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!
Good change. Now we can at least get the quest on turn 5-7 instead of...turn 4.
Play five minions of the same name, turn all your minions into 5/5s. So many fives!
Also crystal core costs 5:)
Yeah, 1600 dust boyz.
Good riddance, now Rogue's back to playing Miracle all over again... If that is still a thing that is.
Finally!!!
About damn time. Only took three months of dealing with that stupid cancer. Well deserved.
Yeah sure, and in 2 weeks you will cry about the cancer face decks flooding the ladder and Jade druids crushing controls. It was not a tier one deck, just had a good matchup on controls, was it so OP?
Bilefin Tidehunter made Quest Rogue just so cancerous. 2 Mana 2 5/5 and one has taunt played four additional times after the quest because Rogue has too many return to hand cards. And worst of all the return to hand cards are just too cheap. Imho Shadowstep needs to be nerfed or put in the HoF. This card is so stupidly broken.