Balance Changes Coming Next Week - Mage, Paladin, Rogue & Neutral
Alec Dawson, a Lead Designer, just posted a Tweet mentioning balance changes next week as well as what classes will receive them + the final number of changes.
Quote from Alec DawsonBalance changes to go out early next week with 20.0.2. We'll be targeting some cards in Mage, Paladin, Rogue, and Neutral.
Hoping to create more space for experimentation in the early Barrens meta and have a more diverse field of classes.
6 changes in total, details coming soon.
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Card removal from deck traditionally don't have a huge effect on winrate. But the problem is that it feel terrible to play against. Same with Mage, it isn't that op compared to paladin but the highroll/uninteractivity is what lead to players hating it.
I hope neutral = pen flinger.
Plz nerf this dude.. This card reduces the skill...
I am sorry but you can interact and play around Warlock’s removal but you can absolutely not do anything to interact, prevent or play around 5-10 card burn. I played more than my share games as Control vs Tickatus Warlock and I lost a number of them simply because of fatigue.
Tickatus is a problem card. The people saying it is the removal cards fault are just delusional and probably want to continue their one sided “fun” with Tickatus. A single card shouldn’t be allowed to turn a percentage of games into a single player experience.
the problem is that you cant interact with milled cards imo. in mtg milled cards go to the graveyard.
Lunacy to 4 mana
Pen Flinger can only target minions (or is random enemy)
Both watch towers have one less health
I don't care about what people say thaty Tickatus isn't the problem, and it's Warlock removal. That is true, they have WAY too much removal. But Tickatus is a problem for a majority of the people to HAVE FUN. I hate that card more than any other card ever.
- Instead of completely killing the card, they should drastically reduce the randomness after playing it and the ease of transitioning into the generated cards. Either reduce transform cost to +1/2 or remove the effect of cards costing less.
- Pen Flinger should only be able to target minions and be used for cool board clears. A random target would feel horrible.
- There are 3 Watch Posts so I'm not sure which ones you're referring to.
Tickatus is strong but not broken. The issue is how unfun it is to create/make a deck and see it completely demolished. It feels horrible and I wish they reduced all the numbers on him by 2 or 3. A 4 mana 6/6 that only removes 2/3 cards would feel way less bad to be subjected to.
Then Felosophy becomes so much better. To corrupt it at 6 mana you need to drop big removal, Soulsiologist, J-Rax or uncorrupted strong man.
At 4 mana it can be corrupted with just Taelon, Ogre or Rustwix, and they can play 2 in a turn.
Yall really need to stop whining about tickatus, he isn't the probkem. The problem is warlock's insane removal and healing from the other corruption cards, not tickatus.
Game isnt even fun to play! same cheasy mage deck over n over! Tickatus is also garbage
Game isnt even fun to play! same crap mage deck over n over! Tickatus is also crap
Paladin has too many powerful cards, it was like this last year and I don't want it to be like this again this year, the libram mechanic is too strong, Sword of the Fallen , Aldor Attendant and even Pen Flinger must be nerfed.
Instead the demon hunter has been turned upside down, the deathrattle strategy has nothing to do with the class, he needs much stronger cards.
Laughably, I think someone designed all those deathrattle cards as Hunter cards given their history of trying over and over for Hunter deathrattle to be a thing, and someone inputting data into the system saw the color wrong and they got entered as Demon Hunter.
No one was willing to admit the mistake.
Next week? Are you kidding me? At least it’s not next month! Lol. I’m so tired to play against OP mage and pally over and over again.
They can't change anything until after this weeks Grandmasters event.
Hopefully Pen Flinger and maybe Sword of the Fallen. I think the complaining about Deck of Lunacy is overblown. It really is still a meme deck and though it can win in a blowout if it shows up in mulligan is more often a total bust.
Meme deck? It is literally one of two decks being played? No Minion mage is very strong right now.
Lunacy is not a meme card, but its real strength comes from incanter's flow discounts
Sword of the Fallen is great but it can backfire your Oh My Yogg. They can save the coin and use it after your Yogg is up and get a preparation or raise dead at best. But just get rid of it with the coin.
Plus, usually by the time you use the second one you’ll be out of secrets of only get a use out of 1 charge so the second one is much weaker.
I’d say there are more important stuff to nerf first.
Time to nerf secret and "fake random" (when you know you 100% sure to have a too powerfull card on a random effect....wtf
imho, they need to do something about the secrets as well. They have a very serious impact on the game, the players can easily draw them, generate them, remove their mana cost, and automatically load them through other spells, minions and weapons. While at the same time, there is no counter to them. The situation is getting out of control, and I think the devs really need to take a look into them.