Tomorrow, Hearthstone Duel and Battlegrounds will receive a "major" balance patch that will make a significant change to Elementals: instead of appearing in every Battlegrounds match, where they have been dominant since their introduction, they will be added to the minion rotation and will no longer appear in every match. and will no longer appear in every match.

Blizzard has also buffed many of the underperforming heroes, removed Nefarian entirely, and adjusted millions of tier levels and stats. This is another major balance adjustment to a mode that Team 5 continues to pay a lot of attention to.

Many changes have also been made to duels, but let's look at the Battlegrounds changes first.

Queen Wagtoggle

The Curator

Hooktusk

Rat King

Rakanishu

George the Fallen

Ysera

Galakrond

Tess Greymane

Elise Starseeker

Lord Barov

With the change to elementals, many minions also received changes:

Wrath Weaver

Yo-ho-Ogre

Iron Sensei

Southsea Strongarm

Ripsnarl Captain

Lightfang Enforcer

Gentle Djinni

Lieutenant Garr

Lil' Rag (remember this guy? 49]

Dread Admiral Eliza

Amalgadon

As for the new Duels mode, Emma played it recently and liked it quite a bit. He was completely removed from the Associate Game Designer Garon elaborates:

This patch also adjusts the rating change dialog at the end of Duels play to be "more impressed" with your win total.

Duels balance updates include:

Active Treasure

Passive Treasure

Demon Hunter

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

The Hearthstone 18.6.1 patch will be released tomorrow, November 5th. The full patch notes can be found at playhearthstone.com.