Descent of Dragons Balance Changes Coming - Including Shaman Changes
Blizzard posted a message that Balance Changes are planned for somewhere in the next week, with a specific mention of changes to Shaman. Read the full statement below:
Quote from BlizzardHey Folks,
Just to give a heads up - we’re working on a balance update that will arrive within the next week with card adjustments for Descent of Dragons, including some changes aimed at Shaman. Any cards that are affected will be given full Arcane Dust refunds.
Stay tuned for more details next week.
Cheers,
The Hearthstone Team
Completely unrelated, but "DoD" made me think of "Dungeons OR Dragons"
nerf shaman as fast u can. its so boring to play agenst...
imagine owning every card in the game... and only reach rank 5
poor soul
i guess you are not very clever
Why is Shaman quest not the first battle cry you play a turn...
Since all the Shaman decks are very powerful, even the ones that don't see much play right now (overload, murlocs), I would start with the cards that they have in common; Mutate and Mogu Fleshshaper. I would probably just nerf Mogu Fleshshaper to a higher cost and/or less health as Mutate seems pretty balanced to me.
Then I would do some testing. If shaman still looks OP, I would also nerf one card from the Shaman Galakrond Package, and I believe that should be enough.
p.s. I am liking very much the quick reflexes Blizz has started to show lately.
What is the problem with shaman anyway? It is not even 60% winrate.
i could care less what gets nerfed. When you have every card in the game you play any deck you want. After the nerfs I'll play the next deck everyone will be whining about to nerf 2 days later.....the kids are never happy. Free rank 5 for me and who gives a shit....
Thank you Blizzard! Usually it takes you 1-2 months to long to do some nerfs, making the game super repetitive and unfun. I can't wait for the nerfs and to not face the same Shaman deck over and over again!
Not really . I expected a nerf before the Holidays like they did last year .
As Frodan said they wanna clean things up before everyone is on vacation.
After my "nerf" on the picture, Shaman will be finally balanced :D
There aren't 3 different Galakrond Shaman decks that all use 3 completely different sets of cards..
They all revolve around the sheer power of Invoke, Mogu mutate, and the Shaman quest.
They could honestly just change the invokes into 1/1s, and make the quest 10-12 Battlecries, and itd honestly be manageable.
and murlocs
Ahhh. Yeah the quest should be 10-12. Are you actually ok with the game? It says play not summon. I played against Galakrond shamans with quest. The quest is balanced and fair. Have you ever seen the summon 7 deathrattles quest reward:(Amara the better reno) 8/8 with taunt?
Idk if u understand, but summoning 4 8/8s with rush is VERY different than 1 8/8 taunt that heals you to 40. And also, battlecries offer immediate value that is important for the early game, and the doubling battlecries hero power allows that value to then be converted into late game power. Deathrattles are far slower, forcing you the play quest priest as a control deck. And, the reward does not in any way interact with your deathrattles, unlike Shaman with battlecries.
i would make the invoke minions 1/1 and the spirits wolves 4/5 if invoked 3 times. make galakrond summons taunts 1/1, 3/3, 5/5, 7/7. I refuse to play ranked til a nerf to shaman is done. congrats to all the bad players that have managed to reach a rank they would of never been able to get without this deck.
p.s. I would do the same if i was stuck around rank 10-15.
Could "you people" in Blizzard hurry up, as I need the dust for a good deck!
Imagine playing shaman and losing a game in this meta
Not if you crafted cards that are integral to the deck, but are not themselves nerfed. The best example of this were the Kingsbane nerfs: instead of nerfing Kingsbane itself, Blizzard nerfed the support cards that made the deck work (such as Leeching Poison). Players that had recently crafted Kingsbane got shafted.
This is why you shouldn't immediately craft for a deck that is obviously OP just to get easy wins. You never know when the nerf bat is going to get swung.