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.
Thank you for your feedback, and we’ll see you in the Tavern.
Cheers!
I hope they bring Ben Brode back in the next patch...
Please increase the animation speed of Raven Idol if you wanna keep bringing that brawl.
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And that of Ultimate Infestation! (Blood Magic)
edit: Being able to concede during the animation would be ok, too.
Thank you for this Blizzard but I rather have 2 hours long games against Shudderwock combo decks when I get matched against them once every 1000 games since it's a tier 4 deck than play against aggro paladin and cubelock like every single game since Kobols, please and thank you.
PS: Spiteful Summoner shouldn't even exist, please delete that card or make it a 7 mana 1/1
So, deflection from the real problem of Spiteful Summoner? Shudderwock is a trash tier garbage deck while SS is oppressive.
It's not a balance fix, it's a fix for the fact that a Shudderwock game's finish took 5 or 6 minutes of animation time.
its still as viable as it was before, I think it'll be good if they nerf aggro again and cubelock/taunt druid become dominant.
Its more fun to play against than Quest Rogue at least.
So they're not going to change a card with a broken effect ?
Pretty much nullifies all the longer games, then again the meta's full of rush.
I'm not going to purchase any packs in order to show them I don't agree with their game's balance.
great whatever 2 dollars you were going to spend on packs a whale is going to spend thousands on packs
How is its effect "broken"? It's not a serious deck - the combo is too slow.
C'mon this isn't really fair. I don't agree with his point, but if you don't agree with the way the game is going, the way to show is definitely not buying packs. The casual players that rarely buys packs vastly outnumber the people who whale and buy thousands worth of packs.
Tier 3 "broken" deck :)
sooo uhh next expansion is this happening or what
Nice change, now at least the card is playable, at least from a lenght of the games prospective... No more 2h games...
Oh, it was playable before. You never STOPPED playing with that long-as-fuck animation sequence.