#365 - The Angry Chicken: “Built to Tilt”

05/12/2020

• Garrett • Jocelyn

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Battlegrounds

17.2 Patch

Via Blizzard

Minions

• Dire Wolf Alpha has been removed from the minion pool.

New Minion

• Rabid Saurolisk

• [Tier 1, Beast] 3 Attack, 1 Health.
• After you play a minion with Deathrattle, gain +1/+1.

• Gold: 6/2 | +2/+2

Heroes

New Heroes

Players with Battlegrounds perks will have immediate access to playtest these three new heroes before they are fully unlocked on May 26.

Lady Vashj

• Evolving Electricity [Passive]: After you upgrade Bob’s Tavern, replace his minions with ones of a higher Tier.

• This does not mean a higher Tier than what you just upgraded to. It means higher than the Tier each individual minion was.

Maiev Shadowsong

• Imprison [Cost 1]: Make a minion in Bob’s Tavern Dormant. After 2 turns, get it with +1/+1.

Kael’thas Sunstrider

• Verdant Spheres [Passive]: Every third minion you buy gains +2/+2.

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News

17.2 Continued

Via Blizzard

Deck Ordering

You can now reorder your deck lists! While viewing your deck list in the Collection Manager, press and hold a deck button to enter “rearranging” mode. Once you’re in rearranging mode, just click and drag on your decks to order them! Deck rearranging will not work until all nine starting heroes (excluding Demon Hunter) are unlocked.

Zephrys the Great Improvements

• Fixed a bug where Zephrys would miss lethal when there was an enemy Taunt minion with Lifesteal that you could attack into.
• Fixed a bug where Zephrys would prefer not to transform/Silence certain high-stat Deathrattle minions (such as Waxadred).
• Fixed a bug where Zephrys could miss lethal using Unleash the Hounds.
• Fixed a bug where Zephrys would not offer Silence options for minions with the “Can’t Attack Heroes” effect.
• Zephrys is now slightly less likely to offer single-target removal for next turn.
• Zephrys will no longer offer Natalie Seline for next turn.
• Zephrys may now offer Polymorph instead of Hex in a few cases where it would be better for your opponent to have a 1/1 than a 0/1 with Taunt.
• Swipe will now fill the AoE category (instead of single target damage) if Zephrys expects it to be used against the enemy hero.
• Improved how Zephrys evaluates enemy minions that have low base stats for their cost, but are buffed.

Game Improvements and Bug Fixes

• End of Season rewards

• Your total rewards accumulated within the current Ranked season are now highlighted in green inside your Rewards Chest, which can be found at the top of the Quest Log.

• Collection Manager filter panel (mobile)

• The filter panel will now remain open after using Search.
• The filter panel will now hide once cards are dragged to a deck and will reappear after they’ve been added.
• The filter panel will no longer be dismissed until the “Done” button has been pressed.

• Card text for Teron Gorefiend has been updated to be more technically accurate: “Destroy all other friendly minions. Deathrattle: Resummon them with +1/+1.”

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Grandmasters begins the journey to the playoffs

• 4 weeks of Round robin before the Playoffs/Relegation matches.
• Week 1 is complete and we’re now in Week 2.

Relegation Reminder

• Division B Ranks 1-4 play for two spots in the Playoffs, and join 1-6 from Division A for a total of 8 players
• Division B 5th & 6th go to the Relegation Bracket against Division A’s 7th & 8th place players.
• Division B Ranks 7 & 8 are automatically relegated.

Who’s currently at the bottom

• NA Div. A

• Nalguidan, Monsanto, Empanizado, & Eddie are all tied for last in Div. A.

• All 4 have 0 wins.
• Nalguidan & Eddie have only played one round each.

• NA Div. B

• PapaJason, PNC, & Purple are tied at 0 wins.

• PapaJason & PNC have only played one round each.

• Note: All players will play 7 Rounds across 4 weeks. So every player gets a 1 Round Week.

Group Results

• NA
• EU
• Asia-Pacific
• Official Site

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Art Stream

Senior Concept Artist Luke Mancini will stream the entire card back creation process live, from concept to completion, in a 3-part series on Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone!

Part I: Concept

When: Monday, May 18 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT

What to expect: We’ll go through the ideation and rough sketch bit, using 3 potential concepts for the new card back. By the end of the stream, we’ll have committed to our favorite option.

Part II: Progress

When: Wednesday, May 20 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT

What to expect: We’ll get the pieces in place to start on our design, fleshing things out with color and hard lines.

Part III: Finalizing

When: Thursday, May 21 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT

What to expect: We’ll dot our i’s and cross our t’s and walk through the rest of the finishing touches. By the end of the stream, you will see a final or near-final version of the September Monthly Card Back!

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Emails

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Ben

Hello!

For about the last week, I feel like all I’ve done is lose. I struggled to find a deck I liked in this current expansion cycle and I eventually landed on a highland hunter. It’s the first class I fell in love with and it’s never let me down. My goal for the month was to go for the Gold (rank)! I’m currently at Silver 9 after I got to Silver 7. However, it feels like no matter what deck I play, I’m just getting wrecked by aggro. Demon hunter, warrior, zoo, hell I got aggroed by a res priest. I eventually said screw it and switched to res priest for a more control deck. First game I played was against a quest priest and eventually ran out of stream and lost that game.

I’ve tried playing “funner” decks like libram Paladin or totem shaman and I’m just running into the same problem. I’ve even been playing battlegrounds because losing feels less bad there but, every game I’ve played this week has been a loss there as well.

I haven’t felt this much losing fatigue since Mean Streets and facing nothing but control Paladin. I know I’m not at a high rank or whatever and it feels weird complaining about aggro from a hunter player, but losing just doesn't feel good right now. Any advice on how to overcome this grotesque hump of losing would be great.

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King Doopliss

Greeting Combative Chickens,

I've played a LOT of battlegrounds since November, over 150 hours and still going thus far, and I've noticed in that time that there are a LOT of runs that just start off bad due to no error on your part. Just bad offering of the early minions, bad attacks, or get paired up against afk on turn 3, etc. I've seen this happen a LOT and when it happens it's almost like you started the game at 28 HP or less. "Starting" with hp that low can basically mean you don't have the time to find and assemble a comp that's capable of winning (getting a 4th place or higher), especially if your "fowl" luck continues.

So i got to thinking, what if you had just a bit more hp going into the late game?

What if you basically took 1 less damage on each loss? That early bad luck streak losing 3 or 4 round adds up to an extra 3 or 4 hp in this proposed change, which could make a big difference in the midgame. My idea is that they reduce the damage each tavern tier would do, so a hero who's tavern tier 1 right now does 1 + the rank of all their remaining minions, and in this idea they'd do 0 + their minions. Tavern tier 2 would deal 1 + minion ranks, tier 3 would deal 2 + minion ranks, etc.  Basically the idea is to reduce the punishment for the early game losses which you don't have much control over but not really impact damage you take in the late game by too much so you can still knock players out/get knocked out.

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