Patch Preview 29.6.2 Balancing Buddies! Hearthstone Battlegrounds

Patch 29.6.2 is coming out soon, and here we have a preview! Lets talk about what some of these changes might be, and might mean! It is all hypothetical so there are no wrong answers!
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- Content Chapters --
0:00 Intro
0:51 Minions Buffed
1:41 Boon of Beetles Buff
2:39 Hero Powers Nerfed
3:52 Minions Nerfed
6:38 Buddies Changes
7:05 Buddies Buffed
11:43 Buddies Nerfed
21:24 Final Thoughts
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[@Heretic721]

I am sorry about the noise! There are a few bumping sounds during the video due to the stand for my microphone touching the table leg!

[@nopenopeington3727]

When you're in a lobby without undead and beasts it actually feels pretty good to play but ghoul is nuts

[@FunkyToe369]

I'm very surprised by Rallier buff, dragons are really common midgame tempo in my games and Rallier is the reason for that. Maybe dragons aren't doing very well in winning lobbies but they seem great midgame. I love Deathscale, I think its so fun to play with but I also can definitely acknowledge its the main culprit in many many problematic combos so it needs to go.

[@stevenklnes7148]

I could see Alexstraza's hero power moving to "at the start of the turn" to prevent it from becoming too valuable

[@nogai2296]

In my experience deaths head sage has been absolutely insane. The only time I played it was in a duos lobby and being able to get 12 blood gems for 2 gold per turn was extremely stupid.

[@ryanbacker4870]

looks like you mistook voone for voljin which would explain why you found it confusing. That being said, I though voone already had a decent buddy so I'm not sure what would improve it, maybe bumping it down a tier?

[@Heretic721]

Oooo I DID! That makes a little more sense at least!

[@TheUnoptimalGuy]

They could change Cabra to only trigger when a deathrattle dies, not when triggered. Would be a significant nerf.

[@rattusgrenadus8291]

@@TheUnoptimalGuy or only buff beasts/undead. when even titus is like 300/300 it's hopelessly stupid

[@Heretic721]

I think a good nerf would be to nuke it from orbit at this point. The crimes it has committed do not warrant mercy!

[@QuickSilverKitsune]

Think the craziest I saw Cabra do is turn a 6/3, JUST SPAWNED, Undead/Dragon 6/3 into a 146/143. Pretty sure a bugged Sneed Buddy caused it, cause it was doing Death rattles that hadn't been present on the board at the start of the fight

[@TheUnoptimalGuy]

@QuickSilverKitsune wasnt a bug, right now cabra gives 2/2 per death rattle trigger whether they spawn or not, so if we had 1 single monster with 5 deathrattles on it from Sneed. We attack in with a golden macaw and a regular Titus that 4 card combo just gave our entire board 40/40 since we triggered the 5 death rattles 4 times each. Gets bigger when you have more than 4 cards but yeah with the same setup you'd only get 2/2 if it only gave stats when a deathrattle dies.

[@MrMudder100]

I think ghoul-acabra will have a text change to "the first time a deathrattle triggers give X/X". They're probably gonna revert the trigor back to giving health and the sky bird will probably lose stats and go to +1/+1

[@MachinegunnerMugZ]

10:04 Voone is getting buffed, not Vol'Jin though XD

[@jacobwhitaker9477]

I also probably have 100 games and no alex offered. Thanks for the vid

[@fam3871]

BGs Duos has been a BLAST ever since the release, but now with buddies I'm feeling like returning to standard until they rotate them away 😞

[@dall1786]

I must have the worst luck with Snake eyes. I've gotten a hero three or four times and the buddy has never rolled above a 2 for me ever.

[@agunlogisteam]

Havent played snake eyes but i do got the buddy from scabs buddy. Next turn it highrollinh pretty hard and got the spell to make it golden instantly 😂 Do i won that game? Nope. Ghoulpacabra reigns supreme. 😂

[@Begeru]

Snake Eyes is insane. Free spells every turn and all it takes it one Eyes of the Earthmother and you basically have a money machine.

[@v3ktors]

You say it's bad until on turn 6 you discover a ghoul and the game is over :))

[@laura-sandy1492]

Well, good thing they're buffing Moon Bacon Jazzer if they're removing Draconic Deathscale then, love that card, can't believe it's going. But will be very happy to see Gem Smuggler returning!

[@kidd1991]

Quilboar definitely needs some help with scaling because the meta is simply too fast. Beast + ghoul nerfs were expected. Slightly surprised to see dragon buffs, but the minions that are being targeted aren't hugely impactful so I can't imagine it making a big difference. Sad to see deathscale go :(

[@Raluid]

With this upcoming managerie video, are you including buddies? I wouldn't be disappointed if you didn't:P😊

[@Heretic721]

I never include buddies in guides as there are too many use cases. The buddy section alone would take a hour!

[@Fipul30]

@@Heretic721 my guess Buddies use case is: 1. VERY Meta dependant. 2. is TOO Hectic to get it into 1hr video... (you basically need to decide on the fly every single turn in this meta)

[@rattusgrenadus8291]

...theyre buffing midrange dragons? and the beetle spell? ...what...the fuck...

