Gotta give big props to Riot once again for being so open to community feedback. I personally didn't really mind the differences in art and voice but I get why other people were bothered by it. I just hope the artist(s) and voice actress don't take it personally, but from what I've seen on the subreddit people seemed pretty nice about the issues they had so it's probably fine.
The Battlegrounds changes look very interesting. I especially like the Y'Shaarj change, it always felt horrible when you got shitty battlecry minions but now getting those can be a good thing.
I agree with most of your choices but I'm a little less sure about Broadbacked Protector I've actually seen it a fair few times in the decks built around Soraka and Tahm Kench. Those decks aren't really in that bad a spot at the moment and this card is surprisingly quite a powerful resource for reliable healing and reliable healing targets. Maybe I'm wrong on judging it based on that but I think the card is fine, the deck it fits into is just very forced and one dimensional so you never see it outside of that very specific play style.
Yeah you may very well be right since I didn't play during the time that Soraka and Tahm Kench were just released. Also I don't play ranked so I'm not very qualified to say which cards are bad. :p
Here are some cards (that haven't been mentioned already) that I would like to see getting buffed or get some additional support:
I think I've only seen this card getting played once since it was released. Not sure how I would buff it but it certainly could use some help.
To be honest I prefer this version over the previously op version but the current version is just unplayable. I think a neat way to buff it would be to add another elnuk unit to the game to increase the consistency of its effect and to make elnuk decks more of a possibility.
This card is pretty cool but sadly also really bad. I'm not sure what the best way to buff it is but there are a ton of things Riot could try (e.g. make the buff stronger, make it fast speed, reduce the cost, etc.).
I'm not sure if anyone will agree with this one but I feel like 5 mana is just too much for granting a unit +3/+3. I don't think it needs a big buff but I think increasing the buff to +3/+4 would be fair.
I'm pretty sure they're only changing how tokens work in the shop-phase (i.e. triples are formed after a battlecry resolves instead of during the battlecry) so Scallywag Exodia will probably still work.
I also expected Junkbot to be removed eventually so I'm surprised they moved it to tier 4 again. I actually think this is quite a big buff to mechs since Junkbot used to be really strong on tier 4, but maybe it'll be more balanced in the current version of Battlegrounds.
Since about two days ago I've been having an issue on PC which prevents the game from getting past the startup screen where it says "logging in" in the bottom left. For some reason I don't have this issue on mobile. I already tried reinstalling the game and while it seemed to work at first I already experienced the same issue the second time I I tried to start the game.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
Edit: I tried restarting the game half an hour later and now it started without any issues, I guess it may be an occasional thing?
I have to disagree. I get the appeal of Floating Watcher, but Bengalaas is right. It was broken on tier 3, but it's very underwhelming on tier 4. That's because there are really only two situations where you're happy to see a floating watcher:
1. You're playing Wrath Weaver demons and you still have enough health left to scale them.
2. You're playing Lich Baz'hial (which isn't exactly the most popular hero) and you have enough health left to get a decent amount of buffs on the Floating Watcher.
Those are two very fringe situations since you often don't have that much health left by the time you find a Floating Watcher to scale it enough. Then there's also the thing that FrostyFeet pointed out, which is that a Wrathweaver build generally wants to include Mal'Ganis as soon as possible to continue to scale the wrathweaver, which completely goes against what Floating Watcher asks you to do.
I think Ring Matron is a much better card to have in the game instead. It's so much more useful than floating watcher in most situations. It's still a good card if you're playing a wrathweaver build, it synergizes very well with Bigfernal which is often already a better option to scale in a demon build than floating watcher, it synergizes much better with Soul Juggler, it makes tripling into a tier 4 discover more relevant because it is much better than floating watcher (or other more synergy driven tier 4 cards) for non-demon builds, and it even fits into taunt focused builds (which need all the help they can get right now).
There's also something I really hate: most of the time when Bob say one phrase, like "i'm sure you can win this thing", i actually lose the battle.
Was that quote specifically made for low win chances? I'm so sick of it that I dread playing another BG.
Yeah Idk what's up with that but I guess Bob is just always optimistic. Even when you're in last place and close to dying he often says "You're doing great out there!". No Bob, I'm not and I'm afraid your overly optimistic statements aren't helping.
I think this would be a very good idea for the prize turns (i.e. turn 4, 8, 12, 16, ...) specifically. In a game today I picked the turn 16 prize that gives you a prize from all of the previous prize turns and once I was done picking and playing those I had less than 20 seconds left to play out the rest of my turn.
If a longer turn timer would be applied to all turns it could become very tedious since sometimes all you do in a turn is tier up and buy a minion.
This made me realize that a sandbox mode for battlegrounds where you just get to try dumb things like this would actually be quite fun. One other thing I would also personally like is an option to, once you die, continue playing against AI so that you can still further build up your comp and enjoy it a little while longer. There have been so many games where I was thoroughly enjoying building up my comp but then I died before I could get most of the enjoyment out of it. I don't think many people will actually want a feature like this but I would personally like it and it would make me feel less frustrated about losing.
Ah yes, just made a fun but kind of memey wild deck. My first three games are against token druid, token druid and the luckiest secret mage I have ever seen. Fuck me I hate people sometimes.
I know you can reroll it throughout the week but imagine if someone would realise on the last day of the week that they still have a weekly quest, they reroll it because they don't like it and then they get this. No quest should require you to spend more gold than you can actually get from the quest reward...
Nah probably Rammus
Gee I wonder which champion we're going to see tomorrow...
