25.4.3 Patch Notes - Constructed, Battlegrounds & Duels Balance Changes
Blizzard just published Patch Notes 25.4.3 featuring Constructed, Battlegrounds & Duels balance changes, and a few bug fixes! Check out the details yourself!
Quote from BlizzardPatch 25.4.3 is a data-only patch launching March 2 with the following updates.
Hearthstone Card Updates
Dev Comment: Overall, this is a little bit of a lighter patch for Standard. We just had a big infusion of cards with the mini-set, so this patch is just looking to address two major outliers after that card infusion. We’re excited to see where the mini-set lands after these adjustments.
For Wild, we’ve been discussing potential updates to the mode. In this patch, we’re making changes to help curb some of the mode’s negative play experiences. We don’t view these changes as exhaustive, but we are working on some more long-term updates that we’re excited to share once they are more solidified.
Construct Quarter
- Old: [3 Mana]
- New: [4 Mana]
- Dev Comment: Frost Death Knight is the best deck in Standard after the mini-set and Construct Quarter is the stand-out card in that deck and in other Death Knight decks. This change is both an acknowledgment of the strongest deck in the format and the strongest card in that deck.
Goldshire Gnoll
- Old: [10 Mana]
- New: [11 Mana]
- Dev Comment: Before the rise of Frost Death Knight, Evolve Shaman was the biggest outlier in the format. This change is to keep Evolve Shaman in line after the adjustment to Construct Quarter. Goldshire Gnoll is an important enabler for the deck’s bad play patterns, and this makes those play patterns slower and less powerful, while still allowing Evolve Shaman to play with the exciting new cards they got in the mini-set.
Grey Sage Parrot
- Old: Battlecry: Repeat the last spell you’ve cast that costs (5) or more.
- New: Battlecry: Repeat the last spell you’ve cast that costs (6) or more.
Spectral Pillager
- Old: [6 Mana] Combo: Deal damage equal to the number of other cards you’ve played this turn.
- New: [5 Mana] Combo: Deal 2 damage to a minion for each other card you’ve played this turn.
Cataclysm
- Old: [4 Mana] Destroy all minions. Discard your hand.
- New: [5 Mana] Destroy all minions. Discard 2 cards.
The above cards will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks following Patch 25.4.3.
Battlegrounds Updates
Minion Pool Changes
- Sin’dorei Straight Shot will now only appear in games with Undead.
- Archdruid Hamuul has been temporarily returned to the minion pool (just until Patch 25.6).
Minion Changes
Ghoul of the Feast
- Old: 2 Attack, 4 Health. Avenge (1): Give a friendly minion of each minion type +2 Attack.
- New: 2 Attack, 5 Health. Avenge (2): Give a friendly minion of each minion type +3 Attack.
Legion Overseer
- Old: 4 Attack, 4 Health.
- New: 4 Attack, 2 Health.
Chronormu
- Old: [Tavern Tier 4] 4 Attack, 4 Health.
- New: [Tavern Tier 5] 6 Attack, 6 Health.
Magmaloc
- Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health.
- New: 1 Attack, 1 Health.
Vanessa VanCleef
- Old: 3 Attack, 7 Health.
- New: 3 Attack, 4 Health.
Jelly Belly
- Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health.
- New: 3 Attack, 6 Health.
Groundshaker
- Old: 2 Attack, 6 Health.
- New: 3 Attack, 8 Health.
Felstomper
- Old: 3 Attack, 8 Health. After you summon a minion in combat, give your minions +2 Attack.
- New: 3 Attack, 7 Health. After you summon a minion in combat, give your minions +3 Attack.
Grease Bot
- Old: [Tavern Tier 6] 4 Attack, 7 Health. After a friendly minion loses Divine Shield, give it +3/+2 permanently.
- New: [Tavern Tier 4] 3 Attack, 6 Health. After a friendly minion loses Divine Shield, give it +2/+1 permanently.
Duels Updates
Hero Power Updates
Ghoul Blitz
- Old: Summon a 1/1 Ghoul with Charge and Reborn. It dies at end of turn.
- New: Summon a 2/1 Ghoul with Charge. It dies at end of turn.
Arcane Craftiness
- Old: [2 Mana]
- New: [3 Mana]
Scourging
- Old: [1 Mana]
- New: [2 Mana]
Call of Madness
- Old: [1 Mana] Summon a 0/1 Voidfiend.
- New: [2 Mana] Summon a 0/2 Voidfiend.
