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While doing a Google search for "Hearthstone Boom nerf" I stumbled upon that website and became extremely excited at the probable nerf that also makes perfect sense. The pictures look real as well and I remember seeing some leaked pictures of four GvG cards(legs?) that turned out to be correct except Iron Jug was 6/5 rather than 6/6 in the leaks. Those leaked pictures could be the developers testing out Boom as a 5/5 and aren't final nor confirmed, but I believe this is what the new, balanced Boom will be from a logical standpoint. Next expansion announcements are July 22 with nerfs to follow.

We have seen other cards nerfed before after months, the most recent being undertaker. Many nerfs involve a mana cost increase, but since there's few good cards in the 7 mana slot, Blizzard has listened to us and is leaving the cost alone at 7, but instead plans to nerf Boom's body to 5/5. I thought he would cost 8 mana, but we already have several good 8 drops. Others suggested he become 7/5 but 5/5 makes more sense since it means BGH won't be mandatory in your deck. A 6/6 body might actually be a buff but a 5/5 body isn't too difficult to trade your minions into.

80% of us knew Boom was wildly OP as he was a 9/9 over three bodies with 2-8 random damage to enemies. Boom complaints were all over the Internet on a daily basis, this very forum receiving 10+ threads a day. He violated the vanilla test and forced nearly everyone to buy packs, save dust and craft him for all of their decks except facehunter. Not only was he the best in the 7 slot, he was the best at ALL slots, period! There was no point running other legendary minions, including class minions when Boom did the job better and cheaper than 8-10 drops including Ragnaros and Cenarius. It forced non aggro decks to include BGH as a soft counter, making other 7+ attack minions unviable.

God damn it. I literally crafted this card last night. The first legendary I ever crafted. If they nerf they had better offer the disenchant at cost so I can can invest in my second choice, Sylvannas.

I think that Image is probs photoshopped, so HetMasteen77, don't get your hopes down.

well on of kripps latest videos shows u how extremely easy it is to just forge these kind of photos, so i only believe it if it gets announced.

yes i am pro-nerf but a nerf this hard seems overly ridiculous. i dont think they would nerf it THAT hard that it becomes utter garbage (compared to undertaker or leeroy) ... although looking at starving buzzard...

...this honestly feels like a buff to me.  cant be bgh'd and you still spawn 2 1/1's.  though ya, most likely fake.

No need to fear anything. I think Blizzard said that they were not planning to ever nerf Dr. Boom.

Edit : And obviously, it is photoshoped. Just take a look at the 7, and the 5s.

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well on of kripps latest videos shows u how extremely easy it is to just forge these kind of photos, so i only believe it if it gets announced.

yes i am pro-nerf but a nerf this hard seems overly ridiculous. i dont think they would nerf it THAT hard that it becomes utter garbage (compared to undertaker or leeroy) ... although looking at starving buzzard...

What they said!

You literally did everything Kripp said step by step... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Xx3cGlCCI

Would've been more believable in Mandarin.

fake and troll

I think the only way blizz is gonna nerf it is by adding more viable 7 drops in upcoming expansion.

Try searching for "Possibile nerf a Dr. Balance?" on Google, I found two more results with the same pictures of 5/5 Boom at the top of the search results. That news of the nerf is all over the net in different languages, use Google translate to your native language, such as English. As for the pictures being fake, you be the judge of that. I am treating this news is "unconfirmed" and "unofficial" but remember we saw 4 leaked pics of GvG including 6/6 Iron jug and they turned out to be very close. 

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well on of kripps latest videos shows u how extremely easy it is to just forge these kind of photos, so i only believe it if it gets announced.

yes i am pro-nerf but a nerf this hard seems overly ridiculous. i dont think they would nerf it THAT hard that it becomes utter garbage (compared to undertaker or leeroy) ... although looking at starving buzzard...

 Yes, believe it when you see it. I am simply showing you the pictures I found and I am sure there's many more out there on the web. Some people, such as Zekana actually think 5/5 is better than 7/7 because of how OP BGH is. 

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...this honestly feels like a buff to me.  cant be bgh'd and you still spawn 2 1/1's.  though ya, most likely fake.

