It was weak before, but at least you could give health to minions you actually use. We've all used old Pyramad to increase a Baron's health. It wasn't game changing or anything, but it was alright.

The new one is straight up useless. You don't even get to choose the minion you get, so you buff some random garbage. And unless you play a tavern buffing build (which only kicks in much later in the game), you're doubling the health of minions that have 2 to 5 HP on average.

Why was it redesigned? It's worse than before. Just make it give +1 health to one (or two) minion you select, increasing at the end of your turn. That way you can make it synergize with Drakkari. Even then it will still suck but much less than it does now.

Edit: the Dark Gift is actually called “Fresh Perspective” but you get the idea. It’s “deathrattle: gain 2 free refreshes.”

This Dark Gift is legit game breaking. It’s a top tier T4 unit’s Battlecry… on a deathrattle… available on TURN 3. Hitting 1-2 early is a free win if you use the econ right, and that’s without mentioning its insane synergies with Frigid Blossom (case in point from doggo) or units like Deathstrider.

Refreshing has silently warped the entire meta into Dark Gifting early with hopes of hitting it, and it makes it so games are decided by RNG on turn 3-4. It’s fun to hit, don’t get me wrong, but it’s completely broken. Either switch it to 1 refresh or bump it up to T3/4 or higher units.

any advice? mobile player

I think most of us have accepted that sometimes you're going to lose to someone who's already been eliminated. It's always been part of Battlegrounds, and I get it. Somebody has to fight that board, and sometimes you're going to lose. It is what it is.

But there's one change involving Aberrations that I genuinely don't understand.

When Aberrations first came out, if you fought someone who had already been eliminated, killing their Aberrations wouldn't summon the Deity. You could still lose the fight, but at least you weren't dealing with that mechanic on top of everything else.

Apparently, that was changed, because now the Deity spawns even when you're fighting someone who's already out.

What I find strange isn't even the mechanic itself. It's that this was apparently something worth going back and fixing.

With performance issues, other bugs, and plenty of things that could use attention, this just seems like such an odd thing to prioritize. The previous behavior was one of those little things that made an otherwise frustrating situation slightly less frustrating. Now that small upside is gone, and I'm struggling to see what was gained from the player's perspective.

I'm genuinely curious if there's a balance reason for this that I'm overlooking, because otherwise it feels like one of those changes where leaving things alone would've been perfectly fine.

edit: I wrote this in a comment but i'll add it here too. I think people are missing my point. I'm not arguing that they should revert the change or that the old behavior was how the mechanic was intended to work.

My point is, why go out of their way to fix this particular interaction in the first place?

It was basically a happy accident. Fighting someone who's already eliminated has always been a necessary but sometimes frustrating part of Battlegrounds, and this was one tiny situation where that frustration was reduced.

Nobody needed them to fix this. It wasn't hurting anyone. It was just a small, unintended benefit for the player. With all the other issues in the game, it's baffling to me that someone took the time to make sure even that little benefit disappeared, instead of spending that dev time on something actually needed. Just feels silly to me.

I play BG Duos with randoms. I’m always checking my partner's board and passing them key pieces for their build, but I rarely get that same energy back and it’s driving me nuts. Even when my absolute core minion shows up in their shop, they just ignore it. And no, I’m not pinging or begging for cards on turn 1—I’m talking about essential mid-to-late game stuff. So real talk, BG Duo players: is playing with randoms just like this, or am I getting super unlucky with my teammates?

Yes it's my own fault for having twitchy fingers but I can't be the only one

3 games in a row and each of them had beat boxer, immediately outscaling anything I could hope to do.

One player even had two of them.

Does it just always appear if you play mechs?

Because there's some trinkets I'd love to get every time whenever I play a specific tribe.

Dragons would be damn good if I could guarantee myself timewarped poet

Legitimately. It’s like a really shitty version of Sylvanas with less armor, and a hero power that has absolutely no synergy outside of niche discard aberration comps that are quickly outscaled by most everything else.

My highest minions ever

Had a golden double dark gift Tarec(Free rerolls and +3 attack a card played) when the lesser trinket came out so I decided to sell all other minions copy it with my Zerek hero power I got as Finlay then sat back and had fun. Also picked up the Vanndar hero power that allowed me to run 3 at a time. Also luckily no one decided to run a leeroy or the spore so I just got to see the biggest minions allowed to me. (ended turn 14)

When it was first introduced, everyone was talking about its ability to stabilize a board with stats. I initially thought that was insane given how pathetic its stats were— than it was buffed... I guess?

Right now, it feels like such insane bait. Ironically, it's a decent card to buy as filler— but such a horrifically awful card to buy if you're playing greedily.

It really seems like a card made to stabilize— but it ends up just doing the opposite, a card made to help anyone else but you. I think it should be a 1/1 that gains 50/50 at under 15— but let me know if you have a better idea.

The main screen freezes and if I manage to get into a game it will highlight but not let me select a hero. Anyone else having similar issues?

Had no right winning but the poison cheesed it for me 😭

I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. I get good early game tempo, I stay above 30 until turn 7-8. So naturally, I upgrade my tavern early on so I can contest high tier cards. The problem is, what do I do when I don't get ANY high tier cards in the tavern?

After I level up, my comp is strong enough to buy me a turn or two, but even after I don't get any high tier cards to help my board or give me any direction.

For example I win streak until turn 8 or something, and I'm tier 5. I refresh my shop like 2 times, no tier 5. I roll 2 more, still no tier 5s, or maybe 1 that doesn't give me any direction (panda or amalgam). Next turn same thing occurs.

You guys might think I'm typing out of frustration after 1 bad game, but I am having this problem in multiple games, and I lost like 2k mmr just purely on not getting any high tier minions when I should be getting them.

Do I just stabilise with wasted econ and die out and play for 5th? Which is what I'm already doing then when do I actually get parts that I need to strengthen my board?

Anyone else having this? On phone it will “log me in” but then won’t connect. On PC, the Blizzard app says loading, then reverts to “Play” without the app even coming up.

Teammate apparently didn't like that I went 3 on 3, started putting the x on every card and then bought minions or hasty excavation to kill us faster. Gotta love duos sometimes

To note: you can only choose a minion type that's available in a lobby.

It's so hard to scale the unit late game and it feels like there's no synergy 🥲

EN https://hsbg.cards/guides/37.0-meta-guide

UA https://hsbg.cards/ua/guides/37.0-meta-guide

A solid meta guide by DuckFatherUA on the tribes, late game and other things