I’m a bit worried tbh. If they aren’t careful and add too many powerful Dragons/synergies then those can dominate the meta until 2021. But if they don’t add enough, we might see the main theme of this expansion fail completely… I really hope that they do it just right 😀

Thanks, fixed 🙂

I think it’s “retire” in English – and honestly I don’t know… this week’s Brawl has been a dumpster fire.

I would probably just retire it to be honest, you SHOULD get the rewards… but this is Hearthstone we’re talking about so anything might happen 😀

I’m afraid that it’s not really a viable strategy. There aren’t enough cards that synergize with Taunts. Strongshell Scavenger is good, but it’s just a small buff. Not to mention that you use it anyway, since you run Taunts even if you don’t specifically play Taunt strategy.

And Phalanx Commander… sure, it might be solid if you pick it on Tier 3, maybe even Tier 4 with Security Rover, but in the late game that extra 4 Attack on Taunts doesn’t matter, and a 8/10 body is also very weak – it just wastes a slot.

We would need something much more powerful for a strategy built around Taunts to be a thing. Right now they’re just an important addition for other strategies.

Update: It’s the second time we see this Brawl. Comments below this one are old, but can often still be relevant!

The Brawl was Standard, not Wild.

Yes, they do.

I assume you mean your first 26 games. That’s because of two reasons, then:

1. Hero is not everything. How well you play it still much more important. You can get #1 with the worst Hero and fall out first with the best one. And that’s great. But after playing dozens of games in Top 200 I can really tell you that the higher tier Heroes win more consistently.

2. New players still don’t know how to use each Hero to its fullest potential, don’t use best strategies etc. Tier Lists are usually built around experienced players. A week of headstart makes a big difference, so players who just started this Tuesday should get better at the game soon, and you will probably see the high Tier Heroes finishing in Top 4 more consistently.

I’m afraid that you have to wait. Players have been requesting a “ready” button that skips to the combat phase when everyone presses it ever since early access, but there’s no official dev reply yet as far as I know. I hope that it will get implemented in the future.

Brawl has been temporarily disabled due to technical issues – after losing 3 games you couldn’t start another run and the whole screen got bugged. We’ll update you when it’s available again!

Tbg Injured Blademaster is still useful, it’s commonly played in Priest 🙂 So if you care about Golden cards, it’s a solid one to get. Argent Commander, on the other hand, hasn’t seen any play in a loooong while.

I think that many people are misunderstanding Freeze mechanic. It’s already in game. You Freeze minions in Tavern to lock them until your next visit. THOSE minions will get +1/+1.

So she will give you another incentive to freeze more often. Early you might freeze a board with no minion that you REALLY want just to get something okay with +1/+1 (which will often be worth it).

It’s linked right under the recently revealed cards (and above the list of all DoD cards). I will add another link in the general information section to make it more visible 🙂

Mike Donais actually replied as to why Reno isn’t one of those Heroes!

“Reno had design and visual effects issues so he was sent packing.”

Source

Mike Donais actually replied as to why Reno isn’t one of those Heroes!

“Reno had design and visual effects issues so he was sent packing.”

Source

I’m also pretty new to the genre – I’ve played original Dota Auto Chess and Underlords before, but maybe 25-30 games in total, so that’s not much. Then I’ve played 70-80 games of Battlegrounds over the last week 🙂

I’m glad that you found it useful. If you have any more questions, let me know and I’ll try to answer them!

It was only confirmed that the pool is there. We don’t know how does selling minions back, getting triples, magnetizing or discovering them instead of buying from Tavern affect card pools. And it’s pretty much impossible for individual players to figure that out 🙁 Maybe HSReplay or Vicious Syndicate will do statistics for Battlegrounds too, then we will learn more. Or maybe the devs will share more info.

Edit: Apparently, one of the official tips (the ones shown when you load into game) says that when you sell the minion back, it returns to the pool! So that one is certain 🙂

That’s a tough one. I would say that it depends on how healthy you are. If you’re doing good health-wise and you don’t risk dying, I would prioritize a rank up to get access to better minions next turn. If you’re struggling and you might die soon, you should probably re-roll as much as you can and try to improve your board immediately.

That’s true – you can get gold by playing the mode (although very slowly) – it’s just not a gameplay tip 🙂

There are three “cross-rewards” between Battlegrounds and regular HS. You need to get packs from latest expansion to unlock them, but Descent of Dragons is already counted as one (so right one the only way to unlock them is pre-ordering).

At 10 packs, you get access to extra statistics (but the feature is not yet unlocked, it says that it will be available when game is out of beta). At 20 packs you get to pick from 3 instead of 3 Heroes at the start of every game. And then at 30 packs you get access to in-game stickers/emotes (I honestly never use them). Realistically the only relevant one is 20 packs – extra Hero, because you have a higher chance to get some good Hero (but honestly, even with 2 you rarely pick between two bad Heroes and you can win games even with the bad ones).

I think that there is an in-game progress bar, but I’m not sure if it fills with every pack or just when you hit 10 pack thresholds, because I pre-ordered and it filled all at once 🙂

I don’t know how long exactly, but definitely not only the first day.