18.0.3 Server Hotfix - Nozdormu Can No Longer Be Summoned From Dream Portals
Blizzard just announced a server-side hotfix addressing an important bug with Nozdormu and Dream Portal animations.
Quote from BlizzardHey everyone,
We’re currently deploying a hotfix (18.0.3) that includes the following:
Nozdormu can no longer be summoned from Dream Portal created by Ysera, Unleashed.
Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Nat Pagle, Extreme Angler could cause combat to have different outcomes from each player's perspective.
These changes will take place on the server-side, so you won’t need to download anything if you’ve already updated to 18.0.
Bah, I'm just not a fan of buffing old bad stuff. Mostly it's not going to accomplish anything.
I'd rather see stuff get HOF'd and new things added. Churn > Fine Adjustments
Honestly, I don't think Nozdormu is a problem. Animations just really shouldn't take as long as they do, and really shouldn't impact the results of a card game. I agree with changing The Beast, but not Hogger. Hogger honestly isn't in need of a big buff, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to feel the pain of your opponent slamming hogger on an empty board when you don't have removal. Everything else in the post is great tho. Old, weak stuff that doesn't add anything interesting to the game needs to be buffed/reworked.
Hogger is pretty good in arena, but it can do with a small buff. Like, making tokens 3-2s or 2-3s. Won't make it constructed worthy tho.
According to most recent AMA they held, they will redo the Basic and Classic set. Don't know what they will change, but honestly there are so much garbage cards, why even bother having them.
Buffing old stuff matters in classic primarily because it’s what new players get first. My math teacher was interested and I helped her learn the game. She was slow, but understood it enough. I told her Legendary minions were the best rarest kind of card. It hurt me to tell her that her first Legendary was absolutely terrible (that being Nozdormu). Not only did she get ripped off for the guaranteed legendary in the first 10 packs, she can’t even play fast enough to use it.
I guess I mostly mean that there's another option.
Just don't give out Hogger. Do instead Fizzle Darkclaw* or whatever. New minion, new effect.
Radical redesigns on a classic set undermine the entire purpose of a classic set, and it'd be better to just HOF the dull old boring cards that aren't worth it, and create new ones out of whole cloth, or borrow some decent-but-inoffensive ones from old expansions. Brightwing and Whitemane weren't reworks of existing stuff, but new cards. That'd be a better way to ensure that new players aren't getting trash legendary minions, I figure.
Nozdormu needs a rework due to the fact that he can glitch out turns, but that's not true of anyone else. Just let Hogger be Hogger, let The Beast have Finkle inside like it's supposed to, but get rid of them and add new stuff.
*Fizzle was always cooler than Hogger anyhow. Hogger was just a gear check, while taking out Fizzle required knowing how to pull properly. For The Horde!
Hogger would be decent and useful at 5 mana. The Beast might be good if it was 7/9.
they should revert Tinkmaster Overspark nerf, a targeted poly effect for everybody on a stick is needed for every class, in today's HS there is no point that effect to be random
Small Indie Company can't write code, be nice to them!
Ysera, Unleashed nerfed.
Dust refund please. ;)
If (Nozdormu.inPlay()) {
game.time.pause = true;
} else {
game.time += 1
}
while(true)
if ((Nozdormu.state).inPlay) {
pause
}
right? - not trying to be a dick just trying to learn powershell
This honestly just shows the incompetence of Blizzard with some effects. Nozdormu has been historically a useless card. no one has ever used him as an effective part of their deck simply because his effect, on practice is completely useless, it will only really come in handy against heavy combo decks and even then you just need to get rid of it for it to stop mattering.
At the same time, Nozdormu has been historically the matter of many different "bugs" and bullshit moments were he reduces even further the turn timer, due to the animations, or even skipping player turns completely. If you've played enough HS in the last year, at least once you've pulled off Noz of a Ysera portal and skipped your opponent's turn... Well that or you were the victim, either or for sure. My point is that Nozdormu has never ever been a useful asset for the game and has only seen play because of random effects or in order to exploit clear flaws and skip turns. Hopefully they give him a new effect on their revamp of the classic set during the next rotation cause we've seen that Blizzard is completely reluctant to somehow fix the animations issue.
And the funniest part is that players who actually tried finding uses for this card took the risk of getting banned for abusing game mechanics. Yeah yeah.
SERIOUSLY! I feel like he'd better suited with an effect similar to Time Warp or Temporus
Blizzard just announced a server-side hotfix addressing an important bug with Nozdormu and Dream Portal animations.
Nozdormu can no longer be summoned from Dream Portal created by Ysera, Unleashed.
ó_ó How is this a hotfix? IMO that's a big change, that have some real impact on cards. Is Nozdormu no more a dragon? Or they will change description of Dream Portal to "Summon a random dragon - except Nozdormu"?
It's a hotfix because it doesn't require a patch to implement.
I see a lot of people lately that seem to think "hotfix" means "minor change." It doesn't. It has nothing to do with how much of an impact the change will have on the game. It only describes how the change is accomplished, from a technical standpoint.
They're saying this change is live now, even though you didn't download a patch to make it happen.
Blizzard is incredibly stubborn about admitting mistakes sometimes.
As someone who has lost to this multiple times with lethal on board...I'm so glad they fixed this. I've never been so angry playing hearthstone in my life when that happened.
Whew! And I thought they would never fix our concerns with Guardian Animals!