17.6 Balance Updates - Many Nerfs planned for July 14th!
Blizzard just posted about some huge, widesweeping nerfs that are going to happen to the game next week, on July 14th.
Quote from BlizzardOn July 14, we’ll be releasing a patch that includes balance updates for several cards in Standard. Craftable cards listed below will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks after the 17.6 patch goes live.
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (0). → New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (1).
Corsair Cache
Old: Draw a weapon. Give it +1/+1. → New: Draw a weapon. Give it +1 Durability.
Metamorphosis
Old: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 5 damage.” After 2 uses, swap it back. → New: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 4 damage.” After 2 uses, swap it back.
Kayn Sunfury
Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health → New: 3 Attack, 4 Health.
Warglaives of Azzinoth
Old: [Cost 5] → New: [Cost 6].
Dragoncaster
Old: [Cost 6] → New: [Cost 7].
Fungal Fortunes
Old: [Cost 2] → New: [Cost 3].
Galakrond, the Nightmare
Old: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (1).
Galakrond, the Apocalypse (Rogue)
Old: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. They cost (1).
Galakrond, Azeroth's End (Rogue)
Old: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. They cost (1).
We have some Battlegrounds updates planned for the near future as well. Stay tuned!
Am I the only one who isn’t getting dust refunds for fares and epics?
Fixed.
I’m supposed to be offered 800 dust for gold Dragoncaster, right? I’m only being offered 100.
Try restarting.
Patch is LIVE on NA!
Gods...I hate Blizzard. My grandfather hated them too, even before they nerfed all his decks. Did you think I'd be out here on the forums without good reason? Yes, Hearthstone needs a strong meta. No, Hearthstone doesn't need unwashed priests and hunters in her meta! So, that's why I'm here, the leader of the keyboard waarriors to bring order to Hearthstone
When is the patch going live ?
Let's get rid of randomness from this game. What card would not be played is still just "kill a random minion", "add a random card", "cast a random spell" and so on and so on
Blizzard acting like this is a MOBA game instead of a card game giving it more patches than fucking HOTS
What are they thinking ? who likes these constant changes besides reddit keyboard warriors it does not fix the meta it does not improve it in any way all this does is make people lose interest in playing the game and those people are already on the very edge 1 week after a new expansion since most of the playerbase quits at that time again
Galakrond is boring a stupid addition to the game and just lazy game design forcing decks should have never been added highlander decks too most brainless build around ever oh just put 1 of each card in your deck instead of 2 amazing!
Remember when we used to actually have cool and fun decks like Freeze Mage Miracle Rogue etc?
1 stop the bullshit balance changes entirely or keep it at 1-2 patches in between every expansion if you have to
2 No more Highlander shit
3 Remove Rush boring stupid mechanic that defeats the entire purpose of it when it was added
4 Forget Wild exists you paying attention to it is only hurting the game nobody actually gives a shit about wild in my opinion it should be removed it serves no purpose is forever broken and boring only for the people salty about wasting thousands on packs just refund their full dust and give them a shit card back that they can only get and be done with it
5 No more Adventures they're a waste of resources and time you don't even make money from them what are you doing blizzard? they're boring and pointless nobody cares about your made up short stories
So basically your whole comment in short is 'Make the game completely to my specific likings or it sucks'? That's kinda selfish...
- They aren't huge but these are still pretty disappointing nerfs for Wild in general.
(I am aware that blizzard doesn't give a shit about Wild.)
Still, half these changes will make control + highlander mages and rogues worse when they were already mediocre, trending bad.
Really unfortunate.
- Kayn and Meta nerfs won't do much to demonhunter IMO, those cards will still do the same things, on the same turns, just slightly worse.
Warglaives nerf is the only one I see having any balancing effect on top-tier decks in Wild. It's a fun card to play, but from experience, I know the played winrate had to be absurdly high, so this nerf was a good call.
- Corsair Cache nerf will do absolutely nothing to lessen pirate spam in the pre-Legend ranks.
and Open the Waygate is still a thing that exists at all...so overall I will remain a salty main in a neglected format post-nerfs.
Cheers
Ok here goes my gameplan.....
"We have some Battlegrounds updates planned for the near future as well. Stay tuned!"
How many statistics can you collect fucking Hooktusk and Eudors? You are so slow!
Warglaives nerf seems unnecessary and now a bad card, but overall good nerfs
Lol I love how if you don't agree with any Demon Hunter nerf people get salty and downvote
Perhaps because it is necessary? If it were a legendary it would be fine at 5. But a two-of at 5 is obnoxiously strong.
It's not so much the not agreeing with Demon Hunter particularly but just rather not agreeing with common sense. :/
Also I love how some people have such low self-esteem that they monitor their post upvotes and feel the need to instantly comment about it as soon as it goes -1.
P.S. Downvoted.
I don't know anyone that isn't slightly bothered by criticism, but when you recieve it numerous times it makes you wonder. I still think Warglaives didn't need to be nerfed btw, because I already thought it was balanced at 5. I can clearly recall people saying this card is just average in power level.
Bad move on Warglaives of Azzinoth.
Corsair Cashe will be abandoned.
So do you mean the dragons from Dragonqueen Alexstrasza can now be Magic Carpet-ed into work ?? :P~~~
I can do carpeting with rogue Galakrond, the Nightmare now :P~~~