With the release of the Hearthstone Battlegrounds Beta to the public, many of you will have just begun to get to grips with the new heroes.
Those of you who got early access will know that Blizzard has already made balance adjustments to the mode - and there's plenty more to come! With four new classes already planned, Mike Donais has taken to Reddit to ask for suggestions to inspire future heroes. What - or who - would you like to see enter the mode in the future?
Quote From Mike Donais Now that Battlegrounds is in open Beta we intend to keep releasing new heroes, in fact we have 4 releasing next week!
Post your favorite new ideas for Battelgrounds Heroes in this thread and inspire us based on your designs!
When designing Heroes we try to have some in a lot of different categories, feel free to design whatever you are excited about. I am going to list the some design categories because it might inspire ideas.
Thematic Based - Like Mukla giving you bananas or Ragnaros shooting fireballs that deal 8.
Clear Build Around = Gain a bonus for buying beasts, mechs, murlocs, demons, taunt, deathrattle, battlecry, divine shield. Similar to Jaraxxus or Mukla.
Simple Clean Designs: Bartendotron, Patchwerk, Pyramad.
High Skill cap: Like Dancin Daryl or Shudderwock.
Fun story moments: Yogg, Akazamzarak.
You can see the existing heroes at playhearthstone.com/battlegrounds
Play a few games of Battlegrounds first to understand what might be fun and post here. I will check it all week so no rush.
Comments
Sindragosa
Hero Power: "Frozen Champion" 1 mana Freeze a Minion.
As in, you only freeze the 1 minion you want to buy next turn, but all other minions in the tavern get to be rerolled with the automatic reroll at the start of each turn. It's not overpowered and there is a clear benefit to only freezing the minion you want.
The 0 mana freeze all is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing in that you don't lose the minion(s) you want to buy, but it's a curse because you lose the option to have the frozen minions you don't want to be rerolled for free, which means you have less chance to finding the other minions you would want.
You should go post that one where Mike Donais will see it.
Sylvanas WIndrunner, Or perhaps everyones' favorite Loa; Bwonsamdi
3 Gold Hero Power: Your first Deathrattle next combat triggers twice
I'd like to see Zilliax in this mode.
Not sure which Hero Power I would choose over Magnetic or Lifesteal synergy, but Divine Shield is out since that's George's thing.
Mecha'thun
Hero power: 10 gold: At the start of next combat, if you have no cards in your hand and battlefield, automatically win next battle. Only usable once per battleground.
This is super bad.. only usable in the last fight and you would deal 6 damage only
If only Imgur would actually let me upload my designs, I might be able to compete.
Captain Eudora
Hero Power: Start with 20 health and 5 coins.
Not quite sure if this is a harsh enough penalty for 5 coins, maybe 15 health, but that seems a bit too small, especially given how long some battlegrounds games can be.
Nozdormu!
Hero Power: Each player is given a “Ready” button they can click if they are done with all actions of their recruit phase. If all players have clicked this button, time skip to Combat phase.
Okay... not a great hero, but would be a great feature!
Well, if you want to make it a hero, why not give only the nozdormu player a ready button. When that player presses the button the timer goes to only 15 seconds remaining, unless there's allready less then 15 seconds remaining.
As Nozdormu you could then put time pressure on everyone else
How about hero power "recruit phase ends in 5 seconds" ?
This might be the closest we'll ever get to a proper "get your card in the game" contest, so the opportunity is surely not to be missed. Time to open HearthCards and get brainstorming!