End of last season I was a 7600 BG player. I am currently hardstuck 6k because everyone else seems to hit the nuts, I play the hardest player every turn, and I cannot find a single core card to go with any quest or tribe I am looking for.
Leveling early has become a cancer, why do you get so punished for leveling with absolutely no benefit. It is expensive and causes you to lose about 75% of the time, yet next turn you likely roll 10 times in a row and almost all the rolls are 1 and 2 drops…
Too much RNG in an already insane amount of RNG… Quests causing the Floor and Ceiling of RNG to have way too much of a gap.
Garbage season, can we go back to the basics.
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The minion pool is hot garbage right now.
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Pretty much agree. After I hit my seasonal goal I stopped playing for the most part. I don’t know many players that enjoy the current state.
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Literally from first changes BG’s have been worse and worse every time … they need to give us option to play first version of BG’s tbh … leave this clown show live as well, who ever wants to play it, but implement permanent first bg’s release without changes at this point … because this is awful
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This isn’t how you do it. You choose a hero that can win, or one that can survive.
You look at the minion types, you see what CAN win and then you pick a quest that supports one of the tribes that CAN win.
Then you do your best.
I’m at 7000-7500 free to play, my MMR would be higher but I quit if I get bored losing 100 MMR on a regular basis.
(*) Why? Because I don’t care about the MMR much, but I do play my best each game.
I’m a bit tired of this meta, but it is 4 stars out of 5 because the meta is at least fair and predictable.
Best BG’s meta in a while. The spells need to stay and make the game more interesting. Hero choice has been neutralized quite a bit and correctly identifying the proper quest has made the game even more fun. Great time to be FTP and only two hero choices right now.
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Somehow i got to 8600 on a winstreak on one of my accounts. Despite beeing very unlucky though that goes without saying.
I dunno,i havent really played for over 2 weeks now i think. Every now and then i try 1 game but it almost instantly turns me of and make me go do something else.
Its just not enjoyable at all though i am not sure it is this patch specifically. Maybe its more a general thing.
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The OP is right that the game strategy has changed fundamentally. You’re no longer looking to build a board that scales with buffs. The exception of a very few minions, you’re looking to survive till you get to tier 4/5 and then find a late stage comp.
It’s not my favorite style of battlegrounds, but adjusting to it has at least been new and challenging.
I do hope they put more things in the tavern like the devour spell, which let you capitalize on your early comp, just to kinda smooth things out.
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There are several comps i have first with by staying on tier 3 or 4. It’s all about knowing what’s in the lobby and which quest you have that can take advantage of those situations. Many times going to Tier 6 is a bad play while staying on 5 is the winning line. Menagerie is extremely powerful in the Quest meta.
Can you give me an example? I can’t think of a tier 3-4 comp that can go toe to toe with even a half-finished top tier one.
Fel Drake spell comp. You can see jeef’s vids on it, you can get them to super high numbers, but you have to be careful of scam.
You can stay on three with say a Book build if you get the quest and you are playing something like elementals or another tribe that allows you to cycle fast and build them up quickly(maybe you are getting help with a hero power). I’ve done a tier 3 with mechs and the Ball and gotten as many replicating menaces as possible or even other minions if avaialable with reborn early. then i’ll go up to tier 5 later for the Kangor’s or even try and triple in tier 4 into one or more.
A Tier 4 build i have done and is Smudger+Roogug+Lubber with the quest spell to reduce costs on spells. Not as effective as it once was but you can scale like crazy with this into a great menagerie build using Smudger to trigger to Roog onto everything else.
There’s an undead build that solely tries to stay on 4 fishing for Anubarak and other undead attack boosters to make the biggest token undead as possible. Then after 2-3 turns you go to 5 for Titus unless you tripled into one or maybe even two. The goal is a golden Titus but i have seen token undead boards with repeatedly 100+ tokens just from tribe buffs. Combo it with the Ball quest and it gets crazy fast and generally doesn’t require tier 5 at that point for titus.
Fel Drake is a very old comp but when the Demons and Beasts are in and you get the Rhylak with the Fell beasts rolling it can freight train your tavern minions with stats.
There’s a couple other but you need to know they exist and have to see them to go for them. Understanding the tribes at the lobby pick along with hero is key here sometimes but the quests can snowball some of these builds wildly.
Hope that helps.
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It’s clear the focus is on pushing as much things to sell as possible, as opposed to having a functional game mode.
Isnt fel drake the one that consumes minions from the tavern for stats to absorb? how does comboing that with rylak do anything at all during combat?
I saw a board of 3000/3000. I was petrified.
Man this is how I feel against Yu Gi Oh players.
Completely agree with OP, the mode just horrible and they there is no way this dev team can bring it back. So sad.
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It’s not for the Fel Drake
Please square this circle? Im not reading what else you could mean…?
Let’s make it a learning moment, shall we?
What does Fel Drake do? What other BC can be activated via Rhylak in Combat that would benefit the composition?
So it isnt about them, but those are the only two listed in the example. Now you wanna quiz me? I dont know. There are so few battlecry minions in the first place… the +3/+3 cups?
If you got feldrake, feldrake, BC minion, Rylak, BC minion
what are the BC minions that can affect the Feldrakes in play?