2 Warlock Changes Coming On Tuesday - "Mana Cost Adjustments"
Alec Dawson (team 5's lead designer) just announced on Twitter that next week on Tuesday we'll see 2 warlock balance changes as well as the time schedule for more balance changes next month.
Quote from Alec DawsonBalance schedule over next month:
8/31: 2 Warlock changes (upping mana, feels focused)
8/31 to 9/10: Evaluating meta
9/10: Decide if changes are needed
Later Sept: Decided changes go live (BGs included)
Alec's comment about Mindrender Illucia
Quote from Alec DawsonIllucia does have a bigger target on her back than before, but we shall see.
Big Battlegrounds update coming soon
Quote from Alec DawsonBalance after the big update. More info on that update quite soon!
Buffs for Warrior and Priest
Quote from Alec DawsonWe will definitely consider buffs for those decisions in September.
Not gonna play until Warlock is nerfed hard.... its everywhere in Legend ranks
Unless they are changing the mana cost of The Demon Seed to 11 I don't think they understand what's going on.
Ah yes, upping mana cost in the deck that doesn't pay mana for things and wants to damage themselves by paying health instead. I can't wait.
If it is soulstealer it should be fine, or else they are retarded.
Hey, don't use the r-word. Why do people keep doing this?
Hey, don't tell people what to do. Why do people keep doing this?
It'll continue to dominate in wild if they touch soulstealer.
She's only a 3 mana time warp vs. opponents with no board to contest with the turn after...rare in this meta. In my whole climb to legend this month there were less than a handful of games she swung. She can swing some games, but it's a tech card that requires a specific board state, mana, and hand to work. Isn't broken at all. Many times if I cast Illucia I'd have no mana left after to grab any opponent cards, no board advantage to press, etc. Or I couldn't because opponent would just mind blast me with my own hand.
Now the demon seed is broken every single game. Every game their quest is done by turn 5 or 6. Every game they wreck any form of control. Every game they drop giants turn 5. They make the whole meta aggro fest. 50% of match ups are demon seed, the other 50% of matchups are aggro attempts to counter it - pirate Warrior, quest hunter, shadow priest, aggro Paladin, odd DH, that's it. But Demon Seed still not nerfed.
We had so many different archetypes just one month ago. Reno Shaman, Reno secret mage, LPG mage, Reno Priest, even a guy got legend with Reno paladin. Control warlock was still a thing. Odd warrior, dead Mans hand, celestial alignment. All gone
Lets nerf something by "upping mana"
Blizz has serious big brains working there
dude why priest!!!! illucia !! why !!
First real, non-rng combo disruption. I dont think I can ever go back to relying solely on dirty ray deathlord luck. I would probably quit if she were made unplayable, unless a suitable replacement is made
They are buffing priest for standard, so 1 card nerf shouldn't matter. I do hope they mean nerfing Priest in Duel because it sped up the meta too much by having OTK turn 4, that pretty much only Hyper Aggro Shaman/Warrior can keep up. I miss hitting turn 8.
I'm tired of auto lose after using a 3 mana Illucia i mean, she is already nerfed since it's release.
Illucia should return to 2 mana.. is a so highly risk card, used properly is a victory, used badly and you automatically lose.
Blizzard: “If Mindrender Illucia stays unnerfed, imagine horrible things that will happen to our meta. Then imagine we said those things, since we couldn't think of any. As a dev, those things worry me.”
Aggro priest runs out of steam pretty quick. Any well built control deck will be able to out heal / value them. The problem is that while Warlock exists as it does, no control deck has a chance to function properly.
Right... Unless they up The Demon Seed to 5 mana or something I doubt only 2 changes will do crap.
The warlock quest is beyond broken. Just draw your whole deck and kill your opponent with YOUR fatigue? Nonsense.
The mage quest is Crazy-strong too, but it is ignite (infinite recycle) and refreshing spring water that make it totally OP.
Lmfao at this crap. Nerfing Illucia when the only reason aggro priest exists is because The Demon Seed has so thoroughly warped the meta that control and Reno are no longer viable.
They keep trying to save The Demon Seed. They will literally nerf every card in wild before fixing the quest that is breaking it in the first place
I barely ever see illucia played against me since they nerfed it the first time..