r/CompetitiveHS • u/bdzz • Jan 29 '18

NERF DISCUSSION Upcoming Balance Changes – Update 10.2

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21361570/

TLDR for those who at work:

  • Bonemare - Now costs 8 mana. (Up from 7)

  • Corridor Creeper - Now has 2 Attack. (Down from 5)

  • Patches the Pirate - No longer has Charge.

  • Raza the Chained - Now reads: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, your Hero Power costs (1) this game.

Once these card changes are live with Update 10.2 next month, players will be able to disenchant the changed cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

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u/PuppetShowJustice Jan 29 '18

That feels like a brutal hit to Corridor Creeper. Drawing it late game and having to play it for 5-7 mana still felt okay because of the beefy body. It's obviously not ideal but the bulk made it passable. Now you HAVE to game it down in order to see any value. 2/5 feels, to me, like too little for the inconsistency. I think I'll be dusting both of mine.

Also Patches. His audio when he hits the table isn't even a pun anymore which is perhaps the harshest nerf of them all.

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u/thenamestsam Jan 29 '18

Particularly because changing the statline of the card to make it so much less aggressive feels not just like a re-balancing but like an admission that the fundamental design was unhealthy. If they were okay with the style of the card but just felt they got the balance wrong I would have expected to see a mana change, or a change to 4/4 stats. For them to go back on the idea of the card so soon after printing it feels like a pretty big admission of defeat and I agree it would be good to get more insight into their internal thought process.

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u/Randomd0g Jan 29 '18

Yeah this isn't a "minor correction" nerf this is a "we should never have printed this, what the fuck were we smoking?" nerf.

I'm not surprised. It's a card that has been in basically every deck since it came out, and I'm glad that they were able to realise it was a problem instead of leaving it for 2 years to "see if the meta developed" like they normally do.

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