October Card Nerfs Are Now Live!
The Hearthstone patch with this month's set of balance changes is now live. Three beloved cards have received cost increases and can now be disenchanted for their full value for the next two weeks.
- [Discuss this Change] Giggling Inventor now costs 7, up from 5.
- [Discuss this Change] Mana Wyrm now costs 2, up from 1.
- [Discuss this Change] Aviana now costs 10, up from 9.
We'll have the card changes updated in our database shortly.
I don't think he / she was saying that the increase in health was the 100% solution, but rather just another potential option. I tend to agree that it is narrow sighted and a bit lazy to just adjust the mana cost. I understand the fact of opening up the slots for future design in the 1-Mana area, which is likely the true reason behind this "Out of nowhere" nerf to a card that hasn't been touched in nearly 5 years. They are creating these new cards to replace the HOF cards that went missing from those classes, and I think they just didn't want MW in that slot when they do in fact pop in to rotation.
Well it is just easier that way to "solve the problem" while not potentially "introduce any more problems"... If you increase anything on card you might just introduce something else you didn't think about... And while it might be "fun", it might not solve the problem as new problem might be similar to old one...
I will agree. The nerf is incredibly lazy because they should have looked at the attack and health again. Seeing it as a 1/3 for 2 mana and not potentially increasing it's health by 1, like you said would have been a better change imo.
Poor Aviana , she was innocent .
Aviana is the gateway drug to Druid abuse in Wild mode. You've been chewing on the juicy pscyhmelon a little too long son.
Just died to druid in wild on turn 8. Same combo....... They just put innervate in the deck now. Way to nerf the wrong card Blizz. Aviana wasn't the issue.
It's also an indirect nerf to Psychemelon though.
It doesn't draw 4 combo cards on it's own.
But yeah, Draw + Ramp + armor on the same cards is the issue with druid.
It was an indirect nerf towards SA druid but not for malygos. Instead of Aviana and Malygos, it’s with Aviana and Kun tradeoff. FeelsBadMan
I play vs egg hunter 10 times for each time I play vs a mage deck.
What they nerf? The absolute broken, insanely OP and undercosted hunter DK? No, of course not, they nerf the only card make a agressive mage deck possible and now the class don't have a single decent deck.
WHAT THEY THINKING???
Bis Spell mage is still decent... Mana Wyrm was cancer for years...
BEGONE BOT!!
They should have just gone ahead and HOF'd MW, and just deleted GI. Aviana was already wild, so didn't matter much to me what they did with her, understand some wild players are likely happy / unhappy about that. The other two though, are completely unplayable in Standard now, and are relegated to Arena picks if the other two cards you are picking from are complete trash as well.
Hate that they couldn't find another way to work GI into something mildly playable. Like it summons one annoy-a-tron and some other mech, or even two random mechs or something? As is at 7-Mana it is just a shame.
this weakness burn mage in wild which i personally like..stupid deck anyway
shit.. oh wait its not live for me hmm
Good that I have completed my arena run with Mana Wyrm and Giggling Inventor yesterday.
in EU you get the full refund dust, but the changes werent done to the cards, wtf are you doing blizzard?! (there was no warning about said changes either)
https://imgur.com/a/S1OE6ox
They rolled out changes and dust refunds to unpatched clients too. I played against tempo mage and the mage suddenly plays mana wyrm on turn 2 for 2 mana with red mana cost showing to me... I was like “Wow”
They can change cards on client-side too, and also activate the dust-refund on unpatched clients too. The only thing right now that you don't get is the warning. And you need to live with it for a few hours that aviana shows 10 mana in red numbers for example.
I don't play hs anymore so... can someone tell me what's the meta? (Before the nerfs), in both wild and standard
In the time it takes you to post, and look back for a reply to your post. You could probably google it like 1000 times. In a word though, it's Malfurious.