Can't be sure what Blizzard thinks will make the game 'healthy' but in wild, I would certainly recommend the below adjustments to make the meta less stale and oppressive:
Twig of the World Tree - 6 mana, 3 durability; (slow the rate of the obvious T4-5 mana cheat)
Swordfish - 2/2, buff weapon and minion +1 attack; (currently Swordfish is too strong given how consistently it is tutored)
Highly doubt any changes other than Twig will occur, however.
While I agree on most of these cards, Twig needs to be redesigned to refresh mana crystals instead of give you 10 mana. Most times twig is broken with Sphere of Sapience so the durability on the weapon doesn't matter.
Anyone actually get any drops? I saw the event notification on his channel and left the stream on for the whole weekend, got no notification in the drops & inventory section on twitch
I am not sure which Twitch channel you "watched", but as I understood from Old Guardian you were supposed to watch one of the 4 casters streams. Since English was my preferred language to listen for, I put on FenoHS's Twitch channel and got my 4 Standard packs (aka 160 arcane dust) after "watching" for 8 hours in total over 2 days.
Sidenote: The Twitch drops page keeps telling me that I have to connect my Battle.net account, but luckily for me I do get the drops because the accounts are connected.
Ah that would explain it then coz I was watching SolaryHS stream, oh well, next time :)
Anyone actually get any drops? I saw the event notification on his channel and left the stream on for the whole weekend, got no notification in the drops & inventory section on twitch
Were these nerfs really necessary? Current HSReplay shows only Paladin and DK have positive win rates with Paladin, DK and DH still in the top 3 which means these nerfs really didn't do anything at all.
Ok I've been laddering with a Shadow Priest deck using a few of the new cards in it like Fight Over Me, a total 5 star card in my opinion BTW, and Ghost Writer, another amazing card with Finale, and I encountered another Paladin deck with Kangor in it...
I HAVE to double down on this... I had my opponent to 4 cards in their deck and 3 life with a minion on deck.. I couldn't draw a silence effect for my life... Even with Ghost Writer getting me cards, I was able to get an Identity Theft, but nothing that could have helped me with that little prick.
Then he walked his Kangor dirtbag into one of my minions and had Ragnaros the Firelord and The Leviathan in hand... I had him dead in the water and I couldn't navigate that stupid Kangor, Dancing King. If you don't have something to Hex, Silence, or steal him then it's just a complete game turner.
Mock all you want, but this deck my opponent was playing was able to stop my aggro onslaught for several turns. I had great momentum, he hadn't been able to get anything through, all my deathrattles were tearing them apart... and then kangor came in....
Pretty sure that priest list runs 2x Shard of the Naaru meaning you're either very unlucky or your list bizarrely doesn't run those things.
Yes, its a game turner, like Amorphous Slime and Infantry Reanimator in chadlock, but those decks are also not power outliers and are rarely seen on ladder (from my experience). For team5 to move against a card they'll need to be both very powerful or very much present on ladder. If on the metric of toxicity alone, druid would simply cease to exist.
Sounds like you dealing with a bug coz Kangor doesn't go back to hand if there's no minions in hand, at least that how I've experienced games.
Personally Kangor doesn't bother me but I've only played against it twice so not enough data to make an objective opinion.
Right now I'm only struggling against already refined decks like Frost DK coz they lost nothing. Aggro Pure Paladin is also a pain coz I feel the deck just got better. At the time of writing, Paladin is no. 1 but the best deck isn't running Kangor.
As for nerfs, it's tough to say what exactly is a problem as the meta is still quite fresh so I'll give some card opinions in the next week or so.
Zeddy confirmed in his recent videos that you do get the tavern ticket, you just won't get the notification that you received one. So head over to heroic duels, start a run and see if you get asked to spend gold/runestones or if you have a ticket to use.
Agreed, I do like this nerf to The Demon Seed. It makes you run more lifesteal/healing coz we all know how broken the complete reward is. Also remember there's also a bunch of new fatigue cards in Festival of Legends that might find a home in wild Quest lock. There's also the 6 health you get from the first 2 steps of the quest. Also really like the design change to Stealer of Souls, even with the health/mana cost functionality change, I have a good feeling that Quest Lock will be quite tame in wild.
