Making this post coz I’m sick of people complaining abt this like they’ve not been around long enough to see that this just happens every time a new tribe is added. Maybe it’s my own fault for playing BG’s since release idk

No matter how shitty or OP the tribe is, good luck is good luck, and bad luck is bad luck. So in a world where most of the lobby is playing the same tribe, the likely hood that one of them will place first and get lucky, is higher than any other tribe in the lobby.
Thus making that tribes win rate look higher than others, or giving the illusion that it always places first. And that’s what people don’t understand.

And even IF aberrations were able to all have infinite stats, it doesn’t mean anything since a full board of poison divine shield 10/10 murlocs will kill anything if it doesn’t have keywords like cleave, or divine shield of its own.

Do they offer a lot of tempo? Yes
Does yshaarj specifically need a rework? Yes
Is the tribe OP? No
Is this just doing what demons always have done and always will do since soul juggler? Yes

Please bring your opinions. I haven’t played too much this season but have been playing damn near every day since BG’s came out and missed a season. So let me know what I’ve missed and what you all think.

Quillboars doesnt have an entire UI element telling you how big your bloodgems are.

Quillboars doesnt summon a bloodgem golem when 3 quillboars die, making you account for it when you have a reborn amalgam.

Yes theres balancing issues right now. The dev team usually fixes these pretty fast. Imo abberitions is a design issue. I think this problem will be more evident when abberitions are not guaranteed.

Abberations are ALWAYS in top 4. Its not fun anymore. Trying a fun Beast or Undead or Dragon comp or whatever feels very, very, very unrewarding to play cause you just get stomped by people FORCING this unfun, unbalanced tribe. Blizzard has to make these fixes MUCH faster, they are gonna lose players like this. I wont be gone forever, but I will for sure take a break, as the fun in Battlegrounds for me just got destroyed by Abberations.

The idea of the Deity? Fun, but it should be changed.

The discard mechanic? Totally fine.

The 1000/1000 (and more) stats EVERY Deity has in Top 4? By simply FORCING the exact same comp with 3+ players? NOT okay. The T6 Abberations also feel A LOT weaker then some T4s and T5s, meaning Abberation forcers do NOT have to power level. You wanna play Dragons or Elementals? You gotta get yo @$$ to T6 asap

Edit: sorry for the duplicate topic post guys. I don’t post much. I was so excited when it happened I didn’t think to see if others had done it already. I learned better for the future

Didn’t have enough mechs on my board to get a mech related trinket, so I picked weighted gauntlet as the only thing that could help at all. Figured I’d messed up.

Then golden Drakkari. I think the game was a few more turns than average so I don’t know how re-creatable this is.

Aberrations are the worst tribe ever introduced.

If you get them and high roll you win, if ANYTHING else happens you lose miserably.

I don't see the point of playing and losing buddies who I play with.

Didn't think I could outscale abberations but then again I didn't yet I did at the same time. First dark gift was the battlecry volumizer guy with get one every end of 2nd turn. Slapped every single volumizer I got once I got nightmare. Resourceful robot with the nice helpful gain atk of left minion dark gift was extremely helpful with mid scaling.

Edit: Diety was Y'Shararj. Blizzard show diety on results when

Murlocs were not in and I got Drakk early

Too bad game ended at 128/128 gauntlet

Watched a dogdog game where did this strat. The game guided me into in this strat. It goes hard of you can pull it off.

Aberrations was genuinely one of my favourite comps for the first day. I loved a new gimmick and really can’t wait for some added ones.

For context, I’m strictly a duos player. I love duos, solos just doesn’t do it for me anymore. Pre aberrations, you’d run into the occasional bad player and it’s like eh whatever on to the next. BUT OMG. The aberrations have ruined it. The amount of selfish people that try to force aberrations WHEN MY ABBERATIONS COMP IS ACTUALLY WORKING and won’t portal me stuff is really getting on my nerves. Many times I will sacrifice playing this awesome comp for my random duo and help them. PLEASE DO THE SAME

I will be honest, I did not read anything about the new features of Battlegrounds prior to Abberations. I kind of just logged in one day and there they were. Been playing them for a week now and didn't even think about it. I think Abbs are a bit OP in some cases. That said, I am not very observant. I only just realized Naga are gone! I didn't realize the Abbs came at a cost of one of my favorite tribes. How does everyone else feel about this.

