Balance Changes, both buffs and nerfs, coming this Thursday! Check out the hints below!
Patch Delayed to Friday Morning
Sorry y’all. People are working on resolving this problem. Patch now expected tomorrow morning instead of today. https://t.co/39sarPjM3G
— Nicholas “DeckTech” Weiss (@hsdecktech) May 18, 2023
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Constructed Changes
- Buff: Symphony of Sins
- Buff: From the Depths
- Buff: Chorus Riff
- Buff: Demolition Renovator
- Buff: Rotten Applebaum
- Buff: Pandaren Importer
- Nerf: Sinful Brand
- Nerf: Predation
- Nerf: Felscale Evoker
- Nerf: Anub'Rekhan
- Nerf: Scribbling Stenographer
- Nerf: Battlefield Necromancer
- Nerf: Blightfang
- Nerf: High Cultist Basaleph
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symphony of sins will probably get a buff to the one that does damage to ALL characters into the one that does damage to all ENEMIES, as that is the one symphony that simply sucks to use without a felstring harp.
i doubt they'll kill sinful brand (which deal 1 would do, unless they drop the cost to 0 or 1).
stenographer is 4/4 for 6 mana currently. likely to get a simple stats nerf to prevent efficient trades with shadowstep
battlefield necromancer won't (or shouldn't) receive a change to the minion it summons, as it's shared between the 8 mana one that fills the board with those. i feel like they'll nerf 1 stat point and call it a day.
anub will likely get a mana nerf, as he creates situations in which a druid can either play the drum combo as early as turn 6-7 (as flowerchild discounts), allows druid to use hero power on top of playing anub, creating huge attack zok's or play jailer combo as early as turn 7-8, preventing majority of classes to deal with such boards, as AoE destruction removals are usually 8 mana. i would like for anub to go to 10 mana. he'll still be played, but won't create such impossible situations anymore (or such huge zok's).
Just kill DK ty. I never seen something able to play aggro controle and fatigue on the same patch will being good af at it!
I mean druid had meta aggro and control at the same time a bunch of times wym by fatigue though?
Why so many minuses? Druid and dh crybabies are against the nerfs or what?
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Chorus riff KEKW
Time for some meaningless predictions because that's actually one of the funniest things about Hearthstone:
Symphony of Sins - Now we'll be able to discover from all seven options.
From the Depths - Cost from 4 mana to 3 mana and Discounts from 3 mana to 2 mana.
Chorus Riff - Cost from 3 mana to 2 mana.
Demolition Renovator - Don't really know. Maybe a 3 mana 3/4 from now on?
Rotten Applebaum - Probably just getting +1 Health.
Pandaren Importer - Nerf revert.
Sinful Brand - Will probably go from 2 damage to 1 damage.
Predation - From 0 mana after playing a Naga to 1 mana.
Felscale Evoker - Will either have it's cost increased or receive the Frigidara treatment.
Anub'Rekhan - This one has a few different options:
1. Increase the cost to 9 or even 10 mana.
2. Decrease the amount of Armor you get from Anub's Battlecry to 6 Armor.
3. Decrease even more the number of minions you can cheat with Anub's effect going from the next 3 minions to only the next 2 minions.
Options 1 e 2 look more likely.
Scribbling Stenographer - Will either have it's stats decreased (e.g. from a 4/4 to a 3/4) or have it's cost increased to 7 mana. 8 mana is just too much.
Battlefield Necromancer - Will probably become a 2/2 but another option would be to make it cost 3 mana.
Blightfang - Buff revert.
High Cultist Basaleph - Buff revert.
Aint no way Symphony will be able to discover all 7. How would you show all 7 cards on mobile?
There already exists cards which show 4 discovery options. They could just make the 4th option be something like "show the remaining movements".
Not sure if having 7 choices is good enough. Dreadlich Tamsin was also 6 mana, but at that price it guaranteed:
None of the symphonies even come close to this power level. When playing against aggro, even if you manage to hit your best option, Movement of Wrath and clear the board, you still take 6 face damage, which is a lot, when you can't heal that well. Tamsin would instead clear the board, heal you, and give you new resources to play with.
discover keyword means select 1 from random 3 options. i very much doubt they'll switch the keyword to pick a symphony. what i believe is a buff to the one symphony that does 6 damage to ALL characters into deal 6 damage to enemies.
anub should go to 10 mana, as he creates impossible to deal board states with drums, as early as turn 6-7, while majority of removals are 8 mana. at 10 mana, druid won't get to use a hero power before dropping zok, at least not without using innervate or having audio splitter, which would either require an additional combo card or a drop in consistency.
I surely hope that Chorus Riff gets stat buff rather than mana. Odd warrior with all the riffs is really funny idea which would be a shame to lose
Very very nice changes. I love that they are listening to people that actually play the game on a daily basis rather than the whining lower ranks players. Making gradual small/medium changes over time is the way to go.
Kinda scared that rouge will be hit a bit too hard tho with both Scribbling Stenographer being nerfed (hopefully just attack or health not cost, highly unlikely tho) and Demolition Renovator being buffed.
Seriously… Anub is one of the few saving graces for Druid right now. Gonna take over last place from Warrior now.
Thank God Spell DH is getting what it deserves!
They're also buffing some interesting cards aswell.
Can't wait for this next patch.
0 nerfs to blood dk or frost? this is a joke
Blood DK is slightly above 50% winrate.
Go cry in a corner, dumb agro player.
Golden Lady S'Theno watching them nerf Predation from my collection:
She has dodged yet another balance patch.
Well yeah, they don't want to refund a legendary, even if it's clearly broken and has been the cause of the imbalance for a year.