As is recent custom, Blizzard announced the upcoming changes in a graphic with hints at cards being changed, but not the exact changes themselves yet. Stay tuned for Thursday's Patch for that information!
Quote from BlizzardGot word from E.T.C. that some changes to the lineup are coming this Thursday! 👀
Changes in Card Form
Shout out to the amazing DatMageDoe who compiled this list. Upvote their post to show appreciation!
Because not everyone recognizes cards by art alone, the cards getting buffed, sorted by class:
DRUID
HUNTER
MAGE
PRIEST
ROGUE
SHAMAN
WARLOCK
WARRIOR
NERFS
- Rowdy Fan
- Overseer Frigidara
- Twig of the World Tree
- Death Knight in general. Could be system/class wide changes, or a sign they haven't fully solidified their nerf choices yet.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)We get the basic post out first, then tweet it, then worry about details like figuring out which cards are for which art in the pic. People on the site want and need the post up so they can discuss it, they don;t have time for me to figure out which card is which and wait.
So I made the post, and tweeted it, and then DatMageDoe had already made a basically complete list with site code card links before I was done with that.
I could have done the list myself, but if someone has already made a perfect list that can be easily copied, then why would I not just give them credit for a good job and use it?
I'm all for admitting when I screw up, but this was a case of DatMageDoe just doing a great job before I could do mine. :)
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)...
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)If twig gets nerfed in wild (it should've been changed to refresh 10 mana years ago) then kingsbane will become a problem. Druid is the only thing holding that back atm.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Unlike Druid, Kingsbane Rogue can be teched against, including with E.T.C
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)You can safely outplay Kingsbane Rogue with Kobold Stickyfinger
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)enlighten me: what beats blood DK? And it was in fact the #1 highest winrate deck at least for the first 2 weeks according to hearth arena
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Posted Apr 26, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Tony Druid, Secret Rogue, Relic DH, Undead Priest. These are not hard counters, but they are all favored against Blood DK.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)So no nerf to druids jailor stupidity.
No buff to priests at all....
These cards all see play which will make this even more stupid.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)why does priest need a buff... XL control priest is really good. when you discover a shit load of cards the enemy class.. shadow priest isn't bad. be better with void shard but its gone now.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Completely braindead. I'm astounded by this. I was expecting this patch to be awful when they announced a lot of buffs, but holy crap. Out of all of the cards in the game they decide to buff, ALL of them see play. And they're unnerfing yet another S tier card... Not one of these cards they picked needed a buff. And before all the people comment zomg warrior needed buff are you crazy? Almost no one even tried to play warrior. I saw a total of 2 streamers playing warrior so far and both said that it was surprisingly good and got to legend with warrior decks.
Literally all they had to do was nerf blood DK (which is the best current deck and it doesn't look like they're even nerfing it), shadow priest, frost DK, relic DH and it would've been a great meta. Now the meta is going to be A LOT worse. People will love this for like 3 days, but then will quickly realize that all of these cards are now overtuned and you are going to be pidgeon-holed into playing 1 specific deck per class even more. We needed less powercreep, not more.
This proves my theory that the balance team either A: doesnt playtest anymore, or B: when they do playtest, they all just play 1 deck per class each expansion and are perfectly happy with that.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Blood DK isn't even close to being the best deck right now...
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Theres so much insanely broken stuff in this game that I even forgot to mention druid and how they didnt touch the druid deck that was in EVERY lineup at blizzard's tournament and summons 40 mana worth of stuff on turn 8 with anubrakhan and Zog...
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)This is just false information. Druid was not in every line up. Not even in most. Don't make up stuff to argue a point.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)doesn't have to best deck.. still doesn't change the fact its op. a bunch of healing and removal cards. discover is stupid op for DK. 3 deal damage every turn.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)I hope the DK nerfs are good enough to lower the playrate but not make it unplayable cause 9/10 enemies are DKs right now. 3/10 would do it.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Twig was always stupid.
Took them long enough to nerf it.
That and also to remember that Warrior should be a proper class.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Because not everyone recognizes cards by art alone, the cards getting buffed, sorted by class:
DRUID
HUNTER
MAGE
PRIEST
ROGUE
SHAMAN
WARLOCK
WARRIOR
NERFS
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Amazing post. Adding this list to the main article. Well done. :D
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Glad to help!
Also, I noticed I forgot the Priest buffs, because it was just Holy Nova. Might want to include that above.
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Posted Apr 25, 2023 (Festival of Legends)Yeah I was just staring at that wondering what it was. I figured it was gold so paladin or Priest, and couldn;t be Paladin, cause they are GOOD already. But Holy Nova, well spotted. Fits with the change to Lightning Storm. Going to guess the 3 damage AoE's are getting buffed then.