Hearthstone Patch Tomorrow - Floating Watcher to Tier 4
Blizzard just posted a short message on the Official Forums about a Patch coming tomorrow, which includes the announced nerf to Demons in Battlegrounds.
Quote from BlizzardGreetings Friends!
We have a small 16.2.4 server-side patch going live tomorrow with the following changes:
Once these changes have gone live, I’ll be sure to update this thread!
- Floating Watcher is moving from Tavern Tier 3 → Tavern Tier 4
- Fixed an issue that caused Galakrond, the Nightmare 's cost-reduction priority to negate the cost-increase effects of cards such as Boompistol Bully and Loatheb.
Cheers,
Chris_Attalus
Yeah very weak by having just highest win % of all comps. And no doubt that mechs will be new powerhouse because cobalt is easily best 3 star unit, if some comp would really need buff it's beast comp.
Mech had a high win % because they were easy and safe, not strong. You could get top4 easy but beyond that, between multiple 50+ toughness minions and jugglers killing shields, it was a very uphill battle.
Now that demons are weaker, since mech has the smoothest buildup, it loks like the new thing everyone is doing.
Will this patch also bring the arena roation?
No. 16.4 should come soon tho.
That's a subtle but effective change. Needs to be balanced out by a buff or two to other tribes, though. Would be interesting to see either Savannah Highmane or Ironhide Direhorn go to T4 to help out beasts. Not sure what can be done for Mechs... They could use a better T1 minion.
The only reason mech was weak was that they couldn't beat demons. The nerf may be enough for them. As for beasts, moving highmane to 4 may indeed be ok, although i think a Direhorn that early might be too much.
Moving Virmen Sensei to tier 3 could be another option, so they can be buffed sooner.
Beasts don't need any help. They don't require buffs so their strat is to level relatively fast to discover 6 drops. Lower any of their good minions and they're op. Mechs require a lot of buffs to work. Increasing Cobalt's tier will make that comp dogshit. You'd have to pick shield refreshers anticipating a Cobalt which might never come.
Demons were a joke before Watcher, so this nerf will be good enough. Buffing other tribes will create a never ending loop of buffs and nerfs.
The Mama Bear nerf was a huge mistake.
Random early Mamas made the game too swingy with +5/+5. She's still good now, but you don't see sudden 20+dmg rounds in the midgame out of nowhere.
The Blizzard post was:
"Planning to have a nerf to Demons later this week.
We'll keep an eye on Demons and look at them again after our next big Battlegrounds content patch, which is right around the corner."
So it looks like this is a temporary fix.
What a huge "content patch" lmao.
That bug with cost increase cost Regis a game, it is very gamer-friendly of them to fix it that fast
Makes Battlegrounds great again
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