Battlegrounds Reveals - Day 2
Day 2 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 1 post for more info, you can find it here!
Today's Schedule:
January 19
- 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 18:00 CET/ 5pm GMT - Tylerootd - Reveal is up!
- 11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 20:00 CET/ 7pm GMT - Kripparian - Reveal is up!
- 1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 22:00 CET/ 9pm GMT - Nicholena - Reveal is up!
- 2pm PT/ 5pm ET/ 23:00 CET/ 10pm GMT - Slysssa - Reveal is up!
- 3pm PT/ 6pm ET/ 00:00 CET/ 11pm GMT - itsben321 - Reveal is up!
- 4pm PT/ 7pm ET/ 01:00 CET/ 00:00 GMT - Silvername - Reveal is up!
SUMMARY
- 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!
As long as there are battlegrounds perks the developers are less likely to make any real effort to balance the heroes. Having said that I personally don't think Queen Wagtoggle is a bad hero, depending on the tribes available.
Malygos' buddy seems insanely strong. galakronds hero power but 0 mana and can use it twice per turn...
I think it's safe to say the biggest winner is Kragg, and I don't think it's even close.
Either way, I like the idea, however if out of cards' mining is correct, what REALLY pisses me off is that most lower D-tier and the entire F-tiers (except Petch-WeeboNation-Werk) got such bad buddies it ain't even funny.
I'd prefer they just removed Guff, Cariel, Queen, Rat King, and co. from the game entirely. It's bad enough to run vs people highrolling A/S tier heroes, while getting either of those as a choice at all. I mean, just compare Patches' buddy, creating a 100/100 cleave that utterly demolishes an entire buddy game of either of those heroes in one turn.
It might be hard to stay alive as Kragg as his buddy is tier 4. alot of the tier 2 buddys are insanly fast.
Comment redacted. Kragg reactivation of hero power is at previously accumulated gold level, which is crazy.
Franky Four-Fingers gets greedy gambling
Yeesh, Flurgl's buddy basically screams "stop trying to play murlocs against me!!!"
Where is my Jaraxxus... ヽ(●゚´Д`゚●)ノ゚
it's also missing heroes like sneeds, lich king, george, silas, yogg, master nguyen, jandice and more
All buddies been leaked earlier today.
Lord Jaraxxus's Buddy: Kil'rek
Attack: 3
Health: 6
Tier: 3
Text: Taunt Deathrattle: Add a random Demon to your hand.
I'm so happy to see Xyrella's baby elekk get added to another mode! The art is just too cute to be a PvE adventure card only.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to a whole new Battlegrounds experience!
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I definitely agree with your statement, but .
I feel like with the power of these buddies they should increase the general health pool by 10 or so and still keep the armor as well.
Anyone else notice the fact that Ysera's buddy not only has the only actual art changing golden form I've ever seen in this game (other goldens add stuff to the background like Neptulon, but I've never noticed something actually drawn on top of the minion itself. And it somehow becomes more powerful when they put chains on it LOL. "I need to grow stronger. Can someone tie me up and talk dirty to me?!"
It's a conspiracy.
I think it's a reference to how we originally met Valithria in WoW: she was a prisoner in Icecrown Citadel.
Damn Reno’s is insanely broken as a deathrattle...
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Reno's is quite possibly the weakest "buddy" we've seen revealed so far.