Surprise! It's not just Constructed balance changes as it turns out. After the past few patch adjustments in Hearthstone Duels kept the meta more or less in the same state, we now have some essential changes that affect the viability of the current three strongest decks. In addition, several Passive Treasures that were responsible for particularly oppressive deck types have also been taken care of.
Quote From Blizzard Patch 24.2.2, a hotfix patch scheduled for September 9, includes the following updates and bug fixes.
Let's have a look at the exact balance changes:
All Hearthstone Duels Updates - Patch 24.2.2
The patch should be already available on both desktop and mobile clients!
We've also added some of the images and info missing from the Blizzard's patch notes:
Quote From Blizzard Duels Updates
Hero Power Updates
No Guts, No Glory (Rattlegore)
- Old: 1 Mana
- New: 2 Mana
- Old: 2 Mana
- New: 3 Mana
Dino Tracking (Brann Bronzebeard)
- Old: Passive Hero Power. At the start of your turn, Discover which card you draw.
- New: [2 Mana] Discover a card from your deck.
Frost Shards (Mozaki, Master Duelist)
- Old: 1 Mana
- New: 2 Mana
Signature Treasure Changes
- Old: [5 Mana] Gain 4 empty mana crystals. Allied: Druid.
- New: [6 Mana] Gain 3 empty mana crystals. Allied: Druid.
Traktamer Aelessa (Star Student Stelina / Professor Slate)
- Old: 2 Mana
- New: 3 Mana
Magister Unchained (Drek'Thar)
- Old: 2 Mana
- New: 3 Mana
Sr. Excavator (Brann Bronzebeard)
- Old: Draw 3 cards. Any minions you draw cost (4) less.
- New: Draw 2 cards. Any minions you draw cost (2) less.
Shadow Word: Void (Mindrender Illucia)
- Old: 4 Mana
- New: 5 Mana
- Old: 6 Mana
- New: 8 Mana
Green Tortollan Shell (Infiltrator Lilian)
- Old: 1 Mana
- New: 2 Mana
- Old: 2 Mana
- New: 5 Mana
Scales of Justice (Sir Finley)
- Old: 6 Mana
- New: 8 Mana
Warden's Insight (Forest Warden Omu)
- Old: 3 Mana
- New: 4 Mana
Marvelous Mycelium (Forest Warden Omu)
- Old: Discover a Choose One card. It has both effects combined. Shuffle this card into your deck.
- New: Discover a Choose One card, then shuffle it into your deck. It has both effects combined. Repeat 3 times.
Passive Treasure Changes
- Old: Whenever you Freeze an enemy, gain 1 Armor.
- New: After the first time you Freeze an enemy each turn, gain 1 Armor.
- Old: At the start of game, put 3 Colossal minions on the bottom of your deck. They cost (3) less.
- New: At the start of the game, put 2 Colossal minions on the bottom of your deck. They cost (3) less.
- Old: After you cast a Fel spell, deal 2 damage to the lowest-Health enemy.
- New: After you cast a Fel spell, deal 1 damage to the lowest-Health enemy.
- Old: After a friendly Rush minion attacks an enemy minion, deal 1 damage to adjacent enemy minions.
- New: After a friendly Rush minion attacks an enemy minion, deal 1 damage to a random adjacent enemy minion.
- Old: Whenever damage is dealt to a Frozen enemy, double it.
- New: Whenever damage is dealt to a Frozen enemy, deal 1 more.
- Old: At the end of your turn, summon a 3/6 Water Elemental if you’ve cast a Frost spell this turn.
- New: At the end of your turn, summon a 2/1 Ice Shard if you’ve cast a Frost spell this turn.
- Old: After you play a Rush minion, summon a copy with 1 Health.
- New: After you play your first Rush minion in a turn, summon a copy with 1 Health.
- Moved from Pool 1 to Pool 2.
- Removed from all Passive treasure pools.
- Removed from all Passive treasure pools.
What do you think about these Duels changes? Any strong class archetype or Treasure that got left out? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Comments
War Commands is useless now
I'm really glad they removed Party Replacement, coz I've lost to that passive in the early game so many times... good riddance...
I actually like a lot of these nerfs, keen to try duels again!
Wow, those are some intense nerfs! I'm not saying it's bad, but its a lot. I think Marvelous Mycelium just went from being one of the best signature treasures to being worse than having no treasure at all. Who wants to run a card that does nothing for you on the turn you play it?
Yeah it got absolutely destroyed. Now it's on the same level of useless as Stalker's Supplies
now is playable
Am I alone in still seeing the red examination mark on the Journal button? I was hoping that would have been addressed with this update.
It will be most likely addressed in a big patch
Nope, you're not alone: I still have it as well :/
MAAAAAAN WHY THEY GOTTA TAKE MY OOPS AWAY AGAIN MAN THATS MY FAVORITE GOOBER THEY COULDA AT LEAST WARNED ME I THOUGHT WE WERE ONLY GETTING CONSTRUCTED CHANGES