Patchnotes 23.2.2 - Drek'thar Nerf & more Buffs and Nerfs - Battlegrounds too
Blizzard published the Patchnotes for the upcoming Balance Patch, lots of changes, both buffs and nerfs!
See all visuals for the constructed changes at the bottom of this article.
This Patch is LIVE!
Quote from BlizzardPatch 23.2.2, launching May 19, includes bug fixes and balance changes to Battlegrounds and Standard!
Card Updates
The following cards have had their power adjusted down:
Drek’Thar
- Old: Battlecry: If this costs more than every minion in your deck, summon 2 of them. → New: Battlecry: If this costs more than every minion in your deck, summon one of those minions.
Multi-Strike
- Old: [Costs 1] → New: [Costs 2]
Dragonbane Shot
- Old: [Costs 2] → New: [Costs 3]
The above craftable cards will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 23.2.2 (the only version of Drek’Thar that is craftable is the normal, non-golden version). Any players who own Diamond Drek’Thar at the time that the patch goes live will automatically receive 3,000 Gold when they log in as a refund.
The following cards have been buffed:
Xhilag’s Stalk (part of Xhilag the Abyss)
- Old: At the end of your turn, deal 1 damage to an enemy. → New: At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Harpoon Gun
- Old: After your hero attacks, Dredge. If it’s a Beast, reduce its Cost by (2). → New: After your hero attacks, Dredge. If it’s a Beast, reduce its Cost by (3).
Pet Collector
- Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health
Azsharan Saber
- Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health → New: 4 Attack, 3 Health
Sunken Saber (generated by Azsharan Saber)
- Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health → New: 4 Attack, 3 Health
Blackwater Behemoth
- Old: [Costs 8] → New: [Costs 7]
Whirlpool
- Old: [Costs 9] → New: [Costs 8]
Shadowcloth Needle
- Old: [Costs 2] → New: [Costs 1]
Serpent Wig
- Old: Give a minion +1/+1. If you played a Naga while holding this, add a Serpent Wig into your hand. → New: Give a minion +1/+2. If you played a Naga while holding this, add a Serpent Wig into your hand.
Tooth of Nefarian
- Old: [Costs 3] → New: [Costs 2]
SI:7 Smuggler
- Old: Battlecry: Summon a random 0-Cost minion. (Improved for each other SI:7 card you have played this game). → New: Battlecry: Summon a random 1-Cost minion. (Improved for each other SI:7 card you have played this game).
Wildpaw Gnoll
- Old: [Costs 6] 3 Attack, 5 Health → New: [Costs 5] 4 Attack, 5 Health
Tess Greymane
- Old: [Costs 8] → New: [Costs 7]
Hench-Clan Burglar
- Old: 4 Attack, 3 Health → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health
Sira’kess Cultist
- Old: 2 Attack, 3 Health → New: 3 Attack, 4 Health
Dragged Below
- Old: [Costs 4] → New: [Costs 3]
Azsharan Scavenger
- Old: [Costs 3] 3 Attack, 4 Health → New: [Costs 2] 2 Attack, 3 Health
Sunken Scavenger (generated by Azsharan Scavenger)
- Old: [Costs 3] 3 Attack, 4 Health → New: [Costs 2] 2 Attack, 3 Health
Bloodscent Vilefin
- Old: [Costs 4] 4 Attack, 4 Health → New: [Costs 3] 3 Attack, 4 Health
Battlegrounds Updates
Hero change:
Fungalmancer Flurgl (Gone Fishing hero power)
- Old: Passive: After you sell a minion, add a random Murloc to Bob’s Tavern. → New: Passive: After you sell 2 minions, add a random Murloc to Bob’s Tavern.
Hero Armor changes:
- Al’Akir, Galakrond, George the Fallen, and Malygos have been moved to Armor Tier 1.
- Death Speaker Blackthorn, Fungalmancer Flurgl, Ini Stormcoil, Lord Barov, Maiev Shadowsong, Queen Azshara, Rokara, and Tickatus have been moved to Armor Tier 2.
- Endwin VanCleef has been moved to Armor Tier 4.
- Deathwing, Elise Starseeker, and Kurtrus Ashfallen have been moved to Armor Tier 5.
- Aranna Starseeker and Skycap’n Kragg have been moved to Armor Tier 6.
- Onyxia and Queen Wagtoggle have been moved to Armor Tier 7.
Minion changes:
Snail Cavalry
- Old: 5 Attack, 2 Health → New: 4 Attack, 2 Health
Lava Lurker
- Old: 2 Attack, 5 Health → New: 2 Attack, 4 Health
Shoal Commander
- Old: 2 Attack, 2 Health → New: 1 Attack, 2 Health
Stormscale Siren
- Old: [Tavern Tier 3] 5 Attack, 4 Health. At the end of your turn, your Spellcraft minions cast their spells on themselves. → New: [Tavern Tier 5] 6 Attack, 5 Health. At the end of your turn, you cast your Spellcraft minions’ spells on them.
- Dev Comment: The effect text update is not a functional change, but just a rephrasing to make the card text better match how the effect currently functions.
Critter Wrangler
- Old: 5 Attack, 7 Health. After you cast a Spellcraft spell on a minion, give it +2/+2. → New: 5 Attack, 6 Health. After you cast a Spellcraft spell on a minion, give it +2/+1.
Tidemistress Athissa
- Old: 7 Attack, 8 Health. After you cast a spell, give four friendly Naga +1/+1. → New: 7 Attack, 3 Health. After you cast a spell, give three friendly Naga +1/+1.
