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- What’s New In Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
- What Is Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
- How To Play Hearthstone Battlegrounds
- Best Hearthstone Battlegrounds Builds
Hearthstone Battlegrounds is the ever-popular auto-battler mode for Blizzard's free-to-play Hearthstone.
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This complete guide covers all the brand new content from Battleground's regular patches (often with new minions and hero changes), as well as the best build guides for different heroes and minion types.
What’s New In Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
Hearthstone Battlegrounds recently received patch 20.8 with a large list of changes to heroes abilities, a new minion, as well as the reintroduction of the Darkmoon Faire Prizes. A second, smaller update, 20.8.2, made it so that better Darkmoon Faire prizes are given to players lower on the MMR leaderboard. The next update has been hinted to be an overhaul of the Pirate minion tribe.
- Everything Added In Patch 20.8 (July 2021)
- Everything Added In The Quilboar Update (May 2021)
What Is Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
Hearthstone Battlegrounds is a game mode in Hearthstone in which eight players battle against each other in a series of 1v1 head-to-heads. The mode is a combination of recruiting minions and picking the right placement and strategy for your units, with the ultimate goal of being the last one standing in the lobby.
Is Hearthstone Battlegrounds Pay To Win?
Each player has a choice of heroes when the game starts: two if you don't have the Battlegrounds Perks subscription, four if you do. You pick one hero to play with. There are currently 63 heroes in the pool, each with its own unique hero ability. All players have a chance to play all heroes, although those with a subscription to the perks can get early access to new heroes.
Do You Need Cards For Hearthstone Battlegrounds?
No! All the "cards" in Battlegrounds are actually minions, which are all free. Minions in the game are categorized into different minion tribes: Murlocs, Dragons, Demons, Beasts, Elementals, Pirates, Quilboars, Mechs, and Neutral cards that do not belong to any tribe. Minions of the same tribe often have different ways of interacting with each other. Complex strategies revolve around each of the minion tribes.
How To Play Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Hearthstone Battlegrounds evolves over a roughly twenty-minute game period. Players take it in turns to battle against each other, split up with buy periods where you can purchase minions that have an impact on your board.
The Different Turns
The turn-timer dictates how long you have to buy minions and shuffle your board around. You earn one extra gold per round, starting with three and ending with ten. Each minion costs three gold to buy and can be sold back to Bob (the guy in charge of the Tavern and minion pool) for one gold.
Leveling Up The Tavern Tier
As well as purchasing minions, you can level up the tavern tier of minions, ranging from tavern tier one to tavern tier six. The minions on each tavern tier are different, although you will be shown minions of all taverns up to the tavern that you've leveled to. Power leveling has long been the meta in Battlegrounds: you want to balance how powerful your board is with how quickly you reach the top tavern tier minions. Typically, the higher the tavern tier, the more powerful the minions become.
Attack Order And RNG
Minions attack from left to right, although their targets on the opponent's board are random. This is why there is a certain amount of RNG to who will win a battle in Battlegrounds. Even with a superior board, if the hits don't work out, they don't work out.
Certain tools, like the Hearthstone Deck Tracker, can be used to track the percentage outcome of matches if you want to be reminded of just how unlucky you were in that round.
Best Hearthstone Battlegrounds Builds
The meta of Battlegrounds is ever-changing. Heroes and minions are regularly tweaked and changed, so it pays to be on top of what is the most successful track to victory. The recently added Quilboars have dominated the meta, but that is always subject to change. These build guides cover strategies for new minions and heroes:
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