Battlegrounds Reveals - Day 1
Day 1 of the very first Battlegrounds Reveal week! We will have every reveal from today in this news post, so check back later to see if more has been revealed!
Check the Day 2 post for more info, you can find it here!
Today's Schedule:
January 18
- 11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 20:00 CET/ 7pm GMT - RDU - Reveal is up!
- 1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 22:00 CET/ 9pm GMT - ZoomHS - Reveal is up!
- 1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 22:00 CET/ 9pm GMT - Tesdey - Reveal is up!
- 2pm PT/ 5pm ET/ 23:00 CET/ 10pm GMT - Bofur - Reveal is up!
- 3pm PT/ 6pm ET/ 00:00 CET/ 11pm GMT - Sunglitters - Reveal is up!
- 4pm PT/ 7pm ET/ 01:00 CET/ 00:00 GMT - Zorgo - Reveal is up!
SUMMARY
- New Hero: Bru'kan!
- New System: Buddies! Every Hero in Battlegrounds now gets a special Buddy Minion that is ONLY for them, that you get when you fill a powerbar. On filling the first tick of this power bar you get 1 Buddy minion. On completing the bar you get 2 more, so enough to make a triple!
- Getting to the first tick on your Buddies powerbar is supposedly going to happen around Tavern Tier 2 or turn 5.
- We can assume that every Buddy will have some interaction with what makes a Hero work, or what makes a Hero special. Example: New Hero Bru'kan has a buddy that stores the uses of his Hero Power and unleashes them again with a deathrattle!
- New Heroes: Vanndar Stormpike & Drek'thar!
- New Hero: Tavish!
RDU's Reveal
Tesdey's Reveal
Zoom's Reveal
Bofur's Reveal
Sunglitters' Reveal
Zorgo's Reveal
Check the Day 2 post for more info, you can find it here!
WEEBomination?
It's obsessed with anime??
It's so nice to get some representation for the community
Hi!
Do you guys think that we just see new heroes today ? Or something additional new? Like a new tribe or something else?
It’s adding a ton of unique minions, how is that ruining things?
I would add that it requires nothing. No card collection, entrance fee and easier to play. Its a great mode for Live Streaming because you can talk in-between turns and just relax.
why BG is the most played mode? because it isn't pay to win! I hope they will never change this.
I quitted all the other modes long time ago, I don't even care opening packs anymore.
Is it possible to receive some buddies from Sneed ability or Ghastcoiler?
They are not in Bob's Tavern pool, so no.
Holy balls, the power level of buddies are insane, and some outliers that are ridiculous.
Of the new heroes I LOVE the design of Tavish, really interesting hero power.
Definitely excited for this BG expansion. I wonder if there is anymore to it than this or the rest of the week is just buddy reveals and maybe a few more new heroes.
Decktracker has alot of work ahead of them
This is too complicated for casual me. I'll go back to playing Heroes 3, backgammon and chess with occasional Arena. It is a peaceful life.
Is it only me or is Maiev's buddy completely broken? It is tier 2, so you get it early. You guarantee a golden minion, a tripple into T5 or T6 and you can potentially do that 3 times... Sounds crazy, compared to Mukla or Deryl.
It does sound ridiculously strong, especially compared to others, but there is a clear power difference in quite a few of them. Patches, for example, is a bit crap. Yeah it gives one minion potentially a huge amount of stats.....but just once. Weebomination, not exactly mega powerful, especially if you have a really strong start to the game. Tess Greymane's, however, gives you a new buddy EVERY TURN!!!! How is that not broken when, not only is she getting a free minion every turn, it's a potentially game changing buddy every turn. Tavish's Crabby can dish out stats to 2 minions every turn, starting at 6/6 (if you've used your HP every turn up to then....which you should as it's free) increasing every turn from turn 6.
Another typical move from Blizz. They've shaken up the game to try and make it more interesting, but haven't stopped to look at the power differences. It's bad enough that there is a huge power difference in some of the hero powers.
Tess might be the worst example to put for this, it honestly seems like the worst of the bunch but might change as additional buddies are revealed.
Not only does Tess's buddy give 0 instant value, it takes up a board space, unlike Maiev for example that you can play and sell and go about your build as it was. But more importantly, almost none of the buddies are actually of great use outside of the hero they are given to. Tess gives you Maiev buddy? You dont have hero power you can target so it does nothing. Bananas give extra +1/+1? again, dud. Remembers your elemental invocations? Master Gadrin might be a hindurance since you can't manipulate his attack without Vol'jin hp. If you get patches buddy, its nothing unless you already played pirates. Hooktusk buddy? Again, does nothing without hooktusk HP.
Of the ones revealed, there are actually only 3 or so that actually have value for Tess: Brann epic egg is nice, even if you don't have brann. Weebomination seems to be subpar but at least there is a chance you can give someone a small hp boost. And then the Millhouse. And each time you roll a dead buddy, you had a worthless minion on board taking space. As a final icing on cake, the tier of the buddy marks how long it takes to get: Tess' buddy takes the longest of all, and chances are you are gonna get steamrolled by Maiev before you ever get a chance to get your buff on bananas or invocations.
I get what you're saying, but Tess still gives value. At the very least, you're getting a free coin every turn from a dud buddy and a chance at something strong. I'm not saying it's going to be ridiculous every game, but compared to Patchwerk's buddy, it is a lot stronger. But the point I'm making is about the lack of balance in power level from one buddy to the next is pretty glaring and this is where Hearthstone has been failing for years.....the dev's inability to strike proper balance between classes in any format.
I didnt think it was possible, but I think they ruined their only good mode they had left. This looks awful.
nah looks amazing, take the L
Battlegrounds - WHO CARES ???
Well, the stats say it is the most played mode of Hearthstone. So apparently larger part of the players care. Based on stats, Battlegrounds IS Hearthstone now. Sorry if that disappoints you
? She works perfectly in line with how the hero works. If you play against something irrelevant to your comp she's worthless and on the flip side she can be very powerful.
Someone posted in another thread - datamine patch v22.2 (rus) https://glasscannon.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5041