Hearthstone Balance Changes Incoming - Information Coming Next Week
In a tweet this afternoon, the Hearthstone team has announced they have reconsidered their stance on balance changes before the next set. More information will be made available in an update next Monday, October 15.
What changes would you like to see?
Quote from @PlayHearthstoneWe've been discussing a couple of card balance changes to make next week. We'll have more information to provide on October 15.
if rogue's quest is the only problem.... 0/1 after completed quest will be still 4/4 :p
Sonya is not the problem, leave her alone. It's a fun card that enables many meme combos/decks. Your solution to nerf a balanced card to make the unbalanced less oppressive makes no sense.
the problem is sonya + charge = quest completion, but you already know that, right?
So what cards are really problematic right now?
We need to deal with quest rogue - quest, sonya, giggling...Then the powercreep of druid will be reduced imho. (not all of them)
Sonya is fine. Quest Rogue is literally the only deck she's good in. They're likely going to just nerf Druid and the Rogue quest due to people being in a circle jerk about them. If I had to guess the nerf will likely be to branching paths for Druid and maybe a nerf to Nourish. That's all I see happening really.
Quest Rogue idk.. maybe more minions for the quest again? 4/4's are fine because they're more easily dealt with than the 5/5's. Either that or a full rework is really all I see happening and that's super unlikely.
They're not going to nerf Nourish, if they're going to touch it at all, they'll just move it to HoF.
I have been holding on to all my cards until disenchant day!
I truly hope there are more changes than a "couple" of cards. More than a "couple" need to be addressed in effort to change the stale and predictable meta.
And you still believe they care about wild? That's gross!
I hope they will not nerf any card to the ground like usual.
New text for Ariana: “Your minions cost 2”
Kinda funny how just a few weeks need to pass between "We are happy with the metagame right now" and "We have been discussing some card balance changes". I mean, obviously they were "discussing" changes right around the time they told us that the meta is in a good state.
Either way, RIP the deck I spent 4000+ dust on and see it completely destroyed with one card change I maybe get 800 dust from. I don't know what will get hit, but this happens pretty much every single time to me when they "balance" some cards.
Though I do agree some changes would be warranted, especially in Wild. And maybe they actually do take an issue with the fact, that Standard almost hasn't changed with the release of BDP aside from Odd Warrior, Giggling Inventor and everyone teching Mossy Horror because of it.
Priest right now is the class with the second least winrate. And the best hunter-decks doesn't use barnes too. So no, i doubt we will see a barnes-nerf right now.
I still hope for Juicy Psychmelon-nerf or an Aviana-nerf. Aviana up to 10 mana or make Aviana affect only 1 minion per turn.
Where is Doomguard a problem at the moment? Cubelock is ok but no where near to strong at the moment and most Zoos are playing no Doomguards and istead using Leeroy.
One simple solution could be nerfing Barnes to 6 mana and give him some extra stats. The biggest problem with big priest is cheating out the minions on turn 4. At turn 6 it is way more likely that you can deal with the "cheated minion".
I will go crazy if it was't Juicy Psychmelon nerfd
and I hope they hit big priest somehow
Ew. Back to announcements of the announcements, huh :D
Well, I am looking forward to seeing the changes. There are quite some cards that would deserve a nerf or getting HoF'd. I am looking at you, Doomguard.
I wouldn't mind a giggling nerf just because i'm sitting on these two golden copies just in case it got a nerf.
I don't have time to go digging for the full list, but rest assured, buffs have happened, even if you never noticed them, so "for a change" does not apply, as it is not exclusively nerfs.
Some examples:
DK Rexxar used to only include cards up to the frozen throne, and didn't use K+C cards, even though it was released. (No, this was not a bug, as they did not originally intend to update the card list)
Murloc buff cards used to buff your opponents murlocs as well, but that was buffed away.
Bane of doom used to be significantly worse since it only pulled from a specific assortment of demons, that didn't even include stuff like doomguard.
I could list any number of the minions that were given the elemental tag after the fact as having their synnergistic effects buffed for that sort of deck.
I think they should just remove aviana kun altogheter, not make it a requirement to have more pieces the combo is stupid.