Card Balance Updates August 26th
These are the patchnotes for the Balance Patch announced last week, which does not only have balance changes to several Standard cards and Barnes, but also bug fixes and optimizations for Zephrys the Great as we posted about last week.
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Quote from BlizzardNow that Saviors of Uldum is live and new cards have been introduced, a few decks have surfaced which we feel need to be addressed in order to make for a better ladder experience for Hearthstone players. Read on for more details on today’s balance adjustments:
Card Changes
Mage
Conjurer's Calling – Mana cost increased from 3 to 4
Luna's Pocket Galaxy – Mana cost increase from 5 to 7
Warrior
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius – Mana cost increased from 7 to 9
Priest
Extra Arms – Mana cost increased from 2 to 3
Neutral
Barnes – Mana cost increased from 4 to 5
As with previous changes, players will be able to disenchant these cards for full Arcane Dust value for the two weeks following this update.
For insight into why we’ve decided to make these specific card changes, check out our announcement blog here.
Game Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Fixed several bugs involving weapon removal:
- Acidic Swamp Ooze was sometimes not offered against 1-Durability weapons.
- Harrison Jones was sometimes offered against 1-Durability weapons when he could not be played that turn.
- Weapon removal cards were not offered against 0-Attack weapons.
- Weapon removal cards were not offered when it would prevent your opponent from having lethal on their next turn.
- Fixed several bugs involving certain cards not being offered:
- Fixed several bugs involving Hero Powers:
- Hero Powers were sometimes assumed to be usable, even if they had already been used that turn.
- The current cost for Hero Powers is now considered, instead of assuming a cost of 2.
- Damage and healing modifiers on hero powers are now accounted for.
- Upgraded Hero Powers (such as through Sir Finley of the Sands, or Justicar Trueheart) are now considered.
- If your Hero Power has been replaced, Zephrys the Great will no longer assume your base Hero Power is still usable.
- Fixed a bug where Betrayal was not appropriately counting as a single-target removal option when it would only damage one target.
- Fixed a bug where Alexstrasza was being offered based upon the opponent’s combined Health and Armor, instead of only their Health.
- Fixed a bug where silence cards were not offered to unfreeze your own minions for lethal.
- Among potential lethal options, silence cards will now be favored, in order to help minimize potential interference from Deathrattles or other unique card effects.
- Fixed a bug where Zephrys the Great did not properly consider multiple Deathrattles on the same minion (most commonly from Magnetic minions).
- Improved Zephrys the Great’s evaluation of the value of healing this turn vs next turn.
No. All you are doing is getting 1600 dust back and golden versions are 3200.
Kidney stones?
yeah because they dont wanna mess up the cards. pocket galaxy on turn 4 and then turn 5 king pharaosis or kalecgos was too op.. Same with Conjures Calling.
But they should have changed Dr.Boom in my opinion
This game is making me sick.
nobody's making you stay
Dr. Boom please nooooooooo...
I have every card that was nerfed in golden. But i think only Pocket Galaxy will not see that many play.
What do you guys think? I mean Boom and Barnes with higher Manacost will change nothing except some specific situations.
Calling is a joke too, they should have nerfed the twinspell effect. I never used extra Arms anyways ...
But only safe dust is Pocket Galaxy right?
Well you might as well dust everything except the cards you wanna play right now.
Since you get full refund, you can just craft them later if you need 'em.
Imo, Luna is the one that will see play. There's a lot of Reno mage and do you really care that you will cast that one mana minions magic two turns later?
And Boom is Boom...
Pocket Galaxy is complete ass at 7 mana. I wouldn't bet on seeing that card in the meta anymore.
uh... yes
you are 100% right. Thank you kind Sir!
Well, I knew it was a matter of time and crafting Dr. Boom, Mad Genius is as safe a craftas can be. not to wait for GM week 2 and see if people still manage to run him in control warrior. (The answer is probably yes)
It sucks that Blizzard is usually only willing to do mana/cost nerfs.
couldn´t agree more :x
Till when is the full refund dust?
Read m8
“As with previous changes, players will be able to disenchant these cards for full Arcane Dust value for the two weeks following this update.”
Status quo: You will be able to dust nerfed cards for full dust amount in next 14 days, that means until Sptember 9.
NO REFUND, just full dust.
blizzard: the JJ Abrams of card games
REVERT THE NERF ON EXTRA ARMS!