Interaction Between Thrall, Deathseer and Unlicensed Apothecary Fixed in Next Patch
The bugged interaction between Thrall, Deathseer and Unlicensed Apothecary will be fixed! Mike Donais has confirmed on reddit this evening that the fix will arrive with the next Hearthstone game update.
We'll likely see something this month as they have to get that new card back into the game somehow.
If you aren't aware of the issue, here's how it works.
- You play Thrall, Deathseer which transforms your minions on board.
- One of your minions becomes Unlicensed Apothecary.
- Each minion transformed, other than Apothecary, deals 5 damage to your hero. RIP
Quote from Mike DonaisThe Thrall interaction should be fixed in the next patch. The first big patch since Thrall's release.
What about the Scavenging Hyena + Defile bug? Still no word about that.
it's not a bug it's a interaction
That is most definitely a bug. xD
oh i didn't know that. I was thinking about defile kills a minion buff hyena and cast again but do not kill the hyena. my bad that's a bug =D
WTF, man.
I personally haven't seen this happen, but I'm glad they are fixing this (even as much as I dislike playing against Shaman). The interaction is straight up incorrect since you are not summoning minions, so this should have never been a thing. How bout that Blizzard playtesting, eh?
As welcome as this fix is, I'd honestly prefer Unlicensed Apothecary's trigger to be outright changed from "summon" to "play", for the reason that this card singlehandedly ruins any card that summons or randomly generates demons past and future. Bane of Doom, Kabal Trafficker, Krul the Unshackled are completely unplayable competitively in both Standard and Wild because generating this minion is such an absurd fail case way below the curve in that you literally, actually die. It's one of the worst feelings in the game to summon this minion by any means, and for the sake of not invalidating future cards at least for the Wild format, Unlicensed Apothecary receiving a trigger change would be something everyone would be happy with.
I hate this card.
it's working as intended though
I was victim of this sh*t twice in a row :[
Yeah, insta-death when you were at full life and winning the game isn't a great game experience. And screw those who say it's funny or well deserved, evolve shaman is far from OP.
i just saw that interaction once, was funny
Edit: just once in my games
i'm really bummed about this ... I am going to miss the laughs of playing an evolve shaman getting wrecked and they evolve and auto loose. the meme is too good and shouldn't be fixed. the one mess blizz does that i can get behind. hahahaha
Seriously. If they want to "fix" this situation, instead of changing the interaction just insert a clip of Ben Brode laughing that appears in the middle of the screen when it happens.
bahahaha that would be too funny
the point is that evolve itself doesn't' cause this interaction, only thrall. that's the accident, it's not following pre set rules about transform
You know, if the initially didn't made transform and summon works as if they were the same word, there would have been no problem.
But hey, I guess we can't make them think too much. They are a small indie company after all, they don't know extra hard programming and probably are low on people working in this game. :^)