Rough Outline of Coming Balance Changes - Including Sac Pact, Albatross & Kael'thas
Blizzard did a reddit AMA and one of the questions asked was about the upcoming Balance Patch that was posted about in our news last week. We have their answer below, which includes mention of changes to Sacrificial Pact ,Bad Luck Albatross ,Frenzied Felwing ,Kael'thas Sunstrider and the Demon Hunter class with 1 or 2 more cards and more! Read all about it below:
Quote from BlizzardHey! We are planning something soon, but here I will shed light on what we are looking at.
With the Year of the Phoenix and Demon Hunter especially, we want to make sure we are active with our approach to balance. There will be additional changes coming shortly that is focused on Demon Hunter, Standard, Wild, and Arena.
For Demon Hunter, we are still monitoring the data as it comes in but expect 1 or 2 cards to see a change. We are thrilled by how players have responded to Demon Hunter, but we want the class to be in a healthy state for years to come. Will be adjusting as we see fit in order to get it into a great spot.
For other standard cards, we are looking at a number of cards including Sacrificial Pact, Bad Luck Albatross, Frenzied Felwing, and Kael'thas Sunstrider. Some of these cards present some raw power that is just a little too high (Bad Luck Albatross, Frenzied Felwing), while a card like Kael'Thas can create some crazy swing turns but that's usually only fun for one player. Kael'Thas is a super interesting card though so we don't want to kill off his combo potential entirely.
When it comes to Sac Pac, we don't believe it is fun if it plays such a large role in the metagame. That says a lot about where the meta is and your ability to play certain cards. Also, it would be awesome to see more Lord Jaraxxus!
For Wild, we know there has been a lot of very strong reactions to Quest Mage and Darkest Hour Warlock. These decks play in a one-player fashion similar to other decks we've nerfed in the past. There's going to be crazy combos in Wild, but we don't think these two decks in particular are healthy. Expect to see changes to Open the Waygate and Bloodbloom.
Finally for Arena, we are looking to do a full microadjust patch alongside these changes or shortly after. DH is still a little too strong here and we want to bring up the other classes to close this gap.
Bloodbloom nerf just killed Mech'thun warlock :(
yeah, that is a pitty, unwanted casualties of a cool deck, but tbh DH Warlock is oppressive
True but they could have done something about DH instead although I have no idea what. Hopefully mech'thun lock will eventually get a replacement for it. On the other hand thia might bring back handlock as the warlock control deck.
Deserved nerfs.
Wild players want to have fun, oh no.
lot of people wondering why nerf frenzied felwing.... because if you nerf sacrificial pact you must also nerf the card what makes it playable from 3 months ago... they blame about 0 mana removal but step aside when they see a 0 mana 3/3... c'mon
What about priest??
I understand all of the standard nerfs except Frenzied Felwing. I don’t see that card at all on Diamond 5! I don’t even know in what decks is it used. Can someone explain to me why is it getting nerfed and any suggestions on how?
OP in Face DH at high levels
One week as predicted... last nerfs wasnt enough, this time, its huge
Undo Raza nerf
Nerf Albatross
Nerf mage quest
This won't end well.
Nerf Priestess of Fury pls
i hate hs community so bad , always crying about changes .Don´t allowing strong decks exist in wild is just stupid.Blizzard is corrupted already by all those spoiled players.
Albatross destroys Pure Spell Mage, Pure Paladin and every Highlander Deck and vs any other deck it’s still good. That’s too much for a tech card. It definitely needs a nerf!
Yer, even less counterplay against Spell Mage....
I really hate that deck, So often the luck out with some random generated card.
Hearthstone team LESS RNG please.
And also it was a way to polute the Priest Res pool and possible draws for Hunter.
Albatross is such a well designed tech card. Maybe only bit too much power and hp.
/end salt
lets forget about plague of flames!
I bet they gonna make Sac Pac friendly demons only
Or just make it target minions only.
tbh i called open the way gate change in my post 2 weeks ago:
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/241438-open-the-way-gate-is-now-too-powerful-and-heres#c11
outlines all the issues with the card, so i am happy seeing some changes to it
Was hoping to see a paladin buff. It's a shame they get this really cool package and it just doesn't seem to cut it. It's also a shame that all of these cards are extremely bad on their own. You are basicly forced to play the entire package.
And since the cards REALLY suck on their own, and the package sucks as a whole, we basicly got 4 new cards. Murlocs.
I really hope that the upcoming changes will shake up the meta in such a way that paladin finally finds its spot with a deck that actually fits the paladin theme.