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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Great! now turns will only be 7 minutes then. Seriously, who thought this card was good idea.
Brode, and why do you think he did quit? :]
Does the 20 battlecry limit apply to the stacking effect? Any single shudderwok isn't going to do more than about 10 battlecries. But then the second Shudderwok will repeat the first Shudderwok's effect. Is that one battlecry or ten?
I have the same question, haven't been playing the game for a while and I want to know: does the second third etc shudderwork repeat the battlecry of the last shudderwock? And if yes, is this considered as a nerf if it limits the battlecry?
I play a cheap version of Shudderwock not having grumble , im using 2x brew master now for instance in a game i played Saronite Chain Gang 4 times and played 1x Youthful Brewmaster.After i play Shudderwock best case scenario Youthful Brewmaster battlecry is activated atleast after 1 of the chain gangs... So i end up with copy this minion bounce 1 to hand copy copy.
Having 3x Shudderwock on board and 1 back in hand
Lets say my opponent clears the board.
I play the Shudderwockfrom hand it will infact only repeat 4 copys and 1 bounce IT WILL NOT do 8 Copys and 2 Bounce Try it out , but I CAN CONFIRM IT DOES NOT COUNT the previous shudderwock's battlecry's
Will I get full dust back after the nerf?
It’s a buff, you’re able to play more shudderwock on the second turn, while the cap does not change anything. It’s not enough to make it good though
Why wasn't this Yogg-Saron, Hope's End nerf? Cap the spells at a number. Now he's utterly worthless. First spell: Cast Evolve. Snowfury Giant for 10-mana yay! UN-NERF YOGG!
Yogg-Saron is capped at 30 spells...
Anyway, play Yogg, and then Shudderwock. Shudderwock should work like old Yogg.
I made a meme shudderwock + yogg + 28 spell deck. It is obviously terrible, but funny as hell in friendly matches.
Because yogg was specifically nerfed with the purpose of removing excess randomness from competitive matches. Capping it at 20 would not have achieved that goal.
Shudderwock , Yogg and Tess greymane all work the same, if they die they stop casting.