Orgozoa, the Tender
- Old: 5 Attack, 9 Health → New: 3 Attack, 7 Health
Darkgaze Elder
- Old: After you spend 4 Gold, play a Blood Gem on four friendly Quilboar. → New: After you spend 5 Gold, play a Blood Gem on four friendly Quilboar.
Young Murk-Eye
- Old (normal): At the end of your turn, adjacent Murlocs trigger their Battlecries. → New: At the end of your turn, the Murloc to the left of this triggers its Battlecry.
- Old (golden): At the end of your turn, adjacent Murlocs trigger their Battlecries twice. → New: At the end of your turn, adjacent Murlocs trigger their Battlecries.
Duels Updates
- Removed the Dragon Affinity Passive Treasure.
- Dev Comment: Good night, sweet prince. Till we meet again.
- Tuned the synergy rules for Emerald Goggles and Fire spell school Passive Treasures.
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
- Improved connectivity surrounding Discover effects.
- Fixed a bug where a temporary Divine Shield from Glowscale could remove a minion’s permanent Divine Shield.
- Fixed a bug where applying a Spellcraft to a magnetic minion in Bob’s tavern then makes that buff permanent.
- Fixed a bug causing Mercenaries Portraits (mostly Rexxar Portraits) to disappear. Players who earned an additional copy of a Portrait while it was temporarily missing will receive a random Portrait from that Merc, instead (or Coins for that Merc if all Portraits are already owned).
- Updated the text in the Upgrade to Golden feature U.I. to better match functionality.
- Fixed an error that caused people who selected the “random” card back to have that function unchecked when they first logged in after Patch 23.2.
gotta nerf cariel next. just make it 9 mana or make it so you can't attack with the weapon
Seems more folks agree with me than you. Run along little edge lord, the adults are talking.
So how's everyone liking the 0 Mana 4/5 Gnolls?
"It's broken we better nerf it"
*person responsible for making competent choice leaves company*
"Rogue isn't overpowered anymore, we better buff something."
Selling a single card for 25 bucks and then refunding with in game currency feels preeeetty fucking shady, I wonder what the Google and Apple ToS have to say about that.
I don't want to get into the legality of this but I want to point out that people are "buying" packs that contain randomized loot assuming they own these cards and Blizzard has a legal obligation to keep the game updated and alive forever. Remember people that you don't own anything, you only have access to things. Once people understand this, maybe they can stop buying randomized loot with the excuse of "I can do whatever I want with my money".
@SpaceTimeDream. You should read better before writing. Drek'Thar was sold in diamond for 25€, single card purchase, no random loot. Therefore Twitchy's question is more than legit.
@Twitchy. The answer is tricky. Based on my experience with in-game purchases I can tell you this. Apple has an amazing customer care and an amazing customer policy. Which is in general is "we are not obliged by the law to give you the money back but we care about our customers and we don't like when our customer's get fucked". Blizz instead has a customer care build by vikings which is: "we are not obliged by the law to give you money back, so fuck off."
In conclusion, if you made the purchase using the app, if you rise a complain, Blizz will say fuck off, Apple will probably say that they will give you the money back. If you made the purchase with the PC, you are in the Battle net environment, so nothing can be done.
Regarding Google's instead, I have no idea.
@Shipmen Maybe you should read better because I am talking about Packs as the randomized loot. I didn't say anything about Diamond Drek'Thar being a randomized loot.
The purchase of Diamond Drek'Thar does not give you a physical item. It doesn't give you a piece of data you can save in your preferred storage media. You have no way to claim ownership of this purchased item. There is nothing to claim ownership of. You are not purchasing a card you are merely paying to receive an access to a particular version of a card accessed only through Blizzard Hearthstone servers.
The point I am trying to make here is, maybe the law will protect you, maybe it will not, it depends on your country and on Blizzard's ToA. It is far more important for people to know what they are spending their money on instead of blindly assuming they will be compensated and that companies have their customers in their best interest.
If Blizzard decided one day that they are shutting down Hearthstone for good just like that. Do people have any right to demand against shutting down because they paid money on the game? probably not.
Yes. That was not indeed the topic ("I am talking about Packs as the randomized loot").
And no. "You have no way to claim ownership of this purchased item." you have it. You purchased as it was marketed before. It is a topic not regulated but it is obviously a fault.
"Maybe the law will protect you", "depends on your country". Unfortunately no. It is a topic not so regulated. Yes and no. It is mostly everywhere the same rule.
The best regulated authority that we can have is when there is Apple in the middle of the transaction. Because Apple cares about his customers. This is unfortunately the true.
In fact the skin doesn't change so I guess they don't have anything to say ? I don't know
You paid for the skin, it didn't change, end of story
You didn't paid for the skin. You purchased a card that you wanted in diamond. And I guess that you did it because the card was good and you wanted to use it. if now it is crap and you are not able to use it it is a big issue.
Wasn't this card offered to anyone ? At the time where the diamond was purchasable I mean
"I keep buying the packs and skins every single time they release no matter what they do, but they keep pulling weird shit??? WHY?!!"
I got 3000 gold after login today. Does anyone know is that some kind of refund due to nerfs?
it's for anybody that bought dia drek'thar
I already hit legend with BIG BEAST hunter and now they are buffing 3 cards in this deck? Deck was already good and now they wanna make it broken?
Would you mind sharing deck code? I tried some beast hunter decks, but didn't have much success.
Here you go
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But im pretty sure it's basic big hunter list. went 21-9 with it
Thanks!
About the dragonbane shot nerf: they should have nerfed the hunter quest itself, the only archetype the card was problematic in... Completely destroyed a card instead that was usable in other strategies as well. Same old mistake again.