19.4.1 Balance Patch Notes - Changes to Hysteria and Duels
Blizzard sent out the patch notes for the Hysteria change that will go live Thursday, January 28th, and which they announced last week. Read about it and the Duels changes below!
Quote from BlizzardThe 19.4.1 patch, arriving on January 28, includes a change for Hysteria from the Darkmoon Races Mini-Set, balance adjustments for Duels, and a handful of game improvements!
Standard Balance Updates
Hysteria
- Old: Choose a minion. It attacks random minions until it dies.
- New: Choose an enemy minion. It attacks random minions until it dies.
Hysteria will be eligible for a full dust refund for 2 weeks after the 19.4.1 patch goes live.
Duels Balance Updates
HERO POWER UPDATES
Outlander
- Old: [Passive] After you play the left- or right-most card, gain 1 Attack this turn.
- New: [Costs 1] After you play the left or right-most card in your hand, gain +1 Attack this turn.
Death Games
- Old: Trigger a minion's Deathrattle.
- New: Trigger a random friendly minion's Deathrattle.
SIGNATURE TREASURE UPDATES
Bonecrusher
- Old: [Costs 6]
- New: [Beast, Costs 8]
- Dev Comment: Turns out Bonecrusher is a silly rabbit.
Fractured Spirits
- Old: [Costs 5]
- New: [Costs 4]
Royal Greatsword
- Old: [Costs 6]
- New: [Costs 5]
Herald of the Scaled Ones
- Now has the Dragon tag.
TREASURE POOL UPDATES
- Cannibalism has moved from Passive Treasure pool 1 to pool 2
- Sandy Surprise has been removed from the Passive Treasures pool.
Miscellaneous Updates & Game Improvements
- Fixed a bug where Collection Achievement progress could get out of sync with the current contents of your collection.
- Dev Comment: You will still never lose credit for an Achievement once it's been completed.
- Fixed a bug where Arena could fail to load for new players.
- Fixed a Duels bug where the animation for Harvest Time! would play twice.
- Fixed a Duels bug where Shadow Word: Void would summon minions based on the target minion's default Health rather than current Health remaining.
- Fixed a visual bug where notifications would persist for the Journal after completed Achievements had been claimed.
Can't help but notice that Sandy Surprise is still in the passive treasures pool. Either that or people are holding runs from a week ago and I just so happened to encounter three of them so far.
Tiller neither takes nor deals damage if you use Shrinkmeister on him while he is immune. Then the damage becomes infinite, only stopping at 60 damage a turn, which is a "Hard Stop" within the Hearthstone game
Nerfing Hysteria instead of Tiller LOL
Also, can't believe they bothered to change the wording on DH hero power in Duels but did not actually nerf it
Huh? They nerfed it. It costs 1 mana now, it's not passive.
Oh lol nvm I didn't pay attention. Sry
Aaaaaand I can't disenchant Hysteria for 100 dust anymore...!!!! WTF?! It's been just 2 DAYS?!?!
Edited comment
Today, we see more proof that the HS really has no idea what they're doing with this game.
Anyone on iOS device still cannot log into the game? Since previous patch my screen is stuck when the HS logo shows on a startup...
Treachery
Really destroyed a saviour for priest in standard. I cannot apotheosis my minion and hysteria it to gain life now. Also, if I have a 5+ health minion on board against 5 1/1s, I cant clear the board by playing hysteria on my minion.
Poor fix for a wild problem.
What time is the update? Almost 4 PM PST now.
Let’s do this patch so I can get my Dust
So it says the 28th, but it's just not coming out on the 28th, is it?
its 29th here... where is the update?
Where is the patch? It's almost the 29th here.
Also, Warlocks can still Deathspeaker a 0 attack unit of their own, treachery the deathspeaker, then use hysteria on it to produce unlimited attacks to the 0 attack unit, skipping the opponent's turn.
Activision once again refused to address the animations skipping turn problem. Again.
So they can use a 6+ mana, 3 card combo that only works on an already empty board to skip the opponent's turn? And after the skip, the opponent will have a 2/4 while the combo-er only has a 0 attack minion? Wow, truly game breaking.
Neferset Thrasher is still an idea