First game trying it without anticipating such changes being made to all classes.
Elemental has so many end of turn buffs that I got most of them over 500/500 and two of them over 1000/1000.
Feels like stronger than Demon , the old Demon for sure.
Not sure what to expect for the other new tribes.
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LOL they are hilarious OP and broken. For the Frist time i have no desire to play Standard or BG’s because Standard is so boring and BG’s is garbage because Elementals win EVERY Lobby. Three tribes have literally no builds. They really need to start testing this stuff because it’s just not fun.
What’s the strat for running elementals this season?
Here’s a snapshot of the current meta. It’s an end of turn build combo with played that scales your board AND the shop at the same time. If you hit even part of the setup you can scale so early it’s crazy.
The only build i have found that is just as fast with close to that scaling is the Combat Quillboar build.
I am surprised not to see that elemental minion that buffs the shop end of turn.
I havent had much luck with elementals. are all the ones that scale like t6/t5 or mainly reliant on favorable trinkets?
t4 has this elemental that buffs shop 4/3 every turn, it’s a key
Yeah the ONLY elemental ive been able to actually obtain that does ANY type of buffing to anything is the felamental and the yellow one that gives a random friendly ele after ive played an ele. I ranked up to t5 the last 3 games trying to run elementals and nothing in the tavern exists aside from whatever my trinket choices or hero ability is able to deliver every round. I was lucky i was able to come across making a golden rylak to put next to my felamental so i was able to get the tavern minions into the low 20/20s by the end. but my final 2 matches I wasnt able to kill a single one of the other players elementals at all…
How I know Elementals are broken in BG:
Previous to this season, I have never been able to get Elementals to scale enough to win a tavern. Ever. Hundreds upon Hundreds of BGs. Just couldn’t do it.
Since Tuesday, I’ve done it like 10 times lol. They feel like Quilboar broken back when Quilboar was really strong.
Also, same thing for Naga. I’ve only gotten 1st with Naga before only a handful of times. Now it’s Naga and Elementals as my favorite go to tribe. So incredibly strong.
I’m not complaining, I like it. But it’s 100% gotta be broken if I’m winning with them. I can’t imagine how good they are with people who were good with them BEFORE this. My goodness, I do not want to be in lobbies with those people.
EDIT: Especially with Elementals and Dragons in the tavern. I play Tamsin and my Tarecgosa will be at like 5000/5000 lol
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And get in early so the trinkets will favor you early. There is a trinket that triggers your end of turn effects twice!
I was able to get one golden and two plain Blazing Greasefire on board. Golden version still only buff 3/2. So three together that’s 9/6. Then there is some other added buffing effects plus the double end of turn effect. So pretty much my shop goes up 40/40 every turn. Then I try to grab the magnetic ones and the spell that can devour stats to others.
Was very fun
I cannot believe they buffed this absolutely BROKEN trinket. You can now stack two for first 4 rolls. That’s basically GG for the rest of the lobby when you hit that.
The first balance pass for this season is going to be a bloodbath of trinkets and minions.
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They’re too busy letting streamers get a head start and play a week earlier than anyone else rather than beta testing widely.
This isn’t even the most broken one, imo. In my limited play, the one that gives elementals in the tavern +4+4 for the game after you play an Elemental is sooooo busted. Combine that with the elementals that buff the tavern like +10/10 each turn and you can go bonkers.
And I managed to get the Tier 7 minion golden which gains an Elementals FULL stats when you sell it…in the words of Zeddy…BAROKEN.
So every elemental you play is like a 100/100 base stats and you sell it and that Elemental gains the full stats…hahaha give me a break
It’s broken in two ways. First it gives several of the top builds the tier 6 minions they need right away before anyone else gets them. Secondly it is removing all the tier 6 minions for players trying for similar builds or those minions in other builds. It’s just all around too cheap for what it does so early in the game.
All the top players insta take it and talk about how it’s an auto pick regardless of your build because you get access to tier 6 WHILE having a solid stable board and not having to tier rush it. Pretty much every lobby i am in someone in the final 3 has the trinket and is usually stronger than everyone else. The opponents don’t even know you are removing minions they might want later and are thus playing a dead build.
That Elemental trinket is good for sure if you have the elemental build going but the Candle is good for ANY build even if you have no build you can just draft a bunch of tier 6 minions and have a reasonable board to build from. It’s even more disgusting when you get it a turn early with the lesser trinket or Buttons.
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Yeah that makes sense. I have only seen that trinket once though and haven’t seen any of my opponents play them yet, and I’m already playing people that had 8k MMR in the 2nd day (there were only about 100 people above 8k on day 2)
I’m currently only about 3.8k but haven’t caught my true MMR yet.
As these things start getting more refined, I imagine I will see that trinket more often. But that +4+4 elemental pretty much guarantees you top 4 if you have an Elemental build going already because it has massive swing potential.
Elementals are way overtuned imo
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Oh elementals are ridiculously OP. The only build i found that can scale with it so fast is combat QB’s.
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If you can get Naga with permanent Thaumaturgist spells and Zesty gives you double back, it’s crazy scaling when you put those on the Naga that triples stats during combat. I outscaled several Elemental builds with that. You also end up getting handfuls of spellcraft spells every turn with the deathrattle naga and reborn so you have like 10 Thaumaturgist spells each turn which are just nuts when they are hitting for 50 each and are permanent.
To make that truly work you need to hit the naga DR trinket so you are just swamped with spellcraft that sit in the Que. I did that build once and it was crazy. The DR naga had reborn each turn and was buffing my board 200/200 each DR on top of what i already had.
there is. There’s the guy that buffs all elementals in the taverns at end of turn.
U just grab a stabilizing trinket and win grab drakkari and the tier 6, easy win.