To be fair, the complete unnerf of Warsong Commander gave every minion charge which created the giant warrior back in the day but maybe this was during beta... oh god that means I've been playing this game for a decade already...
Haven't much enjoyed the warlock archetypes since...before UiS so I'm definitely gonna craft this card if I don't get it in packs. The value is just way too good.
Can we get the HS front page (https://outof.cards/hearthstone/) updated to point to this new expansion guide? It's still showing March of the Lich king
Enjoy this article style showcasing the counter decks to popular archetypes.
The montage of all the streamers (inc Brode) was tough to get through... 😭
But really glad to hear that Ridiculous Hat is joining the HS team as a community manager. Really glad for all of them moving on in life.
While I agree on most of these cards, Twig needs to be redesigned to refresh mana crystals instead of give you 10 mana. Most times twig is broken with Sphere of Sapience so the durability on the weapon doesn't matter.
Ah that would explain it then coz I was watching SolaryHS stream, oh well, next time :)
Anyone actually get any drops? I saw the event notification on his channel and left the stream on for the whole weekend, got no notification in the drops & inventory section on twitch
Were these nerfs really necessary? Current HSReplay shows only Paladin and DK have positive win rates with Paladin, DK and DH still in the top 3 which means these nerfs really didn't do anything at all.
I'm assuming when someone plays Shadow Priest, they're including Darkbishop Benedictus which makes getting silence a bit difficult but I always include a Shard of the Naaru in my E.T.C., Band Manager now.
Yea agreed, I played HP druid a couple times and lost all my games, it's a trash deck and the current win rate on HSReplay reflects that.
Sounds like you dealing with a bug coz Kangor doesn't go back to hand if there's no minions in hand, at least that how I've experienced games.
Personally Kangor doesn't bother me but I've only played against it twice so not enough data to make an objective opinion.
Right now I'm only struggling against already refined decks like Frost DK coz they lost nothing. Aggro Pure Paladin is also a pain coz I feel the deck just got better. At the time of writing, Paladin is no. 1 but the best deck isn't running Kangor.
As for nerfs, it's tough to say what exactly is a problem as the meta is still quite fresh so I'll give some card opinions in the next week or so.
Zeddy confirmed in his recent videos that you do get the tavern ticket, you just won't get the notification that you received one. So head over to heroic duels, start a run and see if you get asked to spend gold/runestones or if you have a ticket to use.
Agreed. Would've been more engaging if they had a community employee run raffles like how the streamers do giveaways when they get given codes.
Agreed, I do like this nerf to The Demon Seed. It makes you run more lifesteal/healing coz we all know how broken the complete reward is. Also remember there's also a bunch of new fatigue cards in Festival of Legends that might find a home in wild Quest lock. There's also the 6 health you get from the first 2 steps of the quest. Also really like the design change to Stealer of Souls, even with the health/mana cost functionality change, I have a good feeling that Quest Lock will be quite tame in wild.
Adding in a couple Armor Vendors and Mistress of Mixtures along with Crystallizer seems like a decent early game
Agreed! Isn't the card in the guy's teeth also a reference to Deck of Lunacy?
To be fair, the complete unnerf of Warsong Commander gave every minion charge which created the giant warrior back in the day but maybe this was during beta... oh god that means I've been playing this game for a decade already...
Chill Vibes - "You're listening to 47.7 Shaman FM radio. It's time to kick back, relax, and take in the music."
Love this reference. You better know the reference!
Baritone Imp - He used to be an epic sax guy, but now he's just a common.
Fixed the above flavor text with the appropriate hyperlink 🙃
Duuuuude, we've been asking for a sweet control spell for like....ever man... so rad we get one now... wanna go for a smoke?
Groovy Cat - "Like, what if we're all just cards living in this box called Hearthstone, man?"
Seems this cat has been smoking catnip again 😅
Haven't much enjoyed the warlock archetypes since...before UiS so I'm definitely gonna craft this card if I don't get it in packs. The value is just way too good.
Wow this is so much value in 1 card 😱 controlLock gonna be a thing again?
Can we get the HS front page (https://outof.cards/hearthstone/) updated to point to this new expansion guide? It's still showing March of the Lich king