Upcoming Hearthstone Arena Hotfixes for Thursday, April 19
A round of hotfixes are incoming to Hearthstone this Thursday and focus on the Arena experience. Changes to card buckets, appearance rates by rarity, and below average card appearance rates.
Quote from Jesse HillIn an upcoming hotfix currently targeted for release on Thursday, April 19 (PDT), we will be making the following changes to the Arena:
- Adjusted the buckets for certain cards so that they appear alongside cards of a similar power level, mostly from The Witchwood and Kobolds and Catacombs.
- Lowered the appearance rate of Rare cards slightly and raised the appearance rate of Basic/Common cards slightly. Epic and Legendary cards should appear at the same rate.
- Very slightly raised the appearance rate of below average cards.
These changes should adjust the overall power level of Arena so that it feels like the choices players are making in their drafting decisions are more meaningful.
Our goal is to continue making improvements to the Arena as needed and communicate these changes to our players as they are implemented.
Thank you for your continued feedback.
Same bS will occur because people like me will just draft a pally deck wait for after nerf and get an ez 12...... they won't retire old decks so they will plague the arena for months GOOD JOB BLIZZARD
Yeah I understand you can buy a ticket, they should either retire that option or refund open decks as a free run
"Plague the arena for months"? Everyone can have exactly one legacy deck. They will play it, then it will be gone.
Oh good I was worried how he would feel
I just hate the fact that no matter how good your deck is in Arena ,,, you are still going to lose due to a flip of a coin .... paladin , rouge and hunter mirror match-ups are just insanely retarded
Can we nerf Divine Favor and Naga Sea Witch so wild doesn't get fucked too... standard and arena gets plenty of attention; there's a wild community too Blizz
I think you're missing the point of wild mate.
Wild mode have a HUGE card pool, increasing every expansion, Blizzard don't have to balance cards for this format.
The Naga Sea Witch thing was actually a fix. It's not just the interaction with Giants (where it's working as intended), but interaction with spells as well. Says your cards cost 5. So before the fix if I cast Primordial Glyph and find a spell that will cost 0 and draw Naga Sea Witch on the next Turn, the (2) reduction is not applied and the card costs 5. Now NSW makes the reduction come into effect before other reductions, so the card discovered via PG goes from (5) to (3).
It might seem like I am defending Blizzard and I am a wild giants player, and while I do have the NSW card, the only giants I own are the mountain ones so I couldn't ever play the archetype even when if I wanted to.
Not to mention that this deck is built around swarming the board at the midgame. A heavy aggro deck or a powerful control deck with simple tools can counter this easily. In a board full giants, all you have to do is throw a Blizzard-Doomsayer combo and watch your opponent concede.
If they cant balance their cards and fix issues, Then they are incompitent developers
What an on-topic comment...
But is Naga Sea Witch even that prevalent? I barely ever see it in Wild.
Thanks for spotting my mistake. I meant to write Frost Nova + Doomsayer combo which is a turn 5 clear.
But will it be reset? Or we will have to wait for another Arena event to clear the pre-change decks...again
I do t play arena... I just .. don’t get it ... 😓
Be good. Get rewards. Simples.