Nerfs Are Now Live! - Client Update With All the Changes
The patch with all the balance changes, including Battlegrounds and Arena, is now LIVE. A visual representation from in game about what changed + the official changes as they were listed yesterday can be found below:
Quote from BlizzardWelcome to a new year in the tavern, everyone! We have a balance update in the works that will go live later this week which includes the following changes, primarily for Standard and Battlegrounds:
Warlock
Fiendish Rites : Mana cost increased from (3) to (4).
Warrior
Scion of Ruin : Mana cost increased from (3) to (4) .
Ancharrr : Durability reduced from (3) to (2) .
Shaman
Dragon's Pack : Now reads, “…If you’ve Invoked twice, give them +2/+2 .” (reduced from +3/+3).
Invocation of Frost : Mana cost increased from (1) to (2).
Rogue
Necrium Apothecary : Mana cost increased from (4) to (5).
Neutral
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza: Battlecry effect can no longer generate Dragonqueen Alexstrasza.
*Once the update is live, adjusted cards will be eligible for a full Arcane Dust refund for two weeks.
Battlegrounds
This update includes several adjustments and gets more Heroes brawling in Bob’s Tavern than ever before! Further Battlegrounds balance changes are coming very soon, in addition to the exciting new content we have in the pipeline… we’ll have more to share in the near future!
Heroes
Shudderwock
Burbling: Cost reduced from (2) to (1) .
Queen Wagtoggle
Wax Warband : Give a random friendly Mech, Demon, Murloc and Beast +2 Attack . (instead of +1 Health)
Infinite Toki
Temporal Tavern : Cost reduced from (2) to (1) . Now reads, “Refresh Bob’s Tavern. Include a Minion from a higher Tavern Tier.”
Patches the Pirate
Has returned to the Battlegrounds Hero Pool.
Fire the Cannons! : At the start of next combat, deal 4 damage to two random enemy minions. (increased from 3 damage)
Pyramad
Has returned to the Battlegrounds Hero Pool.
Brick by Brick : Give a random friendly minion +3 Health . (increased from +2 Health)
Minions
Golden Soul Juggler
After a friendly Demon dies, deal 3 damage to a random enemy minion twice . (instead of 6 damage once)
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
Battlegrounds : Selfless Hero’s Deathrattle will now only affect minions that do not already have Divine Shield.
Arena : The appearance rate of cards in the draft has been updated to ensure class balance remains close to the ideal 50% win-rate. Specifically, the win-rate of Druid, Hunter, and Paladin should now be decreased. The win-rate of Priest, Rogue, Shaman and Warlock should now be increased. Card appearance rates for Mage and Warrior remain untouched.
when is the disenchanting cycle suppose to end? on the 23rd of January, 2020 No?
So why am I not allowed my full dust for nerfed cards right now??
Is this bug? it happened to me last nerf too
+1600 dust from extra Golden Dragon's Pack
+1200 dust from 3 extra scion of ruins
+520 dust from invocation of frost
+520 dust from fiendish rites
PROFIT 3820 Dust from this nerf... Thanks Blizz.. <3
(NEVER EVER CLICK DISENCHANT ALL BUTTON)
Alex nerf is more like a bug fix imo. A card should not have that much of a highroll potential. It should always have been like this
AFK Priest sounds like a fun name for the deck, not sure why people are downvoting.
Anyone with golden card profit big on this nerf. I have two golden Dragon Pack for 1600 dust each!! Have a whole bunch on those common cards. One golden "Invocation of Frost" for 400 dust. I don't even play Shaman Gal, so doesn't matter to me. Best to not dust your cards until you really need to. Can sometime make gains.
there is no profit if you spent money on those packs.
People spend money on this game? Seriously? I haven't spent a dime in years and have nearly every card.
You kinda have to if you're a new player. If you started playing long ago, yes you would have nearly all the cards by now.
How much time I have to dust my cards for full value? I want to use them as long as I can
2 weeks, I think
2 weeks it is
All resurrect priest in standard now. Fuck
Necrium Apothecary
is this a strong nerf? I mean I didnt draw it early anyway most of the time and it still helps. Still useful i guess
So afk priest and face hunters will dominate the ladder now?
I've been banging this drum for years now. Self-discovery should be a personal experience, not a possibility in Hearthstone.
AFK priest here we go
Bye bye Galakrond better buy the real hero for real money now!!
Really dirty, Blizzard!
I just read about the nerf in Dezember. I have 3 howling bells in gold >_<
But the operatives dont discover or generate cards from outside the game... cards that generate cards from outside the game, like alexs, or like Hallucination, Undercity Huckster for example should not create themselves..
Is is usually not a big issue and I actually found the Drakonid Operative chains in priest mirrors quite enjoyable!