 The quoted poster above is calling it a huge nerf. I personally call it a small, but reasonable and justified nerf. Immune to BGH but you lose 2/2 of stats as a tradeoff. Much easier to deal with sans BGH and you can use BGH on some other target.

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No need to fear anything. I think Blizzard said that they were not planning to ever nerf Dr. Boom.

 

Edit : And obviously, it is photoshoped. Just take a look at the 7, and the 5s.

 I did a Google image search for Loatheb and the right "5" is smaller than the left, same as that Boom image. Also Blizz did not say "never" they did say they are keeping an eye on Boom "MD: We’re keeping an eye on him, but I’m pretty happy with the fact people are playing a 7-drop even in the rush decks. There hasn’t been a 7-cost minion that’s been playable for a long time, maybe ever. So I’m totally fine with people playing Dr. Boom. I would like to see more variety in the 7-drops, like if he was a class card and other classes had different 7-drop minions I’d slightly prefer that, but that comes with time and new cards being released. He’s very strong, though. He’s an awesome card."

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I think the only way blizz is gonna nerf it is by adding more viable 7 drops in upcoming expansion.

If future 7 drops are similar to Troggzor, they will just be ignored. If they are similar in power as Boom, they will just replace the rest of the legendaries. Who will ever run 8-10 drops if 7 drops are more powerful? Makes no sense to me!

Hm... I can't help but marvel at the techniques nowadays in photo editing. Even photos like these can be forged, what could we truly believe in?

Another Picture of 5/5 Boom: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img537/3079/aex4VI.jpg
GvG expansion leak is real: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/15084738325#13

If you can find more pictures of the developers testing Boom nerfs, please share them here. To those saying the pictures are fake, you said the same thing about the GvG leaks and guess what, those 4 legendaries turned out to be real after all! We all saw what happened to BRM, no one runs those big dragons because Boom is better and cheaper. I don't expect the meta to change much next expansion either unless we see a nerf to the most OP card in Hearthstone. People otherwise are just going to run Boom over almost everything else. Fortunately Blizzard knows this and I can only hope the nerf goes live before the expansion does. The meta will be much more balanced, diverse and healthier when you actually have alternate choices in your decks other than auto including Boom and calling it a day.

I can't be sure, but does the OP's photo have the Classic set watermark over the GvG gear watermark?  It's hard to say.  

nothing but a troll everyone knows the card being a 5/5 is not a nerf but a buff

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Another Picture of 5/5 Boom: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img537/3079/aex4VI.jpg
GvG expansion leak is real: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/15084738325#13

If you can find more pictures of the developers testing Boom nerfs, please share them here. To those saying the pictures are fake, you said the same thing about the GvG leaks and guess what, those 4 legendaries turned out to be real after all! We all saw what happened to BRM, no one runs those big dragons because Boom is better and cheaper. I don't expect the meta to change much next expansion either unless we see a nerf to the most OP card in Hearthstone. People otherwise are just going to run Boom over almost everything else. Fortunately Blizzard knows this and I can only hope the nerf goes live before the expansion does. The meta will be much more balanced, diverse and healthier when you actually have alternate choices in your decks other than auto including Boom and calling it a day.

Looks like it's Photoshopped. The Boom's 5 health on the right card looks different than on the left card. Below the 5 is more space, more red.

It's also really, really easy to Photoshop such cards, even without Photoshop skills. What makes them look real is because people took a photo of a monitor. Which I find makes them seem more fake. If you're allowed so close up a screen with a camera you make as well ask to make a screenshot. Lol

As far as I've heard blizz had no plans to nerf dr. balance, besides, making 6 att or less would mean that he will dodge bgh, and that makes it even better card to play. Problem is not the doc himself, but the bots that have potential to deal 8 damage, if we're talking about theory and how it's possible to balance things out, I see several options:
1) Boom Bots act like mad bombers - they may target friendly creatures or hero
2) Bots have no attack - you need a trigger to kill them
3) Bots hit only minions - no face damage
4) When bot attacks it hits adjacent enemy minions for 1 (1-2/2/x-y whatever) - they're bombs that I presume charge at enemy and explode?

Still after such long time I think everybody already have both bgh and dr in their deck, so people just used to deal with him