Death Knights are Being Removed from Arena Starting November 14
Rest in peace Death Knights. The nine hero cards added in Knights of the Frozen Throne will not be available in the Arena starting next week on Tuesday, November 14.
Official Post
Quote from Zeriyah
- Death Knight Hero cards can no longer be drafted in Arena.
Starting on the morning of Tuesday, November 14 PST, we will remove the nine Knights of the Frozen Throne Death Knight Hero cards from the Arena draft pool. While the Death Knight Hero Cards are exciting and powerful to play, their permanent Hero Power upgrades are hard to combat in a format where answers are limited.
We will continue to monitor Arena balance and make changes on an as-needed basis. Please note this change does not remove Death Knight Hero cards from existing drafted decks. For a complete list of cards that are not available in the Arena draft pool, please refer to our Arena Specifics forum post on the official Hearthstone forums.
What about DK from Discover cards??
Being sniped with decks that people saved because of this?
Finally! Now it's Bonemare time.
Great but the biggest problem in arena wasnt solved im still getting angry chickens , ancient watchers and eggs in my drafts or other garbage that's useless or useless/bad without synergy.
Their taking away the big splashy things and leaving the bad things that does nothing. The Dk isnt always playable in an turn im sure everyone that plays a lot of arena won someone that had an Dk in their hand but the opponent just never had the chance to play it.
Getting angry chickens, ancient watchers and eggs is part of the draft and if you can not handle that then you should not play arena.
The problem with DK's is that they makes a huge tempo swing and for a class like mage which is already highly picked the DK is auto pick if you get the option.
The DK also lacks counters, in standart where the meta is settled you build you deck to counter the meta, that is not possible in arena, which makes DK's such a huge deal in arena.
But then again there is also some DK's which almost never see playes in arena
Guys with DKs plz snipe Kripp. I wanna more salty videos.
I never had DK in arena, but my thought when loosing to one was "gimmie this too" rather than "ban it".
I don't get why everyone wanted these taken out. Yes, they were powerful, but it's not like games aren't decided on the back of other cards.
I get that Kripp and a bunch of people were salty about being owned by DK's because they literally have instant value, (most of the time) and the DK hero power does too much for most arena decks to handle.
That being said, I feel like this in itself is a slipperly slope. Preventing Quest or Cthun cards from being in arena is one thing (Those REQUIRE synergy in order to complete so it makes sense to keep those mechanics out), but most DK's are just stand alone powerful cards. This makes them no different from someone who drafted 2 flamestrikes and 2 firelands portals, or some rogue who drafted 4 eviscerates, or even some paladin who drafted Ragnaros, Lightlord. Those are all powerful cards, hell, Deathwing is probably the single most rage inducing legendary to face in arena because it's something you can't play around.
Are they going to start removing other powerful legendaries just because they are there? My concern is that Blizzard is caving in to salty demand. Remember, people always recall negative interactions in games over positives ones.
See this article for proof that people remember being salty, more often than not:
Problem is DK's are often much better than a guy with two Flamstrikes, the value just acumulates over and over till there is no chance for comeback. Its SOOO easy to reach at least 8-10 wins with DK Jaina or anduin. When u draft a DK you just need to pick cards that make you survive till you can play the DK and win. Im happy they are taking out those cards.
Everyone who is downvoting this guy's comment probably doesn't have an opinion of their own or just played less than 5 games of Arena. He is totally correct. In fact, I'd venture to say that someone who drafted two flamestrikes or four eviscerates has even higher chances to win, because they don't need to rely on a single card to win. Hell, even when you do draw your deathknight, the game is still not over. What you see in Kripp's videos are most of the time extreme cases and not your average arena games - otherwise it wouldn't be entertaining to watch. So before starting to bitch about arena and how DKs can get you easy 12 wins, please, play at least 100 games and get some experience of your own - guaranteed you'll change your opinion.
Cobalt Scalebane and Bonemare needs nerf.
Not really nerfs, but needs to be removed form Arena
bonemare next hopefully
I smell a hint of Kripperino, so I'm just gonna skipperino.
Whaaat you can draft DK? Since KoFT I havnt managed to draft a single DK :D
This is a good change. They should also have more arena events like dual class. But they also need to have more cards that allow a back and forth game, not just snowballing. That's the main problem in arena now.
kripp is happy now man !!
kripp is sooooooo happy right now !!!!
Thank Yogg!!!!!!!
Death knights are amazing and i have alot of fun to play with in ranked mode but in arena is a different story you just losing the game from just 1 card and thats just stupid . that was a good move by blizzard and i am very happy to see that .
P.S. next time remove UI as well :P