Hearthstone Yogg Nerf Patch Arrives this Week!
Last week, seven card nerfs were announced and they're on schedule for a release sometime this week. Blizzard stated in the original post that they would arrive before the HCT Last Call events, which start this weekend. Like most Hearthstone patches, the nerfs will likely go live on Tuesday.
The patch going live early in the week also allows for competitors in the Last Call event to figure out which decks they're going to take to the event.
What is Getting Nerfed?
Seven cards will be getting nerfed.
- Rockbiter Weapon now costs 2 mana (Up from 1)
- Tuskarr Totemic can now only summon Basic totems (the same ones from your hero power)
- Call of the Wild now costs 9 mana (Up from 8)
- Execute now costs 2 mana (Up from 1)
- Charge's mana cost has been lowered to 1 (Down from 3), the minion it is applied to cannot attack a hero that turn, and the bonus attack that the minion would receive has been removed.
- Abusive Sergeant's now has 1 attack (Down from 2)
- Yogg-Saron, Hope's End will now stop casting spells if he is destroyed, silenced, transformed, or returned to the owner's hand.
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What Else is Expected of the Patch?
Outside of the card nerfs, we could see:
- The Welcome Inn card back.
- This is a reward for BlizzCon 2016's Digital Ticket and was not included in the most recent patch.
- Not in the last patch likely due to them not being certain of when that patch would be delivered and the announcement for the card back was not made until right as the patch hit.
- Tavern Brawl chalkboards / cards
- Correction of Tyrande's almost out of cards speech bubble text
- BRB Emotes
- Tyrande had a string for a BRB emote. It is possible other heroes may receive them as well.
- Hero event strings + voiceovers
- Tyrande also had these which pointed towards a lot of new stuff for holidays coming to Hearthstone, possibly through brawls.
how balanced! every class are nerfed, except the already OP mage, now once again freeze mage, OTK mage, tempo mage will take top 3 decks in the meta, what a "Blizzard - the mage lover"
What the hell is both mage?
Wow, I got a golden Yogg from a pack a while ago and now it's worth 3200 dust o_O
i DE'd my Yogg for 1600 and crafted a golden one xD
Nearly 2GB for a handful of nerfs and not much else seems a bit on the ridiculous side.
Then you'll have to get them to re-code the game using a different development platform, it sounds like. Are you volunteering? ;)
Sure nerf Call of the Wild but let Anyfin Can Happen be a rare.. There needs to be a way to put only one in a deck. You clear the damn Murlocs and survive the turn? Well too bad here they are again even bigger... Seriously this is crap.
I don't disagree, the nerf on COTW is fine and doesn't impact the card almost at all. I just had played 3 consecutive Murlocadins when I wrote the comment and was frustrated out of my mind.
I like bananas.
How many days will the nerfed cards be disenchantable for full value? Anyone know for sure? I wanted to test Yogg and Call of the Wild for a bit before I go ahead and disenchant.
2 weeks I think
The official post on the HS website is until 17 October... so make sure to do all you want by then...
it might be just one week
Yogg can still fuck up games, although it will no longer be consistent. I just played 3 games against Yogg Druid and 2 out of 3 of those games, Yogg managed to survive till the last spell cast. The other game that Yogg did not survive, I won, but Yogg cleared my board, flooded opponent's board, died, then cast doom to clear entire board. So if Yogg would have stopped casting after dying, I would have been on much bigger trouble.
Patch live
Today I played Yogg-Saron, in a MalyDruid deck. The first spell he casted was Purify on himself, and his battlecry inmediately stopped...
...all this time, Purify was the counter card to Yogg-Saron, but we never knew.
Poor Ben Brode.
I have a question: I have been hearing about all these people DE their yoggs for 1600 dust and I was about to do it but it still said DE for 400. Do I have to wait for the update to go live or did I miss out?
thank you
probably your region hasn't been started yet.. is live on NA