- New: [Costs 1]
Battlegrounds Hero Updates
Queen Wagtoggle
- Nefarian has been removed from the Battlegrounds Hero pool.
- Wax Warband
- Old: Give a friendly minion of each type +2 Attack.
- New: Give a friendly minion of each type +2/+1.
The Curator
- Menagerist
- Old: Start the game with a 1/1 Amalgam with all minion types.
- New: Start the game with a 1/2 Amalgam with all minion types.
Hooktusk
- Trash for Treasure
- Old: [Cost 0] Remove a friendly minion. Get a random one from a Tavern Tier lower.
- New: [Cost 1] Remove a friendly minion. Discover a random one from a Tavern Tier lower.
Rat King
- A Tale of Kings
- Old: Whenever you buy a minion of a specific type, give it +1/+2. Swaps type each turn.
- New: Whenever you buy a minion of a specific type, give it +2/+2. Swaps type each turn.
Rakanishu
- Tavern Lighting
- Old: Give a random friendly minion stats equal to your Tavern Tier.
- New: Give a friendly minion stats equal to your Tavern Tier (targeted).
George the Fallen
- Boon of Light
- Old: [Costs 3]
- New: [Costs 2]
Ysera
- Dream Portal
- Old: At the start of your turn, add a Dragon to Bob's Tavern.
- New: Bob always offers an extra Dragon whenever the Tavern is refreshed.
The Great Akazamzarak
- Prestidigitation
- Old: [Costs 2]
- New: [Costs 1]
- Effigy removed from the Secret pool.
Galakrond
- Galakrond’s Greed
- Old: [Costs 1]
- New: [Costs 0]
- No longer Freezes.
Tess Greymane
- Bob’s Burgles
- Old: Refresh Bob’s Tavern with minions from your last opponent’s Warband.
- New: Refresh Bob’s Tavern with your last opponent’s Warband.
Elise StarseekerLord Barov
- Lead Explorer
- Recruitment Map now costs 2 (down from 3).
- Friendly Wager
- Now gives your gold back on ties (1 gold refunded).
Battlegrounds Minion Updates
Wrath Weaver
- Elementals will no longer be a minion type in every match.
- Old: 1 Attack, 1 Health.
- New: 1 Attack, 3 Health.
Yo-ho-Ogre
- Old: [Tier 3] 2 Attack, 8 Health.
- New: [Tier 2] 2 Attack, 5 Health.
Iron Sensei
- Old: [Tier 4]
- New: [Tier 3]
Southsea Strongarm
- Old: [Tier 4] 5 Attack, 4 Health.
- New: [Tier 3] 4 Attack, 3 Health.
Ripsnarl Captain
- Old: 3 Attack, 4 Health.
- New: 4 Attack, 5 Health.
Lightfang Enforcer
- Old: At the end of your turn, give a friendly minion of each minion type +2/+1.
- New: At the end of your turn, give a friendly minion of each minion type +2/+2.
Gentle Djinni
- Old: [Tier 5]
- New: [Tier 6]
Lieutenant Garr
- Old: 8 Attack, 1 Health.
- New: 5 Attack, 1 Health.
Lil’ Rag
- Old: 6 Attack, 6 Health.
- New: 4 Attack, 4 Health.
Dread Admiral Eliza
- Old: Whenever a friendly Pirate attacks, give all friendly minions +1/+1.
- New: Whenever a friendly Pirate attacks, give all friendly minions +2/+1.
Amalgadon
- Old: Battlecry: For each different minion type you have, Adapt randomly.
- New: Battlecry: For each different minion type you have among other minions, Adapt randomly.
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It's huge early game buff, 0 gold means he's the only hero that can play tier 2 minion on turn 1 and it doesn't mess up buying thresholds.
Highroll is indeed limited now since you need to commit to freezing entire board, but frankly that gameplay was plain stupid when all you did was spam power on one minion and you either lost or won on spot depending on what tier 6 you rolled.
I actually think he could potentially be strong now.
Turn 1 - Buy a unit, hero power a unit, freeze the board
Turn 2 - Level, hero power the unit again, freeze the board
Turn 3 - Hero power the unit again, you now have the opportunity to play a level 4 on turn 3. Still highroll potential, but without the all or nothing strategy you needed to previously take with this hero.
Actually all you guys are right. I don't know why, but I simply forgot that you could freeze the entire board and keep rolling his hero power. Crazy, right?
Turn 1 tier 2 minion will most of times get ahead in the early game, indeed.
You can use it every turn for a targeted improvement, sort of like Toki. But you can also freeze to scale something. It's definitely better, but still not great. Certainly not as good as these other broken heroes.
Even though the single freeze is gone, the 0 cost is a huge buff. The highroll potential now is better than ever, after the patch Galakrond will easily be tier 1.
Why was Wishever 11 mana? Was it just a mistake, or they thought it needed to be unplayable without a combo to reduce mana cost?
Seems weird to me.
I feel like it was a cheeky troll just like Bigglesworth. A little gag they could get away with while it is in alpha. And, as you mentioned, there were technically was to use it with emerald goggles and such.
if this was the only thing in whole patch, I would give it thumbs up anyway
Not only that, elementals have now 3x 6 star minions, demons, dragons, mechs have only 1x 6 star minions.
Nadina and Kongor's are dragon/mech tier 6. Demons really don't have second 6 star though.
Nice to see Hooktusk back! She was a very strong hero with a unique cool mechanic and instead of doing their job and try to balance it they went with the easy path to kill the mechanic entirely. I hope they focus on the balance side now if she turns out to be too strong again.
Dragons needed some buffs in bg and the small buff to demons won't do much.
kalecgos to 5 is what they need.
Not only that, elementals have now 3x 6 star minions, demons, dragons, mechs have only 1x 6 star minions.
That's so far from what they need I struggle to find words to emphasize how far it is. Dragons are *the* strongest endgame build in the game right now. Yes, stronger than Elementals if you get Kalecgos early... and you want to put him on 5?
Old Lightfang is back.
Tess huge upgrade, george huge, hook tusk interesting. Elise may be playable now. Huge upgrade to amalgam hero. Understand why they nerfed elementals but not why they hard nerfed elementals so much. They need a new tier five minion now. So many changes it's hard to predict except that multiple minion type build will probably increase. Handover in particular seems very powerful. Queen wog seems a or s tier now
Elise is literally a better Yogg now. Instead of getting random minion with +1/+1 you can get discover minion from higher tier than your minions. Turn 3 you have buy + discover tier 2. Later you can power level from tawern 3 to tawern 4 with sell and discover tier 4, next turn another lvl up sell and discover tier 5. That's crazy.
why did garr get nerfed
Because at some point he had enough hp to kill few minions alone after some damage buffs. Elementals snowball way too fast overall.