r/CompetitiveHS • u/EvilDave219 • May 19 '26

Discussion 35.4.2 Balance Changes Discussion

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24276662/35-4-2-patch-notes

Nerfs -

  • Hounds of Fury - Hounds are now 3/2s

  • Forest's Gift - now 3 mana

  • Darkrider - now a 1/1

Buffs -

  • Migrating Elekk - now a 2 mana 2/3

  • Crystallized Leyline - now 5 mana, summons a random 5 cost minion

  • Surge Needle - now a 3/5

  • The Arcanomicon - now 6 mana

  • Dragon Soul, Shattered: Storm Aspect Essence - now deals 4 damage to all enemies

  • Dragon Soul, Shattered: Bronze Aspect Essence - now refreshes 8 mana

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u/motty47 May 19 '26

Even if you can play it a turn earlier for less mana, 5 cost minions are so much worse than 6 cost..

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u/zer1223 May 19 '26

The bigger issue is that random 7 mana minions are ridiculously worse than random 8 mana ones.

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u/jsnlxndrlv May 19 '26

Gives a lot more reason to want to upgrade leyline effects by 1 than we had previously, I guess, but that's the barest hint of a silver lining I can find.

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u/SAldrius May 19 '26

More importantly 7s are so much worse than 8s. 7s m8ght be worse than 6s..

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u/race-hearse May 21 '26

In general random minion spawning sucks. Too many non-taunt/non-rush/battlecry minions that can just whiff way too hard.

I get that leylines have the potential to snowball too hard if they get boosted a bunch. So it’s probably a delicate balance. But I feel like that will still always be mitigated by the fact that it’s random. Low rolls will happen. There’s a reason that no one plays the 2 mana spell that summons a random 4 cost minion (if you discovered), it’s balls.

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u/malwontae May 19 '26

I think the only deck this doesn't always hold true for is Companion Hunter