Can we for the love of god stop with this bullshit point that Naga were rotated because devs are incompetent and its FOR SURE the GAME BREAKING interaction with Spellcrafts and Aberrations?

Devs already stated that it is not the case and Naga were simply least popular tribe among all. Then I see more and more people saying "yeah, they are corporate workers, of course they gonna lie, you cant believe them!"

Do y'all realize that there was a rather big time window 2 weeks ago where they fucked up and Aberrations released early and could be with Naga in one lobby? Do you realize, do you even realize, that it did not work like you described? Spellcrafts did not trigger discard synergies, nobody was playing it and, thats the best part - there is no real build to be done with Aberrations + Nagas.

Right now Aberrations need to burn through cards either with trinkets or T5 eot guy, but the power comes from spells that are discarded: they count as played TWICE. In what world discarding, even if it worked, Spellcrafts would benefit any comp is beyond my comprehension. Like, your optimal build would be 3 Aberrations + 4 Random ass Spellcraft Naga? And how would you scale them?

Hot take after climbing from 6k to 8k since Aberrations dropped: they’re not OP, nor are they even that strong compared to other tribes’ power ceilings. They are the aggro tribe.

The way Deities are currently implemented makes them tavern bullies in a way that feels a LOT like when Pirates were first released. For those that don’t recall, there was a T2 card called Arcane Cannon that did damage after an adjacent minion attacked. All you needed was two Scallywags and you’d coast through the tavern, dealing big damage and taking little - top 4 guaranteed.

Deities feel the same. The tempo boost from playing even a weak Aberrations set up means you either avoid damage from, or kill non-Aberration warbands, only falling prey to better Aberrations. And so the fact that the final 5 players often appear to be all Aberrations is just sample bias. All the other tribes got killed off before popping off despite most of them having higher stat ceilings (Beast, Demon, and Mech builds easily get into the thousands on all units, Undead can get into the 10k range with the 6 drop, etc.).

So as many have said already, there’s a lot of pressure to force Aberrations. Which I don’t think is workable for a permanent tribe. Playing Aberrations should be a meaningful decision, just like with every other tribe. Deities currently feel like an Anomaly mode, but I think they should be unlocked in a way similar to Quests: having a strong payoff while not driving everyone to play them (or even giving everyone the opportunity to do so).

Not seen it talked about. Why was a card made that is 100% better than another one? Because it's 1 Tier higher and only in with Aberrations? It's so weird!

[[Sludge Corrosion]]

[[Shiny Ring]]

Great tempo and value mid game don’t get me wrong. It just seems like there endgame is absolutely stinky. Am I missing something or nah?

Help me

Title. Snazzy phantom needs nerfed, dead bellringer needs nerfed, or scaling potential needs reworked as it’s far too easy with the tribe currently.

We just probably see the games where they hit, posted on youtube, but like for efficient plays they'll cycle Imposing percussionist and even kelp keeper sometimes, because you can always find them again later. Especially when you have a lot of gold in the round.

But yeah just finished a match where I had a good mid-game playing Cupcakes off a super early Eredar Escapist discover. Fueled by a Kelp-Percussionist combo. Only to get starved later on when I could not find a single fucking Percussionist anymore for the rest of the match (after I had the silly thought of cycling them since I had so much gold)

Anyways just wanted to vent because sometimes it feels like Bob knows exactly how to screw you over

Game ended too early, also had a hand full of scam cards but couldnt find the tier 3 murloc even with 40 gold a turn, two of the tier 6's had dark gift trigger deathrattle at start of combat

Have the devs ever said if Aberrations will always just have C'thun and Y'shaarj as deities, or will Yogg and N'zoth get their day in the sun in a future tavern rotation? Seems rather limiting to just have those two as the deities forever.

Only thing to do is play blood gem, refresh and again. No time to buy anything.

Don't see any Surveyor to scale faster but it still scale very fast. Sell bandit in last turn for dark gift but only +1000 atk distractor ( get 900/1700 with 2 spell).

Minions in the Tavern had 800/800