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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This is not a nerf, this is a quality of life change. You will not be getting dust. If you are complaining about dust, learn from your mistake and don’t craft on release day.
Are you kidding me? Release day should be the safest time to craft cards!
Or at least craft for fun on release day. I crafted it knowing it's power would be a risk but also happy to have a fun card to build decks around. Shudderwock is so fun in wild.
I don't mean safe as in a good craft, I mean safe as in from nerfs. And when I say "should," I mean wouldn't it be nice....It would be great to play with all the cards you want as soon as their available without having to worry about them. In a perfect world, ya know?
Will blizzard at least give us the option to dust Shudderwock for full dust? I crafted him to try out the OTK deck expecting a nerf soon and now that it's happening, we should get the full dust value back like with all nerfs.
I don't think you´re going to get a refound of the dust, since it isn´t really a nerf, is just a fix to the animation speed, and the 20 battlecries capp isn´t really a big deal for the card general functionality. Sorry but I think u will be dust-less for a while :/
??? Why would you dust this card? It's OP and will be in standard for 2 years. Yeah, right now the deck that plays it is bad, but in the future this card will have a better place.
For me it was an instant craft, and I don't regret it at all. Time will tell.
yea i might have been ahead of myself but yea ill wait, who knows, maybe it will become better, but for now its just gonna gather dust in my collection
No, you didn´t. It says the capp will be 20. Stop the molotovs jaja
They better give full dust refund for nerfing Shudderwock or I'll RIOT
I guess it's a start
Not a fan of the 20 cap.
Personally I would rather change it to only allow each battle cry to trigger once kind of like the priest spell stone.
I think that would balance the card, but make it too balanced for constructed play in the same sense that Yogg became.
Really??? Wow what a change. Where’s Spiteful Summoner nerf? Call To Arms Nerf? Carnivous Cube nerf? Grumble nerf? You know, so that the game actually becomes playable. No wonder Ben and Chu left. Incompetence at it’s best.