More Hearthstone Changes - 18 Card Buffs (YES, BUFFS), Mech-vitational, New Legendary Card
Blizzard has announced another round of exciting changes coming to Hearthstone that will hit with an early June Hearthstone update.
- 18 cards from The Boomsday Project are being buffed. Each class gets 2 card buffs.
- A new legendary minion, SN1P-SN4P, is being added to the game. Everyone will get a golden copy for free.
- The Arena draft rotation will change on June 3.
- A special event will be broadcast on June 3-4 called the Mech-vitational.
New Legendary Minion - SN1P-SN4P
Blizzard is adding a new legendary minion to the game! Everyone that logs in from June 3 until July 1 will receive a golden version of the minion for free.
The Next Arena Season
An arena set rotation will occur on June 3. This rotation will include the following expansions.
- Classic
- Basic
- Goblins vs Gnomes
- The Grand Tournament
- One Night in Karazhan
- The Boomsday Project
- Rise of Shadows
Card Buffs! Yes, CARD BUFFS
For the first time in the history of Hearthstone since release, we're getting buffs to some cards. All the buffs this time around are focused on the Boomsdays Project set. Each class is receiving two card buffs. See below for the changes and a gallery of what the cards will look like with them in place. These changes will go live on June 3.
Druid
- Gloop Sprayer to (7) Mana. (Down from 8)
- Mulchmuncher to (9) Mana. (Down from 10)
Hunter
- Necromechanic to (4) Mana. (Down from 5)
- Flark's Boom-Zooka to (7) Mana. (Down from 8)
Mage
- Unexpected Results to (3) Mana. (Down from 4)
- Luna's Pocket Galaxy to (5) Mana. (Down from 7)
Paladin
- Crystology to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
- Glowstone Technician to (5) Mana. (Down from 6)
Priest
- Extra Arms to (2) Mana. (Down from 3)
- Cloning Device to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
- The More Arms token will also cost 2.
Rogue
- Pogo-Hopper to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
- Violet Haze to (2) Mana. (Down from 3)
Shaman
- The Storm Bringer to (6) Mana. (Down from 7)
- Thunderhead to 3/6 (Up from 3/5)
Warlock
- Spirit Bomb to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
- Dr. Morrigan to (6) Mana. (Down from 8)
Warrior
- Security Rover to 2/6 stats. (Up from 2/5)
- Beryllium Nullifier to 4/8 stats. (Up from 3/8)
0 mana 0/1 and the same text? Would be interesting.
"Its not the blizzard way to compensate you for doing something in the past"
Kind of suggests it is a Blizzard thing and you could argue insinuates that whilst 'Blizzard' don't, others would. Which I don't believe to be the case.
The analogy was tongue in cheek. I don't believe its my place to make them look stupid, they've done that plenty well enough on their own.
Everyone here losing my mind they're doing buffs. I'm surprised right now that they've made the decision to be willing to use echo again!!!
Lack of consistency is the only thing consistent for Blizzard LUL
In wild, a Luna's Pocket Galaxy as soon as turn 3 could be a little dangerous.
Necromechanic and Thunderhead are absolute units after this buff.
i dont like these buffs i hope i get dust for them.
This should certainly shake things up a bit.
Berillium Nullifier with DR Boom and Omega Assembly is going to be even better now in Warrior.
The only horrible buffs I can spot as of now are the warrior buffs
Why tf would you buff these extremely good discovers (Dr. Boom, Mad Genius) or random mechs (Omega Assembly)?
Just so they are actually used in decks? Unless they change the hero card in some way, these changes are for the worse...
Couldn't they mess around with Akali, the Rhino, Dimensional Ripper or even Blackhowl Gunspire/ Dr. Boom's Scheme
They could have, but it seems they wanted to buff cards from Boomsday only (call it consistency, I don't know).
Who knows, maybe in the future...
Rocket Boots could be at one mana or "Give a minion and minions next to it Rush" instead, The Boomship could be tweaked, and Weapons Project could be changed to 1 mana. Dr. Boom's Scheme could be another great choice, it could be changed to 3 mana. (I would say buffing that card is still consistent)
Weapon project to 1 mana? A weapon removal that gives you 6 armor and a weapon when you want?
The Boomship reduced to 8 mana may allow too many OTK Shenanigans: it would be a very risky change.
Weapons Project to 1 mana would be broken
This is really great news, and totally unexpected of them. I'm glad they're realizing the potential of so many cards too weak to see any play, but I don't want them to buff any card just because it's so criminally underplayed.
The disappointing thing though is no Hall of Fame + Unnerf announcement. #JusticeForWarsong Commander
Now this was DEFINITELY unexpected.
Pogo, Pocket Galaxy and Morrigan looks pretty scary now...
Just want to mention that you were able to get full dust refund for Unleash the Hounds, when it was buffed from 4 mana to 2 back in beta, and then again, when it was nerfed to 3 mana. And Blizzards mentioned that when card is changed we will get full refund. Although it seems unlikely, but it is possible. that we will get full dust refund.
Unleash the Hounds was completely reworked when it was first changed, not buffed, which begged the dust refund (also far, far less players that were at the time and most were missing a whole lot of cards), and then it was nerfed which always got full dust refund.
Why you even bother to answer, if you can't spend one minute to google card changelog?