Shudderwock and Lifedrinker Battlecry Animation Update
It looks like Blizzard will be updating the Animation for Shudderwock and Lifedrinker in a future update.
Quote from Jesse Hill Recently, our players have had feedback regarding the Shaman card, Shudderwock. We understand that the length of its Battlecry animation and other animations spawned from its Battlecry can be frustrating.
In a future update, we will be doubling the animation speed of Shudderwock’s Battlecry so it will lessen the impact on the overall pacing of your current Hearthstone match. In addition, the amount of Battlecries Shudderwock can reproduce will be capped at 20.
We will also be speeding up the animation of Lifedrinker for similar reasons.
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Please give us full dust value for Shudderwock coz I regret crafting him on Day 1. lol
this change essentially nerfs nothing but troll cases where people would abuse the animation, if you crafted for that reason go fuck yourself, otherwise you just didnt like it and thats on you
Someone has sand in their vagina.
It's a nerf buddy, get over it. If a card did something and it's changed so that it can't do as much as it could, that's exactly what a nerf is. "But muh 50 battlecries deck argument" - read the last line again.
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Honestly I'm surprised they were stupid enough to release the card as they did. 10 minutes of testing it would reveal that it could be abused to make turns last 5 minutes. They obviously knew that was going to happen, and yet they released it like that. I can't understand why they would allow it... but I guess you can't really read people who think more deck slots would be too confusing.
Capping him from like 64 battlecries the third time he is played to 20 IS a nerf. Not big, but nonetheless a nerf. The same way Yogg-Saron, Hope's End was officially nerfed when they decided the battlecry could be interrupted. We got full DE value then and those who currently own Shudderwock (sadly not me) should get the full DE value.
third time it's played? what!? you do know a shuderwock won't add effects to other shuderwocks right?
you go on and on on how UNFAIR IT IS but you don't even know how the shit you are complaning about works
To make the cap simple to understand for everyone:
The INITIAL battlecry is now capped at 20. Murmuring/Brann make the battlecry trigger TWICE. So the effective cap of battlecrys is:
Without Murmuring Elemental/Brann Bronzebeard: 20
With Murmuring Elemental/Brann Bronzebeard: 40
blizzard did not see this one coming lul
Nerfing the card but not refunding dust? Not talking about the animation speed but the cap on 20 battlecries which is a straight up Nerf
please elaborate on your 50 battlecry shudderwock deck
I hope we'll get refunded, I only crafted it for the 20 mins animations and play it only against my friends to troll them a little. Fortunately the played agro so we're still friends. :P
Wow, instead of 10 minute turns we now only have to wait 5 minutes.
How fun and interactive, thanks Blizzard!
So de we get dust back ?
20/20 :LUL: :4Head:
Capping the effect from infinity to 20 seems like a huge NERF to me. Anyone see it this way? I don't even own the card but I think it warrants a refund for sure.
No, I don't see it this way, because you almost never get to 20 battlecries. Most of the time it is just the battlecry repeated twice which is why they seem so long. So it is just like 8 or so battlecries that are just performed twice.
Not really...the OTK deck ran 16 including Shudderwock and the way they word the changes makes it seem like Murmuring Elemental may still work to push it way past 20 overall, since it is technically a 2nd battlecry and would therefore reset the count.
We can't know for sure what future decks will want to do with him. Specially with Grumble in the mix, you can easily go over 20! #freeshudderwock
That would be for the better, but why even cap it at 20 if murmuring elemental pushes is past 20 , who even runs 21 battlecry minions in a deck, it is an unrealistic cap unless it is aplied to murmuring too.
They capped Unearthed Raptor due to issues and did not consider it a refund situation.
murmuring makes it repeat, not change the count, if you did 19 and then murmuring triggers then you do 19 x2