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.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)very unfair to nerf cards when people wasted there dust to craft them spend 1600dust not so long after the card is dead goodjob blizz!
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)You know that you get the full dust value back when you disenchant them?
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)RIP my Sweet Princess: Yogg Saron 2016 April-November
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Bow down before the god of death...
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)-
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Aww, that thumbnail-Yogg is so sad.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Yay, no more losing games to ridicules Yogg or Tuskarr-RNG :D
SO happie.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)shut up leeroy you are the next bc of charge :D jk
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)actually not. Yogg will still cast Call of the Wilds and Flamestrikes again and again.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)In case you didn't know, Leeroy used to cost 4 mana
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Disenchanting Tuskarr Totemic, Call of the Wild and Abusive Sergeant will give us the full crafting cost, right?
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)So the full dust will appear once the patch is live? (currently they have normal values).
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)It should, that is the way it worked with previous patches.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)So that new nerfs will be every couple of months. blizzard understood that nerfing is easy. poor system
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)They should have nerfed doomhammer too..
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Nah. It was either nerf Doomhammeror nerf Rockbiter Weapon. Though, they should have targeted Doomhammer instead, like give it less durability, higher mana/overload cost, or have it only be able to attack face once, etc. Would be more reasonable.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)Rockbiter was chosen over Doomhammer as the nerf because of the flexibility that rockbiter provided as well as burst combos.
It was the only 1 mana 3 damage removal without a significant draw back.
You can attach it to hero to kill something with 3 hp.
You can attach it to a minion to trade up.
You can attach it to Doomhammer for 6 extra burst. Attaching 2 for 12 damage only cost 2 mana now it cost 4 and that's significant.
Similarly you can attach to Al'akir for the same burst.
At 2 mana can't slot it in as easily on overload turns.
Nerfing Doomhammer would have nerfed just Doomhammer, nerfing rockbiter nerfs shaman a lot more in general.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)