Shadow Mend
- Old: Restore 3 Health to a character. If it is still damaged, draw a card.
- New: Restore 2 Health to a character. If it is still damaged, draw a card.
Bruising
- Old: [1 Mana]
- New: [0 Mana]
No Guts, No Glory
- Old: [2 Mana]
- New: [1 Mana]
Warmaster’s Frenzy
- Old: [2 Mana]
- New: [1 Mana]
Signature Treasure Updates
Gluth
- Old: [4 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
Deathstrider
- Old: [4 Mana]
- New: [3 Mana]
Bonecrusher
- Old: [8 Mana]
- New: [6 Mana]
Carrot on a Stick
- Old: [3 Mana] 2 Attack, 3 Durability
- New: [2 Mana] 1 Attack, 3 Durability
Stalking Pride
- Old: [5 Mana]
- New: [4 Mana]
Wand of Dueling
- Old: 3 Durability
- New: 5 Durability
Fractured Spirits
- Old: [4 Mana] Silence a minion. Then summon 2 copies of it.
- New: [6 Mana] Summon 2 copies of a minion, then Silence it.
Shadow Word: Void
- Old: [5 Mana] Destroy a minion and summon 0/1 Voidfiends equal to its Health.
- New: [4 Mana] Destroy a minion and summon 0/2 Voidfiends equal to half its Health, rounded up.
Demonology 101
- Old: [7 Mana]
- New: [6 Mana]
Gift of the Heart
- Old: [6 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
Treasure Pool Updates
- “Be Our Guest” has been removed from Treasure Pool 1.
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
- [Hearthstone] Updated Hawkstrider Rancher’s text to say “Whenever” instead of “After.” This is a text-only change to make the text match how the card currently functions.
- [Hearthstone] Added the “Mech” tag to The The Purator.
- [Duels] Fixed a bug where Ironweave Bloodletter would heal whenever either player spent Corpses.
- [Collection] Removed reference to Diamond Zephrys the Great from Achievements. He will return—and be able to be earned—once he’s ready.
Good nerfs! Cataclysm can be cool in control (maybe not but the card isn't destroyed)
Mecha'thun warlock is destroyed though. You can no longer draw and dump your entire deck to win on turn 7 in Wild anymore.
What did Parrot do to recieve that nerf? Noone even plays 5 mana spells wtf. At least put him to 5 mana
Infinite turn mage
Parrot terrorized Wild. And since, as you said, no one plays the Parrot with 5 mana spells anyway, this is barely a functional change. It's fine for Standard for the 4 weeks or so it remains there and it makes life in Wild much, MUCH better.
Probably the interaction with Balinda Stonehearth?
The Parrot nerf is a nerf for Wild Quest Mage.
don't balinda's spells still count as if they had the original value?
RIP Arcane Overflow.
In b4 deliberate cost INCREASE being added to Wild Mage decks.
I don't think so... as far as I know, Parrot won't trigger spells that were reduced under 6 (now 5) mana.
It's a pity that there are no changes in the arena. ;/ Mage is op, hunter/druid/paladin kills him, others are sucks.
Yup. 0 fucking change in duel for boar and elise. Thanks once again
Nice buff to Even Unholy DK with the Construct Quarter change.
With these wild nerfs this might be the top dog now
What other wild players are excited for more even shaman, secret mage, pirate rogue, and big priest?
Probably see less of it because those decks are very good against pillager rogue and quest mage.
First when they released Spectral Pillager they was no use for it. I was a little bit sad about it, cause I thaught the effect is interessting. A few years ago pillager rogue appears. But it wasn‘t the kind of use I was hoping for, as I don‘t like OTK that much. Now Spectral Pillager will be unplayable again i guess. Hope someday it will find a use in a meme or fundeck. But with damage only on minions I doubt it.
Cataclysm also got a hard hit and it will break the neck of discolock, which is good. I just hope discolock will have one day a comeback as it was a few years ago, not as otk.
The best is Grey Sage Parrot. Finally no more endless mageturns.
There is still Grand Magister Rommath for the quest mage, but way slower and unreliable
"This change is both an acknowledgment of the strongest deck in the format and the strongest card in that deck."
uhhhh duh. I love how blizzard desperately tries to convince the community they have any idea what's going on. I'm glad you acknowledge what the strongest deck in standard is. Kudos blizz... rofl
Welp, farewell to Mecha'thunlock, then...