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.
Why the hell does it take them so long to do this? Arena was garbage for months. They made all sorts of other poor changes like those awful synergy picks, and all the while people are victimized by Death Knights.
I don't think they cared at all, they just wanted their signature cards from the current expansion to have more exposure. Now they want the focus on the next expansion. How pathetic.
Why so salty? The good thing is that they ARE removing DKs and arena is going to be better. If anything Is should be happy :)
Why should we be happy and praise Blizzard for being so slow to act on things that are highly demanded by the most loyal part of their community? I'm happy that they made the change, but it took 3 months. That's about 2 months too late in my eyes. Blizzard has a history of being slow to make widely-demanded changes, and they continue to show no signs of changing that.
Of course, I already pre-ordered the expansion, and I'm sure no one chose not to pre-order on the basis of death knights in arena. Hence, not a priority for Blizzard.
No sorry, making needed changes months late is not something to be thankful for. Other card games are making balance changes much sooner than Blizzard is, they have no excuses left at this point.
What nonsense. If you're running a multiplayer video game, and you're not listening to the demands of your customers, they won't stay around for long. Especially if the customers are right, which in regards to Hearthstone they were, and this was backed up with statistics.
Coming from someone who pretty much has only played arena during free promotion events, but who managed to get 12 wins with a Raza + Anduin draft during the dual-class arena, with my limited experience. I would probably also say it is a good idea removing them.
Though I don't care too much since I don't arena often. Good change for those who do frequent arena.
2 words: Fuck Yes!
Very good change, Especially Jaina was somewhat broken in the arena.
Finally. After 4 Months. Finally.
I'm happy they're leaving the arena, but keeping you're match winning cards in the mulligan in arena isn't out of the ordinary, I've gotten a bunch of 12 win runs just through drafting a flamestrike and keeping it in the mulligan when offered. Same goes for power play cards like lich king, deathwing, and before standard arena keeping dr boom in your mulligan in arena was sensible just because it was insanely strong
There. Are you happy now, kripp?
For someone that drafted Bloodreaver Gul'dan in the dual-class Arena couple of weeks back, I must also say this is a step in the right direction...
The value provided by the DKs are way too much...
Will you still be able to discover them?
Answering a question - PlushNightingale - with an other question, or was it only rhetorical ?
Well he is going in a right direction... C'Thun cards are excluded from draft, but you can discover them... There are not that many way to randomly discover fledgling as it is a neutral card... But Gadgetzan triple class discover cards have some chance to discover DKs and if DKs will be still in discover pool there will be an off chance to discover them, if it will work the same way C'Thun cards work...
You have time. The change is not happening this weeks.
Yeah tuesday. AKA time for approx 100 Arena runs. It should be possible to be offered the Mage class at least once in 100 runs.
RIP my Gold Jaina