We're getting a crazy big Battlegrounds update this week and a small decrease to turn timers which were temporarily increased by 5 seconds in the previous update. Read on for all the balance changes.
Quote From Blizzard GENERAL UPDATE
- Turn lengths have been reverted to their pre-21.2 times (turns 3-9 have been reduced by 5 seconds after they were temporarily increased by 5 seconds in Patch 21.2).
HERO UPDATES
Shudderwock
- Snicker-snack
- Old: [Costs 0] → New: [Costs 2]
Galewing
- Dungar’s Gryphon (Eastern Plaguelands Option)
- Old: In 5 turns, upgrade your Tavern Tier. → New: In 5 turns, your next Tavern Tier upgrade costs (5) less.
Master Nguyen
- Power of the Storm [Passive]
- Adjusted the odds of hero power offerings (no text changes).
MINION UPDATES
- Defiant Shipwright has been removed from the minion pool.
- Southsea Captain has been returned to the minion pool.
Impatient Doomsayer
- Old: [Tavern Tier 3] Avenge (3): Add a random Demon to your hand. → New: [Tavern Tier 4] Avenge (4): Add a random Demon to your hand.
Kathra’natir
- Old: [Tavern Tier 4] 7 Attack, 5 Health. Your other Demons have +3 Attack. Your Hero is Immune. → New: [Tavern Tier 3] 5 Attack, 4 Health. Your other Demons have +2 Attack. Your Hero is Immune.
Leapfrogger
- Old: Deathrattle: Give a friendly Beast +2/+2 and this Deathrattle. → New: Give a friendly Beast +1/+1 and this Deathrattle.
Monstrous Macaw
- Old: After this attacks, trigger a random friendly minion’s Deathrattle. → New: After this attacks, trigger another friendly minion’s Deathrattle.
Reanimating Rattler
- Old: [Tavern Tier 4] 6 Attack, 2 Health. → New: [Tavern Tier 5] 7 Attack, 3 Health.
Whelp Smuggler
- Old: 2 Attack, 4 Health. After a friendly Dragon gains Attack, give it +2 Health. → New: 2 Attack, 5 Health. After a friendly Dragon gains Attack, give it +1 Health.
Impulsive Trickster
- Old: Deathrattle: Give this minion’s maximum Health to a friendly minion. → New: Deathrattle: Give this minion’s maximum Health to another friendly minion.
Master of Realities
- Old: [Tavern Tier 6]. → New: [Tavern Tier 5].
Peggy Brittlebone
- Old: 5 Attack, 3 Health. After a card is added to your hand, give another random Pirate +1/+1 → New: 6 Attack, 5 Health. After a card is added to your hand, give another friendly Pirate +1/+1.
Dev Comment: The text change portion of this change is just to clarify the card’s current, intended functionality. It does not represent any functional change.
Goldgrubber
- Old: 2 Attack, 2 Health. → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health.
Salty Looter
- Old: 4 Attack, 4 Health. → New: 4 Attack, 5 Health.
Prophet of the Boar
- Old: 2 Attack, 3 Health. → New: 3 Attack, 3 Health.
Roadboar
- Old: 1 Attack, 4 Health. → New: 2 Attack, 4 Health.
Bristleback Brute
- Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health. → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health.
Dynamic Duo
- Old: 3 Attack, 4 Health. → New: 4 Attack, 5 Health.
Charlga
- Old: At the end of your turn, play a Blood Gem on all other friendly minions. → New: At the end of your turn, play a Blood Gem on all friendly minions.
Comments
i liked every single one of this stuff(buffs and nerfs and stuff) but im not still sure about Shudderwock hero power half buff cuase a murlock has a lot of battlecry so it will be so much overpowerd
I'm going to guess the text change to Monstrous Macaw is in case it gets a deathrattle buff to exclude it from triggering itself in that case. Would I be in the right ballpark?
I have not seen Master of Realities played in last week or so, well any elemental comp for that matter to be honest. Im curious to see if these pretty big nerfs to Beasts will change that.
Ironically, I played it just now, as other two options from triple were even more useless. It reached 100/100 by the end of the round, and I ended second place due to shitty RNG (to beasts).
I played with it yesterday and it seemed fine to me. I got it to 130+ stats by the end of the game and i only had a golden Party Elemental for several turns to buff it directly. It might be a bit broken at tier 5.
Still counter-able by Poisonous relatively easily, since it has Taunt, so I guess that's why. We shall see.