After yesterday’s teaser, Blizzard just dropped a full-blown announcement of the upcoming Battlegrounds season. It launches on August 20 with a unique Trinket mechanic, as well as tons of other updates.
Let’s start with trinkets – they are a special, passive power-ups (sometimes also with an immediate effect) that you can buy at certain points in the match. There are two types of trinkets – Lesser Trinkets show up on Turn 6 and Greater Trinkets on Turn 9. You can only buy one of each type (out of the four offered), so choose wisely. There are 56 Lesser and 60 Greater Trinkets in total, varying in Gold cost and effects. Many Trinkets will come in both versions (Lesser & Greater) so you can double up on their effects, but there will also be many Trinkets that are unique to each tier.
The system is also dynamic, so the Trinkets offered and their price is influenced by the Hero you play, minion types available in the lobby, your current Warband, and so on. This way you should always get Trinkets that are somewhat useful for you, to reduce the bad RNG.
Besides Trinkets, we’re getting a new Hero (with new mechanic synergy) – Marin the Manager. The minion pool will also see a lot of changes, with 27 new and 18 returning minions to replace 38 ones that will be removed. Two new Tavern Spells will also be added. All of those (besides Marin and a few Trinkets from the blog post) will be revealed over the next week or so. We’ll be tracking all of the reveals here if you want to stay up to date.
And finally, as always, everything will be reset at the Season launch. All players will be back to 0 MMR and a rewards track will refresh. So if you haven’t finished the current one, you still have some time until August 20.
Check out the official blog post below:
No vacation is complete without a stop at the souvenir shop. But this is a unique boutique: it sells magical Trinkets—the new Battlegrounds seasonal mechanic! Come see what’s in store for Battlegrounds Season 8, Trinkets & Travels, launching on August 20!
With Season 8, Battlegrounds Ratings will reset (for both regular Battlegrounds and Duos) and Buddies will rotate out of the Tavern to make room for new Trinkets.
New Mechanic: Trinkets
Trinkets are special passive power-ups that you buy with Gold and use for the rest of the game—kind of like Quest Rewards. Trinkets are offered twice per game: on turns 6 and 9. Each offering, you’ll get 4 Trinkets to choose from.
In total, there are 56 Lesser Trinkets (turn 6) and 60 Greater Trinkets (turn 9) coming in Season 8! Some Trinkets have a Lesser and a Greater version–letting you diversify or double-up on your effects!
Your Trinket offerings and their Costs are influenced by your Hero, the Minion Types in the game, and your Warband to ensure you’ll always be offered something exciting to build from.
New Hero: Marin the Manager
Want a special Trinket offer? Speak to the Manager! Marin the Manager is coming to Battlegrounds in Season 8, bringing you an extra Trinket—and one turn early, to boot!
Full Itinerary of Reveals
When Season 8 begins, 38 minions will be removed from the minion pool and 18 old favorites will return, plus 27 new minions and 2 new Tavern spells will be added. Follow your favorite content creators as they check out all the sights on each reveal layover ahead of Patch 30.2 at these times:
- Neutrals: August 7, 12:00 p.m. (PDT)
- Elementals: August 8, 12:00 p.m. (PDT)
- Demons and Mechs: August 9, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Naga and Quilboar: August 10, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Pirates: August 11, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Undead: August 12, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Beasts: August 13, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
- Dragons and Murlocs: August 14, 10:00 a.m. (PDT)
You can track the flight using the hashtag #BGSeason8.
Battlegrounds Preview Event
On August 19, the day before Patch 30.2 launches, watch your favorite content creators try out Trinkets live! Participating players will be streaming on their own channels, so make sure you have notifications turned on. Time slots by region are:
- APAC region: August 19, 2:00 a.m. – 8:00a.m. (PDT)
- NA, LATAM, and EMEA regions: August 19, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (PDT)
Battlegrounds Track Refresh
On August 20, Battlegrounds Season 7 will end and Season 8 will begin! With that, you’ll switch over to begin earning rewards on the new Battlegrounds Season 8 Rewards Track. Any rewards that were already earned in the Season 7 Rewards Track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed for you.
The Season 8 Battlegrounds Track includes vacation themed cosmetics. Pick up the Season Pass to instantly unlock +2 Hero options at the start of each game. Then, progress through the track to earn the Beach Blast Legendary Strike, 17 additional Hero Skins, a new Bartender, and more!
Level XP to level Cumulative XP Free Reward With Season Pass 1 0 0 2 Hero Slots 2 20 20 Gnomeregan Omen (Rare Emote) 3 20 40 Beach Chenvaala (Rare Emote) 4 20 60 Crystalsong Sindragosa (Rare Hero Skin) 5 30 90 Gnomeregan Omen Sunglasses (Epic Emote) 6 30 120 Exodar Guff (Epic Hero Skin) 7 30 150 Beach Chenvaala (Rare Hero Skin) 8 30 180 Beach Blast (Rare Strike) 9 40 220 Future Nozdormu Ohoho (Rare Emote) 10 40 260 Fishing Cookie (Rare Hero Skin) 11 40 300 Moody Jandice (Rare Emote) 12 50 350 Snorkeler Elise (Rare Hero Skin) 13 50 400 Future Nozdormu (Rare Emote) 14 50 450 Future Vacation Nozdormu (Legendary Hero Skin) 15 50 500 Moody Jandice (Rare Hero Skin) 16 60 560 Outdoorsy Ini (Epic Hero Skin) 17 60 620 Surfer Kael’thas (Rare Hero Skin) 18 60 680 Bird Watching Drek’Thar (Legendary Hero Skin) 19 60 740 Castle Mutanus (Rare Emote) 20 60 800 Surfer Kael’thas (Epic Emote) 21 60 860 Dalaran Wagtoggle (Epic Hero Skin) 22 60 920 Griftah (Epic Bartender) 23 60 980 Swashbuckler (Rare Strike) 24 60 1040 Orgrimmar Rakanishu (Epic Hero Skin) 25 60 1100 Griftah (Rare Emote) 26 60 1160 Ribbon Tavish (Epic Hero Skin) 27 60 1220 Castle Mutanus (Epic Hero Skin) 28 60 1280 Beach Blast (Epic Strike) 29 60 1340 Royal Edwin (Epic Hero Skin) 30 60 1400 Sunburned C’Thun (Legendary Hero Skin) 31 60 1460 Orgrimmar Faelin (Epic Emote) 32 60 1520 Desert Ozumat (Epic Hero Skin) 33 60 1580 Moonwell Sylvanas (Epic Hero Skin) 34 60 1640 Griftah Just Right (Rare Emote) 35 60 1700 Swashbuckler (Epic Strike) 36 60 1760 Ski Ragnaros (Legendary Hero Skin) 37 60 1820 Vacation Holmes (Epic Emote) 38 60 1880 Vacation Holmes (Epic Hero Skin) 39 60 1940 Shark Patchwerk (Legendary Hero Skin) 40 60 2000 Beach Blast (Legendary Strike)
