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.
Why nobody is mentioning Priest here?
It is the most worthy class to be nerfed. Abundant of removals and OP minions with no drawbacks and they can generate these op minions with ease using the invoke and now they are nerfing every other class and not touching Priest? Why blizzard why
Priest will be the prominent class of the meta remember my words, they will nerf it later but after dominating the meta
Highlander Hunter shits all over it, so no, it won't.
Don't you forget priests was heavily nerfed before this outland patch. Guess where is northshire cleric? Guess where is Velen?
Lol priest is barely a tier 2-3 deck, where is this stupidity coming from? Lol
I just started using scavenger ingenuity, I'll still be able to make it work, hopefully
Gotta love when they try to make rarely used cards more exciting
I got this fuckin shaman legendary, just hoping for a full refund but tbis shit got buffed, sadly
The lurker below is a really strong card, if slow shaman is playable the lurker will almost certainly be a component. Now it's even more insane, you get a 3 damage board clear if they don't have any high health minions (which currently happens a lot), and you get a difficult to deal with body on the board. If you ignore the ability for the effect to repeat, it is a fire elemental that can't go face, which isn't all that bad, if it repeats once you are getting insane value.
but shaman is bad to reach legend currently and so boring to play, im f2p and wanted some rogue/mage cards
considering i have 9+ of each common and rare that is being nerfed plus gold copies of bloodsworn plus gold and regular copies of shadowjewler im sitting on at least 4k+ dust.
Pays not to dust anything until the dust settles!
More free golden legendaries for me out of the deal.
So basically there's no good excuse to NOT craft The Lurker Below now.
Except you have to play Shaman to use it...
Well I'm impressed (not that there still are so many always unsatisfied spoiled brats) but
Where did they get all those brain cells from?
Let's see how this works out (but that's already a lot of dust (again))...
Thing to consider.. Should demon hunter have two silence cards and a "ignore taunt" legendary?
Too easy to get past anti agro decks for DH.
Its funny how they don't know how to balance cards in this game xD
Buffs <3
I like how the nerf to the Blackjack Stunner can also be regarded as some sort of "buff" as you can more reliably use it to bounce your own cards back to your hand, paying 1 extra mana for another use of something like Kronx, Flik and Togwaggle ain't too bad for just 1 more mana if you don't have Shadowstep available.
Don't understand why they targeted those warrior cards though, their "nerfs" aren't even that impactful anyway.
DH will probably still feel pretty opressive to play against because by the time they drop the priestess you have like 2-3 turns left to stabilize.
No, only HoF cards give you refund. The nerfed cards can only be dissed with full dust.
If i crafted cards (didn't get them from packs) and i diss them, will i be able to get copies? (I don't count random cards after having all cards of that type)
Great question, from my understanding it counts your collections state at the moment, so if it the card doesn't exist then it is put back into the pool and vice versa. (Please someone confirm if my observation is correct)