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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No, it would make it TOTAL garbage, and it's not even great right now.
Yeah, "battlecry : if you survived 9 turns, you win the game" is wayyyy better....
YEAH let's make a garbage card even more garbage so the winrate gets below 30%.
I think it is good they do this. While this is not a real problem for now because of the aggro decks. The card has the potential to be gamebreaking, so Blizzard has extremely limited design space for the coming 2 years.
Cubelock and the Deathknights seems to be so strong right now. I think we have to wait either for the other expansions for better OP cards or at least 1 year for those to cycle out.
refund for what? that is not how it works.
If you buy something in real life, use it and then try to refund it, I am 100% sure you wouldn't get your money back. Shudderwock is exactly the same, only a few fewer battlecries (and believe me, you will never exceed 20 battlecries in a normal game so it doesnt play differently.)
Even Shaman counters paladin pretty nicely, Cubelock and Control Lock just destroy Paladin, Zoolock Crushes Odd paladin, Big Spell mage destroys paladin as well, Warrior destroys Paladin in general.
playing 1-5 ranks , and i faced like 1 shudderwock shaman in like 100 games and ppl called for a nerf ...
They dont really call for a nerf. Shudderwock Shaman is quite the T4 or T3 Deck. But its absolutely garbage that this animation takes so long.
Probably for the best. Nobody wants to sit through endless animations.
What rank are all these shuddershamans playing at because I hardly ever come up against them?
Faced 6 of them at rank 15 yesterday evening
I have never seen a Shudderwock shaman in the last week, I've only ever faced a few on expansion release
Well, i'm prepared for 99× MY JAWS THAT BITE, MY CLAWS THAT CATCH.
Capping the amount of battlecries is literally a nerf to Shudderwock. Naturally l expect the ability to fully refund my dust, Blizzard.
He is right. It is a nerf and one should never fear crafting a card based on “Blizzard might nerf this card but not give you a full refund”
I won’t disenchant it because I use it in Wild but I understand people who want the ability to get a full refund on a card that is no longer as powerful as the time they decided to spend dust on thr card since dust come from cards that come from packs that COULD potentially come from real life money.
The otk keeps untouched. It works the same. 20 battlecries is more than needed. There is no nerf to the otk.
Meh ... doesn't impact the level of performance, no full dust-refund needed.
They didn't give full dust refund when they capped Defile to only 14 casts so why would they do it here?