I have to say that the balance team has been doing a really good job recently. They're slow to react, but the direction of the balance changes has been excellent. OTKs are definitely out of hand, pretty much reducing the meta to OTK and aggro (and Plague).
I don't think Reno is a big problem really, most highlander decks are quite weak and Reno is the one card making them at least somewhat playable. A bigger problem with the card in my opinion is that it can be easily poached by non-highlander decks by simply drawing through the entire deck (or destroying it), effectively circumventing his downside.
We had seen that many players routinely completed their Weekly Quests through their regular play, without even really engaging with the Weekly Quest system
Because when I log into Hearthstone I want to play the decks I've built and that I think are fun. I don't want to play a deck with only miniaturize minions because a weekly quest requires me to, that is not fun and it interferes with my goal to get legend every month, which already can take the better part of that month.
Some of these increases don't matter in the slightest, like spending 750 mana or using 100 battlecries is still trivial. But 60 miniaturize/minis is insane, I don't even have a single miniaturize card in any of the decks I play. I don't want to have to play unranked or play a shitty deck and lose rank just to complete weeklies.
I think the concept is good and the deck is fun to play as and against. The only part I don't like is Helya which makes it pretty much non-counterable for highlander or decks that need to draw out their whole deck. It wasn't an issue with Steamcleaner as a tech option, but now that option is gone.
I would like to see a balance patch that normalizes its matchups. Nerfs to Helya to make it worse against control, but buffs to the raw stats of the plague cards to make it better against aggro.
"or Destroy" Unfortunately Jepetto is kinda garbage, I've yet to see him be played a single time. Once the tavern brawl rotates you probably have no choice but to craft him.
The long term "solution" is to simply ignore that quest chain. The event is over 20 days long so you'll be able to complete it fairly easily with just dailies.
Not sure what the average outcome is, but it's probably not strong enough for this to see play. It's a very generic effect that doesn't really synergize with any particular deck, so it needs to be particularly powerful on its own to be worth running.
There's always got to be one overpowered Priest board clear :) 7 mana silence is very good. It's worse in value matchups but great against token matchups.
Doesn't seem that good. Unless you are playing Reno you can only use this to heal with Papercraft Angel, which isn't worthwhile. With Reno it can be a pretty decent burst combo, but then you have poor synergy with Elise.
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I have to say that the balance team has been doing a really good job recently. They're slow to react, but the direction of the balance changes has been excellent. OTKs are definitely out of hand, pretty much reducing the meta to OTK and aggro (and Plague).
I don't think Reno is a big problem really, most highlander decks are quite weak and Reno is the one card making them at least somewhat playable. A bigger problem with the card in my opinion is that it can be easily poached by non-highlander decks by simply drawing through the entire deck (or destroying it), effectively circumventing his downside.
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Because when I log into Hearthstone I want to play the decks I've built and that I think are fun. I don't want to play a deck with only miniaturize minions because a weekly quest requires me to, that is not fun and it interferes with my goal to get legend every month, which already can take the better part of that month.
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Some of these increases don't matter in the slightest, like spending 750 mana or using 100 battlecries is still trivial. But 60 miniaturize/minis is insane, I don't even have a single miniaturize card in any of the decks I play. I don't want to have to play unranked or play a shitty deck and lose rank just to complete weeklies.
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I think the concept is good and the deck is fun to play as and against. The only part I don't like is Helya which makes it pretty much non-counterable for highlander or decks that need to draw out their whole deck. It wasn't an issue with Steamcleaner as a tech option, but now that option is gone.
I would like to see a balance patch that normalizes its matchups. Nerfs to Helya to make it worse against control, but buffs to the raw stats of the plague cards to make it better against aggro.
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No there's no reliable way to do it, unless you're playing Warlock and deleting your own deck. Pretty annoying when you're playing a highlander deck.
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"or Destroy"
Unfortunately Jepetto is kinda garbage, I've yet to see him be played a single time. Once the tavern brawl rotates you probably have no choice but to craft him.
The long term "solution" is to simply ignore that quest chain. The event is over 20 days long so you'll be able to complete it fairly easily with just dailies.
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I definitely agree, this is the kind of power level I'd expect going into the yearly rotation, not after it.
I'm being carefully optimistic though, since Blizzard was quite good at nerfing excessive burst last year.
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Handbuff has to become viable now, it's got so much more support.
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Not sure what the average outcome is, but it's probably not strong enough for this to see play. It's a very generic effect that doesn't really synergize with any particular deck, so it needs to be particularly powerful on its own to be worth running.
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Really cool, and powerful effect, especially if you get lucky and get deathrattle or reborn minions.
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Skater looks pretty good, the Stitch not so much.
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It doesn't look that great, 4/4 is not a good statline.
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Crazy.
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There's always got to be one overpowered Priest board clear :) 7 mana silence is very good. It's worse in value matchups but great against token matchups.
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Doesn't seem that good. Unless you are playing Reno you can only use this to heal with Papercraft Angel, which isn't worthwhile. With Reno it can be a pretty decent burst combo, but then you have poor synergy with Elise.