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This page lists all patch changes made in Battlegrounds.

Only intentional design changes are listed here. Minor changes to card text, mentioning of older descriptions, and underlying mechanics can be found on individual card or patch pages.

Changes are listed by patch, in date order.

Patch 21.0.0.88998[]

  • Bug fixes
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Y’shaarj’s Battlegrounds Hero Power would not take its newly summoned minion into account when deciding which warband attacked first.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Bivendare was causing visual issues when in a warband with golden Kaboom Bot.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Galakrond’s Greed was missing a tooltip for Discover.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Come One, Come All! Was missing a tooltip for Discover.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Avatar of N’Zoth was missing a tooltip for Deathrattle.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Sprout It Out! Was missing a tooltip for Taunt.
    • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Hero Powers for Aranna Starseeker, Infinite Toki, Millhouse Manastorm, Nozdormu, and Tess Greymane were missing a tooltip for Refresh.

Patch 20.8.2.86605[]

  • Bug fixes:
    • Updated the wording of Kurtrus Ashfallen’s fully upgraded Battlegrounds Hero Power to clarify its one-time completion (no functional change).
    • Updated Archdruid Hamuul in Battlegrounds so that when your minion types are tied, he will not refresh Bob’s Tavern with minion types that are not in the pool.
    • Adjusted Darkmoon Prizes to offer better Prizes for players on the bottom half of the leaderboard.

Patch 20.8.0.86601[]

Patch 20.4.2.86314[]

  • Minion updates
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed a bug that caused the Battlegrounds Rating to show as “0” when first opening the Player Profile.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the Player Profile to show number of Battlegrounds first place finishes instead of Battlegrounds Top 4 finishes, as intended.

Patch 20.4.0.84593[]

Patch 20.2.2.82994[]

Patch 20.2.0.81706[]

Patch 20.0.2.79904[]

Patch 20.0.0.77662[]

  • New heroes: Overlord Saurfang
  • New minions: Barrens Blacksmith (Note: Barrens Blacksmith not added to minion pool)
  • Removed minions: Piloted Shredder
  • Fixed a bug where minions that buff others would not visually update all minions that are spawned during combat.
  • Fixed a bug where the Prize Wall Hero Power would not show the correct number of turns left for players other than Tickatus.
  • Fixed a bug where secrets generated from Prestidigitation showed a Gold cost despite not costing any Gold to cast. (All Secrets now cost 0 gold)

Patch 19.6.0.74257[]

Patch 19.4.0.71003[]

Patch 19.2.1.70828[]

Patch 19.2.0.68600[]

Patch 18.6.1.65000[]

Patch 18.6.0.63160[]

  • New hero: Zephrys, the Great
  • Battlegrounds Parties Adjustments:
    • Post-game rating updates will no longer include results between players within the same group. When you queue Battlegrounds with a group now, your rating gains are only based on your results against players outside of your group.
    • You'll now be matched based on the highest player rating in your group, rather than the group's rating average. End of game rating updates will take this rating disparity into account.
    • Disabled 2-4 player Battlegrounds Parties for players above 10,000 rating.

Patch 18.4.2.62331[]

Patch 18.4.0.60352[]

  • New heroes: Al'Akir, Chenvaala, Rakanishu
  • New minions: Refreshing Anomaly, Sellemental, Molten Rock, Party Elemental, Arcane Assistant, Crackling Cyclone, Stasis Elemental, Deadly Spore, Majordomo Executus, Wildfire Elemental, Whirlwind Tempest, Lil' Rag, Nomi, Kitchen Nightmare, Tavern Tempest, Gentle Djinni, Lieutenant Garr
  • Returning minions: Micro Mummy
  • Returning heroes: Ragnaros the Firelord
  • Hero power updates:
    • DIE, INSECTS! - Now is a passive power and reads: "After you kill 20 enemy minions, get Sulfuras."
      • Sulfuras: At the end of your turn, give your left- and right-most minions +4/+4. (Passive)
  • Changes to Battleground rankings:
    • External Battlegrounds ratings will be reset for all players and a new progression system will be introduced. The new system is similar to the progression system players are familiar with from our constructed Ranked mode.
    • Players will see their rating reset to 0, and all new players will start with 0 rating. With every Top 4 placement, players will gain rating—up to 300 per win. A player's rating will never go below 0, and they cannot lose rating until they’ve climbed above 2000.
    • Between 2000 and 6000 rating, every 500 rating (2500, 3000, etc.) will act as a new rating floor where you cannot lose rating.
    • Below 6500 rating, players will earn a small bonus to their rating gains at the end of each match, which will in turn make for a faster climb.
    • Rating losses will remain consistent.
    • Matchmaking will now be done based on the player's invisible internal rating. Internal ratings for players will not be reset and will not be affected by the above modifications to external ratings. When your external rating is lower than your internal rating, you will gain rating faster.

Patch 18.2.0.58638[]

  • Removed minions:
    • Micro Mummy has been temporarily removed from the pool of possible minions due to technical issues.

Patch 18.2.0.58213[]

  • New heroes: Lord Barov, Jandice Barov, Forest Warden Omu
  • New minions: Micro Mummy
  • Removed minions: Mecharoo
  • Minion updates:
    • Pack Leader
      • Now a 2/3.
      • Now reads: "Whenever you summon a Beast, give it +2 Attack."
  • Battlegrounds Parties added, allowing matchmaking with private lobbies.
    • Up to 4 players will be able to queue for a normal ranked Battlegrounds match together.
    • Once the group lobby exceeds 4 players, the game type will automatically switch to a private Battlegrounds match for 5-8 players.
  • (Undocumented) Now, if the player's next opponent is a dead player, a sidebar on the left will show Kel'Thuzad with a dark turquoise glowing.

