Rogue Quest Nerf Incoming! Un'Goro Q&A this Friday!
The Caverns Below will require that Rogues now play five minions with the same name. Finally?
In addition to this upcoming change, Ben Brode and Mike Donais will be holding a live Q&A this Friday, June 30 at 10:30 AM PDT (1:30 PM EDT, 7:30 PM CEST) on the PlayHearthstone Twitch.
Poll: Is this a Good Balance Change?
What do you think? Let us know more about your opinion in the comments below.
Nerf Announcement
Quote from KeganbeIn an upcoming update, we will be making a balance change to the Rogue card: The Caverns Below.
The Caverns Below now reads: Quest: Play five minions with the same name. Reward: Crystal Core.
Since the release of Journey to Un'Goro, Hearthstone has enjoyed a wider variety of competitively viable classes and decks than ever before. We’ve been monitoring overall gameplay, and we’ve decided that—even though everything is varied and many decks are viable—a change to The Caverns Below is still warranted.
The Caverns Below is uniquely powerful versus several slower, control-oriented decks and played often enough that it’s pushing those decks out of play. This change should help expand the deck options available to players both now and after the release of the next expansion.
Blog Announcement
Quote from BlizzardThe elementals are calling! Join us June 30 at 10:30 a.m. PDT for a live Q&A session where Game Director Ben Brode and Principal Game Designer Mike Donais will be answering your questions about Journey to Un’Goro and the upcoming balance changes.
Want to learn more: Check out the forum post!
Have something you'd like to ask? Here’s how you can be part of the conversation:
- Tweet @PlayHearthstone with the hashtag #QA with your question
- Post a question below in the blog comments
- Join us live in Twitch chat and direct questions to us @PlayHearthstone
Can’t make it? Don’t worry – we will be posting the full video on the PlayHearthstone YouTube channel after the Q&A has completed.
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We’ll see you there!
Primordial Glyph is the most unbalanced card in standard IMO. Needs looking at.
yes but glyph is a mage card, it can't be nerfed.
Pirate Warriors must be smiling right now??
Doubt it, Pirate Warrior just lost a really good matchup which will now be far less common.
Because no pirates card are being nerf...
I have one gold and one regular version... Me thinks I am getting 2 free legendaries :D :D
you'll get 3 legendaries, golden quest will give you 3200 dust and normal one 1600
I guess only one playable quest out of 9 is good enough for them.
I guess it was hard to buff few cards, you are deploying patch anyway so you could do it, but no. I guess it would be too complicated for new players, cunts.
Dust!
I see a lot of people saying that this nerf wasnt necessary and that the quest rogue was not OP etc.
I totally agree with those people and the only reason i think that Blizzard chose to nerf (over-nerf?) this card 3 months after its release is for future design space with the upcoming expansions.
This is a horrible decision, not only that nothing can keep jade in check now (people will cry hard for idol nerf again), they also confirmed now that they have fucked up with the quest mechanic design and playtesting (AGAIN).
Quest rogue was necessary for a healthy metagame as we have had it until now and it was not overpowerded at all and had actually a lot of weak match up's but well.. now everyone can play his greediest shit - loose to jade and cry more for the next nerf. Well played Blizzard.
(btw. I wonder if they ever thought about actually important nerfs like Primordial Glyph ?!)
Totally agree(also NON rogue here)
What do you mean there's no counter to jade druid, it gets destroyed by the same decks as quest rogue. Now it just loses quest rogue as a bad matchup. With brann, mulch and living roots gone, it's not even that bad of a matchup for other control decks now except for pure value/fatigue/no win-con decks like priest which blizz wants to kill off.
Um... Pirate Warrior will curbstomp Jade Druid.
Jade Druid isn't some unstoppable force dude.... you need to git gud =/