19.2.1 Patch Notes - Edwin & Boggspine Nerfs - Battleground Change
Blizzard just announced some balance changes to both Constructed and Battlegrounds. Read all about it below!
Quote from BlizzardWe’ve got a small balance patch with a few big changes planned for release this Friday, January 8!
Standard Balance Updates
Edwin VanCleef
- Old: [Costs 3] → New: [Costs 4]
- Dev Comment: The last few weeks have been the best Edwin has ever performed as an individual card (the highest win rate card in multiple Rogue archetypes). Alongside cards like Foxy Fraud and Shadowstep, the frequency of early 8/8 or 10/10 Edwin VanCleefs reached a point we are no longer comfortable with. We want to evaluate how the rest of Rogue's kit performs without this very powerful iteration of Edwin. Cards like Foxy Fraud, Swindle, and Prize Plunderer are important pieces for future expansions and card interactions, so we'll be keeping close tabs on how they perform with the influx of new cards and Edwin's nerf.
Boggspine Knuckles
- Old: 4 Attack → New: 3 Attack
- Dev Comment: We're lowering the attack on Boggspine Knuckles in order to cut into the fluidity of Evolve Shaman, increasing the required investment of playing a 5-mana weapon without a free Dread Corsair, and reduce the overall damage output the deck is capable of over multiple weapon charges. This change lowers the amount of explosive plays available to Evolve Shaman and should create an overall healthier meta.
Edwin VanCleef and Boggspine Knuckles will be eligible for a full dust refund for 2 weeks after the 19.2.1 patch goes live.
Battlegrounds Balance Update
Elistra the Immortal
- Old: 7 Attack, 7 Health → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Infinite Toki’s Temporal Tavern would not function correctly with the New Recruit Darkmoon Prize.
- Fixed a bug where Ysera’s Dream Portal, when used with the New Recruit Darkmoon Prize, would not offer a Dragon when Bob’s Tavern is full.
Also sorry this didn't get into the notes but: Yes Edwin will still rotate later this year and yes we will be reverting the nerf (along with others) at that time.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) January 8, 2021
We'll be looking at Wild more frequently throughout the year, setting some things up to help us do that better.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) January 8, 2021
Any card release has the chance to shift Wild to some degree, the upcoming mini-set being no different. There's some good stuff!
If what u said is true then i hope that they will just rotate old cards and give us new ones. because i have spent really tons of time getting hole classic set and i don´t want to do it again.
Not every card in Classic is total shit yet. They are working on it.
Them better nerf the freaking mind control in draft.
I ve played Wild only 5 years in a row but because of this meta the fun is absolutelly lost for me. Its like bot wars with autopilots, everything depends on matchup.
I ve started with standard this season and its pretty more fun to me. Hope there will be some changes in wild.
Just glad that Edwin will be reverted back after rotation. I play Wild so I don't really mind that much. Plus... new classic Rogue Legendary.
Wow a nerf on Edwin. The coolest card in the game. It is the perfect reason to never come back in play.
Goodbye Hearthstone.
3 2, weapon nerf thats crusial (nah its a joke)
Hey, now. Over the course of a game that's a reduction in damage dealt from anywhere between 2 and 8!!!
>a joke
Funny, because shaman is now the fourth lowest winrate in the game.
https://hsreplay.net/
The Evolve variant itself immediately dropped from 59.5% winrate to 54.9%.
https://hsreplay.net/decks/efvMlk2mIOjxsdcigYAfI/#gameType=RANKED_STANDARD
Makes it a lot harder to just play it on 5 because you can't play corsair alongside it. The deck really wasn't that unreasonable that it warrants a sledgehammer approach.
So am I the only one having issues downloading hearthstone? I had to download the whole app, which is not an issue, but when I open it the app prompts me to go to the app store to start the download. I assume this is referring to the new update but when I go there is no update and the app store redirects me to "open" the app. The app proceeds to crash. So I am unable to log in at all. I have tried the googled methods to "fix" the app store. Any ideas?
Deinstall and install the app again - worked for me
Me: realizing that I have golden Edwin
Me too, but I don’t get the rotating out of standard thing. Should I disenchant or wait?
Normally in all these cases disenchanting is the right way to go. If it's still is going to be used you can always craft it again from the dust you got, if it is indeed never used again you can use the free dust to craft something else.
You should wait cause rotation gives you 1600 dust more if you disenchant.
Not anymore! They're screwing people over by discontinuing hall of fame dust reward.
The Shaman change is a fucking joke.
https://hsreplay.net/decks/efvMlk2mIOjxsdcigYAfI/#gameType=RANKED_STANDARD
It already dropped the winrate of the deck from 59.5% to 54.9%. It's not a joke at all
Rotatin Edwin? Horrible changes, they really ruined the game, and now, the rogue's game too.
I don’t know what their plans are for the next expansion but as of the next rotation what are rogues supposed to do, Foxy Fraud into SI7 agent? Just nerf the new card instead of acting like you didn’t create the problem