Several cards were nerfed recently as part of the fastest balance change in Hearthstone history, targeting Shaman's early dominance in Descent of Dragons. As with all card nerfs, full dust refunds are available for these cards for a limited time - and that time is almost over! If you're planning on profiting, make sure you disenchant the cards before January 2nd.
As a reminder, here's the relevant section of the patch notes detailing the card nerfs.
Quote From Blizzard Hey everyone!
The 16.0.5 balance update for Hearthstone will be going live tomorrow. Below are the included changes, and as always, we’ll be evaluating the results of these changes over the coming weeks and look forward to your feedback!
Corrupt Elementalist
- Now costs 6 Mana (up from 5).
Sludge Slurper
- Now has 1 Attack (down from 2).
Faceless Corruptor
- Now has 4 Attack (down from 5).
Mogu Fleshshaper
- Now costs 9 Mana (up from 7).
Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.
Comments
nice, i got golden corrupt elementalist (800 dust)
Shows how busted Gala Shaman was. It just cut 3 of the 4 cards and it's still tier 1 / 2.
RIP quest shaman, you were my favorite deck from year of the dragon.
All of them are still being used just that the meta has gone worse for shaman
If you still intend to play shaman it is probably not worth to disenchant.
I dusted all of them, EXCEPT Faceless Corruptor.
The card is still obviously OP, despite the nerf.
Thanks for the reminder, definitely would forget.
Good Reminder, thanks I think I have to do this on the other servers I play on
I wonder if we will get some news about the adventure soon
We'll probably get a teaser in a week or so
That golden Faceless Corruptor felt sooooo goooood going through the mulcher!
Faceless Corruptor is good even with 4 attack instead of 5, so I ended up recrafting it 3 days or so after the patch.
Can't say anything about the other 3, given that it's been a while since the last time I touched Shaman.
Galakrond Shaman is still pretty viable, if that's what you were wondering
I am aware of that, but I haven't checked how the nerfed cards have been performing in the last two week.
For example, I heard someone has cut Sludge Slurper from their list, and I've seen very few Mogu Fleshshaper since December 19th. But again, I haven't seen the stats so that's what I was wondering about.
Unless you happen to have a subscription with hsreplay you won't be able to see the data post nerf since its intertwined with the data from the start of DoD. Will take another two weeks for people like me to see it.
But on short note, shaman is no longer in the top three best class according to hsreplay, that belongs to warrior, hunter, and surprisingly warlock.
On my experience, G Shaman is still very very good, its just a bit slower now. There's now decks that play Zentimo + Invocation of Frost, which is a little game breaking at times. Full powered Galakrond with Shudderwock tends to wreck games more often than not. Its only true weakness is that it draws poorly and forced to play lots of inefficient draw cards in the early game, and there's no healing.
Not only: I've also seen Zentimo + Hex multiple times, which was cool when it was a meme, but now that it's meta it's really gross lol.
To be honest, most of Galakrond Shaman's problems will go away once Shudderwock rotates (once you clear the two 8/8s you won't have to play around the second wave), but I'd still like to see some changes to Dragon's Pack: I really hate that spell, even more now that Shaman has Electra Stormsurge.
Not being able to kill the wolves with Kronx Dragonhoof is tragic and 10/12 worth of stats for 5 mana with taunt and no overload doesn't make much sense (we can argue that Scion of Ruin is on the same page though) but, to be honest, nerfing Pack may be excessive now. It really depends on how much love Shaman will receive with the upcoming adventure and with the new expansion in April.
For what concerns class popularity and winrate, I prefer to rely on Vicious Syndicate more than on HS Replay, since the former's Meta Reports are pure gold if you want to know about the meta.
For what its worth, I would probably agree with you on VS but hsreplay is just the more readable of the two.
As for Dragon's Pack, its a problem but mostly because of how easy it is for shaman to invoke twice. I'd expect some form of nerf around mid-expansion, or for this to go away by itself when the set rotates.
Oh I see, my bad. And without actual data, all I have is an opinion.