FINALLY MORE LEGION MARAUDER SUPPORT LEZGOOOO
Gotta give big props to Riot once again for being so open to community feedback. I personally didn't really mind the differences in art and voice but I get why other people were bothered by it. I just hope the artist(s) and voice actress don't take it personally, but from what I've seen on the subreddit people seemed pretty nice about the issues they had so it's probably fine.
The Battlegrounds changes look very interesting. I especially like the Y'Shaarj change, it always felt horrible when you got shitty battlecry minions but now getting those can be a good thing.
Yeah you may very well be right since I didn't play during the time that Soraka and Tahm Kench were just released. Also I don't play ranked so I'm not very qualified to say which cards are bad. :p
Here are some cards (that haven't been mentioned already) that I would like to see getting buffed or get some additional support:
I think I've only seen this card getting played once since it was released. Not sure how I would buff it but it certainly could use some help.
To be honest I prefer this version over the previously op version but the current version is just unplayable. I think a neat way to buff it would be to add another elnuk unit to the game to increase the consistency of its effect and to make elnuk decks more of a possibility.
This card is pretty cool but sadly also really bad. I'm not sure what the best way to buff it is but there are a ton of things Riot could try (e.g. make the buff stronger, make it fast speed, reduce the cost, etc.).
I'm not sure if anyone will agree with this one but I feel like 5 mana is just too much for granting a unit +3/+3. I don't think it needs a big buff but I think increasing the buff to +3/+4 would be fair.
I'm pretty sure they're only changing how tokens work in the shop-phase (i.e. triples are formed after a battlecry resolves instead of during the battlecry) so Scallywag Exodia will probably still work.
I also expected Junkbot to be removed eventually so I'm surprised they moved it to tier 4 again. I actually think this is quite a big buff to mechs since Junkbot used to be really strong on tier 4, but maybe it'll be more balanced in the current version of Battlegrounds.
A lot of these are amazing but Serpents is by far my favourite, it's absolutely gorgeous.
My problem was with Legends of Runeterra though, not Hearthstone. :p
I found out that restarting the game solves the problem whenever it occurs, I hope you'll be able to solve your issues with Hearthstone as well. :)
Since about two days ago I've been having an issue on PC which prevents the game from getting past the startup screen where it says "logging in" in the bottom left. For some reason I don't have this issue on mobile. I already tried reinstalling the game and while it seemed to work at first I already experienced the same issue the second time I I tried to start the game.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
Edit: I tried restarting the game half an hour later and now it started without any issues, I guess it may be an occasional thing?
I was about to make a thread asking the same thing:
I mean I don't care that much because I almost exclusively play battlegrounds but still, wtf Blizzard?
I have to disagree. I get the appeal of Floating Watcher, but Bengalaas is right. It was broken on tier 3, but it's very underwhelming on tier 4. That's because there are really only two situations where you're happy to see a floating watcher:
1. You're playing Wrath Weaver demons and you still have enough health left to scale them.
2. You're playing Lich Baz'hial (which isn't exactly the most popular hero) and you have enough health left to get a decent amount of buffs on the Floating Watcher.
Those are two very fringe situations since you often don't have that much health left by the time you find a Floating Watcher to scale it enough. Then there's also the thing that FrostyFeet pointed out, which is that a Wrathweaver build generally wants to include Mal'Ganis as soon as possible to continue to scale the wrathweaver, which completely goes against what Floating Watcher asks you to do.
I think Ring Matron is a much better card to have in the game instead. It's so much more useful than floating watcher in most situations. It's still a good card if you're playing a wrathweaver build, it synergizes very well with Bigfernal which is often already a better option to scale in a demon build than floating watcher, it synergizes much better with Soul Juggler, it makes tripling into a tier 4 discover more relevant because it is much better than floating watcher (or other more synergy driven tier 4 cards) for non-demon builds, and it even fits into taunt focused builds (which need all the help they can get right now).
Yeah Idk what's up with that but I guess Bob is just always optimistic. Even when you're in last place and close to dying he often says "You're doing great out there!". No Bob, I'm not and I'm afraid your overly optimistic statements aren't helping.
I think this would be a very good idea for the prize turns (i.e. turn 4, 8, 12, 16, ...) specifically. In a game today I picked the turn 16 prize that gives you a prize from all of the previous prize turns and once I was done picking and playing those I had less than 20 seconds left to play out the rest of my turn.
If a longer turn timer would be applied to all turns it could become very tedious since sometimes all you do in a turn is tier up and buy a minion.
This made me realize that a sandbox mode for battlegrounds where you just get to try dumb things like this would actually be quite fun. One other thing I would also personally like is an option to, once you die, continue playing against AI so that you can still further build up your comp and enjoy it a little while longer. There have been so many games where I was thoroughly enjoying building up my comp but then I died before I could get most of the enjoyment out of it. I don't think many people will actually want a feature like this but I would personally like it and it would make me feel less frustrated about losing.
"We've also heard the feedback that some people miss them being on the Profile screen, and are looking at options there."
Seems like there's some other feedback that they're not 'hearing'.
Ah yes, just made a fun but kind of memey wild deck. My first three games are against token druid, token druid and the luckiest secret mage I have ever seen. Fuck me I hate people sometimes.
People are of course free to downvote posts as much as they want, but -22 for a post as innocent as this? Really?
Whyyyyyy is this a quest????
I know you can reroll it throughout the week but imagine if someone would realise on the last day of the week that they still have a weekly quest, they reroll it because they don't like it and then they get this. No quest should require you to spend more gold than you can actually get from the quest reward...