Oops? Blizzard Accidentally Reveals Some Balance Changes And Then Confirms Them
Blizzard accidentally pushed a patch live partially in Korea that had many of the Balance changes coming next week. Here's their reaction to this faux-pas.
Quote from BlizzardDue to a small oopsy-doopsy, a patch planned for next Tuesday was partially pushed early. Some clever sleuths were able to spot a handful of card changes before things were reverted, and I can confirm that the changes seen on live are accurate.
But, there's much more!
Quote from BlizzardWe're doing a small number of nerfs this patch.
- Vile Library loses the base +1/+1
- Stag Spirit Wildseed will make a 3/2 weapon Stagpoint Wildbow
- Snowfall Guardian becomes base 5/5 but no longer grows based on minions frozen
- Celestial Alignment will no longer affect the opponent
Quote from BlizzardIn Wild, Kobold Illusionist will cost 5 mana.
In addition to these nerfs, we're also doing a substantial number of buffs! Some of these have already been discoveredbut the majority of these buffs were likely not spotted.
- Edwin, Defias Kingpin will be a 3 mana 3/3
- Relic Vault to 2 mana
Quote from BlizzardFor the rest of the buffs, stay tuned for the patch notes early next week🙂Paladin, Demon Hunter, and Warrior fans should have a lot to look forward to.
I hope you all enjoyed our impromptu "preview"!
Kael'thas and From the Depths are not getting changed this patch.
— Aleco (@AlecoGereco) August 12, 2022
the alignment change is terrible. it's actually a buff for druid since it makes the late game even more unfair. the little chance you had to win against a druid that played alignment was to get your big stuff on the board first. this is now eliminated hence this "nerf" actually buffs the card, especially in wild.
macaw is still a dumb card, but i'm glad they killed snowfall guardian. this won't be played anymore because the scam turns won't work anymore.
they nerf the warlock location so you only get a 6/6 instead of a 7/7 on turn 3....great. but they won't touch the card draw engine that is way better than divine favor ever was.
the fact that they won't even touch Guff really just makes me lose all hope that team5 actually knows what they're doing...
Team 5 XD
And Im still siting here anxious about Guf and his nerf, a little exited to, even tho there is a small possibility he wont be witch is another reason why I'm anxious.
If they were sure enough to prepare these nerfs for live, they were sure enough to share the info with us, even if there were still some additional changes yet to be decided.
Do they not understand that it's easier to enjoy the "feels-bad" games when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel?
Full dust for Edwin?
It's not a nerf, so no. If you think it's a nerf, you don't even deserve the dust anyway.
no real reason to act like a jerk
Great, so priest gets shitfaced again.
Macaw is much more of a problem than snowfall now that there are multiple battlecrys to steal that just straight up win the game.
I would much prefer if they targeted Macaw rather than guardian itself, but I guess that will do it.
Alignment nerf was exactly what I had proposed months ago, glad to see this change.
Warlock nerf is probably not enough. But if the buffs are enough warlock will have counters, so maybe it's for the best (I was also hoping for a rafaam nerf, not because they should do, but just because I have a golden one).
Now I hope the buffs will be interesting. I wanna play Relic DH so bad, hope they will drop another buff there, aside from just the location.
I really hope they manage to get Control Warrior out of the abyss. I really like the metas that are a bit slower than it is right now. I feel like most of my games don't even go to 10 mana anymore. I either get faced to death by an insurmountable amount of stats on the board or just explode from a Brann Bronzebeard + Sire Denathrius combo. The powerlevel in HS is crazy high these days.
But the little tweaks that leaked look promising so far, let's see.
NO
I hope we will also see some buffs, not only nerfs since some classess are not existing in this meta. Specially Warrior for example.
Pirate warrior is still broken. We have Renathal now and lots of tools, ppl just don't play hard decks cause the world is getting way less smart everyday.
Good changes. Celestial Alignment working on the opponent was a really bad mechanic.
If only they'd made this change a year ago when people were asking for it!
??? Dunno why all the complaints...still got legend with all that and not even playing with these decks. Most of time just beat up the shit out of druids on ladder both in wild and standard that is a joke nowadays.
too easy xD
It's not the power level. It's the way polarizes a game. If you are playing the right deck, it's super easy to beat, as you mentioned. But if you are not, it's literally impossible to beat. Either way, the whole game feels like a waste of time because the outcome was determined before the game even began.
i hope for nerfs on Quest Mage, like reduce the cost of the spell to 4 or increase the cost of the spell to 6 for the Parrot....