Hearthstone Teases Balance Changes for Standard, Wild, Twist, & Battlegrounds - Gadgetzan Auctioneer Removed?

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  anchorm4n Toybox Tactician 1895 2316 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
  Posted 7 months ago

  I can't express how happy I am for wild. Even not knowing what the changes will be, just the fact that they acknowledge the problematic decks and at least try to do something about them is a huge improvement. There's barely a problematic deck left imo and I'm very much looking forward to exploring the new meta. 

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  dapperdog Dragon Scholar 1890 5544 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
  Posted 7 months ago

  We can see DK buffs and I can already tell you what it would likely be, its gonna be a rune rework. Because none of those cards are bad, its just trapped inside a shell that can never work, and team5 properly capped themselves in the knee trying to discourage players from those triple rune cards but its not gonna work.

  Because having designed DK's win cons within the triple rune cards, what makes them think anyone would want to play anything else? The entire rune system by itself is causing problems in that we're seeing the same decks over and over, and team5 is forced to keep all rune combinations OP as hell to get any one of them to see any play.

   

  As for the nerfs, Im licking my lips right now because theres tons of useless legendaries in my collection that I can now get full refunds for.

   

  One last note. For fuck sake please team5 design druid properly. I dont want druid to be a mess of unplayable shit, but at the same time playing druid shouldn't be a default single player experience. Nearly all druid decks fall under one or the other, being completely worthless or pulling out some disgusting combo that no one can beat. Unsurprisingly, their cards keeps getting nerfed all the time.

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  lMarcusl 390 387 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
  Posted 7 months ago

  Wait wait wait. Are you telling me Wild is almost becoming fair with one patch? With Mechwarper FINALLY gone all mech decks actually have to pay mana for their shit instead of spamming out 8+ mana worth of stuff on turn 3. Gadgetzan and Frog removal/nerf should force people to again pay fair mana for card draw. Flurgle and Scargil, depending on the way they're nerfed, should stop giving Shaman just free wins and complete board dominance off of a single universal package. And Discardlock (hopefully) gets obliterated. Not sure what's gonna happen to Res Priest, depends heavily on how they nerf Shadow Essence. Might kill Res Priest, might at least slow it down enough that strategies other than absurd aggro get to have a shot against them. So many design mistakes fixed, assuming those nerfs are actually done in a meaningful way. Off the top of my head, the only major decks unaffected by these are Kingsbane (which should make a comeback after these nerfs) and Secret Mage, which will depend on how the Kabal Lackey nerf goes. We might just have a brand new meta overnight.
  
  Edit: ooph, forgot about Totem Shaman. That might be the new meta overlord.

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  Maurice Eldritch Horror 640 301 Posts Joined 07/12/2019
  Posted 7 months ago

  Soooo much duuuuust! ^.^

  With all these nerfs Pirate Rogue should be playable again and I can continue my effort to get 1.000 Rogue wins. (I hope so.)

  So many changes will change the meta for sure.

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  KnivesOut Faceless Rager 1200 254 Posts Joined 06/25/2019
  Posted 7 months ago

  I think you reversed the Twist & Wild update sections

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  Fluxflashor CEO 2005 3070 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
  Posted 7 months ago

  Yup, got that fixed just as you posted :D

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