Patchnotes: Third Time's the Charm - Wait Nope, Still Just An Announcement of an Announcement.
The Balance patch we have been hearing about since early January will have the official patchnotes revealed on Thursday. For now we have to make do with these Twitter Images which showcase the cards being buffed and nerfed.
The Constructed images are (best as we can make them out):
- Wildpaw Gnoll
- Sinstone Graveyard
- Final Showdown
- Sinful Brand
- Glacial Advance
- Shockspitter
- Astalor
- Unholy Frenzy
- Battlefield Necromancer
- Boneguard Commander
- Vengeful Walloper
- Wither
- Vast Wisdom
- Energy Shaper
- Time Warden
- Haunting Nightmare
- Basaleph
- Bonecaller
- Infantry Reanimator
- Darkhan Drathir
- Asvendon
- Last Stand
- Disruptive Spellbreaker
- Remornia
- Nellie
Nerfs:
Buffs
Good. They finally nerf the oppressive wildseed bullshit. Oh wait...
good news for you, wildseeds have already been nerfed in October
Ah right. So the fact it got nerfed before means it's not oppressive anymore. Like no other card ever got nerfed twice huh?
rogue nerfs, that's all? o_O
Honestly I'm just happy that warrior is getting buffs for the select cards shown
Looks like nothing will really change in standard. Need about five more nerfs to Rogue to even compete with the class. Changing the Gnoll does barely anything to stop their insane value and other strengths.
Paladin and Warrior are still dead in the water. Shaman's archetype this expansion was a complete failure and they use exactly one of the new cards.
Pure Paladin
Control Paladin
Enrage Warrior
Gnoll and Sinstone Graveyard.
Depending on the nerfs, things could be going a lot better, or just a bit.
Right, those decks are not competitive, so those classes are dead in the water. These buffs won't change that.
I have felt for a long time now that HSreplay is not accurately measuring the state of the game, especially with so many tiered filters and paywalls and especially how they gather their data.
I haven't seen a Warrior deck in over a month, and haven't been beaten by one the entire expansion. I'll take personal experience over paywalled data any day of the week.
saibur_ it's funny that you show bronze to gold stats and use that as an argument :D
Thanatos2k: after all, it's been known for a long time because it's no secret that without HSreplay PREMIUM we only get stats from bronze to gold and with only PREMIUM we can see how it actually looks, e.g. in the legend
It's funny that these are Diamond through Legend stats smartass :D
Actually Paladin is strong in curent meta when they just fight for board ? Reach legend is so easy in this meta. Just not so fun to play
You need to show us what ranks that is from. Anything outside of D5 to legend is pointless to even consider.
HSreplay's data gathering has been flawed for a long time. It only can gather data on half the matchups outside legend now given that opponent rank is hidden.
Again, being purposely vague for no reason.
I don't see a picture of Brann on there. When are you going to address the real problem?
So what your saying is evolve shaman is balanced :))
if it wasn't balanced compared to other decks, it would be more than 1.77% on the legend and you won't tell me that many players don't play it because it's as strong as you suggest?