We've got a balance patch coming tomorrow, January 28, to target Hysteria, one of the new cards that was added in the Darkmoon Races mini set. The changes are a part of Patch 19.4.1.
- Hysteria now can only target an enemy minion.
- Choose an enemy minion. It attacks random minions until it dies.
This breaks a combo in Wild that was able to kill your opponent through the use of Wretched Tiller and Deathspeaker. The patch should arrive around 1 PM Eastern, like most Hearthstone patches, and will likely have some kind of delay before arriving on mobile platforms.
Hysteria will be eligible for a full dust refund for 2 weeks after the 19.4.1 patch goes live.
Bug Fixes Coming!
Additionally, we're getting a few bug fixes including that annoying journal notification no longer being a pest.
Quote From Blizzard
- Fixed a bug where Collection Achievement progress could get out of sync with the current contents of your collection.
- Dev Comment: You will still never lose credit for an Achievement once it's been completed.
- Fixed a bug where Arena could fail to load for new players.
- Fixed a visual bug where notifications would persist for the Journal after completed Achievements had been claimed.
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"Fixed a visual bug where notifications would persist for the Journal after completed Achievements had been claimed."
This was annoying :D Hooray!
This is honestly more important to me than the hysteria nerf lol
Really happy about not disenchanting my extra Hysterias from the grand pack opening I saved for the miniset. I felt that card could eat a nerf, and now the golden and non golden copies will add quite a lot of steam to my dust balance.
Having played a bunch of Hysteria-Lock last week, and winning a lot of games, I approve of this. No combo should be so consistent and so easy pull off so early in a game.
Neferset treachery is still viable. Cant believe they changed a standard card. Maybe cause they are afraid of future interactions?
Cause this way the only crazy combos can be only be done with treachery
well it is understandable, because right now you can play a big 7 drop and Hysteria it for board clear. but with this nerf you need for opponent to have a minion that can clear his own board. Hysteria was actually pretty powerful even in standard...
Boooo! Why not just change Wretched Tiller? This puts the handcuffs on Priest, particularly with creative options like popping your own minion with Apotheosis and Hysteria. The card is still good, but it just dampens the fun factor.
Easy,cause hysteria is the problem that limtis deisng space. It basicly made so couldnt ever print a minion with wheevr this atatcks in priest,warlock ro neutral ever again.
If isnt tilelr would be the next minion and the next or the next. Hysteria the problem card.
I think they nerfed it precisely because of such interactions with friendly minions
I am glad they decided to nerf Hysteria. Usually they kill the deck by nerfing the cheapest card (Leeching Poison instead of Kingsbane), so nerfing a rare card instead of a common could be a hint towards better future.
Yeah, honestly, Wretched Tiller is a junk card anyway so why can't they just leave it in its grave? lol
My guess is they foresee additional issues in the future with Hysteria so it makes more sense to change it instead.
Yeah, Hysteria is definitely the bigger limitation on design space since any future neutral/priest/warlock minion that triggers when attacking would need to be mindful of it. Changing Tiller would fix this particular problem, but leaves the door wide open for future ones.
Warlock still has Treachery
well actually if you give it immune and then Treachery not only it will kill yourself, but also it is actually not possible to target immune enemy minions (only friendly)
neferset instead of tiller
Still doesn't solve the problem that you cannot target immune enemy minions
But giving your opponent Wretched Tiller a casting Hysteria on it would result in killing you.
Yes, but then you would kill yourself, if that's what your aiming for with Treachery
Could you explain how treachery would help? I can't think of a single thing.
Well not with Wretched Tiller, but as Marega pointed out, you could use Neferset Thrasher. Hit it with Deathspeaker, send it over with Treachery. Then cast Hysteria on that. But obviously you'll need some cost reduction with Emperor Thaurissan. You could even do the second Deathspeaker at 10 mana with the reduction. Convoluted, much harder to pull off than the Tiller OTK, but it's there.
UPDATE: AngryShuckie tested this and you can't actually target an immune enemy minion. There goes another meme dream down the drain, it's a crowded yet lonely place indeed. Thanks for testing it AngryShuckie!