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The reason for the original cost was that you're turning an opponent's minion into a 0-attack one with taunt versus Polymorph leaving them with 1 attack and no taunt, thus Shaman is left with a severe disadvantage should this nerf take place.
Why on earth would they nerf a card that nobody complained about and it's not even played ?
What does this nerf accomplish ?
Easily my least favorite nerf in this series of nerfs.
Totally unnecessary.
uncalled for.
3 mana Overload (1), why is that so difficult? Control shaman will jsut be a lot harder to play and aggro usually runs devolve over hex anyways.
Best outcome is that they might end up giving shaman more control support to amke up for this
on another note: how come Flametongue Totem is allowed to stay as it is...or bloodlust. there are so many more broken shaman cards in the base set, going for the defensive ones seems like a mistake
I tried having fun once. It was awful.
I never understood why this card was 3 mana while Polymorph is 4 mana. It seems like they should have done this a long time ago.
Justicar Trueheart in Rogue?
This is a decent nerf. Hex isn't used a ton at the moment, but it is an autoinclude in every midrange or slower Shaman deck. Even after this change it's still a great removal card, about on par with Polymorph which is played in most control Mage decks. Adding Overload would have been more flavorful though, and it would help the currently non-existing Overload Shaman out a bit.
Not a fan of the timing though. They could have waited with this nerf until the next set, or whenever they plan on releasing cards that will make a slower Shaman deck viable. With the nerf to Druid you can certainly expect Priest to rise in popularity, and Hex is an essential card against Priest (particularly Big Priest), so this will really hurt control Shaman short term.
The card is now at rough parity with Polymorph.
Between this card and Devolve, Shamans still have a decent amount of options for transforming enemy minions, so it may still see play.
Fair
1) Hex used to cost 25% less than Poly
2) Hex used to cost 50% less than Poly+Ping
The difference in tempo early game is huge. This is particularly true when you consider that Shaman is one of the classes designed to have early control of the board, further increasing the tempo a Hex could give.
Excellent change, puts it in line with Polymorph. The card is still very powerful but now won't be in all shaman decks ever (even the aggro ones).
hmmm fine it's fine I guess though I don't see why they target shaman since the class is fair now.
still a decent card wasn't auto include anyway.
The frog should be at 2 mana now.
This nerf really annoyed me, Hex wasn't played because it's some super powerful card or anything, it was played because there is literally no other hard removal in the game for shaman. Most of the time when you use hex you're just getting a 1 for 1, often times your opponent wins out from the exchange with most late game cards having an immediate effect, Such as Aya Blackpaw, The Lich King, Grommash, Ragnaros, Lightlord, Primordial Drake, Bonemare, and Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound. Rather than nerfing the preexisting hard removal, blizzard should be making more hard removal, i especially would like to see hard removal with value attached to it, such as Meteor, plus it's fun to see Kripp whine how cards like meteor are such a problem because it ruin his curvestone arena experience.
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I definitely don't understand why this nerf was necessary. Is mid/control shaman running rampant over the other classes? Blizzard's justification for the nerf was that although the power level of the card was fine it didn't fit the IDENTITY of shaman? What does that mean and why is that viable reason for nerfing a card. This is the first time I have heard that as a reason for a nerf to a card. You nerf if it is OP and causing a problem or limiting design space of future cards. I don't see either of those things as being a problem with hex. Given that a nerf card has never been reverted in the history of HS, I don't have enough confidence in HS balance team to feel comfortable with them preemptively nerfing a card that is not currently a problem. It makes no sense.
For those who think it is a good change because it puts it at the same level as polymorph, you should compare the card in the context of it's own class and not other classes. If you start comparing spells from class to class, you run into problems. Frostbolt is run in nearly every mage deck that has ever existed. Frostshock has never seen play in competitive play except for "fun" OTK malygos decks. So should we nerf frostbolt so it's at the same level as frost shock? Lava Burst is a 5 mana (3 upfront + 2 overload) deal 5 damage and fireball is 4 mana deal 6 damage. It's hard to compare because of the overload but one is clearly better than other. Should we nerf fireball so that it's on par with lava burst? This is why the argument that hex should be at the same level as polymorph is silly. Not to mention in nearly every situation, leaving behind taunt behind is worse than leaving a 1/1. The only exception is in very rare cases you want to hex your own minion for the taunt.