[@synchronium24]

I wish they could find a sweet spot for Beasts instead of doing a series of massive buffs and nerfs. Professor Putricide is a below average hero, except for the top 1% of players. Very bizarre that they're nerfing it.

[@rattusgrenadus8291]

i think ghoul-a-cabra at the least shouldnt give buff to all minions but yeah it is one of the hall of fame dumb cards im baffled they added

[@terry9819]

The game is so fast at the moment I have found it really hard to spend the 65 gold to get Thorims hero power to work. I'm probably missing a trick but maybe a slight cost reduction?

[@tiltmonger9448]

Thorim is one of the worst heroes in the game,so youre not the only one struggling.

[@Heretic721]

Thorim definetly falls behind in this meta. It is really hard not having a hero power for so many turns.

[@thelasthope247games2]

played a duo last night and they had a golden mcaww trigger into a beatboxer that must have had 75 death rattles with a barren on there board goula-cabra triggered so long I thought the game had broken combat ended there minions gained +600 +600 and I had one second to perform my next turn...…. true blizzard balancing

[@stanleycapps4108]

idk. honestly tier 4 is fine with Alex. you have NO hero power until then *and* there's a point where it doesn't matter anyway because you're arleady built - let alone it's a choice of 3 dragons per turn and no guarantees of what you get. maybe dropping it from a choice of 3 to a choice of 2 if they really think it needs a nerf

[@________-by2px]

Deathscale is comptelty broken with the buddies, I don't know why the dev allowed it to exist in this meta.

[@Begeru]

Definitely gonna miss Draconic Deathscale. So much craziness and value generation

[@Heretic721]

I would be fine with it if they just removed all the battle cry buddies!

[@alexw4482]

Hope the balance changes make buddies more palatable for you Heretic, I’m personally not a fan of them either.

[@Nathan-hl4uq]

Dragon boards haven't won games since the nerf. This helps their mid game, but they still won't win the lobby, they already are fine in the mid game.

[@________-by2px]

With smuggler and synthesizer buffed and hunter added, maybe kalecgos builds will be able to work now. Although the removal of deathscale hurt this plan and the transition from permanent buff dragon to battlecry dragons is complicated. Hunter also helps permanent buff dragon to scale health, which is the main problem of the build. Although it doesn't seems that good at it unless I missed a combo.

[@Drahnier123]

I'm with you in that I'm not a fan of buddies

[@petarvujicic7224]

Its not Vul'jin. It was rockmaster voone

[@Heretic721]

Doh! You are right.

[@oryx9100]

Is Madam goya even in the game, I played close to 100 games of duo bg's and I have never once saw an opponeny goya or goya being one of the hero choices I have or my teammates hero choices

[@Heretic721]

I can find videos from the last seven days on KZbin with her in it, but they could be older and posted late. I try not to play Duos myself.

[@tsundude4320]

Yep that tier 4 beast needed this nerf

[@danielcairns7203]

After they last served beasts they were atrocious tho I hope it doesn't relegate them to obsucrariy again

[@tonyshor3434]

0:35, well, I don't like buddies too, but I don't like them so much, that I'm not "very happy for you", like, not at all. If not for KZbin policies, I would describe everything I did with the devs, their moms, and those who enjoy the buddies so much, that they had to return to the game, but, let's call it a "tea party".

[@ignacioperez5479]

Double nerf to alex?

[@Heretic721]

It does seem that way to me.

[@Fipul30]

Me and my brother discussed Ghoul-acabra few days ago. There is a list of our solutions: 1. Change it to +1/1. 2. Make it Specific tribes (may be 2, 3 or 4). 3. Delete this Casino BS pls.

[@Heretic721]

3 please!

[@1800LUNATIC]

i personally kinda hate buddy meta. Dont really like quest meta either

[@lonniehutchinsonv4758]

Agree can’t stand buddies

[@nikolasioakimidis3003]

Wtf...

[@azorahigh3218]

yeah lets try to balance the least balanced version of the game , instead of getting rid of some of the useless heroes so people don't auto concede every 2 or 3 games.

[@MachinegunnerMugZ]

Yeah, because braindead concede players are very important for the game!

[@azorahigh3218]

@@MachinegunnerMugZ I'm one of those brain-dead people,I refuse to play drekthar and inge the iron hymen and a few other useless heroes I don't know the name of because they suck so hard

[@MachinegunnerMugZ]

@@azorahigh3218 Drek'Thar's Buddy is great with Mechs and Undead, Inge's Buddy is great with Naga and Demons. Braindead people sucks hard, not BG heroes.

[@poggerino2578]

Inge is really strong thanks to the buddy if you play correctly I gotten 128/128 stats with one hero power

[@MrSakki14]

Beast animation are ruining Bg's for me. Take to damn long so many DR with the fucking Beast. And now on days everyone is playing Beast

[@Brandon-qr1xz]

Thank God Trigore is getting nerfed. So tired of players crutching on it. Braindead playa