Three different features, all of them have felt this way now. It feels impossible to pivot or actually strategize, you either get a lucky opener and/or a lucky trinket (or whatever the new thing is) or you might as well concede and start over.
It feels more like I’m gambling than actually strategizing these days, because the early rounds and these unbalanced addons matter so darn much.
Can we please get more health?
It’s power creeped for the last two major patches. They probably think the games took too long. I’ve lost count of the times you have barely decided what tribe you’re even doing and before anyone is even level ~5 everyone starts dying left and right.
Most games i play these days in order to not get out tempoed i will skip the level up on 2 if at all possible and keep building a board. Especially if the opportunity presents itself to get 2 or more on turn 2. this meta seriously punishes anyone that tries to level up and sell their board off. You WILL take a 15 and probably back to back if you aren’t careful. The good thing is that many trinkets will allow you to sit on 4 for a couple of turns and still compete. So making the big board is worth the investment in most cases.
lower all the numbers.
You dont need more HP if you just lower the power levels of everything.
Exactly. The 15s on face are too early and often. If they want to make the games shorter they would be probably better off to do it in other ways; redesign the format differently to be shorter but not so abrupt; like fewer minions on board or a countdown instead of waiting for deaths but they’re probably also scared to ruin the “recipe”.
I think lowering the damage to a max of 5 before the first trinket and 10 before the second trinket would be good. Generally speaking though it has gotten too stupid. Basically if you don’t have over +400/400 in stats by turn 10 you’ve lost.
Alternative philosophy of designing this, would be the games taking much longer but you rank much faster. I suspect the reason they power creep it is old veterans complaining they don’t rank too fast (if the games take 20 minutes or more).
The battlegrounds team should be really proud of every season make this game worse. What a brilhant idea of balance is trinquets. Congrats for a season worse than buddies. Thanks for making me realize that i am the stupid one and tried to play this crap of a game. Thanks for the real good times, like 10000 seasons ago and hope this game end 
No need. Play better.
Having more health won’t make you suck one bit less at Battlegrounds.
I like the idea of the dmg cap being lower during the 2 different trinket phases. many matches you can make the absolute best choices made available to you every turn and it doesnt matter because on turn 7 you gonna face someone with a full board of scaled minions so huge that just one of them is larger than all of your board combined. auto 15 dmg.
its gotten to the point that Im so tired of always being offered the same 2 or 3 lesser trinkets no matter the hero i am or the minions i have on my board… that if Im not given something OP at all or a deferment to try again in 2 turns for a better trinket… i just bail and start a new match to try the slot machine again for a better chance.
Edit: The games are just far too short in terms of number of rounds you get to play… and far too long, in terms of how long the early rounds go on for so very long. Whereas the later turns such as turns 10+ have less and less time to the point that I had to do so much hand management and cycling of minions and gems that I never had a chance to even spend any of the gold I had that turn. The later turns need more time, and the earlier ones should have less. Cuz when I start turn 12 with 10 cards in hand, and like 4 of those are quilboars, after spamming the gems and selling off a minion and playing the next boar, my hand is being autofilled back up with each one played yielding 4 gems in hand again, it can take upwards of 75 secs just to empty that never ending full hand. let alone begin refreshing the tavern to look for anything to triple or tavern spells i can use or any key minions missing… and this is assuming im not in a beast lobby where their animations are gonna lessen my turn timer anyways…
I feel like the 2nd round til the 6th round could all use like 15 or 20 seconds fewer than they currently do… and from like turn 10 forward ought to be getting about 15-20 seconds more. especially with how one’s potential gold total can just keep climbing and the never ending full hand scenarios can happen.
Not everyone can play blindingly fast like Schyla and do like 250-500 apm in BGs… lol.