I reached 2,147,483,647 Health on a minion in bg

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I reached 2,147,483,647 Health on a single minion in Battlegrounds – and as far as I know, that’s the absolute maximum value a minion can have (32-bit signed int max).

This wasn’t a bug or cheat – it took a long strategy
Have any of you ever seen this before? Is this really the cap?
Would love to hear your thoughts

:jigsaw: Key Cards:

  • Golden Upbeat Upstart
    :point_right: Every 2 turns, sets its Health to double the highest Health minion on board.
  • Golden Drakkari Enchanter
    :point_right: Your end-of-turn effects trigger 3 times instead of once.
  • Upbeat Duo
    :point_right: Gave me copies of friendly Upbeat minions — which let me discover more Upstarts and make them Golden easily.

:hammer_and_wrench: How the combo works:

  1. I started with 1 Upbeat Upstart and used Upbeat Duo multiple times to get copies.
  2. I managed to create 2 or 3 Golden Upbeat Upstarts thanks to the Duos.
  3. I played a Golden Drakkari Enchanter, so end-of-turn effects triggered 3×.
  4. Every 2 turns:
  • One Golden Upstart checks the highest HP on the board and sets its Health to double that.
  • Drakkari triples this → so it becomes 8× the current max Health.
  • The other Upstarts do the same, copying and amplifying the Health even more.
  1. This exponential scaling made one of the Upstarts explode in Health, eventually hitting the hard cap:
  • 2,147,483,647 HP
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That’s nothing new
There were designs that allowed that to happen very frequently

Originaly, a minion exceeding that amount would reset to 0 and instantly die, in both HS and BG
Now in BG it simply stops growing
In HS though it now displays the infinity symbol instead of the actual stats

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Has happened many many times… nothing new BG has been out a long time.

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Bah, humbug. You can get infinite attack or armor in wild.

Seriously, though… Nice job! I’ve never gotten anywhere near that high but I’m not a big BGs player.

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say hello to my 2/6 poisonous minion

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Can’t. No such thing as poisonous in battlegrounds. A 1/1 venomous on the other hand? That’ll do it! :wink:

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There are poisonous minions on top of the venomous ones, even in battlegrounds :eyes:

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Oops. I thought they’d completely replaced poisonous.

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Yes, because they didn’t set a limit for gameplay reasons. It’s to save memory on their servers.

I doubt it’s necessary to save that memory nowadays, but those Devs aren’t the brightest.

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They removed it from the tier 1-6 minions but it can still be found on some tier 7 and hero-specific minions

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That’s pretty high but you can actually hit the integer cap on many builds last season and previous seasons.

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It seems that BG is more and more randomness. You either get crazy synergistic stuff, or you get crap.

I had a quest to play Elementals or Quillboars and the reward was… A dragon that boosts other dragons. I had zero dragons in play at that point.

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That’s actually one of the MANY bugs that they need to address in the patch for BG’s. It shouldn’t be offering you a pivot at all if you are clearly building one tribe.

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