Zephrys Fixes Revealed.
Celestalon, Developer on Team 5 for Hearthstone, recently went on the Angry Chicken Podcast to speak about Zephrys the Great. Not only did he have a lot of interesting things to say about how the card came to be and the inner workings, but he also shared a few things about upcoming fixes. With the Balance Changes coming next Monday, August 26th there are going to be several fixes to Zephrys as well. He has learned how to better deal with Weapons and Hero Powers and several cards that were not showing up in specific situations will do so now.
Celestalon's comments about the Zephrys changes start at 5:33 in the full podcast linked below, for those wanting to hear them from the man himself, but here's the bullet points we've summarized:
- They are smartening Zephrys the Great up in a few different ways.
- He's getting way smarter on the Weapon Removal. Give him 2 mana leftover and the opponent has a weapon, he'll probably offer you Acidic Swamp Ooze now.
- The Weapon Removal was supposed to work that way already, there were just bugs involved.
- He knows that he should get rid of 0 attack weapons now.
- There were a bunch of cards that were not offered in the appropriate situation, like Holy Fire, Avenging Wrath, Bloodsail Corsair
- There's quite a few cards that are fixed that will get offered now when the time is right. They still won't be super common.
- Zephrys is a little bit more interested in board control now.
Near the end of the podcast, during the viewer questions segment, Celestalon also hints that there might be a Tavern Brawl coming, based on the technology that makes Zephrys work!
Here's the podcast in full. It's definitely worth watch/listen, as Celestalon goes into detail about the creation process of the card in ways that had not been revealed before.
I am wondering if Zephrys was active only, when you run highlander deck from the start of the game (like Baku and Genn), would be that better. This will still make highlander deck needed, but zephrys will not be answer in every deck, which almost draw all cards from deck.
However. I am pretty amazed how much development they put in Zephrys. I think that in the end of his rotation, they will finally come with build, where Zephrys knows everything :D.
If anything, it needs a nerf, not a `fix`. that card has cost me so many games already.
as in ur opponent won , great , now cry me a river.
Being able to destroy Aluneth or Skull of the Man'ari is soooooo important in Wild! (And rip Dragon Soul....)
Forget the salt.... poor game almost end of month and in Na there’s what 3k legends? From millions of players lmao😂😂 discover single handed destroyed the game... sadly. Deamn im playing amazing! He misplayed 3 times..... ok i got this..... music comes in..... zephrys discovers the perfect answer and you lose to rng again.... like you have lost the past 10 games rofl. I mean so you make mistakes... draw poorly this game cause that’s part of a card game, but then again fuck it because you can discover and answer and outplay the player that played better than you or “drawed” lol. Like seriously guys, this clowns at team 5 don’t know the hell they doing, and no im not a Troll what im saying makes complete sense i play since beta and ive top 100 legend multiple times with my best rank peaking at legend 4.... so i know what im talking about. Lot of people lost interest in: playing the game, watching the game and streaming it sadly, and i know for a fact! If discover never existed the game would be fantastic!!!!! Discover answers the f** out of here with that bs bro. Then also not only discover but 70% of printed cards * im exagerating lol is a joke but it’s like it so 70% of em are summon random this random that random random random random random like stop already with the 90%rng 10% skill model dudes..... like i know a lot of people will feel it’s true.. how many times you lose to heartbreaking sh*** rng card all the time. We loe more to rng in hearthstone than to actually misplays..... it’s garbage! Before i used to spend $500 to $1,000 each expansion in packs day 1!!!! Plus later during meta change more packs because all my cards are golden, but guess how much i spended this time? $80 bucks preorder and 20 packs from gold and im not even playing again after stopping for 4 months....... game is just trash..... discover the perfect card man f** off.
I genuinely don't get why you feel the need to spend so much time trash talking a game you apparently hate. If you don't like hearthstone then move on with your life and find another hobby. Literally nobody is stopping you.
If trash talking is your hobby, then please learn some grammar.
YOU NEED JESUS :D
I agree. Kids need to down vote I guess..The card is stupid and especially with so many good cards available for some classes that the drawback is negligible
There's this little thing called punctuation. Also sentence structure and lets not forget paragraphs (just because you can write the entire post in a single block doesn't mean you should). Maybe more people would listen and take you seriously if you didn't write like an 11 year old that just found out what curse words are.
Also effects like discover are the sole reason why this game is still even a thing, it gives players who can't afford the good cards a chance to play with them and it gives players that might not understand what the game mechanics are a chance at victory. It also makes so every single game doesn't play out exactly the same. I honestly don't know why you're here if you despise the game so much. Go play mtga or yugioh if you want a boring, bland and "skill" intensive card game then.
Spelling, grammar, sentence structure. None of these things are present in that salt rant, my dude.
because of the response from the fans that defend it, obviously you guys make it fun to hate it
If you ever spent $1,000 on packs for a single expansion, you're even stupider than the rest of your post makes you seem.
a Zephyrus themed brawl?
The FORBIDDEN ONE?!
(Inb4 you get a couple Zephyrus every turn)
no duplicate lul:D
A Zephrys the Great brawl would be interesting, but I'm guessing the games wil go llllllooooong
Wow. Zephrys keeps getting better and better.
It only offers cards from the Basic and Classic set.
and based on information that both players can see such as the board, hero health, and hand size. Not from looking at the other persons deck/hand.
Lol you a troll? Theres no way you can think this games success is based on the no job people on twitch.
these geeks at blizzard have no clue what is good for the game lol... few weeks after expansion release hearthstone is down to 15k average viewers on twitch when it was easily 30k+ before this year.. most of the good streamers have left.. this game is a turd in the toilet waiting to get flushed