A Holiday teaser to help you get in a festive mood. As always, these are cards that will be properly announced in the Patch Notes tomorrow.
Quote from BlizzardWe've got a grip of new balance updates in Patch 28.2.3.
Check back tomorrow for the full patch notes.
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Constructed Changes
The Card art shown from the following:
Nerfs:
Buffs:
- Maw and Paw
- Corpse Bride
- Climactic Necrotic Explosion
- Invasive Shadeleaf
- Pip the Potent
- Ra-den
- Elise, Badlands Savior
- Shell Game
- Velarok Windblade
- The Azerite Scorpion
- Furnace Fuel
- Pop'gar the Putrid
- Slagmaw the Slumbering
- Khaz'goroth
- Horseshoe Slinger
- Barrel of Sludge
Adjustments:
I hope the totally op Paladin AOEs get nerfed into the ground.
How is two bodies (one even with taunt) and a weapon a slow play?
Btw the weapon alone is 18 dmg, so this will be the Target, 1 attack is coming
If only they increased Sif by one mana and made Snake Oil one mana to cast.. rainbow mage would not be able to one shot anymore unless they did a lot of other stuff first. Thought they didn't like OTK.
And Reverberations is in every mage deck because it's a "kill any minion" for three mana type of card. If only they made it so target didn't get the one damage penalty but the copy did. Would be balanced.
Balance in this game has never been great but it's still always mind boggling to me how long they'll let paladin sit at a 60% win ratio while more than half of the other classes are down at around 40%-47%.
Paladin is the outlier right now. It’s warped the meta. They need to fix that first. The nerfs to Druid, Mage, and Shaman are senseless until they fix Paladin and then see what shakes out in the meta.
Just like last rotation, they won’t be happy until Druid and Shaman are last on the tier list, totally unplayable. Because apparently nobody on their team can handle even one loss to a Druid or Shaman player without crying.
I would love if excavate Rogue becomes good. I miss playing rogue
Yeah...nerf the mage...who is lying dead on the ground...but don't nerf the op classes....well played.
No skarr buff :(
You know what I really hate about anouncements of anouncments then a huge delay before the patch? The fact that you end up playing against all the tryhards who deliberately abuse the cards blizzard themselves have already decided are too powerful.
It suck - I'm facing more paladins than ever now...
Braindead devs...
wait you actually got that??? it's 100$ after you factor in that you need to buy diamond flint right?
Yes, I’ve played the game since closed beta and I have everything in the game mode except the esports cardbacks. A lot of people spend money on things others do not. I own stock in the company and support the people who make the game. Giving 1600 dust for this card is not very smart imo seeing as it was a paid for purchase. They know they have to address this permanently or simply not nerf the paid for diamond cards at all. Those who buy them do so specifically because they want to play with them because of the unique art Regardless if the nerf affects playability it’s not the same card anyone who bought it paid for at the time of purchase. The company is running a fine line between its customers and a class action lawsuit. I don’t care what the eula says Tesla can’t sell you a car and then turn off features via software and then charge you a subscription fee to turn them back on. Making all cards craftable and disenchantable is the ultimate solution.
What do those of us who own the diamond doc hallidae card get? I think they gave us a gold refund last time that happened but I can’t remember.
Im happy about the nerfs, but when they revealed Maw and Pa for this expansion, I said day one that "its a really cool card, but theyre guaranteed going to buff it by making it 1 blood rune only and then it's going to be in every lame triple blood control deck and be infuriating" I hope that's not the buff, but I'm 99% sure it will be. And why are they buffing Elise??? Control priest is already insane, boring to play and even more boring to play against, and the reno variant, although less played is even worse. Theres even an achievement to summon 20 mana of stuff with it. The card is designed to be stupid and high rolly in the worst way. Ive had that played on me like 4 times and all 4 times, it summoned 2 titans and 2 colossals...
Also why are they nerfing Pyrotechnician?? I'm aware of crazy stuff you can do with it, but dude, I've never faced the deck. Don't nerf things no one plays. Nerf Reno and Astalor: the 2 most broken cards in the format that I literally see played in 70% of my games...
"Control priest is already insane" - you mean insanely weak? it's like a tier 3-4 deck. Boring to play? It's some os the most fun I had in standard for the past few months. Blood DK is lame? It's a lot of people's favourite DK archetype, that they stuck with to this day, even thought the deck sucks ass and didn't receive a single new good card in almost a year. Reno is busted, but people need some kind of reward card to play bad decks. They already nerfed Astalor once and they won't do it again. And yes, Elise is indeed a weak payoff card and needs some kind of further support.
It’s not about balance, it’s about hurt feelings among the most vocal people. The Druid Thaddius/Pyro deck is a meme deck. Sure, it can do crazy stuff, but it is a big loser on the ladder because it’s wildly inconsistent. But people cry whenever a Druid or Shaman wins a game, so they aren’t happy until they’ve pushed those 2 classes to sub-40% win rates.
I’d be happy to see Astalor and Reno gone too. one card that negates all deathrattles, dormant minions, locations, and anything else on the board, and then takes away the opponent’s next turn too? What a ridiculously powerful card. At LEAST it should require discard of 3 random cards from your hand.
No Plague DK?
Why are they nerfing dragons and buffing beasts?? Beasts are stupidly OP with chicken etc. Dragons are in the weak spot now how many times kaly dragons can beat golddrin chicken comp?
Stupid dev.
Corpse Bride useless in standard and already broken in arena, but yeah instead of nerfing broken shit lets buff this so it remains useless in standard but gets even more more broken in arena. Fucking retard devs.
Booooo Doc Holli Dae nerf is bullshit