Mistress of Pain and Auchenai Soulpriest Combo to be No More!
Thanks to a post this afternoon from Keganbe of the Hearthstone Community team, we're learning that Auchenai Soulpriest will not be wreaking havoc on heroes anymore thanks to some upcoming changes in Knights of the Frozen Throne; It will only trigger once with the Lifesteal mechanic!
In addition to this change, two cards will be changed to instead have Lifesteal on their wording. These cards are the aforementioned Mistress of Pain and the relatively new Wickerflame Burnbristle.
Quote from KeganbeGreetings!
In Knights of the Frozen Throne, we’re introducing a new keyword, Lifesteal, that summarizes the previously existing card text “damage dealt by this also heals your hero”. We’re looking forward to showing off more new cards with the Lifesteal keyword in the coming weeks.
Two cards currently exist with the Lifesteal ability in their text box: Wickerflame Burnbristle and Mistress of Pain.
In Knights of the Frozen Throne, we’ll be updating their card text to say “Lifesteal” rather than their current “damage dealt by this minion also heals your hero” text. You can check out what that will look like by clicking the links above!
Stop Hitting Yourself
Auchenai Soulpriest and Mistress of Pain have had a very interesting relationship. Their current interaction results in a continuous loop of healing and damage that results in a rather grisly end to the current game. In Knights of the Frozen Throne, we will be changing the interaction between Auchenai Soulpriest and all minions with Lifesteal so that the Auchenai Soulpriest ability will only trigger once.
We hope you are looking forward to our next chilling expansion!
[card]Wickerflame Burnbristle[/card] has exactly lifesteal, so what nerf are you talking about?
All depends on how the lifesteal works if it works like wickerflame or more like knuckles, but all info points towards it's the wickerflame route.
That is not a minion that can constantly attack over several turns and it is also effected by spell damage, but won't heal you more with spell damage on board.
it deals damage and heals, if you boost your spell damage with +5 you will still only heal for 4, however if you add +5 spell damage to a lifesteal spell you would heal +5 health also.
What about Hallazeal? Shouldn't it be "Your spells have Lifesteal" in the card text?
Nevermind, I found the answer in the comments on Reddit: "We actually just discussed this! If we changed Hallazeal to say "Your spells have Lifesteal", it would not stack if you have two Hallazeal on the board. We're currently planning on leaving the text as-is, so if you happen to have two Hallazeal on the board, you will reap the benefits of his ability triggering twice."
Nooooooo. No more sudoku
What ?
..sorry..someone had to..
About time they fixed this bug, Only years late, but hey.
Actually it's interesting, because this confirms that creatures will also heal your hero when taking defensive combat damage rather than only attacking.
why wouldnt it? its pretty much this way in any game like magic, dota, lol...
Another meme is dead ._.