Year of the Dragon Card - Sludge Slurper Unnerfed
Last week Blizzard informed us that 10 cards would be unnerfed, 5 Wild cards, 4 Year of the Raven cards and 1 Year of the Dragon card. That Year of the Dragon card is now announced in this tweet: It's Sludge Slurper. We have provided the tweet and a nice graphic to visualize the change.
Quote from BlizzardIn our next update we'll be reverting nerfs to a few select cards, these will primarily be cards rotating into Wild. However, included in this update will be Sludge Slurper, who will revert back to 2 Attack / 1 Health.
I hope to see the Leeching Poison unnerfed for wild, in order to play my favourite deck of hearthstones history.
Those downvotes show you're definitely in the minority.
It was certainly one of the most problematic decks of its time, maybe ever. Also, Rogue having infinite heal is against all theme of the class.
thanks blizzard, now i have one more point of damage to challenge the field that the druid does and i can hit head on with dragon hunter, i'm thrilled
Fairly weak un-nerf.
Shaman will need more than this to get back to its first few weeks of glory this Expac.
When you run out of ideas for how to shake up the meta.
"Parkour!"
This isn't about shaking the meta, it is about fixing a card for the wild format, to which it rotates soon. The card was at no point in time problematic for Wild so this seems justified.
Glad to see this card return to the body Blizzard originally balanced it to have.
Shaman was rampant and Blizz panic nerfed. uhhh uhhh what do we do??... Throw some nerfs on it! So we get some technical ticky-tacky nerf like taking 1 attack away from a 1 mana murloc with overload. Really? A 3rd of the original Galakrond Shaman deck got nerfed. The 2/1 body on a 1 mana murloc was not anywhere close to the tipping point for the power of the deck, for Bagurgle's sake!
Slurper received a dumb, over-reaching nerf, and the fact Blizzard is unnerfing it proves that.
Alright you made your point, no need to drop a Bagurgle-bomb in the comments
I CALLED IT!
And someone wanted to argue with me that it would be the freeze card!
Wow, I can't believe some people would guess the wrong card and others would guess the right one. What a strange universe we live in.
Thanks for the blue balls blizzard sure is fun and entertaining not knowing what the announcement is and not annoying or rage inducing in any way. Keep up the epic secret news and the battle grounds updates though to keep us checking back in. Because someone out there cares about battlegrounds heroes of warcraft
Apparently you care, and all the people like you who for some reason, not sure why, are angry at battlegrounds and blizzard for paying attention to it.
Battlegrounds is just about as rinse repeat as it gets. There's rng from the buckets, which are limited, but there's such a low ceiling that's there's little that separates 6k from 8k and less from 8k to 10k
You are over complicating it, look at the value.
Compare Murloc Raider instead of Murloc Tinyfin
The adding a random lackey to your hand is not even worth a full extra mana.
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It's actually because for their next release in April the balance team has been mistakenly testing the balance with an unnerfed sludge slurper for the last 4 months.
(Galakrond) Shaman needs one more un-nerf to be somewhat playable again, Invocation of Frost.
Stupid nerf, predictable revert. What a waste of time blizz, nice job.
Finally, Murloc Shaman is tier 1