The Dragons are finally arriving into Hearthstone's Battlegrounds in a game update today - it is about time!
- Tavern Tier 6 now starts at 10 coins, down from 11.
- Sneed's Old Shredder has been moved to Tavern Tier 5, down from Tier 6.
- George the Fallen's Hero Power now costs 3, down from 4.
- Mama Bear - 5/5 Beast, Whenever you summon a Beast, give it +5/+5.
- Lightfang Enforcer now also buffs Dragons.
- Professor Putricide has been removed.
New Heroes
There are seven (7!) new heroes being added to Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Yes, they're all Dragons, including Reno Jackson. Blizzard you beautiful people.
- Galakrond - (1) Replace a minion in Bob's Tavern with a minion from a higher Tavern Tier.
- Deathwing - (Passive) ALL minions have +3 Attack.
- Ysera - (1) Refresh and add a Dragon to Bob's Tavern.
- Nozdormu - (Passive) Your first Refresh each turn costs (0).
- Malygos - (0) Replace a minion with a random one of the same Tavern Tier.
- Alexstrasza - (Passive) After you upgrade Bob's Tavern to Tavern Tier 5, Discover two Dragons.
- Reno Jackson - (4) Make a friendly minion Golden (Once per game).
New Minions
We're getting eighteen (18!!) new minions added to Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Some of these are existing minions in the game.
Tavern Tier 1 Additions
Tavern Tier 2 Additions
Tavern Tier 3 Additions
Tavern Tier 4 Additions
Tavern Tier 5 Additions
Tavern Tier 6 Additions
Removed Minions
- Shielded Minibot
- Annoy-o-Tron
- Mounted Raptor
- Phalanx Commander
- Psych-o-Tron
- Tortollan Shellraiser
- Piloted Sky Golem
- Festeroot Hulk
- The Boogeymonster
- Sated Threshadon
Dragonsgrounds - Patch 16.4.0 Full Patch Notes
Looking for more information on today's patch? Check out the full patch notes!
Comments
They nerfed Divine Shield as a complementary tool but made it so it is its own archetype I guess.
This is amazing! I'm super stoked and I barely even play battlegrounds haha. Gonna play more now!
Imp Mama??
Are you kidding me? Why do they keep giving Demons more and more tools!?!
Mechs and beasts are dead, but yeah, lets remove some mech divine shields and give Demons yet another tool in their arsenal...
Lol bye bye mechs, removing all divine shields but Cobalt, as if they werent underwhelming already at this point. Now they r going to be borderline unplayable.
Looking forward to dragons tho. They look like they r going to be pretty strong in their first itteration for sure :)
Yet poor Bolvar is still around even though they took a TON of his synergies. Another note is 4 non-tribe removals that may affect Tirion.
I guess big patches is right. LOL
So is there now a patch out for PC?
Yup
*Looks at Reno's Power* Uhhhhhh
Edit: Oh nevermind, now that the picture is up it says once per game, was gonna say that it was straight up broken, but this is nice and the determination by the player when they wanna cash in on it will keep it interesting.
Yeah even with the "once per game" restriction, that is going to be pants-on-head bonkers in MANY situations...
As long as you save it for a higher tier you can get a crazy strong minion at a 2 gold discount
Yay! I can pass more time until the new year announcement by playing BG's again! Here's for hoping demons get put in their place.
Also, can't wait to try Reno! That hero power could be extremely useful! Even if it costs 4 gold!
Edit: This reaction was before (Once per game) was added to the article. That's A LOT less insane now. But still very useful for those times you just can't get the triple you're looking for.
For example Triple Bran is often game winning. Or trippling the deathrattles.