Balance Changes Coming Next Week - 5 Nerfs, 10 Buffs!
Alec Dawson, who is a lead designer on the final design team, has shared some information about the upcoming balance changes coming next week.
What do you personally expect to get changed? Tell us in the comment section.
Had some great balance talks over the last few days. 5 nerfs, 10 buffs in next week’s patch. Looking to bring up some underperforming classes/archetypes, there’s some spicy stuff.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) May 7, 2021
Alec also had an interview with the Chinese community where he pointed out, that 2 neutral cards will be nerfed (one of them being a Murloc - guess who could that be) as well as the fact that Barrens Blacksmith, which will be removed from Battlegrounds.
According to a community interview with @GW_Alec, 2 Neutral cards will be nerfed, including a murloc. And Barrens Blacksmith in bgs will be removed. https://t.co/5BRnjSNdHk
— ZelKnow (@ZelKnow) May 7, 2021
Thanks ZelKnow for bringing this to our attention.
HSReplay posted their player stats not too long ago, and there are substantially more Standard players than Wild players, I think around 5x as many or so. Either way though, Standard also dominates every other gamemode (even including BGs) and nobody would suggest they shouldn't be balanced. It's a daft selfish perspective regardless of how many people play Wild.
Sorcerer + Flamewaker absolutely reaches level of insanity that shouldn't be allowed. With 5/6 cards in his hands and 5 mana, a mage can outright kill you even if you had mobs on the board.
Of course tech counters exist, like dirty rat in this case, but that doesn't justify these two cards not being nerfed.
Absolutely. I once managed to pull out and kill both apprentices and one flamewaker with dirty rats and deathlord, and STILL got OTK-ed on turn 6 by a single flamewaker, despite having 30 health, with about 12 health of minions against an empty board.
Hysteria anyone?
Hysteria is one of the only good control cards available in Hearthstone right now. I don't think I'd like the game to become an even bigger aggro fiesta cause someone doesn't like a balanced card.
that being said, don't rule it out for Blizzard to nerf it (again btw) just to appease the mob
Hysteria is a "balanced card" he says lmao
This is 100% one of the nerfs.
The true abusive meta decks right now are control warlock and control priest, get real.
"Oh no, this control priest is playing controls cards, wahhhhhhh" - you probably
so you can climb much easier with your broken Paladin deck ?
Please tell me why u want Hysteria to be nerfed? :)
if you start to nerf one card in wild, theyre gonna have to nerf tons of other cards in the future, its not happening. Wild is wild man. It's why nobody plays it.
I would appreciate some Wild love this time around. Secret Mage in addition to the cycle Mage decks could use a tone down in power
bro chill with your spam, write all of it in one post, plus most suggestions are dumb. you want corrupt on a card from a set before darkmoon faire. wtf
so much greed !! they wont tell us because it could stop people from buying the premade decks !! ive seen nothing but warlocks these past 2 days - coincidence?
Yes we know pally's reining over all of us, yet why is it not in GM competitions? A lot of cards are OP, so lets balance things a bit around and bring down the power level of those crazy swing cards.
here's my nerf suggestions:
Crabrider needs to be a 1/3
Mankrik 's wife should be a 3/6
Conviction should buff only +2 not +3
Hand of A'dal should only draw when corrupted
Incanter's Flow should cost 3