Molten Giant & Mountain Giant to Become Elemental + More Minion Changes
Five minions of Hearthstone are receiving type changes and one art change!
- Molten Giant becomes an Elemental.
- Mountain Giant becomes an Elemental.
- Witchwood Piper becomes a Demon.
- North Sea Kraken becomes a Beast.
- Jungle Moonkin is losing Beast.
- Witchwood Grizzly is receiving new art.
Quote from BlizzardIn our ongoing quest to make Hearthstone more consistent and intuitive, we always pay close attention to what our players are saying about the game. In an upcoming update, we’re taking some steps toward improving consistency by making some small tweaks to certain minion types, based on your feedback.
Some minions in Hearthstone are categorized into Types, like Demons, Beasts, or Elementals. We’re going to be making changes to a few cards to make their Type match what you’d expect based on their art, fantasy, and where they fit in with Warcraft lore.
The following changes will be included in the next major Hearthstone update:
Molten Giant & Mountain Giant
Both Molten Giant and Mountain Giant will be reclassified as Elementals. This adds some additional options in Elemental-type decks, but also makes more sense from a visual standpoint—these lumbering towers of magma and stone are the epitome of Elementals.
Witchwood Piper
Witchwood Piper will be considered a Demon. This satyr minion is rather demonic in nature, which is in keeping with Warcraft canon, and so it makes sense to acknowledge that in Hearthstone. This is the first* time we have introduced a satyr to Hearthstone, so we want to associate them with their proper minion classification.
North Sea Kraken
In line with the fantasy of a giant, boat-smashing terror of the deep, North Sea Kraken will become a Beast. Just don’t call it calamari.
Jungle Moonkin
While visually very Beast-like, Moonkin are in fact intelligent humanoids. We currently have two collectible Moonkin in Hearthstone—Darkmire Moonkin and Jungle Moonkin—and one was a Beast and the other wasn’t. We agree with the overall community feedback that Moonkin should not be Beasts, so, for consistency’s sake, Moonkin will no longer be classified as Beasts.
We also discussed how to address spectral beast cards like Witchwood Grizzly and Arfus. Are they Beasts or not? For Witchwood Grizzly, we liked the gameplay interactions that it had with Witching Hour and Kathrena Winterwisp. We decided to update its art to make it look like a beast instead of a ghost. Arfus meanwhile, is seeing a lot of play because he is being Discovered by Deathstalker Rexxar, which is really fun, so we're leaving him as is for now.
As a follow up to our recent explanations regarding our refund policy, we would also like to clarify that minor consistency changes—such as name changes, templating updates, art updates, or Type changes that do not significantly affect the power level of a card—will not offer a full Arcane Dust refund.
In this case, since power levels remain essentially unchanged, we will not offer a full Arcane Dust refund.
If you’ve noticed any other minions that seem like they should be a different Type, let us know in the comments, or on Facebook and Twitter.
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That's the joke.
What would a Pirate Orc be, then? The only conflict we've had so far has been Patches the Pirate (both Pirate and Demon), but if you add tribes for every intelligent race, the cases would multiply.
who knows.. maybe there will be some 1 drops you really really want to play togheter, and there might be enough demon synergy that you would want a 4 drop that doesn't suck by itself.
oh boy mage with mountain giant
what about Arcane Giant ?
Arcane is an element too...
Nope. Elementals are beings associated with the Elemental Lords of Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Arcane magics are not related to them.
btw Arcane Tyrant and Arcane Artificer are elementals and in WoW arcane anomalies are also elementals.
Well, I dug a little deeper into the WoW Wiki. It basicly says that Arcane might be an elemental but has a different source than the "regular" elements.
I guess Blizzard simply cannot make up their mind.
"Flavour"-wise, I'd say the difference is that a Molten or Mountain Giant is a large elemental being, while from the visuals an Arcane Giant is not a giant arcane elemental, but rather a very large arcane-powered construct (like a larger version of the Arcane Golem). Since those are constructs, they are not elementals, but they are not powered mechanically, so they also aren't mechs.
Maybe mech w/ curator
so Sea Giant doesn't resemble Water?
New card with "destroy elemental" mechanic confirmed for next expansion.
Yes ! I can finally resummon Witchwood Piper with Bloodreaver Gul'dan.
Yeah because everyone plays Witchwood Piper for carddraw in every Gul'dan deck...
You do realise it was intended as a joke :)))
I love consistency in design and i welcome these changes.
I also like the new Grizzly art.
Yet there are many more cards to fix (and Arfus is one of them).
RIP to the artist that spent 80 hours getting the shading right for the transparent see-through spectral part, only to have to fill it all in with fur later on...
Ahaha yeah
But i'm pretty sure the old art stays in the Monster Hunt boss.
Did anyone actually give a shit about witchwood grizzly being spectral?
I dont see the problem either... there are spectral beasts in warcraft as well.
maybe they should just rename it to spectral bear
But I like the changes for the giants. This was smth that bothered me for a while now