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!
Tavish will be a great addition for late game positioning minigames. Couldn't love Brann's buddy more!
I can't help but think Tess got a massively short end of this "expansion's" stick. Hunter of Old right now basically seems to be "Gain 1 coin each turn while this is in play." simply due to how the other buddies work in conjunction with their heroes. I mean Crabby's ability is all about the damage your HP does, Spirit Raptor's is purely based on elemental invocations used, Raging Contender requires Hooktusk's hero power...
Why do some of the buddies have legendary gems while others have none ?
for the most part legendaries are named characters
there can be multiple epic eggs and shadow wardens, but only one asher or gadrin
plus since sneeds left battlegrounds, the rarity doesn't matter in the gamemode; so they can throw in as many named characters as they want without worry of getting flack for wasting people's pack pity timers on a sub-par legendaries
Wait, Sneeds is gone from Battlegrounds? When did this happen? I could’ve sworn I fought against him last week.
They mean Sneed's Old Shredder minion not the hero Sneed
Gotcha. My bad.
Weebomination 🤔
A B O M I N I S C U L E 😏
Why not?
I meant it as a joke :D , there was something that was bugging me on the card and I didn't know what and then I noticed the crab has hair :D
Ok why does Crabby have mohawk?
Because it's a Rad Crab.
Landing strip*
I’m just glad we’re getting more Raptor representation in Hearthstone.
Tarecgosa with the stormpike hero power, oh my god, they must change or remove tarecgosa or this will be a disaster
Not really? I'm assuming you're talking about Vanndar Stormpike not Tavish Stormpike (which doesn't affect Tarcegosa at all), it's really not that amazing. You're not adding the health of your highest-health minion to Tarecgosa, you're overwriting it, in other words all it does is make your Tarecgosa copy the health of your highest health minion. If you do it again the next turn, it does nothing, unless that other minion has grown in stats. That's decent and all, but not really noteworthy. Especially when you consider that Tarecgosa is usually your highest health minion to begin with.
He is talking about Crab + Tarecgosa, which is very strong!
You're probably right, I was confused since he was talking about "hero power" not the buddy, but that's the only real new synergy with Tarecgosa.
Yeah buddy!
Ugh, so they try to get people hyped. List a STREAMER schedule, and then when time comes, it's a lousy video on Youtube, which basically says the worst mechanic in standard, quests, is coming to battelgrounds. Well played again, Blizzard...