17.2.1 Patch Notes - Balance Changes & Bug Fixes
Blizzard has just announced patch notes for patch 17.2.1 featuring Balance Changes and Bug Fixes.
The patch will be released on May 18.
Quote from blizzardOn May 18, we’ll be releasing a 17.2.1 balance patch that includes updates for a dozen cards in Standard, as well as a bug fix for Ethereal Conjurer.
Balance Updates
Old: [Cost 2] 2 Attack, 3 Health → New: [Cost 1] 1 Attack, 3 Health.
Old: [Cost 5] → New: [Cost 4].
Old: 4 Attack, 6 Health → New: 5 Attack, 6 Health.
Old: 6 Attack, 3 Health → New: 6 Attack, 5 Health.
The 8 cards below will be eligible for a full dust refund until June 1.
Old: 6 Attack, 7 Health → New: 6 Attack, 5 Health.
Old: 2 Attack, 1 Health → New: 1 Attack, 1 Health.
Old: Draw a Beast. Give it +3/+3. → New: Draw a Beast. Give it +2/+2.
Old: 1 Attack, 5 Health → New: 1 Attack, 4 Health.
Old: Battlecry: If you control a Secret, return a minion to its owner’s hand. It costs (2) more. → New: Battlecry: If you control a Secret, return a minion to its owner’s hand. It costs (1) more.
Old: Dormant for 2 turns. When this awakens, give all minions in your hand +2/+2. → New: Dormant for 2 turns. When this awakens, give all minions in your hand +2/+1.
Old: 6 Attack, 8 Health → New: 5 Attack, 8 Health.
Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health → New: 2 Attack, 2 Health.
Game Improvements and Bug Fixes
Ethereal Conjurer will now function correctly and will no longer lock the game state when played.
So you think Blizzard should buff their "brand new mechanics" until they become broken? I'm not telling it became broken or anything close to be T1, however that approach is just wrong! If you want people to use your "brand new mechanics", you design it good and balanced. Libram mechanic is unfotunately a "failure" in terms of design.
No nerf for priest? yisus full priest meta now....
Priest has 2 Tier 3 decks? What the hell are u talking about?
Thank Fuck Priestess is getting nerfed, smack that bitch down. Really should have disabled her like Rag though. Sigil Runner really needed to lose that draw though.
Aww. I liked the hunter draw. Not like we have much of it. But I’m no genius, so maybe it needed it. Everything else seems pretty fair though.in the words of a wise man, “I can’t wait to see how this shakes out.”
The Lurker Below is just a strictly better Fire Elemental now
No it's not because:
1-It's a legendary, so you can only have 1 copy.
2-It's a beast not an elemental, so you're missing all the elemental sinergy.
3-It can't go face.
1. Find me a deck that runs Fire Elemental and more than one that is
2. Lol.
3. Lurker Below that cant hit face is least of my concerns in the current state of shamans.
Not strictly. It can't go face.
Mostly good nerfs and buffs all around, the only misstep I see here is nerfing Warrior without buffing their other archetypes since he’s in a much worse spot Meta-Wise than Rogue, Hunter or Demon Hunter. Other than maybe Quest, Enrage was Warrior’s only relevant archetype The class has.
Priestess of Fury should get bigger/other changes than -2 hp, her effect and cost are still strong and untouched, while hp is not that big issiue if she deals 6 at end of turn.
yeah, but is way easier to kill from hand at 5 hp instead of 7
I agree 5 from hand for mage is nothing special, other thing bothers me. Like she started as Boulderfist Ogre casting weaker Avenging Wrath at end of turn (Or mini Ragnaros able to atack some people say), now she is demon -mini Baron Geddon.
Naw, it's a good nerf. The thing about Priestess of Fury is that, while she was of course too strong, she wasn't a fundamentally problematic design. There was no broken OTK combo, she was just too powerful for her cost. Something like the original Warsong Commander was a problem at any price. Priestess? Simply shaving off a few numbers goes a long way.
Rather than see her get more nerfs (particularly since some DH have already been cutting her), I'd love to see other DH cards get stat shaved off. Stuff like Satyr Overseer or Warglaives of Azzinoth or even Glaivebound Adept again. There are a tonne of DH cards that probably should lose an attack or a health or a weapon charge.
Across the board, the numbers on most DH cards are just a little too good.
oh at last!! Blackjack Stunner is gonna get nerfed!.. *checks nerf* ...oh...welp nevermind
Now i might consider in using on my own minions.
judging from the downvotes, many people disagree with you and me.
I guess they either think that the card was not OP..or that it was nerfed to the ground..
Ever since Blizz opened up to buffs in balance patches, it's been mostly for Shaman/Paladin.
it's better than they would buff a demon hunter right?
because is already weak class :)