Patch 18.0.2.56359[]

Patch 18.0.0.54613[]

Patch 17.6.0.53261[]

Patch 17.4.1.51510[]

  • Minion updates:
  • Hero power updates:
    • Bloodfury - Now costs 1.
    • Imprison - Dormant minions no longer reduce the number of minions you see when refreshing Bob's Tavern (Unless you're at Tier 6 and have 2 Dormant minions in play, then it will reduce by 1).
    • Tinker - Now reads: "Mechs in Bob's Tavern have +1/+1."
    • Gonna Be Rich! - Now costs 2.

Server-side Patch (2020-06-16)[]

Patch 17.4.0.49534[]

Patch 17.2.0.47374[]

Patch 17.0.0.44222[]

Patch 16.6.0.43246[]

Server-side Patch (2020-03-05)[1][]

  • Removed heroes: Tirion Fordring
  • Returning heeroes: Queen Wagtoggle
  • Fixing an issue that causes Refresh to show you one less minion than it should.
  • Fixing an issue that causes Triple rewards to only offer 2 options.
  • Fixing an issue where Replicating Menace causes combat to desync between two players.
  • Fixing an issue where Demons summoned by Khadgar via Imp Mama do not have Taunt.
  • Fixing an issue where Hero Powers for Malygos and Galakrond cause unintended effects, such as triggering Holy Mackerel.
  • (Undocumented) Wax Warband now affects Dragons.

Patch 16.4.0.42174[2][]

Server-side Patch (2020-02-13)[]

Patch 16.2.0.39954[7][]

  • New heroes: Millhouse Manastorm, Tirion Fordring
  • New minions: Fiendish Servant, Imprisoner
  • Removed heroes: Sir Finley Mrrgglton
  • Returning heroes: Professor Putricide
  • Removed minions: Voidwalker
  • Minion updates:
  • Battlegrounds adjustments and improvements:
    • Players will not encounter the same opponent or Kel'Thuzad for 3 rounds since last fighting them unless there are 2 players remaining. (Not implemented until a server-side patch on January 29th)[8]
    • Scoreboard hovering added. When hovering over opponents on the scoreboard, the player is now able to see how many of the majority minion type is in the opponent's lineup. If the opponent has the same number of minions from multiple minion types, the scoreboard will display "Mixed Minions".flaoting
    • Cut down the animation time of the Poisonous animation
    • Reduced screen shake effect
    • Disabled spawn animations and snoring (summoning sickness) animations
  • Bugfixes:
    • Fixed an issue where a +0 rating was incorrectly shown at the end of the game.
    • Fixed an issue where minions would swap positions on the board when playing and moving them very quickly.
    • Fixed an issue where minions in the shop would be un-interactable if you clicked on them immediately after a refresh.
    • Fixed an issue where Battlegrounds buttons could not be clicked while the hand was enlarged on mobile devices.
    • Fixed an issue on mobile devices where tapping a minion would cause it to hover on the board.
    • Fixed an issue where Zapp Slywick would attack a Taunt minion before redirecting to his correct target.
    • Fixed an issue where a minion's voice-over line would play when buying a minion immediately after a reroll.
    • Fixed an issue where a minion resurrected by Redemption would not attack.
    • Fixed an issue that was causing the effects of normal Brann Bronzebeard and golden Brann Bronzebeard to stack.
    • Fixed an issue that was causing the effects of normal Baron Rivendare and golden Baron Rivendare to stack.
    • Fixed several issues related to spectating Battlegrounds games.
    • A fix has been implemented to prevent accidental use of the Hero Power during the hero select phase.
    • History for damage done to Kel'Thuzad now correctly includes damage from minions.

Patch 16.0.8.39282[]

  • Returning heroes: Patches the Pirate, Pyramad
  • Minion updates:
  • Hero power updates:
    • Temporal Tavern
      • Now costs 1.
      • Now reads: "Refresh Bob's Tavern. Include a Minion from a higher Tavern Tier."
    • Fire the Cannons! - Now reads: "At the start of next combat, deal 4 damage to two random enemy minions."
    • Brick by Brick - Now reads: "Give a random friendly minion +3 Health."
    • Wax Warband - Now reads: "Give a random friendly Mech, Demon, Murloc and Beast +2 Attack."
    • Burbling - Now costs 1.

Patch 16.0.5.38377[]

Server-side patch (2019-12-12)[9][]

Patch 16.0.0.37060[]

Server-side patch (2019-11-19)[10][]

Patch 15.6.2.36393[]

  • Entered open beta
  • Minion updates:
  • Hero power updates:
    • Temporal Tavern
      • Now costs 2.
      • Now reads: "Refresh Bob's Tavern. Add a minion from a higher Tavern Tier."
    • Bananarama Now reads: "Whenever you buy a Beast, add a Banana to your hand."
    • Bloodfury Now costs 2.

Patch 15.6.0.35747[]

  • Entered closed beta, available to Blizzcon 2019 attendees or Virtual Ticket holders.

References[]

 
  1. Kurt Ocher (March 5, 2020). 16.4.1 UPDATE - LIVE NOW!
  2. https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23312587/
  3. puffin on Twitter
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  7. Blizzard Entertainment (January 21, 2020). Galakrond’s Awakening – 16.2 Patch Notes – January 21. Retrieved on 2020-21-01.
  8. Hearthstone Battlegrounds Update: January 29. (January 29, 2020). Retrieved on 2020-2019-01-29.
  9. Kurt Ocher (December 12, 2019). 16.0.3 UPDATE - DECEMBER 12. Retrieved on 2019-2019-12-13.
  10. Blizzard Entertainment (November 19, 2019). Hearthstone Battlegrounds Update: November 19. Retrieved on 2019-11-24.
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